Take me BACK to the 1980's - PLEASE!
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💯 1970s born girl here! we have seen our freedoms and rights being dissolved over the decades
i was born in 1970s.....so much better times.
I've had so many conversations about how good the 80's and 90's was....I wish I wish I wish I could time travel.
1970 ... love my uk ...
Very much so!
Born in the late 60's and loved my 70's childhood.. It's now a SHITE HOLE
Back in the 80s, we thought things would get better, not bloody worse!
Had these thick0 sellout politicians been building nuclear power stations we would now be living in a much better world.
Yes the only way is up Yazz But we have gone to the hell👹👺 following a man who consumated a child 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
It was supposed to be like Star Trek and it's all gone wrong.
@@kellysouter4381 Well said!! Whatever happened to the future??, never thought I'd say it but we NEED Judge Dredd!! Lol!!
They call it progression, bollocks is it progress.
Born in 1970, I'd go back to the early/mid 80s in a heartbeat.
I was born in 1970 as well, talk about a lovely time, that said we have to take some responsibility, we gave the UK Thatcher, and then sold everything off, and now we are living with the consequences, everything is broken.
@@stevesimpson6558 I take no responsibility for Thatcher, I was 8 when she came to power. Blame the basket cases of the Labour party/unions for that. Btw I'm no tory.
Me too!
Same here
Yeh when you were a child with no responsibility or any real idea how the world worked.
The UK is doomed sadly. Being born in the early 60's, I think my generation are the last of the lucky ones. The youngsters of today are in for a pretty tough time I fear.
Those with a brain will leave this sinking ship.
Born 70's and agree.
Most of them on left have no idea what hell they have created for themselves in the next two decades.
@@outpost31737👍
Same here, totally agree
As a Scot and BRITISH I'm and old guy hitting eighty ,when as a young boy we had little money but we most surely had a great time playing outside. football, climbing trees. hill walking and playing at all kinds of games. As teenagers we went to the pub then on to the dancing and trying to find a girlfriend where many of us found our partners . Today is no where as good as then, thanks to the most awful shower in Government and Home Office over many years starting with Tony Blair who should be in Prison , Now Sunak and Yusof , and KHAN. are talking us into oblivion. Vote for freedom vote REFORM. NOW.
100% correct, so depressing
Yes Happy days til POISON B LAIR came along and helped destroy Every thing This ONCE Beautiful country was 😢
o fk me hello ,have you been living in space for the last 40 yrs? a muslim takeover was obvious to those of us that paid attention in the 70s
Well done for being a Scot and British, there is far too much division these days. Blair, Yusof, Khan etc are all responsible
Yea blame the immigrants... you are doing the Elites job for them, divide and conquer
Totally agree, lived in London 1980'S, 1990's, and could drive in, out of London, park anywhere, free, eat in fabulous places, drove to work, wages, then better freedoms , everyone, most could buy a home , a car, afford rent on nice places, have holidays, a social life. Could go out, come home safe. Mixed with many people all walks of life.
Young people now , it's sad, very sad.
Nanny state
I used to drive to work at NatWest in Lehman Street (E1) every day, and parked right outside the office. Seemed normal then. Now, people don’t believe you when you tell them.
FREEMANS USED TO BE CHRISTIAN BEFORE ISLAM
Could not agree more
I was born in the 50s
Had some real fun
We didn't have much money but had a much better life
True Maggie aledgedly got us money or money minded in the 80s to the detriment of society.
They were the best times I grew up in the 70s and 80s. I often think everything back then was way better, we had less but we had way more
True life was hard for some back then in some places due to high unemployment, like in the Welsh Valleys after the pits were shut, but we were definitely not under the microscope of oppressive woke dictates, and you had real people back then, not automated answer machines...
You were never indoors apart from tea
I WAS BORN IN 1953,AND HAVE WATCHED THIS COUNTRY GO DOWN THE TOILET BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT HAVE DONE THE FLUSHING, IT CAN ONLY END IN CIVIL WAR.
60s for me life was so simple then but i fear for my kids and grandkids future god help them the uk is full.
You had Margaret Thatcher. There has been no real leader in Britain since. If she were in power today, she would not allow all this garbage.
I am from Sweden. I was in London in the 90s, and then again 3 years ago, and wow things have changed in such a short amount of time. It is very similar in Sweden. I dont recognize my home anymore. It breaks my heart honestly. Now I live in Denmark, which is not nearly as bad as Sweden, but it is getting there for sure.
I was born in 1961. I loved the 70's & 80's. I fear for my Grandkids. This Woke Cancer has been allowed the spread. We are ruined. Our War Dead died for nothing.
December 1961
Wish we could go back to the 70s and 80s
ILL BE 80 THIS YEAR I LIVED IN THE OLD ENGLAND THIS IS THE NEW SATANIC ONE
It want just your nationality that died many other nations contributed and played their part
Winston churchill and our people did all that hard work during the war for absolutely nothing,
Same, it's shocking what's happening 😢
I feel like the Mothership plucked me out of the 80s and landed me into this shithole !
I cannot name one thing that's better today than it was in the 80s and I dare anyone to suggest a subject.
I was in the Army and would have willingly fought for my Country then. Would I now...?
Not a fucking chance and I blame war mongering Blair.
He started the rot as far as I'm concerned.
Very true!
He was just obeying orders (sound familiar?)
And IT is laughing all the way to the bank, and of course this goes for his offspring also.
