Chavs overthrow the British Government?

yoyo

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With a POD after 1900, have Chav Revolutionaries overthrow the British Parliament and install Prince Charles as Wales as a head of a British Despotate. Bonus if you get the revolutionary movement exported to the rest of anglosphere or to Europe.
 
What is a Chav? Never heard the term before.

The british version of the gopnik

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yoyo

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Chavs are just a cultural phenomenon and a term used to demonise poor working class youth, not a political movement.
I was thinking the culture could develop into a political movement analogous but similar to the brownshirts militia or a very successful, very militant tea party
 
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yoyo

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I think a successful Chav uprising is possible given if the UK undergoes severe economic depression and stagflation, and if youth unemployment approaches very high levels, that can catalyze a revolutionary movement out of the Chav culture. Then these "chav revolutionaries" could utilize strong popular discontent to launch a royalist putsch. I'm figuring something along the lines of the Kapp Putsch.
I mean how plausible is this. Well it would require drastic changes to the British and western economies, but I don't personally see it as a whole implausible. The word chav could be reused to denote a pro-authoritarian political movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapp_Putsch
 
I think a successful Chav uprising is possible given if the UK undergoes severe economic depression and stagflation, and if youth unemployment approaches very high levels, that can catalyze a revolutionary movement out of the Chav culture. Then these "chav revolutionaries" could utilize strong popular discontent to launch a royalist putsch. I'm figuring something along the lines of the Kapp Putsch.
I mean how plausible is this. Well it would require drastic changes to the British and western economies, but I don't personally see it as a whole implausible. The word chav could be reused to denote a pro-authoritarian political movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapp_Putsch
You ask how plausible.
None at all. The notion is completly implausible.
 
Thanks. That means zero to those of us who aren't Brazilian. Care to put it in terms comprehensible in North America?
Gopnik is Slavic (Russian, Ukranian, Belarussian) not Brazilian

Basically troublemaking teenagers/20 somethings dressing in sportswear, associated with petty crime, hooliganism, cheap alcohol, cheap tobacco and certain types of music

Edit: Damn ninjas and their damn smoke bombs
 
It's unlikely if only because Prince Charles wouldn't want to collaborate with chavs. He strikes me as too principled to pretend to support a movement he doesn't agree with. He's not an obvious choice for a chav-type political party. Princess Anne is more plausible as a chav monarch - not because she's common but because she's aggressive..

Sham 69's "If the Kids are United" only just scraped into the top ten and hasn't been played on the radio since 1978, and in any case if the kids really do unite they can't vote. There might however be mileage in some kind of football-related political party.

In general the football hooligan movement was enormous in Britain in the 1980s but mostly apolitical, or at least not interested in party politics, and none of the mainstream political parties were interested in courting the yob vote. The yobs naturally gravitated to the Tories, because the Tories had Norman Tebbit, who was hard. And Margaret Thatcher, who was hard - for a girl. But on the other hand the likes of Derek Hatton and his private army were hard as well and on the whole football hooligans had regional loyalties rather than national aspirations.

In fact Britain has generally kept sports and politics completely separate. The kind of football-politics crossover that took off in South America (I'm thinking of the El Salvador-Honduras Football War, admittedly not caused by a football match but sparked off by one) or the situation whereby Imran Khan transitioned from cricket to politician and eventually Prime Minister of Pakistan, isn't easy to translate into British terms. I can't see Vinnie Jones inspiring an organised political movement. David Icke tried, but he didn't appeal to chavs.
 
This is as ASB as it gets.

Not only do said youth groups have to take down the government, but they have to do so after the chav slur has demonised them to the masses.
 
I just got an image of a bunch of chav's gathering at tesco's then marching on westminster whilst playing MC Mental.

In all seriousness, maybe the British Youth become disenfranchised post WWI with the status quo from the ruling classes in Britain and with a stronger socialist movement (championed by the youth of the country) overthrow the government and monarchy (forcing the royal family to Newfoundland or something like that).
 
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