The Churchill government ended WW2 in an instant. Troops came home and were laid off after being paid. No welfare, no unemployment insurance. The UK went down economically in a near vertical dive. The pound was devalued from $4.80 to $2.80 and there was zero funds injected. Next election went hard labor socialist and killed the country for decades.
It was not until Thatcher went toe to toe with the unions(like Reagan did to the flight controllers) who went on strike after strike to keep workers in mined out coalmines in what were called feather beds (No work, full pay until retirement). The people at large were on her side and she was right. Britain went back to growth again.
That said, Churchill was the right man for the war effort. He was from the monied class and workers were dirt under his feet = voted out.Education stopped at 14, only a few wemt on to higher education - this has changed, 16 now and better education than the USA now.
Britain and all the colonial powers ran their empires for maximum $$ goes home. Native workers were menials, never trained to govern at all (some exceptions here). The managers all left in short order in all these old empires and strong man rule started all over the place. These strong men acted like the British, Belgians, Germans etc and raped their own countries = maximum to swiss banks - nothing to the people. Places like Zimbabwe and South AFrica did better, but soon were ruined as well.
Now China has it's foot in man of those places - soon blood will flow...
1 comment
[ 1.4 ms ] story [ 14.2 ms ] thread