Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

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The Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was a political party in the United Kingdom . It originated from Kibbo Kift , which was founded in 1920 as an alternative to the British scout movement .

Kibbo Kift was led by John Hargrave , who gradually transformed the movement into a paramilitary organization promoting Social Credit after Clifford Hugh Douglas . Because her relatives wore green uniform shirts, she became known as the Green Shirt Movement for Social Credit in 1932 . In 1935 it was finally renamed the Social Credit Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland .

Associated with the party are several incidents in which bricks painted green were thrown through windows. One of these attacks was directed at 11 Downing Street, the seat of the British Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The party participated unsuccessfully in the House of Commons elections twice. Nonetheless, Hargrave briefly became economic advisor to the Alberta government in 1936 , where the Social Credit Party of Alberta ruled.

The party's decline began with the uniform ban in Great Britain in 1937. During the Second World War it stopped its activities. After the war, attempts at reconstruction, which were combined with a campaign against bread rationing , failed . The party disbanded in 1951.

In 1965 a Social Credit Party was re- established by CJ Hunt, a former member of Hargrave's party . It also had little success and broke up in 1978.

literature

  • JL Finlay: John Hargrave, the green shirts, and social credit in: Journal of contemporary history . London, 5, pp. 53-71 (1970)

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