What if the Labour Party won the 1983 UK election. Many people will say that this is ASB, but in many ways it may be more likely than an Alliance win, due to the FPTP British electoral system.
I assume that for this to occur the UK would have to lose the Falklands War. If people became so disillusioned with the Tories would it have been possible that they would not have risked a 'wasted vote' on the Alliance and would instead have voted Labour.
Also if the Falklands War had been lost would the pacifistic tone of UK Labour in the early 1980's have appealed more (one of Foot Labour's main policies were nuclear disarmanent and the removal of many US bases from the UK).
Basically, under Michael Foot Labour's policies were a total rebuttal of all of the previous four years Thatcherite reforms and then some. It would have been the most socialist left-wing administration in UK history.
How would its policies have worked out. Would of its policies been implemented for a year or two and then there have been a 'liberal turn' like France under Mitterand, with a sudden conversion of the leadership to neo-liberal policies?