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[edit] Preconceived welfare programme?

The article currently states that;

"the Liberal reforms were not a preconceived welfare programme; it was more a response to political change"

However, the following speech made by the Master of Elibank in 1911 disagrees with this;

...all these measures of social reform are not to be regarded simply as so many scattered attempts to cure this or that evil. They are to be taken as developing together a deliberate, strenuous attack all along the line on our social and industrial ills ... The Social Reform policy of the Government is a consistent policy, carefully planned and prepared for, and persistently and consistently carried through.

(The Master of Elibank, speech in Edinburgh, 18.11.1911 (The Liberal Magazine, vol. 19 (1911), 700)).

Even if this may be seen as a defense of Liberal policy by one of their own MPs, it is surely worth considering the argument that the Liberals, especially considering New Liberalism, did intend and preconceive a welfare programme.

Posted 17-10-07. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shiv17 (talk • contribs) 13:15, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

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I can´t understand this: «nine shillings (45 pence)»; nor this: «were given seven shillings (35 pence)». One shilling = five pence!? Sorry,now it's understood. I didn't knew about your decimal penny. Suggestion, write:(45 decimal pence) or (45 new pence)or(45 current pence). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.157.91.61 (talk) 19:35, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

The pence figures refer to modern day estimates of what the old money (the shillings) would have been worth. Its not that difficult to understand is it?Francium12 (talk) 03:14, 14 May 2008 (UTC)