high unemployment - more than it is now
high interest rates and inflation
miners strike/pit closures
Margaret Thatcher
Nationalisation
Poll Tax
John Lennon murdered
Brixton riots
Was great the 80s
BTW Page 3 birds were around in the 70s
Unemployment was lower. Nowadays they filter it into jumped up polytechnics called UNI's where you can study a degree in 'David bechamology' or 'mobile phonology' , you and I pay for their grants and when they come out trying to get to be bechams minder and they can't they pay £5 a month to pay off a £20,000 grant of which they will never pay off.
Did you hear about the man who in the 80's was a window cleaner and left school at 16, they gave him 5 of today’s 'A' papers. He past all of them and yet in 1984 he only past one GCSE out of 6.
So there is your unemployment nicely filtered off the records
Miners strike was only very limited and let’s be honest nobody or few people have coal..Would you run a company at a Billion year loss each year?
Margaret Thatcher....That's why the VW Golf came into this country my friend, it was not until the 90's that Cat's came in when labour got into power and then speed camera's popped up everywhere.
And when the British Falklands where invaded, NO LACK OF EQUIPMENT THERE SO OUR SOLDIERS COULD DIE....NO SHE SENT A FULLY EQUIPPED TASK FORCE (INCLUDING HELICOPTERS BY THE WAY) SO OUR SOLDIERS DID NOT GET KILLED...SOME DID..BUT WITH 200 DEAD IN AFGANISTAN CAN YOU IMAGINE IF BROWN WAS IN POWER BACK THEN, THE SOLDIERS WOULD HAVE BEEN FIGHTING WITH TREE TWIGS) :embarassed:
Nationalisation?
Now you got me stumped on this one...I think you mean privatisation....which is completely the opposite.
Poll tax....Yes that was a pile of crap...agreed.
John Lennon murdered, don't you mean assassinated....A shame but not quite on the same scale as 9/11 or 7'7 is it?
Brixton riots ...True
However how many riots are their nowadays for the human rights of an immigrant, or a riot by the population who feel the immigrants are taking their jobs.
Pubs not clubs back then, Clubs came later after the pubs shut.
The bottom line for GTI owners or any car owners then was freedom to drive, no cat's or camera's or speed limiters, the great smell of 2 stroke oil and GTX.
There are floors to every decade but this is a car website and the 80's where the last decade for fast cars.
Clarkson still keeps a MK1 Golf
So does that tasty blonde on 5th gear.
Will any of the standard cars of today be around 30 years from now?
I think not.
PS....page 3 girls where around in the 70's but the daily Star was not.
Oh yes and one more thing...Women danced for men then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEqsZExmDzI