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Originally Posted by garinda
It was a socialist Labour government who introduced free education, and a free health service for all.
Before that if you were ill, and couldn't afford a visit to the doctor, you died.
If you'd left a will, you'd have to find someone to read it, because the chances are your nearest and dearest would be illiterate.
They also intoduced paid holidays for workers, and benefits if you were too ill or unable to work, which happily meant the workhouses for the poor ceased to exist.
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Also introduced was national insurance to be paid by every employee and set aside to pay for the service.....never happened. Barbara Castle was the first to question where the money had gone....Swallowed up in the public purse and used on other projects that could not be identified was the answer and no accounts to justify where it had gone.
Pensions....good idea at the time. Gordon Brown got his sticky fingers in the pie........millions lost thousands.
Education...I'll go for that...agree good thinking.
The EU Treaty has now been ratified....Surprised that the announcement was not picked up by some of our wide awake members and the chance for a rant seems dead in the water.