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Originally Posted by joeysteele
There was a concensus of sorts as to a health service Josh,not much was ever done to implement one however.
It took the first majority Labour govt. to get elected in 1945 to actually bring one to full fruition and the Conservative party actually voted against its introduction around 20 times all through its stages in parliament.
In that, it was indeed Labour who gave the UK the NHS.
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old labour not new labour
and the liberals who paved the way for it all to happen when Lloyd George taxed the rich for the first time, invented national insurance contributions, gave votes to working class people and invented the welfare state
Lloyd George was the greatest most talented politician who ever walked the earth