Hughligans

The Hughligans - originated as a portmanteau word from the English name Hugh and the word hooligan, such as " bully " - were a group within the House of Commons fraction of the British Conservative Party in the years from the turn of the century until the outbreak of the First World War.

The group consisted mainly of a gang of rebellious young backbench Conservative faction Hugh Cecil, 1st Baron Quickwood, and defined over the criticism of, in the opinion of its members failed policies of the Conservative leader Arthur Balfour. Your name received the Hughligans based on Cecil's name and the English word hooligan, with whom you can describe the rowdy - unmannerly way tried in the young MPs behaved to Cecil, in the opinion of its critics.

Members of the group were out of Cecil, among others Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl Percy, Arthur Stanley, Ian Malcolm and Lord George Hamilton, and, until his change of party in 1904, Winston Churchill.

After the fall of the Conservative government in 1905 Hughligans went on sharp confrontation with Balfour, which they put to accused in his role as leader of the opposition now to insufficient aggressiveness of the day. In the following years the Hughlighans continued their anti - Balfour agitation within the party and contributed with at to Balfour's fall as party leader in 1910. After the fall of Balfour, the group broke up gradually to finally disappear during the First World War as a result of " Neudurchmischung " the British political landscape by the grand coalition government of 1915 and the associated external orientation and internal restructuring of the Conservative Party out of the picture.

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