Editing Robert Walpole (section)

====Opposition====
Walpole, a polarising figure, had many opponents, the most important of whom were in the [[Country Party (Britain)|Country Party]], such as Lord Bolingbroke (who had been his political enemy since the days of Queen Anne)<ref>{{cite book |first=Isaac |last=Kramnick |year=1992 |title=Bolingbroke and His Circle: The Politics of Nostalgia in the Age of Walpole}}</ref>{{full citation needed|date=March 2014}} and [[William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath|William Pulteney]] (a capable Whig statesman who felt snubbed when Walpole failed to include him in the Cabinet).<ref>{{cite ODNB |first=Stuart |last=Handley |first2=M. J. |last2=Rowe |first3=W. H. |last3=McBryde |date=October 2007 |title=Pulteney, William, earl of Bath (1684–1764) |id=22889 |mode=cs2}}</ref> Bolingbroke and Pulteney ran a periodical called ''The Craftsman'' in which they incessantly denounced the Prime Minister's policies.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Simon |last=Varey |date=April 1993 |title=The Craftsman |journal=Prose Studies |volume= 16 |issue=1 |pages=58–77 |doi=10.1080/01440359308586487}}</ref> Walpole was also satirised and parodied extensively; he was often compared to the criminal [[Jonathan Wild]] as, for example, [[John Gay]] did in his farcical ''[[The Beggar's Opera|Beggar's Opera]]''. Walpole's other enemies included [[Jonathan Swift]],<ref>{{cite book |first=J.A. |last=Downie |year=1986 |title=Jonathan Swift: Political Writer}}</ref>{{page needed|date=March 2014}} [[Alexander Pope]], [[Henry Fielding]], and [[Samuel Johnson]].<ref>{{cite web |title=A petition to remove Sir Robert Walpole (part&nbsp;1) |website=samueljohnson.com |url=http://www.samueljohnson.com/debates/174107.html |access-date=10 September 2018}}</ref>