... facing the Chartists because there were. There was a massive lack of co-ordination which is shown in the Newport rising where fourteen Chartists were 1,000 miners marched into Newport to demand the release of Henry Vincent, fourteen were killed. Many historians sounded very much like Lenin when conveying the view that the working class weren't ready for the vote, which is effectively a polite way of describing them as "useful idiots". One of Chartism's greatest achievements is the fact that it raised political awareness among the working class, a feat that had previously gone untouched. A massive blunder that may have cost the Chartism its effectiveness is the forging of the Signatures on a petition sent to Parliament which supposedly contained 3,000,000 names on but was later revealed to contain only 1,000,000 names which weren't forged, despite this fact there were still 1,000,000 signatures which is unprecedented for its time, ...

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