@@robertadams1054 Oh dear I can't imagine who that might be! 😉😭
I agree with you but for one thing. I served thirty years for this country and my heart bleeds when I look what it has become. Where I disagree is the fighting bit. It’s coming and right soon, on our shores and in our towns. Boat loads are landing every day and we’re all standing by with our fingers up our arses while it happens. It’s no use blaming Blair when they’re outside your door
I saw his tattoos, his tracksuit top and his gravely cockney voice and nearly scrolled on.I listened to his words and subscribed. This man is absolutely correct. The real danger comes from those things which we aren't allowed to discuss.They thrive in the shadows and invade our very soul.When freedom of speech is compromised in any way,I get really suspicious. Race,gender,religion, Israel's recent actions,covid.When we are gagged,it's time to push back.
What have you learned
I remember going to London to see loads of concerts in the Eighties. Travelling around without any fear of being mugged or attacked. People were more patriotic and polite. Multiculturalism has completely changed this country for the worse. We have no control of our borders. Police can not enforce the law. Illegal migrants just entering our country. Instead of being arrested. They are given free accommodation and benefits, Then house them. With almost no chance of being deported. Eastern European mini markets. And Turkish barbers.And even an Indian PM ! How I wish we were still in the Eighties.
Me too, I'm 61 now!😮
You’ve been taken for fools and invaded.
Y el alcalde de Londres Pakistani
Citys in the uk are no go zones for us brits
Saw Queen at Wembley Arena for £9 in 1984, Simple minds for £6 ...now the youngsters at work are paying £200 plus for people I have never heard of, says it all really.
Born in 1965, desperately miss the 70's and 80's. Working class Londoner, council est, not much money, but happy. It's so sad what has happened to my beloved England/UK.
I was born in 1968 and loved the 80s and 90s in Germany and I feel similar to what you are saying. I worry for my son, who has just finished his university education. I get the impression that things are similar in many Western countries. I dream of the 80s, when we didn't have smart phones and all this digitalisation, when neighbours were in touch and helped each other and city centres looked decent with nice shops. I could go on with more examples...
Nail on the head Paul.
I am 75 and fully agree., This isn't the UK I was brought up in.
Margaret Thatcher, come back to us!
Not Thatcher,I agree with what Paul says, Blair should be in jail.
There's plenty of people that wants it back. So why not *take* it back?
@@Juulmand1 She didn't stop this because she had no idea this would be such a massive problem. Thought he was Rothschild, Churchill had a pretty good awareness regarding the then colonies.
You’re absolutely right Paul. Back in 70s and 80s things were much less complicated and people were different compared to today. 🤔
We were much happier
You only need to listen to the mainstream music of today to realise that the people of today are nothing like those in the 70s and 80s, people back then would have been horrified had they heard what passes for music today. Yes there are some good artists still out there but I'm talking mainstream music, I personally cannot stand it and believe that we are dealing with an altogether different sociey now if anyone can listen to that sort of thing and find pleasure in it.
Was the massive immigration a good thing overall or a bad thing overall? And did those behind it have good intentions or are their ridiculously malicious toward the native populations?
I came to England in 1994. Up till 2010, it was so English, I integrated and love deeply the English people and how they live. And now I am in my 40s, completely lost in London. I do not go to shops anymore. I order veg box online once a week and use Amazon. I take the train to stops along the line which goes to Stevenage, it's country lanes, woods, fields. Tomorrow going to Bournemouth to see the sea. I go nowhere in London. I only communicate with the English. I was mixed into multinational community for years and I finally came out of all different cultures. I can't do it, anymore. I am on my own and homesick at what I dearly made my home. I actually cry for England. I was born in Russia and have never been able to change my heart nor soul, nor my passport. I do not believe in immigration. I believe in diplomacy.
It went tits up before then!
Lol what about the 3million English men left on the scrapheap in the 1980s because of the de industrialisation of the UK, and you came in 1994 and had a great time. What a plaxxnk
Don't be alone ❤ were fight this we must !
I was in Moscow in 1984 and had to go to the cinema to see a film entitled Москва Слёзам не Верит-it was a quite well-known film back then I was invited back to Moscow a few years ago and the cinema is still there, I believe it was called Князь but now has several screens. I must go back before I either die or get too old to travel but going to Russia now is difficult.
@@michaelmckelvey5122 It's so nice to see people invest in remembering names of places, especially in the country's language. That is very impressive. Respect 😊
Please don't leave. The young British of this country needs people like you. We all need you.
Born 1961, Old Skool, Football Every Day, Black Friends, Gangs, Kick The Can, Nock A Door Run, Nick the Milk Of A Doorstep, Party 7s Party 10s, We Had It All, No Youth Centers, No Mobils, No Money, But Eh The Golden Age Of Growing Up, Nobody Died, All I Can Say To These Lids Today, Get Out More
And drop your phone down the toilet
80's -90's kid here, I agree with every word... But what are party 7's & party 10's 🤔
And climbing trees, loved it.
Skint knees and homemade go karts!
Tins Of Beer Holding 7pints Or 10Pints Think It Was A Northern Sale
This video actually made me weep. I'm 62 and the 70s 80s came washing over me as you were reminiscing also. I still live in central London, but it has changed beyond all recognition. I now walk home from work and don't even look up from the pavement until I'm home in my little bubble 😢
Am 61, still live in London. It's fookery what's happened
The London that was has been through planned destruction.
It's probably more to do with the fact that 40 or 50 years ago you were around 18. If you were 18 today you'd be in love with London, like the whole world is.
The time of push backs will come. People are passive now but circumstances will change in such ways that they will not.
I was born in 1964 and what a wonderful country it was back then, you respected the police force and your elders, now there is no respect for anything or anyone, my grandad fought for my rights I'm thankful he's not here to see what they have done to this once beautiful country. 😢
Absolutely bang on Paul…things have got so much worse in the last 20 years as the attack on the working class has gone into overdrive. We are ruled by scum bags
Yep the Tories & new labour slaughtered the working class, unions etc.......but they've turned to the so called middle classes now as they so skint- big mistake I think, hopefully we'll see in time.......
