Post WW2: How Right-wing can Britain Become?

I'm a Yankee, but I do understand Mary Whitehouse and her Anglo-Christian moral crusades for moral purity, and Enoch Powell and his exploitation of fears and bigotries of non-Whites and anti-immigrant sentiment, and the Thatcher years and the Conservatism of that government and those times and the controversial actions it took, and that the British did have (I'm unsure if they still do) things like Blasphemy laws. And I do understand something common to British fiction coming out of that 1980s era was the fear of a right-wing British where Thatcherism went on and on and evolved to greater right-wing heights. This is in things like "V for Vendetta".

There does seem like there were possibilities there for Britain to become right-wing (or at least more so than it ever ended up being), and there certainly seems like there were suspicions among the population that it may have happened in that post-War era. So the subject becomes, just how right-wing can post-War Britain become?
 

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You're using "right-wing" as a catchall term for several unrelated or only vaguely related things there. For example, you can easily imagine Britain going very anti-immigrant or rejecting the permissive society in the 1960s, but that would still be a Britain with lots of state-owned industries and no intention of privatising them even under the Conservative Party...how does one define 'right-wing'?
 
You're using "right-wing" as a catchall term for several unrelated or only vaguely related things there. For example, you can easily imagine Britain going very anti-immigrant or rejecting the permissive society in the 1960s, but that would still be a Britain with lots of state-owned industries and no intention of privatising them even under the Conservative Party...how does one define 'right-wing'?

I'd go Powellism and/or Thatcherism, and the general direction and scope of Powellism and/or Thatcherism, and that whole Anglo-Saxon high moral standards and purity thing. It doesn't need to be right wing as in small government Conservatism. It could be, but it doesn't need to be. My minds eye picture is more "Would you like to see Britannia rule again, my friends? Would you like to see our Coloured cousins home again, my friends? All you have to do is follow the worms" though not necessarily to that extreme (I don't know if you could get to that extreme), but still that general realm and section.
 
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