While I hold no illusions about Mrs T and Mr B, the problem is older than them. In 1973 Alex Glasgow wrote a song that started:

Jack and Jill are off to serve
Their sentence in the child preserve,
Where iron bars confine the care they need.
Jack is with hia brothers there,
Thise baby boilermakers fair
And Jill will share the fate of her neglected breed.
This is where their world begins
This is where they try their wings
And learn that kings and queens are from a different mould.
Losig, as they always will,
Down the hill go Jack and Jill
Down the river where thwir mums and dads
Were also sold.


So yes, things have got worse, but no illusions, please, of.how it uaed to be.