About a month ago I made a post related to my brainstorming PODs for a timeline about pre and post-WW2 Britain.
In short that post’s idea ran aground in relation to the premise of my timeline. Upon going back to the drawing board however, one part of that original post would spark a new idea.
“[Stafford Cripps was] A leader of Labour’s left-wing faction who was temporarily expelled for attempting to a form an anti-appeasement coalition containing conservatives and communists…”
This is the idea I intend to discuss in this post, specifically:
anti-appeasement advocates (i.e: Conservatives such as Churchill, or Liberals such as Sinclair) never made any overt** overtures towards a Popular Front.
** Though efforts such as the Anti-Nazi Council or Churchill’s willingness to openly criticise other Conservatives do display the potential for cooperation that led
me to consider ideas of such as timeline.
^ Some ideas I myself have for such a POD lend me to suggest late 1936 as a likely starting point for such a government. I intend to elaborate once some
discussion has built up.
The Possibility of a Change in British Government during WW2
My history class started a new unit a couple of weeks ago on ‘British Political History 1945-1997’ and as a result I’ve been reading (both in and outside classwork) on the immediate post-war governments, particularly Attlee, which has led to me thinking about the possibilities of that Labour...
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“[Stafford Cripps was] A leader of Labour’s left-wing faction who was temporarily expelled for attempting to a form an anti-appeasement coalition containing conservatives and communists…”
This is the idea I intend to discuss in this post, specifically:
- How feasible it would’ve been for the Popular Front to be successfully formed?*
- Whether a Popular Front could’ve unseated the National Government and form an anti-appeasement Cabinet?
- What would’ve the consequences of a Popular Front government have been?^
anti-appeasement advocates (i.e: Conservatives such as Churchill, or Liberals such as Sinclair) never made any overt** overtures towards a Popular Front.
** Though efforts such as the Anti-Nazi Council or Churchill’s willingness to openly criticise other Conservatives do display the potential for cooperation that led
me to consider ideas of such as timeline.
^ Some ideas I myself have for such a POD lend me to suggest late 1936 as a likely starting point for such a government. I intend to elaborate once some
discussion has built up.