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1886/01

Shelfmark	POSTER 1886/01
Date	1886
Description	Cheltenham - A great Conservative demonstration and fete...to celebrate the two recent Conservative victories in the Borough.

1893/01

Shelfmark	POSTER 1893/01
Date	1893
Description	"Gag" Chart, Home Rule Bill, 1893 in Committee. An object lesson for British electors. [Shows clauses of the Bill debated and passed without alteration, clauses debated, altered and passed, and clauses "gagged" and forced through the House of Commons.]

1909/10-01

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-01
Date	1909/1910
Description	The Reward of the 'Righteous'. Mr. T.T. Stiggins, "Thank goodness I am not (taxed) as other men are!"

1909/10-02

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-02
Date	1909/1910
Description	A Bad Shot! [Lloyd George dropping Budget Bombs from an airship - 'The Revenge'] Herr Von Lloyd George - "Ach! I did not mean to hit ze rich man's castle, but I have made von bad miss and hit ze factory."

1909/10-03

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-03
Date	1909/1910
Description	The Start [Lloyd George rolling a boulder ['Budget'] down a hill]: Lloyd George, "There's old wealthy down there. I guess I'll make him hop with this boulder." The Finish: Lloyd George, "Confound it! It only just grazed him and the beastly thing has hit a poor man behind a fence!"

1909/10-04

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-04
Date	1909/1910
Description	Lloyd George with 'The Budget'. Employer [standing up next to man on the ground], "You've hit both of us but you have killed this man!"

1909/10-05

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-05
Date	1909-1910
Description	Lloydie Georgie bends his bow, aimed at a pigeon and killed a crow!

1909/10-06

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-06
Date	1909/1910
Description	Robin Hood to Lloyd George, "I took from the rich and gave to the poor - you rob both!"

1909/10-07

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-07
Date	1909/1910
Description	"It's WORK we want!" A Free Trade victim.

1909/10-08

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-08
Date	1909/1910
Description	'Merrie England.' The land of the Free Trade budget (man hounded at desk). The Plague of Inquisitors.

1909/10-09

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-09
Date	1909/1910
Description	Unfair preference. The rich man pays in taxes. The poor man pays in taxes...

1909/10-10

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-10
Date	1909/1910
Description	Can it be done? The Great Budget Puzzle [Labour block on top of capital block, Lloyd George looking on.] To knock away the lower block without disturbing the top one. Can it be done?

1909/10-11

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-11
Date	1909/1910
Description	Don't stand in Lloyd George's sauce. He talks of free food but his taxation is felt on every table.

1909/10-12

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-12
Date	1909/1910
Description	Get off the Earth! (Free Trade)

1909/10-13

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-13
Date	1909/1910
Description	[Man standing on plank 'Employment' propped up by pole 'Capital'. Lloyd George below with the wheelbarrow 'Budget' about to knock it over.] Man: "Look out there, or you'll have the whole blooming show down!"

1909/10-14

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-14
Date	1909/1910
Description	Socialism throttling the country. [Brittania, wearing the waistband 'Prosperity', being strangled by a beast.]

1909/10-15

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-15
Date	1909/1910
Description	Working men make the foreigner pay. Every vote for the budget puts one of us out of his job.

1909/10-16

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-16
Date	1909/1910
Description	Less beer, less baccy, less employment - and they call this the people's budget!

1909/10-17

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-17
Date	1909/1910
Description	[A widow in black - the 'Radical party' - embraced by Lloyd George on top of a tomb inscribed, "To the memory of British prosperity killed by the free trade budget."] Budget 1909. The Merry Widow.

1909/10-18

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-18
Date	1909/1910
Description	The Wage-Taxers. (Man thinking, "I could do with a lift", 'Budget car coming down the road. 'Lifted' in the next frame when man has been run over by 'Budget' car.)

1909/10-19

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-19
Date	1909/1910
Description	Bermondsey's Outcast (An orphan child - 'Budget':) Nobody wants me.

1909/10-20a

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-20a
Date	1909/1910
Description	The End of Lloyd George's Budget. Hurrah for tariff reform and more work!

1909/10-20b

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-20b
Date	1909/1910
Description	The Poor Man's Burden (Man struggling under weight of 'Budget'.)

1909/10-21

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-21
Date	1909/1910
Description	To be sold - an Englishman's Home. Budget 1909.

