Albion and Empire - A (very) British Victoria II (NWO) Interactive AAR

[Plank of Wood]

((PRIVATE MEMO - Labour Party Candidates))

To whom it may concern,

I would, first of all, like to congratulate you for receiving the Labour Party endorsement in the coming election. The coming fight is one vital to the British nation, one which, in all hopefulness, we are on the verge of success. Every seat is as vital a piece to our future as the shores of Normandy, for if we lose our nation shall be doomed to economic isolation and improper rebuilding of the nation at the hands of the Conservatives. Needless to say, every prospective Labour Member of Parliament must participate in the coming election to the best of their ability, regardless of whether that seat is a Conservative "Safe Seat". With proper strategy, anything will be possible in this new, modern age.

As Press Secretary, it is my duty to advise candidates on their interactions with the Press, and which points that the Party feels are most necessary to your victory. These points should be memorised in full, and repeated as much as possible to voting members of the public and the press. The five key goals of a Labour Government, which I must emphasize to the the fullest possible extent are necessary to your electoral victory, are -

• A Tax-Funded, National Health Service.
• The Implementation of "Full" Employment.
• A "Cradle-to-the-Grave" Welfare State.
• The Implementation of a Modern Economy, using the Economic Theories of John Maynard Keynes.

And, most importantly -

• The Reconstruction of United Kingdom, Following the Destruction and Damage Caused by the War.

Naturally, any local concerns vital to victory in your seat, such as the reconstruction of infrastructure, the welfare of local soldiers returning home, ect. should be also emphasised to the press and the electorate. It goes without saying that anyone who has military service or experience should remind of this, as much of your electorate will similarly be veterans. Furthermore, you should be aware of the specific policies of your opposing candidates - both nationally and locally. They will likely accuse you of socialism, idealism, and anti-Britishness, as well as criticise the Labour Party's aims as too lofty, too overbearing, or implicitly communism - you must counter this by ensuring the voting public know what our policies stand for, and that the Conservative platform is faulty and will not benefit the common British subject in the way that the Labour Party will. You should, moreover, know the correspondence address of editors of both the local papers and of national ones, as well as giving interview both in print and by radio at any opportunity.

It is our overall electoral strategy to remind the British public of the Conservative Party's poor 1930's foreign policy, improper domestic policy, and look past displays of paper-thin war patriotism by the Conservatives, and that the Labour Party has shown tremendous leadership in the Ministry of Labour in previous years. We must be skeptical of Conservative policy and, more than anything else, hold them to account for previous missteps. While being respectful of the Duke Churchill's war record, remind that the Labour Party has had a stellar record in running the country during the war and that we, and we alone, will be able to rebuild this Great Nation. As our slogan goes - "Let us Face the Future".

If you need further guidance, I am usually available at my office in London, and can be reached by telephone or in person on most days.

Regards,
Johnathon Staines,
Press Secretary to the Labour Party

 

[Michaelangelo]

Vote Conservative, otherwise you're a godless commie.

 

[Duke Dan `the Man`]

Do you want a more secure future for you and your
Loved ones.Votes Labour for,more peace of mind

 

[Duke Dan `the Man`]

Vote Labour for A Better Britain and a Better Future

 

[Qwerty7]

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Name: Richard Clay Caldwell
Born: February 1st, 1910 (35)
Profession: Politician
Constituency: Islington South
Party: Labour

Richard Clay Caldwell was born February 1st, 1910 to a fire and brimstone preacher and a gardener. His father, Reverend Robert Caldwell, was an Anglican preacher who spent his days warning his neighbors that they would burn in hell if they did not repent their sins. Although Robert's efforts were almost always fruitless, as the minute crowds that listened to him could testify to, his silver tongue had profound effect on the young Richard's speaking abilities, something which would be helpful later in his life.

Richard did not aspire to be in the clergy like his father, instead he devoted a large portion of his childhood studying. It would pay off, as he would eventually attend Queen's College, Cambridge. It is there that he met several men whom would be instrumental in his political career. He also frequently found himself in debate and acquired a reputation for it. He also briefly studied at Trinity College where he met Arthur George Bennett, who would eventually run in Islington North.

