[cmonstanley]

this is why churchill was voted out in the biggest election shock ever. he and the tories were against the nhs even the doctors who in them days were tory voters. as Bevan said i had to feed them with gold for them to agree . during the war in 1942/43 the country leaned to the left. the beveridge report was printed on pamphlet and distributed to the forces overseas to keep heighten morale as it was low. so the promise was made and churchill made a fatal mistake of saying for this to work it would need a socialist gestapo hence the tory slaughter in the election.