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Butskellism
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Butskellism
Butskellism is the (moderately satirical) term used in British politics to refer to the political consensus formed in the 1950s and associated with the exercise of office as Chancellor of the Exchequer by Rab Butler of the Conservative Party and Hugh Gaitskell of the Labour Party. The term was insp... Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butskellism
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Butskellism
UK term for political policies tending towards the middle ground in an effort to gain popular support; the term was coined 1954 after R A Butler (moderate Conservative) and Hugh Found op http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688
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Butskellism
(from the article `United Kingdom`) ...halfsince the death of the widely admired Hugh Gaitskell. Gaitskell and prominent Conservative R.A. Butler had been the principal figures in the ... ...voluntarism in that Beveridge advocated a minister-guardian of voluntary action. So pervasive was the p... Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/b/135
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