Is the term “great betrayal of 1832” a real term used to describe the 1832 Reform Act?
I have been unable to find ny site which quotes a historian or person at the time refering to the Great Betrayal but many discussions of the act refer to it as letting down the original principles and falling short of its intended results. The statement below is copied from a website http://www.blurtit.com/q895714.html Chartism was a movement between the years 1838-48 that demanded social and political reforms by presenting parliament with charters. There were a number of political and economic reasons why the movement came about. Arguably, the main reason was disgust from the results of the 1832 Great Reform Act which was described by the working class as the ‘Great Betrayal’. The government also proposed ‘uniform franchise’ in the boroughs, which only gave the vote to those who earned property worth £10. Thus, it effectively only allowed property owners and the middle classes to vote in elections. In addition, the attit
