Stanley Baldwin, speech at the Carlton Club meeting (19 October 1922), quoted in The Times (20 October 1922), p. 8. At this meeting of Conservative MPs at the Carlton Club, the Lloyd George Coalition Government was rejected by 185 votes to 88 and Lloyd George resigned as Prime Minister.
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The Prime Minister was described this morning in The Times, in the words of a distinguished aristocrat, as a live wire. He was described to me, and to others, in more steady language, by the Lord Chancellor, as a dynamic force, and I accept those words. He is a dynamic force, and it is from that very fact that our troubles, in our opinion, arise. A dynamic force is a very terrible thing; it may crush you, but it is not necessarily right. It is owing to that dynamic force, and that remarkable personality, that the Liberal Party, to which he formerly belonged, had been smashed to pieces; and it is my firm conviction that, in time, the same thing will happen to our party.

— Stanley Baldwin

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The Prime Minister was described this morning in The Times, in the words of a distinguished aristocrat, as a live wire. He was described to me, and to others, in more steady language, by the Lord Chancellor, as a dynamic force, and I accept those words. He is a dynamic force, and it is from that very fact that our troubles, in our opinion, arise. A dynamic force is a very terrible thing; it may crush you, but it is not necessarily right. It is owing to that dynamic force, and that remarkable personality, that the Liberal Party, to which he formerly belonged, had been smashed to pieces; and it is my firm conviction that, in time, the same thing will happen to our party." in the context of "Stanley Baldwin, speech at the Carlton Club meeting (19 October 1922), quoted in The Times (20 October 1922), p. 8. At this meeting of Conservative MPs at the Carlton Club, the Lloyd George Coalition Government was rejected by 185 votes to 88 and Lloyd George resigned as Prime Minister." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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David Lloyd George

About David Lloyd George

David Lloyd George (17 January 1863 – 26 March 1945) was a British politician, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922.