List of U.K. Prime Ministers 1945-2020

[Premier Taylerov]

The Anglo/Franco-Nazi/Soviet War

1940: Neville Chamberlain (Conservative leading Conservative-Liberal National-National Labour National Government) [1]
1940: Winston Churchill (National Government) [2]
1942: Winston Churchill/Charles de Gaulle (National Government) [3]

[1] The allies are able to provide aid to Finland during the Winter War in the form of 20,000 troops each via Petsamo (as promised OTL). As a result, the Molotiv Reibentrop pact holds and the Soviets effectivly join the Axis, for now...
[2] Churchill replaces the ineffectual Chamberlain in May. The Nazis invade Norway and cut off Allied aid to Finland. The Soviets successfully pacify Finland with Nazi aid. The Axis Powers agree to admit the Soviet Union and give it a sphere to influence over Persia, Mesopotamia and Pakistan 'when' they win the war. Hitler is very enthusiastic about a continuous alliance stretching from France to Japan. Stalin begins subtly altering propaganda to put more emphasis on Russianness than Socialistness.
[3] In 1942, seeing France be occupied for two years, De Gaulle makes a deal with Winston Churchill. The United Kingdom and the French Republic shall be merged into the Franco-British Union, as long as Nazism exists. In this way, de Gaulle becomes the de facto Co-Prime Minister of Britain.


War of the Worlds: Remember Butterflies!!!

1895: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess Salisbury (Conservative) [1]
1898: No government
1899: Douglas Haig (Military government overseeing reconstruction) [2]

[1] In 1898, they came. In cylinders they came. Then they marched in tripods. With heat ray and black smoke they slew dozens of men, women and children. Their native plants writhed and consumed the land. But the germ infected the invaders, and they fell back slain by the simplest of God's creatures. The invaders were gone as was their interesting flora and fungi. But a few observers of the invasion lurked beneath the Arctic Ice and transmitted their findings to a dissappointed and arid world.
[2] With the disintegration of the alien invasion, Douglas Haig - now the most senior member of the army after its initial defeats - took control of the government in a bid to eventually restore democracy in the war-ravaged British Isles. Haig personally supervised the obtaning of alien technologies for the Empire (largely from the crashed tripods). However, there became an entrenched belief amongst the survivors that somehow their 'Britishness' aided in the defeat of the Martians. (With their stiff upper lips, and all that, and similar to the OTL 'cult of empire.')

[V-J]

War of the Worlds: Remember Butterflies!!!

1895: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess Salisbury (Conservative) [1]
1898: No government
1899: Douglas Haig (Military government overseeing reconstruction) [2]
1900: Joseph Chamberlain (None) [3]

[1] In 1898, they came. In cylinders they came. Then they marched in tripods. With heat ray and black smoke they slew dozens of men, women and children. Their native plants writhed and consumed the land. But the germ infected the invaders, and they fell back slain by the simplest of God's creatures. The invaders were gone as was their interesting flora and fungi. But a few observers of the invasion lurked beneath the Arctic Ice and transmitted their findings to a dissappointed and arid world.
[2] With the disintegration of the alien invasion, Douglas Haig - now the most senior member of the army after its initial defeats - took control of the government in a bid to eventually restore democracy in the war-ravaged British Isles. Haig personally supervised the obtaning of alien technologies for the Empire (largely from the crashed tripods). However, there became an entrenched belief amongst the survivors that somehow their 'Britishness' aided in the defeat of the Martians. (With their stiff upper lips, and all that, and similar to the OTL 'cult of empire.')
[3] Chamberlain is given responsibility for co-ordinating the reverse-engineering efforts on the alien technology by the military. Not a good thing to do, probably, considering his post-invasion mental state. Chamberlain becomes convinced that all things have to be bent to an iron will to raise humanity up to the point where its survival of a species will never be at stake again. Technology - and fusion of technology and man - takes precedence over all. Only the self-discipline of the British can save the world, redeem it for future generations. In consequence, Chamberlain overthrows the military in a crazed attempt at absolute power. Styling himself First Lord, this cybernetically-monocled and berobed despot now throws everthing into advancing the human race towards perfection, a design which over the coming decades would change the world forever...

[Mumby]

War of the Worlds: Remember Butterflies!!!

1895: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess Salisbury (Conservative) [1]
1898: No government
1899: Douglas Haig (Military government overseeing reconstruction) [2]
1900: Joseph Chamberlain (None) [3]

1911: Winston Churchill (Democrat) [4]
[1] In 1898, they came. In cylinders they came. Then they marched in tripods. With heat ray and black smoke they slew dozens of men, women and children. Their native plants writhed and consumed the land. But the germ infected the invaders, and they fell back slain by the simplest of God's creatures. The invaders were gone as was their interesting flora and fungi. But a few observers of the invasion lurked beneath the Arctic Ice and transmitted their findings to a dissappointed and arid world.
[2] With the disintegration of the alien invasion, Douglas Haig - now the most senior member of the army after its initial defeats - took control of the government in a bid to eventually restore democracy in the war-ravaged British Isles. Haig personally supervised the obtaning of alien technologies for the Empire (largely from the crashed tripods). However, there became an entrenched belief amongst the survivors that somehow their 'Britishness' aided in the defeat of the Martians. (With their stiff upper lips, and all that, and similar to the OTL 'cult of empire.')
[3] Chamberlain is given responsibility for co-ordinating the reverse-engineering efforts on the alien technology by the military. Not a good thing to do, probably, considering his post-invasion mental state. Chamberlain becomes convinced that all things have to be bent to an iron will to raise humanity up to the point where its survival of a species will never be at stake again. Technology - and fusion of technology and man - takes precedence over all. Only the self-discipline of the British can save the world, redeem it for future generations. In consequence, Chamberlain overthrows the military in a crazed attempt at absolute power. Styling himself First Lord, this cybernetically-monocled and berobed despot now throws everthing into advancing the human race towards perfection, a design which over the coming decades would change the world forever...
[4] Chamberlain managed eleven years in power in which the country and the empire radically altered. Communications technology slavaged from the tripods allowed almost instantaneous communication across the whole breadth of Empire. The Dominions were abolished and a single Empire of Britain established, with cybernetic soldiers and monstrous war-machines to back it up. An alliance was secured with Germany, a nations whose efficiency and military streak that Chamberlain found appealing. However in 1909, Chamberlian critically overturned this positive relationship, plunging the continent into war. Revealed for the insane despot he was, the young Winston Churchill lead a squadron of Britannia class Flying Cruisers gone mutineer on London. Overthrowing the cybernetic dictatorship, new elections were held, bringing Churchill to power as Prime Minister of the whole empire in a new Grand Imperial Parliament. Peace was secured by trading a few colonies now made uneconomical by the creation of the Royal Flying Host. Meanwhile, one Henry Cavor devises a new mineral which will once more revolutionise the Empire and truly lead Britain into the Second Industrial Revolution. Cavorite.

The Anglo/Franco-Nazi/Soviet War

1940: Neville Chamberlain (Conservative leading Conservative-Liberal National-National Labour National Government) [1]
1940: Winston Churchill (National Government) [2]
1942: Winston Churchill/Charles de Gaulle (National Government) [3]

[1] The allies are able to provide aid to Finland during the Winter War in the form of 20,000 troops each via Petsamo (as promised OTL). As a result, the Molotiv Reibentrop pact holds and the Soviets effectivly join the Axis, for now...
[2] Churchill replaces the ineffectual Chamberlain in May. The Nazis invade Norway and cut off Allied aid to Finland. The Soviets successfully pacify Finland with Nazi aid. The Axis Powers agree to admit the Soviet Union and give it a sphere to influence over Persia, Mesopotamia and Pakistan 'when' they win the war. Hitler is very enthusiastic about a continuous alliance stretching from France to Japan. Stalin begins subtly altering propaganda to put more emphasis on Russianness than Socialistness.
[3] In 1942, seeing France be occupied for two years, De Gaulle makes a deal with Winston Churchill. The United Kingdom and the French Republic shall be merged into the Franco-British Union, as long as Nazism exists. In this way, de Gaulle becomes the de facto Co-Prime Minister of Britain.

[V-J]

War of the Worlds: Remember Butterflies!!!

1895: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess Salisbury (Conservative) [1]
1898: No government
1899: Douglas Haig (Military government overseeing reconstruction) [2]
1900: Joseph Chamberlain (None) [3]
1911: Winston Churchill (Democrat) [4]
1918: Joseph Chamberlain (None) [5]


[1] In 1898, they came. In cylinders they came. Then they marched in tripods. With heat ray and black smoke they slew dozens of men, women and children. Their native plants writhed and consumed the land. But the germ infected the invaders, and they fell back slain by the simplest of God's creatures. The invaders were gone as was their interesting flora and fungi. But a few observers of the invasion lurked beneath the Arctic Ice and transmitted their findings to a dissappointed and arid world.
[2] With the disintegration of the alien invasion, Douglas Haig - now the most senior member of the army after its initial defeats - took control of the government in a bid to eventually restore democracy in the war-ravaged British Isles. Haig personally supervised the obtaning of alien technologies for the Empire (largely from the crashed tripods). However, there became an entrenched belief amongst the survivors that somehow their 'Britishness' aided in the defeat of the Martians. (With their stiff upper lips, and all that, and similar to the OTL 'cult of empire.')
[3] Chamberlain is given responsibility for co-ordinating the reverse-engineering efforts on the alien technology by the military. Not a good thing to do, probably, considering his post-invasion mental state. Chamberlain becomes convinced that all things have to be bent to an iron will to raise humanity up to the point where its survival of a species will never be at stake again. Technology - and fusion of technology and man - takes precedence over all. Only the self-discipline of the British can save the world, redeem it for future generations. In consequence, Chamberlain overthrows the military in a crazed attempt at absolute power. Styling himself First Lord, this cybernetically-monocled and berobed despot now throws everthing into advancing the human race towards perfection, a design which over the coming decades would change the world forever...
[4] Chamberlain managed eleven years in power in which the country and the empire radically altered. Communications technology slavaged from the tripods allowed almost instantaneous communication across the whole breadth of Empire. The Dominions were abolished and a single Empire of Britain established, with cybernetic soldiers and monstrous war-machines to back it up. An alliance was secured with Germany, a nation whose efficiency and military streak Chamberlain found appealing. However in 1909, Chamberlian critically overturned this positive relationship, plunging the continent into war. Revealed for the insane despot he was, the young Winston Churchill lead a squadron of Britannia class Flying Cruisers gone mutineer on London. Overthrowing the cybernetic dictatorship, new elections were held, bringing Churchill to power as Prime Minister of the whole empire in a new Grand Imperial Parliament. Peace was secured by trading a few colonies now made uneconomical by the creation of the Royal Flying Host. Meanwhile, one Henry Cavor devises a new mineral which will once more revolutionise the Empire and truly lead Britain into the Second Industrial Revolution. Cavorite.
[5] Cavorite provides a massive boost to industrial processes, allowing efficient and high-speed production. The world becomes a much smaller place, as distance is largely overcome by the ease and speed with which Cavorite allows travel. The military applications are obvious a well, and an arms race develops between the great powers - Germany, China, Britain and the Confederacy. Increasing automation also produces large pools of surplus labour however, which are increasingly fed into the military, and Churchillian Britain takes on a distinctly militaristic flavour. One thing leads to another, and war between Britain and the Confederacy on the one hand, and China and Germany on the other becomes a reality in 1916. Churchill's military adventurism leads to several notable defeats, and the citizen-soldier populace becomes restless. On Britain's defeat in 1918, the citizenry overthrow Churchill, and restore Chamberlain by acclamation.

With Britain's ambitions frustrated on Earth, Chamberlain invests heavily in the incipient Cavorite-fueled space-race. Britain succeeds in establishing the colony of New Birmingham on the Moon in 1924, which thrives. This all stokes unresolved great power tension howerver, a touchy subject in particular for Chamberlain, who steers a delicate course between Germany and the Confederacy. Chamberlain's grip on reality begins to progressively weaken, as his decrepit, cybernetically-sustained body becomes more cybernetic and less human. His megalomania is arguably exacerbated by his marriage to Alice Rose in 1927, a naturalised Russian refugee. Rose fuels Chamberlain's belicosity, and a second Great War breaks out in 1929. Chamberlain's increasing insistence on the essentially enforced cyborgisation of the populace sets off a revolt in 1931, and the Second Lordship period comes to an end, with Britain and Germany still at war with China and the Confederacy....

OOC: Think it's about time the Martians made a return soon, yah?

[Mumby]

Originally Posted by V-J

War of the Worlds: Remember Butterflies!!!

