Attlee's Remarks Of Triumphs Analysis

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In my opinion, although for many of Attlee's year in charge there were remarks of triumph, I still believe that it can be question to how far these actually were successful. Source 6 shows us that the Labour Government passed mass amounts of new legislation, and then this resulted in many benefits for the people, and this was emphasised and touched on in Source 4. In contrast to this, Source 5 shows us that the triumphs can be questioned, with their being a sense that the needs of the people were not considered in the attempt of a reform programme. To start of, Source 6 gives of a sense that the things that were achieved by Attlee's government were 'remarkable'. This is because of the Source stating things such as 'Labour had many successes at this time such as the establishments of the NHS'. Some would argue that the NHS was Attlee's greatest achievement and this is due to the Labour Government of his time being able to establish the NHS with a main goal that was to care and benefit the people. Furthermore, the sense that this was 'remarkable' can be seen is source 4 when it is stated that 'the sick shall…show more content…
Therefore, instead of the introduction of social refore, opponents of the government had the impression that Attlee should have taken alot more time to rebuild the economy. By trying to make right the economic problems of a 'shattered postwar would', Attlee could have cut out a lot of the long-term problems Britain found themself suffering from such as unemployment and inflation. Furthermore, it was also argued that Attlee lived longer and beyong his means and therefore, the amount of time that was speant by Attlee to set up the so called achievements of 1948, they were overall not remarkable but were just for short term successess and became the expense of an unpopular long term
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