The government could not fumction without money so the issue was put to the voters to decide. The Conservatives had to win a large number of seats in order to justify their rejection of the budget, however they did not and ithe election was therefore a defeat for the Conservatives. However, the Liberals no longer had an overall majority in the commons so they could only get their bills passed if they got the support of the Labour party and Irish Nationalists. The Irish Nationalists would only give their support in return for granting of Home Rule for Ireland, so the Liberal party had to include Home Rule in their policy. The Liberals were reliant on the Labour Party as Labour would only support them in return for favourable legislation for trade unions, assistance for working class candidates to become MPs. This allowed the Labour Party to develop links with uniona and allowed them to field more candidates at future elections, enabling them to challenge the Liberal Party; weakening the Liberals. After the election the budget was re-introduced into parliament and was passed by both…
Another reason why Conservatives won is that in there manifesto they promised to stabilise the cost of living which would close the gap between rich and poor and double everyone’s standard of living. This was helped by Labour being identified with the working class rather than the nation as a whole. This was a problem as 40% of manual workers now considered themselves middle class so the Labour policies for the unemployed and working class no longer appealed to them, instead they…
Further policies were introduced by the Labour government for example Academies were introduced with schools being sponsored by businesses in order to improve them, and faith schools were also introduced with schools being linked to a religion. This again, creates choice and competition between parents…
When Harold Macmillan said in 1957 that Britain had “never had it so good” it was easy to see why he spoke with such optimism. The period of Conservative dominance brought many benefits to the British people including the end of rationing, full employment and a boom in the economy. However, in labour’s 1964 manifesto they described this period as “thirteen wasted years”. It seems difficult to believe that both could be true and in this essay I will be assessing the successes and failures of the Conservative government during this time.…
In the1870s, the Conservative Party won three out of four elections and formed the government for 17 years out of a total of 20 years. It reflected the Conservative Party was the most powerful party in England at that time; they even had an overpowering majority of seats in the House of Lords. They had support from everywhere. However, the situation changed dramatically when the Liberal party won the general election in 1906 with an overwhelming majority of 400 seats as against 157 seats for the Conservatives party. This event was marked as the well-known ‘Liberal landslide’. There are several reasons why the Conservative lost such a large amount of seats; national efficiency, the imposition of Education Act and Licensing Act, tariff campaign and Neglect of social reform.…
During the years 1979-1997 the Conservatives were in power - they are a government party who when in control noticed the failing attempts of the education system to create a skilled and successful workforce, this therefore consequently had a huge impact on the economy. Because the main aim of the conservatives was to create a suitable workforce that would not disadvantage the economy, they began to introduce many policies which they hoped would reduce the number of pupils failing and thus becoming welfare dependent. This essay will therefore analyse the effects of the policies that were introduced in order to create an education market which will then be followed on by a thorough and detailed evaluation that will assess whether introducing these policies were a success or not. Many of these policies were introduced under the 'The 1988 Education Reform Act', this was a huge turning point for the education system as it created the whole image of the 'education market', which the conservatives were successful in doing, therefore this essay will now identify and evaluate some of these policies that the conservatives introduced under the 1988 Education Reform Act and assess the effects they had in creating an education market. The New Right thinkers supported the aim of the conservatives to create a system of marketisation and so began to advertise schools in hopes that it would make students value the education they were receiving, hence by introducing marketisation; competition to do better and achieve more was created.…
Edward Gough Whitlam the 21st Prime minister of Australia and 1st Labor Prime Minister in 23 years was born in Kew, Melbourne on the 11th of July 1916. In 1921 the family moved to Sydney where he started his education attending Mowbray House and Knox grammar school and then moved again with the family at the age of 10 in 1926, to Canberra where he attended Telopea Park High School and Canberra Boys school.…
