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The Liberals made reducing the power of the Lords an important issue of the January 1910 general election. It was held that the 1911 Act clearly permits the procedures specified in the Parliament Acts to be used for " any Public Bill ", and this was sufficient to dispose of the argument that the 1911 Act could not be used to amend itself.
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In the 1929 general election he made a final bid to return the Liberals to the political mainstream, with an ambitious programme of state stimulation of the economy called We Can Conquer Unemployment !, largely written for him by the Liberal economist John Maynard Keynes.
" The multiple crises we are currently mired in-economic, political and environmental-are an opportunity for Liberals to show what we are made of.
Asquith replied to this speech at the National Liberal Club: "... keep faithful to your old traditions ... Think, in a situation such as this, and with appeals such as those which have been made to our fellow Liberals outside, what would have been the attitude of Mr Gladstone.
" Mulroney further noted that as the Liberals had been governing continuously since 1963 ( save for Joe Clark's short-lived minority in 1979-80 ), virtually all federal patronage appointments had been made by the Liberals .< ref >
Liberals have a Nurturant Parent morality in which people are made good by being helped by those who are better off, everyone is taken care of by helping each other.
After the Liberals returned to office in 1868 under William Ewart Gladstone, Layard was made First Commissioner of Works and sworn of the Privy Council.
Rowse became a supporter of calls made by the likes of Sir Stafford Cripps for a ' Popular Front ' whereby Labour and Liberals should unite at election time to defeat the National Government.
Using his business experience, he made a " plausible case " that there was no proof that tariffs led to increases in the cost of living, as the Liberals had argued.
After the passing of the Act he made a speech in the Commons saying that if the Liberals wished to pass a Home Rule Bill they should submit it to the electorate by calling a general election.
Firstly, Ulster would never accept forced Home Rule, and made up a quarter of Ireland ; if the Liberals wanted to force this issue, military force would be the only way.
In Law's speech he said " I said so to Liberals and I say so now, with the full sense of the responsibility which attaches to my position, that if the attempt be made under present conditions, I can imagine no length of resistance to which Ulster will go, in which I shall not be ready to support them, and in which they will not be supported by the overwhelming majority of the British people ".
What it did have was superior organization, and on election day this organization made itself felt in the form of thirty-nine UFA members elected to fourteen Liberals.
While the P. C. s made spending promises including paving all of the province's secondary highways, the Liberals — who had returned to the legislature in the 1986 election after fifteen years in the political wilderness — under new leader Laurence Decore stressed dealing with the deficit.
As a result, when the Liberals returned to power in 1880, Victoria made it clear that she would not accept any ministry that included Lowe.
He continued to hold these parliamentary roles after the 1997 election, in which the Liberals won a second majority government and the NDP made a partial recovery to 21 seats.
A coalition of Social Democrats, Social Liberals, Centre Democrats and Christian Democrats, Rasmussen's first cabinet made use of limited classical Keynesianism in connection with the so-called kick-start of 1993 – 94 as its economic policy.
Fraser made Peacock foreign affairs spokesperson, and when Fraser led the Liberals back to power in December 1975 Peacock became Minister for Foreign Affairs, aged 36.
The Tories were leading in the polls by early January 2006, and made a major breakthrough in Quebec where they displaced the Liberals as the second place party ( after the Bloc Québécois ).
In response to the growing Conservative lead, the Liberals launched negative ads suggesting that Harper had a " hidden agenda ", similar to the attacks made in the 2004 election.
This prolonged struggle at the time got considerable attention and sympathy from Liberals and revolutionaries in Europe and it was in this war that Garibaldi first made a name for himself and that he was inspired to have his troops wear the famous Red Shirts.
The text, together with his program of agrarian conferences and his subscription lists for the benefit of victims ' relatives again made him an adversary of the National Liberals, who referred to Iorga as an instigator.
The Liberals reaped most of the benefits of opposing the FTA and doubled their representation to 83 seats to emerge as the main opposition ; the NDP had also made gains but finished a distant third with 43 seats.
After the failure of the Meech Lake Accord, which made many French-speaking Québécois feel rejected by the rest of Canada, the Liberals adopted the Allaire Report as their official constitutional policy.
