"In 1945, Britain was the leader, not only in democratic & constitutional matters, but in building the welfare state. It was a new Jerusalem, the model for all social democracies elsewhere." - Professor Vernon Bogdanor, 2012.
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"Every country would follow the National Health Service, every country would follow British methods of securing full employment, running the economy and so on, and there were predictions in the early 1950s of a new Elizabethan age. Britain was to be an example to the world."
"That was certainly the feeling of the Attlee Govt & the Churchill Govt which succeeded it. People do not feel that anymore. People are much richer than they were, of course, & they have a much wider choice. (But) is it a better world than the one we hoped for in the 1950s?"
What went wrong? Why is Britain so polarised & its Govt intent on political isolationism at the exact time nations need to collaborate to solve the global problems of grotesque inequality, climate change, the rise of populist nationalism & mass migration?
https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1359445197113950208?s=20
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