Zusammenfassung der Ressource
(2) Why did labour win the
1945 General elction?
- The Conservative poor campaign
- WC argued that no socialist system could be
established without some form of political police,
a "British Gestapo"
- The Conservatives dismissed the BR as
"dangerous optimism"
- Churchill said " the
cottage home, to which
the warrior will return, is
'blessed with modest
but solid prosperity'. he
is basic say that we
should look after are
self not the state.
- Marr Churchill war prim interested (Japan, Russia"
- "scare tactics"
- Privet train
- Labour's association with progressive feeling, especial the beverage report
- Clement Attlee: "All may
help to create and share in
an increasing material
prosperity free from the fear
of want."
- It aimed to get ride of the five evils: WANT,
DISEASE, IGNORANCE, SQUALOR, IDENESS.
- 10,000 socialist pamphlets were
distributed to troops
- BR would give grants to ease financial hardship and would
be based on insurance and would not be means tested.
- Beveridge Report (BR) aimed at abolition of material want and suggested
a 'UNIVERSAL SCHEME OF INSURANCE WHICH WOULD
PROVIDE PROTECTION AGAINST THE DISTRESS THAT
ACCOMPANIED SICKNESS, INJURY AND UNEMPLYMENT
- The idea of the welfare state enshrined in the BR was not new, but
was comprehensive.
- Marr 8 speech a day, Own car transport
- Progressive feeling
- The Beveridge Report sold 100,000
copies within a month, eventually
totalling 600,000.
- 86% of population were in favour of the BR
- Marr "An almost utopian determination to build a more
Christian country took root [as a result of war]
- Religious socialism