The Spirit of '45 Page #4

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we had men standing on street corners

in blue uniforms

with no leg or no arm,

something wrong,

and there was no jobs for them.

I don't think anybody

wanted to ever see that again.

Put Labour in.

Vote Conservative.

Socialism must win.

Vote Liberal.

I'm for Churchill.

Attlee's the man.

Posters to the right of them,

posters to the left of them,

volley and thunder. On July 5th, the...

Partly, the Tory Party

was broken in its core

because of its attachment

to appeasement.

So the coalition government,

Churchill,

who comes to head in the war,

is actually a Labour administration

at its core.

"At its core" meaning the ministries

in charge of industry and employment

and so forth are under Labour ministers.

Churchill's at the head of this.

Having come through the '30s

where there was mass unemployment,

coming through the war years

where there was, you know,

rationing and lack of food

and where the housing standard

was very poor right across the country,

people who'd fought in the war,

people who'd supported the economy

in the war effort,

they were looking for some son of

if you like, it was

like a war or peace dividend.

Those were the key things

that they were looking for.

And that's what the Labour Party

Manifesto really addresses.

I mean, people looked back

at the years of the 1930s, the 1920s,

saw the mass unemployment,

the wars, the revolutions,

the appearance of the dictators,

the misery that was caused

and said, you know, "There's something

about the system as it worked then

which was almost inescapable.

We've got to change it."

My father was not

an active trade unionist or anything.

He got a map of the world and he put it

on the table and he said, "Look."

He said, "They grow wheat here,

you get rubber from here,

you get oil from here

and you get fruit from here."

"What we're looking for

is an integrated world system

where everybody has what they need

and everything is developed

for everybody."

I thought that was absolutely amazing.

He said to me, "It's called socialism."

And, you know, as a kid of ten,

I thought it was absolutely amazing

and I still do.

All for one, one for all.

Well, ifs not greed.

No greed and selfishness.

Labour puts first things first.

Security from war, food, houses,

clothing, employment, leisure

and social security for all

must come before the claims of the few

for more rent, interest and profit.

We have shown that we can organise the

resources of the country to win the war.

We can do the same in peace.

Churchill and the Tories

went so far as to print

tens of thousands of copies

of Friedrich von Hayek's

The Road to Serfdom

which is a book that basically says

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