LABOUR’S 1945 VICTORY

→ What must Labour do to win this time? – 2-minute video 𝗟𝗔𝗕𝗢𝗨𝗥’𝗦 𝟭𝟵𝟰𝟱 𝗩𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗬 Exactly 78 years ago today - on 27 July 1945 - newspaper headlines were ablaze with the news that Labour had won the general election by a landslide. Under leader Clement Attlee, the party’s radical and ambitious plans to rebuild a broken Britain after the Second World War strongly appealed to the electorate. Labour’s achievements in the late 1940’s included: ▪ the creation of the modern welfare state and the National Health Service; ▪ nationalisation of coal mining, steel industries, the railways, the Bank of England, civil aviation, electricity and gas; ▪ the building of a million new homes, most of them council houses for low-income families. These sweeping reforms shaped Britain for the decades that followed. (Although it should be noted that William Beveridge, considered to be the architect of the Welfare State, was a Liberal). Without Labour’s victory in 1945, Britain might never have got a National Health Service. This history shows us that radical high-cost policies can appeal to the nation and win, even when the country is short of money (as it was in 1945). Could Labour once again achieve a landslide victory by offering a new and exciting vision for the country? Britain today is again broken. We are impacted by a cost-of-living crisis, Brexit, Covid, a shattered NHS, corrupt Conservative rule, war in Ukraine, and the devastation of climate change. We need a new government with radical and ambitious plans to rebuild the country and put it back together. Can Labour offer us that for the next general election? ▪ © 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼 by Jon Danzig. Permission is given to share my posts in the normal way, but not to copy them. Songs by CounterAct Federation ▪ 𝗦𝗛𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧 𝗢𝗻 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝗲𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸: ▪ 𝗝𝗼𝗻 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝘇𝗶𝗴 is an independent campaigning journalist and film maker who specialises in writing about health, human rights, and Europe. He is also founder of the information campaign, Reasons2Rejoin #Brexit #costofliving #NHS #Labour #KeirStarmer #Ukraine #climatechange #1945