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Then, with lots of people doing that without ever looking over their shoulders to see how they were affecting anybody else, it couldn’t work, and it didn’t work, and it just came to a standstill.

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That was not what men and women fought for during the war.

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Barbara Castle

Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.

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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.

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If you’ve got unemployment, low pay, that was just too bad. But that was the system. That was the sort of economy and philosophy against which I was fighting in the 1930s.

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There was no welfare state, and people had to rely mainly on the Poor Law – that was all the state provided. It was very degrading, very humiliating. And there was a means test for receiving poor relief.

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I remember people who’d had a lot of hardship during the war. They’d thought we’d won.

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And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people’s morale.

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Barbara Castle

It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.

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Barbara Castle

You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

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Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.

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Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.

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