If the indigenous people vote in labour they really have lost the plot, don't vote either red or blue
I was born in 1982. I don’t really remember the 80’s but I was a teen in the 90’s and it was a great time to be alive. Not just in the U.K. but in general.
Apart from all this bollocks that’s going on these days with everything being wrong. The worst part about modern life, is probably the internet.
Everyone is absolutely ADDICTED to Their phones and it’s out of hand.
When I was a kid I played out with friends, played videogames and had a great time. I was never bored. Now days people don’t even go out. They sit at home on phone UA-cam Instagram online betting porn etc and because the internet is endless scrolling, that’s why we can’t stop.
There is a lot wrong with society but boy has the internet got a lot to answer for.
Same here mate, same year of birt and absolutely agree, the best memories from that era!! The state of things in this country / way of life, doesn't compare! 🍻🍻
Honestly its a joke i was a teenager of the 70s best times ever i loved that era and the 1980s and 1990s were absolutely fantastic too best times of my life i wish i could go back to those great times happy memories of a care free society not like now its absolutely awful i hate it im 66 what have got to enjoy with what is going on at the moment i want my country back you cant say or do anything these days absolutely disgusting outrageous i feel sorry for this generation seriously we need to get our country back ASAP
I think exactly the same as you.
No mobiles,Internet,computers or games consoles instead we had freedom,allowed to have a sense of humour,no division and for the vast majority of us no drugs
I know which I prefer
@@jmw-qt2ihditto
Me to.
I agree with you totally although being a few years older, the late 60s were the best time for me personally
It's terribly sad. I live in Canada and it's much the same here. Not even close to the same country I grew up in. A beloved Sports personality who had been on TV for years was on air one night as remembrance day approached. He pointed out that appreciation for our veterans had really gone downhill. He encouraged people to spend a few bucks on a poppy and finished up by saying people who are new to this country should participate as well His exact words were “You people that come here … whatever it is, you love our way of life, you love our milk and honey, at least you could pay a couple of bucks for a poppy,” For this he was immediately sacked and the papers labeled him a bigot, racist and the rest of their favourite insults. Even his co host who he had worked with for decades turned on him. These people gave their lives for us, and no one gives a damn any more.
Thats terrible, this needs changing
Why am I not surprised?
I'm not surprised, you have to remember you're parliament literally applauded an ex SS soldier FFS!
The lack of understanding that the UK, US, Canada fought for during the 1940's is quite frankly shameful. We now even have people flying the swastika in London and the police deeming it "it's open to interpretation" nonsense excuse, for not arresting these gits. How? How has it come to this? I'm ashamed to be British at this point.
Now his co-host is #1
Grapes is still number 1 👍
You are so right Paul. I was born in 1977 and had my childhood through the eighties. It actually makes me cry to think back on those days. I have said many a time if I could close my eyes and have a wish I would go back there in a second! I hate todays world
Back in the 1980's we thought the future was going to be better, personally I think we've gone backwards, we should have been asked if we wanted all this mass immigration, we never were. It was decided for us not by us. These politicians need to learn they work for us, we don't work for them.
The only reason things have got worse is that we have had consecutive parties and leaders that want to be the big "i am", but are totally incompetent and useless about running a country. Everything should have, and would have gotten better if they were capable and competent, Reform is our last chance, because anybody else is just going to take the same old road.
The latest batch of politicians are just in it to make some contacts and money. Gone are the days of people that want to make a change
They're career politicians straight out of uni, the country should be run by politicians that's ran a successful business and worked in the real world. I'm voting Reform UK, its our last hope in my opinion.
conservatives acting like Self Serving business companies and Socialists on the back end , as they say Socialise the costs , Corpratise the profits so its in the control of the wealthy Private Individuals.
The "Conservatives" are completely indistinguishable from Labour.
@@Harassed247 Reform will try to get tough on the immigrant invasion (good luck) but will double down on the Tories disastrous neo-liberal austerity, making them even more dangerous than Islamists. Any working class man who votes for them is a turkey voting for Christmas.
I lived in Bristol briefly in 1980-81. I was on an exchange program. I loved the UK then, despite the fact that people complained bitterly about Maggie. Yes, she was prickly, but you had freedoms, of which I gather you do not have now. It is the same here in the USA. Our freedoms are being lost, and many people don't seem to care.
Aye. I was utterly broke in the 80's and yet it feels like a golden decade in my life story compared to the ... ahem ... "nonsense" we have now.
I'm stuck in the 70s and 80s and always listening to music of that era and obsessed with watching all things on you tube from the 70s and 80s like the adverts or comedies or Xmas adverts or documentaries which were objective and treated the audience like adults and how people spoke so articulately ,nicely and calmly then and the reason is because it makes me feel normal again
Only fools and horses.... Boon.... The young ones... Auf Weidersahan Pet...Never the Twain...Fresh Fields.... and who could forget "The Good Life"!..... life was so much more simple back in the 80s.... Glad I had the opportunity to grow up back then and was able to have fun memories to look back on.... my one question is this.... What memories will our children and grandchildren have to look back on that will make them smile as they head into the latter part of their lives?! ... I grew up in London and we discussed issues etc with an ability to learn and progressive.... evolve and better ourselves as human beings. ... I am sad to think that our young people of today will never actually get to experience the same 😢
I agree with every word Paul.
The 80s were absolutely awesome!!!
