[Yug]

Maybe the clock could do with being turned back 50 years in some areas of society. 50 years ago was a time before Thatcher fucked the country over. Some things were better then.

Public services
Public transport
Housing
Political discourse

to name but a few.

[Oboogie]

Despite being raised to hate the Tories from birth (1964), I do have to resist the temptation towards rose-tinted nostalgia when I think of the post-war consensus.
Ted Heath (for example) did some bad stuff, but compared to all the senior Tories since 1979 he looks reasonable.
All things are relative.
I think we lost something, an element of social cohesion for one, when the wartime generation retired from frontline politics.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

The consensus always was that, unlike the Great Unpleasantness, the Continuing Argumentation brought social classes together in such a way as to begin to understand each other and the issues facing society. Thatcher's generation - nah. Not talking to the oiks, too busy 'getting on'.