People's Budget People's Budget The 1909/1910 People's Budget was a proposal of the Liberal government that introduced unprecedented taxes on the lands and high incomes of Britain's wealthy to fund new social welfare programmes. It passed the House of Commons in 1909 but was blocked by the House of Lords for a year and became law in April 1910. It was championed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, David Lloyd George, and his young ally Winston Churchill, who was then President of the Board of Trade and a fellow Liberal; called the "Terrible Twins" by certain Conservative contemporaries. Churchill's biographer, William Manchester,
Mount Lloyd George Mount Lloyd George Mount Lloyd George is a peak in British Columbia, Canada, rising to a prominence of above Lloyd George Pass. Its line parent is Mount Sylvia, away. It is part of the Northern Rocky Mountains. Lying in the Muskwa Ranges, Mount Lloyd George is a castellated limestone and quartzite peak. The diamictite sedimentary deposits of the mountain, several kilometers thick, date to the late Precambrian and probably have a glacial-marine origin. The age of the diamictite is not certain. It may be associated with either the Toby or the Vreeland formations of the North American Cordillera. The Lloyd