Hard left win in Britain in the 80s

It is hard but not impossible. Obviously no Falklands war, the Endurance staying on course

Secondly Owen winning the SDP leadership and demainding that Liberals remove all unilateralist from approved lists of some such stupidity

Unemployment goes up

Foot does better, he can be quite inspiring you know

Labour gets 37%

Tories 36.7%

LIberals 13%

sdp 12 %

The bias to Labour in constitnuence coudl have given Foot 330 seats.


Any risk of a coup?
 
The problem is that if Owen wins the SDP leadership then there is no Alliance or at least a far weaker one then OTL, he saw Jenkins as tying him to a broken ship and with the stronger position, he's bailing out of it.

I think the board came to a consensus that a slightly increased majority would be gained due to Labour having a suicide note for a manifesto and the economy was recovering at the time as well as a well-done campaign by Cecil Parkinson.

If you want PM Foot then just have him win the leadership contest after Wilson resigns.
 
It is hard but not impossible. Obviously no Falklands war, the Endurance staying on course

Secondly Owen winning the SDP leadership and demainding that Liberals remove all unilateralist from approved lists of some such stupidity

Unemployment goes up

Foot does better, he can be quite inspiring you know

Labour gets 37%

Tories 36.7%

LIberals 13%

sdp 12 %

The bias to Labour in constitnuence coudl have given Foot 330 seats.


Any risk of a coup?

Erm, no. Fat chance of the far left winning. Even if Endurance was kept on, the Junta needed a victory and they'd been licking their lips and salivating over the Falklands ever since Ark Royal was taken away to be scrapped. They really didn't think that the UK could project any real kind of force that far south. As for the SDP, Woy was always going to be a frontrunner ahead of the Prince of Darkness. And you'd still have to butterfly away the Longest Suicide Note in History (the Labour manifesto - which even at the age of 13 I knew was a load of tosh).
 
Erm, no. Fat chance of the far left winning. Even if Endurance was kept on, the Junta needed a victory and they'd been licking their lips and salivating over the Falklands ever since Ark Royal was taken away to be scrapped. They really didn't think that the UK could project any real kind of force that far south.
Well they were looking at a short war with Chile over the Beagle Islands, most likely an updated version of Operation Soberania, if a fight over the Falkland Islands wasn't an option IIRC. I think if HMS Endurance is kept on station then that might give the Argentinians pause for thought even if the other balance of forces doesn't change, it was apparently her withdrawal that give them the main impression that the UK wasn't willing or interested in the islands any more.
 
I think the board came to a consensus that a slightly increased majority would be gained due to Labour having a suicide note for a manifesto and the economy was recovering at the time as well as a well-done campaign by Cecil Parkinson.

However, the suicide note wouldn't have got through the NEC nearly as easily if the right of the party thought the election at least moderately winnable. There'd be less of a feeling that 'if we're going to lose this election it's going to be on Tony Benn's terms'. I think you would have seen a more moderate, readable manifesto.

Although the best way to ensure PM Foot is have him win the Labour leadership in 1976, Operation Journeyman is a failure in November 1977 and over Christmas and New Year the British public watch Marines having to storm Port Stanley five years early over their Turkey. The British victory leads to a surge of good feeling and in May 1978 the Labour party is returned to power with a large majority.
 
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