DBWI: The Liberal Party never dominated 20th century British politics

Thomas1195

Banned
Jenkins was a fine man but too easily influenced by "experts" and the party got too comfortable in power and we all remember how that turned out with a Liberal Government, yes, a Liberal Government, trying to coerce Councils by diktat.
Oh man, I forgot to mention their attempt to shut down the Daily Mail and nationalize the Telegraph (two main pro-Tory newspapers) by diktat.
 

Thomas1195

Banned
Had the Liberals fallen, the choice between capital and labour would have been much starker - we would have had old-style conservative narrow nationalism on one side and anarchic socio-communism on the other. Some have argued that would have meant industrial and economic strife at best and civil war at worst.
Well, Britain would have continued to decline ITTL and be surpassed by every single major developed economies. Worse, not only Germany and Japan, but also France and even Italy would have surpassed Britain. All of them experienced over 5% average GDP growth between 1950 and 1970, and for Japan, it even reached 10% during the 1960s. The decline would reach a point where Thatcher Revolution would be the only solution.

IOTL, Britain remains Europe's premier economic power since the end of the First World War.
 

Thomas1195

Banned
Well, maybe have Cyril Smith's crimes being exposed during the 1990s. The Liberals would have taken serious beating for such scandal.
 
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