WI: Atlee Completes His Second Term
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Clement Attlee becomes dictator for life, after killing all his political opponents. 
Clement Attlee becomes dictator for life, after killing all his political opponents.
So... Attlee becomes Big Brother?
If Atlee had been able to hang on, until say the mid 1950s, or had gone to the country in 1952, then Labour would have benefited from the favourable economic conditions. There would have been less of a focus on consumerism and a bigger priority on Industry. So in the short term, a slower recovery from austerity, but a mixed result long term. There wouldn't have been much more nationalisation but more fiscal redistribution.
Its widely beloved that Atlee wanted Aneurin Bevin to lead the party-yet if Atlee stepped down in the 1950s, this may have caused a similar issue to the Left right split of the 1950s. Especially as there would have been the campaign for Nuclear disarmament by the left.
As a result we could have seen a divided Labour party defeated by the Conservatives in the late 1950s. This is interesting as If Churchill lost in the early 1950s, he would have been asked/forced to step down for either Eden, or perhaps someone younger.
Its widely beloved that Atlee wanted Aneurin Bevin to lead the party-yet if Atlee stepped down in the 1950s, this may have caused a similar issue to the Left right split of the 1950s. Especially as there would have been the campaign for Nuclear disarmament by the left.
As a result we could have seen a divided Labour party defeated by the Conservatives in the late 1950s. This is interesting as If Churchill lost in the early 1950s, he would have been asked/forced to step down for either Eden, or perhaps someone younger.
I'm not sure how to take the Milliband Sandwich Debacle
On one hand it is very silly to pay any attention to someone's sandwich technique and indeed deliberately malicious and cruel. It has no relevance or bearing on anything political. In otherwords, standard British media behaviour.
On the other hand, Britain is now so comfortably past racism and antisemitism that people mock the leader of the Labour Party, a man of recent Jewish descent, for the way he eats a bacon sandwich. I'm not sure if I should be proud or appalled.
On one hand it is very silly to pay any attention to someone's sandwich technique and indeed deliberately malicious and cruel. It has no relevance or bearing on anything political. In otherwords, standard British media behaviour.
On the other hand, Britain is now so comfortably past racism and antisemitism that people mock the leader of the Labour Party, a man of recent Jewish descent, for the way he eats a bacon sandwich. I'm not sure if I should be proud or appalled.
Well IIRC Orwell did want to originally call it 1948.So... Attlee becomes Big Brother?
Well IIRC Orwell did want to originally call it 1948.
Wasn't the original title going to be The Last Man in Europe?
I can kind of agree with that, however if you intentionally go out and do this sort of thing as a man of people/look at me and how normal I am media opportunity then you've got to accept the rough with the smooth when you end up looking like he did.
That does vaguely strike a chord, not sure if it might have gone through several names or if I'm misremembering the 1948 bit.
Clement Attlee becomes dictator for life, after killing all his political opponents.
It's a bright cold day in April and the clocks are striking thirteen. The permanent revolution of IngLab is ongoing. We have always been at war with America. We have always been allied with Germania. Uncle Clem is watching you.
Had that happened, the only way Eisenhower could have secured the Presidential nomination would have been with MacArthur or McCarthy as his running mate, an Operation Success on Britain, the return of Edward VIII to the throne, the official inauguration of the "Southern Strategy" sixteen years early, and the dismantlement of the New Deal.