Obligatory post.It's a TL based on the rise of a Libertarian Party in the UK. From grassroots disgruntlement to 10 Downing Street.
Ah NAFF. I remember them from some research I did for a scenarios set in '70s Britain after a fascist coup.The two had a detailed discussion about the seriousness of Britain’s decline since the death of Winston Churchill. Lord de L’Isle had just received a letter from Michael Ivens [the director of the anti-union pressure group Aims of Industry], asking him to consider leading a new association pledged to support individual freedom and to resist ever Bigger Government. As a result of the long flight, Ross and Norris McWhirter were invited to Lord de L’Isle’s home at Penshurst Place in Kent for a further discussion. It was on the hottest day of the year, Thursday 12 June 1965. At a light lunch on a small round table that Lord de L’Isle had acquired at an auction at Chartwell, home of Sir Winston Churchill, plans were hatched to convene a meeting of fifty prominent people from politics, business, the armed services, the church and the professions at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on Thursday 31 July.
These were the original council members of what was then called the National Association for Freedom. They included figures as varied as Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, the constitutional expert Lord Blake and the cricketer Alec Bedser. [3]
(Originally from Wikispooks. Alteration made from 1975 to 1965 to fit in with ATL)
You're using a conspiracy-theory-heavy website for sources? That's not a good idea at all.
The two had a detailed discussion about the seriousness of Britain’s decline since the death of Winston Churchill. Lord de L’Isle had just received a letter from Michael Ivens [the director of the anti-union pressure group Aims of Industry], asking him to consider leading a new association pledged to support individual freedom and to resist ever Bigger Government. As a result of the long flight, Ross and Norris McWhirter were invited to Lord de L’Isle’s home at Penshurst Place in Kent for a further discussion. It was on the hottest day of the year, Thursday 12 June 1965. At a light lunch on a small round table that Lord de L’Isle had acquired at an auction at Chartwell, home of Sir Winston Churchill, plans were hatched to convene a meeting of fifty prominent people from politics, business, the armed services, the church and the professions at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on Thursday 31 July.
These were the original council members of what was then called the National Association for Freedom. They included figures as varied as Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, the constitutional expert Lord Blake and the cricketer Alec Bedser. [3]
(Originally from Wikispooks. Alteration made from 1975 to 1965 to fit in with ATL)
well, since you ask . . .
It strikes me that the U.S. Libertarian Party very astutely works one and only one side of the street. Meaning, party advocates keep an eagle eye for abusive governmental policy but turn a blind eye toward abusive corporate power. So, maybe a UK Liberty Party more in the direction of Anar Cap? And maybe with the more realistic twist that we're not so much against big corporation per se, but anything even halfway to an oligopoly, we're all over it!![]()