There must be a way of removing parasites from this forum. Which reminds me of this clip. The ol number 6.
Lordo wrote:There must be a way of removing parasites from this forum.
Rishi Sunak criticised for 'surprise' honours list including major Tory donor Mohamed Mansour
The Whigs were a political party in the Parliaments of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom. Between the 1680s and the 1850s, the Whigs contested power with their rivals, the Tories
Second Reform Act, 1867
In 1866, all voters had to be male adults over 21 years of age. The right to vote was still based upon a property qualification.
By the early 1860s around 1.43 million could vote out of a total population of 30 million.
In 1867, the Conservative government introduced the Parliamentary Reform Act. This increased the electorate to almost 2.5 million.
The most important change was the granting of the vote to occupiers in the boroughs (people who rented properties rather than owning them) and, as a result, the electorate in some of the newer towns in England and Scotland increased dramatically.
However, the Act did not alter the balance of political power in Britain. The middle classes still dominated the electorate in both towns and boroughs.
Third Reform Act, 1884
By the 1880s it was widely recognised that voters in counties deserved the same political rights as those in the boroughs. This led to the 1884 Parliamentary Reform Act:
the Act created a uniform franchise for both county and borough
it applied to the United Kingdom as a whole
it enfranchised a significant number of voters
approximately two in three men now had the vote - almost 18 per cent of the total population
however, plural voting was permitted (whereby a man could have more than one vote in certain circumstances)
Representation of the People Act, 1918
In June 1917 the House of Commons passed the Representation of the People Act. The following year the Act was approved by the House of Lords and became law.
By 1918 there was a general feeling that the horrors of World War One had to be for something positive. Many men returning from war would not be able to vote under the 1884 laws.
The Representation of the People Act gave the vote to all men over 21, whether they owned property or not.
The act gave the vote to women over the age of 30 who met a property qualification, or whose husband did. This represented 8.5 million women - two thirds of the total population of women in the UK.
Representation of the People Act, 1928
In 1928 women were finally given the franchise on the same terms as men. All adults over 21 could vote.
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What a shame with all these parents who chose to send their children to a private school. Never mind VAT they should pay tax on their profits. How private schools and hospitals get a charity status is beyond belief.
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