The Excitement and The Turmoil

Very good at presenting the competing ideological views and also avoids the trap of poor AH that if X doesn't happen [Labour victory in 1945, Rise of Nazis in 1933, Election of Thatcher in 1979] the pre-X polity and economy will be preserved in aspic. It doesn't happen that way, the other side have aspirations and programmes of their own and the economy will change in response to technological, demographic and climatic changes whatever the politicians do.
OTL Noel Pemberton-Billing was Britain's Joseph McCarthy but definitely a case of "Great wits are near to Madness very close allied. And what thin partitions Sense from Thought divide". Unlike McCarthy, Pemberton-Billing could have been a distinguished, even a great man if he hadn't been pathologically anti-Semitic and homophobic.
The man was intellectually extremely capable (learned Latin over a weekend in order to take a law degree), founded Supermarine and designed Britain's first seaplane (plus some cameras and recording equipment). He also came off with a lot of very unpleasant accusations of sexual corruption in high places controlled by German Intelligence that were frankly barking. Though even there he is bright, if mad, "Germany has found that diseased women cause more casualties than bullets. Controlled by their Jew-agents, Germany maintains in Britain a self-supporting – even profit-making – army of prostitutes which put more men out of action than does their army of soldiers." Very nasty, but at the same time he picks up one of the most salient points about warfare that few civilians ever realise -that incapacitating your enemy is preferable to killing him as that way he remains an ongoing drain on resources. So nasty but bright with it.
Is the POD here that he didn't go obviously off his rocker and stayed comparatively sane?

He isn't involved in the POD but the Britain that emerges from the POD is more conducive to men like Pemberton Billing than OTL.
 
21st June 1963

Article from The Morning Post

GREENSHIRT CHAOS ON THE STREETS OF BIRMINGHAM

A rally in support of the Birmingham Conservative MP Francis Chamberlain turned violent last night, as Scouts attending the event were confronted by Labour Party Greenshirt paramilitaries who had organised a counter-demonstration. Mr Chamberlain, who is seeking re-election, attempted to continue his speech even as matters escalated but was quickly removed from the area by policemen concerned for his safety. The violence did not stop with the end of the rally, as the Scouts present called in Brigades from further afield to drive out the Greenshirts, who in turn called upon reinforcements. The fighting spread far beyond the intial point of conflagration, drawing Conservative and Labour supporters onto the streets. After several hours, the constabulary was able to restore order, arresting notable perpetrators on both sides.

The battle seems to have begun as some Greenshirts attempted to muscle into the crowd and disrupt the gathering. Scouts who were present attempted to expel the intruders but were met with physical force, which was recriprocated when it was clear that the Labour paramilitaries would take no notice of verbal warnings. A source within the Greenshirts who has maintained their anonymity claims that the fighting began when Scouts attempted to disperse their demonstration, but this seems like a spurious attempt to shift the blame and portray themselves as victims. The violence which broke out was entirely unjustified, and the Greenshirts as the propagators should bear the responsibility.

Labour organised the counter-demonstration as Mr Chamberlain is a junior minister in the Ministry of Health, responsible for the government's national hygienic programmes. These programmes, introduced during the Anti-Bolshevik War and expanded during the premiership of John Hargrave, have been responsible for enhancement of national vigour and vitality, whilst ensuring that those born with physical or mental disabilities, or prove to have heritable deficiencies of character are suitably isolated and managed in a humane fashion. While the Labour Party has historically seen the sense of National Hygiene (just as it once wholeheartedly supported National Distribution), they have grown increasingly hostile to the careful management of our country's health. They have claimed that the policies associated with National Hygiene disproportionately affect the working class, and have not been proved to result in tangible improvements in public health. The fact of the matter is that policies explicitly aimed at improving national hygiene have only been in place for well under twenty years, not nearly enough time for us to measure the affect on the health of a generation growing up under such policies. What we can see are improvements in educational attainment over the last several years, something which may be linked to an improvement in mental health and productivity.

The police arrested members of the Scouts as well as Greenshirts, and while we may voice our concern that the youthful defenders of public order are being treated the same as violent rabblerousers, we must also take into account that amongst every group there are some bad apples. We can only congratulate the hard working members of our police force in bringing the forces of civil chaos and disorder to book, in so doing taking an impartial and non-partisan view, and carrying out this duty so quickly and honourably.
 
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The dystopian nature of this Britain is being painted very well. Finding elements that were quietly dropped or brushed under the carpet following WWII - eugenics, anti-sematism are two I've spotted so far, and presenting them as horrifyingly normal ITTL is excellently portrayed.
I'm hooked.
 
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