The General Election of 1959 - Professor Vernon Bogdanor

A thorough, witty and insightful look at the general election of 1959 and its importance in British Political History: www.gresham.ac....
The 1959 General Election gave the Conservatives their third successive victory, the first time that a party had won three successive general elections since Napoleonic times. The outcome was widely credited to the deft materialism of Harold Macmillan, and the slogan `You’ve never had it so good’, which the Conservatives, in fact, did not use. Did the result show that, in the words of another Conservative slogan, ‘Conservative freedom works’, or did it serve to mask deep-seated problems relating to the British economy and Britain’s role in the world.
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[@tubularbill]

Another gem by The Professor. I could listen to The Professor all day.

[@bankzie]

The clip from MacMillan makes me realise where Monty Python got their impressions from

[@dariowiter3078]

Excellent lecture, I must say. Very concise and clear. 😁😁😁😁😁

[@deanmthomson]

MacMillan. Supermac. Hero. The Middle Way.

[@dancthegr]

This sounds more like 2015 all over again in the past

[@calvincoolidge8180]

22:43 Cameron did that.

[@ian_b]

Macmillan did well for the camera but obviously had trouble with that long single take. Who was the director, Orson Welles?!

[@wadetoole7104]

Bogartdanor rules

[@paulgavin3603]

Labour would probably never have abolished rationing

[@CA-ee1et]

How would they ever willingly have given up CONTROL? Corbyn would have loved being in Number 10 for Covid: there'd have been rationing, people with surnames beginning with G would've been allowed out of their homes only between 9-11am, Mondays and Wednesdays, police on every corner to enforce it, "Show me your papers" etc etc.