 When membership and activity were at a peak in the period after the Second World War, a renowned Party speaker, Tony Turner, began giving lectures for the Party on what socialism would be like.The content of these lectures led him to develop a position that caused enormous controversy in the Party by the early to mid-1950s, and was elaborated by Turner and his supporters in articles in the Party's internal discussion journal of the time, "Forum".A series of acrimonious disputes between the "Turnerites" and the majority of the Party culminated in a Party referendum and then a resolution being carried at the 1955 Party Conference to the effect that all members not in agreement with the Declaration of Principles be asked to resign.