Fuel Duty 5420Brimstone ... ... ... All in all a predictably *accurate* one, if that's what you were trying to say. If you were trying to say something else, I'm afraid...
Brimstone
Well, we got "rid" of the Empire, if that's one of the "aspects" you are talking about.
Was that bad?
We stopped trying to police the world.
Was that bad?
We stopped trying to "do it all" militarily and co-founded NATO.
Was that bad?
We joined the Common Market and abandoned Empire (Commonwealth) trade.
Was that bad (some say it was)?
We have seen an astounding rise in living standards, prosperity, welfare, health standards and life-expectancy, to levels which are quite beyond the expectations of those living 30 years ago, let alone 100 years ago.
Any complaints?
Indeed it wasn't. It was the owners and workers of those industries that did for them. Well, that and the fact that we could not expect to keep the Third World under our collective thumb for ever, and that the only way to preserve the "manufacturing base" would have been to ban the import of Asian manufactures.
Would that have been good?
Who knows... it might have been (but I don't think so - do you?).
Wrong.
The main reason for overweaning trade unions was the quite astounding fact that they could not be held responsible at law for the damage they inflicted. That (as well as certrain other legal "immunities" they enjoyed) was changed during the 1980s.
