{"id":8614,"date":"2023-04-01T00:07:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T23:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8614"},"modified":"2023-04-01T00:08:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T23:08:48","slug":"history-politics-nye-nails-tory-duplicity-1944","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8614","title":{"rendered":"HiSTORY\/POLITiCS: Nye Nails Tory Duplicity, 1944"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"607\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_7167.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8613\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_7167.jpg 440w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/img_7167-217x300.jpg 217w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u2018Nye\u2019 Bevan, 1897-1960.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Honest politics and Tory politics are contradictions in terms.  Lying is a necessary part of a Tory&#8217;s political equipment, for it is essential for him to conceal his political intentions from the people. This is partly the reason for his success in keeping power.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The founder of the NHS, and a chief builder of the post WW11 Welfare State, Nye Bevan, in 1944. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All these years later, after a period in which over 75% of the time has seen Tories in government (add New Labour\u2019s <em>Tory-Lite <\/em>era, and it\u2019s been an era of near as dammit <em>total<\/em> right wing dominance!), his words seem more apt than ever. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Honest politics and Tory politics are contradictions in terms. Lying is a necessary part of a Tory&#8217;s political equipment, for it is essential for him to conceal his political intentions from the people. This is partly the reason for his success in keeping power.\u2019 The founder of the NHS, and a chief builder of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=8614\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HiSTORY\/POLITiCS: Nye Nails Tory Duplicity, 1944&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[226,130,19,167,169,113,239,125],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-2eW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8615,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8614\/revisions\/8615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}