SmogontheMarsh
Active member
Considering previous global disasters:-
Will be like the post 2008 financial collapse where austerity was the answer, and the poor and disadvantaged paid for the sins of the bankers, while the rich benefitted or.....
Will it be like post first world war where the land fit for heroes promised was not forthcoming. The rich and those who had "a good war" enjoyed the roaring 20s while those who came back damaged where damned and unemployed, and those who lost the men in the family where left unhelped. Followed by the general strike, and later the Depression, leading to a rise in populist government and ultimately WW2. Or....
Will it be like post WW2, were the concentration was on rebuilding the nation, concentrating on building from the bottom, introducing the welfare state, NHS, a housing programme not seen since, and the creation of a fairer education system, resulting in relative general prosperity for nearly three decades.
I know what I would like to see, for the benefit of my grandchildren and great-grandchildren, but given Johnson is already eulogising a new "Roaring Twenties" I have little or no hope.
Oh for an Attlee, Bevan, or Beveridge in power now.
Will be like the post 2008 financial collapse where austerity was the answer, and the poor and disadvantaged paid for the sins of the bankers, while the rich benefitted or.....
Will it be like post first world war where the land fit for heroes promised was not forthcoming. The rich and those who had "a good war" enjoyed the roaring 20s while those who came back damaged where damned and unemployed, and those who lost the men in the family where left unhelped. Followed by the general strike, and later the Depression, leading to a rise in populist government and ultimately WW2. Or....
Will it be like post WW2, were the concentration was on rebuilding the nation, concentrating on building from the bottom, introducing the welfare state, NHS, a housing programme not seen since, and the creation of a fairer education system, resulting in relative general prosperity for nearly three decades.
I know what I would like to see, for the benefit of my grandchildren and great-grandchildren, but given Johnson is already eulogising a new "Roaring Twenties" I have little or no hope.
Oh for an Attlee, Bevan, or Beveridge in power now.