As a young man in the 80s i suffered fits and migraines. Our family doctor (of over 30 years) would regularly pay me a home visit to check up on me, yes home visits were a thing.
Now as a middle aged diabetic I have to play the telephone lottery with no guarantee of even getting an appointment. And thats if the surgery actually has a doctor on the books.
This is a truly awful era 😢
Great comment!
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I’m in my 50’s …..being a child of the 70’s teenage of the 80’s adult of the 90’s
I feel blessed to have seen my England through those precious decades
It also makes it all the more heartbreaking to see what the politicians have done to this once great nation.
Shame on the all
Same age here and you're right, loved my growing up that you take for granted..can you believe how it's going now and how crap this govt has made things? I thought I was just turning into an old grump!
I feel
Same way and agree with 99Amethyst above
Least we’re all lucky to have shared those years
The internet and the smoking ban killed British society and I've never smoked. The kids of today are woke. We in the 80's were Punks. Happy days! We would watch Max Headroom and laugh at how ridiculous it was. We are now living in a Max Headroom world.
The internet and the smoking ban isn't what turned London into what it is today. It is no longer an English city. Don't be afraid of doing any wrongthink.
Paul, I was born in 1975. Growing up in New Jersey in the 80’s was great. Being a kid riding your bike going to get pizza, collecting baseball cards playing football with your friends. Life feels more complicated now despite the advances.🍻
Born in 1979 grown up across the Delaware River in PA and I agree. Back then we had so much hope for the future. Now sadly we are heading to a very dark future ahead.
Totally agree. I was born 1950. I had a good upbringing and luckily a family who could afford food. Later on my loving wife and I had children and we brought them up without relying on free handouts. They were expensive but children are the parents responsibility. I have now given up on various governments as they do not do what is good for Britain. Population has gone out of control, immigration is totally un policed. Farming is being destroyed. China is now the most dangerous country in the world, but we still support them. I have now decided to vote for the party who promises sunshine for 5months of the year! Oh yes, I fly my St George flag and my Union Jack. I am looking forward to the day when I meet my wife again in a better world. I am concerned for my grandchildren and future generations. The world is at conflict with itself. God bless you.
God bless you and your children
That’s very well said and is exactly right, good luck to you and your family!
I grew up in the 70's & 80's and agree with everything you said, I've also had the same conversation with my son who is in his mid twenties. I grew up in East London and when I've been back to where I grew up it's really sad how the whole culture of the area has been destroyed, but like you said it's happening all across Europe and to be honest I believe it's a deliberate act.
Yes, I am sure it is and as you say, it is not only here. Ireland has 200,000 Polish and one out of every five in Dublin was born abroad.
WEF policy.
Born in 68 left school in 84 . Pubs were full ,nightclubs in full swing, people had a sense of humour and even the coppers had common sense and you could even take the piss without being hauled off to the cells .
I would not advise anyone to start a family now I fear for my young daughters future.
Edit : How can we be strong or stand up for what is right when your government and Police are against you and side with the others.
Also born 68 & left school in 84! Yeah, the UK has become too accommodating and quick to stamp on anyone who defies this silly pc woke culture world....
If we wish to leave our grandchildren a country similar to the one we grew up in , there are going to have to be drastic changes. Wake up.
I'm from Ireland and I think a lot of what you speak about it happening here,its frightening
I feel the same as you. I’m white british going back hundreds of years. I lived in Indonesia for 18 years a supposedly moderate Muslim country. I was witness to horrific events. The small Chinese Christian population were targeted in the most horrific ways. What happened at the nova festival bar the kidnappings happened there in 1997 and the world ignored it. Much more scary is the spread of Islam. It arrived there early 1900s in the royal houses. They were without exception, Hindu Buddhist and Christian. Conversion to Islam was almost 100% with the exception of of Bali. Islam moves fast and violently
Nearly took the ferry from Bali to Lombok in the mid 80s, but as a lone female traveller, at the last minute, thought better of it.
BS
Yep when in the minority they scream "victim". When I the majority, they attack and subjugate non-believers with violence and intimidation. All of the world. So called ideology of "peace"
They want a nation of council house, style, tenants, so they can come in your home when they like and take a look round; so they can go on your garden and tell you what you can put there;, what you can grow; they can install whatever technology to keep an eye on you and listen to what you say. Then when you get to a certain age and your children are grown up, they can move you into a flat.
Not in my home and garden, Im prepared. Well prepared. 🤫
The Great British tradition of having a garden, and one that you took pride in, well, that's sadly dying too. Ramshackle dwellings are now appearing to accommodate (illegally, 9/10 been constructed) the uninvited, unwelcome, and the non- conducive to our benefit and social cohesion.
Cultural suicide will, and is, ensuing!
Greetings from Ireland.
Great video, couldn't agree more with you. Ireland is being dragged to the same place as the UK. We're depending on people waking up en masse, which is a long shot. But we've gotta keep fighting back & speaking out .🙏
I agree with everything. Born in 1960, the 80's was the best decade of my life without any doubt. After 5/6 years of Blair, I moved to Thailand in 2003. I could see what was happening, but 21 years later, I just can't believe how bad things have gotten since I left. My decision to leave the UK has been vindicated many times over, but it still breaks my heart to see what politicians have done to the country of my ancestors. The traitors within.
Thailand is a great choice! Lifestyle is so.much better there, not to mention cost of living and weather👍🏻
@@mikimoto99Trust me matey ... Thailand IS NOT the Nirvana that many think it is!
@@almuric1baggins337 It certainly is compared to the UK and the states!
Been visiting and owned property through family there for 33years😉
@@mikimoto99I've only been married to my Thai wife for twenty years and lived in Thailand for the last eighteen; so what would I know!
