Re: OBAMA v ROMNEY : Wed Sep 05, 2012 12:13 pm
Horatio Yed wrote:
What was the general consensus in this country pre NHS about bringing it in, and in other countries that have a National health service?
You have to remember that in 1948 there was a huge swing to a socialist government, everyone had expected Churchill to be elected as a formality but after six years of war, loss of life and demolition of huge swathes of inner cities there was a dire need for social housing - rented property was the norm for working class folk and the percentage of those who would call themselves "working class" to middle or upper class was huge, far greater than I suspect it would be today, the main aspiration to that trenche of voters was a rented house, a job and if a political party had promised all of that plus a health service for all, free at the point of delivery from cradle to grave then you can imagine that that really would be the cherry on the cake.
Churchill didn't know what hit him and neither did the Americans who immediately shat themselves at the thought of those billions of dollars of war loans being owed to them by a government that looked liek it was turning communist.