Richard would serve as aide to various MPs in the late 1930s before joining the Royal Navy and fighting in the Second World War. He would return home in early 1945, to his wife with the hopes of starting a family. However, when William Sampson Cluse, MP for Islington South (the birthplace and residence of Ricahrd), announced that he intended not to stand in May 1945, Richard was immediately contacted by several of his university friends and urged to stand. Richard would agree in his usual modest-on-the-outside yet, proud-on-the-inside manner.

 

[Ab Ovo]

"What the hell do we do?"

"Posters."

"Just put up posters? Don't we need speeches or something? Campaigning?"

"Nah, mate. Just posters. It's the future."

 

[99KingHigh]

Public opinion PP will be valued at 5 for this election. That number will be divided to the sides with the best IC (and, unfortunately, electoral posters don't count for much.)

 

[DensleyBlair]

The following is an excerpt from a speech made by Labour candidate Parris Marr earlier to-day in front of the Guildhall. It was reported in most local newspapers, as well as later being printed in full in the New Statesman.

“The city of York was a victim of great spite during the war. Ugly thing, spite. When British bombs fell on the German ports of Lübeck and Rostock, beautiful places themselves, that great philistine Hitler decided that he would refute the horrors of total war with a petulant display of ignorant vandalism.

“At about the same time as this strafing took place, I was in France with the Royal Signals. France, a nation so cultured it had become immune to the fact, had been reduced for the second time in a generation to a battleground. On the first occasion, of course, the root cause had been a minor diplomatic incident that incompetent people allowed to spiral far out of control. The second was an altogether graver fight for the very soul of Europe and the democratic world.

“Frankly, I digress—but all of this illustrates my point: we have all suffered a great deal. The question now is that of how we suffer less; of how, as the Labour Party slogan reads, we ‘Face the Future’.

“As part of the wartime government, the Conservative Party did a great deal of good. So did we all. But, quite frankly, endless dredging up of war records will get us nowhere; there is no point at all in trying to win elections based on past victories. Not that I anticipate that this will a tactic favoured by the Conservative Party. Lord Irwin has been in his conduct during the last parliament, I am sure, a credit to all who voted for him ten years ago—but if he wishes to stand on the record of the last Tory government, then he is either a fool, or the bravest man in the Empire.

“If we are to crawl out of the crater blasted across Europe by the savagery of Nazism, it must be with ideas and with energy. The Conservative Party is, ideologically speaking, bankrupt. They have no vision for the country, other than a vague reactionary desire to return things to how they were. Their Elysian Fields for the heroes of war look very similar to Britain now, only with marginally less rubble about the place.

“A vote for the Labour Party is not a vote for communism, or anti-British values, or for empty idealism. It is, quite simply, a vote for the government we all deserve.

“Thank you.”​

 

[Luftwafer]

Excerpt from a speech to voters in the Don valley constituency

People of Don Valley, I stand before you as the labour candidate in this constituency. My opponent, is representative of the Conservative party, he is From the lap of luxury, a friend of the right people and a Cambridge graduate, but don't let his upbringing fool you.

He doesn't care for the workers. He only cares about the power he can trick you into giving him. He won't represent you, he wasn't born here.
He hasn't laboured in the mines with you, he hasn't Fought for our rights.

I said he was representative of the conservatives as a whole, and I mean it. He is here because his father knew the right people. Do you know where mine was? Dying down there, in an unsafe mine that his party's government allowed, he couldn't get the treatment he needed because we didn't have the money to pay for it.

I had to work at 14, and by the time I was a man I worked more days than this man ever will. Labour represents the working man, they strive to create a National Health Service. Free healthcare for any Briton from Birth until death, the NHS will be there. The Tories voted No, they voted no on your wellbeing.

A vote for the Tories is a self destructive vote, one that is a betrayal to the common man.

To support labour isn't to Destroy the British values, it isn't to submit to the will of a foreign power. It is a vote for you and me and every man, woman and child who needs help in their times of need.

