More Fascist Britain?

John Pretyman Newman, Conservative MP for Enfield from January 1910 to 1918 and for Finchley from 1918 to 1923, expressed admiration for fascism in his role as Vice-President of the Middle Class Union. This was an anti-socialist organisation founded by Lord George Ranken Askwith in 1919.
 
That's good :)

Also when I say a fascist party I mean a normal party, no uniforms, no heightened anti-semitism and especially not Nazism.

Just a little side project: Could you think of any Jewish MPs who might want to join this party? Such as if Robert Forgan joins the party could he possibly try to court Henry Nathan or Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft?
 
I don't think that Henry Nathan would join a "respectable" fascist party. He was a Liberal who crossed over to Labour in 1934. Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft might. One possible candidate is Leopold Maxse. He was editor of the conservative National Review from 1893 to 1932. He supported the National Party in the 1918 general election. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Maxse .

No Conservative politician who had a serious expectation of a post in a Conservative government would join a fringe party.
 
I don't think that Henry Nathan would join a "respectable" fascist party. He was a Liberal who crossed over to Labour in 1934. Sir Philip Magnus-Allcroft might. One possible candidate is Leopold Maxse. He was editor of the conservative National Review from 1893 to 1932. He supported the National Party in the 1918 general election. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Maxse .

No Conservative politician who had a serious expectation of a post in a Conservative government would join a fringe party.

By a fringe party do you mean a Far-Right/Left party? Or simply a small party MP-wise?

And so surely by this a lot of support for the party would go, seeing as quite a few of the well known names and 'big' members we've spoken about had posts afterwards, so would they even join?
 
Originally posted by gamb1993
By a fringe party do you mean a Far-Right/Left party? Or simply a small party MP-wise?

And so surely by this a lot of the support of the party would go, seeing as quite a few of the well known names and 'big' members had posts afterwards, so would they even join?

I mean a party with few MPs. Those politicians who were ambitious for office and power would not join such a party. Those whose principles were greater than their ambition would. But I don't want to be too cynical.
 
Just a few ideas as to how you could get a fascist-esque party kicked of in the UK:

  • A General Strike in 1926 that turns violent, and/or
  • A much more violent and paramilitary 'Social Credit Party'.
 
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