1895: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess Salisbury (Conservative) [1]
1898: No government
1899: Douglas Haig (Military government overseeing reconstruction) [2]
1900: Joseph Chamberlain (None) [3]
1911: Winston Churchill (Democrat) [4]
1918: Joseph Chamberlain (None) [5]


[1] In 1898, they came. In cylinders they came. Then they marched in tripods. With heat ray and black smoke they slew dozens of men, women and children. Their native plants writhed and consumed the land. But the germ infected the invaders, and they fell back slain by the simplest of God's creatures. The invaders were gone as was their interesting flora and fungi. But a few observers of the invasion lurked beneath the Arctic Ice and transmitted their findings to a dissappointed and arid world.
[2] With the disintegration of the alien invasion, Douglas Haig - now the most senior member of the army after its initial defeats - took control of the government in a bid to eventually restore democracy in the war-ravaged British Isles. Haig personally supervised the obtaning of alien technologies for the Empire (largely from the crashed tripods). However, there became an entrenched belief amongst the survivors that somehow their 'Britishness' aided in the defeat of the Martians. (With their stiff upper lips, and all that, and similar to the OTL 'cult of empire.')
[3] Chamberlain is given responsibility for co-ordinating the reverse-engineering efforts on the alien technology by the military. Not a good thing to do, probably, considering his post-invasion mental state. Chamberlain becomes convinced that all things have to be bent to an iron will to raise humanity up to the point where its survival of a species will never be at stake again. Technology - and fusion of technology and man - takes precedence over all. Only the self-discipline of the British can save the world, redeem it for future generations. In consequence, Chamberlain overthrows the military in a crazed attempt at absolute power. Styling himself First Lord, this cybernetically-monocled and berobed despot now throws everthing into advancing the human race towards perfection, a design which over the coming decades would change the world forever...
[4] Chamberlain managed eleven years in power in which the country and the empire radically altered. Communications technology slavaged from the tripods allowed almost instantaneous communication across the whole breadth of Empire. The Dominions were abolished and a single Empire of Britain established, with cybernetic soldiers and monstrous war-machines to back it up. An alliance was secured with Germany, a nation whose efficiency and military streak Chamberlain found appealing. However in 1909, Chamberlian critically overturned this positive relationship, plunging the continent into war. Revealed for the insane despot he was, the young Winston Churchill lead a squadron of Britannia class Flying Cruisers gone mutineer on London. Overthrowing the cybernetic dictatorship, new elections were held, bringing Churchill to power as Prime Minister of the whole empire in a new Grand Imperial Parliament. Peace was secured by trading a few colonies now made uneconomical by the creation of the Royal Flying Host. Meanwhile, one Henry Cavor devises a new mineral which will once more revolutionise the Empire and truly lead Britain into the Second Industrial Revolution. Cavorite.
[5] Cavorite provides a massive boost to industrial processes, allowing efficient and high-speed production. The world becomes a much smaller place, as distance is largely overcome by the ease and speed with which Cavorite allows travel. The military applications are obvious a well, and an arms race develops between the great powers - Germany, China, Britain and the Confederacy. Increasing automation also produces large pools of surplus labour however, which are increasingly fed into the military, and Churchillian Britain takes on a distinctly militaristic flavour. One thing leads to another, and war between Britain and the Confederacy on the one hand, and China and Germany on the other becomes a reality in 1916. Churchill's military adventurism leads to several notable defeats, and the citizen-soldier populace becomes restless. On Britain's defeat in 1918, the citizenry overthrow Churchill, and restore Chamberlain by acclamation.

With Britain's ambitions frustrated on Earth, Chamberlain invests heavily in the incipient Cavorite-fueled space-race. Britain succeeds in establishing the colony of New Birmingham on the Moon in 1924, which thrives. This all stokes unresolved great power tension howerver, a touchy subject in particular for Chamberlain, who steers a delicate course between Germany and the Confederacy. Chamberlain's grip on reality begins to progressively weaken, as his decrepit, cybernetically-sustained body becomes more cybernetic and less human. His megalomania is arguably exacerbated by his marriage to Alice Rose in 1927, a naturalised Russian refugee. Rose fuels Chamberlain's belicosity, and a second Great War breaks out in 1929. Chamberlain's increasing insistence on the essentially enforced cyborgisation of the populace sets off a revolt in 1931, and the Second Lordship period comes to an end, with Britain and Germany still at war with China and the Confederacy....

OOC: Think it's about time the Martians made a return soon, yah?

What is this Confederacy? I'm cool with it as long as you can explain it. And about the Martians, I've got some cool ideas concerning aliens...

[V-J]

The Confederacy, ya'll. In the post-invasion ruins, the good ole boys seized power and restored it.

Please don't say you find that implausible, whilst not objecting to a Steampunk partially Borg insane ubermensch Joseph Chamberlain married to Ayn Rand...

[Mumby]

Originally Posted by V-J

The Confederacy, ya'll. In the post-invasion ruins, the good ole boys seized power and restored it.

Please don't say you find that implausible, whilst not objecting to a Steampunk partially Borg insane ubermensch Joseph Chamberlain married to Ayn Rand...

But the Martians only invaded the British Isles. I don't see an opportunity for the recreation of the Confederacy unless the United States collapsed due to the economic slump inevitable after alien tripods laser the world's economic heart.

[V-J]

Originally Posted by Mumby

But the Martians only invaded the British Isles.

Yeahbut that wasn't specified at the start of the list. (Is it even specified explicitly in the book?)

[Premier Taylerov]

Originally Posted by Mumby

But the Martians only invaded the British Isles. I don't see an opportunity for the recreation of the Confederacy unless the United States collapsed due to the economic slump inevitable after alien tripods laser the world's economic heart.

I assumed the tripods had attacked everywhere.

[Mumby]

Originally Posted by Premier Taylerov

I assumed the tripods had attacked everywhere.

Okay cool. Its just when I read it, it seemed to be localised to Southeast England. I even felt that describing the British Isles as ravaged was going a little far. But if we are assuming that an invasion has occured everywhere, I'm cool with that.

[Mumby]

War of the Worlds: Remember Butterflies!!!

1895: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess Salisbury (Conservative) [1]
1898: No government
1899: Douglas Haig (Military government overseeing reconstruction) [2]
1900: Joseph Chamberlain (None) [3]
1911: Winston Churchill (Democrat) [4]
1918: Joseph Chamberlain (None) [5]
1932: David Lloyd George (Democrat) [6]


[1] In 1898, they came. In cylinders they came. Then they marched in tripods. With heat ray and black smoke they slew dozens of men, women and children. Their native plants writhed and consumed the land. But the germ infected the invaders, and they fell back slain by the simplest of God's creatures. The invaders were gone as was their interesting flora and fungi. But a few observers of the invasion lurked beneath the Arctic Ice and transmitted their findings to a dissappointed and arid world.
[2] With the disintegration of the alien invasion, Douglas Haig - now the most senior member of the army after its initial defeats - took control of the government in a bid to eventually restore democracy in the war-ravaged British Isles. Haig personally supervised the obtaning of alien technologies for the Empire (largely from the crashed tripods). However, there became an entrenched belief amongst the survivors that somehow their 'Britishness' aided in the defeat of the Martians. (With their stiff upper lips, and all that, and similar to the OTL 'cult of empire.')
[3] Chamberlain is given responsibility for co-ordinating the reverse-engineering efforts on the alien technology by the military. Not a good thing to do, probably, considering his post-invasion mental state. Chamberlain becomes convinced that all things have to be bent to an iron will to raise humanity up to the point where its survival of a species will never be at stake again. Technology - and fusion of technology and man - takes precedence over all. Only the self-discipline of the British can save the world, redeem it for future generations. In consequence, Chamberlain overthrows the military in a crazed attempt at absolute power. Styling himself First Lord, this cybernetically-monocled and berobed despot now throws everthing into advancing the human race towards perfection, a design which over the coming decades would change the world forever...
[4] Chamberlain managed eleven years in power in which the country and the empire radically altered. Communications technology slavaged from the tripods allowed almost instantaneous communication across the whole breadth of Empire. The Dominions were abolished and a single Empire of Britain established, with cybernetic soldiers and monstrous war-machines to back it up. An alliance was secured with Germany, a nation whose efficiency and military streak Chamberlain found appealing. However in 1909, Chamberlian critically overturned this positive relationship, plunging the continent into war. Revealed for the insane despot he was, the young Winston Churchill lead a squadron of Britannia class Flying Cruisers gone mutineer on London. Overthrowing the cybernetic dictatorship, new elections were held, bringing Churchill to power as Prime Minister of the whole empire in a new Grand Imperial Parliament. Peace was secured by trading a few colonies now made uneconomical by the creation of the Royal Flying Host. Meanwhile, one Henry Cavor devises a new mineral which will once more revolutionise the Empire and truly lead Britain into the Second Industrial Revolution. Cavorite.
[5] Cavorite provides a massive boost to industrial processes, allowing efficient and high-speed production. The world becomes a much smaller place, as distance is largely overcome by the ease and speed with which Cavorite allows travel. The military applications are obvious a well, and an arms race develops between the great powers - Germany, China, Britain and the Confederacy. Increasing automation also produces large pools of surplus labour however, which are increasingly fed into the military, and Churchillian Britain takes on a distinctly militaristic flavour. One thing leads to another, and war between Britain and the Confederacy on the one hand, and China and Germany on the other becomes a reality in 1916. Churchill's military adventurism leads to several notable defeats, and the citizen-soldier populace becomes restless. On Britain's defeat in 1918, the citizenry overthrow Churchill, and restore Chamberlain by acclamation.

With Britain's ambitions frustrated on Earth, Chamberlain invests heavily in the incipient Cavorite-fueled space-race. Britain succeeds in establishing the colony of New Birmingham on the Moon in 1924, which thrives. This all stokes unresolved great power tension howerver, a touchy subject in particular for Chamberlain, who steers a delicate course between Germany and the Confederacy. Chamberlain's grip on reality begins to progressively weaken, as his decrepit, cybernetically-sustained body becomes more cybernetic and less human. His megalomania is arguably exacerbated by his marriage to Alice Rose in 1927, a naturalised Russian refugee. Rose fuels Chamberlain's belicosity, and a second Great War breaks out in 1929. Chamberlain's increasing insistence on the essentially enforced cyborgisation of the populace sets off a revolt in 1931, and the Second Lordship period comes to an end, with Britain and Germany still at war with China and the Confederacy....
[6] The government which replaced the Second Lordship was lead by David Lloyd George who diversified the economy, and use the labour surplus to colonise the Moon and restore the Empire's economy. The militarism of the last nine years remained, as a planned economy was used to try and reinforce Imperial borders. However, Lloyd George could not have cut down the Armed Forces at a worse time. While the wars on Earth were beginning to come to an end, the Selenites rose from their underground tunnels and waged war on the British settlers. The Martians also unleashed a second wave of cylinders, this time their soldiers had been injected with high-power drugs to combat Earth's diseases.

The Anglo/Franco-Nazi/Soviet War

1940: Neville Chamberlain (Conservative leading Conservative-Liberal National-National Labour National Government) [1]
1940: Winston Churchill (National Government) [2]
1942: Winston Churchill/Charles de Gaulle (National Government) [3]
1947: Clement Attlee (Labour) [4]

[1] The allies are able to provide aid to Finland during the Winter War in the form of 20,000 troops each via Petsamo (as promised OTL). As a result, the Molotiv Reibentrop pact holds and the Soviets effectivly join the Axis, for now...
[2] Churchill replaces the ineffectual Chamberlain in May. The Nazis invade Norway and cut off Allied aid to Finland. The Soviets successfully pacify Finland with Nazi aid. The Axis Powers agree to admit the Soviet Union and give it a sphere to influence over Persia, Mesopotamia and Pakistan 'when' they win the war. Hitler is very enthusiastic about a continuous alliance stretching from France to Japan. Stalin begins subtly altering propaganda to put more emphasis on Russianness than Socialistness.
[3] In 1942, seeing France be occupied for two years, De Gaulle makes a deal with Winston Churchill. The United Kingdom and the French Republic shall be merged into the Franco-British Union, as long as Nazism exists. In this way, de Gaulle becomes the de facto Co-Prime Minister of Britain.
[4] The assassination of Adolf Hitler by Jewish MI6 agents may have killed the head of Nazism, but its didn't kill the snake. The Germans had accomplished their aims in Scandinavia and crushed western Europe. The new Fuhrer wished to maintain the alliance with the Soviet Union, now renamed the Russian Peoples Union, and instead aided Italy's conquest of North Africa. The fall of Suez and Tunis within a week of one another forced Britain to the negotiating table. The Imperial Lifeline was cut and Britain would have to kneel before the Axis. Forced to cede several East and North African colonies, the Franco-British Union de facto ended with the recognition of the legitimacy of the Vichy government. Britain did however turn the remainder of French Africa which included Algieria into a Dominion, and encouraged Frenchmen to move there. Meanwhile the Chinese begin to turn the tide against the Japanese, the Americans wring their hands, and a general election is held in which Clement Attlee emerged victorious and prepares to unite the Empire as a Commonwealth of Freedom against the Axis...

[Premier Taylerov]

War of the Worlds: Remember Butterflies!!!

