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Attlee (Oxford, History) 1950 Attlee (Oxford, History) v.

Very few people seem to know of Clement Attlee these days, which is probably a tragedy considering his influence on what really matters in Britain today.

Or Attlee against Churchill at the tail end of WW2.

I think Clement Attlee did a pretty good job of using tax revenue.

Churchill (Sandhurst) 1945 Attlee (Oxford, History) v.

Its easy to forget that Attlee was Churchill's deputy during the ww2 and that the various labour leaders who led govt departments (Morrison, Gaitskell etc) or in opposition (e.g.

Both the Canadian and British Single Payer system are holdovers from the post-war Old Labour era, specifically, the vision of Clement Attlee in the UK and Tommy Douglas in Canada.

Tldr: Churchill was a good wartime leader, but during his second term he screwed up the housing regulations so bad it broke up one of the longest conservative runs of all time with Attlee coming in to try and fix the mess.

The UK had at least one superbly "uncharismatic" Prime Minister in living memory: Clement Attlee.

The Wilson and Attlee governments in the UK would be very surprised to hear there's a "100 year history of perfect correlation".

Even though he was Labour, Thatcher wrote of him: "Of Clement Attlee, however, I was an admirer.

The famous jibe is along the lines of "An empty taxi drew up outside 10 Downing Street and Clement Attlee got out", attributed to Winston Churchill, but I think he denied it.

Attlee and Churchill in some respects had combination of both war and peace time leaders that isnt always recognised.

If this Labour is communist (they're not), what on earth was Attlee's 1945 government, or pre-Blair Labour?

As Clement Attlee('s biographer) put it: > Charity is a cold, grey loveless thing.