Lloyd George's "People's Budget," and the Parliamentary Act of 1911, Part I

The budget passed through all the motions in the House of Commons, despite bitter debate, and passed in November 1909 by a vote of 379 to 149. Then it went to the House of Lords, which had never before vetoed a Budget Bill. Only three weeks later, however, it did just that, and in so doing, created a constitutional crisis. (14)

Footnotes:

(1) Walter L. Arnstein, Britain Yesterday and Today: 1830 to the Present, 6th ed., (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, 1992), pp. 209-10.

(2) The two greatest landslides of the 20th Century, the "Coupon Election of 1918" and the "Save the Pound Election of 1931," were both won by Coalition Governments instead of political parties, and thus, are not traditionally counted when comparing political results in the 20th Century.

(3) Peter Clarke, Hope and Glory: Britain, 1900-1990, 2nd ed., (New York: Penguin, 1995), p. 405.

(4) Arnstein, p. 216.

(5) Clarke, p. 54.

(6) Ibid.

(7) Arnstein, pp. 213-14.

(8) Ibid., p. 215.

(9) Clarke, p. 56.

(10) By this time, Germany was actively building its navy. Thus, one of the prodominant cries was "We want eight, and we won't wait!" a slogan referring to the new Dreadnought battleships.

(11) Arnstein, p. 218.

(12) Ibid.

(13) Ibid.

(14) Clarke, p. 60.

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