1895: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess Salisbury (Conservative) [1]
1898: No government
1899: Douglas Haig (Military government overseeing reconstruction) [2]
1900: Joseph Chamberlain (None) [3]
1911: Winston Churchill (Democrat) [4]
1918: Joseph Chamberlain (None) [5]
1932: David Lloyd George (Democrat) [6]
1935: No government
1937: Gordon Welchman (Cyborg) [7]

[1] In 1898, they came. In cylinders they came. Then they marched in tripods. With heat ray and black smoke they slew dozens of men, women and children. Their native plants writhed and consumed the land. But the germ infected the invaders, and they fell back slain by the simplest of God's creatures. The invaders were gone as was their interesting flora and fungi. But a few observers of the invasion lurked beneath the Arctic Ice and transmitted their findings to a dissappointed and arid world.
[2] With the disintegration of the alien invasion, Douglas Haig - now the most senior member of the army after its initial defeats - took control of the government in a bid to eventually restore democracy in the war-ravaged British Isles. Haig personally supervised the obtaning of alien technologies for the Empire (largely from the crashed tripods). However, there became an entrenched belief amongst the survivors that somehow their 'Britishness' aided in the defeat of the Martians. (With their stiff upper lips, and all that, and similar to the OTL 'cult of empire.')
[3] Chamberlain is given responsibility for co-ordinating the reverse-engineering efforts on the alien technology by the military. Not a good thing to do, probably, considering his post-invasion mental state. Chamberlain becomes convinced that all things have to be bent to an iron will to raise humanity up to the point where its survival of a species will never be at stake again. Technology - and fusion of technology and man - takes precedence over all. Only the self-discipline of the British can save the world, redeem it for future generations. In consequence, Chamberlain overthrows the military in a crazed attempt at absolute power. Styling himself First Lord, this cybernetically-monocled and berobed despot now throws everthing into advancing the human race towards perfection, a design which over the coming decades would change the world forever...
[4] Chamberlain managed eleven years in power in which the country and the empire radically altered. Communications technology slavaged from the tripods allowed almost instantaneous communication across the whole breadth of Empire. The Dominions were abolished and a single Empire of Britain established, with cybernetic soldiers and monstrous war-machines to back it up. An alliance was secured with Germany, a nation whose efficiency and military streak Chamberlain found appealing. However in 1909, Chamberlian critically overturned this positive relationship, plunging the continent into war. Revealed for the insane despot he was, the young Winston Churchill lead a squadron of Britannia class Flying Cruisers gone mutineer on London. Overthrowing the cybernetic dictatorship, new elections were held, bringing Churchill to power as Prime Minister of the whole empire in a new Grand Imperial Parliament. Peace was secured by trading a few colonies now made uneconomical by the creation of the Royal Flying Host. Meanwhile, one Henry Cavor devises a new mineral which will once more revolutionise the Empire and truly lead Britain into the Second Industrial Revolution. Cavorite.
[5] Cavorite provides a massive boost to industrial processes, allowing efficient and high-speed production. The world becomes a much smaller place, as distance is largely overcome by the ease and speed with which Cavorite allows travel. The military applications are obvious a well, and an arms race develops between the great powers - Germany, China, Britain and the Confederacy. Increasing automation also produces large pools of surplus labour however, which are increasingly fed into the military, and Churchillian Britain takes on a distinctly militaristic flavour. One thing leads to another, and war between Britain and the Confederacy on the one hand, and China and Germany on the other becomes a reality in 1916. Churchill's military adventurism leads to several notable defeats, and the citizen-soldier populace becomes restless. On Britain's defeat in 1918, the citizenry overthrow Churchill, and restore Chamberlain by acclamation.

With Britain's ambitions frustrated on Earth, Chamberlain invests heavily in the incipient Cavorite-fueled space-race. Britain succeeds in establishing the colony of New Birmingham on the Moon in 1924, which thrives. This all stokes unresolved great power tension howerver, a touchy subject in particular for Chamberlain, who steers a delicate course between Germany and the Confederacy. Chamberlain's grip on reality begins to progressively weaken, as his decrepit, cybernetically-sustained body becomes more cybernetic and less human. His megalomania is arguably exacerbated by his marriage to Alice Rose in 1927, a naturalised Russian refugee. Rose fuels Chamberlain's belicosity, and a second Great War breaks out in 1929. Chamberlain's increasing insistence on the essentially enforced cyborgisation of the populace sets off a revolt in 1931, and the Second Lordship period comes to an end, with Britain and Germany still at war with China and the Confederacy....
[6] The government which replaced the Second Lordship was lead by David Lloyd George who diversified the economy, and use the labour surplus to colonise the Moon and restore the Empire's economy. The militarism of the last nine years remained, as a planned economy was used to try and reinforce Imperial borders. However, Lloyd George could not have cut down the Armed Forces at a worse time. While the wars on Earth were beginning to come to an end, the Selenites rose from their underground tunnels and waged war on the British settlers. The Martians also unleashed a second wave of cylinders, this time their soldiers had been injected with high-power drugs to combat Earth's diseases.
[7] The war against the 'alien menace' was considerably less one-sided than their previous engagement. Britain, however, had been significantly weakened by Lloyd George's adjustments. Now with a smaller yet better-trained and supplied military, the Brits did - however - make early victories against the Martians. The Moon, for the time being, was abandoned. However, as the tripods walked across most of the northern hemisphere it was only a matter of time before Britain fell. The government collapsed in 1935, with the tripods essentially marching unopposed across the entire continent and beginning their conquest of the southern hemisphere. However, in 1937, the cyborgs returned. Led by self-proclaimed Arch-Calculator Gordon Welchman they systematically cleared London of aliens by further reverse-engineering. Now armed with high-tech laser weaponry and - more significantly - a human 'version' of the tripods - the war restarted in earnest with the 'British' fighting alone.


The Anglo/Franco-Nazi/Soviet War

1940: Neville Chamberlain (Conservative leading Conservative-Liberal National-National Labour National Government) [1]
1940: Winston Churchill (National Government) [2]
1942: Winston Churchill/Charles de Gaulle (National Government) [3]
1947: Clement Attlee (Labour) [4]
1950: George Henry Hall (Labour) [5]

[1] The allies are able to provide aid to Finland during the Winter War in the form of 20,000 troops each via Petsamo (as promised OTL). As a result, the Molotiv Reibentrop pact holds and the Soviets effectivly join the Axis, for now...
[2] Churchill replaces the ineffectual Chamberlain in May. The Nazis invade Norway and cut off Allied aid to Finland. The Soviets successfully pacify Finland with Nazi aid. The Axis Powers agree to admit the Soviet Union and give it a sphere to influence over Persia, Mesopotamia and Pakistan 'when' they win the war. Hitler is very enthusiastic about a continuous alliance stretching from France to Japan. Stalin begins subtly altering propaganda to put more emphasis on Russianness than Socialistness.
[3] In 1942, seeing France be occupied for two years, De Gaulle makes a deal with Winston Churchill. The United Kingdom and the French Republic shall be merged into the Franco-British Union, as long as Nazism exists. In this way, de Gaulle becomes the de facto Co-Prime Minister of Britain.
[4] The assassination of Adolf Hitler by Jewish MI6 agents may have killed the head of Nazism, but its didn't kill the snake. The Germans had accomplished their aims in Scandinavia and crushed western Europe. The new Fuhrer wished to maintain the alliance with the Soviet Union, now renamed the Russian Peoples' Union, and instead aided Italy's conquest of North Africa. The fall of Suez and Tunis within a week of one another forced Britain to the negotiating table. The Imperial Lifeline was cut and Britain would have to kneel before the Axis. Forced to cede several East and North African colonies, the Franco-British Union de facto ended with the recognition of the legitimacy of the Vichy government. Britain did however turn the remainder of French Africa which included Algeria into a Dominion, and encouraged Frenchmen to move there. Meanwhile, the Chinese begin to turn the tide against the Japanese, the Americans wring their hands, and a general election is held in which Clement Attlee emerged victorious and prepares to unite the Empire as a Commonwealth of Freedom against the Axis...
[5] Attlee's assassination in 1947 led to George Henry Hall's premiership. However, things were looking increasingly grim for the British Empire. Surrounded on perhaps every side by hostile or non-friendly powers, Hall was determined to revive Britain. This was aided by the increase in distrust between Germany and the Russian Peoples' Union (RPU), and Hall's intelligence agencies sought to exploit this to its full extent. Japan, meanwhile, collapsed completely. The Chinese invasion of the Home Islands (with US support) crippled the Empire, and it came under joint occupation. In Germany, however, concerns about the sanity of their supreme leader were about to lead to some major changes...

[Mumby]

War of the Worlds: Remember Butterflies!!!

1895: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess Salisbury (Conservative) [1]
1898: No government
1899: Douglas Haig (Military government overseeing reconstruction) [2]
1900: Joseph Chamberlain (None) [3]
1911: Winston Churchill (Democrat) [4]
1918: Joseph Chamberlain (None) [5]
1932: David Lloyd George (Democrat) [6]
1935: No government
1937: Gordon Welchman (Cyborg) [7]
1946: Gordon Welchman (Cyborg-British lead Provisional Government of Earth) [8]

[1] In 1898, they came. In cylinders they came. Then they marched in tripods. With heat ray and black smoke they slew dozens of men, women and children. Their native plants writhed and consumed the land. But the germ infected the invaders, and they fell back slain by the simplest of God's creatures. The invaders were gone as was their interesting flora and fungi. But a few observers of the invasion lurked beneath the Arctic Ice and transmitted their findings to a dissappointed and arid world.
[2] With the disintegration of the alien invasion, Douglas Haig - now the most senior member of the army after its initial defeats - took control of the government in a bid to eventually restore democracy in the war-ravaged British Isles. Haig personally supervised the obtaning of alien technologies for the Empire (largely from the crashed tripods). However, there became an entrenched belief amongst the survivors that somehow their 'Britishness' aided in the defeat of the Martians. (With their stiff upper lips, and all that, and similar to the OTL 'cult of empire.')
[3] Chamberlain is given responsibility for co-ordinating the reverse-engineering efforts on the alien technology by the military. Not a good thing to do, probably, considering his post-invasion mental state. Chamberlain becomes convinced that all things have to be bent to an iron will to raise humanity up to the point where its survival of a species will never be at stake again. Technology - and fusion of technology and man - takes precedence over all. Only the self-discipline of the British can save the world, redeem it for future generations. In consequence, Chamberlain overthrows the military in a crazed attempt at absolute power. Styling himself First Lord, this cybernetically-monocled and berobed despot now throws everthing into advancing the human race towards perfection, a design which over the coming decades would change the world forever...
[4] Chamberlain managed eleven years in power in which the country and the empire radically altered. Communications technology slavaged from the tripods allowed almost instantaneous communication across the whole breadth of Empire. The Dominions were abolished and a single Empire of Britain established, with cybernetic soldiers and monstrous war-machines to back it up. An alliance was secured with Germany, a nation whose efficiency and military streak Chamberlain found appealing. However in 1909, Chamberlian critically overturned this positive relationship, plunging the continent into war. Revealed for the insane despot he was, the young Winston Churchill lead a squadron of Britannia class Flying Cruisers gone mutineer on London. Overthrowing the cybernetic dictatorship, new elections were held, bringing Churchill to power as Prime Minister of the whole empire in a new Grand Imperial Parliament. Peace was secured by trading a few colonies now made uneconomical by the creation of the Royal Flying Host. Meanwhile, one Henry Cavor devises a new mineral which will once more revolutionise the Empire and truly lead Britain into the Second Industrial Revolution. Cavorite.
[5] Cavorite provides a massive boost to industrial processes, allowing efficient and high-speed production. The world becomes a much smaller place, as distance is largely overcome by the ease and speed with which Cavorite allows travel. The military applications are obvious a well, and an arms race develops between the great powers - Germany, China, Britain and the Confederacy. Increasing automation also produces large pools of surplus labour however, which are increasingly fed into the military, and Churchillian Britain takes on a distinctly militaristic flavour. One thing leads to another, and war between Britain and the Confederacy on the one hand, and China and Germany on the other becomes a reality in 1916. Churchill's military adventurism leads to several notable defeats, and the citizen-soldier populace becomes restless. On Britain's defeat in 1918, the citizenry overthrow Churchill, and restore Chamberlain by acclamation.

With Britain's ambitions frustrated on Earth, Chamberlain invests heavily in the incipient Cavorite-fueled space-race. Britain succeeds in establishing the colony of New Birmingham on the Moon in 1924, which thrives. This all stokes unresolved great power tension howerver, a touchy subject in particular for Chamberlain, who steers a delicate course between Germany and the Confederacy. Chamberlain's grip on reality begins to progressively weaken, as his decrepit, cybernetically-sustained body becomes more cybernetic and less human. His megalomania is arguably exacerbated by his marriage to Alice Rose in 1927, a naturalised Russian refugee. Rose fuels Chamberlain's belicosity, and a second Great War breaks out in 1929. Chamberlain's increasing insistence on the essentially enforced cyborgisation of the populace sets off a revolt in 1931, and the Second Lordship period comes to an end, with Britain and Germany still at war with China and the Confederacy....
[6] The government which replaced the Second Lordship was lead by David Lloyd George who diversified the economy, and use the labour surplus to colonise the Moon and restore the Empire's economy. The militarism of the last nine years remained, as a planned economy was used to try and reinforce Imperial borders. However, Lloyd George could not have cut down the Armed Forces at a worse time. While the wars on Earth were beginning to come to an end, the Selenites rose from their underground tunnels and waged war on the British settlers. The Martians also unleashed a second wave of cylinders, this time their soldiers had been injected with high-power drugs to combat Earth's diseases.
[7] The war against the 'alien menace' was considerably less one-sided than their previous engagement. Britain, however, had been significantly weakened by Lloyd George's adjustments. Now with a smaller yet better-trained and supplied military, the Brits did - however - make early victories against the Martians. The Moon, for the time being, was abandoned. However, as the tripods walked across most of the northern hemisphere it was only a matter of time before Britain fell. The government collapsed in 1935, with the tripods essentially marching unopposed across the entire continent and beginning their conquest of the southern hemisphere. However, in 1937, the cyborgs returned. Led by self-proclaimed Arch-Calculator Gordon Welchman they systematically cleared London of aliens by further reverse-engineering. Now armed with high-tech laser weaponry and - more significantly - a human 'version' of the tripods - the war restarted in earnest with the 'British' fighting alone.
[8] As Britain fought with increasing tenacity, the Martians called out more and more destuctive weapons. Reality-warping bombs reduced Birmingham to rubble, and biological bombs released flesh-eating plants on Britain. The Selenites looked on and became worried that once the Martians had conquered Earth they would look to take control of the Moon as well. And if Britain won, then they would not look kindly on their extraterrestrial neighbour and Martian ally. So they bretrayed the Martians and threw in their lot with Earth. The Selenites had wondrous weapons of their own, capable of reducing whole cities to ashes. With the Moon's help, the last Martians were pushed off Earth and with the Arch-Calculator forming a Provisional Government of Earth, mankind landed on Mars, armed with Selenite weapons and set about getting payback. However even as the Cyborg troopers of Britain restored order and advanced on Mars, the nations of Earth grew restless under the Arch-Calculators gaze.


