Can you remember a time when the UK has NOT been in the middle of a political or usually financial crisis?

I know I'm showing my age but I do remember such a time.


Back in the 50s we had a strong, socialist Labour government which had just set up the NHS (no more crippling doctor's bills) and wartime food rationing had finally come to an end. The Utilities, such as water, gas, electricity and rail transport were all owned by the nation which, without greedy shareholders to pay, made them really affordable. There were more jobs than people, so you could choose what you did and education was free all the way from Infant's School to University!


However, there was one drawback, in the form of National Service. When any boy reached the age of 17 he was conscripted into one of the armed services, usually the Army, for 18 months.|||It would be easier to ask if we could remember a time when we were. We are not in a polital or financial crises and have not been for a long long time. What we have today is petty bickering and bad accounting. Greece had a finacial crisis and remember the wheelbarrows full of banknotes is south america just to buy a loaf of bread? thats a crisis and also zimbabwe recently. As for a ploitical crises then we do not have that at all. When there are tanks on the street like in the middle east or when one party start bombing the HQ of another like in Moscow then its a crisis.|||Yes. That would be yesterday; or two hours ago; or right now. I can remember those good days.|||When we were occupied by the Roman Empire.|||Wasn't there a quick gap between Kosovo and the War on Terror when the economy was booming?|||Not in my life time :L but I'm still only young, but its long enough to know that were constantly stuck in one haha