@@almuric1baggins337 Less than me by the looks! You are probably isolated up in Isaan with not many farrang mates. That does get you down in the end and most guys end up drinking to drown the loneliness.
We are in Hua Hin and plenty of company, restaurants etc, not to get depressed about😉
Was a kid in the 80s, absolutely loved it. The tv,, outdoor culture with friends, vibrant lively city centres, communities united by British culture. We were immigrants and assimilated. None of that now. A divided, horrible country with people that hate this country.
yeah 3 million unemployed , mass strikes , crappy food , little to no apprenticeships , stonewash denim , football violence , tribal fighting in the small towns , fear of getting beaten up every time you go to a bar .dodgy 80's new romantic music .and crap coffee !! etc etc etc ... wasn't that great tbh
@@garethturner4811 Ah! Nostalgia, riots Falklands war, poll tax Northen industry decimated, mass unemployment. The 80s were great for a few yuppies down south, comedy plasterers and BMW salesmen . All Brexiteers now if course.
@@garethturner4811 you forgot to mention Thatcher 😂 and I’m an American 😅
@@garethturner4811 Football violence was fine. Stadiums had character, fans had passion and the atmosphere was excellent. I don't care about a few hooligans.
We have more unemployed today and the NHS worked much better back then. The unemployed were well taken care of.
80s had good sport, music and film and no overkill like today. Sure technology improves with time but that doesn't mean our society is better today, it isn't. Our country has gone to shit. Our city centres are pathetic shitholes with empty shops and are completely dead. We still have unemployed and huge spiralling government debt, a low birth rate and generally no hope for the future generation. The policitians have totally fucked this country up.
@@NY-Dani unemployment sits at 1.3 million today in the 80's it was over 3 million . and football violence is not ok , no violence is ok .
I loved life in the 80s...joined a motorcycle club and had fun...worked hard in the winter earned loads and took the summer off...went everywhere..
It is called nostalgia. Every young person, or at least most have happy memories from their past when they were young. You have your health, you never think of being old yourself, your family is together and your parents are alive and are there for you. Once this disappears, life is never really the same again. I am now old, I have my own grown-up children but there is always a great hole in my life when my own parents left me, that is just the way it is.
@@michaelmckelvey5122 a scar in the hearth that is never going to heal..........
Was born in 1944 so I’m a boomer. I’ll be dead soon but I can honestly say that I’m so glad that I was born when I was because we had the best of times. It was just after D Day and times were hard, Britain was bankrupt but neighbours looked out for each other and there was the Dunkirk Spirit. We saw so many changes, our mums and dad’s dressed like their mum’s and Dad. Suddenly teenagers had a voice, they got a job, had money to spend and then we got Rock a Roll.
I ask my mum about the past all the time, I'm 31 now and some of the things she tells me it's just unreal, she said she used to walk down the street in her youth look up and see trees with butterfly's of every colour you can think of in the trees, it made me realise that man..even down to the very small things it's all gone, it's been gutted..I remember when Christmas day used to seem like it went on forever, now it just feels like a rush to get it over with, everything has gone for us now, it's just sad.
@@Aaron-ze1io She'd be remembering the elm trees and their corresponding insects and fungi. Sadly wiped out in the 1970s by an Asian fungus that hitched a ride on our native elm bark beetle once it arrived on a timber import. Dutch elm disease is a misnomer, only so named because it was in the Low countries where it first became apparent.
It should be mandatory that every government building should have to fly the St George Cross and Union Flag
Including Trump 2024 flags - that will send the BBC lefties into meltdown.
YES!!!!!!!!
I agree 👍
France does. It is mandatory
I agree with every word in this vkdeo. I feel so lucky to have been born nearly 60 years ago, and to have experienced what I now appreciate really were halcyon days when it was like a different country. I can hardly remember what it's like to feel content, hopeful and safe. I could weep at what this once amazing country has become, where I felt so grateful to have been born and raised. It's virtuallly unrecognisable as the same country now, and it's so awful to see our culture being swiftly eroded and erased. I think people who are moving abroad are very wise, other than family and friends there's nothing to stay here for now. It's hard to believe this is where we're at. I'm very glad that I'm middle aged, and am looking forward to going to a much better place to be with the Lord when my time here is up - hopefully before it becomes unbearable!
Miss those times so much!
Minder, Auf Wiedersehen Pet, The Professionals… happy days. I’m a teacher and childhood seems to be virtually over by age of 8 or 9. They aren’t happy, lots of mental health issues that we never had. Country has had it I’m sad to say. I don’t recognise our country anymore.
I grew up in Ireland in the 70s and 80s and despite the political differences we had at the time we admittedly had an incredibly close cultural alignment with the British.We had BBC1 BBC2 ITV and eventually CHANNEL 4,so we had a shared cultural experience.Things were not always economically great but there was an incredible sense of freedom and a prevailing ethos of humor and common sense that honestly doesn't seem to exist anymore.I truly feel that young people have a very different experience now and I don't believe that I'm simply idealizing the past.Thank you for your content,I thoroughly enjoyed it.
What lovely words! So true that humour is what brings us all together and is one thing that prevails despite all the negatives of modern life
Life was better without the internet!
So true
There is no face to face interaction
You nailed it: social media and internet. Killed childhood.
We never needed the Internet as kids, we were to busy out playing and enjoying ourselves without a care in the world
I agree Paul! Bringing back our read phone boxes with the ability to reverse charges.
Smash up these computers, give us paper books and landlines.
The simple life! Much better.
depends how you use the internet and who you talk to. what groups you belong to.
I bet the WEF lot would love to ban the internet to everyone.