It is a vote for health
It is a vote for equality
It is a vote for Britain

 

[AzagalTheGreat]

A similar newspaper article covers a speech of a minor MP in the House of Commons

To the people of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland :

We stand at the dawn of a new era. One of (hopefully) global peace and economic revival after this devastating war. The German monster has been slain and Europe has been liberated. As Europe stands to rebuild from the Second Great War, we remain relatively unharmed. But we must not slack. We must rebuild the done damage in our beloved country, and strive to create anew from the destruction of war. We must not let the British Empire fall apart. For we build our great nation upon the Empire, and it would be unwise. We must learn to respect the non-British people of the Empire, and build a strong league of nations friendly to our nation. Lest there break out war again. The horrors of war are innumberable ,gruesome and unspeakable, as seen from recent imagenery and newspaper articles . I myself have fought in the war and seen those horrors first hand .The Conservative Party aims to develop the Empire, rebuild a better version of our nation upon the ruins of the old, and maintain peace and order across the world.

A vote for the Conservative Party is a vote for a better Britain, Peace, Order, God , King and Empire.

 

[Ab Ovo]

The Generali Building, Jerusalem
Mandatory Palestine

"Have you read this bit, in the New Statesman? This Marr fellow is a wonder, let me tell you."

Ambrose grimaced. He didn't dislike Marr, and had heard of his service in Intelligence. The fact that he was now a Labourite was testament to how far even decent men could fall.

"Yes, I read Major Marr's speech. It's disappointing how an otherwise intelligent man can be swindled. Don't ever be fooled by their nonsense; it's impossible for anyone animated by socialist principles to truly be loyal to the values which have made Britain and the Empire great. It is only a short step from Marr's 'government we all deserve' to abolishing the monarchy and installing some petty functionary as President. Or Chairman, rather..."

Ambrose's companion nodded silently, thinking it unwise to agree with the Undersecretary. They had bigger fish to fry than some leftist back in the mother country...

 

[Plank of Wood]

As Press Secretary for the Labour Party, Johnny Staines ghost-wrote several speeches for candidates whom did not have a literary background themselves. The following was typical of the sort of election podium speech he penned during this period:

"... Many of the Tory candidates standing for Parliament have claimed that the Labour Party cannot provide the stability, governship, and moral fibre of a Conservative Government.

The same Conservative Government, of whom many of the sitting Conservatives today voted to support, that left this country woefully unprepared for War. A Government which, in the words of Lloyd George, left this Kingdom, before the war, in "the worst strategic position it has ever faced." A Government whose disastrous reign presided over unemployment, squalor, and, most insidiously of all, appeasement to the grossest and most disgusting evil of our generation. The gentlemen that stand against the Labour Party boast of their dedication of defending the Empire, Parliamentary Liberty, and their stern British backbone - these same men, when elected 10 years ago, had none of those things when Hitler marched into the Rhineland! When the Germans took the Sudentanland, the leadership of the Conservative Party stood aside and hoped that we were not next. When it was their duty to ensure the people of this nation, and indeed the people of Europe, were safe they stuttered and delayed until they could avoid it no longer.

These Conservatives whom, when the Norway Debate roared in the House of Commons, still voted, by a considerable amount, to support the progenitor of this policy, Neville Chamberlain. It is true that Duke Churchill, whom led our country through the horrors of this conflict, is among their number - but it was only from pressure by the Opposition party, the Labour Party, that this minority of Conservatives were able to form a National Government with the Labour Party. These same Conservatives, whose Party supported Chamberlain then by a majority, now patronize the British public by claiming to stand for a strong Empire.

The Conservative Party's weakness in these matters cost our nation dearly. Can these same people be trusted to dictate our policy once more? I say that they cannot. How can we believe the Conservative Party when they tell us that they are the noble and brave men who can rebuild our nation? We simply cannot hand our Great Nation back to the same men that almost doomed it.

