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Conservative Weakness/ Liberal Landslide 1906
- 401 seat : 157 seats
- Boer War
- more costly in lives and money than expected
- after the discovery of the treatment of the South Africans the Conservatives
lost a lot of votes - Concentration Camps, discovered by Emily Hobhouse -
starvation and illnesses 27,000 women and children died, 24,000 under
16y/o
- need for a strong army - the Boer War
pointed out how many working class men
were unfit for fighting which concerned
the government . Didn't have the
equipment, technique and adaptations
- more costly in lives and money than expected
- 1902 Conservatives Education Act - All schools
to be funded from local rates not churches
Nonconformists outraged that taxes be sent on
Catholic schools
- Campaigns
- Refusing to pay taxes
- All those that were against this act were
persuaded by Lloyd-George to vote for Liberals
in the Welsh 1904 county council elections
- Campaigns
- 1904 Licensing Act
- Many nonconformists supported the Liberals already but
switched to the Conservatives who were against Home Rule
However this Act turned them back to the Liberals
- angered nonconformists as brewers and publicans were being
compensated for the cancellation of their licenses
- Many nonconformists supported the Liberals already but
switched to the Conservatives who were against Home Rule
However this Act turned them back to the Liberals
- Chinese Labour Issue - working for low wages
being imported into South Africa
- Non-Conformists and Trade Unions
- Possibly increasing unemployment due to foreign immigration
- Non-Conformists and Trade Unions
- Taff Vale Case - Dispute Taff Vale Railway
Company and rail-workers trade union which led to
strike action
- Company suing Trade Union - This made the
Trade Unions pointless as the strikes were not
effective and they could not help the workers
- Conservative refuse to re-write legislation
- Trade Unions then supported Labour
Groups for Parliament
- Company suing Trade Union - This made the
Trade Unions pointless as the strikes were not
effective and they could not help the workers
- Neglect of Social Reform
- Seebohm Rowntree
- Old, Sick, Unemployed, Children
- Seebohm Rowntree
- Tariff Reform Campaign was suppose to: - Protect British
jobs - Pay for Social Reforms - Strengthen Britain's
position in the world
- increasing tax on exports and lowering tax on imports This would
make British good more expensive and less competitive against
larger Industrial Nations such as Japan, Germany and USA
- Public Fears - Make food more expensive -
Fall in living standards
- increasing tax on exports and lowering tax on imports This would
make British good more expensive and less competitive against
larger Industrial Nations such as Japan, Germany and USA
- Weak Leadership
- Salisbury's death '02
- Balfour not a good leader - ot as sensitive to public
opinion - indecisive and miscalculated the reactions
on key issues - failed to foresee the anger over
Education Act, Chinese Labour and Taff Vale
- Salisbury's death '02
- Labour Attraction
- Strong agreement over Free Trade
- Broad Party - not dominated by an particular issue
- Using Conservative weaknesses against them
- Lib-Lab Pact
- Liberals were not to oppose Labour in 30 selected constitutions Labour
agreed to not compete in other to prevent split in anti-Conservatives votes
- Liberals were not to oppose Labour in 30 selected constitutions Labour
agreed to not compete in other to prevent split in anti-Conservatives votes
- Moderate Leader - safe allies
- Strong agreement over Free Trade
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