Industries that employed whole towns had a spirit and togetherness that could stand up and fight for what they believed in. That was always an issue for the Tories and breaking this up was a Thatcher ideology and cost this country it's industry. The only place that still has a set of balls is Liverpool. I doubt any other city would have fought so hard for Hillsborough justice and look how Scousers have been demonised by the Tories (Johnson has written scathing articles) and the press have had their gloves off as far back as I can remember.
The rest of us have turned into selfish pussycats, I'm alright jack pervades throughout this country. The problem comes when people have to fight for betterment, firstly they don't have the stomach and secondly they've fallen for the divide and rule stuff and the working man blames immigrants, turns his nose at benefit claimants and wants to pay as little tax as possible.