Cartoon, Gulliver and the Brobdingnag Farmers

Cartoon, Gulliver and the Brobdingnag Farmers -- a satirical comment on Benjamin Disraeli's attempt to compensate Agricultural interests by proposing to transfer two million pounds of local taxation to the Consolidated Fund. The motion was lost by a small majority. The reference is to Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Brobdingnag Comment Compensate Consolidated Disraeli Fund Gulliver Interests Legislation Majority Parliamentary Plump Policies Pounds Proposing Semitic Semitism Swift Taxation Tory Transfer

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