sally cinnamon wrote:Yes a government which took Britain into the Korean War and Hugh Gaitskell introduced an austerity budget to pay for it. It laid the precedent for Tony Blair that Labour were not afraid to make tough choices and sacrifice spending on health and pensions to stand shoulder to shoulder with the US allies.
Labour took Britain into the Korean war as part of a UN force, not as back-up solely to the Americans. And of course since the Americans were effectively bankrolling the UK what choice did they have?
There'd have been no NHS, or welfare state without the Attlee government. The Attlee government took over a country that really
was bankrupt, after WWII and at the end of their term handed over a country in a position to return to the prosperity and progress that marked the fifties and enabled Macmillan to say "you've never had it so good!"
