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'Repressive and Unpopular'. Is this a fair assessment of Lord Liverpool's government? Lord Liverpool's government used repressive measures, in the period 1815 to about 1821, to prevent a revolution from occurring. Many of their policies were exaggerated or misinterpreted and therefore labelled 'repressive'. They did, however, when the situation allowed them to (in the 1820s), introduce some fundamental reforms. 'Repressive' is therefore not a fair assessment of the government. To say that Liverpool's government was unpopular is unfair. Those sections of society that would have been most likely to have disfavoured the government, the working and middle classes, had no say as far as political matters went. There were no opinion polls, and general elections were not a significant test of public opinion. Uprisings that occurred were often in protest to the situation rather than the government itself. In the period between 1815 and the early 1820's Britain was a society under...

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