The Bishop wrote:In 1945, Clement Attlee put forward a manifesto that produced the Welfare State. Workers' rights, the NHS, Social Security, protection against the Zero Hours Contracts of its day (for docker workers in particular), 900+ Primary schools were built, social housing (dare I say council housing) went into overdrive and all this in the wake of post-WWII bankruptcy. If you ever went to a state school, have used an NHS hospital or service (perhaps only in your birth), have benefited from your workers' rights including getting sick pay when you were too ill to attend work. (I could go on, but I won't...) Then you need to know that nobody else has freely given these to you. These, among others, were brought in by Labour's surprise landslide election victory in 1945 - transforming Britain by 1950. The Tories want to dismantle the successors of these but are having to covertly chip away at their removal over a length of time. As Tony Benn famously said, and I paraphrase, The way a government treats refugees is very informative, because it tells you how they would treat the rest of us if they could get away with it. I'll be voting, unsurprisingly, for Labour, warts and all. Partly because of the original Corbyn 10 pledges, and absolutely because of its 2017 manifesto.
the only reason the people got housing and the NHS and the rest ,,in 1945 was the rich and powerful had never been closer to losing it all.
the people were battle hardened and armed to the teeth.