An old British political cartoon showing Kier Hardie sawing down a branch of a tree he is sitting on illustrating the fact that Kier Hardie wanted labour completely separated from the Liberal Party. ---- James Keir Hardie ( 1856 – 1915) who was Hardie was born in Newhouse, Lanarkshire, Scotland ,initially supported William Gladstone's Liberal Party, but later concluded that the working class needed its own party and founded of British Labour Party.

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