Khaki elections
The term Khaki election (ger .: khaki election ) is a common name of British policy for a national lower house -Choice that a post-war period is strongly influenced by a just war taking place or mood. The name refers to the color of the English field uniform khaki .
Emergence
The United Kingdom elections of September 25th - October 24th, 1900 , first came to be known as the khaki elections as they coincided with the Second Boer War - during which the traditional red uniform skirts of the British Army were replaced by khaki uniforms - and the public mood was heavily influenced by the news from South Africa. The Conservatives, led by Lord Salisbury , secured a large majority.
The elections to the British House of Commons in December 1918 secured Prime Minister David Lloyd George and the coalition government of Conservatives and Liberals led by him a majority until 1922. Since a large number of undemobilized soldiers in uniform were voting at the time of the election, these were also elected Called khaki elections. Politically, the 1918 elections split the Liberals.
The term is also used in part for the Canadian general election in 1917 , which - fueled by the conscription crisis of 1917 - ended in a landslide victory for the Unionist Party , and the British general election in 1945 , in which the Labor Party won a major victory over the conservatives in Winston Churchill's war cabinet celebrated, used.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/khaki+election
- ↑ http://www.faqs.org/periodicals/201006/2068156651.html ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
