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Notable supporters of Social Credit or "monetary reform" in Britain in the 1920s and 1930s included aircraft manufacturer A. V. Roe, scientist Frederick Soddy, author Henry Williamson, [citation needed] military historian J. F. C. Fuller [7] and Sir Oswald Mosley, in 1928-30 a member of the Labour Government but later the leader of the British Union of Fascists.
The name Social Credit Party has been used by a number of political parties.. In Canada: Social Credit Party of Canada; Manitoba Social Credit Party; Parti crédit social uni ...
Some of the British monetary reformers, such as Michael Rowbotham, is influenced by the Social Credit-movement. The Money Reform Party [5] [6] was founded by Anne Belsey from Kent in 2005 and deregistered in 2014. [7] Belsey stood for the MRP in the 2006 Bromley and Chislehurst by-election and came last with 33 votes.
As the Green Shirts, the Social Credit Party played a role in the political street culture of the 1930s: marching, meeting and often clashing with the Black Shirts and the Red Shirts. The Public Order Act 1936 , which banned the wearing of uniforms by political groups, was a great setback for a movement that relied on agit-prop , but it was ...
In 1938, Aberhart's Alberta Social Credit Party had 41,000 paid members, forming a broad coalition ranging from those who believed in Douglas' monetary policies to moderate socialists. [ 42 ] : 127 The latter group helped influence the party to form alliances with the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and various communist groups in various ...
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According to the UK Parliament website sourced from a report by Olympic Britain, [3] during the 1950s there were 2.8 million members of the Conservative Party and 1 million Labour Party members. In the years after 1945 until the early 1990s, supporters of the Socialist and Cooperative parties and trade unions linked with the Labour Party ...
By 1932 the Anglo-Saxon costumes, camping, hiking and woodcraft had been replaced by military uniform, marching and propagandising. The name was changed to the Green Shirt Movement for Social Credit, and later to the Social Credit Party of Great Britain. The organisation was wound up in 1951.