Why was there repression by Lord Liverpool's government 1815-1820? Was Britain on the verge of a revolution?

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Why was there repression by Lord Liverpool’s government 1815-1820? Was Britain on the verge of a revolution?

During this period of time, there are four types of people involved, the middling class perhaps wanting reform, the working class leaders wanting the vote, the working class (the mass) just wanted food and jobs and then there were the real revolutionaries (a real minority).  Lord Liverpool’s government believed that the revolutionaries were a majority.  

First to answer this question we need to understand what repression means.  Repression is the act to suppress a thought, feeling or desire in someone so that it becomes unconscious.

There were many forms of repression taken by Lord Liverpool’s government between 1815-1820.  They were: the abolition of income tax for the rich, the corn laws, suspension of habeas corpus, six acts, use of agents provocateurs and the seditious act.  

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 Income tax was introduced as a wartime emergency measure in1798, with the understanding that it would stop after the war.  William Pitt introduced it.  This was the tax the rich paid, the poor believed that they were being taxed for the benefit of the rich.  

The Corn Laws came into existence in 1815.  They stated that: the import of grain prohibited until the price of home grown wheat reached 80 shillings (£4) a quarter, colonial wheat was to be allowed in when the price reached 67 shillings, corn dealers were permitted to warehouse supplies at the ports ...

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