Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-39133133-20200508110659/@comment-35614398-20200525190839

UK Sep-Dec 1921

- Mussolini's successful march on Rome emboldens the BFP to try their own coup. Hstings leads a march on Westminster, but a tip-off means the police are there to meet them, as well as several communist militias. Violence quicky ensues as the two sides exchange gunfire. 38 people are killed before a communist militia group arrives behind the march and outflanks it. The fascists promptly break formation and flee, spreading out across London where many are arrested, some summarily executed by communist groups.

- The fallout of the Westminster March is immense. Hastings and several other party leaders are sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment, though Mosley escapes this sentence by fleeing to Italy. Many members of Parliament call for the BFP to be made illegal, but the liberal government refuses this and partly causes their downfall. The new Conservative government under Bonar Law declares the British Fascist Party illegal.

- In reaction to this, there are several impromptu Fascist uprisings by far-right groups attempting to uphold Hastings's party. At Weymouth, Exmouth, Eastbourne, Hastings, and in other places mainly in the south, Fascist militias briefly seize control of the city centre, before coming under attack by the army and communist militias, and capitulating. - Around the same time, there is a wide-scale rebellion in Munster, put down after three weeks by the arrival of several tank brigades. The IRA carries out several bombings, using captured Great War-era munitions.

- We'll give the lowlands the islands they initially asked for. We want to hold onto a couple small islands for when the rest of our empire collapses.

- The 1922 elections see the Communists gain around 20% of the vote, undermining the centre-left Labour Party. This highlights the support the radical ideology has gained in the aftermath of the Westminster March. The fascists, with public support at a major low, gained very few seats which were promptly lost following their party's dissolvement.

- For now we remain neutral over the war in South America.

- Several regiments of mostly colonial troops are transferred to Newfoundland.