Although I agree the 80's were better, today we are more interconnected and awake than ever.
We see the crap thats being piled onto us from a great height unlike the 80's
I've moved to 92% Christian Philippines. Wonderful.
Good on you, take care.
Is it safe, though?
Good for you, what part of the Philippines are you in? I’m married to a Filipino from General Santos, I also want to get out of here asap
Respect, but personally I'd rather die than leave England! Even if I have to retreat like the Picts to the woods and mountains..
churches and Christians have been blown up in the philippine they have a Islamist problem
I was born in 1974, moved abroad to Turkey 2005, married a wonderful Turkish man, now live in beautiful Bulgaria! The countryside reminds me so much of my homeland to which i never want to return to. Here is safe, peaceful and free... For now! Highly recommend as you get a lot of house for your money and bills are minimal compared to UK, great quality of life with lovely neighbours of mainly Bulgarian but also finnish, irish, british, Israeli 🥰
So why are Bulgarian folks coming to the UK for work.
@@shazanali692 Because Bulgarians can work abroad for a few years and set themselves up financially on their return. It's also a chance to practice their English, which has become the second language in BG.
Greenock in Scotland in the 1960s had 4 Hospitals and umpteen clinics, and a much smaller population. Now it has 1 Hospital and a much larger population. In the 1960s our family doctor would do home visits when we were ill. I am sure it was the same through out the length and breadth of Britain. When i was little i trusted teachers, doctors and police without a second thought. Now?
In our Skye village, the doctor would come out for home visits, and his clinic was in his house. Very disappointed to learn that SNP pulled out of funding the Belford hospital in Fort William.
The 60's and 70's were better👍
For starters you could afford fish and chips or a beer without complaining about the cost, music was better, fashions better, tv, movies better and far safer. And one man could provide for the household, basic life but could survive.
For those of us who were born in the late 60s and had our teenage years through the 1980s were the blessed generation, we really had the best of both worlds, the analogue world was at its peak, we had technology that gave us everything we have today, be it that we had to put effort in ie, go to the video shop to hire a vhs, talk to our mates on a payphone. Our cars were comfortable and comparable to todays cars in reliability and usability, the days of childhood diseases like polio and rheumatic fever were over, a holiday to us was 2 weeks on the Mediterranean, not a week at some miserable seaside resort and like you said, we could get 100% mortgages, the government of the day, love them or loathe them had balls, they didn't want us dependant on them, we truly were the blessed generation and the country was a much better place, we have put too much emphasis on university and lost the ability of practical skills, we fill the universities with youngsters that then get brainwashed into this woke agenda, once they have a degree in whatever they studied the doors to more powerful positions where that voice is heard, above those of us that are the backbone of this country. People will tag on to the only fools and horses thing like it really matters, that is just emblematic of the situation we now face! if i could build a time machine, i would just go back to 1980 every 10 years, then spend every day telling my Dad how much i love him!
Learn from Lebanon. It really wasn't that long ago. A predominately Christian country that was once very prosperous. Following an influx of refugees and higher Muslim birth rates, the Christians were to find that they were the minority. Civil War ensued.
Thank you for posting this absolutely the truth, many people don't belive me when I mention Beirut went from being the "Paris of the Middle East" to what we see today a byword for chaos and anarchy, many western businesses were based in Lebanon bringing work and prosperity to the country!
That's where the "palestinians" caused chaos and civil war .
😮😢😮😢Please listen. The Lord has spoken they want to implement Islam.😢😢
Correct well said ruined and seriously bankrupt by Muslim man
100% the future is one where conflict is the only way
I was born 1972 was loveley,family,comunity and you could leave windows and doors open unlocked,play over the fields without the fear of predators,no mobile phones,great days🎉
Sadly, you're absolutely spot on. Our politicians are leading us down a very ugly road and what will be a dystopian society.
Left school in 1990, you rarely if ever saw teachers outside of school or knew about every facet of their existence and most of them didn't take any shit from pupils.
Yes, we had teachers where warnings would go down the corridor if the especially strict ones were on the move. I did go to Roman Catholic schools though.
You didn’t mess around if you heard certain teachers coming down the corridor
It always annoys me when people talk about our country and say things like 'we've had a sketchy past, going into other countries and taking things'....NO, that wasn't us either, that was the same people that are doing it to our country today, the politicans, the billionaires, the so called 'elite', the unelected governing bodies spread out around the world.
Practically every country tried to rule other countries, always have but...we were the last so easier to blame AND instead of saying so what that was the past we go cap in hand apologising for every little thing ,it needs to stop
Exactly. It was not my ancestors, but the ruling class as usual. Now I'm supposed to take the blame for it? Get out.
The 1960’s was the best time to be a teenager, would love to turn the clock back to those days.
The best time to be a teenager was whenever you were a teenager. It’s your youth you miss as do I, not the era it was in
I grew up in the 80,s and we were poor but it's true we had less but had more in other ways, we sang hymns in school assembly, we celebrated Christmas, and Easter, and weren't ashamed or anything about being a Christian country, it was far better for me and in my opinion so many other people, without the internet, social media,, kid's will always be kid's but we had more respect,we knew not to do certain things and to respect our parents, and senior citizens, where have we got to today,I haven't had children yet I want to, but fear for them if I do, and I fear for my family's children, and children everywhere,
New subscriber from the US, and I really love your channel. In America, our rights are pretty much destroyed. Thank you for your courage in speaking out. You are a hero.
We talk about this all the time, the 80s/90s even the mid 70s. I feel once we got the advent of Social Media, when all the loonies had a platform to spread their Ideology/Disease. This is when all our problems started. When we let our establishments get infiltrated by the wrong types, spreading their ideologies etc... it's the same with football, if someones heard swearing by a commentator, they apologies to anyone that might be offended?!
