Quote Originally Posted by the other bob wilson View Post
You say it's a world we now read about in history books, but it strikes me that it's a world many would return to at a drop of a hat if they could. Too many of the generation that came after the Second World War have this truly bizarre nostalgia for ir - it's almost as if they're sad to have missed our on it.

Did the country really "come together"? How can we know when anyone with a differing opinion was, effectively, ignored by the mainstream media?
The media projected just one take on the proceedings so the royalists were under the impression that the whole country was royalist. The saturation coverage was akin to that which we usually associate with totalitarian states.