ABSTRACT
In the course of fifteen years, from the mid-1970s to the end of the 1980s the social landscape of Great Britain has seen so much change that one can talk of a ‘cultural revolution’. There is no doubt that a new page has opened in her history. During these critical years, with the break-up of traditional society and with strong-arm attempts to awaken national energies, Great Britain’s destiny has been played around three main themes. The first move was to revive the economy. In the face of a chronic anaemia, aggravated since 1973 by a world depression that struck a country in full retreat, the immediate priority was to awaken a dynamism capable of restoring the foundations of growth and prosperity. This would give renewed confidence to a depressed nation by offering a future that would be promising and productive.
