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What conditions have fostered the radical transformation from the libertarian tradition of Aneurin Bevan to the hot-eyed radicalism of Benn and Scargill? Some believe that Britain's freewheeling, free-spending years under a succession of Labor governments raised illusory expectations for the young. Others think the party became devoid of serious ideas. "There was an ideological vacuum in the Labor Party," says Peter Shipley, a conservative expert on British revolutionaries. "Labor had come to a full stop. The extreme left claimed to have the answers and started to fill the vacuum." Says Alfred Sherman, director of Britain...
...drove by the steel mills, the latest Cleveland song was playing on the radio. Last summer the big hit had been "There's No Surf In Cleveland, USA," a 1950s rocker by a group called the Euclid Beach Band. Now it was Alex Bevan's "Have Another Laugh On Cleveland Blues...
...camp! He seriously misjudged the wishes of the country. There was a more radical mood, created largely by the war, and this, in addition to the obvious failings of the previous system, meant that the introduction of the welfare state found widespread acceptance. The Labour minister of health, Nye Bevan, was initially faced with opposition by 90 per cent of the British Medical Association. They even attempted to strike, but eventually this opposition disappeared due to a series of compromises. This included the continuation of a small private sector, which shares a great many NHS facilities, and supposedly maintains...
Since 1948, when the NHS was first set up, there have been various changes in the system. One of the most significant was the introduction of a small charge for prescriptions including spectacles and dentures, which prompted Bevan and Harold Wilson to resign in 1951. Their gesture was largely symbolic, because the charges in question were comparatively small and anyway did not apply to the old, young, poor or unemployed...
...Richard Bevan...