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public at this remove cannot now be ascertained. However, the figure remained in production until 1938. If one contrasts Fenton’s thuggish looking Irishman with Vyse’s wholesome looking Cinneraria Boy (Fig.49), and one questions Doulton’s incentive for commissioning a design, which one supposes is meant to represent a labouring navvy. Nell Vyse In 1928, Alfred Mond (1868-1930), a Conservative MP, along with Ben Turner (1863-1942) the General Secretary of the Trades Union Council, together organised what became popularly known as the ‘Mond-Turner’ talks. 39 Nell Vyse was dissatisfied with the leaders of the Independent Labour Party. It was in this mood of disenchantment, she attended the public meeting in 1928, at which the ILP was promoting the Mond/Turner proposals. The speakers called for a rationalisation between the Trades Union Council and the largest employers of labour in the country. Nell Vyse after listening to what she called the ‘pomposity of the speakers attacking the workers’ she was further incensed at what she saw as the ILP’s treachery. Rising to her feet, she made a public declaration against the committee for their endorsement of ‘Mondism’, and with her head held high, she marched from the hall. Despite much left wing protestation and much to Nell Vyse’s disgust, ‘Mondism’ garnered enough support amongst the regular members ILP members, and ratified in 1929. ●●●●…

an acceptance of the free market, and a departure from traditional Labour policies such as nationalisation and interventionist economics. It will also be the case that these changes were made for electoral purposes, due to the legacy of the Thatcher government, which changed the voting preferences of the electorate, and not due to globalisation, and hence we will not see the same reaction across a great number of other countries. Let us first consider New Labour’s attitude to nationalisation;…

address Labour Parties electoral performance in the 2010 and 2015 General Election. There are several factors that affected Labours performance in both the 2010 and 2015 General Elections. For example; the economy, the growth in power for the SNP, party identification, introduction of challenger parties, leadership Add more factors. Considering that Labour are formally a left-wing party means that they tend to care more about society than the economy. As a result, Labour have been criticised…

There has been a significant amount of constitutional reforms, many have debated that’s these constitutional reforms have been of limited impact and the reforms never went far enough. Nevertheless some of these reforms have had a substantial impact on the UK constitution. However the constitutional reform since 1997 has been of limited impact because Labours lack of vision deeply affected the success of these reforms, they never went far enough. In 1997 Labour won a landslide victory winning 179…

The National Health Service and Community Care Act of 1990 which introduced competition and the role of the consumer into the healthcare system by decentralizing management and bringing it to local levels (Marsland, 2005, p. 61). These reforms, and others, brought about radical changes that seemed to be pushing the NHS in the right direction for success, however, that success was met with great resistance by the Labour Party who put an end to any drastic reforms. In the years following the 1997…

still exists. The leaders of our country are portrayed as people who have done nothing but benefit from laws passed for themselves and provide not only Indigenous Australians, but the nation as a whole, with a few of those possible benefits. Australian politicians over time have set ideologies in there parliamentary parties, but leaders of the parliament parties largely input there own kind of ideologies that acknowledges and socially agreeable to the parties members in debates to give not only…

This was a result of realising taxed money was just not enough for funding universities. Even after this flat-rate fee money was still short, Tony Blair proposed top up fees. Top up fees meant different universities could charge top up tuition fees in accordance to the level of funding needed for different courses. This proposal caused uproar and even protests and lead to Labour party making a new manifesto in 2001 going against the idea. Despite this many big changes were made to higher…

Many economists attest to the fact that austerity fails to reduce deficits and debts and during Cameron's reign, the financial position of U.K. was significantly worse. In comparison to other countries, U.K.'s economic performance was worse than that of France and particularly and many several countries in the European Union bloc. In the first two years, Cameron's government had worse numbers than Spain. It is evident that austerity serves no financial purpose. Its exists on the records that the…

“Single party government is the British norm,” said David Butler in 1978 at the beginning of his conclusion to his collection of essays that was titled Coalitions in British Politics. Many would probably agree to this as UK politics has been dominated alternately by the two major political parties, the Conservative and the Labour parties. But Butler is aware that a coalition government may as well be the future of UK given that the forces that keeps the country for the most part a single-party…

“Ordinary Democratization: The Electoral Strategy That Won British Women the Vote,” by Dawn Langan Teele, outlines the path to women’s inclusion in voting. The reading conveys how the struggle, in which the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies formed a coalition with the Labour Party, eventually lead to women’s suffrage. By doing this, suffragists allowed women’s suffrage to be included in the 1918 Representation of the People Act. This path was not easy as it took years of hard work,…