1. Abortion was illegal
2. Life expectancy was about a decade shorter
3. Homosexuality was illegal
Yeah, if only we could return to the good old days, eh?
I would point out that 1 and 3 were both legalised under the Wilson government.
I would point out that people who weren't straight white males still had a much worse time of it (and that blanket nostalgia for sixty, seventy, eighty years ago is the reason why certain segments of the lefty-left [which I'm not saying you're a member of mind] remain entirely male and white and are so totally unsuccessful.)
