UK: Life after nuclear war amazingly similar to life the rest of the time

As the Soviet threat becomes more likely, people start staying away from work…

Hell, that’s how my friends and I spent the 1980s, and that was our reason, too!

In those days, we’d all sit around watching Threads and stuff and wonder what life would really be like when the bomb finally dropped, which, we were assured, it was going to do any minute.

Well, cool Mad Max outfits weren’t in the offing after all. Plans for post-apocalyptic England sound vaguely… familiar…

A tiny elite would have relocated into underground bunkers so government could continue safe from attack.

All ‘subversives’ would be rounded up and the BBC censored to make way for state propaganda.

…all but the acutely ill are discharged from hospital.