Supermac
- Created by: elliie_
- Created on: 24-04-14 20:21
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- Supermac 1957-1963
- Affluence
- 'Age of the teenager'
- Power
- Money
- High public spending
- Rising standards of living
- Low taxes
- Enjoying consumer goods
- Macmillan speech
- "most of our people have never had it so good"
- Not welcoming age of affluence
- 'Age of the teenager'
- Social
- 1960 - 1000 houses a day
- Debt rising
- HP - Higher Purchase
- Behind the affluence, there is still poverty
- 1956 - Unemployment no existent
- But.. By 1962 about 800,000 people were unemployed
- Economic
- inflation increased
- Taxes
- Couldnt balance the books
- Economic strategy
- Stop go policy
- Interest rates lowered to regain lost popularity
- Stagflation
- Stop go policy
- Failures
- Profumo Affair
- Untrustworthy and Macmillan naive
- News headlines disgracing them
- Weak?
- Campaigns in the national press signalled a new standard in political communication
- Vassal Affair
- Gay photographs used as blackmail
- morally corrupt
- Profumo Affair
- Successes
- Welfare State
- Pension
- Family allowances
- Council houses
- Established - not needing Labour
- Laid the foundations to stay in power
- Welfare State
- Affluence
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