不列颠联盟

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**不列颠联盟**（英文:Union of Britain）是一个位于欧洲大陆西北海岸附近的工团主义国家。它包含大不列颠岛和大量更小的离岛。不列颠联盟完全被大西洋包围，东临北海，南临英吉利海峡，西南临凯尔特海，因此不列颠联盟不与任何一个主权国家接壤。不列颠联盟最近的国家是在爱尔兰海西海岸与其隔海相望的爱尔兰共和国和位于英吉利海峡南侧的法兰西公社。

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在世界大战后,尽管联合王国在“光荣和平”中没有作出任何让步，大大增强的德意志帝国在欧洲大部分地区的主导地位仍被联合王国视为巨大的威胁。因此，联合王国的军事开支保持在战时水平，且尤其重视与德国的海军竞赛来保证英国毋庸置疑的海洋霸主地位。1924年大选中保守党-自由党联盟的奥斯汀·张伯伦当选，他认为海军竞赛的开支不可持续。在五月，军队的薪酬被全面削减，新船坞的建造也被极大缩减。

### 总罢工

在5月13日，停泊在普利茅斯的英国皇家海军胡德号发生哗变，拒绝服从舰船上的军官。尽管他们很快被逮捕，港口处一大群示威者恐吓警方释放船员并寻求支援。随后对示威的暴力镇压导致了全市范围内的总罢工和暴乱。

为了回应政府对示威者的暴力行为，运输和总工会（TGWU）号召工人团结罢工。因为担心发生一场法国式的革命，政府迅速宣布TGWU非法，暂停运输工人的罢工权利，这进一步激怒了工党和总工会运动。尽管遭到了大规模逮捕，大不列颠矿工联合会还是加入了罢工，大量的本土军营也发生了叛乱。在6月18日，英国工会联盟宣布准备进行总罢工。政府命令军队支援警察镇压罢工并强迫位于关键岗位的工人恢复工作。

### 革命的第一枪

南威尔士的大港塔尔伯特港的钢铁厂的工人大都加入了工会，并进行了大规模的罢工。在9月，当一大群示威群众接近没有经验的士兵时，一名士兵开火造成了混乱和5名罢工工人死亡。随后该镇被武警部队实行宵禁，当晚，附近的军营遭到了愤怒的矿工的袭击。矿工们扒光并殴打了士兵，并占领了附近的建筑。

工团党呼吁效仿这次起义，《每日工人报》声称有超过100名未成年人遭到屠杀，在英国，警察和罢工工人的冲突也越来越普遍和严重。议会很快将被视为加剧紧张局势的工团党，工会联盟和独立工党宣布为非法。随后，被激怒的工党开始支持要求推翻政府的激进工会主义者。惊慌的政府宣布了国家紧急状态，剩余的本土忠诚部队被动员,大量的路障，军事检查点和带刺铁丝网在伦敦出现，所有大型集会都被宣布为非法，军队被命令向拒绝被驱散的人开火，但一些部队和将领选择了叛变而不是服从。

一些议会的自由派议员放弃了执政联盟并请求国王解散议会，进行新的选举，但被拒绝。几周后，乔治 兰斯伯里在一次工党会议上表示拥护共和主义，谴责乔治五世的“政治干预”并将其与被处决的查理一世相比。因此，工党很快被宣布为非法，在伦敦的工党议员也因叛国罪被捕。

### 革命之火的传播

*Main article: Revolutionary British States*
随着威尔士全境戒严，加的夫成为了第一个倒向革命的城市。大批外国援助和志愿者在威尔士陷入战乱时涌入。在苏格兰，格拉斯哥和爱丁堡的政府大楼遭到叛军袭击，叛军随后又通过在利文斯顿的一次成功但血腥的游行来连接了他们的领土，这导致议员们撤出了苏格兰的核心地区。