The Liberals made many social reforms which were not necessarily directly helpful to the individual issues at hand but they did create grounds for the welfare estate to be built upon and highlighted the areas which needed attention for a better minimum quality of life. Areas focused on were free meals and health checks at schools, pensions and insurances. For example, the 1906 School Meals Act allowed children to have a free daily meal. This was effective in 1914 as by then, 14 million were receiving the free meals which duly led to a better economy however the negatives outweighed the positives as the issue with having the act voluntary until 1912 meant that over half of the authorities didn’t provide meals. Furthermore, proving eligibility was very difficult so there were many errors which occurred with the system. Rather similarly, Old Aged Pensioners couldn’t receive their money due to identity proofing issues. Household issues were ignored which was one of the Liberal’s negatives however, this is without taking into account that only so many areas could have been focused on. Although the Liberals never catered for the needs of all people, their reforms managed to always bring some improvement into areas of health, education and the future of citizens, no matter how poor in places they were. The Liberal Social Reforms did improve the lives of the British citizens to some extent, the main achievement being that the existence of the reforms themselves allowed to building of the welfare estate which is a factor that makes Britain as strong as it is today.…
Gough Whitlam came into office toward the end of 1972. He was the first Labor Prime Minister in 23 years, and he arrived in the position keen to bring about a number of reforms and a new, progressive approach to the Australian national identity. Whitlam had already reformed the Labor Party's policy platform prior to coming to power, and as Prime Minister he established new Commonwealth bodies to deal with Aboriginal and Environmental issues, introduced free university education, and ended conscription. His term in office was cut short in November 1975 when he became the only Prime Minister to be removed from office by the Governor-General.…
The purpose of this essay is to determine whether welfare reform since 1997 has been determined more by ideology or pragmatism. This essay offers a summary of public pronouncements made by some of New Labour’s leading thinkers in the years before they took office in order to then delve into the motivations behind them. While the focus on welfare reforms undertaken since 1997 rests with the Labour government’s policy toward the NHS, the essay establishes that there is a great deal of evidence to support the view that Labour have acted out of pragmatic considerations. Nevertheless, it is argued that policy toward reforming one of the key elements of welfare in Britain, the National health Service, in the main, has been driven by ideology.…
A revolution is defined as forcible overthrow of a government or social order for a new system. Atlee did not do this in my opinion.…
In the UK, policies are in place in order to protect us and help enforce diversity and equality. Sometimes they are not always positively impacted on our society and public services; they can be negative as well. In this assignment, I will cover both the impacts of government policies on the public services and how society is affected.…
Labour weakness was the most important reason for Conservative dominance from 1951 to 1964. How far do you agree? Between 1951 and 1964, the Conservative's time in power, the Labour party were providing ineffectual opposition. One of the reasons for this was their internal disputes over issues such as unilateralism. However, there were also more important reasons for Conservative dominance, such as the economy and growing prosperity in Britain, the property owning democracy and the greater availability of credit, modern conveiniences and luxury items. Prosperity during this time was growing, and people were in general wealthier than they had been before. A reason for this could have been the manipulation of the economy by the Conservatives; their stop-and-go stagflation lowered and rose taxes in accordance to the election date in order to gain more votes. Though they had no real long-term economic plan and their wily manipulation was often criticised, it did help them to gain votes. The wages also rose during this time meaning people were able to more freely afford luxury items and other things such as mortgages, which links to the property owning democracy.…
Conservatism is closely related to the elite and this elite has more money than for example the leaders of the Labour party, this means that the Conservative party has a strong advantage on the other party. Two main advantages have been vital to the Conservative party. Firstly, they have been able to put up bigger election campaign and have therefore been able to shape the general opinion more towards their advantage (Bale, 2012, p. 65). This is shown to be a structural phenomenon, like in the already discussed preference of woman to vote conservative or to profile the Conservative as the natural, responsible party; but as well on the short term during elections. Conservatives were also often the top of the society, their families have been in power, so they must know how to govern, they are rich, so they must know how to become rich. The availability of money is also made a large amount of polling possible since the Second World War. One of the big conservative issues is that they are often regarded as out of touch with the ‘normal people’, they did not know very well what the voters desired (Taylor, 2003, p.81). In the 1945 the Conservative Party was very unsuccessful and the polls helped to find out why this was the case. One of the outcomes was that voters were not satisfied with the Labour party, but…
Many different kinds of Conservatives Core Conservative beliefs Opposition to “Big Government” – Ex., Milton Friedman, Ayn Ran Conservatives believed that the government had no obligation to protect rights except property rights. Believed governments makes people Smooches off the government Does not believe that poverty limits potential If your poor it is because your “stupid” and “lazy” Believed people with ambition and smarts will ALWAYS be wealthy. Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand- key economists Support for “Big Military”…