McGrath ~~ we shall just have to differ about the govt of 1945-51, which achieved nothing so far as I can see except enormous resentments and the death of any hope of a socialist government [as distinct from PMs like gabby Kinnock, chummy-daddy Callaghan, face-both-ways Blair] in perpetuity. Austerity, as the 1950 & then 1951 results should clearly demonstrate to anyone claiming to be a democrat, was not what the demos wanted or welcomed or felt entitled to after six years of 'the war effort'.

~M~