1909/10-22

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-22
Date	1909/1910
Description	The Political Follies. (Exit employer, exit labour.) Emigration of the employer and the employed.

1909/10-23

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-23
Date	1909/1910
Description	The World's markets. (British figure - 'Free Trade Budget' - being pushed over cliff by foreigners with goods in background.) Britons, help!

1909/10-24

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-24
Date	1909/1910
Description	Unemployment. [The Grim Reaper with his scythe - 'Free Trade'] Whose turn next?

1909/10-25

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-25
Date	1909/-1910
Description	The Peers to the People (telephone call): "Hullo, are you there? We are waiting for instructions."

1909/10-26

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-26
Date	1909/1910
Description	Chinaman no likee eat sick pig. He make velly good Flee Tlade English bacon.

1909/10-27

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-27
Date	1909/1910
Description	(Unemployed march): The 'People's Budget'! Genial foreigner: - "How they must wish that Mr Lloyd George had taxed us instead of them."

1909/10-28

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-28
Date	1909/1910
Description	At the Poll. (Budget 1909.) The Greatest Frost of the Century.

1909/10-29

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-29
Date	1909/1910
Description	The Fraud Exposed! John Bull to Lloyd George, "Look here, this dark horse you are trying to palm off on me is coming out in his true colours as soon as I begin to rub him down!"

1909/10-30

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-30
Date	1909/1910
Description	(Cricket Match) The Demon Bowler (Lloyd George). Working man (Captain), "This isn't cricket! Since you 've been trying to bowl old wealthy out, you've hit me in three places, as well as half killed several other fielders!"

1909/10-31

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-31
Date	1909/1910
Description	Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a -----? Plunder in 1909. Surplus in 1910.

1909/10-32

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-32
Date	1909/1910
Description	Truth is Great and will End-ure!

1909/10-33

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-33
Date	1909/1910
Description	(Notice) Old-age pensions will be continued by the Unionists. Arthur James Balfour.

1909/10-34

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-34
Date	1909/1910
Description	It is no "people's budget", which does not relieve the people from taxation!

1909/10-35

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-35
Date	1909/1910
Description	Taxing urban land means ruin to builders, bricklayers, masons, carpenters, labourers. Why not tax the foreigner and keep your jobs?

1909/10-36

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-36
Date	1909/1910
Description	Dearer beer means less been drunk, fewer hops used, less labour employed. Resist increased taxes on beer and tobacco.

1909/10-37

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-37
Date	1909/1910
Description	Tariff reform does not mean any increase in the price of food but it does mean increase in employment.

1909/10-38

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-38
Date	1909/1910
Description	The rich man's capital is the poor man's wage. Tax capital and you tax your wages and ruin trade. Every vote for the budget is a vote against somebody's job.

1909/10-39

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-39
Date	1909/1910
Description	The Budget means more unemployment!

1909/10-40

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-40
Date	1909/1910
Description	Unemployment! There is not one line in the whole budget, which will get a single man a job. There are dozens, which will throw wage earners out of work. Is this the way you want it?

1909/10-41

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-41
Date	1909/1910
Description	Why tax the land and increase your rents, when by taxing the foreigner you can increase your wages?

1909/10-42

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-42
Date	1909/1910
Description	The Budget proposes to make money out of British capital thus making Britain poorer. This means an increase in unemployment. Tariff reform proposes to take money from our foreign competitors, thus making Britain richer...

1909/10-43

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-43
Date	1909/1910
Description	The Budget hits you! Tariff reform hits the foreigner. Choose!

1909/10-44

Shelfmark	POSTER 1909/10-44
Date	1909/1910
Description	If you will not tax the foreigner you must pay the bill yourselves!

1923-01

Shelfmark	POSTER 1923-01
Date	1923
Description	"Marvellous Land - Country of infinite affluence" (USA protection, no unemployment.) "Protection! Unutterable folly - an insult to the intelligence of the nation." (Great Britain, free imports, unemployment). (Cartoon shows Lloyd George has a foot in both countries). Vote Conservative

1929-01

Shelfmark	POSTER 1929-01
Date	1929
Description	Conservative Rating Reform. Rates on industry raise prices and create unemployment. De-rating means lower prices, more employment, better times for workers. �26,000,000 relief in rates for industry and agriculture!

1929-02

Shelfmark	POSTER 1929-02
Date	1929
Description	Conservatives! Lloyd George won't beat us, Ramsay won't defeat us, but apathy might! Vote!

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