Anyone who reads history knows that we in the UK have never had it so good. No, nothing is perfect yet, with all too many people suffering for all kinds of reasons, and we all have to do better.
But, we have not got millions living in absolute squalor in massively over crowded slum housing, being treated as virtual slaves of industry. We can be treated without charge for our allments, and not have to worry about the cost of treatment for our children. If the workers of a household fall sick or lose their jobs they can get financial support from the state, with some form of pension for when they can (finally) retire. We have good clean water entering our homes, and a waste system to hygienically take it away. We have far cleaner air than our forebears since the start of the Industrial Revolution. We are not fighting regular wars with horrendous cost and human implications, with no longer people in charge who thought it was "tolerable" to have 10,000 British men killed in one morning, with another 9,000+ in the afternoon, plus another 30,000 casualties, or warships go down with 1,400+ men lost. On the domestic front, our homes are so well equipped now compared to my mother's and grandmothers, with all the latest mod cons. UK lifespans have never been higher than now, with the majority having far more of a quality life than 80 years ago.
And so the realities of historical comparison go on. The average person though can enjoy a colourful freedom of choice in how they dress, how they express themselves without a rigid national sense of conformity as seen in those distant black and white days of this nation. We as a people, and as individuals, are now free as much as we can be, although again I would state we have still some way to go.