PoD: Oswald Mosley never leaves the labour party
1929: Ramsay McDonald is elected the british prime minister leading the labour party to power. On this timeline Oswald Mosley begins estabilishing a clique of keynesian populists and uses his mass rhetoric to gain popularity
1931: National government coalition under Ramsay McDonald on the UK, the loss of seats by the Labour allows Mosley to capitalize on it
The governor of New York Franklin Roosevelt drops from the presidential bid after news of his polio is leaked
1934: New constitution is approved in Brazil, Getúlio Vargas manages to push for the right of reelection, allowing him to run again in 1938.
1935: General election on the UK, Oswald Mosley is elected as the prime minister under the national coalition led by Labour
1936: Huey Pierce Long is elected the american president after a tourbolent campaign, he promises to end the great depression and fight for the common man
1938: Getúlio Vargas is reelected the Brazilian president for a new four year mandate
1939: WWII starts, Mosley leads a unity cabinet, that he turns more and more labour concentrated as the war goes on.
WWII: The labour party uses the war as a oportunity to nationalize many national services while also estabilishing a welfare state through the United Kingdom, alltough most of the welfare measures cannot take effect until the war ends. Long, Being reelected in 1940 joins the war as in OTL after the Pearl Harbour attack, and uses the war as a oportunity to end the segregation in the army while packing the court with his supporters as OTL, the democratic party begins to change it's image from a conservative party into a southern populist one.
1942: Brazil join the allies. On the same year Vargas leaves the presidency for Ernâni do Amaral Peixoto, who rules for four years with Vargas as his VP.
1943: Coup in Argentina, the pro axis junta under Ramirez take over
1944: Huey Long is elected for a third mandate
1945: General election in the UK, Mosley again is reappointed prime minister, during the war he took part on the big three conference along Huey Long and Stalin at Yalta and both developed a personal friendship.
Europe is divided, Germany too as in OTL.
1946: The argentinian junta ends, Perón becomes the first argentinian president to be elected democratically in 18 years. Vargas is again elected in Brazil
1947: Huey Long begins his american tour visiting all countries on the continent, by the end of the year most of the dictatorships through america would collapse resulting in populist republics, with the last being Paraguay with the resignation of Higinio Morínigo
1948: Huey Long is elected for a fourth mandate, promissing changes and civil rights. The "National education act" is passed by a senate already packed by Long supporters, creating the common core of the american education. Over the next four years he uses his political skill, corruption and when impossible to negociate, mass politics (like calling massive demonstrations of his african american supporters and purposely causing streel brawls between anti and pro segregation supporters) to finally end segregation with the civil rights act of 1951.
1950: The labour party wins the general election for the first time by a large scale. While the decolonization progresses steadily as OTL, the British raj independence goes differently from OTL, with the colony breaking into dozens of princely states, republics and Pakistan-Bangladesh, with some of them remaneing part of the commonwealth and others being british puppets in all but name.
Vargas is reelected the president of Brazil.
1952: Carlos Socarrás defeats a coup led by Fulgencio Batista, the Cuban democracy lives on. Perón is reelected for a second therm in Argentina.
Huey Long passes the torch to Charles Lindberg, that to this point has turned into a political minion of Long and promises to continues the reforms that Huey started, including a new wave of civil rights and the creation of a National Health Service.
Well. What do you think? Something to say is that the red scare on this scenario is not nearly as close as OTL as the western world mostly passes pro trade unions and pro worker's reforms, while populism becomes the rule, not the exception of politics. Mass parades, the politician leading rallies by himself and the concept that the politician is part of the society and so he must have as much contact with the common people as possible. Some of the bad sides are a increasingly bloated bureocracy, especially on the USA, corruption and demagogy is more common on american politics too, while on the United Kingdom Mosley became simple part of the british political sphere, being almost a national symbol as the queen.
Any hints? ANy problems with the TL? Any suggestions?