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Donald Roy<a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ChrisMayLA6</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hughdalton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hughdalton</a> - the first <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chancellor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chancellor</a> in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/attlee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#attlee</a> government - approved a scheme - still in force - under which assets of cultural value could be lent to or rented back by the owners in exchange for public access. No reason not to extend it .

Donald Roy<a href="https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ChrisMayLA6</a>There was a period - a few months on both sides of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ukgeneralelection2001" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ukgeneralelection2001</a> - when <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/newlabour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#newlabour</a> did look as if it was metamorphosing into a recognisable centre-left government - along the lines of those headed by <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/attlee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#attlee</a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/wilson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wilson</a> . However the events of 11th September 2001 provided an opportunity for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blairite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#blairite</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ultras" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ultras</a> to stop this process in its tracks and indeed reverse it to some extent. We have yet to see which part of the story will repeat itself.

Pam CGot a few minutes to going to have a go at a new <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#introduction</a> post (may be subject to editing or change later). Not new to Mastodon, just to this instance.I'm Pam, nearly 64 (at time of writing), from the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Crumpsall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Crumpsall</a> (wiki it) Area of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Manchester" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Manchester</a>. I like to talk <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#activism</a> . Sometimes I'm controversial, sometimes not. I'm old school lefty. Ie not far left, and not on the right where some pretend to be on the left. I'm probably round about Clement <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Attlee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Attlee</a> or Harold <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Wilson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wilson</a> or Jeremy <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Corbyn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corbyn</a> on the real centre left but on certain issues it's variable.I support <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LGBT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LGBT</a>+ issues and like to educate and inform if I know what I'm talking about, or give opinions if I don't know as much as I think I do.Love Music, but my favourite genres is <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/rock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rock</a> of all types except Metal and Thrash, particularly from the 1950s to the early 1980s. Favourite Radio Stations are <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RadioCarolineFlashback" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RadioCarolineFlashback</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BoomRadio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoomRadio</a> with a little <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MagicAtTheMusicals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MagicAtTheMusicals</a> I'm an atheist so will challenge godbotherers from time to time.Tend to stand with the underdogs.Interested in lots of things beside.

Simon Brooke"Whether on state schools or universities, progressive taxation or pensioners, <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Corbyn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Corbyn</a> was the heir to <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Wilson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wilson</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Attlee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Attlee</a>. Where Corbyn’s manifestos are unusual in Labour history is in their emphasis on inequality – which is attacked with more frequency and force than in those of other Labour leaders. But <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Starmer</a>’s manifesto is the complete opposite: it mentions the word inequality only once"<a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/GeneralElectionUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeneralElectionUK</a> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/15/policy-keir-starmer-manifesto-labour-business-tory" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/15/policy-keir-starmer-manifesto-labour-business-tory</a>

Pedestriansfirst<a href="https://toot.community/@jaycee" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jaycee</a> Fortunately for Britain, Clement Attlee was the deputy prime minister and was not a drunken reprobate. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Attlee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Attlee</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Churchill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Churchill</a>

jackLondon<a href="https://mastodon.social/@GeriatricGardener" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@GeriatricGardener</a> <a href="https://mas.to/@JimmyB" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@JimmyB</a> <a href="https://mcr.wtf/@johnelalamo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@johnelalamo</a> <a href="https://mas.to/@lydiaconwell" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@lydiaconwell</a> When exactly was <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labour</a> EVER anti-NATO - pray tell?The UK was a founding member in 1949 - at which time <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labour</a> - under the no-doubt dangerously right-wing Clem <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Attlee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Attlee</a> - formed the governmentI appreciate that some on the far left wish it were not so - but <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labour</a> has NEVER been the far left party of their fantasies.....

DaeresI can't help but find such a reflexive wish to bury evidence of your family's culture tragic beyond words. But I have a different vantage point, and come from a different time.Something else that pushed Olive toward's the country's right wing was the <a href="https://historians.social/tags/Attlee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Attlee</a> government and its nationalisations. She'd worked for a time, before the Kent move, on one of the Coal Boards. This was something that <a href="https://historians.social/tags/nationalisation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nationalisation</a> got rid of. She'd liked working there. So she hated the Attlee government. 34/?

jackLondon<a href="https://mastodon.social/@alexanderhay" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@alexanderhay</a> <a href="https://c.im/@TimWardCam" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@TimWardCam</a> Total <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/BS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BS</a> - you point to where <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Attlee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Attlee</a> promoted criticism of "pride in king & country" - you can't!For the avoidance of doubt I cannot stand all that stuff - I would be shouting "Not My King" if I thought it made any difference other than risking being manhandled or arrested by police and put in a secret watch-list with a mug-shotBut many normal <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labour</a> voters do not think like me and I accept that

jackLondon<a href="https://c.im/@Ted" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Ted</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/@TJ1001" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@TJ1001</a> Well it looks like we will find out within the next 18 months or so......I am not really into the whole <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/inspirational" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#inspirational</a> leader thing... a competent and intelligent chairperson who coordinates the most talented <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labour</a> MPs in delivering for all the country with some notice taken of need would be a massive advance - can be as dull as <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/attlee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#attlee</a> as far as I'm concerned

jackLondon<a href="https://mstdn.dasmirnov.net/@paul" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@paul</a> You mistake my meaning - anyone calling <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#starmer</a> "Keith Stalin" should look for a different party - <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labour</a> does not need such "support"There will always be <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/socialist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socialist</a> MPs in <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labour</a> - but there are many other equally <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/labour" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#labour</a> MPs who do not meet your exacting standards - including I would say all the most successful ones leaving aside maybe <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/attlee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#attlee</a>

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