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大批的逃兵使得军队征召纪律不良的退伍军人，而他们的残暴又增长了人们对叛军的支持，导致了利物浦和其它城市倒向革命。在12月24日，要求在曼彻斯特大教堂避难的辅助部队残忍地殴打了曼彻斯特主教威廉·坦普尔，但叛军民兵击毙了辅助部队，救下了他。在圣诞节，一面红旗飘扬在了新基督教社会主义运动的中心，曼彻斯特大教堂上。

在1925年1月，叛军已经从加的夫前进至布里斯托尔，不列颠联盟也在利物浦宣布成立，乔治·兰斯伯里被任命为主席，在几周后，亚瑟· 詹姆斯·库克被选举为部长理事会主席，让主席成为了更加名誉化的职务。在兰斯伯里的支持下，库克任命约翰·惠特利作为副主席。

Though the loyalists were able to retake Bristol, the army was in full retreat across Britain's industrial heartland. A massive attempt to evacuate Scotland by sea was met with limited success, leaving some soldiers behind as guerrillas in the highlands. The Scottish rebels chose to advance south to link up with the midland rebels. In Spring martial law was extended to the rest of the United Kingdom and the royal family was evacuated to Canada under the guise of a state visit. This caused a flood of people to try to flee the country, clogging Britain's southern ports and forcing the government to divert military to keep order.

In Birmingham, Oswald Mosley delivered a series of speeches that convinced a revolutionary mob to seize control of the city. Though it was swiftly placed under a siege consisting of brutal urban combat, the Union army managed to advance rapidly and relieve the city. In July, the Republican military, now containing an air branch, attacked Nottingham, where its discipline shocked the Parliamentarians and won it a tough victory.

The remains of the Royal Navy began assisting in the evacuation to Canada, now including the government. Heavy Autumn rain slowed the Union's advance and the Parliamentarians managed to halt the rebels at Coventry. With Canadian reinforcements on their way, in December the Union secured French help in raiding Plymouth to break the stalemate. This proved successful and the direction of forces to the south coast allowed breakthroughs at Peterborough, Luton and the retaking of Bristol. London descended into chaos with the government abandoning the city, allowing the Republican army to enter it and crush all remaining resistance.

### The Inaugural Congress

In early 1926, the Provisional Revolutionary Government convened the Constitutional Convention in the ruins of London. Its priority was rebuilding, and for that end masses of volunteers were organized for such tasks as supplying food and medicine and repairing roads and railways.

Some of the remaining Parliamentarian forces still fought on as guerrillas, often no different to bandits. In February a group calling itself the Loyalist Opposition kidnaped three government officials and murdered at least two, promising more to come should "orderly and moral governance" not return. This prompted disorgonised, violent reprisals which caused Chairman Cook to task Vice-Chairman Wheatley with ending the crisis. To do this, he create the Special Operations Executive, a detachment of the Republican Army designated with detaining counter-revolutionaries, protecting VIPs and eliminating dissident armed groups. This proved greatly successful at preventing extralegal violence, though its arrest of former Conservatives Party members would lead to many deaths through overzealous aggression and poor quality prison camps.

The continuing bloodshed outraged George Lansbury, who resigned as President and appointed Clement Attlee to replace him as head of the Labor party. Arthur Cook won the subsequent election for President and shortly afterwards the Constitutional Convention abolished the title, granting the head of state title to the Chairman of the Ministerial Council.

At the beginning of 1927, the constitution of the Union of Britain was formally brought into force. It established a secular state with universal suffrage for those over 21 and elections every five years. There were to be two equal chambers of Congress, each elected by a single transferable vote, but candidates must be approved by the Ministry of Information. The Chairman of the Federal Congress was to be appointed by a vote of both chambers and would unrestrictedly appoint the Executive Committee.

