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Politics and class conflict in the 1920's

"Unemployment and Drunkenness". A classic populist Conservative attack on Liberal faddism which could as easily have appeared in the 1890s as the 1920s. By then Amery's principal local opponents were Labour rather than Liberal, so this may have been attempted to mop up any residual working-class Liberal votes in the constituency. Sparkbrook was a fairly poor inner-city constituency and one of the great strongholds of working-class toryism.