WI: Britain Falls to Fascism and Its Empire Allies with Nazi Germany?

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What if sometime in the 1930s, a revolution led to the rise of a totalitarian regime in Britain which deposes the prime minister and parliament in lieu of the Great Depression? The British Empire retains its loyalty to this new dictator and eventually becomes involved in a military alliance with Germany and Italy?
 
Well, if there's war then whoever is against has lost. You've got the RN plus KM submarines, the RAF and its strategic nature plus the tactical Air Force of the LW, and on top of that the armies, intelligence agencies and inventiveness. But Italy...you had to include Italy?
 
Totalitarians and fascists are not hive minds.

Italy's and Germany's territorial ambitions were a threat to Britain's position, and would be resisted regardless of how Democratic the government in charge was.

Remember, Italy and Germany almost went to war over Austria when their interests didn't align. Italy and Greece went to war despite having very similar governments and both being friends with Germany. Japan and China went to war despite both being authoritarian regimes. I could go on, but you probably get the point...
 
How?



Why?



To what end?

Yeah, this. It's hard to see how these events actually could happen but even if they did you're going to need to provide some context as to how the fascist takeover happened, what the state of fascist Britain is like afterwards, and why they're entering into alliances with countries that would threaten their position.
 
Yeah, this. It's hard to see how these events actually could happen but even if they did you're going to need to provide some context as to how the fascist takeover happened, what the state of fascist Britain is like afterwards, and why they're entering into alliances with countries that would threaten their position.

And why Canada, NZ, Aus etc say "Yeah fair enough I guess we're fascist now"
 
And why Canada, NZ, Aus etc say "Yeah fair enough I guess we're fascist now"

Yup, the empire is headed towards dissolution. Hell, even the Scott's may be thinking revolt.

Financially this is not all that great. Nazi Germany was defacto bankrupt. Will the treasury of England be looted as well to keep nazi Germany afloat?
 
I'm always a bit suspicious of threads like this. The subtext is usually "Does this mean Germany will win?"
 
Totalitarians and fascists are not hive minds.

Italy's and Germany's territorial ambitions were a threat to Britain's position, and would be resisted regardless of how Democratic the government in charge was.

Remember, Italy and Germany almost went to war over Austria when their interests didn't align. Italy and Greece went to war despite having very similar governments and both being friends with Germany. Japan and China went to war despite both being authoritarian regimes. I could go on, but you probably get the point...


This.
Fascist UK would probably be isolationist, more than anything else.
 
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