To my Jewish, Irish, Asian and Italian friends, let’s remember: Your ancestors were lower than dirt when they arrived here. Italians were referred to
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Tory Anti-Immigrant Cartoon from 1906
I was finally able to track down a history textbook containing a Tory anti-immigration cartoon aimed at the working class for the 1906 election. It’s reproduced in Martin Pugh, The Making of Modern British Politics 1867-1939 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1982) p. 84. Here it is:
As you can see, it’s set in a factory, Schmidt & Co, Clothing & Boot Manufacturers, and shows a stout, upright British workman being shown the door by his fat foreign employer, while coming in the back way is a dishevelled foreigner, whose bags are marked ‘To England’, and ‘Steerage to England’.
The caption reads:
THE ALIEN EMPLOYER (to British workman): You can go now: Mine friend, who has just arrived, will do your work for half your wages.
The caption also notes that it came from the 1906 Tory protectionist pamphlet, Topical Tips for Typical Tykes.
I’ve discussed this cartoon before, when one…
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The Immense Popularity of the Beveridge Report, and its Reception by Labour and the Tories
A week or so ago I had a debate on here with a critic, who objected to my crediting Aneurin Bevan with the creation of the NHS. He asserted that the Beveridge Report, on which the NHS is based, was a policy of the wartime National Government, and also had Conservative support.
This is true. However, the Beveridge Report was based on the work of Sidney and Beatrice Webb and the Socialist Medical Association, who had been demanding a free medical service for decades. Indeed, a free health service had been Labour party policy since the 1930s. And while the Tories in the Coalition government also supported Beveridge’s outline of the welfare state, it had particularly strong support in the Labour party.
Pauline Gregg in her book, The Welfare State, describes the massive popularity the Beveridge Report enjoyed with just about all parts of the British population on pages…
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Man with too much money
Man not happy with his daughters choice of partner
Typical example of a man who has too much money and lives his life through his daughter. Surely, you have children so they can live their own life and not live their life through their parents.
Also, if such a man could be found to marry his daughter, what proof that she was no longer a lesbian could be found.
If I was his daughter I would find a man to marry, tell my father I was no longer a lesbian, marry the man and when he had obtained the money I would leave him and then go back to the person I truly loved. This I hoped would teach my father a lesson.
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