In the past 40 years are moralistic values and social accountability more or less than present day.
Here's something to think about:
The Profumo Affair:
In 1961 it came to light that John Profumo, a government minister and Secretary of State for War, had been enjoying himself at country house parties and had entered into a brief affair with a model/hostess/prostitute Christine Keeler. It also came to light that Keeler may have been simultaneously involved with Yevgeny Ivanov, a
Soviet naval attaché and therefore of GRU, Russian military intelligence.
The subsequent scandal, Profumo at first denied any impropriety, by his subsequent admission and resignation from govt and as an MP. The repercussions of the affair damaged the reputation of the Conservative Party and the Prime Minister also resigned later.
Cut to today:
It has emerged that Boris Johnson, then the Government's Foreign Secretary, returned from a summit meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels held in the wake of the poisoning of the Russian defector Sergei Skripal by KGB agents.
Less than a month later, in a highly unusual break with protocol, slipped by his personal security detail (MI6) and flew out to enjoy a party at the mansion of Lebedev, an ex KGB agent who got out of Russia with a considerable fortune. The party was held at Lebedev's mansion in Italy, where he owns a mountain. 'This' side of the mountain is Lebedev's, the other side hosts the mansion of another Russian expatriate, with close connections to Putin.
It's not the first time Johnson has been Lebedev's guest.
Other celebrities have attended parties there. The have spoken of an 'anything goes' hedonist atmosphere, of the multitude of beautiful East European young ladies there to entertain guests. Reports say the parties are the equivalent of Silvio Berlusconi's 'bunga-bunga' parties although there is no suggestion of child prostitution.
Johnson denied any meeting, but subsequent statements released say a meeting between Johnson and Alexander Lebedev, a former KGB officer, did take place, though he insisted there was nothing was out of the ordinary.
This amid ongoing disquiet as to why Downing Street suppressed a secret intelligence report on the threats posed to UK democracy by illicit Russian activities in Britain. Johnson had been expected to approve publication of the 50-page dossier, compiled by the cross-party intelligence and security committee, before parliament was dissolved on 5 November. Senior Whitehall sources close to the committee have told the
Observer that the reason the dossier was shelved may have been Johnson’s relationship to Donald Trump and what the report says about the US president’s relationship to Russia.
A source also described Downing Street’s decision to block the report as 'startling' and said that every reason that No 10 had subsequently put forward to explain the decision was 'absolutely bogus'.
This story has not made the mainstream media beyond the Guardian/Observer reportage. The BBC ignores it. In the UK a press release by Jennifer Acuri,
stating: "Boris Johnson cast me aside as if I were a gremlin" is widely seen as a carefully-timed distraction to cover the more explosive revelations ...
So:
In '61 we have a minister who had an affair with a call-girl, who was seeing a KGB agent, and so he resigned.
In '19 we have a Mayor of London, a Foreign Secretary and now Prime Minister who is implicated in sex-parties at a millionaire mansion owned by an ex-KGB agent who is the neighbour of another pro-Putin millionaire, and moreover the UK minister had face-to-face private meetings with said KBG agent and saw fit not to inform or follow MI6 protocol ... and result ... nada ...
Speaks for itself as far as moral values in office have declined. 
