Also check out Griffiths’ ‘All Good Men’, a standalone Play For Today which is on YouTube, which touches upon similar themes relating to the Labour Party but is more about historical betrayal.
I watched The Guardians a few years ago, and was quite impressed. I remember it as being something you have to concentrate more on than most TV, as it describes the politics of a fascist England and resistance to it in some detail. This means that it’s often quite ‘talky’ and earnest, which isn’t a criticism, just that you have to get into its style. The series’ main writer, John Bowen, has a decent track record of folk-horror with a political edge.
@imposs1904 indeed it is, but, erm, younger. Strange way to see Mrs McCluskey…
Another series:
Edward Woodward, a slightly more right wing dystopia (he’s a people smuggler in the first episode, helping people escape Grim Britain to go to a better life!) The second series ends with a Thatcher-alike leading the liberation against the big state: it was Billed as 1984+6 years…