CH: The Militants Succeed

I keep hearing about militants in the Labour Party that were apparently Trotskyites and the like. I don't know when they first appeared, but here's a challenge to see how much potential they had politically.

What would it take them to succeed? Keep in mind, here, that can mean successfully getting into office or something similar.

Come up with something if that's who is being referred to.:p

EDIT: I see this started in the 1960s, and continued into the 1980s. Well, find a way for them to grab power in that time, perhaps the economy keeps getting worse?
 
I keep hearing about militants in the Labour Party that were apparently Trotskyites and the like. I don't know when they first appeared, but here's a challenge to see how much potential they had politically.

What would it take them to succeed? Keep in mind, here, that can mean successfully getting into office or something similar.

Come up with something if that's who is being referred to.:p

EDIT: I see this started in the 1960s, and continued into the 1980s. Well, find a way for them to grab power in that time, perhaps the economy keeps getting worse?

One way could be to get Benn elected as Deputy Leader instead of Healy (and it was a very, very close run thing) in 1981. That could (and it's a stretch) have increased the number of Labour MPs fleeing for safer ground like the SDP. A Foot-Benn combo would have made the 1983 defeat even worse.
 
If Kinnock had not gone for killing kicking out the Militants, they could have rallied around Benn's leadership challenge in 1988.
 
Okay, I meant electorally, this seems to be over the fate of the Labour Party, but still, interesting.

Oh i see, not very good i don't think. Probably the SDP would become Labour's successor and the Militant Labour Party, probably have seats, but never be able to leave the third party position (around 50 - 100 at a push). Like Dei Linke in Germany or the Left Front in France.

Or... in a Greece style scenario they could possibly rise to prominence (ie Radical Left Coalition).
 
Couldn't they rise to prominence instead of the Lib-Dems as a third party in the situation the UK's economy sinks again? To be fair, the Green's already have the left opposition vote but... yeah...
 
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