Lloyd George precedent on police pay – ‘doubly instructive’ as Gordon Brown faces police strike
In a special report on crime in today’s Guardian newspaper (23 January 2008), columnist Allegra Stratton looks back at the history of police strikes and the threat of police strike ballots as background to the present dispute between the Police Federation and the government.
Introducing the subject, Stratton takes us back to the year 1918 when […]
Lloyd George wisdom about language recalled in Oklahoma (of all places)
The state of Oklahoma has a reputation for being one of the most conservative states in the USA. Both its US Senators are Republicans, although the current governor is a Democrat. Oklahoma has voted Republican in every presidential election as far back as 1964, and that was to elect Lyndon Baines Johnson that good ol’ […]
NEW BOOK ABOUT LLOYD GEORGE AND HIS WOMEN SHOULD BE PUBLISHED SUMMER 2008
Back in 2005, Ffion Hague, the wife of the former Conservative Party leader, announced that she was writing a book (to be published by Harper Collins) about the love life of David Lloyd George. The biography was to be called ‘A Perpetual Conflict: The Women in the Life of David Lloyd George’. According to the […]
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year – and 2008 weekend school reminder
The Lloyd George Society is pleased to wish all visitors to its website a truly merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous New Year. We wish to thank you for visiting the site, hope that you found it informative and useful and that you will carry on re-visiting from time to time in order to […]
Threat to Lloyd George school increases
The Society understands that Councillors in Gwynedd have now voted in favour of plans to reorganise primary education in the county. This means they are one step closer to closing 29 rural schools in Gwynedd, including Lloyd George’s old school in Llanystumdwy. This was in the face of a noisy protest by around 600 campaigners […]
Lloyd George’s grandson to speak at Kettner Lunch
Owen Lloyd George, the 3rd Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor and grandson of Liberal prime minister David Lloyd George, has agreed to speak at a meeting of the Kettner Lunch to be held at the National Liberal Club on 15 April 2008. His subject will of course be his famous grandfather and apparently will draw […]
Lib Dem MPs act to help save Lloyd George village school
Fifteen members of Parliament, including all four Welsh Liberal Democrat MPs, have signed an Early Day Motion (EDM) in the House of Commons protesting against the threatened closure of the village school at Llanystumdwy attended as a child by David Lloyd George. They linked their protest to the recent unveiling of the statue of LG […]
HELP SAVE LLOYD GEORGE’S VILLAGE SCHOOL
The Society understands that Plaid Cymru led Gwynedd Council have recently put forward proposals to close a number of the county’s Primary Schools.
Among those threatened is the primary school which was once the school of the Liberal Prime Minister, David Lloyd George. A local group, Save Llanystumdwy, has been formed to campaign to keep the […]
Leadership candidate chooses Lloyd George as ‘hero’
As they did for the leadership elections in 1999 and 2006, the Lib Dem History Group has approached the candidates to write a short piece nominating their personal historical heroes. The candidates were asked to explain how they have been inspired or influenced by their choices and to make some assessment of their importance.
Nick Clegg […]
LLOYD GEORGE STATUE UNVEILED BY PRINCE OF WALES
The long awaited statue of David Lloyd George was unveiled yesterday in Parliament Square by the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall. The official party included Prime Minister Gordon Brown and former premiers Margaret Thatcher and John Major. Prince Charles was patron of the appeal trust committee which was formed to commission the […]
