WI: PM Rosebery. Would PM Rosebery during 1906-1911/1914 make Britain worse off?

Would PM Rosebery during 1906-1910 make Britain worse off?

  • Yes

    Votes: 12 70.6%
  • No

    Votes: 5 29.4%

  • Total voters
    17
Because he had to resign before the Report was signed.
And your definition of a political failure is?
Also, Salisbury and Balfour never had to worry about the Lords.
They had to worry about the Lords rather a lot. The hereditary legislators might have generally been Conservative in their sympathies but they could not have been accused of lacking any independence of mind and slavishly voting the Conservative whip
 

Thomas1195

Banned
And your definition of a political failure is?
I have to agree that he could not reconcile with William Harcourt. And what he was bad at was party management. Actually, I prefer him take the Board of Education (his only really serious commitment was education reform) under PM Asquith or Haldane. I am not sure about Grey's view outside foreign policy.

He helped form Imperial College mainly by signing cheques and organising fund raising -didn't need to be PM for that
He proposed the scheme (London Charlottenburg) in 1903 in a letter to LCC.
 
Fair enough. Don't dispute that he was largely right about education. Just feel that he lacked the practical political abilities to translate his political ideas into actuality.
 

Thomas1195

Banned
Fair enough. Don't dispute that he was largely right about education. Just feel that he lacked the practical political abilities to translate his political ideas into actuality.
I think he could have done fine as a minister. But being a prime minister you must be able to handle all aspects, which he couldn't. So I now conclude that he should not become PM once more.

At least he would have done far better in the Board of Education, which by 1900s was his only interest in politics, than Arthur Henderson (who did nothing and was even criricized by his own party).
 
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