1929 election
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- 1929 election
- The flapper vote
- Women who were known as flappers were seen as not responsible to have the vote. More women infact voted more for Cons than Labour.
- 1928: Rep Act extended to make electorate 2.2 million. All women gain equal rights with men.
- There was no idea of who women would vote for in 1929, as opinion polls were not used.
- Election campaigns
- Conservatives 'safety first': Baldwin is the man of the people and no radical ideas.
- Labour 'socialist commonwealth': Reorganise industry in the interest of all and would result to a socialist commonwealth
- Liberals 'we can conquer unemployment': Lloyd George made a big effort to reorganise and worked with Keynes.
- New labour govt 1929 (Macdonald)
- They won 288 seats but had less % of vote. Due to vote of no confidence in Cons, it meant 2nd minority govt.
- They saw the opportunity to gain experience; wanted to build new council houses and raise the school leaving age to 15. Also to nationalise transport system. Tackle unemployment.
- Wall street crash 1929 led to crash of the Labour party.
- Political situation by 1929
- 2 party state, Liberals were in decline and would not return.
- Labour were on the rise and Cons were still strong backed by newspapers etc.
- Mac's govt was a new age of socialism
- Economic situation
- Decline of staple industries; also high unemployment which was never less than 1 million.
- Gold standard of 1925 cause more problems for the situation of 1929
- Social situation
- Females were breaking into male only domains
- Radio becoming a feature in households; new inventions, cars, and air travel benefitted the wealthy.
- The flapper vote
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