Thursday 19 June 2008
Stoned Britain
It comes as no surprise to me that British children are vastly more likely than their contemporaries elsewhere to use cannabis, to get drunk at earlier ages, and to rely on their peer groups instead of their families. We now have a permanent government based on the logically successive revolutions of 1968, 1979 and 1997, none of them in any sense a reaction against any of the others, but rather the reverse.
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The "revolutions" started a good deal earlier than 1968. 1979 was in any rate a counter-revolution, albeit one that was quickly subverted and its successes (such as labour relations and Section 28) ultimately overturned after 1997.
ReplyDeleteUtter rubbish.
ReplyDelete1979 was the economic consolidation, and the social expansion, of the social revolution of 1968 (do you think that the soixante-huitards liked the unions, or the old working class generally?).
1997 was the constitutional consolidation, and the social and economic expansion, both of the social revolution of 1968, and of the economic and social revolution of 1979.
These three revolutions have all been supported by, and have all been of sole ostensibe benefit to, exactly the same individuals.