Labour wins Election

Labour won the 1945 election with a landslide majority and put the Beveridge Plan into action. Despite tremendous opposition from Conservatives, the Labour Government created the National Health Service and embarked on a programme of taking into public ownership utilities and industries which had hitherto been used to amass wealth for private individuals. With the building of hospitals , schools and other major works, unemployment was now hoped to be a thing of the past. When the next election came in 1950, Labour got even more votes than they did in 1945. In fact, they got the largest vote ever polled for a political party in Britain. But the way the boundaries were carved up meant that they didn't get enough MPs so a second election was held in 1951. Again Labour got the most votes (200,000 more) but despite this the Conservatives got more MPs and formed a government committed to the dismantling of change made by Labour. But it was not until 1979 that the Conservatives really returned to their Victorian values using the fear of unemployment as a tool of control and discipline whilst taking back into private control the profitable public industries. Soon would come the Falklands War and the Bombing of Iraq where lucrative rebuilding contracts could be won for private businesses following the destruction which had been done (at public expense) by the Governments of the business corporations who would profit.

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[ToaJoe]

@JuanMacready Attlee gave us the NHS. You've already lost the argument.

[lacthompson]

@MrLuvlyJubly Atlee was Labour???

[MrLuvlyJubly]

@lacthompson No he was blue through and through in fact he was openly a conservative and just filled out the MP's form incorrectly.

[MrLuvlyJubly]

Landslide, Landslide says it all really. Tories = ignorance and shameful bills.

[JuanMacready]

Truly the worst thing that ever happened. The people of the UK went into STUPID mode in 1945.