Challenges To The Liberals Pt2

Question 1

Threat of House of Lords prior to 1911

Answer 1

Unlimited veto
Conservative majority
Blocked Gladstone’s home rule bills, people’s budget, liberal land bill, liberal licensing bill

Question 2

What happened with 1911 parliament act

Answer 2

Changed House of Lords veto to 2 year block

Question 3

What was the nickname of the House of Lords

Answer 3

Balfour’s poodle

Question 4

What did George V agree with

Answer 4

That he would create enough liberal peers to pass the parliament act if need be

Question 5

Why did liberals lose seats to Conservatives

Answer 5

Because Labour candidates stood, showing how much they needed the Liberal-Labour pact

Question 6

What was the 1913 trade union pact

Answer 6

Unions which wanted to raise funds for political parties has to hold a ballot on this. Overall members voted in 298,000 to 125,000 in favour of having the funds

Question 7

How much did the trade Union grow and why did this benefit labour

Answer 7

2.6 million members to 4.1 million between 1910-1914. 1.6 million union members were affiliated to the Labour Party

Question 8

How many MPs did labour have in 1910

Answer 8

42, in comparison to 26 in 1906

Question 9

What happened in town council elections

Answer 9

Labour gained more then councillors every year up to 1914

Question 10

What does socialist historian pelling argue

Answer 10

The problems created by the union violence showed that the liberals were out of sympathy with the working class and in time, would be supplanted by the Labour Party

Question 11

Who affiliated with the Labour Party in 1909

Answer 11

The miners’ federation of Great Britain

The large number of members in coal mining communities could decide the outcome of elections there

Question 12

When and why could labour not get funding

Answer 12

1909 Osborne judgement

Couldn’t compete in 1910 election

Question 13

Where did labour come in contests with other parties

Answer 13

3rd behind liberal and conservative candidates. They depended on lib lab pact for victory

Question 14

Where did liberals beat labour candidates unexpectedly

Answer 14

Mining seats before the First World War

Question 15

What did labour entirely depend on

Answer 15

Their pact with liberals. No labour MP was elected against an official liberal party candidate in jan 1910 and only 2 won against the Liberals in dec 1910

Question 16

What was lib lab pact

Answer 16

1903. Agreed that labour and liberal would not stand against each other in 30 constituencies

Question 17

What happened in by elections between 1910 and 1914

Answer 17

Labour failed to win a single seat and lost 3 to the liberals

Question 18

What did Peter Clarke’s studies of Lancashire suggest

Answer 18

The liberal social welfare was giving the party a new ‘social democratic’ appeal

Question 19

Why were labour weakened after 1910

Answer 19

They had 45 MPs before 1910, so they lost strength

Question 20

Conclusion on Labour

Answer 20

By 1914, liberals had not dealt with issue of labour but were managing it. However Labour did have support on grass roots level and therefore had the potential to take on the Liberal Party