I guess even more disabled people than usual can starve to death or be driven to suicide if it saves a tiny fraction of the country's GDP. Meanwhile those in charge waste money like there's no tomorrow.
I guess even more disabled people than usual can starve to death or be driven to suicide if it saves a tiny fraction of the country's GDP. Meanwhile those in charge waste money like there's no tomorrow.
Supposedly, quite a few of the poorest britons saw their quality of life improve under the rationing system that was in place during WWII, compared to their lives prior to the war. And after the war, they were not very eager to give up that improvement and so were willing to fight for it (while there was very little chance of Britain turning soviet in the 1940s, it was still a fear that the upper class had, particularly with the red army being stationed in Germany).
That and it was returning soldiers/sailors/airmen who contributed to the large swing against Churchill in the 1945 election. Huge swathes of the population who knew how to fight who needed to be placated.