Tommy Macpherson MC had an interesting war, then became a successful businessman afterwards, one who knew a lot of important people. His assessments read as sensible, informed, reasonable. His views of the people involved with the Labour Party are not merely party political or jaundiced. He wrote about them in his autobiography, Behind Enemy Lines.
He tells in his book [ page 195 et seq ] that Aneurin Bevan was burned in effigy by men in a POW camp in Italy after he abused Churchill; that Aneurin Bevan said We are the masters now; that Hugh Scanlon, a trade union leader realised toward the end of his career what damage he and his had done to the country. Ernest Bevin was however a great man & a Labour minister. Tommy was upset by the dissension and strikes during the War and after.
He says of the Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Trinity College that nothing sensible has been written about economics since The Wealth of Nations in 1776, that philosophy sessions were rubbish but fun while Politics meant arguing with Tony Crosland who was brilliant.
Let us not forget what Comrade Lenin had to say about them; that the #Labour Party is a thoroughly bourgeois party. He knew his own.
Tommy Macpherson ex Wiki
"Colonel Sir (Ronald) Thomas Stewart Macpherson CBE, MC and Two Bars, TD, DL (born 4 October 1920) is a Scottish businessman, having previously been a much decorated British Army officer during and after the Second World War."
Behind Enemy Lines
Available from Amazon.com for $999.
Hugh Scanlon ex Wiki
"He attended Stretford Elementary School in Stretford near Manchester, which he left at the age of 11 to become an apprentice instrument maker at a local engineering firm where he first joined his union, the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU). He then worked at the Metropolitan-Vickers engineering plant at Trafford Park where he became a shop steward, before attaining the position of convener for the plant. He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1937 following the events of the Spanish Civil War and made use of its networks and organising skills to rise through the union, becoming a district official in 1947."
The BBC didn't bother to tell us that he was a communist.
Ernest Bevin ex Wiki
"Ernest Bevin (9 March 1881 – 14 April 1951) was a British statesman, trade union leader, and Labour politician. He co-founded and served as general secretary of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union from 1922 to 1940, and as Minister of Labour in the war-time coalition government. He succeeded in maximizing the British labour supply for both the services and domestic industry, with a minimum of strikes and disruption. His most important role came as Foreign Secretary in the post-war Labour Government, 1945-51. He gained American financial support, withdrew from India and much of the Middle East, strongly opposed Communism, and aided in the creation of NATO.According to his biographer, Alan Bullock, Bevin "stands as the last of the line of foreign secretaries in the tradition created by Castlereagh, Canning and Palmerston in the first half of the 19th century, with Salisbury, Grey and Austen Chamberlain as his predecessors in the 20th century, and (thanks to the reduction in British power) with no successors."
Aneurin Bevan ex Wiki
"Bevan wore his heart on his sleeve, saying at a party rally in 1948, "no amount of cajolery can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party....They are lower than vermin."[11] The comment inspired the creation of the Vermin Club."
Blair said something of the sort about the Tories.
We are the masters now
"The mood of the time was expressed by Aneurin Bevan in the House of Commons when he declared to the ruling class: ‘We are the masters now!’"
Labour Party Assessed By Comrade Lenin
Vladimir Lenin understood them well - His remarks are in full at Marxism and the British Labour Party:-
"Regarded from this, the only correct, point of view, the Labour Party is a thoroughly bourgeois party, because, although made up of workers, it is led by reactionaries, and the worst kind of reactionaries at that, who act quite in the spirit of the bourgeosie. It is an organisation of the bourgeoisie, which exists to systematically dupe the workers with the aid of the British Noskes and Scheidemanns."[ See http://www.marxist.net/openturn/historic/script.htm?lenin.htm ]