The dispute ultimately led to an exodus of members who formed the short-lived Movement for Social Integration.
When membership and activity was at a peak in the period after the Second World War, Turner began giving lectures for the party on what he envisioned socialism would be like.
[1] Three interlocking propositions underpinned the ‘Turnerite’ viewpoint: This view was in direct contradiction to the party's 'Declaration of Principles', which identifies socialism as being the product of class struggle and which claims that the socialist movement will organise for the capture of political power, including power over the state’s coercive machinery, which can be wielded to repress those who resist the imposition of socialism.
Turner, having survived a previous attempt to expel him, promptly did so, along with a number of other members including Joan Lestor (later to become a Labour minister) and the psychologist John Rowan.
Some of these ex-members formed a short-lived Movement for Social Integration, though the impact the dispute had on the party as a whole was almost entirely disruptive and negative.