History - 1812-22 Criticisms of Liverpool's Anti-Radical Action

Summary

• LP's gvt regarded all groups as a serious threat and took measures that can be classed as repression e.g. keeping control, restricting liberties, quelling riots and stamping out riots.

Key actions designed to prevent revolution:

• Spies and informers
• Suspension of Habeas Corpus 1817 and Seditious Meeting Act 1817 - The Gagging Acts.
• The Six Acts 1819
• Keeping the Combination Laws

Criticism of LP's government

• Radicals said policies were cruel and repressive. Shelley wrote bitter lines in Mask of Anarchy - "I met murder on the way - he had a…