The Enemy Within

Pangur

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Walker stared manically out of the window. He saw the mob chanting and screaming. God how he hated them, commies, layabouts, thugs, hippies, weirdos. These were the people he was trying to stop. These were the people he didn't want controlling his country.

Then he saw him. A man with a "Gay Lib" banner.

BANG!...
Thats all the situation needs (I`m assuming that Walker pulled the trigger)
 
According to Dominic Sandbrooks' "Seasons In The Sun" (brilliant book BTW). Walker loathed homosexuals. I forget the exact phrase but it was something to do with him hating "those who use the sewage system of the human body as a playground"
 
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"Go Go Go"

Explosions and gunfire

"Weapons down"

shouting and screaming

"where are the hostages"

smashing glass

"surrender at once"

wood splintering

"last chance"

seven shots...silence.

 
BBC News Special

"The siege of Downing Street has been brought to an end. A combined team of the SAS and Special Branch entered 5 points following a shot from what is believed to be the residence of the Chief Whip

All the hostages bar one were saved. The dead captive has been identified as Constable Jack Parkin who on duty when the siege began a week ago

Altogether 4 people have been killed. PC Parkin, 2 unidentified SAS officers and General Sir Walter Walker.

Lord Mountbatten was also shot during the raid. His condition is described as critical.

There will be more at nine o'clock...
 

Geon

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Will Louis have a beer hall style trial?

As a member of the royal family I suspect that her majesty will want to keep everything as legal as possible. From Elizabeth's standpoint there must not even be a hint of favoritism or of bias in the trial for the sake of the monarchy and the government.
 
The aftermath of the siege was long, wrought with controversy and still reverberates to this day.

Walker had shot dead by an SAS soldier who had tried to kill him.

Mountbatten was shot in the head by a Special Branch officer. Officially his injuries were so severe that he was rendered comatose. He was taken away and never heard of again. Rumours persist that he was either locked away in a secure facility on the orders of Prince Philip whilst other say he recovered and was exiled from the UK.

The soldiers who took part in the coup were told by Walker and Mountbatten that there was a plot by communist sympathisers in the Civil Service and Government to take over the country. They were jailed and cashiered.

Fred Parkin was awarded a posthumous George Cross for bravery after fellow hostages revealed he had tried to persuade some of the soldiers to turn on the coup leaders. His funeral service took place at Westminster Abbey and was attended by 100,000 people.

Downing Street itself was badly damaged by the siege. It was un-inhabitable for months. Wilson lived at Great North Street while Healey and Ted Short rented out.

The effects of the coup still resonate to this day. Centrism and moderatism in British politics took firm as extremism on both left and right suffered.

Wilson was so affected that he retired in 1975. His official reason was that he was fatigued by the coup and its after effects whereas in reality he knew he had dementia

The coup proved one thing. That despite the chaos that affected the UK in the 1970s the power of democracy was still highly regarded and wouldn't be ignored.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.

THE END
 
Do you think the coups failure increased the movement for Scottish, Welsh, and Cornish independence?

It's possible. I'm not sure about Cornish but Scottish and welsh nationalists may well use the coup as fuel for saying they're better off alone.
 
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