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‘Repressive and Unpopular’.
Is this a fair assessment of Lord Liverpool’s government?
Lord Liverpool’s government used repressive measures, in the period 1815 to about 1821, to prevent a revolution from occurring. Many of their policies were exaggerated or misinterpreted and therefore labelled ‘repressive’. They did, however, when the situation allowed them to (in the 1820s), introduce some fundamental reforms. ‘Repressive’ is therefore not a fair assessment of the government.
To say that Liverpool’s government was unpopular is unfair. Those sections of society that would have been most likely to have disfavoured the government, the working and middle classes, had no say as far as political matters went. There were no opinion polls, and general elections were not a significant test of public opinion. Uprisings that occurred were often in protest to the situation rather than the government itself.
In the period between 1815 and the early 1820’s Britain was a society under strain. Much of the civil unrest is commonly attributed directly to Liverpool’s government because of the harsh manner in which it acted in crushing popular protests. However, most popular discontent arose as a consequence of the agricultural and industrial revolutions, a massive population increase, the French Revolution, the wars with France and the transition from wartime to peacetime conditions after 1815.
Revolutions normally break out when the government loose control and fail to take effective measures to deal with the unrest and disturbances, whether organised or spontaneous. Liverpool’s government’s fears of insurrection were not completely unfounded however small the number of potential revolutionaries and however unrealistic their plots may have been. An example of this is the Huddersfield rising in June 1817, which attracted several hundred men who believed that their meeting would lead to a national insurrection. Also,...
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