Keith Bibby wrote:They gave the British people the health services and mass house building after the war, because they new it was the only way to stop revolution and keep all their land and power ,the country was awash with guns and battle hardened men that would not except the old days or the old ways.
After this threat had gone they started to crap all over us again.
What a load of twaddle Keith!!!!
Were you around to see the devastation and the return of the armed forces survivors that had been through hell over the war years?
Your crass comments are an insult to those who fought for their country!
They came back worn out and weary and thankful that they had survived the war. They had a hard time finding jobs and the farthest thought from their minds was to come home and get involved in more armed conflict. They took whatever jobs that they could find to earn a living or the alternative was to go hungry.
What came after the war was born out of necessity as there was virtually nothing left of the infrastructure in some parts of the UK. The mass housebuilding was needed to replace the destroyed houses, or the UK would still be a huge camping site. Something better than the existing 'pay as you use' healthcare was needed to treat those who came back home suffering from what they'd been through so that focused the politicians minds, out of which the NHS was formed.
It was not given Keith; it came at a cost which many 'oldies' today have paid into all their lives and now appear to be blamed for living too long as the NHS's changing role now has to treat those with some conditions which can only be termed as 'self inflicted injuries!
Keep taking the tablets.