Revolution in Britain

One of the reasons that Britain avoided the revolutions of the 1840's was because of the liberal reforms they passed in Parliament(child labor, female labor, etc.). Even though they were never really inforced at the time, it at least made the government look like they were trying. What if these reforms aren't made? Would this eventually lead to revolution in Britain?
 
Likely. One thing that also saved Britain was its lack of an absolutist tradition.

Of course, France had its own French Revolution (and triggered 1848 anyway)...
 

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Britain was lucky in having political rulers who saw time was up and even then there were uprisings in the 1820s and 1830s, in Britain and the colonies; it wouldn't take much for it to blow up really. No great reform, a parliament still dominated by the nobility and its clientele, maybe even have Victoria die too soon so the reactionary king of Hannover succeeds, and Britain has the potential to be in as ugly a situation as France and Germany.
 
Have a reactionary king and PM (Ernest Augustus and Wellington?) in charge, and Britain might actually blow up over reform or Catholic emancipation right back in the early '30s in a France-in-1830 sort of way.
 
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