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Lloyd-George's Highlights
and Downfalls
- Lloyd-George had a long affair
with his private secretary
France Stephenson
- Unemployment
Insurance was
extended
- War produced over-investment in
Staple Industries
- Lloyd-George
was known as
the ''Welsh
Dragon''
- 2 million unemployed by June 1921
- The Coalition was dominated
by the Conservatives
- DLG was a fan of
coalition politics
- Bonar Law and Lloyd-George were referred to as the
"most perfect partnership in political history"
- Lloyd-George refused to
remove troops from
Chanak
- Lloyd George was
PM but not leader
of the Liberals
- A General Strike was averted in
1921 when the Triple Alliance
was split
- Strikes were broken up by troops and police baton
charges
- SEVERAL BAD POLICIES
- Coal Mines were still privatised
- Anglo-Irish treaty
caused Civil War in
Ireland
- Increase in interest rates caused
'20-'21 depression
- Treaty of
Versailles
was seen
as too
lenient
- Geddes Axe
- Martial Law was
imposed on Ireland
- Ministry of
Reconstruction was
formed in 1917
- 170,000 new houses were built by 1922
- 400,000 homes
left unfit for
human
habitation in
1918
- Local Government was given powers to
demolish slums and acquire building land
- Lloyd-George
Honours Scandal
- Britain's debtors,
especially Russia,
never repaid their
debts