Would you watch a political drama about the British left in the 1930s and 40s?
​
I had this idea for a TV series and I'm curious what people think.
Think Peaky Blinders, but swap the gang for a movement. Britain, early 1930s. Mass unemployment, hunger marches, and a young union organiser who actually believes he can change the country if he's sharp enough and hard enough.
He spends the next fifteen years walking through history that really happened. The Depression. Mosley's Blackshirts marching through the East End. Cable Street. Lads heading off to Spain and half of them not coming home. The bitter argument on the left that never really goes away, revolution versus the ballot box. Then the war. Then 1945, when Labour wins in a landslide and the NHS gets built out of everything that came before it.
Around him you've got a communist who thinks he's a sellout waiting to happen, a Labour politician playing the long game and paying for every compromise, a journalist trying to write the truth without getting one of them killed, an anti-fascist who's stopped believing speeches do anything, and a fascist rival who's charismatic, dangerous, and genuinely thinks he's the one who loves the country properly.
The history's already there. The story is what it costs everyone living through it, and whether getting power means you've already lost the thing you started out fighting for.