Liberal Governments :: European Europe History

Liberal GovernmentsWith what success did the Liberal Governments attempt to improve the fiber of life of the functional?The 1906 election, and subsequent landslide victory for the Liberals, was the first timber toward the introduction of a welfare state. The Conservatives who were in power up to 1906 had basically ignored the concept of social reform this had led to them losing the workers vote and had overly led to a decline in the standards of living for the functional class. The late Liberals argued for more(prenominal) government intervention to help impoverished society and and then created the first movements of a social reform. as yet, the new legislation was only a mediocre success in improving the quality of life for working class slew. New Liberalism, differing slightly to Gladstonian Liberalism, was essentially state intervention in order to reduce poverty and therefore improve living and working conditions for the working classes. Up until the turn of the centu ry, it was believed that poverty was self-inflicted, and extremely easy to consume if the mess concerned just tried a little votelesser. However by the 1906 election, studies on poverty had been completed by Booth and Rowntree, and ideas on the origins of poverty were beginning to change. These studies provided evidence to suggest that no matter how hard certain people tried, they could not lift themselves out of poverty, and needed helper in the form of state benefits and legislations. As New Liberalism involved more government intervention, people were wary of it as it was a new concept, and the earlier Conservative governments had been unconcerned with most aspects of helping the people. At this time people were scared of change, and many did not guess the benefits of schemes like the National restitution Act of 1911, where there wasnt a guaranteed payoff and people did not understand why, or to whom, they were paying money. However, as the idea of deserving poor and unwo rthy poor still existed even with New Liberalism, not all groups of people received aid. Therefore the new legislation and reforms were not quite as successful as they could have been. This was partly because the Liberals were more concerned with their governmental status than increasing legislation for the good of the people. The Liberals were in fear of a potential threat from the newly-formed Labour Party, who relied on votes from the working-class population. The Liberals were also reliant upon the support of the Labour party in order to gain an imperious majority in parliament.