Harold Macmillan improving standard of living; the slogan "Life's Better Under the Conservatives" was matched by Macmillan's own remark, "indeed let us be frank about it—most of our people have never had it so good," usually paraphrased as "You've never had it so good." Such rhetoric reflected a new reality of working-class affluence; it has been argued that "the key factor in the Conservative victory was that average real pay for industrial workers had risen since Churchill's 1951 victory by over 20 per cent". The scale of the victory meant that not only had the Conservatives won three successive general elections, but
Good News for People Who Love Bad News United States by 2007. Three singles were released from the album: "Float On", "Ocean Breathes Salty", and "The World at Large". "Good News for People Who Love Bad News" was released to widespread acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 83, indicating "universal acclaim". Tiny Mix Tapes gave the album all five stars and said that "Ultimately, what makes "Good News" so successful is that it retains the melancholy mood of past works, while at the same time adding depth and