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Mark F Proudman's avatar

I did watch the early seasons of the Crown, and very much liked it, but for some reason didn't make to Harold Wilson. There was a novel A Very British Coup that sounds a bit like what you describe.

I don't believe the feds organized Jan 6 (that would posit organizational ability), but they certainly exploited it.

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steven lightfoot's avatar

I don't know if you have ever watched the series The Crown, but in one episode set in the 1970s after Harold Wilson was elected, there is a discussion by Mountbatten about what it would take to actually carry out a Coup d'Etat in the modern UK. There would have to be a lot to it, and he explains in some detail what it would have taken to overthrow the elected Wilson (Socialist) government. What happened Jan 6 in DC was no more than a riot, simply based on the scenarios Mountbatten describes.

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