Liberals and reducing
The Conservatives took advantage of Liberal infighting to win a minority government in the 1943 provincial election, reducing the Liberals to third-party status.
Some suggested that the Tories helped the NDP so they could continue to split the vote with the Liberals, although the Conservatives had stated before the election campaign even began that reducing official party status to eight seats was part of the seat reduction plan from the very beginning.
The Progressive Conservatives won both of these seats in by-elections in early 2001, reducing the Liberals to eight seats in the legislature.
Diefenbaker pledged to reduce taxes and castigated the Liberals for not reducing taxes despite the government surplus.
However, at the 2010 election the Greens overtook the Liberals on preferences and came second against Labor, reducing the seat to a " fairly safe " Labor seat.
MacKenzie led the Liberals to a poor showing ; reducing their caucus from 11 MLAs to 9 MLAs ( only 1984 had fewer seats ).
Liberals and power
Truly, that Liberals should choose Louis 14, as a bogey-symbol of conservatism is grotesquely ironic, considering the Louis 14, character of their Grand Monarque, FDR: not only in his accretion of absolute power and personal deification, ( le roi gouverne par lui meme ), but in the disastrous effects of his spending and war policies.
The Liberals won, and Mackenzie remained prime minister until the 1878 election when Macdonald's Conservatives returned to power with a majority government.
While Disraeli's government survived until the December general election, the initiative had passed to the Liberals, who were returned to power with a majority of 170.
The Liberals languished in opposition for a decade, while the coalition of Salisbury and Chamberlain held power.
The Liberals now found themselves with 59 members holding the balance of power in a Parliament where Labour was the largest party but lacked an overall majority.
The Liberals now held the balance of power in the Commons.
It formed its first government under parliamentarism in 1889, and continued to alternate in power with the Liberals until the 1930s, when Labour became the dominant political party.
The agricultural export interests, centered in the coastal region near Guayaquil, became closely associated with the Liberals, whose political power also grew steadily during the interval.
During the following year, three different men briefly held executive power before Galo Plaza Lasso, running under a coalition of independent Liberals and socialists, narrowly defeated his Conservative opponent in presidential elections.
The 1956 Pipeline Debate led to the widespread impression that the Liberals had grown arrogant in power when the government invoked closure on numerous occasions in order to curtail debate and ensure that its Pipeline Bill passed by a specific deadline.
The party aimed to hold the balance of power in the state " as an independent conservative party " ready to negotiate with the Liberals or Labor to form a minority government.
While the Colorados reinforced their monopoly on power and spoils, Liberals called for reform.
Egusquiza startled Colorado stalwarts by sharing power with the Liberals, a move that split both parties.
After four months of fighting, Ezcurra signed the Pact of Pilcomayo aboard an Argentine gunboat on December 12, 1904, and handed power to the Liberals.
The Liberals had disbanded Caballero's army when they came to power and organized a completely new one.
When Franco ordered Paraguayan troops to abandon the advanced positions in the Chaco that they had held since the 1935 truce, the army revolted in August 1937 and returned the Liberals to power.
In 1939 the Liberals, recognizing that they would have to choose someone with national stature to be president if they wanted to hold onto power, picked General Estigarribia, the hero of the Chaco War who had since served as special envoy to the United States.
The result was the constitution of 1940, which returned to the executive the power that the Liberals had stripped away.
While the Liberals took only two seats from Labor, Askin got the support of the two independent members, Douglas Darby ( Manly ) and Harold Coates ( Hartley ), giving him enough support to end Labor's 24-year run in power.
The Liberals were in power with a progressive alliance of Labour and, off and on, Irish Nationalists.
On May 31, the British general election returned a hung parliament yet again, with the Liberals in position to determine who would have power.
A week after the vote, on June 7 the Conservatives conceded power rather than ally with the Liberals.
* May 31 – The British general election returns a hung parliament yet again ; the Liberals will determine who has power.
In the 1992 state election, the Liberals came to power under Premier Jeff Kennett, who planned to cut the costs of Melbourne's public transport network and remove conductors.
When the National Liberals came to power in Denmark, in 1848, it provoked an uprising of ethnic Germans who supported Schleswig's ties with Holstein.
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