Carers Of Dundee ad on TV

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I can't disagree more.

You said no 20 year old had hope of a job......I'll let you off with gross exaggeration.

This nostalgic ****e about AHH **** in it together in the early mid seventies grinds my gears a bit.

Thatcher raised expectation those who cud grabbed opportunity, those that couldn't struggled, those that cudnt be arsed.....meh.

I'll say again I saw little poverty despair or lack of hope thru my ****s and 20s, mixed with manual workers, professional and those going thru uni to better themselves

I honestly think they will be the best times I'll ever live thru

I'm allowed to exaggerate a bit.

Of course there were jobs, I had a few, but the ones I got were all dead end crappy ones - they even tried to get me back on YOP or whatever it was called at the time. Manufacturing was gubbed and I looked at other options, didn't work out for me but did for others. By the way the ones it worked out better for at the time never got the opportunities later on that I did.

I remember living in a two bedroom tenement in West March with my Mum, Dad, sister and three brothers - my sister had the small back bedroom to herself, mum and dad slept on a sofa bed in the living room and four of us were in the front bedroom in two double beds; most families in our street were in the same or a very similar boat. Most parents worked and they watched each others' kids to help each other out - all in it together type thing. That's not nostalgia, it's cold hard facts of life in the sixties / early seventies.

It was the late 1980s / early 1990s before I managed to get myself sorted after losing my apprenticeship in 1981, but I got there and agree the 1990s / 2000s were decent times. But let's not write off the hard times before then when ordinary working people did often find it hard but got through.

Edit to add - did you not find it strange that it took Thatcher being overthrown in 1990 for times to get a bit better?