Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "Today I Found Out"
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Not mentioned in this very sound video: She has in fact used her police/military powers once -- on Fiji. Apparently the Indians, originally brought in as indentured labour, i.e. damn near slaves, on foreign owned plantations, have become the economic and intellectual elite there, and tough on the Fijians, whom you and I have never heard of.
Apparently they have the one Friend they need, and she lives in Buck House, whence she has stepped in from time to time to tell the legally elected, and Indian dominated, local Parliament to just cut it out with whatever they were up to.
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People forget that there were seven bye-elections during the war, and the results were straightforward: Commonwealth Party 7. National Government, Conservative or Labour depending on the constituency, 0.
Commonwealth was a Communist and Independent-Labour alliance, and the Communists foolishly thought that its steady stream of victories meant that the Revolution was at hand, somehow missing the fact that Independent Labour held them, as they held much else, with a combination of hatred and contempt. (Trotskyism was never as big a deal in Britain as elsewhere, but there is a British brand of Christian Socialism which at least rhetorically sitteth on the left hand of God.)
Independent Labour walked away from Commonwealth by the time of the 1945 election, delivering not just these seven seats but a crucial several percent of the vote everywhere. None of them had any use for Churchill's imperialism, and Tory backbenchers' opposing the Beveridge Report, mandating the National Health Service, was an anchor, sinking, not anchoring, the Tory raft.
Churchill's defeat was sure even before the overseas service vote was counted. The soldiers, of course, did not include a whole lot of Old Etonians...
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