Plus ça change

I’m reading a book that was written 50 years ago in the mid-1970s, and it was just like today back then. Foreigners were smuggling other foreigners into Britain and the government was doing nothing about it.
    Another book in my collection of the same vintage has refuse reclamation centres dotted around the country. The ultimate in recycling. Do we have anything like that? Joke.
    All we have is Milipedes instead of politicians with a working brain.