Defeating the People's Budget

With the passage of the People's Budget in 1912, the veto power of the House of Lords was removed. This was after 2 general elections and the threat to flood the HoL with 500 liberal peers.

Now, my question is that can the People's Budget be defeated? This seems pretty hard to do, as it either requires the monarch to refuse to create the liberal peers or for the Unionists to get a majority or a hung parliament in the Commons. I do not believe that King Edward would have rejected Asquith's request for liberal peers, but possibly we can get George V to refuse the request. An entirely new can of worms is opened up if the monarch refuses Asquith's requests, but it would surely be interesting.

If we take the Commons route, I don't see much of a reason for the Unionists to make bigger gains than they did in OTL, but if the Liberals refuse to consent to Home Rule, then they won't have the Irish support and the Liberal majority won't be as secure.

If the People's Budget is in the end defeated and put to rest, what will Britain look like going forward?
 
Well you'd need a far earlier POD for the Liberals not to back Home Rule, since the Party's make-up in 1912 is based on the Unionist split over the issue thrity years previous.

Had the King refused to grant the peers, then you can see a major constiutional crisis and considering Labour's success in the second General Election of the year had the slogan "Smash the Lords" I'd expect Lib-Lab support to go through the rood and increased militancy, probably ending in the aristocratic elements of British government being severly attacked.- perhaps a Mosleysite upper house of experts, or a Senate would appear in the near future?

Things would have to go prety bad for a revolution or the like. Still might have done British democracy a dose of good
 
Well you'd need a far earlier POD for the Liberals not to back Home Rule, since the Party's make-up in 1912 is based on the Unionist split over the issue thrity years previous.

Had the King refused to grant the peers, then you can see a major constiutional crisis and considering Labour's success in the second General Election of the year had the slogan "Smash the Lords" I'd expect Lib-Lab support to go through the rood and increased militancy, probably ending in the aristocratic elements of British government being severly attacked.- perhaps a Mosleysite upper house of experts, or a Senate would appear in the near future?

Things would have to go prety bad for a revolution or the like. Still might have done British democracy a dose of good

In both General Elections, the Unionists had slightly increased their number of seats and the Liberals had lost seats. While Labor may have had success, the public is growing weary of this issue, and I'm not sure how energized the Liberals can keep their supporters after 3 general elections in close succession.
 
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