Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10975360-20131216191302/@comment-10975360-20131217002019

imperium guy, i agree that conservative government's in general are unsuccessful, but they are still elected

during the war britain did move to the left, wartime efficency socialsim, such as rationing and state management of production did get many people acustomed to the kind of government that would later emerge under attlee. But if you look for example at australia, where a brief period of labour government was succeded by a long - 23 year long - conservative government.

I think Churchill could have won in 1945, held on until 1950. Although by 1950 labour was much weaker than in was in 1945, stafford cripps and bevin would be dead, morrison would be old, attlee would no longer be leader, Bevan and Gaitskell would be feuding. Therefore Churchill could have led the conservatives to another victory in 1950, with a narrow majority. He would have remained in charge until he suffered his serious stroke in 1953 when he would have handed over to eden. Eden would have won a snap election in 1953-54 before resigning over suez. Then either macmillan or butler would have been in charge. Gaitskell would have led labour to victory - maybe even a landslide - in 1959, but his government would be much less radical than Attlee.