Whenever anyone mentions the working class past (pre-Thatcher, pre-deindustrialisation) in any kind of positive light (sense of community, lack of atomisation), there's a rush to dismiss this as romanticised "sentimentality". "Nostalgia". Two great sins of the middle class liberal-left. They will point out how terrible life actually was for working class people, awful food, awful conditions, awful drudgery, RICKETS.
The same people will dismiss and downplay these terrible conditions of the English working class whenever colonialism comes up. How DARE you suggest you had it bad? You were spoiled! You and your ancestors benefitted from colonial loot so don't you dare play victim!
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