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Re:Australia’s secret propaganda unit by ggm on Monday June 20, 2022 @01:26AM (#31806606)
Primarily the victory election at the end of WWII where Churchill seemed to assume he'd be back in, in a landslide and he ignored the work being done by Labour memebers amongst the troops. There was a pretty solid army education corps which was (surprise suprise) dominated by left/labour leaning academics, and they put a lot of "why are we fighting" "homes for heroes" "make britain better for you" messages out. Labour got in on a landslide, Clement Atlee was elected to replace Churchill. The Beveridge report [0] was (partially) implemented. This was the birth of the welfare state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beveridge_Report

Re:Australia’s secret propaganda unit by LaundroMat on Monday June 20, 2022 @02:38AM (#31807018)
Choice quote from that entry:

> "Beveridge was opposed to "means-tested" benefits. His proposal was for a flat rate universal contribution in exchange for a flat rate universal benefit. Means-testing was intended to play a tiny part because it created high marginal tax rates for the poor."

Plus ça change...