Punk Rocker With Flowers In Her Hair?

Am I the only one who finds Sandi Thom's #1 single "Oh I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With flowers in my hair)" painfully annoying? It just goes on and on, and is so tedious. It's grumpy old men with even more socialist bite than normal – they, by the way, have already annoyed me with their moans about 'choice' which they hate so much. To me, it is just another example of the very false romanticism of "the left" and conversely, demonisation of "the right" and "economic liberalism". It is maybe because socialism failed – miserably, everywhere and obviously. Yet who'd trade present day for '77 or '69, when, as Sandi Thom rightly notes, revolution was in the air – strikes, inflation, unemployment, failing Labour governments (there are some similarities then).

Every piece about post-war popular history seems geared towards the socialist perspective, why? From TV dramas (remember the stomach churningly biased "Faith" on BBC1 last year weeks before a general election) to music, the left always dominates. Why is there not a conservative/liberal perspective ever shown?

I can't see anyone singing "Oh I wish I was a yuppy with a headband in my hair, in '79 and '83 Thatcherism was in the air" – but it would make more sense.