I think times have changed just a little since the end of WW11 !!! and I don't think any government has deliberately set out to undermine the social changes that came about 70 years ago and that successive governments, Labour and Tory have built on; changed and modified them maybe, but not deliberately undermined them. No one can deny the banking crisis, and the need to pull our horns in in order to get the country back into some financial order. A lot of people thought the medicine far too severe, and now with a new government (yes, Cameron and Osbourne have gone, not a word of a lie!!)there may be some easing of the brake!