The Anglo/Franco-Nazi/Soviet War

1940: Neville Chamberlain (Conservative leading Conservative-Liberal National-National Labour National Government) [1]
1940: Winston Churchill (National Government) [2]
1942: Winston Churchill/Charles de Gaulle (National Government) [3]
1947: Clement Attlee (Labour) [4]
1950: George Henry Hall (Labour) [5]
1954: George Henry Hall (Labour) [6]

[1] The allies are able to provide aid to Finland during the Winter War in the form of 20,000 troops each via Petsamo (as promised OTL). As a result, the Molotiv Reibentrop pact holds and the Soviets effectivly join the Axis, for now...
[2] Churchill replaces the ineffectual Chamberlain in May. The Nazis invade Norway and cut off Allied aid to Finland. The Soviets successfully pacify Finland with Nazi aid. The Axis Powers agree to admit the Soviet Union and give it a sphere to influence over Persia, Mesopotamia and Pakistan 'when' they win the war. Hitler is very enthusiastic about a continuous alliance stretching from France to Japan. Stalin begins subtly altering propaganda to put more emphasis on Russianness than Socialistness.
[3] In 1942, seeing France be occupied for two years, De Gaulle makes a deal with Winston Churchill. The United Kingdom and the French Republic shall be merged into the Franco-British Union, as long as Nazism exists. In this way, de Gaulle becomes the de facto Co-Prime Minister of Britain.
[4] The assassination of Adolf Hitler by Jewish MI6 agents may have killed the head of Nazism, but its didn't kill the snake. The Germans had accomplished their aims in Scandinavia and crushed western Europe. The new Fuhrer wished to maintain the alliance with the Soviet Union, now renamed the Russian Peoples' Union, and instead aided Italy's conquest of North Africa. The fall of Suez and Tunis within a week of one another forced Britain to the negotiating table. The Imperial Lifeline was cut and Britain would have to kneel before the Axis. Forced to cede several East and North African colonies, the Franco-British Union de facto ended with the recognition of the legitimacy of the Vichy government. Britain did however turn the remainder of French Africa which included Algeria into a Dominion, and encouraged Frenchmen to move there. Meanwhile, the Chinese begin to turn the tide against the Japanese, the Americans wring their hands, and a general election is held in which Clement Attlee emerged victorious and prepares to unite the Empire as a Commonwealth of Freedom against the Axis...
[5] Attlee's assassination in 1947 led to George Henry Hall's premiership. However, things were looking increasingly grim for the British Empire. Surrounded on perhaps every side by hostile or non-friendly powers, Hall was determined to revive Britain. This was aided by the increase in distrust between Germany and the Russian Peoples' Union (RPU), and Hall's intelligence agencies sought to exploit this to its full extent. Japan, meanwhile, collapsed completely. The Chinese invasion of the Home Islands (with US support) crippled the Empire, and it came under joint occupation. In Germany, however, concerns about the sanity of their supreme leader were about to lead to some major changes...
[6] The military coup in Germany installed a moderately nationalist, conservative dictator who changed the nations flag to a Nordic Cross in the German colours, and set about federating the vastness of the Greater Teutonic Empire of the German Nation. With the rise of moderates in Germany, the rest of Fascist Europe began breathing much easier. More importantly, in 1953 Stalin died of a stroke and within a few weeks, German style moderates took power and began remodelling the RPU as a federal Russian republican empire with a moderate command economy. Italy began efforts to integrate its colonies directly into Italy, beginning with Libya. The Axis of Germany, Russia and Italy was still strong, and the Chinese who could have become a thorn in the great alliance's side collapsed into civil war which spread to Japan. Meanwhile, Hall began his second term with decolonisation, which he envisaged a steady process to build industry and establish sensible borders particularly in Africa. He foresaw the creation of a vast network of British Dominions stretching over the African continent, forming a single, equal alliance as the Federated Commonwealth. America formed a barrier in northern Japan, founding a liberal democracy with Hirohito as nominal Emperor. Meanwhile they spread their sphere of influence in the Americas intending to force out any quasi-fascists or nascent socialism.

[Premier Taylerov]

War of the Worlds: Remember Butterflies!!!

1895: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess Salisbury (Conservative) [1]
1898: No government
1899: Douglas Haig (Military government overseeing reconstruction) [2]
1900: Joseph Chamberlain (None) [3]
1911: Winston Churchill (Democrat) [4]
1918: Joseph Chamberlain (None) [5]
1932: David Lloyd George (Democrat) [6]
1935: No government
1937: Gordon Welchman (Cyborg) [7]
1946: Gordon Welchman (Cyborg-British lead Provisional Government of Earth) [8]
1950: Alan Turing (Singularitarianist Extropianist [Government of the British Superprism]) [9]

[1] In 1898, they came. In cylinders they came. Then they marched in tripods. With heat ray and black smoke they slew dozens of men, women and children. Their native plants writhed and consumed the land. But the germ infected the invaders, and they fell back slain by the simplest of God's creatures. The invaders were gone as was their interesting flora and fungi. But a few observers of the invasion lurked beneath the Arctic Ice and transmitted their findings to a dissappointed and arid world.
[2] With the disintegration of the alien invasion, Douglas Haig - now the most senior member of the army after its initial defeats - took control of the government in a bid to eventually restore democracy in the war-ravaged British Isles. Haig personally supervised the obtaning of alien technologies for the Empire (largely from the crashed tripods). However, there became an entrenched belief amongst the survivors that somehow their 'Britishness' aided in the defeat of the Martians. (With their stiff upper lips, and all that, and similar to the OTL 'cult of empire.')
[3] Chamberlain is given responsibility for co-ordinating the reverse-engineering efforts on the alien technology by the military. Not a good thing to do, probably, considering his post-invasion mental state. Chamberlain becomes convinced that all things have to be bent to an iron will to raise humanity up to the point where its survival of a species will never be at stake again. Technology - and fusion of technology and man - takes precedence over all. Only the self-discipline of the British can save the world, redeem it for future generations. In consequence, Chamberlain overthrows the military in a crazed attempt at absolute power. Styling himself First Lord, this cybernetically-monocled and berobed despot now throws everthing into advancing the human race towards perfection, a design which over the coming decades would change the world forever...
[4] Chamberlain managed eleven years in power in which the country and the empire radically altered. Communications technology slavaged from the tripods allowed almost instantaneous communication across the whole breadth of Empire. The Dominions were abolished and a single Empire of Britain established, with cybernetic soldiers and monstrous war-machines to back it up. An alliance was secured with Germany, a nation whose efficiency and military streak Chamberlain found appealing. However in 1909, Chamberlian critically overturned this positive relationship, plunging the continent into war. Revealed for the insane despot he was, the young Winston Churchill lead a squadron of Britannia class Flying Cruisers gone mutineer on London. Overthrowing the cybernetic dictatorship, new elections were held, bringing Churchill to power as Prime Minister of the whole empire in a new Grand Imperial Parliament. Peace was secured by trading a few colonies now made uneconomical by the creation of the Royal Flying Host. Meanwhile, one Henry Cavor devises a new mineral which will once more revolutionise the Empire and truly lead Britain into the Second Industrial Revolution. Cavorite.
[5] Cavorite provides a massive boost to industrial processes, allowing efficient and high-speed production. The world becomes a much smaller place, as distance is largely overcome by the ease and speed with which Cavorite allows travel. The military applications are obvious a well, and an arms race develops between the great powers - Germany, China, Britain and the Confederacy. Increasing automation also produces large pools of surplus labour however, which are increasingly fed into the military, and Churchillian Britain takes on a distinctly militaristic flavour. One thing leads to another, and war between Britain and the Confederacy on the one hand, and China and Germany on the other becomes a reality in 1916. Churchill's military adventurism leads to several notable defeats, and the citizen-soldier populace becomes restless. On Britain's defeat in 1918, the citizenry overthrow Churchill, and restore Chamberlain by acclamation.

With Britain's ambitions frustrated on Earth, Chamberlain invests heavily in the incipient Cavorite-fueled space-race. Britain succeeds in establishing the colony of New Birmingham on the Moon in 1924, which thrives. This all stokes unresolved great power tension howerver, a touchy subject in particular for Chamberlain, who steers a delicate course between Germany and the Confederacy. Chamberlain's grip on reality begins to progressively weaken, as his decrepit, cybernetically-sustained body becomes more cybernetic and less human. His megalomania is arguably exacerbated by his marriage to Alice Rose in 1927, a naturalised Russian refugee. Rose fuels Chamberlain's belicosity, and a second Great War breaks out in 1929. Chamberlain's increasing insistence on the essentially enforced cyborgisation of the populace sets off a revolt in 1931, and the Second Lordship period comes to an end, with Britain and Germany still at war with China and the Confederacy....

[6] The government which replaced the Second Lordship was lead by David Lloyd George who diversified the economy, and use the labour surplus to colonise the Moon and restore the Empire's economy. The militarism of the last nine years remained, as a planned economy was used to try and reinforce Imperial borders. However, Lloyd George could not have cut down the Armed Forces at a worse time. While the wars on Earth were beginning to come to an end, the Selenites rose from their underground tunnels and waged war on the British settlers. The Martians also unleashed a second wave of cylinders, this time their soldiers had been injected with high-power drugs to combat Earth's diseases.
[7] The war against the 'alien menace' was considerably less one-sided than their previous engagement. Britain, however, had been significantly weakened by Lloyd George's adjustments. Now with a smaller yet better-trained and supplied military, the Brits did - however - make early victories against the Martians. The Moon, for the time being, was abandoned. However, as the tripods walked across most of the northern hemisphere it was only a matter of time before Britain fell. The government collapsed in 1935, with the tripods essentially marching unopposed across the entire continent and beginning their conquest of the southern hemisphere. However, in 1937, the cyborgs returned. Led by self-proclaimed Arch-Calculator Gordon Welchman they systematically cleared London of aliens by further reverse-engineering. Now armed with high-tech laser weaponry and - more significantly - a human 'version' of the tripods - the war restarted in earnest with the 'British' fighting alone.
[8] As Britain fought with increasing tenacity, the Martians called out more and more destuctive weapons. Reality-warping bombs reduced Birmingham to rubble, and biological bombs released flesh-eating plants on Britain. The Selenites looked on and became worried that once the Martians had conquered Earth they would look to take control of the Moon as well. And if Britain won, then they would not look kindly on their extraterrestrial neighbour and Martian ally. So they bretrayed the Martians and threw in their lot with Earth. The Selenites had wondrous weapons of their own, capable of reducing whole cities to ashes. With the Moon's help, the last Martians were pushed off Earth and with the Arch-Calculator forming a Provisional Government of Earth, mankind landed on Mars, armed with Selenite weapons and set about getting payback. However even as the Cyborg troopers of Britain restored order and advanced on Mars, the nations of Earth grew restless under the Arch-Calculator's gaze.
[9] As the war on Mars came to a close, the Cyborgs began a series of atrocities unparalled in human (or machine) imagination. This resulted in the near-annihiliation of the Martian race through unrestricted genocide. Within both the British and Terran governments, concern amongst the majority of the non-cyborgs resulted in the ascent of the Singularitarianist Extropianists. Especially, they believed that with the unprecedented rise in human technological capability, it was only a matter of time before human intelligence was overshadowed by that of a machine. Their goal was to dethrone the Cyborgs and the Arch-Calculator, and ensure that when this was to occur, it was for the benefit of all humanity - rather than the heartless Cyborgs of Welchman, who had all but succumbed to industrial-calculation. (Having saved the human race, they now sought to dominate it.) Turing's political resistance movement resulted in the destruction of the majority of the Cyborgs on Mars, with the aid of the Selenite superweapons. In its wake, the Terran government collapsed - instead replaced by 'superprismic' government.

