Clems vision.

Be free to call me stupid, but will someone from Britain explain to why the hell did NHS did meant so big thing for Brits in 1945?
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abc123

Because it gave security against ill health and disease, serious problems at the time. Especially after the grim 30's with all the problems that depression and the government's policies of the time caused.

If you check up you will realise that even the maggot only moved cautiously and subtly [for her anyway] against the NHS. It's still something that the bulk of the population feeling pride and trust in despite the amount of bureaucracy and waste that various governments have imposed on it.

Steve
 
The situation in India was grim.

The new GG was in a position of attempting to broker a deal between two totally opposing viewpoints. Nehru was now on record as stating he believed Indian independence would be achieved by the end of the 1940s. Domestically, the opposition were showing increased hostility to the moves of the government to shift the Indian question into the long grass. On top of this, Jinnah was calling for partition of India into two states he called Hindustan and Pakistan once independence was agreed upon, a move strongly opposed by the majority of Indians. Stansgate as a result asked and received more troops from Britain to keep order in the sub-continent, a move which was called by Eden “a drop of water in an ocean” of people.

India, however was not the only part of the Empire where trouble was flaring up. In Kenya, the Kikuyu had over the past decade, been in a spiral of misery, their income falling, their people unemployed. It was under these circumstances that a Kikuyu called Jome Kenyatta made an open plea to the government in London to take more seriously the issues of land management in the colony, his people having effectively now been dispossessed of their land by the settlers.

Having been ignored, he returned to his homeland to begin the campaign to free Kenya. Within a week, however, he was under arrest, on the charge of attempting to get 10,000 rifles into the colony. Feelings were running high in Nairobi and the Kenya Police were patrolling the streets of the city in force. This did not, however stop a huge crowd breaking into the gaol where Kenyatta was held and breaking him out, to escape to an unknown location to begin what he saw as the independence struggle.

The Kenyatta rising had begun.

Domestically, the most major bill yet was put forward to Parliament by introducing the National Insurance Act. This openly split the opposition parties, the Liberals being in favour, and the Conservatives opposed. It was put to the house by Attlee himself. His aim was clear, “Cradle to the grave welfare.”
 

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Is this 'welfare' a minimum safety net to ensure health, shelter and nutrition or a wider interpretation to include an above poverty minimum income and free education to secondary exam level or indeed something else? In short, what is Clem's vision?
 
In short, what is Clem's vision?
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It is in short the National Insurance Act that happened in reality. It provides for compulsory sickness benefits, unemployment benefits, maternity leave and widows pensions(an important element just over two years after the war ended in ttl.). It also covers housing benefit payments, which I suppose takes it further than the 1946 act of otl. This will be covered by a combination of national insurance, set at 4s and 6d and income tax.

It has been made clear that this is the begining of the social reforms of the government. Remember there has been no blitz in this timeline, so the housing issue is not nearly as pressing as it was in reality. This makes that issue a bit thornier and I will bring that up at a later point. I have included housing as a sop to the left on this.

The same applies to other areas of the economy, so resistance to the changes is going to grow with the Tories building up a well of support against the changes.

You ask what the vision is? A Democratic Socialist Britain. The financial troubles of our timeline being less are a mixed blessing here.
 
:D

It is in short the National Insurance Act that happened in reality. It provides for compulsory sickness benefits, unemployment benefits, maternity leave and widows pensions(an important element just over two years after the war ended in ttl.). It also covers housing benefit payments, which I suppose takes it further than the 1946 act of otl. This will be covered by a combination of national insurance, set at 4s and 6d and income tax.

It has been made clear that this is the begining of the social reforms of the government. Remember there has been no blitz in this timeline, so the housing issue is not nearly as pressing as it was in reality. This makes that issue a bit thornier and I will bring that up at a later point. I have included housing as a sop to the left on this.

The same applies to other areas of the economy, so resistance to the changes is going to grow with the Tories building up a well of support against the changes.

You ask what the vision is? A Democratic Socialist Britain. The financial troubles of our timeline being less are a mixed blessing here.
Eeeeexcellent... :)
 
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