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Anonymous asked in News & EventsCurrent Events · 2 weeks ago

Do you think the decline of Britain started in the 1960s with degenerate music from the Rolling Stones, Beatles and the hippy culture?

Their records promoted free love, drug abuse and laziness which the youth seized on. The result, a few generations later, is a underclass culture embroiled in debauchery, degeneracy like homosexuality, bisexuality, transgenderism, and mixed race relationships, and a lack of patriotism which has driven this country into the ground compounded by lack of discipline.

The 1950s was the peak of modern Western civilisation.

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  • 2 weeks ago

    The 1960s certainly I troduced  drugs into the middle class. I remember in the 1950s middle class white kids, never heard of marihuana. Heroin was something "the colored people did, in Harlem".

  • 2 weeks ago

    It started after WW2 not in the 1960s.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    No.   And none of that was important.  The rot set in with the post war generation and the music and floppy trousers were nothing to do with it.

  • 2 weeks ago

    Britain declined after WW2 when they let the Caribbean's, Indians, Pakis, Bangladeshis, Africans, Roma, Gypsies, Arabs, Turks in. Bad mistake! Britain should have followed the Australian example of Whites Only immigration policy. 

  • Anonymous
    2 weeks ago

    Mass vagrant immigration 

  • 2 weeks ago

    Explain what you mean by decline. 

    There has always been an underclass, they are like the upper class but with no money.What you call debauchery has always gone on, I suggest you read some history.You could start with easy history in the form of historical biographies.Try one about the Curzon sisters, all of whom, along with their stepmother, committed “debauchery” with the leader of the British Fascist Party, Oswald Mosley.Ignorance must be such bliss for those who espouse it. It’s just tedious for the rest of us,

  • Truth
    Lv 7
    2 weeks ago

    no.  poor kids tried to get out of a bad situation with music.  it is better than what folks do in the usa, stealing tv's

  • Anonymous
    2 weeks ago

    Nope.  That was just a change in music. A liberation of what could be said.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    2 weeks ago

    well before that , they imported blacks to do the menial jobs as conductors on the buses in the 50's , and india kick them out in 1947 ..

  • Anonymous
    2 weeks ago

    1950 was about conformity - dressing like oldies before your time!

    Hypocrisy!

    "What will the neighbors say" mindset!

    Bowing and scraping! Knowing your place in society! To suck up to those higher classes!

    Who didn't necessarily have any more intelligence, manners, merely the recipient of  an  accident of birth!

    No different from king Louis or Czar Nicholas being ordained by God!

    As if!

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