Yet Conservative criticisms fall apart not only compared to their previous misdeeds, but when judged on their own merit. Some of those standing for the Conservatives boast of "Rebuilding the Nation", yet in the same breath condemn Attlee for his agenda of reconstruction, implementation of a proper Welfare State, and a programme to ensure that every man can find employment. The Conservatives have no electoral strategy, except to snidely mark the Labour Party as socialists. They have no backbone, except to blindly reject reasonable policy which has been forwarded by men - Attlee, Morrison, and Bevin - whom ran this nation for the last five years. The Conservatives deride "reform for the sake of reform", yet will cling to conservatism for the sake of conservatism.

The Labour Party has already, for the last five years, proven that it can run this nation. It has proven that it will defend British values both at home and overseas. It has, most of all, proven to the British people that it is the only credible option as the leadership of a Post-War Britain. The Labour Party stands for a bright future in which all of Britain can be a part of. A rebuilt Britain. A Great Britain.

I leave it to you, the British public, to show this at the polls."





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[Duke Dan `the Man`]

Except from a Speech made by William Van Vlaanderen in Edinburgh about the Difference of Socialism and Soviet Communism.

"Socialism does not mean a cruel regime or deaths of many people.Rather it means power out of the rich and to the common man of Britain.Many opponents argue the Soviets are socialist and many people are poor and the regime is only stands because of the fear breed by executions and famine.Soviet socialism was corrupted by a few greedy men who want power,the opposite of the goal of socialism,which is power to the common man.The so called 'socialist republics' are grim with secrecy and false headlines of the world.That is not what we want,we want a government the people deserve and want.We want Britain to face the future,and the best future.Is a future with the Labour Party."

 

[Qwerty7]

Presenter: Good evening to all those at home. Tonight I have two gentlemen with me, to my left is Richard Clay Caldwell, standing in Islington South for the Labour Party. To my right is Sir Reginald Jeremy Gibbons, standing in Wigan for the Conservative Party. We’ve invited these men here to discuss how Britain should more forward in this new post-war age, and about the merits of Labour’s proposed “Cradle-to-Grave” welfare state. Let’s start with Richard, since his party is the one proposing it.

Richard Clay Caldwell ((Qwerty7)): I would like to thank you for having me here tonight and I would also like to thank all those tuned in for giving me a chance to speak.

Firstly, what is the role of government? Is it not to faithfully exercise the will of the people? Any man who subscribes to the idea of a democracy such as ours’ would most likely agree. Now, what is the will of the people? It obviously fluctuates often and has the tendency to shift in all different directions, but I think that the one thing which the people always have in mind when casting their vote is their interest, and the interest of the nation and the interest of democracy is a part of this individual interest.

So, if the role of government is to execute the will of the people. Then, should it not be reasonable to think it to not be in the interest of the people to leave them dying in the streets because they cannot afford a visit to the doctor? And is it not in the interest of the people to find themselves unable to put bread on the table? Certainly not!

These reforms are intended, not to harm the interests of the people as the Conservatives would say, but to help the people. Britain has been fatally wounded by this destructive war, and it is our duty to nurse it back to full strength. This can be achieved through a national health service that will ensure no man will find himself dying on the streets like a dog. We must provide pensions so that old age will be a security not a difficulty.

And we must march onwards, not backwards. The Conservative Party wishes to rest on their laurels and think that by trumpeting their past achievements the people shall live in prosperity. The nerve! Labour believes that it is not right for the next five years to be like the last. We may have won the war, but we must now win the peace. And the Conservatives wish to win a peace by fighting a war. And that is not in the interest of the people. Thank you.

Presenter: Thank you Richard. Reginald, your response.

Reginald Jeremy Gibbons ((Dadarian)): Thank you, I must admit that this is my first experience on the radio, and if it wasn’t such a serious issue that faces our future I would be like a child receiving their Christmas orange *muffled laughter*. However, like I just said, this is an issue that presses us on every front. This “Cradle-to-Grave” plan is most utopian in nature - however that is all. While the government should be the ultimate adjudicator of the people’s will, what it actually is is that of a caretaker, protecting citizens from the dangers of this world. To which this socialism is a danger, one that seeks to drain our treasuries, float the unintelligent, and give those that do not have what they cannot afford.

