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Mind Map by ellen.harrison, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by ellen.harrison
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The 'Liberal
Landslide' 1906
- Liberal Landslide!!
- Result : Conservative 157 seats, Liberals 401 seats
- Offered reform whilst
reformation under the
conservatives had been
minimal
- Result : Conservative 157 seats, Liberals 401 seats
- Why were the Conservatives
unpopular by 1906?
- Working Class
- Conditions poor
- No contracts, low pay,
felt downtrodden
- Conservatives failed
to listen to them
- Conditions poor
- Housewife
- No idea of social reform
- Not listened to
- Needed cheaper food,
Liberals offered Free Trade
- No idea of social reform
- Non-Conformist
- Didn't want taxes going to
church schools
- Didn't agree with compensation
going to brewery
- Didn't want taxes going to
church schools
- Irish Nationalists
- Government failed
to listen to them
- Conservatives
wouldn't give a
free state to
Ireland
- Government failed
to listen to them
- Manufacturer
- Needed cheap
supplies,
Conservatives placed
tariffs on goods
- Import duties
- Needed cheap
supplies,
Conservatives placed
tariffs on goods
- Working Class
- Attractions of the Liberal Party by 1906
- Reunited party
- United behind banner of Free Trade
- "Bread and
butter" issue
- Issue of great concern to voters
in all classes
- "Bread and
butter" issue
- Exploited Conservatives
- Trade unions
- Misjudgements over
education and licensing
- Trade unions
- Support for Home Rule
- Gains Irish voters
- Gains Irish voters
- Reunited party
- Conservative weaknesses
- Boer War
- Revealed the extent of poverty in
those called up to fight
- Revealed the extent of poverty in
those called up to fight
- Moral outcry
- Over the methods used to
detain the prisoners of war
- Over the methods used to
detain the prisoners of war
- Education Act and Brewer's Bill
- Upset non-conformists
- Upset non-conformists
- Chinese Labour Issue
- trade unionists worried that
cheap labour would affect
British wages
- trade unionists worried that
cheap labour would affect
British wages
- Taff Vale case
- Lords prevented strikers
ever being able to call a
successful strike again
- Furthered lack of
support from working
class
- Furthered lack of
support from working
class
- Lords prevented strikers
ever being able to call a
successful strike again
- The 1902 Education Act
- Roused the fury of the
nonconformists, led many of them
to revert to Liberal Party
- Roused the fury of the
nonconformists, led many of them
to revert to Liberal Party
- The 1904
Licensing Act
- Annoyed nonconformist voters
- Annoyed nonconformist voters
- Neglect of social reform
- Tariff reform campaign
- Biggest policy
misjudgement.
- Fear of tariffs would mean dearer
food and falling living standards
- Divided Conservative
government and party
- Biggest policy
misjudgement.
- Conservative Leadership
- Balfour lacked political skill.
- Balfour lacked political skill.
- Boer War
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