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Well, the UK did attempt to address a lot of social issues at the end of WW2 by electing a socialist (but passionately anti-Soviet) government - that's how we g
by arethuza 8y ago
Well, the UK did attempt to address a lot of social issues at the end of WW2 by electing a socialist (but passionately anti-Soviet) government - that's how we got things like the NHS.
People forget that Churchill was hated by a lot of people - my father (who was in the RAF in WW2) utterly loathed him.
- kevin_b_er 8y agoAnd then the UK had a decade of Thatcher, who tried to kill the NHS while lying that it was safe: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/25/margaret-thatcher-pushed-for-breakup-of-welfare-state-despite-nhs-pledge https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/25/margaret-th...