This is an idea I’ve been toying with for a while. Its more or less what it says on the tin, the U-Boat that sunk his ship on the way to Russia never does so and he gets to his destination, only to receive a telegram from Lloyd George that he’s been sacked as secretary of war effective immediately(This was apparently something he was already playing with doing so in OTL), with him spending the rest of the war trying to help the Russians not suck quite so bad as the British under his replacement(Whoever that was.....if you haven’t guessed I am not well read on this time period at all) manage to bungle the war badly enough they lose to the Germans. How? To be honest I don’t know, it doesn’t really matter and is not what the TL If I ever get around to it is going to be really about anyway-, where the usual Kaiserreichesque scenario happens. You know the drill, Mittleafrika gobbles up all the French and British colonies in Africa, Imperial Rule in India collapses and the Irish declare Independence this time with Ulster being dragged around as well! Oh and the government has to pay back all those American loans it took out?
Coupled with the ensuing economic collapse, Britain.....is umm not the most stable country after all this, and after an abortive Socialist Uprising which is brutally crushed by Government troops, who should come on the scene, but our old friend Kitchener, capitalising on the Pseudo Personality cult he built up during the war years(One man apparently committed suicide when hearing of his death), focusing on Anti Catholicism sorry I mean “the plight of our Protestant Brethren in Ulster”, and a kind of one man version of the stab in the back myth as in “I was definitely winning the war until those damn self serving Politicians sacked me!” to shove his way into the Prime Minister’s seat with the tacit approval of King George , where upon he fills the twentieth centuries quota for a right wing moustachioed military dictator born in a Celtic Country leading a washed up former colonial power(though with a lot of residual influence in the white dominions at least) a few decades early.....well he doesn’t go full Fascist with it being kind of like Horthy’s Hungray though with a lot of that kind of Influence. So while you might not see Jews being herded into Gas Chambers, a certain Mr Mosley might be getting a call from Downing Street soon enough.
So with all that being said....does this scenario have a day lights chance of working or is their some facet of early 20th century British political or military history that I am sadly ignorant of it that renders the concept rubbish?
Coupled with the ensuing economic collapse, Britain.....is umm not the most stable country after all this, and after an abortive Socialist Uprising which is brutally crushed by Government troops, who should come on the scene, but our old friend Kitchener, capitalising on the Pseudo Personality cult he built up during the war years(One man apparently committed suicide when hearing of his death), focusing on Anti Catholicism sorry I mean “the plight of our Protestant Brethren in Ulster”, and a kind of one man version of the stab in the back myth as in “I was definitely winning the war until those damn self serving Politicians sacked me!” to shove his way into the Prime Minister’s seat with the tacit approval of King George , where upon he fills the twentieth centuries quota for a right wing moustachioed military dictator born in a Celtic Country leading a washed up former colonial power(though with a lot of residual influence in the white dominions at least) a few decades early.....well he doesn’t go full Fascist with it being kind of like Horthy’s Hungray though with a lot of that kind of Influence. So while you might not see Jews being herded into Gas Chambers, a certain Mr Mosley might be getting a call from Downing Street soon enough.
So with all that being said....does this scenario have a day lights chance of working or is their some facet of early 20th century British political or military history that I am sadly ignorant of it that renders the concept rubbish?
