Wi Lloyd George Joins Labour In The Late 20's?

Apparently he considered doing it and Macdonald gave thought to allowing him to join, but general consensous amongst the party was against it.

But what if David Lloyd george decided to join the labour party? Does he have a role in the 1929-31 cabinet? Does his presence either speed up or prevent the formation of the national government?
 
Wouldn't work out well, because he entry would be a declaration to the world that McDonald is happy to allow non-Socialists (anti-Socialists, even) into the Party. The Socialists had fought tooth and nail to stop Labour becoming a generic 'workingman's Party' playing second fiddle to the Liberals, if McDonald does this then you'll probably see him removed or a mass defection to the ILP, which would become the 'new' Labour Party.

The National Government was bad enough for party unity as it was.
 
Wouldn't work out well, because he entry would be a declaration to the world that McDonald is happy to allow non-Socialists (anti-Socialists, even) into the Party.

Uh, there were lots of former Liberals who joined Labour; Benn, Cripps, Wedgewood, Trevelyan. Hell, half of the early Labour Cabinet ministers were Liberal defectors.

I imagine the opposition to LG will have been because he was seen as such a 'dynamic force', and potentially disruptive.
 
Uh, there were lots of former Liberals who joined Labour; Benn, Cripps, Wedgewood, Trevelyan. Hell, half of the early Labour Cabinet ministers were Liberal defectors.

Defectors are one thing, the Welsh Wizard was publicly anti-Socialist to a Churchillian degree.
 
Defectors are one thing, the Welsh Wizard was publicly anti-Socialist to a Churchillian degree.

Everyone who was not currently a Labour Party member in that era was, rhetorically-speaking. We only regard Churchill as an exception because he stuck to the standard rhetoric of the twenties into the forties and beyond.
 
Everyone who was not currently a Labour Party member in that era was, rhetorically-speaking. We only regard Churchill as an exception because he stuck to the rhetoric of the twenties into the forties and beyond.

Not the sort of man you'd imagine running the most centrally planned regime the UK has ever seen...
 
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