Do we need a return to Victorian values?

Question

Hard Work, Family & Thrift?

Answer 1

Children in factories, poor people in workhouses, 60 hour week. No votes for women.

Like....NO

Answer 2

sI think we need to choose the desirable Victorian values and remember that some Victorians spent a lot of time getting children out of factories. Trying to get women's rights and outlawing slavery. Some people are working a sixty hour week now to make ends meet to-day . The workhouses were a great improvement on what went on before. It wa very hard in thios Country and even worse in Ireland then

Answer 3

When it comes to moral values then yes i think that would be a good idea we should restore discipline in schools as well and the home . Traditional policing also with a bobby on the beat and proper sentencing and the death penalty for murder. The left wont like it of course it will mean reversing the so called cultural revolution but who cares it was there project which has wrecked this country and brought in a moral dark age. We might of progressed in technology and medicine but we have fallen culturally . Britain needs to find its identity again and that includes its sovereignty by freeing itself from the shackles of the EU and the oppression of the corrupt and morally bankrupt state. Britain could be great again if the people want it to be but we need to work together to influence change we wont get it from the three main parties they aren't interested in what we want so a new party is needed .

Answer 4

It wasn't like that for everyone, as a read of Mayhew's London will reveal. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/MayLond.html
Hard work was pretty standard, but not everyone had a family and a lot of orphan children were out in the streets living on their wits. Many people didn't have much cash to be thrifty with. Women's lives were extremely restricted. If they didn't marry, then they were expected to live as an appendage of a brother's family: if they did marry, then such money as they had (until the passing of the Married Women's Property Act) went to their husband. It was possible to end up in a debtor's prison or the workhouse as the result of misfortune and many decent women were forced into a life of prostitution in order to keep body and soul together. Many children died young as the result of diseases which nowadays are under control, or on account of bad sanitation. There are many things about the Victorian era which were admirable, but scratching beneath the surface there was a lot of misery, ill health and hardship.

Answer 5

Since I lived through them in my youth... yes... and no... I think people work hard enough today... but thrift most people do not have... so yes... to that...

I think we need those values back relating to discipline because this is what we had in my time that really made a difference in the UK... and backbone... because no one moaned... everyone got stuck in... had the ability to roll our sleeves up and get on with anything that needed doing... and not see every little thing as a major catastrophic event as we do today... and this resilience is what made this country great!

And there were less 'experts' and more grounded hardworking industrious people manufacturing and producing goods... we have no real industry at all today and when the banks all crash... as one day they will... this mammoth service industry we all take a living from... will not feed us all and will not sustain our country.

I'm awfully glad my life is almost over... because I seriously don't envy those who inherit this money making materialistic society we've created!

Answer 6

If you study Victorian newspapers and the like you may find people complaining about young people and the collapse of society and how intolerable life is and how we should go back to the previous era etc.such has life always been.

Answer 7

Definitely not. Women would have no rights and children would be exploited and abused, and many would be denied the right to an education. Thrift wouldn't be a bad value, though.

Answer 8

Interesting thought. The Victorian values were a reaction to the very Liberal eighteenth century. So yes, because we have now become about as morally bankrupt as it is possible to be, thanks to lefties/liberals, perhaps a lurch back to Victorian values is due. We don't ever seem to be able to steer a middle course for very long.

I assume that you are referring to moral values, and not all the other baggage that some of your respondents have referred to.

Answer 9

yes why not? slavery, women and children have no rights, everyone obsessed with class, no real education, health, no welfare state, children having to work for next to nothing, hideous idea of fashion, death penelty, can't travel the world, barely any means of transport...

Answer 10

Bah humbug