13 wasted years ? 1951-64 Conservative domination
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- 13 wasted years ? 1951-64 Conservative domination
- 1951 election
- labour had to poll more votes due to the first past the post system
- Liberal was finacially stretched so only contested for 109 seats
- a first for labour as they gained a large amount of seats
- labour had only built 200k houses a year
- how important were labour weaknesses
- splits over dental treatment and perscriptions
- exhaisted cabinet
- concerns over economic and foreign policy
- they had brought the country into the korean war which had added further financial strain
- associated with austerity
- Conservative strengths
- new young talented politicians such as reginald maudling
- lord woolton reformed party finances
- attractive programe
- promise to build 300k houses a year which was met
- Why where the conservatives able to dominate British politcis ofr so long
- the economy
- presided over a period of economic growth
- industry stimulated by the korean war
- however world trade shrunk 25% to 15%
- also criticized for failing to modernise staple industries
- wages and living standards
- 500% increase inn car ownership
- wages rose faster than prices
- chacellor cuyt income tasx before the elections
- increase in credit
- increased wages and tax cuts led to a consumer boom
- 44% increase in house ownership by 1964
- economic policy
- welfare stae spenidng increased throughout the period
- butskellism
- stop and go policy
- respongding to teh market but failed to resovle underlying problems
- led to a lter period of stagflation
- not enough investment in important industires led to a delcine in textiles and shipbuilding
- not enough investment into industiral resrearch hindred growth
- policies around credit did improve living standards
- unemployment
- overall upward trend throughout the period despite Macmillian talking over never had it so good in 1957
- Social Policy
- further wlefare spending
- 300k new houses a year
- overall class distinctions where smaller
- news school system
- the economy
- How important a factor was conservative leadership in maintaining power
- churchill given his position as a thank you for his war time effort
- he was ill and butler mostly ran the party he was not missed
- anthony eden 1955 resgined due to ill health after the suez crisis of 56
- personal appeal with women voters
- Harold macmillian
- increased conservative majorty to 100
- presided over a period of propsperity and affulance
- 1961 balance of trade deficit
- appeared on tv - won him support "super mac"
- became mac the knife in 1962 after reshuffling of his cabinet
- saw scandles in 1963
- douglas-hom 1963-64
- old boys network etonion
- lost in 1964 to harold wilson
- churchill given his position as a thank you for his war time effort
- How weak was the Labour party 1951-60
- split between gaitskell (revisionists - who wanted to modernise the party)
- and bevanits ( fundamentalists - wanted to maintain traditional principles of the party
- split between gaitskell (revisionists - who wanted to modernise the party)
- internal disputes
- couldn't decide weather to move more the the right or too the left
- divided over the future of socialism
- 1951 election
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