Liberal Landslide 1906
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- Created on: 11-04-14 14:59
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- Liberal Landslide 1906
- 1900: 184 Seats/44.6% 1906: 401 Seats/49%
- Shift from Conservatives to Liberals in 6 years
- Huge majority
- Why were the Conservatives unpopular
- Boer War
- Costly
- Soldiers not fit enough
- Gained support 1900
- 1902 Education Act
- Nonconformist Fury
- Taxes now spent on schools
- Some refused to pay
- Now funeded by local rates not churches
- 1904 Licensing Act
- Reduced Pub Numbers
- Compensate Brewers for license cancellations
- Non-Conformists against taxes going to brwers
- Taff Vale Case
- Refused to be part of TU's
- Railway workers & Taff Vale Railway
- TU to court
- Stirke
- Court sided with company
- Showed Conservatives sided with compinies not workers
- Court sided with company
- Neglect of Social Reforms
- Growing awareness of poverty
- Malnutrition
- Physical Decline of British Race
- Liberals planning greater state control
- Minimum living standards
- Nothing other than Education Act
- Leadership
- Lord Salisbury died
- A.J Balfour took over
- Lacked political skill
- Not sensitive to public opinion
- Piloted Education Bill
- Misunderstood working classes
- Indirectly responsible for timing of election
- A.J Balfour took over
- Lord Salisbury died
- Boer War
- Tarriff Reform Campaign
- Joseph Chamberlin
- Reintroduce Tariffs
- Lower level tariffs for goods outside Empire
- Strengthen position
- Damaged Conservatives
- Increase food prices and decrease living standards
- Divided Party
- Increase food prices and decrease living standards
- Liberals
- Momentum of anti-government election
- Henry Campbell-Bannerman reunited party
- Promoted "broad party"
- Benefited from unpopular conservative policies
- Policies
- Home Rule no longer an issue
- Enables nonconformists to return to the liberals
- Lib-Lab Pact
- Liberals not oppose Labour candidates in next election
- Conservatives gain less seasts
- Don't spend as much on campaign
- Conservatives gain less seasts
- Liberals not oppose Labour candidates in next election
- Lib-Lab Pact
- Enables nonconformists to return to the liberals
- Home Rule no longer an issue
- 1900: 184 Seats/44.6% 1906: 401 Seats/49%
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