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I could probably think of when they were in office, but my brain is addled with ancestry searching....all these blooming dates are making my head swim :)

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I was born in 1947...... I can remember Aneurin Bevan, Herbert Morrison, Clement Attlee looked like a lovely old Grandad, Manny Shinwell too.
But as for the years they were actually in office, I'll leave that for someone else to answer.

Yes, OK.....I'm an old B*gger.

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Along with many others, they formed the Labour cabinet when the party came to power in 1945.

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born the same year as me mum:D

i wasnt on this earth till 72:rolleyes:

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Yes there were a lot of us born that year....i think the chaps who had been away at war had some time to make up :)

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thanks for putting us straight West Ender.

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I was only 2 at the time they got in but their names and reputations have always stayed in my memory. Compared to what we have had in recent years, on both sides of the political divide, these men were giants. They changed the social structure of this country and built up prosperity after the war. I don't say everything they did was perfect, that would be naive, but if the likes of them were in power today Britain would be a vastly different place to live in.

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I`ll give you one -- we voted them in when we got de-mobbed after WW2

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I'm sure i'll get slaughtered for this but i thought Neil Kinnock would have made a good PM.Although in my defence i was more politically naive then,but he was a good orator i thought.

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He was`nt nicknamed The Welsh Windbag for nothing!!i

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I agree with you, Maxwell. I thought the Press assassination of Kinnock was disgraceful and just showed how much like sheep people really are - easily led.

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Tony Benn the best prime minister we never had.

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cant argue with that un.;)

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My thoughts exactly, West Ender!

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These greats were the people that took the working class people out of serfdom, branded as 'reds commies' you name. but for these far sighted politicians, our children would have been brain washed that the royalty had a god given right to rule over us, as unfortunatley I and my generation was.
I can remember as a child if Prince Charles broke wind it was front page news, and the leader on Pathe world news. Tony Blair and his like are only minnows compared with the great politicians West Ender has mentioned, they risked prison for treason for their then 'radical' views, the things that all of us now take for granted.