2010s

[ICTChris]

Is that tiny child about to kick the helpless Rangers fan in the face?

If so

[Scary Bear]

On 01/11/2019 at 20:33, ICTChris said:

 

The decade is coming to an end. When you look back through modern history decades become associated with cultural, political and social trends and changes. For example, the 60s are now shorthand for social changes and the challenging of traditional elites and authority. The 80s are associated with Thatcherism, the resurgence of the Right after many years of the social democratic post War consensus.

 

What will the 2010s become known for? Austerity, independence referendum, Brexit, Corbyn, Syria and Trump have defined politics.

 

The growth of social media has been huge during this decade, Facebook growing from 500m monthly users to 2.3bn between 2010 and 2017 with Twitter rising from 7m to 238m estimated users during the same period.

 

Economically the fall out from the economic crash has continued to be a defining issue, in Britain the sense that we haven’t really got out from under the shadow of it continues, alongside productivity sluggishness.

 

What are P&Bers highlights and lowlights of the decade?

 

 

You’ve pretty much covered it. From a UK perspective it’s:

1. Endless Austerity years, cuts to services so that you really notice it. Everything from lack of basic maintenance to incompetent/non-existent management of services.

2. Growth of social media and smart phone use.

3. Referendums: Mainly Brexit and Indy but also that PR referendum which again highlighted the piss-poor negotiating skills of your average Lib-dem numbskull, which turned an open goal into an own goal. PR is the only way forward if you want every vote to count, but they couldn’t get the right kind of PR and ended up with the proposal of FPTP v botched version of PR which nobody really wants. Shambles.