I'm 62 years old now and life was so much better in the 60's and 70's and we didn't have much in those days. wish we had a time machine to go back.
I wouldn't say the the 70's weren't particularly the best of times. If you think back we had a Prime Minister in Ted Heath, who took this country into, the then EEC, changing the democracy of our fair land, without consulting the people and therefore going against the Magna Carter and committing treason. We then had the three day week and power cuts. The next milestone was a Liebour government that ramped inflation to an all time high and winter of discontent which meant that rubbish pilled up in the street and services almost collapsed, firemen went on strike for better pay and were replaced on temporary basis by the armed forces who's pay was lower than the firemen to begin with. I don't particularly look back with fondness.
Amen to that. I remember watching tv on a BW portable tv that was powered by a car battery. The portable sat on top of the colour tv and the car battery was recharged when the electricity was back on
Love you're channel Paul .
You are so right in everything you say .
Born in 70 & how awful for our next generation / children / not a hope of buying their own home , rents are despicable .... thank god like yourself i own my own home now . But we all Paul had to work very hard but had somevlovely great innocent childhood times , everything was simpler back then ...only thing is all these greedy evil governments are getting worse , its just unreal . Look forward to more of you're posts , keep going 👍
Best wishes from Co.Kildare Ireland 🇮🇪
Unimaginable that we now have to check if places in Britian are safe to visit 🙈🙈🙈
Hi Paul, I was born in 1966 and I loved the 70s & 80s. I’m 57 now and like you said I don’t recognise this country as the same one I grew up in. Absolutely fantastic video and I’ll share it.
1980s ?? Our Industrial base decimated or sold off to foreigners, mass unemployment, riots cuts in defense, Falklands war, IRA terror campaign. Maggie's pal Jimmy Savile put in charge of Broadmoor Hospital, Our public assets being sold to foreigners. True it was great for a few yuppies. This guy is a Muppet.
I agree with everything you’ve said , it’s so so sad the way Britain has gone , Britain is seen across the world as weak . I worry for my families future. wise words your speaking keep it up & stay safe
I’m 50 and we talk constantly about the 70s and 80s
Great uncomplicated times to grow up in. We often say “ are we in some weird parallel time line like in back to the future where it’s all gone wrong 😂
I'm English and married to a Russian woman. I live in Krasnagorsk, Moscow. 5 minutes from Crocus / Vegas Mall where 144 people were murdered a couple of weeks ago.
I served with the Royal Military Police in the 80's and 90's in Germany.
I remember back in the 80's discussing the Eastern block countries Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany etc saying how lucky we were to have freedoms of speech and democracy.
Now look at it, the state of Britain.
I think its gone too far and Britain is finished, its emploding from within thanks to our rotten and corrupt government.
Contray to all Brits are lead to believe there are more freedoms here in Russia than Britain. It might sound incredulous but its true.
Blair has a lot to do with the rot that has set into the fabric of British life. How did it come to this.
My uncle loved Russia and the people and if it wasn't for the language barrier and my now disabled body I think I would contemplate moving there.
I'm happy your doing well - evil cultural marxism has drifted across from East to West like a toxic cloud - now the sun shines on Russia & the former Warsaw pact states - I forsaw this back in 1983 when we covered Stalin's purges in my History lessons - no one in my class would believe me back then.
I no longer recognise Britain 🇬🇧 and England 🏴 I’m very sad to say, you can’t trust a police person at all. Don’t even get me started on the politicians, let’s just say they have become self serving and not public servants, they couldn’t care less about the people who were born here.
Interesting to read what you were saying about the freedom allowed in Russia and it it definitely not we are led to believe here in the UK.
Unfortunately you are right and this country is now awful with utter disregard shown towards the native citizens and the rot certainly stems from Blair and has been carried on by all politicians ever since
……and another of my comments about the British 🇬🇧 demise disappears from UA-cam. The truth is not liked it seems.
Fully on board with what Paul is saying, the people themselves are letting the country down and I feel you cannot put the blame on government because we are allowing them to do so !
Mate,my 14yr old boy came down the other day and said hed been watching some vids about 80s kids vs 00s kids. It broke my heart when he said hed love to be in a time when all the kids where out playing etc. Its not good when a generation becomes aware they are living in a much worse place than the genrations before them. Wheres the incentive to love your country.....🇬🇧
It's 'King tragic
@@edmundblackaddercoc8522indeed mate,problem is if I send him out there's no other sole out. Luckily I'm near the coast so he has that at least. Left the city 10yrs ago because I could see what was coming,best decision I've ever made. I'm in a little bit of old England with not a single "invader"living here..............yet.🇬🇧
60 now, couldn't agree more
Mr Paul Thorpe, I agree with every word you said! My mum was born in 1930 in London and she would be sick to see England of today! Nothing is like it was, ai the moment I live in Italy, and it’s getting very bad here too! Now I under stand why so many British people have moved to the Spanish islands! I would never go back to live in England the way it is today! My family and I love “ only fools and horses “ we think it’s THE BEST!
Totally agree with you I was born in the late 60s and the UK was a much better and safer place to be living in I really feel for the future of my grandchildren growing up now in this lawless country.
It's a sad reflection and a sad time to witness the downfall of the UK I never thought I'd witness it.
I know exactly who's to blame but they are never going to acknowledge it or change it
Totally agree Paul Blair was the start of our collective down fall.
I blame Tony Blair personally
What about Lionel 😂
@@mattdog1982my cousin once convinced my mom that Lionel Blair was Tony Blair’s dad 😂
From bloke to bloke and I honestly wish the best you and ya family and I really really hope you get ya country back
Loads wish we could turn back time.
