Although‚ the Labour Party were obvious advocates of socialist policies‚ the Conservative election manifesto ‘had a similar commitment to full employment’6 and promised ‘an all-out housing policy.’7 Therefore‚ if there truly was a shift to the left in terms of public opinion as a result of a ‘people’s war’
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I. INTRODUCTION II. OBJECTIVES III. MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF METAPHOR IV. METAPHOR AND OTHER LANGUAGE FEATURES ANALYSIS OF MARGARET THATCHER’S SPEECH TO 1987 CONSERVATIVE PARTY CONFERENCE IN BLACKPOOL V. CONCLUSION VI. REFERENCES VII. APPENDIX I I. ------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION Rhetoric is the art of persuading others
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indicator of a fall in participation. A second indicator of falling participation is levels of party membership. In 1980 nearly 1.7 million people were members of a political party‚ about 4.12% of the electorate. This had declined to only 476‚000 by 2008‚ a mere 0.95% of the population. Conservative Party membership fell from 1.2 million to 0.17 million in the same period. By joining a political party people are involved in influencing their politicians and taking part in campaigning‚ hence their
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the downfall of Lloyd George and the coalition government in 1922 In order to fully assess the question we would need to take a look at the Economic and social issues that David Lloyd George put across as well as his foreign policies and the Conservatives seeing him as outliving his purpose. For example‚ his domestic policies were a success – they achieved what he intended to achieve‚ and achieved more then many thought realistically possible with the resources at Britain’s disposal after a devastating
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recovery was harmful to Labour’s electoral campaign. With the working classes able to afford considerably more under Conservative rule due to the mass economic prosperity left Labour without a message or a receptive audience as the former traditional Labour voters were now middle-class conservatives. I think the age of the economic prosperity proving “life was better” with the conservatives was the most paramount factor that contributed to their victory. On top of the economic prosperity‚ Macmillan’s
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One Value system. Each party select their candidate for the election and the elector has only one vote and simply places an X on a ballot paper against his/her preferred candidate that they wish to represent them. The winning candidate only needs to achieve a plurality of votes not the majority (plurality is the largest number of the group of numbers not the overall majority). Also in the case of the House of Commons whether a candidate wins by one or 14‚000 votes the party gains a seat. There are
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the United Kingdom is the result of a coalition government formed after the 2010 general election. Headed by the Conservative leader David Cameron it combines Conservative and Liberal Democrat MPs and has been subject of intense scrutiny by each of the parties. This has meant that David Cameron has had to keep to his parties traditional values (e.g. Thatcherism) in order to hold party loyalty but at the same time make policy concessions to the Liberal Democrats so that he can maintain government
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do not elect them. The House of Lords is composed of hereditary and life peers and peeresses. Their right to sit in the House passes‚ with their title‚ usually to their oldest sons. The prime minister is usually the leader of the political party that has the most seats in the House of Commons. The monarch appoints the prime minister after each general election. The monarch asks the prime minister to form a Government. The prime minister selects about 100 ministers. From them‚ he picks a special
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In which ways did the Fifties and Sixties in the USA set the scene for the rise of conservatism in the Seventies and into the Reagan era? Was the rise of the right inevitable? Please explain your point of view. The 1950s in America are often described as a time of complacency. By contrast‚ the 1960s and 1970s were a time of great change. But the economy of the 70s was not stable because of the Oil crisis and presidents did not seem to find a solution to get the economy work again. For the right
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discussing problems and similarities. The “five giant evils” Beveridge claimed to exist will be indentified and analyzed in depth and how Clement Attlee’s 1945 Labour government pledged to eliminate these evils. Margaret Thatcher was the first woman conservative party leader‚ who later on became prime minister‚ she had ideas and beliefs about the welfare state‚ this was known as ‘’Thatcherism’’. This will draw in evidence on how the welfare state of the 21st century is similar to that envisaged by William
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