The Anglo/Franco-Nazi/Soviet War

1940: Neville Chamberlain (Conservative leading Conservative-Liberal National-National Labour National Government) [1]
1940: Winston Churchill (National Government) [2]
1942: Winston Churchill/Charles de Gaulle (National Government) [3]
1947: Clement Attlee (Labour) [4]
1950: George Henry Hall (Labour) [5]
1954: George Henry Hall (Labour) [6]
1958: John Selwyn Lloyd (National Conservative) [7]

[1] The allies are able to provide aid to Finland during the Winter War in the form of 20,000 troops each via Petsamo (as promised OTL). As a result, the Molotiv Ribbentrop pact holds and the Soviets effectivly join the Axis, for now...
[2] Churchill replaces the ineffectual Chamberlain in May. The Nazis invade Norway and cut off Allied aid to Finland. The Soviets successfully pacify Finland with Nazi aid. The Axis Powers agree to admit the Soviet Union and give it a sphere to influence over Persia, Mesopotamia and Pakistan 'when' they win the war. Hitler is very enthusiastic about a continuous alliance stretching from France to Japan. Stalin begins subtly altering propaganda to put more emphasis on Russianness than Socialistness.
[3] In 1942, seeing France be occupied for two years, De Gaulle makes a deal with Winston Churchill. The United Kingdom and the French Republic shall be merged into the Franco-British Union, as long as Nazism exists. In this way, de Gaulle becomes the de facto Co-Prime Minister of Britain.
[4] The assassination of Adolf Hitler by Jewish MI6 agents may have killed the head of Nazism, but its didn't kill the snake. The Germans had accomplished their aims in Scandinavia and crushed western Europe. The new Fuhrer wished to maintain the alliance with the Soviet Union, now renamed the Russian Peoples' Union, and instead aided Italy's conquest of North Africa. The fall of Suez and Tunis within a week of one another forced Britain to the negotiating table. The imperial lifeline was cut and Britain would have to kneel before the Axis. Forced to cede several East and North African colonies, the Franco-British Union de facto ended with the recognition of the legitimacy of the Vichy government. Britain did however turn the remainder of French Africa which included Algeria into a Dominion, and encouraged Frenchmen to move there. Meanwhile, the Chinese begin to turn the tide against the Japanese, the Americans wring their hands, and a general election is held in which Clement Attlee emerged victorious and prepares to unite the Empire as a Commonwealth of Freedom against the Axis...
[5] Attlee's assassination in 1947 led to George Henry Hall's premiership. However, things were looking increasingly grim for the British Empire. Surrounded on perhaps every side by hostile or non-friendly powers, Hall was determined to revive Britain. This was aided by the increase in distrust between Germany and the Russian Peoples' Union (RPU), and Hall's intelligence agencies sought to exploit this to its full extent. Japan, meanwhile, collapsed completely. The Chinese invasion of the Home Islands (with US support) crippled the Empire, and it came under joint occupation. In Germany, however, concerns about the sanity of their supreme leader were about to lead to some major changes...
[6] The military coup in Germany installed a moderately nationalist, conservative dictator who changed the nations flag to a Nordic Cross in the German colours, and set about federating the vastness of the Greater Teutonic Empire of the German Nation. With the rise of moderates in Germany, the rest of Fascist Europe began breathing much easier. More importantly, in 1953 Stalin died of a stroke and within a few weeks, German style moderates took power and began remodelling the RPU as a federal Russian republican empire with a moderate command economy. Italy began efforts to integrate its colonies directly into Italy, beginning with Libya. The Axis of Germany, Russia and Italy was still strong, and the Chinese (who could have become a thorn in the great alliance's side) collapsed into civil war which spread to Japan. Meanwhile, Hall began his second term with decolonisation, which he envisaged a steady process to build industry and establish sensible borders particularly in Africa. He foresaw the creation of a vast network of British Dominions stretching over the African continent, forming a single, equal alliance as the Federated Commonwealth. America formed a barrier in northern Japan, founding a liberal democracy with Hirohito as nominal Emperor. Meanwhile they spread their sphere of influence in the Americas intending to force out any quasi-fascists or nascent socialism.
[7] Hall's goverment was popular, but with the excitement about the creation of the Federated Commonwealth failed to accurately acknowledge the political crisis underway in the country. Many feared the complete loss of British diplomatic influence in the near-future, as the Axis seemed to grow stronger and stronger. Even in the United States many were growing wary. Selwyn Lloyd, having built the National Conservatives virtually from scratch, won the election on a platform designed to put economic and political pressure on the Axis by engaging in an intense industrial war along with the US and its sphere of democracies. The 'Tense Boom' began. (OOC: Essentially an industrially-focused Cold War.)

[Premier Taylerov]

Bump.
Bump.
Bump.

[Mumby]

War of the Worlds: Remember Butterflies!!!

1895: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess Salisbury (Conservative) [1]
1898: No government
1899: Douglas Haig (Military government overseeing reconstruction) [2]
1900: Joseph Chamberlain (None) [3]
1911: Winston Churchill (Democrat) [4]
1918: Joseph Chamberlain (None) [5]
1932: David Lloyd George (Democrat) [6]
1935: No government
1937: Gordon Welchman (Cyborg) [7]
1946: Gordon Welchman (Cyborg-British lead Provisional Government of Earth) [8]
1950: Alan Turing (Singularitarianist Extropianist [Government of the British Superprism]) [9]
1963: Susanne Becker (Hominid Extropianist) [10]

[1] In 1898, they came. In cylinders they came. Then they marched in tripods. With heat ray and black smoke they slew dozens of men, women and children. Their native plants writhed and consumed the land. But the germ infected the invaders, and they fell back slain by the simplest of God's creatures. The invaders were gone as was their interesting flora and fungi. But a few observers of the invasion lurked beneath the Arctic Ice and transmitted their findings to a dissappointed and arid world.
[2] With the disintegration of the alien invasion, Douglas Haig - now the most senior member of the army after its initial defeats - took control of the government in a bid to eventually restore democracy in the war-ravaged British Isles. Haig personally supervised the obtaning of alien technologies for the Empire (largely from the crashed tripods). However, there became an entrenched belief amongst the survivors that somehow their 'Britishness' aided in the defeat of the Martians. (With their stiff upper lips, and all that, and similar to the OTL 'cult of empire.')
[3] Chamberlain is given responsibility for co-ordinating the reverse-engineering efforts on the alien technology by the military. Not a good thing to do, probably, considering his post-invasion mental state. Chamberlain becomes convinced that all things have to be bent to an iron will to raise humanity up to the point where its survival of a species will never be at stake again. Technology - and fusion of technology and man - takes precedence over all. Only the self-discipline of the British can save the world, redeem it for future generations. In consequence, Chamberlain overthrows the military in a crazed attempt at absolute power. Styling himself First Lord, this cybernetically-monocled and berobed despot now throws everthing into advancing the human race towards perfection, a design which over the coming decades would change the world forever...
[4] Chamberlain managed eleven years in power in which the country and the empire radically altered. Communications technology slavaged from the tripods allowed almost instantaneous communication across the whole breadth of Empire. The Dominions were abolished and a single Empire of Britain established, with cybernetic soldiers and monstrous war-machines to back it up. An alliance was secured with Germany, a nation whose efficiency and military streak Chamberlain found appealing. However in 1909, Chamberlian critically overturned this positive relationship, plunging the continent into war. Revealed for the insane despot he was, the young Winston Churchill lead a squadron of Britannia class Flying Cruisers gone mutineer on London. Overthrowing the cybernetic dictatorship, new elections were held, bringing Churchill to power as Prime Minister of the whole empire in a new Grand Imperial Parliament. Peace was secured by trading a few colonies now made uneconomical by the creation of the Royal Flying Host. Meanwhile, one Henry Cavor devises a new mineral which will once more revolutionise the Empire and truly lead Britain into the Second Industrial Revolution. Cavorite.
[5] Cavorite provides a massive boost to industrial processes, allowing efficient and high-speed production. The world becomes a much smaller place, as distance is largely overcome by the ease and speed with which Cavorite allows travel. The military applications are obvious a well, and an arms race develops between the great powers - Germany, China, Britain and the Confederacy. Increasing automation also produces large pools of surplus labour however, which are increasingly fed into the military, and Churchillian Britain takes on a distinctly militaristic flavour. One thing leads to another, and war between Britain and the Confederacy on the one hand, and China and Germany on the other becomes a reality in 1916. Churchill's military adventurism leads to several notable defeats, and the citizen-soldier populace becomes restless. On Britain's defeat in 1918, the citizenry overthrow Churchill, and restore Chamberlain by acclamation.

With Britain's ambitions frustrated on Earth, Chamberlain invests heavily in the incipient Cavorite-fueled space-race. Britain succeeds in establishing the colony of New Birmingham on the Moon in 1924, which thrives. This all stokes unresolved great power tension howerver, a touchy subject in particular for Chamberlain, who steers a delicate course between Germany and the Confederacy. Chamberlain's grip on reality begins to progressively weaken, as his decrepit, cybernetically-sustained body becomes more cybernetic and less human. His megalomania is arguably exacerbated by his marriage to Alice Rose in 1927, a naturalised Russian refugee. Rose fuels Chamberlain's belicosity, and a second Great War breaks out in 1929. Chamberlain's increasing insistence on the essentially enforced cyborgisation of the populace sets off a revolt in 1931, and the Second Lordship period comes to an end, with Britain and Germany still at war with China and the Confederacy....

[6] The government which replaced the Second Lordship was lead by David Lloyd George who diversified the economy, and use the labour surplus to colonise the Moon and restore the Empire's economy. The militarism of the last nine years remained, as a planned economy was used to try and reinforce Imperial borders. However, Lloyd George could not have cut down the Armed Forces at a worse time. While the wars on Earth were beginning to come to an end, the Selenites rose from their underground tunnels and waged war on the British settlers. The Martians also unleashed a second wave of cylinders, this time their soldiers had been injected with high-power drugs to combat Earth's diseases.
[7] The war against the 'alien menace' was considerably less one-sided than their previous engagement. Britain, however, had been significantly weakened by Lloyd George's adjustments. Now with a smaller yet better-trained and supplied military, the Brits did - however - make early victories against the Martians. The Moon, for the time being, was abandoned. However, as the tripods walked across most of the northern hemisphere it was only a matter of time before Britain fell. The government collapsed in 1935, with the tripods essentially marching unopposed across the entire continent and beginning their conquest of the southern hemisphere. However, in 1937, the cyborgs returned. Led by self-proclaimed Arch-Calculator Gordon Welchman they systematically cleared London of aliens by further reverse-engineering. Now armed with high-tech laser weaponry and - more significantly - a human 'version' of the tripods - the war restarted in earnest with the 'British' fighting alone.
[8] As Britain fought with increasing tenacity, the Martians called out more and more destuctive weapons. Reality-warping bombs reduced Birmingham to rubble, and biological bombs released flesh-eating plants on Britain. The Selenites looked on and became worried that once the Martians had conquered Earth they would look to take control of the Moon as well. And if Britain won, then they would not look kindly on their extraterrestrial neighbour and Martian ally. So they bretrayed the Martians and threw in their lot with Earth. The Selenites had wondrous weapons of their own, capable of reducing whole cities to ashes. With the Moon's help, the last Martians were pushed off Earth and with the Arch-Calculator forming a Provisional Government of Earth, mankind landed on Mars, armed with Selenite weapons and set about getting payback. However even as the Cyborg troopers of Britain restored order and advanced on Mars, the nations of Earth grew restless under the Arch-Calculator's gaze.
[9] As the war on Mars came to a close, the Cyborgs began a series of atrocities unparalled in human (or machine) imagination. This resulted in the near-annihiliation of the Martian race through unrestricted genocide. Within both the British and Terran governments, concern amongst the majority of the non-cyborgs resulted in the ascent of the Singularitarianist Extropianists. Especially, they believed that with the unprecedented rise in human technological capability, it was only a matter of time before human intelligence was overshadowed by that of a machine. Their goal was to dethrone the Cyborgs and the Arch-Calculator, and ensure that when this was to occur, it was for the benefit of all humanity - rather than the heartless Cyborgs of Welchman, who had all but succumbed to industrial-calculation. (Having saved the human race, they now sought to dominate it.) Turing's political resistance movement resulted in the destruction of the majority of the Cyborgs on Mars, with the aid of the Selenite superweapons. In its wake, the Terran government collapsed - instead replaced by 'superprismic' government.
[10] While Turing's rule was undoubtedly wise, the artificial intelligences that the S-Es tried to develop either proved to be schizophrenic or dull-witted. After thirteen years in government, in which the jungle planet of Venus had been thoroughly pacified, and the Venusians forged into proud and loyal Britons, most of Earth's population struggled against the yoke of the Superprism. Turing saw his star was fading and stepped down, to make way for his hand-picked successor, Suzanne Becker. A shrewd and intelligent woman, she took the ideas of human improvement, and wedded them to the popular notion that individual men should forge their own destiny rather than submit to an alien intelligence even if it is of human invention. The Superprism was abolished and Earth's nation-states re-emerged, some with off-world colonies. However, while Britain's empire of Earth had long-since decayed with only a few white Dominion retaining a link with the Motherland, the New Empire in Space was greater than any in India or Africa.

