The Social Credit Party was mothballed during the war, although Hargrave tried to keep his ideas alive through a weekly newsletter, "The Message from Hargrave." He was urged to stand for Parliament in the 1945 election, but did not: only returning to public politics in 1950 when he stood as a candidate in Hackney North and Stoke Newington in the 1950 general election. The 551 votes he received convinced Hargrave to give up, and by 1951 he had disbanded the Party.