I'm fucking sick of this shit.
I'm a leftie.
I also left the UK because of some of the issues you mention (and admit there are issues here - selfishly, they don't effect me, so I do what I can for others but love my own life too)
But I can't bare
"It was better in the 90's" with 110% mortgages and people working for £1 an hour (yes, that was a thing. I still have one of my mums payslips from 91 whereby she was paid 91 pence an hour as admin. Couldn't afford to heat her home or eat).
Child maintence was deducted from benefits whether or not your ex paid his dues. Meaning thousands of kids went without (how badly depends on how rich your NRP was) regardless. High poverty and yes, child poverty too!
Homelessness started to rise in the 80's and was at crisis point in this time period
Or "it was better in the 80's!" things were much the same and it was still difficult for women to get loans or debt of any kind without a male guarantor. Some places would say otherwise but wouldn't approve loans to women without that male guarantor.
Marital rape was still legal (until 1990/1991 I believe) and dv victims were told to "go and make your husband a cup of tea and say sorry for causing trouble" sometimes while still bleeding or with a black eye inflicted by that same husband.
The 70's.... the era of shit food and latch key kids. Still high poverty, parents working multiple jobs to keep food on the table. Kids still hit with rulers in school. Childline isn't made until the mid 80's. Kids are frequently abused but have nowhere to turn.
Child protection isn't much of a thing.
Police don't take DV or child abuse seriously and taking a belt to your child is socially acceptable in some circles still.
The 60's.
Most houses had only (quite expensive) coal heating available. Outdoor toilets were still common. Most people still bathed in a "tin bath" people still had the make do and mend mentality from the years of war austerity. Some people also had horrific psychological problems which they had to hide. One of my older family members threw himself in front of a train because of these horrific memories and there was fuck all in the way of support (Stiff upper lip, after all)
The 50's
People grieving still after the loss of their families, children still missing after displacement in the war. Rationing continues until the mid 50's (55 or 54 I believe) even afterwards, most people are poor and dealing with the horrific aftermath of war. Businesses and livelihoods were decimated. Milkmen, paper boys and business owners all died and went missing regardless of their previous jobs.
Miscarriages and pregnancy loss were a personal failing and it was socially acceptable to get a new young wife if yours was infertile.
Let's also remember that women had very few rights, poverty was high and women were expected to get back in their box and chain themselves to the kitchen sink (after a lot of the time holding down jobs while keeping the house running while their husbands and sons died horrific deaths in the war).
Which era would you like to go back to?
Would you like it to be legal for your husband to rape you, or for your son and hundreds of other sons and husbands to die at war? Would you like to have your food rationed, or do you want an outside toilet and a tin bath?
Would you like to be left destitute for being infertile (and then told by everyone you know it's your own fault or you're less of a woman?)
Or do you want to work for 11 hours a day in a factory on a night shift then sleep for 3 hours and work another 6.5 hours at a school, for 5 days a week, then spend the weekends doing 15 hours a day at your factory job (as my nana did in the late 60's as the single parent of 2 kids?)
This is my way of saying get your rose tinted specs off!
Every decade has its own problems and it's certainly nowhere near as bad as the 50's (unless you're so poor you're rationing an egg a week and eating mouldy food?!)