I will explain what I mean. Do you know the cost of the average hospital trip in Britain? I didn’t until I examined Labour’s beloved Beveridge Report, which states that the cost of universal healthcare, one of the primary tenants of the Cradle-to-Grave plan, would cost 697 million pounds. Now, this seems like a large sum, but divide it by the number of people in Britain at this time, some 49 million. This is 14.22 pounds for every man, woman, and child in the nation. Do you know how much the average Briton earns? 104 pounds a week. Now where is the cost benefit of this? To raise taxes some 14% to pay off something that the National Insurance Act already adequately covers? While I do wish to see that the poorest of us raised to the quality of life we experienced, the support provided by the church, charity, and family, is more than enough to serve these people.

Furthermore, should we devolve to the place of wonton shoppers? Are we so engrossed with spending the public’s money that we wish to deprive those that need to save of their savings? For that is what will happen. As we protect the weak willed from the ills, they will take the money that they can provide through legitimate and decent work and spend it frivolously on un-British excess. Do we need this change to our life? Do we need to have our families lose their savings to the whims of a weak willed parent? I think not.

Finally, we hook the poor upon the state’s financial aid like the Chinese hook their poor peasants on opium. Having spent their savings and crippled by taxes, they must rely on the government in which to give them more money. This should not be, for we are the British. We do not take money that is not ours, we do not stoop to collect what isn’t ours for our own benefit. We are a proud race, and we should not be reduced to pettiness to feed our children.

What Labour wishes to do is nothing short of fanciful nonsense. Bounding towards dangerous paths at the behest of Bolshevik ideologues clad in miner’s clothes, we should not let ourselves waver. We have suffered too much in the wake of the Nazis to see it collapse in our hands. We are not a castle of sand by the beach, awaiting the coming waves to break us apart or the kicking feet of children. No, we are a proud British industry, one steeped in tradition and filled with determination.

Presenter: I would like to thank both of you for your time and wish the best of luck in your elections.

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[99KingHigh]

From the office of Sir Ambrose Morgenstern, Bt,
Undersecretary to the High Commissioner for Palestine,

Field Marshal The Right Honourable
The Viscount Gort
VC, GCB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, MVO, MC

and addressed to the office of the Right Honourable Oliver Stanley, MC, PC
Secretary of State for the Colonies​

Sir,

It is the opinion of this office, although not necessarily that of Lord Gort, that in light of the situation with Jewish refugees in Europe, and in particular regard to refugees after the deplorable sinking of the MV Mefküre in August of last year, that there be immediately put forth from your office a plan to address the situation. While of course the continuing actions of illegal Jewish paramilitaries have caused great anguish to His Majesty's Government and the Mandatory government in Palestine, it is clear that humanitarian conscience -- not to mention the pressure of the United States, which has numerously pressured Lord Gort's office -- compels a reconsideration of the ban on Jewish immigration to Palestine. Furthermore it is the opinion of this office that for the safety, peace, and good governance of Palestine that there be recommendations put forth for statehood or some sort of transitional administration upon the imminent expiration of the British mandate.

Yours cordially,

Sir Ambrose Morgenstern, Bt,
Undersecretary to the High Commissioner for Palestine

The Office of the Rt. Hon Oliver Stanley, MC, PC, MP
Secretary of State for the Colonies
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Sir,

The consideration of this department, with responsibility for execution of government policy, cannot oblige to the request from the Undersecretary to the High Commissioner until the general merit of the present government is vindicated. We find the aforementioned issue a matter of needed deliberation, but the conscience of the Government shall not be comprised in dereliction to the MacDonald White Paper. The present status, as dictated by Lord Gort, informs the Ministry that a revocation of that preceding status will only arouse those passions so recently quelled in the recent Arab uprising. Furthermore, to make such a concession and endorsement the proposed Zionist state shall vindicate the maneuvers of the Irgun, the Stern Gang, and (to a more conciliatory extent) the Haganah. It would not be the interest of the Empire to depart from the region without settlement between the Arabs and the Jews, unless we find that our actions should only aggravate the present condition. The government, if returned, shall make further statement on the matter upon first oppurtunity.

