In spite of this, the pass of the people’s budget, enabled the super tax on the rich, who are initially landowners and industrial owners, which subsequently brings a cut on employment in a large scale to fit the super tax on them. Consequently, the people’s budget eventually brings the suffrage back to those in working class, and it will then strengthen the intension between working class and capital owners, and strike will increase to a higher rate, which can reduce the industrial efficiency. Moreover, high employment brings social misery towards the government, which violated from the liberal primary aim that to build a welfare state to gain more support from working class. It can be shown in two general elections in 1909 which revealed as a decline for liberal seats, and criticism came out such as posters also mentioned the same problem.
The attempt of reforming House of Lords was another intention, it succeeded to extend that they did cancelled the veto power of House of Lords. It was, originally those House of Lords reserved the essential legislative power so that the pass of a law was based on the general convention House of Commons and House of Lords. Also, those house of lords was acting in the behalf of those wealthy, which uphold the conservatives’ rights, and then legislative power was held by conservatives, wherever they are majority or not in the house of commons. This was, of course, disturbing to liberal as second largest party, especially when they were in post. For example, Gladstone as prime minister proposed home rule bill was rejected by House of Lords in 1893. As well as this, it was also shown that liberty and democracy was frustrated by the fact that 500 hundred lords who inherited prevailage from their ascendants, and liberal was convinced that they are majority and their policy was favourable to large proportion of electorate so that they can still handle power even they upset House of Lords. The outcome was apparently tending to liberal’s behalf, as they can pass the most controversial issue, home rule bill.
However, the delay power was also irregardless. As house of lord was absolutely reluctant to the action of liberal, they then delayed all the possible bills that come to them, so that every attempting implantations of proposal was later than it should be before. This, to a certain extend, is even worse than before, when there will not be no bill passed immediately, so the liberal can not finalize their measures, radical social reform. For example, disestablishment bill, plural voting bill and Irish home rule bill were these rejected. Liberal’s indecision on whether they should reform House of Lords to be appointees without inhabitant prevailage, which can step to a further constructive progress on democracy. They were then criticized on lack of inspiration to do so, which should be achieved effortlessly. This resulted the fact that the prevailaged appointment remains another half century.
Home rule, as another main issue, was another motive drive to the liberal’s confrontation to House of Lords, and liberal gained a future possibility of getting it through after reduction of lords’ power. This issue was so controversial that it had spited liberal party into unionist and new liberal, and it is strongly opposed by conservatives at the time as a “great Britain” imperial feeling enhanced unionism, and the idea of protect nation integrity. The attempt to put it through started since Gladstone period, however, it was failed to become a law without majority preference in house of commons at first time in 1886, and rejected by House of Lords at second time in 1893. after 1905, liberal got a big majority in the house of commons, which then overseeing a possibility to put home rule through if only the veto power of house of lords was eliminated.
However, deficiency existed in this issue was much bigger. Most importantly, the delay power in house of lords was still immense; it was not until 1914 the home rule was passed. As result of this, Irish unionist was intensifying the relationships between England and Ireland, and 1914 was the year which the First World War started, which then domestic affair putted aside. Moreover, the attempt of reducing house of lords’ power with a clear aim of putting through home rule, which can, again, bring back the issue to debate. It will then intensify the degree of spilt and ruled out the possibility of reconcile, and allied conservatives and liberal unionist. This was foreshadowing of the sudden death of liberal, as their integrity was so deteriorated by the impact on the issue of home rule.
Last but not least, the issue national security was discussed as one of the factors to put forward people’s budget. Liberal proposed to rearm the nation, and vitally impose an arm competition between Britain and Germany, especially on maritime, which was suggested that to build 8 battleships. This scheme apparently required a vest amount of money, and they suggest a possible way of mounting money which is, again, putting through people’s budget. This scheme functioned as accelerator to put forward the budget during the conflict with House of Lords.
In conclusion, it was those four aspects worked as motive as well as target during the whole period of crisis, and which estimated the degree of successful liberal had achieved. It was the sake of financial support for the operation of radical social reform placed priory in leading to a confrontation of House of Lords, which outcome a primary success in the whole conflict. Beside this, the direction to democracy was then another success in a certain scale. Home rule was another issue, which outcome consequence at both hands. Finally, the rearmament was another factor ascending the degree of the conflict. As whole, liberal was successful in a sense of the fact that they hit right on the most of the targets they intended, but failed in to mount support from broad range of electorate, and revealed their weakness on the issue of home rule.