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Aneurin Bevan was a great rebel. In 1951 he published his book In Place of Fear, and it was such astonishing reading for people who thought he was always negative and revolutionary and destructive. He was not.

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.

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.

So there was a great clamor for the government to authorize the importance of provisions of fully fashioned stockings.

And of course it was redistributed, because they were so poor, many of them weren't paying any income tax, or very little.

Their idea was that competition would bring out the best in the entrepreneur and that the customer would benefit from that competition.

Do you know one of the most interesting things is, when we lost office in '51 we did so on a higher vote that we'd been elected to in '45.

Everybody has been, for a time, stunned by what has happened. Unions have been stunned into acquiescence. Local parties, labor activists have been stunned out of their ideas.

Of course the GIs who came over from the States and were still living in England, they had a wonderful time because they were very popular with the girls with their fully fashioned stockings from America.

Any money you've got should be put into helping us to invest in this new machinery ourselves. And so there it was, enormous pressure. Ah, give us a bit of glamour, for heaven's sake! We've earned it, haven't we?

That's what eventually brought Margaret Thatcher's downfall and a chance for Labor's concept of greater distribution of wealth in the country, wider distribution.

The oil-producing countries who produced the oil so essential to the running of industry and people's homes suddenly took the bit between their teeth and started to push prices up, by billions and billions of pounds.

I was so proud of that government.

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

We said why should the people in the smoky valleys around the peak district not be free to walk out into the fresh air and the sun? Access to mountains, that was the battle cry.

Why should somebody set up a company to provide for a sparsely populated area? But when nationalization came, I remember the first time electricity came to Ted's parents. A simple little bungalow. Fantastic.

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.

But we went down with our colors flying and I think we never compromised on our beliefs, which turned out to be proved entirely right.

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.

People were so frightened of losing their jobs they stayed mum. It's always been part of my Socialist economics belief that the best way to increase wealth is to share it more equally.

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