Disraeli VS Gladstone

Disraeli VS Gladstone


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Ideologically Gladstone should get mey vote however Disraeli's strengths are that he was pragmatic and had started off as a radical whereas Gladstone had begun as a Tory.

Gladstone's foreign policy included his Newcastle speech which came close to recognising the Confederacy and could have lead to war with the USA.

Disraeli was a realised and came to terms with working class emancipation and extended the franchise in 1867, he also legalised picketing which Gladstone had outlawed in the Criminal Law Amendment Act. Disraeli was the last Tory prime minister to recieve some complementery comments in the National Museum of Labour History. Also he was a one nation conservative.
 
Disraeli, for his evacuation of Britain to India, Cape and Australia and for his martyrdom at the hand of starving mobs in London.

;)
 
OK, now you've got me thinking about a timeline where Gladstone and Disraeli have to work together in a National (i.e. Coalition) Government. Not sure how plausible that is, though. Disraeli as PM, with Gladstone as Home Secretary? Could it have happened without ASBs?
 
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Although at heart a liberal in those days I would probably have tended toward Disralli because he was less be-witched by idealogy. Would have much preferred if Chamberlain had stayed a radical Liberal and replaced Gladstone, hopefully bringing much needed reforms Britain required.

Steve
 
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