The Anglo/Franco-Nazi/Soviet War

1940: Neville Chamberlain (Conservative leading Conservative-Liberal National-National Labour National Government) [1]
1940: Winston Churchill (National Government) [2]
1942: Winston Churchill/Charles de Gaulle (National Government) [3]
1947: Clement Attlee (Labour) [4]
1950: George Henry Hall (Labour) [5]
1954: George Henry Hall (Labour) [6]
1958: John Selwyn Lloyd (National Conservative) [7]
1962: John Selwyn Lloyd (National Conservative) [8]

[1] The allies are able to provide aid to Finland during the Winter War in the form of 20,000 troops each via Petsamo (as promised OTL). As a result, the Molotiv Ribbentrop pact holds and the Soviets effectivly join the Axis, for now...
[2] Churchill replaces the ineffectual Chamberlain in May. The Nazis invade Norway and cut off Allied aid to Finland. The Soviets successfully pacify Finland with Nazi aid. The Axis Powers agree to admit the Soviet Union and give it a sphere to influence over Persia, Mesopotamia and Pakistan 'when' they win the war. Hitler is very enthusiastic about a continuous alliance stretching from France to Japan. Stalin begins subtly altering propaganda to put more emphasis on Russianness than Socialistness.
[3] In 1942, seeing France be occupied for two years, De Gaulle makes a deal with Winston Churchill. The United Kingdom and the French Republic shall be merged into the Franco-British Union, as long as Nazism exists. In this way, de Gaulle becomes the de facto Co-Prime Minister of Britain.
[4] The assassination of Adolf Hitler by Jewish MI6 agents may have killed the head of Nazism, but its didn't kill the snake. The Germans had accomplished their aims in Scandinavia and crushed western Europe. The new Fuhrer wished to maintain the alliance with the Soviet Union, now renamed the Russian Peoples' Union, and instead aided Italy's conquest of North Africa. The fall of Suez and Tunis within a week of one another forced Britain to the negotiating table. The imperial lifeline was cut and Britain would have to kneel before the Axis. Forced to cede several East and North African colonies, the Franco-British Union de facto ended with the recognition of the legitimacy of the Vichy government. Britain did however turn the remainder of French Africa which included Algeria into a Dominion, and encouraged Frenchmen to move there. Meanwhile, the Chinese begin to turn the tide against the Japanese, the Americans wring their hands, and a general election is held in which Clement Attlee emerged victorious and prepares to unite the Empire as a Commonwealth of Freedom against the Axis...
[5] Attlee's assassination in 1947 led to George Henry Hall's premiership. However, things were looking increasingly grim for the British Empire. Surrounded on perhaps every side by hostile or non-friendly powers, Hall was determined to revive Britain. This was aided by the increase in distrust between Germany and the Russian Peoples' Union (RPU), and Hall's intelligence agencies sought to exploit this to its full extent. Japan, meanwhile, collapsed completely. The Chinese invasion of the Home Islands (with US support) crippled the Empire, and it came under joint occupation. In Germany, however, concerns about the sanity of their supreme leader were about to lead to some major changes...
[6] The military coup in Germany installed a moderately nationalist, conservative dictator who changed the nations flag to a Nordic Cross in the German colours, and set about federating the vastness of the Greater Teutonic Empire of the German Nation. With the rise of moderates in Germany, the rest of Fascist Europe began breathing much easier. More importantly, in 1953 Stalin died of a stroke and within a few weeks, German style moderates took power and began remodelling the RPU as a federal Russian republican empire with a moderate command economy. Italy began efforts to integrate its colonies directly into Italy, beginning with Libya. The Axis of Germany, Russia and Italy was still strong, and the Chinese (who could have become a thorn in the great alliance's side) collapsed into civil war which spread to Japan. Meanwhile, Hall began his second term with decolonisation, which he envisaged a steady process to build industry and establish sensible borders particularly in Africa. He foresaw the creation of a vast network of British Dominions stretching over the African continent, forming a single, equal alliance as the Federated Commonwealth. America formed a barrier in northern Japan, founding a liberal democracy with Hirohito as nominal Emperor. Meanwhile they spread their sphere of influence in the Americas intending to force out any quasi-fascists or nascent socialism.
[7] Hall's goverment was popular, but with the excitement about the creation of the Federated Commonwealth failed to accurately acknowledge the political crisis underway in the country. Many feared the complete loss of British diplomatic influence in the near-future, as the Axis seemed to grow stronger and stronger. Even in the United States many were growing wary. Selwyn Lloyd, having built the National Conservatives virtually from scratch, won the election on a platform designed to put economic and political pressure on the Axis by engaging in an intense industrial war along with the US and its sphere of democracies. The 'Tense Boom' began. (OOC: Essentially an industrially-focused Cold War.)
[8] The Axis was soon outstripped industrially, first due to the Axis' smaller sphere, and second due to the Reich's reliance on war industry. In peace-time, Germany was rapidly being caught up by fascist nations like Italy and Spain. Russia was already ahead of Germany industrially, and the Germans were beginning to regret not squashing their ally in the war. Selwyn Lloyd proves enormously popular as American investment in Britain brings enormous numbers of manufacturing jobs. The determination to keep Japan weak and rural means that British cars are able to corner the market and becomes a world leader.

[Premier Taylerov]

War of the Worlds: Remember Butterflies!!!

1895: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess Salisbury (Conservative) [1]
1898: No government
1899: Douglas Haig (Military government overseeing reconstruction) [2]
1900: Joseph Chamberlain (None) [3]
1911: Winston Churchill (Democrat) [4]
1918: Joseph Chamberlain (None) [5]
1932: David Lloyd George (Democrat) [6]
1935: No government
1937: Gordon Welchman (Cyborg) [7]
1946: Gordon Welchman (Cyborg-British lead Provisional Government of Earth) [8]
1950: Alan Turing (Singularitarianist Extropianist [Government of the British Superprism]) [9]
1963: Susanne Becker (Hominid Extropianist) [10]
1967: Gordon Welchman (Cyborg) [11]

[1] In 1898, they came. In cylinders they came. Then they marched in tripods. With heat ray and black smoke they slew dozens of men, women and children. Their native plants writhed and consumed the land. But the germ infected the invaders, and they fell back slain by the simplest of God's creatures. The invaders were gone as was their interesting flora and fungi. But a few observers of the invasion lurked beneath the Arctic Ice and transmitted their findings to a dissappointed and arid world.
[2] With the disintegration of the alien invasion, Douglas Haig - now the most senior member of the army after its initial defeats - took control of the government in a bid to eventually restore democracy in the war-ravaged British Isles. Haig personally supervised the obtaning of alien technologies for the Empire (largely from the crashed tripods). However, there became an entrenched belief amongst the survivors that somehow their 'Britishness' aided in the defeat of the Martians. (With their stiff upper lips, and all that, and similar to the OTL 'cult of empire.')
[3] Chamberlain is given responsibility for co-ordinating the reverse-engineering efforts on the alien technology by the military. Not a good thing to do, probably, considering his post-invasion mental state. Chamberlain becomes convinced that all things have to be bent to an iron will to raise humanity up to the point where its survival of a species will never be at stake again. Technology - and fusion of technology and man - takes precedence over all. Only the self-discipline of the British can save the world, redeem it for future generations. In consequence, Chamberlain overthrows the military in a crazed attempt at absolute power. Styling himself First Lord, this cybernetically-monocled and berobed despot now throws everthing into advancing the human race towards perfection, a design which over the coming decades would change the world forever...
[4] Chamberlain managed eleven years in power in which the country and the empire radically altered. Communications technology slavaged from the tripods allowed almost instantaneous communication across the whole breadth of Empire. The Dominions were abolished and a single Empire of Britain established, with cybernetic soldiers and monstrous war-machines to back it up. An alliance was secured with Germany, a nation whose efficiency and military streak Chamberlain found appealing. However in 1909, Chamberlian critically overturned this positive relationship, plunging the continent into war. Revealed for the insane despot he was, the young Winston Churchill lead a squadron of Britannia class Flying Cruisers gone mutineer on London. Overthrowing the cybernetic dictatorship, new elections were held, bringing Churchill to power as Prime Minister of the whole empire in a new Grand Imperial Parliament. Peace was secured by trading a few colonies now made uneconomical by the creation of the Royal Flying Host. Meanwhile, one Henry Cavor devises a new mineral which will once more revolutionise the Empire and truly lead Britain into the Second Industrial Revolution. Cavorite.
[5] Cavorite provides a massive boost to industrial processes, allowing efficient and high-speed production. The world becomes a much smaller place, as distance is largely overcome by the ease and speed with which Cavorite allows travel. The military applications are obvious a well, and an arms race develops between the great powers - Germany, China, Britain and the Confederacy. Increasing automation also produces large pools of surplus labour however, which are increasingly fed into the military, and Churchillian Britain takes on a distinctly militaristic flavour. One thing leads to another, and war between Britain and the Confederacy on the one hand, and China and Germany on the other becomes a reality in 1916. Churchill's military adventurism leads to several notable defeats, and the citizen-soldier populace becomes restless. On Britain's defeat in 1918, the citizenry overthrow Churchill, and restore Chamberlain by acclamation.

With Britain's ambitions frustrated on Earth, Chamberlain invests heavily in the incipient Cavorite-fueled space-race. Britain succeeds in establishing the colony of New Birmingham on the Moon in 1924, which thrives. This all stokes unresolved great power tension howerver, a touchy subject in particular for Chamberlain, who steers a delicate course between Germany and the Confederacy. Chamberlain's grip on reality begins to progressively weaken, as his decrepit, cybernetically-sustained body becomes more cybernetic and less human. His megalomania is arguably exacerbated by his marriage to Alice Rose in 1927, a naturalised Russian refugee. Rose fuels Chamberlain's belicosity, and a second Great War breaks out in 1929. Chamberlain's increasing insistence on the essentially enforced cyborgisation of the populace sets off a revolt in 1931, and the Second Lordship period comes to an end, with Britain and Germany still at war with China and the Confederacy....

[6] The government which replaced the Second Lordship was lead by David Lloyd George who diversified the economy, and use the labour surplus to colonise the Moon and restore the Empire's economy. The militarism of the last nine years remained, as a planned economy was used to try and reinforce Imperial borders. However, Lloyd George could not have cut down the Armed Forces at a worse time. While the wars on Earth were beginning to come to an end, the Selenites rose from their underground tunnels and waged war on the British settlers. The Martians also unleashed a second wave of cylinders, this time their soldiers had been injected with high-power drugs to combat Earth's diseases.
[7] The war against the 'alien menace' was considerably less one-sided than their previous engagement. Britain, however, had been significantly weakened by Lloyd George's adjustments. Now with a smaller yet better-trained and supplied military, the Brits did - however - make early victories against the Martians. The Moon, for the time being, was abandoned. However, as the tripods walked across most of the northern hemisphere it was only a matter of time before Britain fell. The government collapsed in 1935, with the tripods essentially marching unopposed across the entire continent and beginning their conquest of the southern hemisphere. However, in 1937, the cyborgs returned. Led by self-proclaimed Arch-Calculator Gordon Welchman they systematically cleared London of aliens by further reverse-engineering. Now armed with high-tech laser weaponry and - more significantly - a human 'version' of the tripods - the war restarted in earnest with the 'British' fighting alone.
[8] As Britain fought with increasing tenacity, the Martians called out more and more destuctive weapons. Reality-warping bombs reduced Birmingham to rubble, and biological bombs released flesh-eating plants on Britain. The Selenites looked on and became worried that once the Martians had conquered Earth they would look to take control of the Moon as well. And if Britain won, then they would not look kindly on their extraterrestrial neighbour and Martian ally. So they bretrayed the Martians and threw in their lot with Earth. The Selenites had wondrous weapons of their own, capable of reducing whole cities to ashes. With the Moon's help, the last Martians were pushed off Earth and with the Arch-Calculator forming a Provisional Government of Earth, mankind landed on Mars, armed with Selenite weapons and set about getting payback. However even as the Cyborg troopers of Britain restored order and advanced on Mars, the nations of Earth grew restless under the Arch-Calculator's gaze.
[9] As the war on Mars came to a close, the Cyborgs began a series of atrocities unparalled in human (or machine) imagination. This resulted in the near-annihiliation of the Martian race through unrestricted genocide. Within both the British and Terran governments, concern amongst the majority of the non-cyborgs resulted in the ascent of the Singularitarianist Extropianists. Especially, they believed that with the unprecedented rise in human technological capability, it was only a matter of time before human intelligence was overshadowed by that of a machine. Their goal was to dethrone the Cyborgs and the Arch-Calculator, and ensure that when this was to occur, it was for the benefit of all humanity - rather than the heartless Cyborgs of Welchman, who had all but succumbed to industrial-calculation. (Having saved the human race, they now sought to dominate it.) Turing's political resistance movement resulted in the destruction of the majority of the Cyborgs on Mars, with the aid of the Selenite superweapons. In its wake, the Terran government collapsed - instead replaced by 'superprismic' government.
[10] While Turing's rule was undoubtedly wise, the artificial intelligences that the S-Es tried to develop either proved to be schizophrenic or dull-witted. After thirteen years in government, in which the jungle planet of Venus had been thoroughly pacified, and the Venusians forged into proud and loyal Britons, most of Earth's population struggled against the yoke of the Superprism. Turing saw his star was fading and stepped down, to make way for his hand-picked successor, Suzanne Becker. A shrewd and intelligent woman, she took the ideas of human improvement, and wedded them to the popular notion that individual men should forge their own destiny rather than submit to an alien intelligence even if it is of human invention. The Superprism was abolished and Earth's nation-states re-emerged, some with off-world colonies. However, while Britain's Empire of Earth had long-since decayed with only a few white Dominion retaining a link with the Motherland, the New Empire in Space was greater than any in India or Africa.
[11] In 1966, a threat far greater than an alien intelligence once again threatened the hard-won stablility of the British. Welchman, revived and rebuilt by fanatics, rose with a cyborg force and sought interplanetary dominance once again. Declaring himself once-again as the Arch-Calculator, Becker led the Homind resistance in a civil war that spanned the entire human extraterrestrial sphere.

