Challenge: Left-Wing Methodist Mildly-Theocratic Britain

For the back-story of one of my unfinished novels, I have a British 1848 motivated by pre-Marx socialism, evangelicalism, and parliamentarians sick of dictatorial rule by the Prime Minister.

(This is the result of a failed Napoleonic invasion of Britain)

They're defeated and the survivors end up on another planet.

(Long story)

I was thinking that, had they won, the fusion of the various ideologies might produce some kind of Christian Socialist Methodist Britain.

So how might we get a "Christian Socialist Methodist Britain"? Obviously I just posted a timeline that could suffice, but I'm wondering about other ideas.
 
Well, couldn't you also have an Anglo-Catholic socialist Britain? That movement also had strains of socialism within it, given the Fathers' work with the poor in the slums of London.

If the socialism were Anglo-Catholic in flavor, then then there would be less of a chance of the disestablishment of the Church of England. The disestablishment of the C of E would create huge constitutional headaches that might not be satisfactorily resolved.

The final knock against Anglo-Catholicism might be their conflation with the failed Napoleonic invasion. Anglo-Catholicism was highly suspicious in the latter half of the 19th century precisely because it assumed many of the liturgical forms of continential Catholicism. That would send a signal to more Protestant Anglicans and Methodists that the Anglo-Catholic group was not fully committed to a uniquely English "mild theocracy" as you term it. I agree that any sort of socialist reform might have to take place within a stronger Protestant context in order for the majority of Englishmen to favor the movement.

Methodism was a strongly nonconformist group that was firmly Protestant and Evangelical. This might fit better with the more evangelical wing of the C of E, which in the 19th century was clearly the majority. But I don't see the Established Church running to accept the leadership of a nonconformist group. I would suspect that the Low Churchmen of the C of E would rather hold onto their political and aristocratical power through the legitimacy of the "fidei defensor"
 
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