Re: These people...
Which is, arguably, a significant driver behind much of the social reform which took place in the UK after WW2 ended - massive social house building programme, the NHS, state pensions, welfare benefits etc
The government had a choice - continue as things had been before the war, or annoy the "plebs" (aka everyday working people).
However, something significant had changed. The huge number of "plebs" who went to war came back as disciplined, well trained soldiers who could focus on objectives, highly capable of organising to do what ever was needed to achieve them.
Things could have got very, very ugly, very very quickly.