The Anglo/Franco-Nazi/Soviet War

1940: Neville Chamberlain (Conservative leading Conservative-Liberal National-National Labour National Government) [1]
1940: Winston Churchill (National Government) [2]
1942: Winston Churchill/Charles de Gaulle (National Government) [3]
1947: Clement Attlee (Labour) [4]
1950: George Henry Hall (Labour) [5]
1954: George Henry Hall (Labour) [6]
1958: John Selwyn Lloyd (National Conservative) [7]
1962: John Selwyn Lloyd (National Conservative) [8]
1966: John Selwyn Lloyd (National Conservative) [8]

[1] The allies are able to provide aid to Finland during the Winter War in the form of 20,000 troops each via Petsamo (as promised OTL). As a result, the Molotiv Ribbentrop pact holds and the Soviets effectivly join the Axis, for now...
[2] Churchill replaces the ineffectual Chamberlain in May. The Nazis invade Norway and cut off Allied aid to Finland. The Soviets successfully pacify Finland with Nazi aid. The Axis Powers agree to admit the Soviet Union and give it a sphere to influence over Persia, Mesopotamia and Pakistan 'when' they win the war. Hitler is very enthusiastic about a continuous alliance stretching from France to Japan. Stalin begins subtly altering propaganda to put more emphasis on Russianness than Socialistness.
[3] In 1942, seeing France be occupied for two years, De Gaulle makes a deal with Winston Churchill. The United Kingdom and the French Republic shall be merged into the Franco-British Union, as long as Nazism exists. In this way, de Gaulle becomes the de facto Co-Prime Minister of Britain.
[4] The assassination of Adolf Hitler by Jewish MI6 agents may have killed the head of Nazism, but its didn't kill the snake. The Germans had accomplished their aims in Scandinavia and crushed western Europe. The new Fuhrer wished to maintain the alliance with the Soviet Union, now renamed the Russian Peoples' Union, and instead aided Italy's conquest of North Africa. The fall of Suez and Tunis within a week of one another forced Britain to the negotiating table. The imperial lifeline was cut and Britain would have to kneel before the Axis. Forced to cede several East and North African colonies, the Franco-British Union de facto ended with the recognition of the legitimacy of the Vichy government. Britain did however turn the remainder of French Africa which included Algeria into a Dominion, and encouraged Frenchmen to move there. Meanwhile, the Chinese begin to turn the tide against the Japanese, the Americans wring their hands, and a general election is held in which Clement Attlee emerged victorious and prepares to unite the Empire as a Commonwealth of Freedom against the Axis...
[5] Attlee's assassination in 1947 led to George Henry Hall's premiership. However, things were looking increasingly grim for the British Empire. Surrounded on perhaps every side by hostile or non-friendly powers, Hall was determined to revive Britain. This was aided by the increase in distrust between Germany and the Russian Peoples' Union (RPU), and Hall's intelligence agencies sought to exploit this to its full extent. Japan, meanwhile, collapsed completely. The Chinese invasion of the Home Islands (with US support) crippled the Empire, and it came under joint occupation. In Germany, however, concerns about the sanity of their supreme leader were about to lead to some major changes...
[6] The military coup in Germany installed a moderately nationalist, conservative dictator who changed the nations flag to a Nordic Cross in the German colours, and set about federating the vastness of the Greater Teutonic Empire of the German Nation. With the rise of moderates in Germany, the rest of Fascist Europe began breathing much easier. More importantly, in 1953 Stalin died of a stroke and within a few weeks, German style moderates took power and began remodelling the RPU as a federal Russian republican empire with a moderate command economy. Italy began efforts to integrate its colonies directly into Italy, beginning with Libya. The Axis of Germany, Russia and Italy was still strong, and the Chinese (who could have become a thorn in the great alliance's side) collapsed into civil war which spread to Japan. Meanwhile, Hall began his second term with decolonisation, which he envisaged a steady process to build industry and establish sensible borders particularly in Africa. He foresaw the creation of a vast network of British Dominions stretching over the African continent, forming a single, equal alliance as the Federated Commonwealth. America formed a barrier in northern Japan, founding a liberal democracy with Hirohito as nominal Emperor. Meanwhile they spread their sphere of influence in the Americas intending to force out any quasi-fascists or nascent socialism.
[7] Hall's goverment was popular, but with the excitement about the creation of the Federated Commonwealth failed to accurately acknowledge the political crisis underway in the country. Many feared the complete loss of British diplomatic influence in the near-future, as the Axis seemed to grow stronger and stronger. Even in the United States many were growing wary. Selwyn Lloyd, having built the National Conservatives virtually from scratch, won the election on a platform designed to put economic and political pressure on the Axis by engaging in an intense industrial war along with the US and its sphere of democracies. The 'Tense Boom' began. (OOC: Essentially an industrially-focused Cold War.)
[8] The Axis was soon outstripped industrially, first due to the Axis' smaller sphere, and second due to the Reich's reliance on war industry. In peace-time, Germany was rapidly being caught up by fascist nations like Italy and Spain. Russia was already ahead of Germany industrially, and the Germans were beginning to regret not squashing their ally in the war. Selwyn Lloyd proves enormously popular as American investment in Britain brings enormous numbers of manufacturing jobs. The determination to keep Japan weak and rural means that British cars are able to corner the market and becomes a world leader.
[9] Lloyd's successes virtually guaranteed his re-election in 1966, and several of the other parties did not even contest the election itself. With the Axis collapsing, Britain found itself without a clear geopolitical purpose. As a result, a New Cold War between the United States began, with Russia coming into a third position. With pressure for Indian independence growing within the Commonwealth, Lloyd's government was determined to establish Britain as the sole superpower. However, this could only be possible with the disintegration of the American economic behemoth, and methods to do this were uncertain.

[Mumby]

Since neither of these are doing very well, which I put down to my silly War of the Worlds idea, I reckon its time for a new one. Keepting the AF-NS War since it at least is sensible.

The Anglo/Franco-Nazi/Soviet War

1940: Neville Chamberlain (Conservative leading Conservative-Liberal National-National Labour National Government) [1]
1940: Winston Churchill (National Government) [2]
1942: Winston Churchill/Charles de Gaulle (National Government) [3]
1947: Clement Attlee (Labour) [4]
1950: George Henry Hall (Labour) [5]
1954: George Henry Hall (Labour) [6]
1958: John Selwyn Lloyd (National Conservative) [7]
1962: John Selwyn Lloyd (National Conservative) [8]
1966: John Selwyn Lloyd (National Conservative) [8]

[1] The allies are able to provide aid to Finland during the Winter War in the form of 20,000 troops each via Petsamo (as promised OTL). As a result, the Molotiv Ribbentrop pact holds and the Soviets effectivly join the Axis, for now...
[2] Churchill replaces the ineffectual Chamberlain in May. The Nazis invade Norway and cut off Allied aid to Finland. The Soviets successfully pacify Finland with Nazi aid. The Axis Powers agree to admit the Soviet Union and give it a sphere to influence over Persia, Mesopotamia and Pakistan 'when' they win the war. Hitler is very enthusiastic about a continuous alliance stretching from France to Japan. Stalin begins subtly altering propaganda to put more emphasis on Russianness than Socialistness.
[3] In 1942, seeing France be occupied for two years, De Gaulle makes a deal with Winston Churchill. The United Kingdom and the French Republic shall be merged into the Franco-British Union, as long as Nazism exists. In this way, de Gaulle becomes the de facto Co-Prime Minister of Britain.
[4] The assassination of Adolf Hitler by Jewish MI6 agents may have killed the head of Nazism, but its didn't kill the snake. The Germans had accomplished their aims in Scandinavia and crushed western Europe. The new Fuhrer wished to maintain the alliance with the Soviet Union, now renamed the Russian Peoples' Union, and instead aided Italy's conquest of North Africa. The fall of Suez and Tunis within a week of one another forced Britain to the negotiating table. The imperial lifeline was cut and Britain would have to kneel before the Axis. Forced to cede several East and North African colonies, the Franco-British Union de facto ended with the recognition of the legitimacy of the Vichy government. Britain did however turn the remainder of French Africa which included Algeria into a Dominion, and encouraged Frenchmen to move there. Meanwhile, the Chinese begin to turn the tide against the Japanese, the Americans wring their hands, and a general election is held in which Clement Attlee emerged victorious and prepares to unite the Empire as a Commonwealth of Freedom against the Axis...
[5] Attlee's assassination in 1947 led to George Henry Hall's premiership. However, things were looking increasingly grim for the British Empire. Surrounded on perhaps every side by hostile or non-friendly powers, Hall was determined to revive Britain. This was aided by the increase in distrust between Germany and the Russian Peoples' Union (RPU), and Hall's intelligence agencies sought to exploit this to its full extent. Japan, meanwhile, collapsed completely. The Chinese invasion of the Home Islands (with US support) crippled the Empire, and it came under joint occupation. In Germany, however, concerns about the sanity of their supreme leader were about to lead to some major changes...
[6] The military coup in Germany installed a moderately nationalist, conservative dictator who changed the nations flag to a Nordic Cross in the German colours, and set about federating the vastness of the Greater Teutonic Empire of the German Nation. With the rise of moderates in Germany, the rest of Fascist Europe began breathing much easier. More importantly, in 1953 Stalin died of a stroke and within a few weeks, German style moderates took power and began remodelling the RPU as a federal Russian republican empire with a moderate command economy. Italy began efforts to integrate its colonies directly into Italy, beginning with Libya. The Axis of Germany, Russia and Italy was still strong, and the Chinese (who could have become a thorn in the great alliance's side) collapsed into civil war which spread to Japan. Meanwhile, Hall began his second term with decolonisation, which he envisaged a steady process to build industry and establish sensible borders particularly in Africa. He foresaw the creation of a vast network of British Dominions stretching over the African continent, forming a single, equal alliance as the Federated Commonwealth. America formed a barrier in northern Japan, founding a liberal democracy with Hirohito as nominal Emperor. Meanwhile they spread their sphere of influence in the Americas intending to force out any quasi-fascists or nascent socialism.
[7] Hall's goverment was popular, but with the excitement about the creation of the Federated Commonwealth failed to accurately acknowledge the political crisis underway in the country. Many feared the complete loss of British diplomatic influence in the near-future, as the Axis seemed to grow stronger and stronger. Even in the United States many were growing wary. Selwyn Lloyd, having built the National Conservatives virtually from scratch, won the election on a platform designed to put economic and political pressure on the Axis by engaging in an intense industrial war along with the US and its sphere of democracies. The 'Tense Boom' began. (OOC: Essentially an industrially-focused Cold War.)
[8] The Axis was soon outstripped industrially, first due to the Axis' smaller sphere, and second due to the Reich's reliance on war industry. In peace-time, Germany was rapidly being caught up by fascist nations like Italy and Spain. Russia was already ahead of Germany industrially, and the Germans were beginning to regret not squashing their ally in the war. Selwyn Lloyd proves enormously popular as American investment in Britain brings enormous numbers of manufacturing jobs. The determination to keep Japan weak and rural means that British cars are able to corner the market and becomes a world leader.
[9] Lloyd's successes virtually guaranteed his re-election in 1966, and several of the other parties did not even contest the election itself. With the Axis collapsing, Britain found itself without a clear geopolitical purpose. As a result, a New Cold War between the United States began, with Russia coming into a third position. With pressure for Indian independence growing within the Commonwealth, Lloyd's government was determined to establish Britain as the sole superpower. However, this could only be possible with the disintegration of the American economic behemoth, and methods to do this were uncertain.

Ramsay Macdonald has a New Deal

1929: Ramsay Macdonald (Labour) [1]

[1] Macdonald made the risky decision to drop the gold standard and use lower interest rates to stimulate growth. From there, he maintained his socialist principles and appointed the radical Oswald Mosley to Chancellor of the Exchequer to carry out his much needed economic reforms to bring a stimulus to Britain's ailing economy.

