United Kingdom: Difference between revisions

Since Germany had no desire to spread Nazism to Britain, the United Kingdom did not become a fully integrated Reichskommissariat, nor a Nazi-led government like the French State. Instead, the newly-organised government keeps most of the pre-war system, with the House of Lords being empowered to be on par with the House of Commons and the only legal party being the British People's Party. The British People's Party is made of both dedicated fascists and pragmatic liberals, unified by their support for collaboration with the Reich. This was allowed by the Germans in order to avoid excessive resistance in the British Isles, especially since the German army was stretched thin to control the Russian lands: while an uprising could be easily defeated by the German garrison (and the British Free Corps if needed), it would have required tens of thousands of men, and resources the Reich could not afford. Therefore, it was deemed more prudent to allow the beaten enemy to keep a facade of democracy and independence, as fraudulent and shallow as it had become, as long as the British parliament would not oppose the Germans in any way. While this unwritten agreement has resisted for more than a decade thanks to the "carrot and stick" combination of "free" democratic elections and the German garrison, now the cracks are starting to show.▼