Sincerely,
The Secretary of State for the Colonies

 

[Noco19]

Irish Anti-Partition League
A Plea for Unity Among Brothers​

Inflicted upon is a travesty, as we in the Six Counties face partition from our kin in the South, leaving Ireland unfairly partitioned for no purpose other than to rend we People, to set us upon one another. And in these past few years, none have stood up to organize protest, to voice our dissent and explain our qualms, no body strong enough to speak with London and say "No!" to injustice.

Brothers, this must end today. As the Good Lord intended, we Irish are a hardy people, fighters and strong of spirit. And that is why I know in my heart that we shall all join hands to form a new organization, bridging our differences, bridging our factions, and uniting us under the banner of Irish Unity!

This is why I declare my intention to form the Irish Anti-Partition League. We shall meet in convention in Dungannon, to elect amongst ourselves officers, to deliberate, and to show the British People, and our Southern kin, our opposition to any sort of division of our People.

There should only be One Éire, a united Éire!

 

[LatinKaiser]

((Amazing that the BBC is broadcasting, considering that it's still 1945...))

 

[99KingHigh]

((Amazing that the BBC is broadcasting, considering that it's still 1945...))

((Presumably, it is radio broadcasting.))

 

[liefwarrior]

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Theodore in Uniform, 1939​

Name: Theodore Gunther Williamson
Born: October 3rd, 1908
Profession (Occupation): Politician
Constituency: Brighton
Background: Theodore was born to a middle-class family in Brighton. He attended the University of London were he received a Degree in Law, while living in London Theodore began to develop an interest in politics. Upon returning home to Brighton Theodore began working as a solicitor in a Local Court until the beginning of tensions in the mid-1930s. Theodore's father, who had served in the Great War, refused to consider the possibility that another war would break out and advised his son to think so as well. In 1937 Theodore married Grace Harrington, the daughter of a rich businessman. When war broke out in 1939 Theodore, along with his brother Harry, enlisted as a Lieutenant, believing that it was his patriotic duty to do so. He fought in Crete where he was promoted to the rank of Captain. He was then transferred to Africa were he wasted away in the infirmary with a case of Cholera. He had returned to full health in time for the Invasion of Sicily where Harry was killed by flying shrapnel. Theodore returned to Brighton a different person to the one he had left as, instead of resuming his career as a solicitor he instead decided to enter into politics. Theodore is a generally considered by his peers to be liberal and is a known supporter of the Liberal Party & its ideals.

 

[unwealdy]

Name: Warwick Pike
Born: 1899
Profession (Occupation): Former Liberal Councilman (Politician)
Constituency: Bucklow
Background: Warwick Pike, the son of a fruit-seller, was a dentist turned local politician in the city of Manchester. He narrowly avoided conscription during the Great War thanks to age. As a 43 year old, he wasn't called into national service during WWII until 1942, at which time he was commissioned as a medical officer, a Royal Navy dentist. With the ending of the war, he sought to return to politics by contesting the Parliamentary seat of his home constituency, bringing with him the eclectic ideas of the "forces parliament" of British soldiers he participated in '44, one of many such unofficial bodies.

The Populist Party (1945)

The Future of Britain and The Empire
The cost of liberating Europe from fascism has been high, and so will be the cost of defending the free world from the post-war military ambitions of the Soviet Union. Britain is drowning in war debt and the National Government is and by all likelihood will remain dependent on the continued Lend-Lease program of the United States to maintain solvency. How long can the Empire be maintained under these conditions? How long can an independent British military capability in Europe remain, separate and alongside our contribution to the American commanded Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Powers in Europe? Not long unless Britain changes her direction now.

