Yesterday I managed to get hold of Francis Williams’ biography of the great trade unionist and Labour politician, Ernest Bevin, Bevin was born in Winsford in Somerset, and started his political career in Bristol, where he joined the Bristol Socialist Society, a branch of Hyndman’s Social Democratic Federation, and founded the T.G.W.U. with Harry Gosling. He later became foreign minister under Clement Attlee.
Among his achievements was legislation compelling firms to employ the disabled, and setting up the Disabled Person’s Employment Corporation to promote factories for them. Williams describes this work as follows:
This constant feeling for men and women as human beings came out strongly in the training schemes he set up to try to make sure that as far as war conditions allowed people were fitted into the sort of job they would do well and feel successful at. And it showed particularly in his anxiety to give…
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A tory finally admits that it is the 1948 ‘Social Security system’ they are out to destroy;
“Over 4 years we have worked collaboratively to develop the most comprehensive overhaul of social care since 1948 and together we now need to focus on making these reforms a reality. ”
“Care and Support Minister Norman Lamb talks about the biggest reforms to the social care system in more than 60 years”
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/care-bill-becomes-care-act-2014
They will not, of course actually say this. But you can see what their target is by the date (given with no context) that gives away what they are aiming at.
Very interesting – just one point of order: Norman Lamb is a Liberal Democrat.