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What would be the best means to ensure that the small but notable upsurge of minor parties in the 1918 election go on to play a major role in the interwar period? Parties like the "patriotic labour" National Democratic and Labour Party, the far-right National Party, the patriotic-Marxist National Socialist Party and even the so-called veterans interest "Sliver Badge Party" that took a surprising but largely forgotten share of the 1918 electoral vote, winning around 13 seats between them, most of them National Democratic. What's especially weird about the National Party is that they actually had more seats before than after the election, because most of their MP's and Peers re-defected back to the Conservatives.

So what are the best things that could happen for these smol electoral beans, and conversely what is the absolute worst turn of events for the Lloyd George Coalition (though perhaps not too bad necessarily, most of the National Democratic MP's were coalition) and the Labour Party opposition?

May or may not be research for a timeline where British politics gets "Weimarised."
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