1. It required us to live through a war first. That's what brought about socialism: everyone depending on everyone else.
2. That radical Labour government build a nuclear bomb and helped set up NATO and the Western alliance. How do you feel about that?
4. Its first three years especially involved HUGE austerity. It worked because people were so happy to be back in peacetime. But now...?
But it also benefited from circumstances which aren't there now.