The General Election - Free Fooders
Comic Postcard series - The General Election - Free Fooders. Candidates at a hustings face the warth of the electorate and also face a barrage of eggs and vegeatbles! A play on the name of The Unionist Free Food League, a British pressure group formed on 13 July 1903 by Conservative and Liberal Unionist politicians who believed in free trade and who wished to campaign against Joseph Chamberlain's proposals for Tariff Reform (which involved an import tax on food)
Picture No
13156323
Media ID
45760170
Size
5212px x 3347px
(5.8MB)
Credit
Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
Source
Illustration by Percy Venner Bradshaw ('PVB' - here unsigned) (1877-1965) reproduced on a Raphael Tuck & Sons Oilette' postcard - The General Election' series (3/6)
Date
1908
