... up to 30% of the population were living in poverty and some liberals felt this was socially unjust. The attitudes of the people were changing as well. More ordinary people were becoming literate and so a new type of media was emerging to cater for these people. Papers such as the Mirror were putting political points across in language the average working class person could understand and so awareness of how the poor were being treated again was increasing.This feeling of unfairness was amplified by a socialist group known as the Fabians these were a group of socialist middle class intellectuals who believed in socialism but not violence and so tried to pressurise the Liberals into accepting socialism. Around the turn of the century there was also a revival in the number of church goers as a result of this there was an increase in Christian compassion this is shown ...

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