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Churchill became Prime Minister again in the1950s when his party won an election.Grumpy Git wrote: ↑Tue Aug 15, 2023 4:56 pm I'm afraid I'm lacking in my knowledge of Churchill and Britain's immediate post-war history to explain Winston's political demise,
But the reasons for his party's loss in 1945 was simple: he wanted the UK to return to "business as usual", the status quo ante bellum. Something like "thank you people for fighting and dying, now p*** off". Whereas the opposition offered a message of hope and social reform,including the establishment of the National Health Service. Many ordinary men and women who had taken on new responsibilities and had their horizons and social networks expanded by the wartime mobilizations and rejigging of the domestic economy were not interested in again being the mud under the toffs' boots.
Churchill also had bad form for earlier nasty anti-worker views and imperialism which didn't sit well with many voters.
I guess some might outside see Churchill's ejection as a question of "why didn't the Brits reward a great wartime leader?" but I suspect the view in the UK might have been more "we went through all of that and you want us to get nothing positive from it?"
Indeed, Thatcher's government was unpopular domestically around 1980 as its reckless and uncaring financial mismanagement using monetarist economic theory as an intellectual crutch led to very high unemployment. General Galtieri of Argentina saved Thatcher by his misjudged invasion of the Falkland Islands / Las Malvinas.but there are instances of people with much better international reputations than at home, Margaret Thatcher and Lech Walesa for example.
The sturdy response, despite exposing the UK armed forces impoverished state, overrode the unpopularity and the Conservatives recovered.
No, no, no. The damage is multifaceted.As for Brexit it was indeed an utterly crazy step backwards, but the damage being done because of it is only a internal financial one, which can be rectified starting when the Tories are kicked out of office next year, which is guaranteed.
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