[yankeedame]

I have just finished a book called "Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 (Tales of a New Jerusalem)"

Which, off hand, I don't recommend. It's very long [600+ pages], and very,very detailed which assumes you have a more-than-average knowledge of early post war Britan. IOW, it's a great if you're doing research, but over-kill if you just want to learn about that time.

Instead I would recommend a book I'm about half way through right now, "The Lost Victory: British Dreams, British Realities 1945-1950"

It runs half the length of the above book, and much more "user friendly" to the non-British reader.

Anyway, I digress, both these books are in agreement that by 1870 GB had reached it peak and was on an unmistakable downward slope, and that by 1946 GB was a financial basket case -- thanks in no small part to Socialism and Liberals determination to create a "New Jerusalem".

[razorback-bert]

Thanks, is it at Amazon?

[Son House]

and that by 1946 GB was a financial basket case — thanks in no small part to Socialism

I see parallels here

[familyop]

...very hard times in Britain through both world wars. There were food shortages.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the book info;

This thread may explain ...why this is happening....FR Thread:

World's biggest banks to meet in London: report

I collected a number of links on the thread...for those that like to try and understand what the hell is going on....and how long the bankers knew they might have a problem.

[null and void]

I'm trying to get up the gumption to read "The Vampire Economy - doing business under fascism"

I have a feeling we'll all need to know about this soon.

[Candor7]

If you haven't, this is an excellent primer on wat is happening with the Obama movement now, ini its proper historical context:

Well annotated, well researched NOT polemic, a valid, weighty work on history:

[dennisw]

Those look like great books. The British became socialist to try and dig out of the destruction from WW2. I can imagine what life was like back then. Grim and dark and low pay in smoke stack industries but at least Great Britain ran it’s economy on an honest basis without real estate mania and without running up huge trade deficits