Born in the mid 60's, grew up in the 70's and 80's, married and had my son in the mid 90's and look back fondly on those wonderful decades. Whatever problems we went through during those times seem almost whimsical and cuddly compared to the ugly stuff going on nowadays, the sheer corruption and destruction of our beloved way of life, something which would have seemed an impossibility back in time. We all need to dig in our heels and resist this evil
Mass immigration can and is destroying our culture..........
Thank you Paul, saying what everyone our generation is thinking.❤
Late 70’s and the 80’s were the best times ever. Happy catchy music as well. 👍
What, you don't like trap "music"? 🙂
That summer of 76 was the best and hottest ever. A favourite song for me then was Afternoon Delight!
Paul, please continue to speak out on the current & future state of the UK. You are not alone & I agree with every single word you have spoken. I too am very despondent about our future here in the UK & I have also considered moving abroad. What stops me, is the thought that if we all leave, then we have handed them our country on a plate. It may be inevitable given the demographic data, but we must not make it even easier by leaving. How we stop this from happening, is by our absolute refusal to accept it & we need more people to be aware of the problem, the threat & the direction in which we are headed.
There is nothing left for us here anymore. The place is so bad why would anyone want to stay here unless you are a migrant wanting free stuff or a criminal
I left school in the early 80’s straight into a YTS getting tricks played on me etc😂
Been sent for a long stand or a dozen doughnut holes.?? Grease getting smeared down my pants.!!
Can you imagine what the youngsters of today would do.? They’d have you for bullying.?
Good times and things made alot more sense too.👍
My mate went to the post office to send a letter and he asked to buy an envelope to put his letter in. He was refused at the counter as they don't sell envelopes in a post office any more. The lady was shocked that he'd even asked for one. This country is backwards and doesn't make sense any more and I was born in 1995.
I think it's just that your Post Office sounds sh1te!
I'd give anything to go bck n relive my youth but with the knowledge I got now!
As an ex Labour voter, I grew up in the 80s and 90s it was great, there were honest working racial minorities here who intergrated, it all changed with Tony Blair and the introduction of Political Correctness! I never thought I would be begging for the day Thatcher was at the helm, none of this woke crap!
I’m voting REFORM!
I grew up hating Margaret Thatcher because everyone else did. All that changed for me around 2017. I am begging for someone like Thatcher to comeback. Today it’s a Marxist hell hole.
Going full Bolshevik.
I share your sentiments. Bliar was the biggest problem.
@@DaveBeaven-tx2tpyeah, one thing I can definitely say about Thatcher was that she wasn’t going to take any 💩against our country. She must be turning in her grave now with what her party has done recently?! Poll tax did for her and her party because a wet lettuce took over and started a rot that culminated with a Tory in disguise Blair.
Im on the same page as you. Born late 70s and missed the 80s and 90s for atleast 10 years. Everything started going downhill around 2010ish.
1953. Brought up in a council house with loving parents. Property same as you Paul, bought and sold and moved onwards. We had all the best music as well. And everyone was without any shadow of a doubt much happier. It saddens me to see what our treacherous politicians have done, or let happen to our once great country!
Me too! 3 bedroom council house in Newcastle, shared a bedroom with 4 brothers , 9 in our family but we all say how happy our childhood was , a brilliant time to have your youth and above anything else people were so much happier then
Im 62. And I fully agree! Even our kids agree...
The only way we would be able to go back to those times is if people stand up in unity and say, "NO More" to this absolute modern-day madness.
I was born in 59, the 70's were great, especially 76, the 80's were great, two baby daughters, lovely camping and caravaning holidays with friendly helpful fellow campers, lovely towns and villages to visit, all different now though, brown skinned bearded shifty eyed surly faces everywhere, same old barbers, nail bars and phone repair shops, same sh!t wherever you go now.
What's wrong with the presence of brown skinned faces Paul? Born in 59, I give you 10 more years til you croak it laa. Hope your final memories involve some brown skinned hospital staff
i was a child of the 1980s born in the 70's, we didn't have much but we got by, we got by because the sense of togetherness in the community was much stronger, everybody genuinely cared about their neighbours and looked out for each other, since the rise of the internet and smartphones the whole community thing has died a death, i now don't recognise half of the people in my area and people struggle to say hiya to each other, we've certainly gone backwards
I would go back to the 80's in a heart beat, fantastic way of life back then. Britain today is a terrible place to live and it's getting worse. 🏴🇬🇧
Pakistanis are getting out, says it all
great time , music ..rock , auf weidershien pet classic tv , you could have a laugh at work , religion didnt take over our thoughts and the way we can tslk , live with each other , weve become sadly a woke society where we darent say or do anything .
Auf wiedersehen pet was fantastic, all episodes on UA-cam now.
@issachunt3585 got the 1 and 2 box set ..un regulated , as mostly now on tv its been chopoed back and misses the great lines it once had ,impact 😮💨
@@markbowman7240 ow...ayatola..get ya skeates on...
@dickweeeeeeeeeed wayne calling barry a radish would be a hate crime now lol
@@markbowman7240 and oz calling moxey an asthmatic pit pony would aswell ha ha,good on ya mate.
Wham, Culture Club, Thatcher Reagan, Yuppies, Filofaxes, New Order, Ultravox, Duran Duran, Mullets, Live Aid, Only Fools and Horses, The Tube, Neighbours, etc... Good and Bad... Take your pick.
A whole load of crap music there but at least Thatcher is dead.
@@wulfhere83 Shite music.
@@wulfhere83 That wouldn't be hard.