[Premier Taylerov]

The Anglo/Franco-Nazi/Soviet War

1940: Neville Chamberlain (Conservative leading Conservative-Liberal National-National Labour National Government) [1]
1940: Winston Churchill (National Government) [2]
1942: Winston Churchill/Charles de Gaulle (National Government) [3]
1947: Clement Attlee (Labour) [4]
1950: George Henry Hall (Labour) [5]
1954: George Henry Hall (Labour) [6]
1958: John Selwyn Lloyd (National Conservative) [7]
1962: John Selwyn Lloyd (National Conservative) [8]
1966: John Selwyn Lloyd (National Conservative) [9]
1970: David Butler (Labour) [10]

[1] The allies are able to provide aid to Finland during the Winter War in the form of 20,000 troops each via Petsamo (as promised OTL). As a result, the Molotiv Ribbentrop pact holds and the Soviets effectivly join the Axis, for now...
[2] Churchill replaces the ineffectual Chamberlain in May. The Nazis invade Norway and cut off Allied aid to Finland. The Soviets successfully pacify Finland with Nazi aid. The Axis Powers agree to admit the Soviet Union and give it a sphere to influence over Persia, Mesopotamia and Pakistan 'when' they win the war. Hitler is very enthusiastic about a continuous alliance stretching from France to Japan. Stalin begins subtly altering propaganda to put more emphasis on Russianness than Socialistness.
[3] In 1942, seeing France be occupied for two years, De Gaulle makes a deal with Winston Churchill. The United Kingdom and the French Republic shall be merged into the Franco-British Union, as long as Nazism exists. In this way, de Gaulle becomes the de facto Co-Prime Minister of Britain.
[4] The assassination of Adolf Hitler by Jewish MI6 agents may have killed the head of Nazism, but its didn't kill the snake. The Germans had accomplished their aims in Scandinavia and crushed western Europe. The new Fuhrer wished to maintain the alliance with the Soviet Union, now renamed the Russian Peoples' Union, and instead aided Italy's conquest of North Africa. The fall of Suez and Tunis within a week of one another forced Britain to the negotiating table. The imperial lifeline was cut and Britain would have to kneel before the Axis. Forced to cede several East and North African colonies, the Franco-British Union de facto ended with the recognition of the legitimacy of the Vichy government. Britain did however turn the remainder of French Africa which included Algeria into a Dominion, and encouraged Frenchmen to move there. Meanwhile, the Chinese begin to turn the tide against the Japanese, the Americans wring their hands, and a general election is held in which Clement Attlee emerged victorious and prepares to unite the Empire as a Commonwealth of Freedom against the Axis...
[5] Attlee's assassination in 1947 led to George Henry Hall's premiership. However, things were looking increasingly grim for the British Empire. Surrounded on perhaps every side by hostile or non-friendly powers, Hall was determined to revive Britain. This was aided by the increase in distrust between Germany and the Russian Peoples' Union (RPU), and Hall's intelligence agencies sought to exploit this to its full extent. Japan, meanwhile, collapsed completely. The Chinese invasion of the Home Islands (with US support) crippled the Empire, and it came under joint occupation. In Germany, however, concerns about the sanity of their supreme leader were about to lead to some major changes...
[6] The military coup in Germany installed a moderately nationalist, conservative dictator who changed the nations flag to a Nordic Cross in the German colours, and set about federating the vastness of the Greater Teutonic Empire of the German Nation. With the rise of moderates in Germany, the rest of Fascist Europe began breathing much easier. More importantly, in 1953 Stalin died of a stroke and within a few weeks, German style moderates took power and began remodelling the RPU as a federal Russian republican empire with a moderate command economy. Italy began efforts to integrate its colonies directly into Italy, beginning with Libya. The Axis of Germany, Russia and Italy was still strong, and the Chinese (who could have become a thorn in the great alliance's side) collapsed into civil war which spread to Japan. Meanwhile, Hall began his second term with decolonisation, which he envisaged a steady process to build industry and establish sensible borders particularly in Africa. He foresaw the creation of a vast network of British Dominions stretching over the African continent, forming a single, equal alliance as the Federated Commonwealth. America formed a barrier in northern Japan, founding a liberal democracy with Hirohito as nominal Emperor. Meanwhile they spread their sphere of influence in the Americas intending to force out any quasi-fascists or nascent socialism.
[7] Hall's goverment was popular, but with the excitement about the creation of the Federated Commonwealth failed to accurately acknowledge the political crisis underway in the country. Many feared the complete loss of British diplomatic influence in the near-future, as the Axis seemed to grow stronger and stronger. Even in the United States many were growing wary. Selwyn Lloyd, having built the National Conservatives virtually from scratch, won the election on a platform designed to put economic and political pressure on the Axis by engaging in an intense industrial war along with the US and its sphere of democracies. The 'Tense Boom' began. (OOC: Essentially an industrially-focused Cold War.)
[8] The Axis was soon outstripped industrially, first due to the Axis' smaller sphere, and second due to the Reich's reliance on war industry. In peace-time, Germany was rapidly being caught up by fascist nations like Italy and Spain. Russia was already ahead of Germany industrially, and the Germans were beginning to regret not squashing their ally in the war. Selwyn Lloyd proves enormously popular as American investment in Britain brings enormous numbers of manufacturing jobs. The determination to keep Japan weak and rural means that British cars are able to corner the market and becomes a world leader.
[9] Lloyd's successes virtually guaranteed his re-election in 1966, and several of the other parties did not even contest the election itself. With the Axis collapsing, Britain found itself without a clear geopolitical purpose. As a result, a New Cold War between the United States began, with Russia coming into a third position. With pressure for Indian independence growing within the Commonwealth, Lloyd's government was determined to establish Britain as the sole superpower. However, this could only be possible with the disintegration of the American economic behemoth, and methods to do this were uncertain.
[10] Lloyd's government came to an end in 1966, when he was defeated in the election by the Labour Party. Centring their campaign on 'core Labour issues' such as wage increases, employment rights and quality of life, Butler was a highly efficient and eloquent leader, and the clearly dominant at Prime Minister's Question Time. He also proposed a continent-wide European Economic Assembly with the remains of the Axis and neutral states, and this was a popular idea as it appeared that Britain's influence would becoming paramount in Europe.

Ramsay Macdonald has a New Deal

1929: Ramsay Macdonald (Labour) [1]
1934: Ramsay Macdonald (Labour) [2]

[1] Macdonald made the risky decision to drop the gold standard and use lower interest rates to stimulate growth. From there, he maintained his socialist principles and appointed the radical Oswald Mosley to Chancellor of the Exchequer to carry out his much needed economic reforms to bring a stimulus to Britain's ailing economy.
[2] Ramsay's successful approach to the crisis was unique amongst the majority of western nations, and caused a brief period of British economic growth at the expense of the United States (which still remained divided as to how to address the Depression). As a result, Labour was re-elected in 1934 with an absolute majority - despite weak pleas from the Conservatives who ran a grimy and highly ineffective campaign. Talk was passed around about further, more radical, reform whilst Labour possessed such spectacular electoral popularity.

[Mumby]

The Anglo/Franco-Nazi/Soviet War

1940: Neville Chamberlain (Conservative leading Conservative-Liberal National-National Labour National Government) [1]
1940: Winston Churchill (National Government) [2]
1942: Winston Churchill/Charles de Gaulle (National Government) [3]
1947: Clement Attlee (Labour) [4]
1950: George Henry Hall (Labour) [5]
1954: George Henry Hall (Labour) [6]
1958: John Selwyn Lloyd (National Conservative) [7]
1962: John Selwyn Lloyd (National Conservative) [8]
1966: John Selwyn Lloyd (National Conservative) [9]
1970: David Butler (Labour) [10]
1973: David Butler (Labour) [11]

[1] The allies are able to provide aid to Finland during the Winter War in the form of 20,000 troops each via Petsamo (as promised OTL). As a result, the Molotiv Ribbentrop pact holds and the Soviets effectivly join the Axis, for now...
[2] Churchill replaces the ineffectual Chamberlain in May. The Nazis invade Norway and cut off Allied aid to Finland. The Soviets successfully pacify Finland with Nazi aid. The Axis Powers agree to admit the Soviet Union and give it a sphere to influence over Persia, Mesopotamia and Pakistan 'when' they win the war. Hitler is very enthusiastic about a continuous alliance stretching from France to Japan. Stalin begins subtly altering propaganda to put more emphasis on Russianness than Socialistness.
[3] In 1942, seeing France be occupied for two years, De Gaulle makes a deal with Winston Churchill. The United Kingdom and the French Republic shall be merged into the Franco-British Union, as long as Nazism exists. In this way, de Gaulle becomes the de facto Co-Prime Minister of Britain.
[4] The assassination of Adolf Hitler by Jewish MI6 agents may have killed the head of Nazism, but its didn't kill the snake. The Germans had accomplished their aims in Scandinavia and crushed western Europe. The new Fuhrer wished to maintain the alliance with the Soviet Union, now renamed the Russian Peoples' Union, and instead aided Italy's conquest of North Africa. The fall of Suez and Tunis within a week of one another forced Britain to the negotiating table. The imperial lifeline was cut and Britain would have to kneel before the Axis. Forced to cede several East and North African colonies, the Franco-British Union de facto ended with the recognition of the legitimacy of the Vichy government. Britain did however turn the remainder of French Africa which included Algeria into a Dominion, and encouraged Frenchmen to move there. Meanwhile, the Chinese begin to turn the tide against the Japanese, the Americans wring their hands, and a general election is held in which Clement Attlee emerged victorious and prepares to unite the Empire as a Commonwealth of Freedom against the Axis...
[5] Attlee's assassination in 1947 led to George Henry Hall's premiership. However, things were looking increasingly grim for the British Empire. Surrounded on perhaps every side by hostile or non-friendly powers, Hall was determined to revive Britain. This was aided by the increase in distrust between Germany and the Russian Peoples' Union (RPU), and Hall's intelligence agencies sought to exploit this to its full extent. Japan, meanwhile, collapsed completely. The Chinese invasion of the Home Islands (with US support) crippled the Empire, and it came under joint occupation. In Germany, however, concerns about the sanity of their supreme leader were about to lead to some major changes...
[6] The military coup in Germany installed a moderately nationalist, conservative dictator who changed the nations flag to a Nordic Cross in the German colours, and set about federating the vastness of the Greater Teutonic Empire of the German Nation. With the rise of moderates in Germany, the rest of Fascist Europe began breathing much easier. More importantly, in 1953 Stalin died of a stroke and within a few weeks, German style moderates took power and began remodelling the RPU as a federal Russian republican empire with a moderate command economy. Italy began efforts to integrate its colonies directly into Italy, beginning with Libya. The Axis of Germany, Russia and Italy was still strong, and the Chinese (who could have become a thorn in the great alliance's side) collapsed into civil war which spread to Japan. Meanwhile, Hall began his second term with decolonisation, which he envisaged a steady process to build industry and establish sensible borders particularly in Africa. He foresaw the creation of a vast network of British Dominions stretching over the African continent, forming a single, equal alliance as the Federated Commonwealth. America formed a barrier in northern Japan, founding a liberal democracy with Hirohito as nominal Emperor. Meanwhile they spread their sphere of influence in the Americas intending to force out any quasi-fascists or nascent socialism.
[7] Hall's goverment was popular, but with the excitement about the creation of the Federated Commonwealth failed to accurately acknowledge the political crisis underway in the country. Many feared the complete loss of British diplomatic influence in the near-future, as the Axis seemed to grow stronger and stronger. Even in the United States many were growing wary. Selwyn Lloyd, having built the National Conservatives virtually from scratch, won the election on a platform designed to put economic and political pressure on the Axis by engaging in an intense industrial war along with the US and its sphere of democracies. The 'Tense Boom' began. (OOC: Essentially an industrially-focused Cold War.)
[8] The Axis was soon outstripped industrially, first due to the Axis' smaller sphere, and second due to the Reich's reliance on war industry. In peace-time, Germany was rapidly being caught up by fascist nations like Italy and Spain. Russia was already ahead of Germany industrially, and the Germans were beginning to regret not squashing their ally in the war. Selwyn Lloyd proves enormously popular as American investment in Britain brings enormous numbers of manufacturing jobs. The determination to keep Japan weak and rural means that British cars are able to corner the market and becomes a world leader.
[9] Lloyd's successes virtually guaranteed his re-election in 1966, and several of the other parties did not even contest the election itself. With the Axis collapsing, Britain found itself without a clear geopolitical purpose. As a result, a New Cold War between the United States began, with Russia coming into a third position. With pressure for Indian independence growing within the Commonwealth, Lloyd's government was determined to establish Britain as the sole superpower. However, this could only be possible with the disintegration of the American economic behemoth, and methods to do this were uncertain.
[10] Lloyd's government came to an end in 1966, when he was defeated in the election by the Labour Party. Centring their campaign on 'core Labour issues' such as wage increases, employment rights and quality of life, Butler was a highly efficient and eloquent leader, and the clearly dominant at Prime Minister's Question Time. He also proposed a continent-wide European Economic Assembly with the remains of the Axis and neutral states, and this was a popular idea as it appeared that Britain's influence would becoming paramount in Europe.
[11] With Britain now coming close to completely withdrawing from Africa, Hall's dream of a network of British Dominions across Africa is nearly complete. The introduction of EEA also brings the poorer and wartorn states of Europe into their sphere. The Americans become increasingly worried about the right-wing Chinese and Russians and the extent of Britain's sphere of allies in Europe and Africa.

Ramsay Macdonald has a New Deal

1929: Ramsay Macdonald (Labour) [1]
1934: Ramsay Macdonald (Labour) [2]
1938: Ramsay Macdonald (Labour) [3]

[1] Macdonald made the risky decision to drop the gold standard and use lower interest rates to stimulate growth. From there, he maintained his socialist principles and appointed the radical Oswald Mosley to Chancellor of the Exchequer to carry out his much needed economic reforms to bring a stimulus to Britain's ailing economy.
[2] Ramsay's successful approach to the crisis was unique amongst the majority of western nations, and caused a brief period of British economic growth at the expense of the United States (which still remained divided as to how to address the Depression). As a result, Labour was re-elected in 1934 with an absolute majority - despite weak pleas from the Conservatives who ran a grimy and highly ineffective campaign. Talk was passed around about further, more radical, reform whilst Labour possessed such spectacular electoral popularity.
[3] Mosley adds more laurels to his wreath by extending his economic policies to the colonies. Any unemployed left in Britain are moved to any colonies with a labour shortage. The same is done in the colonies so there are some fearsome population shifts across the Empire. However, Mosley upsets Macdonald when he tries to bring Indian workers to Canada to increase industrialisation in the Yukon, and this leads to a general sense of discontent in the Dominions, who feel that Britain is trying to cut down on their autonomy. Other than that, the economy is growing well and Hitler's sabre rattling is sternly put down. The Nazis are still in power but they are far more cautious from now on. Meanwhile, Stalin dies of a heart aneurism and Yezhov takes power...