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In all honesty this is probably going to be a rather boring thread for many of you out there. But I find political history fascinating and thus I’ve made this TL :) I’m going to use three ways of writing this, one as a narrative focused on certain characters at certain time, one by using quotes from various TL sources and lastly through a simple timeline. I thank everyone who contributed in my 'More Fascist Britain' thread (especially pipisme who really pointed me in the direction of so many political parties) and also EdT for helping with the Clapham by-election information.
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"A Great Third Party"
Prelude

In our timeline many people in Britain and in fact around the world have accepted the fact that the United Kingdom was one of the only places in Europe that didn’t fall to both the far left and the far right. People view Britain as a bastion of fairness, equality and the right to have your say. Though of course this view isn’t completely true, with well-known politicians failing to do as they promised such as Stanley Baldwin and his promise to try and increase cheaper trade within the British Empire, to politicians denying possible ways out of the depression because they seemed to socialist as Philip Snowden did. Even the most famous British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill saying that the government should use machine guns on the strikers during the General Strike of 1926. But through all this Britain came out well, and so seemed to be the only ‘sane’ nation left in Europe it seemed during the 30’s. With the Nazis in Germany taking hold of the German government in 1933, Italy invading Abyssinia in 1935 and the Paris riots in 1934 along with other madness on the continent that involved both the far right and far left. Though Britain managed to largely avoid this apart from the Battle of Cable Street in 1936 in which a group of fascists paraded through London’s East End and ended up in a brawl between the Jews, workers etc. of the area and the thugs of the British Union of Fascists (ran by Oswald Mosley) fighting back (though thankfully there were no deaths, just injuries). But what if some mature, less thug-ish politicians got involved? Ones who didn’t simply run a party on Anti-Semitism or Anti-Communism? What if some older and more experienced politicians merged the mid-far right parties and ended up with a slightly radical party in Britain? This is my interpretation of how this would turn out for the nation.
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18 December, 1918:
Captain Aston stood in front of an audience of supporters for the various party members standing alongside him. His name was the first to be read out with the results, “Captain Gordon Aston standing for the National Party, 4,329 votes.” Aston didn’t react though and waited for the other names to be read out with their respective votes, “William Perring standing as a Coalition Conservative Party, 3,510 votes. John Nicholson standing for the Conservative Party, 1,537 votes…” The rest of the candidates vote counts didn’t reach Captain Astons ears; he allowed himself a small smile. Happy now that he’d beaten his Conservative opponents and that he’d won by a relatively large majority [1], he wondered whether his fellow party members throughout the country were having as much success as he was [2].

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1918: The National Party wins up to 6 parliamentary seats in Parliament. Henry Beamish also retains his seat in Clapham by a majority of just 14[3]. Also Horatio Bottomley wins back his parliamentary seat in Hackney South by standing as an independent and Oswald Mosley wins his first parliamentary seat in Harrow for the Conservatives.
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Excerpt from “The Rise of the British Far-Right” by Richard C. Thurlow (I B Tauris & Co Ltd:1998)

The general election of 1918 was simply a platform from which British fascism managed to take a hold in the nation. After the General Election of 1918 in which at least 6 mid-right candidates from the ‘National party’ were elected, and 2 other candidates who ran as independents (Henry Beamish and Horatio Bottomley) both gained the seats of Clapham and Hackney South the British far rights future was certainly set to improve. After the success of the independents they went onto join the National Party [3], believing the party was the only patriotic party that cared about the British (compared to the insignificant ‘British Fascisti’ party which didn’t gain prominence.) Due to this the National Party had 8 MPs at the beginning of 1919. This may not sound a lot but it was just a foothold for the far right in Britain which would grow in future years.

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[1] – This is a secondary POD in which, due to the National Parties new prominence (see below) and John Nicholson splitting the Conservative vote an OTL National Party candidate gained the seat.
[2] – This is the main POD, due to the well known members of the National Party staying in the party rather than defecting back to the Conservatives or Liberals, thus the National Party was more prominent and the well known members gained their OTL seats.
[3] – Another minor POD, in Clapham Henry Beamish wins the by-election due to John Battley splitting the Conservative vote as an ILP candidate.
[4] – This is due to the fact that the ‘British Fascisti’ was a minor party, but in this TL the National Party isn’t disbanding as it did IOTL. Thus they both join the NP.
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