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Originally Posted by Ammi

...thing is nothing is like ‘the old days’ for anyone and everyone looking back on their childhood and it’ll be the same for our children and our children’s children and on it goes and on it goes...it’s not a cultural thing, it’s just ever evolving and changing landscapes and people, which every neighbourhood needs...

Agree. You hear it all the times people wanting to go back to some bygone era where there was some kind of racial Utopia. The following timeline says otherwise.

1968 - Enoch Powell Rivers of blood speech
1979 - Thatcher rises to power on the back of a speech where she said this country is being 'swamped' - her exact words - by people from oversees.
1981- Brixton and Toxteth riots.
1985 - Murder of PC Blakelock
1993 - Murder of Stephen Lawrence.

I'd like to know when was the period when everyone was getting on