The Election Budget Size:S: 36 x 28cm Richard Briers

Richard Briers

a pickaxe and a shovel

a 14th-century moated castle near Robertsbridge in East Sussex

Riley Special 'Red Mongrel'

View of the Dick Whittington Inn

The Election Budget Size:S: 36 x 28cm Richard Briers'The Election Budget', 1865. Gladstone exclaims I Think, Mr Bull, We may now Reckon on Your Support! Gladstone gives John Bull some pennies and his wife a packet of tea. Mr Punch takes a regular look at Mr Gladstone's Budget. The 1865 proposals worked from a position of a surplus of some 4m, as shown on the sack at Mr Gladstone's feet. Income tax was reduced by 2d in the pound, bringing it from 6d to 4d and Mr Gladstone gives the man of the household,