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Originally Posted by cmonstanley
'The Labour Party of 1945 was pretty Left-wing. But it was patriotic, Christian and genuinely working-class. It hated cheats and it loathed crime. Several members of the Labour Cabinet of 1948 voted to keep the death penalty. It did not support immigration. It set up the NHS to care for hard-working people whose illnesses were in many cases caused by that hard work. It was (rightly) deeply suspicious of the first steps towards creating what is now the EU. It supported grammar schools, seeing that they gave the children of the poor a ladder out of that poverty. It favoured strong national defences.
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The usual crap - have you never heard of the MV Empire Windrush and her passengers arriving in UK in 1948
