Communism & Socialism has worked VERY well in destroying everything, wherever it's appeared, while the ''elite comrades'' get insanely rich 🤡
and yet the one time we had a socialist government in the UK the atlee post war government the following was achieved in 6 years
The Clement Attlee Labour government (1945–1951) implemented a radical programme of social and economic reform that laid the foundation for modern Britain. Its key achievements include:
Domestic Policy: The Welfare State and Nationalisation
The Attlee government established a comprehensive welfare state based on the Beveridge Report principles, aiming to tackle the "Five Giants" of Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor, and Idleness.
National Health Service (NHS): The most significant achievement, launched in 1948, provided free, universal healthcare to all citizens, funded through general taxation and free at the point of use.
National Insurance Act 1946: Introduced a comprehensive system of social security, providing benefits for unemployment, sickness, retirement, widowhood, and industrial injuries, funded by compulsory flat-rate contributions from all working-age people.
National Assistance Act 1948: Provided a safety net for those not covered by national insurance, ensuring no one fell into absolute poverty.
Housing and Town Planning: The government initiated a massive programme of house building, with over 800,000 council houses built by 1951 to address the severe post-war housing shortage. The Town and Country Planning Act 1947 introduced modern land-use planning.
Education: Implemented the 1944 Education Act (which was passed by the wartime coalition government but fully enacted by Attlee's administration), providing free secondary education for all and raising the school leaving age to 15.
Nationalisation of Industry: A fifth of the British economy was brought under state control, including the Bank of England, coal mining, railways, electricity, gas, and long-distance haulage. This was done to modernise key industries and ensure public control of essential utilities.
Foreign Policy and Defence
The Attlee government navigated a challenging post-war world, establishing Britain's role in the new global order.
Decolonisation: It presided over the rapid and peaceful transition to independence for several key colonies, most notably India and Pakistan in 1947, as well as Burma, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), and Jordan.
Cold War Alignment: Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin established a close alliance with the United States. Britain was a key architect in the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) in 1949, a mutual defence alliance against the Soviet Union.
Marshall Plan: The government secured vital American financial aid (the Marshall Plan) for post-war reconstruction.
Nuclear Deterrent: Attlee made the secret decision to develop Britain's own independent atomic bomb programme.
The Attlee government's achievements created a new domestic consensus for a mixed economy and welfare provision that was largely maintained by successive governments for the next three decades.
