What issues were present in the uk in the 1940's and today?

Question

please help - urgent and i mean 40's as in world war 2

Answer 1

I assume you mean what issues are common between the 1940s and the present day? If so, there are two obvious parallels. One is housing. In the 1940s 1000's of houses were destroyed by bombing, leading to a great shortage of affordable accommodation. Most newly married couples couldn't get housed and 'living in' with in-laws was very common. Today, there is still a lack of affordable housing, but caused (a) by price inflation which means young people just cannot afford to buy, and (b) by the idiotic, shortsighted, policies of the Thatcher years which virtually stopped the  building of public housing ('Council houses') and encouraging the sale of the existing stock. So when people who brought their council houses back in the 1980s die, their houses do not recirculate for other, poorer, familes to occupy but become part of the insane price spiral that is the private housing market, and beyond the pockets of the young to buy.

The other common issue is health. The National Health Service was set up in 1948 to provide free health care for all 'at the point of delivery'. For various reasons, most notably the reactionary views of the medical profession, the service became 'doctor led'. They called the tune and were paid. Consultant surgeons, for example, were paid handsomely by the Government, but got immensely rich by being allowed to continue with private practice. The founders of the service would have liked to have seen polyclinics on the style of the one in Peckham which had opearted very successfully in a poorer area of London in the 1930s. But this couldn't happen as the doctors wanted to be independent. The founders wanted to see more preventative medicine - in other words, for example, ensuring, for example, that heart attacks were prevented from occurring, rather than having to treat a patient suffering from one. Only now is the Government suggesting polyclinics - to the screams of the medical profession again. 'It will break the link between GP and patient' Poppycock! Most GP practises are so big and busy that the chance of seeing the same doctor on each visit as fairly small. The Government are having to bribe the GPs to work longer hours - they wanted the privilege of being independant, but screamed because they were expected to act like other professionals and not observe a 9 t0 5 lifestyle. They are also being bribed to adopt preventative medical care by treating, in advance, matters that, for example, can leead to heart disease.

Answer 2

Immigration