ABSTRACT
During the summer and autumn of 1926—and long after the supporting General Strike was over—a great, if slowly declining, pitmen’s stoppage continued at alarming cost to the country and to the unfortunate mining families themselves. “Public opinion”, meanwhile, had been veering strangely during the summer and autumn of 1926 both in regard to the political parties and in regard to the country’s whole economic future. As might have been expected after the resounding failure of the General Strike, most people at first considered that Socialism, and possibly the Labour Party too, had suffered a most dangerous blow that could alter the whole shape of political and economic development in Britain. In point of fact, both Labour and Conservatism were destined to antagonize the average uncommitted member of the British “public” a good deal more during the next few months and so promote the “Liberal Revival” still further.
