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The Constitutional Crisis
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The Constitutional Crisis
THE PEOPLES BUDGET
Lloyd George needed to find £15 million revenue to provide for the new social services and naval warship construction
increased incomes tax from 1 shilling to 1 shilling and 2 pence on incomes over £3,000 a year
super tax on incomes over £5,000 a year
increased death duties on estates of over £5,000 a year
land taxes
indirect taxes on luxury goods
wanted to punish the conservatives
provoke the house of lords
Budget Protest League
denounced taxes as confiscation and robbery
Limehouse speech July 1909 DLG spoke of the opposition to his proposals being a class war
JANUARY 1910 GENERAL ELECTION
Liberals won with 275 seats to the conservatives 273
INP won 82 seats
Labour Party won 40 seats
Liberals had to depend on INP to pass the budget but only if Home Rule was passed
1911 PARLIAMENT ACT
proposed HoL had no power to amend or reject bills
HoL have no power to VETO but could delay for two years
'suspensory veto'
the maximum period between general elections cut down from 7 to 5 years
would easily pass the commons but problem was getting passed the lords
asquith went to King Edward VII to promise to create enough Liberal peers to outvote the Conservative peers.
May 2010 Edward VII died and new king George V tried to agree a solution without resorting to new peers
DECEMBER 2010 GENERAL ELECTION
George agreed to make the peers as long as Liberals won the general election
liberals and conservatives both got 272 seats each
liberals had support from labour (42 seats) and INP (84 seats)
peers were created
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