Echoes of A New Tomorrow: Life after Revolution in the Commonwealth of Britain

[Ix:Risor]

Thank you again, @Ix:Risor! It is a pleasure having you on board, and I’m very glad to have had the chance to hear your thoughts in such detail.

It's a pleasure to be here!

Would people be interested generally in some occasional revisionist chapters looking at periods we’ve already covered? They could either work as a stand-alone postscript or I could work them into the fabled volume 2.

I would be very interested in this myself, whether as addenda or part of the prophesied second volume

 

[jak7139]

Would people be interested generally in some occasional revisionist chapters looking at periods we’ve already covered? They could either work as a stand-alone postscript or I could work them into the fabled volume 2.

I would. Seeing how your views on this AAR and its characters have changed would be interesting.

 

[jak7139]

Arthur Kitson, a monetary theorist whose contribution to economics extended no further than an entrenched belief that the Jews controlled all of world finance.

And yet that somehow is enough to convince Leese. This makes me think Leese was already sympathetic to these ideas, he just needed a little push.

The final defeat of the fascist movement at the end of June came as a result of concerted action by the government, the military and the new intelligence services.

Mosley will probably get most of the credit though.

In effect, the government was now fighting an irregular war against an internal enemy, who made scant distinction between combatant and civilian in their crusade against the vague forces of global “Judeo–Bolshevism”.

And how does one fight an unseen enemy? The Commonwealth's government is fighting a war against guerillas. While the fascists are fighting a nonexistent conspiracy. Usually if you want people to fight, and win, you need real, tangible foes, not vague ideals. This is where the Commonwealth has an advantage: The Blueshirts and so on actually exist, the Judeo-Bolshevik plot does not. What, ultimately, is their goal beyond bombing buildings and subways? How can they succeed?

In 1929, the regular BA was about 250,000 men strong, with about 100,000 serving in the reserve corps.

But how many of those are loyal to the state and the revolution? The fact that they've stayed and haven't deserted or attempted a coup speaks volumes.

Discharges were more common amongst the officer class, and the exodus of military leadership preluded the formation of a new officer corps “drawn from the ranks” on the basis of aptitude starting in January 1930.

A new officer class that is loyal to the government and left-wing politics.

At the 1934 election, however, the USF lost their plurality to Mosley’s Party of Labour–Unionist Action, which took over 42 per-cent of the vote

What did the PLUA promise that the CPGB couldn't deliver on? What's behind this sudden victory?

It went hardly noticed that he did not, crucially, roll back the measures implemented by Chairman Horner the previous year.

Of course anybody who speaks out against Mosley at this moment is probably branded a fascist sympathizer.

Tyranny triumphs when good men say nothing.

1: The Fascist targeting of Pollitt is partly inspired by a bizarre episode from OTL. In 1924, five members of the British Fascisti were arrested for forcibly removing Pollitt from a train bound for an event in Liverpool, where he was due to address a gathering of the National Minority Movement. The group explained to police that they had attempted to bundle him onto another train so that he might enjoy a weekend break, even going so far as to give him £5 spending money for his trouble.

What came of this? Were they tried and found guilty?