### Laws for the New Society

At the first real meeting of the federal congress a number of laws were rapidly passed, orchestrating the nationalisation of all mines, utilities, roads, railways and other industries. They were turned over to worker’s self-management via the unions, with the TUC responsible for controlling production and trade via its Manufacturing and Resources Commission, members of which were chosen from the TUC by the chairman. The immediate issue facing the country was a lack of key resources needed for industry, having previously been imported, as well as a severe shortage in food and oil imports from the Dominions, who refused to openly trade with the former-UK as their stabilization after the disruption the British Revolution brought hardened their stance against the new Britain. Significant restructuring of trading relationships was made, with attempts to compensate for the deficits made via trade with France, Italy and negotiations with many neutral countries.

In the end a regime of rationing was brought in, which placed the food supply under state control and doled out a given amount of milk, sugar, fruit, margarine, butter, fats, cheese, meat, clothing and tea to each person. Potatoes and vegetables were never rationed and though cereal was initially considered the idea was rapidly abandoned in favour of price regulations. Petrol however had to be rationed extremely heavily, prompting the setup of a commission to investigate the possibilities of synthetic replacements at Porton Down.

A series of People’s Restaurants were set up where a full meal costed no more than nine pence and the “Dig For Revolution” campaign began to encourage people to grow food and take up farming. As a result a migration to the countryside took place as more land was placed under cultivation. For many people this, and a programme of housing reform and slum clearance, actually managed to improve their quality of life, as they receive education in recycling and reusing various products and the quality and quantity of their diet rose. Fishing also benefited from the fall in meat consumption. As part of the attempts to compensate for the limited supply of textiles a small movement began to discard the wearing of hats as an institution, though its traction is limited.

### Scotland and Mosley

A referendum on the independence of Scotland was planned for September 1. Though coalitions supporting both sides cut across economic policy lines, the Nationalists proved far better at campaign unity than the Unionists. Significant political violence rocked Scotland between mobs supporting each side and mobs supporting union with Britain but different economic platforms. Leading nationalist John MacCormick expressed willingness for a Windsor restoration and the head of the center-right Unionist Party endorsed independence. After a Unionist campaigner was stabbed to death in August, John Wheatley delayed the referendum to September 25. On September 1 a bomb exploded at Glasgow university though no one was killed. The following day street fighting between the two sides fortuitously caused no deaths, and fearing a Nationalist victory Wheatley had John MacCormick and his ally Robert Graham arrested for counter-revolutionary activities. Scottish Chairman Willie Gallacher suspended the referendum indefinitely, and in return London granted Scotland more autonomy.

Late in 1928, Randall Davidson became the first Archbishop of Canterbury to retire voluntarily. He was replaced by Christian Socialist William Temple.

In January 1930, John Wheatley suffered a heart attack, leaving him bedridden. Though he wished to be succeeded by Archibald Brockway of the Independent Labor Party, the more radical Labor party statesmen feared that Brockway would ally with Philip Snowden's moderate wing of the ILP and even the Liberal Party. Persuaded to withdraw Brockway from consideration, his friend John Beckett convinced him to support Oswald Mosley as his successor.

Though vowing to “once and for all” root out Britain's alleged reactionary fifth column, little changed at first with Mosley as Deputy Chairman. Nonetheless, many Liberal candidates found themselves ruled ineligible to run by the Ministry of Information headed by Mosley ally Wilfred Ridson.

### The Reign of Mann

In January 1931, Chairman Cook was hospitalized for cancer treatment, so Thomas Mann was nominated by the Trade Union Congress to replace him and subsequently approved. Later that month the Union's first regularly scheduled elections were held. The Labour Party, now headed by Mann, and its coalition partner of Mosley's Popular Revolution Party won in a landslide.

In 1932, rumours spread that the Independent Labor Party and the Liberal Party planned to merge, which if true would give the new party a majority in the Provincial Parliament. Mann dissolved the house in response, giving the Trade Union Congress sole rule. The TUC then passed several laws in quick succession effectively outlawing opposition parties; the Chairman declared the country was not in need of “fractious ideological squabbling when the way forward is clear.” Soon afterwards, another bill permanently disbanded the Provincial Parliament and turned Britain into a unicameral state.

