As per usual you simply jump to daft conclusions about: "the UK being skint on to the IRA"Post WW2 usually refers to 1945 to 1959, even maybe the very early 60s
Statty though wants to pretend it really includes 1972 onward to try apportion some of the blame for the UK being skint on to the IRA
The U.K. was the "Sick man of Europe" until it joined the E.E.C. (E.U.) in 1973 and it eventually caught up.
A complete basket case and the IMF even had to come in back in 1976.
The rose tinted glasses of a pastoral pure Britain is just revisionist nonsense.