Which got me thinking. Is that so? Well, let's see. Taking modern history into account, and by that I mean post World War Two. Before that is, to misquote L.P. Hartley, a "different country, they did things differently then". So, World War Two ends and Attlee takes over. And at the end of his reign, the economy is on a shaky pole. But we must forgive him that, for the extenuous circumstances. A Second World War doesn't happen very often, and it left the UK economy up a creek without a paddle. A sizeable debt to the Americans, bought after extensive bargaining by Keynes, was to add subtext to many issues until it was paid in 2006. So terrible economic problems, yes, but they would have existed whoever was in power, and even then Stafford Cripps economic policies are regarded to have paved the way to better economic times. So we can discount Attlee.
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Sunday, 6 May 2012
Myths and Local Elections
So, the other day I was listening, yet again, to a friendly Tory. Not necessarily an oxymoron to start off with, always it is important to separate the person from the philosophy, else you will have no one to talk to. And I am well aware of the dangers of starting off on an anecdotal footing, but so it goes. Anyhow, they were telling folk about that old adage, how Labour always bugger up the economy and the Tories have to fix it.
Which got me thinking. Is that so? Well, let's see. Taking modern history into account, and by that I mean post World War Two. Before that is, to misquote L.P. Hartley, a "different country, they did things differently then". So, World War Two ends and Attlee takes over. And at the end of his reign, the economy is on a shaky pole. But we must forgive him that, for the extenuous circumstances. A Second World War doesn't happen very often, and it left the UK economy up a creek without a paddle. A sizeable debt to the Americans, bought after extensive bargaining by Keynes, was to add subtext to many issues until it was paid in 2006. So terrible economic problems, yes, but they would have existed whoever was in power, and even then Stafford Cripps economic policies are regarded to have paved the way to better economic times. So we can discount Attlee.
Which got me thinking. Is that so? Well, let's see. Taking modern history into account, and by that I mean post World War Two. Before that is, to misquote L.P. Hartley, a "different country, they did things differently then". So, World War Two ends and Attlee takes over. And at the end of his reign, the economy is on a shaky pole. But we must forgive him that, for the extenuous circumstances. A Second World War doesn't happen very often, and it left the UK economy up a creek without a paddle. A sizeable debt to the Americans, bought after extensive bargaining by Keynes, was to add subtext to many issues until it was paid in 2006. So terrible economic problems, yes, but they would have existed whoever was in power, and even then Stafford Cripps economic policies are regarded to have paved the way to better economic times. So we can discount Attlee.
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