Nope, and the Great Man agreed (see my addition to the last post) and although made back in 1947, it in my view still holds good. Tell us Cem of a better one for the people and the country? 
here is the related link Lizzie and there is a related youtube video 
http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/index.php?topic=112022.15
Thanks Cem, but I did read that first time round.
However, now let me give my own potted version of British history in a few words, rather than reams of cut and post from other authors:
History in Britain has been one of monarchy and church acquiring power and wealth, then people rising up to create a "new" world of science and financial investment, first involving the academics, philosophers, scientists and innovators, but then over 200 years the "common" workers being more and more involved, prepared to put the monarchy and church on a lower rung of their ladder. The Industrial Revolution gave new opportunities to those ready and seeking them, with a better wage paid to the workers employed to drive the machinery of the new age than they received by working the land. The workers then realised their worth, and strove to gain better working conditions, then better homes. Their aspirations grew and they reached out for a greater say in their lives from the elite, who eventually had to concede political power, bit by bit, to the growing power of influential groups and their demands. To avoid the threat of revolution, successive governments gave way to political reform, new working conditions, better housing, unions, free education for all, and a general recognition of workers rights. The British capitalist democratic system grew and grew, becoming one of great wealth, but still one of injustice.
Two World Wars discredited the elite, and proved the average person could be given true power. Voting rights for all were gained after the Labour Party was formed in 1918, and even women had those full rights from 1925. Labour took charge of the country in 1945 and gave us the Welfare system, the NHS, and modern education, apart from a true belief that the people had now gained real power. By 1960 the Conservative Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, was able to say the British "Had never had it so good" after the country was powering away from WW2, clearing it's debts, and most people were enjoying a new prosperity.
I will not repeat what others have stated about when Labour came to power from 1964 and started the trend to give the unions greater, almost exclusive, power, with their leaders demanding more and more for their members, which the industries concerned could not afford and creating a "strike culture", that damaged the development of many industries and their products. This led to uncompetitive products being produced by British industry, and the nationalised companies being run into the ground, demanding higher and higher government subsidies and unbelievably larger and larger wage demands. All was given by "frightened" and weak Labour government who feared the power of the unions with their block votes.
Something had to give, and in 1979 Maggie Thatcher came to power and started the great revival and fight to regain democratic power over the unions and a good sorting out of the sick nationalised companies, that would lead to the "sick man of Europe" slogan that was said about Briton before 1979, disappearing. The rest is history.
That is British capitalism and democracy at its best, working together to create a stronger, wealthier nation. It is what we need again Cem in Britain, that mix. Strong leadership, powering a capitalist democracy. The history I have quoted created what we have had, and it is the way forward.
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