In 1933, Mann was persuaded to support the creation of a new chamber of Congress, albeit one much less powerful than the Provincial Parliament. The Councilist Assembly was created, which is limited to advisory and scrutiny-based powers. This was strongly opposed by Moseley, and a rift developed between him and the Chairman, though publicly they claimed unity.

## Politics

*Main article: Federal Congress of Britain*
Britain's Federal Congress consists of two chambers. The Trade Union Congress is solely responsible for proposing legislation and nominating the Chairman. Congressmen are directly elected by union members, which include all workers holding government recognized jobs. Seats are based on industry, subdivided by region. The Councilist Assembly is the house of review, and its members are elected by the legislatures of Britain's ten regional governments, with representation given in proportion to population. It approves the Chairman, though its approval is not needed if the TUC agrees on a candidate with a two-thirds supermajority.

The Chairman is head of state, and appoints the Executive Committee unilaterally. This includes the Deputy Chairman who is head of government and runs the powerful Central Intelligence Committee. The CIC is Britain's domestic security service responsible for neutralising internal threats, counter espionage and dealing with political dissidents. It includes the Revolutionary Education Commission which is responsible for educating the populace about the benefits of socialism and enforcing it as the new way of life and political orthodoxy. The Ministry of Information is responsible for approving political candidates and limiting the public's access to misinformation and information deemed dangerous.

### Factions

*Main article: Union of Britain/Parties*
Though political parties are legally untenable, factions remain in Congress. Mann's orthodox syndicalists are a majority, at least outwardly. They desire to preserve the current state of the federation, syndicalist dominated and run by the provincial TUCs, and are called “Federationists”.

Mosley's tight-knit followers, who stress the need for “Total commitment to Socialism and the maximum effort for the revolution”, are known as “Maximists”.

Fenner Brockway heads the Autonomists, a group heavily influenced by Christian socialism which supports restoration of the Provincial Parliament and implementation of federalism, along with checks and balances allowing the provinces to exercise power of veto over the executive.

Lead by Clement Attlee and closely aligned with the Autonomists, the “Parliamentarians” wish to return to a unitary parliament like that of the former United Kingdom. Ostensibly the smallest clique, it contains a great number of closet supporters horrified by Mann and Mosley.

## Military

The military doctrine of the Union of Britain puts great emphasis on naval superiority in home waters as well as providing escorts for commerce vessels which are the lifeline of the island nations. The army has a secondary role as the air force and the navy are thought to have a higher priority.

### Army

The British Army is a mix of standing army units, home defence garrisons and local militias which provide a mobile reserve for the home defence garrisons. The standing army is rather small, but the manpower pool of Britain is great and a great number of divisions can be raised in a relatively short time should the need arise.

### Navy

Despite the loss of many ships of the Royal Navy as the monarchists left for Canada, the Republican Navy is still one of the greatest navies of the world and one of the few navies of the world that employ aircraft carriers. The Republican Navy is the sole navy in Europe that can hope to take on the Kaiserliche Marine at sea. The Republican Navy, which is self-governing and largely self-financing, controls not only maritime defence, customs, and the merchant marine, but also has a huge influence over shipbuilding, trade and foreign policy.

### Air Force

The Republican Air Force is mainly tasked to defend the British airspace, with less priority for fighting an aerial war in enemy skies. Still, the RAF does employ a significant number of strategic bombers under the RAF Strategic Bomber Command should the need arise to take the war to the enemy.

## Foreign Relations

The Union of Britain is a member of the Internationale alliance, along with the Commune of France, and the Socialist Republic of Italy with which it has very good relations.

Britain has very poor relations with all members of the Entente, especially the exiled British government in power in Canada. Germany and its block of satellites do not recognize either British government, and the Union is Germany's main rival for naval dominance of Europe's northern waters. Britain also has poor relations with Ireland, though the two do recognize one another.

## See also

* British Revolution
* Commune of France
* Peace with Honour
* Revolutionary British States

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