Catalogue Number
NMLH.1994.168.308.2
Object Name
Poster
Title
'The Budget League. The Glutton!'
Place
House Of Lords, Houses Of Parliament, London, England, UK
People
The Budget League, House Of Lords
Events
Elections, 1910 General Election
Description
A yellow poster with the text 'The Budget League. The Glutton!' showing a photo of a large baby in a crown wearing a sash saying 'House of Lords' holding a large, full baby's bottle of milk while drinking from a much smaller, almost empty bottle held by a small screaming baby beside it wearing a sash labelled 'The People'.
The poster depicts the House Of Lords and the people as babies.⯠Despite having sufficient milk of their own, the Lords steal the milk from the smaller, under-nourished people. The Budget League was a pressure group aligned to the Liberal Party.â¯
The Liberals won an overwhelming election victory in 1906. Despite huge popular support, in 1909 the House of Lords blocked David Lloyd George's 'People's Budget', which had been intended to tax the rich to improve conditions for the poor as part of a "war on poverty". To gain support for this budget, in 1910 the Liberals called another election. The âPeopleâs Budgetâ was passed in April 1910 by a Liberal coalition government formed following the January 1910 general election.
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