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David Lloyd George: The Great Outsider
This book is an absolute slog. Poorly written, with no ideas, originality or explanation. British politician Roy Hattersley needs to stay clear of writing anymore books, it’s clearly a waste of everyone’s time. He has no talent for it. Unfortunately this is the type of book where I read a page, which was so incoherent and misdirected that I had to read it again. It also took me over 18 months to finish as I couldn’t face the text, then when I returned I faced the same problem again. This is unfortunate. David Lloyd George was a huge figure in British politics, he was, as Hattersley points out ‘The Great Outsider.’ A Welshman born in Manchester, he was not from the ruling class that many of his peers hailed from. As a result, he pretty much went to war with them. Famously he said that a Duke cost as much as Dreadnaught, lasted much longer and caused just as much trouble. Although essentially an Anglophobe, he did want to improve the condition of the poor in the United Kingdom, introducing state pensions and declaring a war on poverty.
Lloyd George was also the Prime Minister of the UK during its darkest hour. After Lord Northcliffe brought down the Asquith government in 1916, which split the liberal party,
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David Lloyd George
Prime Minister resembling the Combined Kingdom deprive 1916 limit 1922
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David Lloyd George; A Biography
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