A Shift in Priorities

[altamiro]

Sounds like another bitter potentate-in-exile joins the ranks...

[rast]

Originally Posted by LordInsane

I feel really ashamed to point out something as nitpicky as this... but isn't it inept?

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Adj.1.inapt - not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?" ill-chosen, inept, clumsy, cumbersome, awkward
infelicitous - not appropriate in application; defective; "an infelicitous remark"; "infelicitous phrasing"; "the infelicitous typesetting was due to illegible copy"
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[hsthompson]

Originally Posted by altamiro

Sounds like another bitter potentate-in-exile joins the ranks...

Pity that, with the king abdicating, Churchill might not name his secret organization SCEPTRE.

...I know, I know, but the idea of a left-ish James Bond is so appealing...

[Expat]

So glad he's gone! That's a pretty fair end for the coup, one ship headed to North America. If the Canada question remains too sticky, they can always stick Churchill on some Caribbean island. Jamaica would make sense, but honestly the US could put him anywhere, so why not Cuba and complete the Castro simile?

The form the UK takes post-war is still a total mystery. I'll be interested to see what sort of government arises now. This certainly would be a good time to enact some further electoral reforms (perhaps similar to the reforms being discussed IOTL.) That would be the best way to ensure the rise of some moderate parties to keep the UK from really falling off the socialist deep end. MacDonald sought cooperation with all political parties during crisis IOTL, I can see him seeking more moderate, unifying structures now as well.

[wietze]

So considering the name of their ship.....churchill is going where no pm has gone before,to explore far away lands and destinations

[paulo]

Originally Posted by wietze

So considering the name of their ship.....churchill is going where no pm has gone before,to explore far away lands and destinations

eheheheheheheh

[SavoyTruffle]

So far so good as usual, rast!

[Kitiem3000]

So that would be the end of the civil war. Good riddance to Churchill. He's deluded if he thinks he's ever going to matter again. Now that his coup has failed he's nothing more then a traitor. Once a traitor, always a traitor.

[Amit]

It would be great if a Mittel Afrikan Sub were to sink the Enterprise...would be a fitting end to the man to complicated matters in the region...

[paulo]

Originally Posted by Amit

It would be great if a Mittel Afrikan Sub were to sink the Enterprise...would be a fitting end to the man to complicated matters in the region...

Seconded.... muahhhhhhh

[wietze]

Wouldn't that be too easy?
let him go in exile to the us, and then let a certain mercenary be found and spill the beans.

[Kelenas]

Hm... IIRC Churchill was relatively well-received when he made some visits and speeches in the US a few years earlier.

And we've already seen that he has the devil's own luck when it comes to surviving assassination attempts and the like.

Perhaps rast seeks to drive the irony-o-meter for this TL even higher, and Churchill will rise to power (again) in a foreign country that is culturally very similar to his own, in a mirror image to a certain Corporal?

- Kelenas

[Jotun]

Originally Posted by wietze

Wouldn't that be too easy?
let him go in exile to the us, and then let a certain mercenary be found and spill the beans.

Seconded. The just desserts being served to Churchill by an enraged US would be sweet indeed Something along the lines of what happened to Benny the Moose IOTL maybe?
EDIT: I also like the idea of a President and Enlightened Leader of the United States for Life. Snarky comments, Brandy, Cigars and deluded megalomania would be all the rage in the States

[paulo]

Originally Posted by Kelenas

Hm... IIRC Churchill was relatively well-received when he made some visits and speeches in the US a few years earlier.

And we've already seen that he has the devil's own luck when it comes to surviving assassination attempts and the like.

Perhaps rast seeks to drive the irony-o-meter for this TL even higher, and Churchill will rise to power (again) in a foreign country that is culturally very similar to his own, in a mirror image to a certain Corporal?

- Kelenas

I don't think even the master of irony (rast) can do that one..... challenge presented kkkkkk

[wietze]

Even though churchill had a us mother, he was born in england. So pres of us is a no go. Unless they change the laws ittl.

edit: although seeing him ending as a president of a banana republic would be a fitting ending, Jamaica maybe?

[Jotun]

And after numerous failed attempts at ruling the world or at least the Anglophone parts of it, he is exiled and writes "My struggle"?

[wietze]

Most likely the book will be outlawed in the uk.

good one Jotun

edit: A thought just occurred to me, what if the us govt already knew the truth about what happened in liberia, but kept it secret because it supplied them with a casus belli for the war.
How would the general public react when this comes out around the time the depression starts hitting?

[Kitiem3000]

The US wasn't seeking a war. They were very much invested in colonising South America. If they knew about the massacre they would've went after Churchill instead.

[wietze]

Was more thinking that they found out after the fighting had already started, and they got a bloody nose from the mittelafrikan forces.

[Kitiem3000]

That I can see happening, but they still wouldn't have ignored Churchill the way they did if they knew. And they certainly wouldn't have backed him in a coup.