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Originally Posted by Redraine

According to Cashy :- "If were gonna go back in history then the only fact we have an NHS is down to a Labour Government"
Come off it mate! You are accusing Wynonie of being brainwashed, but maybe you should re-read the history. If it hadn't been for Churchill there would have been no NHS.
We’re so used to Labour politicians churning out the line that Labour gave us the NHS, that we’ve begun to unthinkingly accept it.
The NHS owes its existence to the climate of wartime British politics, not least the vastly expanded access to basic healthcare which came with conscription, and the subsequent rise in expectations.the wartime coalition of 1940-5 fostered a remarkable degree of consensus. In social policy, this resulted in the seminal 1942 report Social Insurance and Allied Services, chaired by the Liberal economist William Beveridge – better known as the Beveridge Report. In this, Beveridge set out a comprehensive state plan of social care. Section 19 of the report is the first public mention of a “National Health Service.”
The point is that a Conservative post-war government under Churchill was fully signed up to introducing the NHS. A Liberal post-war government under Sinclair was fully signed up to introducing the NHS. The NHS was not Labour’s great achievement, it was an inescapable conclusion.
It wasn’t until a report commissioned by a Conservative-led coalition, and chaired by a Liberal economist, that the Labour party showed any serious inclination towards social reform, and only after the other two parties had embraced it.
These exaggerated claims that the NHS owes its whole creation to the Labour party are only possible through ignorance and misrepresentation of the past, of what was a cross-party consensus. The NHS was Britain’s triumph, not Labour’s.

You could have given us the full content from the website by and for Lib Dem supporters.

Anyway , here it is.......Setting the Record Straight: Labour and the NHS