There goes civilisation...

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have you read a book called "a very british coup" ? it's a good, albeit fictional, insight into how things work/would work in the event of a genuine socialist government getting elected.

unless the media, the banks, the lords, the royal family, the high-level civil service, the treasury, the military , secret service and the US govt. are also socialists, it gets nipped in the bud pretty quick.

I have indeed read it, and to be honest, it's not entirely fictional. Ties in to the smear campaign on Harold Wilson being a Soviet plant. Leading protagonists of the putative coup included SAS founder David Stirling and various spooks - including Spycatcher author Peter Wright. Their chosen national leader was Earl Mountbatten - who was reportedly somewhat ambivalent about the idea. As, truth to tell, he was about many other things - if you catch my drift.
If anyone wants to learn more, Duncan Campbell has written extensively about this.u