Liverpools achievements and failures
- Created by: Hannahcooper168
- Created on: 08-11-18 18:59
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- Achievements
- The defeat of Napoleon
- - Liverpool believed in total defeat
- - Created a great alliance
- - 1815 Napoleon defeated
- -Strengthened Liverpool's Political position
- Administration both constitutive and reforming
- Economic prosperity
- - Coped well with post war crisis
- Maintenance of law and order
- - By acting in moderation this ensured that the protest fizzled out without major loss of life or damage.
- Guided country from debt and unemploymet
- A 'middleway'
- - Not opposed to all change
- - Supressed his own views- Catholic emancipation
- -Ensured that he maintained support in cabinet and parliament
- -Ensured existing system remained in tact
- New governmental principals
- - Relations between monarch and government changed significantly
- - Decline in the prestige of the monarchy made it possible for Liverpool to press his views more firmly
- -Development of Liberal Toryism point to the adaptation of liberal economic problems
- Longevity
- - Kept tories from splitting
- - Last prime minister to stay in power for 15 years
- Maintaining a Parliamentary coalition
- - Built and maintained a coalition in Parliament
- -Coalition including >Ultra tories >Conservatives >Whigs
- Liverpool's Achievements and failures
- Failures
- Lack of imagination
- -Shown by execution of policies.
- Demobilisatio of servicemen
- Added to an already glutted market
- -Shown by execution of policies.
- Political judgement
- Promotion of Canning can be seen as an act which sowed the seeds for later splits in Tories
- - Reshuffle brought power to Canning (controversial)
- - Liverpool's judgment in promoting Canning can be questioned
- Blocking reforms
- - Policies pursued by government designed to block/ avoid reform
- -Political skills had postponed vital issues
- Catholic emancipation
- Parliamentary reform
- Corn bill
- - Liverpool's government refused to introduce or support measures which would result in reform
- Indifference to the poor
- - Government was indifferent to the suffering of the poor
- - Liverpool's government failed a large part of the British population
- - Responding to protest with repression
- Handling the post war disturbance
- Liverpool unecarsarily pursued repressive measures
- Disorder was provoked by the government
- Either by : Policies placed burdens upon the poor
- Corn law- inflating the price of bread
- Either by : Policies placed burdens upon the poor
- Lack of imagination
- Failures
- The defeat of Napoleon
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