News to me that there weren't beggars on the street before 1974. What was that Charles Dickens thinking, writing all that stuff about problems which didn't exist then. As for dysfuncional families, you can't have done any family history research if you think that is a new problem. And that stuff about opium dens in the 19th and early 20th century, all made up. And what was the other one? Collapse of manufacturing? We all know why that was, and it wasn't in 1974 and wasn't to do with the EU.