History Homework
In this essay I will be talking about the Liberal Welfare Reforms and if the people of England welcomed it or not and then I will be explaining why they did or they didn’t welcome it. The sources such as source A, B and D back up the statement that the Liberal Welfare Reforms were welcomed. Source A backs the statement up because there is a old man that has retired getting the mick taking out of him by a rich man called Lord Halsbury about his pension because its small but the old man likes the pension because even though its small it’s enough to keep him out of poverty. Source B backs the statement up because Flora Thompson who lived in a small village at the time and weren’t rich at all says about how the life of the poor people was transformed for good and they didn’t have to worry about being ill or retiring because they will still receive money to stay out of poverty and by the pensions being introduced they were rich. Also she goes on about the first time she and the people in the village had tears of joys coming down there face. Source D backs the statement up because when Lloyd George was arriving at the Liberal Party event in 1910 he was flooded by happy people going to see him to thank him for the all the acts he’s introduced to help the working class people of England.
But sources C, F and H do not back up the statement. Source C opposes the statement because its saying the Labour party put pressure on the Liberia’s by making them afraid that that they would lose their reputation as the party that wanted to improve people’s working and living conditions and said that the Liberal Welfare Reforms didn’t go far enough to help the people of England. Source F opposes the statement because it says some workers were not treated fairly with the pensions by saying that some people out of work did not get the pensions that some other people got even though that it weren’t there thought that they lost their jobs. Source H opposes the statement because like the other sources that oppose the statement it says there were some people such as women that would not get the pensions so it is unfair on them and as well as women self employed people wouldn’t get treated the same as well.
I think that the Liberals introduced the Welfare Reforms so that peoples working and living conditions would improve and people that tried so hard to stay out of poverty all their life would be able to even when there retired.