[Ted Grant] Labour Lefts Rehearsed Debate With Tories!

Ted Grant
British Labour movement
British Labour Movement

"The last reserve of the ruling class, the Royal family, was to be brought forward as a cover for a military dictatorship to keep the masses down by force. Sir Roger Keyes reflected this tendency when he contemptuously attacked the Labour leaders—Bevin, Morrison and Alexander— suggesting that their services in the government were no longer required." / Image: Wikimedia Commons (Roger Keyes during WWI on the left)

In 1942, a censure motion by the extreme right wing of the Tory Party was proposed in order to replace Churchill with a military general. The ruling class was playing with the idea of using the Royal Family as a cover for introducing some form of Bonapartist rule.

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