The Americans are our greatest allies but they are our eccentric cousins as well. They will not tolerate bankrolling our colonies for very long and whatever League of Nations is to become the basis of post-war global security will likely follow a misguided but well-intentioned policy of decolonization in line with the views of the late President Roosevelt. To maintain our solvency and thus our empire we must demobilize the huge masses of conscripts who won the war for Britain and divide our unmatched naval and air forces among the Empire. Let our huge surplus of skilled personnel and officers, as well as costly equipment, be loaned to the colonies they will surely defend and operate out of. By granting the colonies this combination of limited power over said forces with financial responsibility for their upkeep, we will be showing our commitment to a future together and indivisible. British officers that we cannot afford to keep at the salaries they deserve, and equipment we can not afford to keep in the field, will be train future cadres of the independent allied armies of our commonwealth realms and dependencies.

Housing and Industry
A free market in construction and transportation, rather than the domination by the costly Ministry of Works which would doubtless in a post-war environment lead to nepotism and corruption, will liberate the newly demobilized young men of Britain from the torment of joblessness and shoddy council housing. Let materials and manpower not be hoarded by National Service and the Ministry of Works, but be set free with the end of conscription and the end of the current war-time regulation of construction materials. Let the great reconstruction to come be directed by the people who have to live in the future we will be creating, the men and women of the private citizenry, not by state bureaucrats.

Furthermore, by encouraging the flow of manpower to construction and private commercial enterprise, encouraging new homeowners and new suburbs, we will not flood the city factories and private housing with jobless veterans. Let the young men build their home and their business, their new communities, and allow us to continue to harness the full productive potential of Great Britain by making it a national mission to keep the women who gained skilled industrial employment during the War in their occupations. Let us not halve our economic might, our potential future as a continued world power, by sending these exemplars of British pluck and determination back home to the kitchen. The liberation of the world from fascism and communism must also mean the liberation of the female sex and all the economic potential of a "co-ed" workplace.

Food and Agriculture
Without American beef and bread, Britain is faced with the very real post-war prospect of starvation. Regardless of whether the Tories or Labour form the government, there will be rationing as soon as we are cut off from the immense generosity that was a war-time necessity that will not be afforded for long during the peace. This age of austerity, this time of belt-tightening, need not be in vain. This can become a positive opportunity to reform British agriculture; to organize, modernize, and even futurize the agronomy of the British Isles so that in a few decades we will be able to look at ourselves and say, for the first time in generations, that we are able to feed ourselves. Let us never fall victim to the starvation and suffering of the blockade again, let us not confuse the world's greatest navy for a substitute for our daily bread. Let us revolutionize agriculture in Great Britain, for those who have lived through the hungry times now and for those future Britons who need not ever face such privation.

Contrary to the propositions of the Labour Party and their outdated talk of keeping those heavy industries nationalized in war-time under government hands, it is in the field of agriculture and food production that the state must focus its energy. A free people can only tolerate so much intervention in their lives and that is a currency that the next government must spend wisely, and it should and God willing will be spent on doing for Britain what the Soviets did for the Russian farmland.

National Insurance
The system of National Insurance devised by the National Government, and the new Ministry of National Insurance, must be scrapped and reworked from the bottom up. Just as the central state, free enterprise, and the intellectual community must do their share for King and Country; so must the councils and other subsidiary governments of Britain. In this area if nothing else the cooperative system envisioned by the Commonwealth Party and turn of the century Christian social reformers is the best possible solution to how to administrate such a momentous undertaking.

Health and Education
While government takes the lead in agriculture and free enterprise steers the post-war needs of housing and transportation, Britain must unleash the combined brilliance of her magnificent independent culture of academia and community of scientists upon the two greatest projects to face any nation: Health and Education. The new National Health Service must not become a bureaucracy, it must be run by the doctors in line with their needs and the needs of the patients they are oath-bound to advocate for. Funding for the arts and sciences should be directed by our academic institutions, not by state ministries, and be used to further pre-university education. Let the finest university men and greatest thinkers look to the primary and secondary schools of Britain for their future fellows in arms. By allowing the scientific community control over research and education, rather than it being done by the military or social planners, Britain will lead the world in investments in pure science and education innovation which will have far greater dividends down the road than a temporary statist push in industrial planning or weapons design.


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