The Loud Blast that tears the Skies by Chris Nash

Author:Chris Nash [Nash, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: RO:SF
Publisher: Sea Lion Press
Published: 2016-01-30T00:00:00+00:00

Attlee had taken charge of the Labour Party in 1940, in what was then only the latest of party splits. As is typical among the political left the split came in foreign policy, between pro-French interventionists and pacifist-isolationists. Though clearly a dispute of high and sincere principle, at the time it was a popular irrelevance once set against events at home, further representing a squandered opportunity for the advance of the party’s economic policy at such a key time. In any case Attlee was elected among the Parliamentary Labour Party as their chair - a compromise candidate neither strongly liked nor disliked by any of his three dozen colleagues. The PLP of the day was barely larger than that elected in the last pre-Crash election of 1906, and its members were returned by much the same communities as then: industrial towns and cities, shipbuilding areas, mining valleys. Democratic Party machines in places including Birmingham and Glasgow (each built up by a “favourite son”) would deny those cities to Labour for many years to come, as would the rock-solid Unionist hold on Liverpool (the exception there of course being Attlee's own seat of Liverpool Scotland). Mostly denied the opportunity to break out of these electoral niches, the Labour machine had turned to entrenching its hold on existing seats, whilst giving a secondary priority to making gains elsewhere. Said gains could still occur, often through well-contested by-elections, or through various "free run" arrangements made with local Democrat branches to target "Tory Democrat" defectors. Losses too were not uncommon, as elected members died or defected to other parties.

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