AgentRudda
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The AHC is to destroy Labour as a party of government or opposition, preferably with a POD in 1979, or a minor POD earlier (different Cabinet careers etc), and with the end result being a centrist/moderate party having a Commons majority by 2000, with the Conservatives as the opposition.
My very brief thoughts could be a rule change for leadership elections in 1980, with Michael Foot winning still, but Tony Benn or someone else taking over after the 1983 defeat, triggering a mass exodus from Labour to the SDP/another similar party. Benn then takes the party down a route even further to the left than Foot, and other Things happen which ruin the Labour Party, and boost the new party. Importantly, this would need to ensure that all moderate wings of Labour leave the party rather than staying and trying to reform the party in the 1990s, ie no New Labour.
The third party could be the 'Liberal Democrats', or a totally new party with a different name, perhaps to take MPs from the Conservatives as well.
My very brief thoughts could be a rule change for leadership elections in 1980, with Michael Foot winning still, but Tony Benn or someone else taking over after the 1983 defeat, triggering a mass exodus from Labour to the SDP/another similar party. Benn then takes the party down a route even further to the left than Foot, and other Things happen which ruin the Labour Party, and boost the new party. Importantly, this would need to ensure that all moderate wings of Labour leave the party rather than staying and trying to reform the party in the 1990s, ie no New Labour.
The third party could be the 'Liberal Democrats', or a totally new party with a different name, perhaps to take MPs from the Conservatives as well.