FALL OF LLOYD GEORGE 1918-1922
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- Treaty of Versailles 1919
- April 1919, 233 Conservative MP's signed telegram expressing fear that it was to lenient.
- Liberals branded reparation payments too harsh.
- Keynes's Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919) condemns treaty and Lloyd George's contribution to it
- THE FALL OF LLOYD GEORGE 1918-1922
- Honours Scandal 1922
- 'Moral Bankruptcy'
- Selling Honours and Peerages to establish a personal political fund
- Knighthood: £10,000 Baronetcy: £30,000 Peerage: £50,000+
- Likened to pre war Marconi Scandal 1913, cited as an example of his dishonesty and financial corruption.
- Lack of a political party base,
- Coalition was dominated by conservatives who occupied 335 of a total 478 coalition seats
- 1918 Lloyd George's reputation stood at its zenith, Conservatives aimed to exploit this and 'Power Without Responsibility'
- Lloyd George= 'Prime minister without a party'
- Coalition was dominated by conservatives who occupied 335 of a total 478 coalition seats
- Carlton Club Meeting 1922.
- Baldwin speaks of Lloyd George as: As a dynamic force which has already shattered the Liberal party and was well on its way to doing the same for the Conservative Party.
- Vote: 187 to 87 in favour of fighting next election on their own
- Bonar Law and Stanley Baldwin decided that his participation was damaging the party.
- Unorthodox leadership style and personal scandals.
- Civil Service felt undermined by his use of the 'Garden Suburb'
- 'Presidential' style of leadership, whereby he was 'First among equals'
- September 1921 he summoned cabinet meeting in Inverness town hall as he was holidaying in the Scottish Highlands.
- Leaked information to the press
- 'The Goat' had a mistress and wife.
- Scandalous Conduct, appalled moralistic conservatives and tarnished L.G's public reputation.
- CONCLUSION
- Discontent within the coalition was unmistakable, yet there were various different factors which motivated the 187 MP's who voted.
- Dislike of Lloyd Georges style of government which appeared corrupt.
- 'Die Hards' alienated by perceived softness of Versailles.
- Chanak acted as final straw, Lloyd George was no longer an electoral asset
- The Slump, high unemployment, and interest rates, violence in Ireland. L.G becomes Scapegoat for Tory policies which failed., and he was forced to adopt.
- Discontent within the coalition was unmistakable, yet there were various different factors which motivated the 187 MP's who voted.
- Honours Scandal 1922
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