Sixty Years Of The NHS

The Tories eventually voted against it because of technicalities, but it had been in all three manifestos in 1945, and they returned to office when, in serious financial trouble, it was still only three years old. Had they not believed in it, then it would not have existed since the early Fifties. Yet instead, even Margaret Thatcher largely left it alone.

But then along came a government with deep roots among those who most hate the Labour Movement and its achievements, correctly identifying both it and them as the reasons why there was never a Marxist revolution in this, one of the two countries that Marx himself deemed most likely to have one (the other was Germany).

And they have now taken over all three parties.