"Lest we forget. While Mr Lloyd George (disguised as a policeman) was running away from his countrymen - the Lords were laying down their lives for their country": postcard published by the National Union of Conservative & Constitutional Associations during the blocking of the 1909 'People's Budget' by the House of Lords. It contrasts the actions of David Lloyd George and members of the Lords during the Boer War, showing Lloyd George fleeing mob violence after he addressed an anti-war meeting at Birmingham Town Hall & graves of Lords killed in South Africa

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