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Wednesday, September 22, 2004
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2 Comments:
I like the fact that they have spelt Bevin's name 'BEVAN'.
Thick Socialists.
FOR THE RECORD
Ernest Bevin - born in Winsford, Somerset in 1881.
In May 1940 Winston Churchill invited Bevin to become Minister of Labour in his coalition government.
The following month Bevin won a by-election at Wandsworth and joined the House of Commons.
Bevin successfully achieved mobilization of Britain's workforce and became one of the most significant members of Churchill's war cabinet.
Aneurin Bevan - born in Tredegar, Wales in 1897.
During the war he was one of the leaders of the left in the Commons, opposing the wartime Coalition government.
After Labour victory in the General Election of 1945 Bevan was surprisingly appointed Attlee as Minister of Health. In this Parliament Labour had a sufficient majority to push through its Welfare State, despite constant attacks on Bevan from the Conservatives.
In 1946 the National Insurance Act was passed, abolishing the last remnants of the Poor law and putting in place more generous unemployment, sickness, maternity and widows' benefits and better state pensions, all funded by compulsory contributions from employer and employee. This course of action had been recommended by the Beveridge report of 1944.
...Just the kind of things that the Socialist Labour Party are all about I guess.
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