By Julie Hyland, WSWS
29 April 2011
Aneurin Bevan: Firebrand socialist and orator who is regarded as the father of the National Health Service. The age of real reformers is long past in Britain, for decades immersed in the swamp of Toryism and social democratic sellouts.
Events such as the royal wedding, the Telegraph’s Matthew d’Ancona opined, “drop a dauntingly heavy payload of political symbols, messages about the social fabric, hierarchy, class, manners and our collective optimism: where we are as a nation, in other words.”
So where, exactly, is Britain today?
One thing can be established—a royal wedding is a sure indicator of hard times, at least for the broad mass of the population not invited to the ceremony but expected to foot the bill.
