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#1801
April 8th, 2012, 07:12 PM
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PM can't have held the office of PM, Leader of the Opposition, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary or Home Secretary OTL:
1931: Leo Amery (Conservative) [1] 1936: Leo Amery (Conservative minority) 1938: Aneurin Bevan (Labour) [2] 1940: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [3] 1944: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [4] 1947: Alfred Duff Cooper (National) [5] 1950: Alfred Duff Cooper (NDP) [6] 1955: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [7] 1958: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [8] 1963: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [9] 1967: Christmas Humphreys (NDP) [10] [1] A depressed Baldwin resigns as Conservative leader after the party spilts over tariffs. The protectionist Amery forms a government with Simonite support following a financial crisis and MacDonald's resignation. [2] Amery's government collapses in a vote of no confidence following internal government opposition over India and the issue of re-armanent. Maverick Labour leader Aneurin "Nye" Bevan becomes PM with pledges to protect British interests and reform society [3] Poland is invaded by the Soviet Union, resulting in an anti-communist alliance between France, Italy and the German Empire (under the control of von Papen with the return of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a figurehead Emperor) and a declaration of war against the USSR. Bevan is under pressure to join this effort but refuses, resulting in a vote of no confidence in the government and the Prime Minister's resignation. The Conservative leader, William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech, is invited by King Edward to form a National Government to fight the Soviets. These events seriously divide the Labour party, some virulently anti-communist Labourites join Harlech's coalition, whereas some Labourites sympathetic to the USSR are further radicalised by the myth of a royal coup against Bevan. [4] The Coalition is re-elected due to the desire to win the war. The war as a whole nearly went pear-shaped in 1942 as the Soviets swarmed as far as Magdeburg before running out of steam. Borders are getting close to Donetsk at the time of election. [5] Despite pushing the Soviets back into their own borders, the war effort after 1944 begins to turn into a stalemate as partisans and workers unrest continue to hamper the allied war effort. To make matters worse, with the election to the US Presidency of Henry Wallace, the significant aid the US had been giving to the allies in the form of Lend Lease disappeared virtually overnight. With casualties mounting, workers unrest on the home front growing and the danger of a communist uprising in India, the allies decide to go ahead with a joint nuclear/biological attack on the USSR. On what becomes known as D-Day, three crude nuclear devices are simultaneously dropped on Leningrad, Moscow and Minsk, followed up by dropping vast quantities of anthrax infected linseed cakes onto Soviet fields where they are consumed by cattle. Although the Soviet regime and economy for all intents and purposes collapses, the attack stiffens the resistance of the partisans and the remnants of the Red Army as well as creating even more unrest on the home front. With American criticism and suspicion of the allies at an all time high, Harlech is forced out of office after a vote of no confidence to be replaced by Alfred Duff Cooper. Duff Cooper immediately groups all members of the National Government to form the National Party in the face of increasing civil unrest. [6] In 1950, the Allies reach Moscow and the Soviet regime collapses. In Germany, however, a general strike leads to the collapse of von Papen's regime, the abolition of the monarchy and an SPD-KPD coalition. In France, a similar strike leads to a civil war which ends in the establishment of a military dictatorship. Duff Cooper in Britain calls a general election after the end of the war and forms the new "National Democratic Party" or NDP out of the remnants of the Conservative and the Liberals, winning a landslide majority. [7] The only hope for the left after the utter discrediting of Socialism due to the (unfair) association with Communism is for Left-Populism and 'share the wealth' ideas, such as those posited by the rising Common Wealth party, which absorbed almost the entirety of the old Labour vote and much of the left of the Liberal Party. Popular author and broadcaster J.B. Priestley, who only entered parliament in 1950, leads them to a small majority after disquiet over massive unemployment and the general malaise the population feels over the shared sense that the Britain the Army came home to was not fit for heroes who saved the world from Communism. [8] Priestley's populist position forced him into a corner over the Kenya Crisis. His successful broaching of an amicable peace with the rebels and the creation of the Union of Victoria as the first black majority dominion was enormously popular, and he called a snap election in 1958, in which he won a landslide majority. [9] Priestley won the election in 1963, becoming Britain's most popular Prime Minister of the 20th Century. He will not run again. [10] The Common Wealth party lose the 1967 election as Britain's economic power declines with the rise of American hegemony. The eccentric but brilliant former barrister and ex-Buddhist Christmas Humphreys leads the NDP to victory, hoping to reverse Priestley's anti-Americanism and social egalitarianism.
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#1802
April 9th, 2012, 02:07 PM
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PM can't have held the office of PM, Leader of the Opposition, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary or Home Secretary OTL:
1931: Leo Amery (Conservative) [1] 1936: Leo Amery (Conservative minority) 1938: Aneurin Bevan (Labour) [2] 1940: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [3] 1944: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [4] 1947: Alfred Duff Cooper (National) [5] 1950: Alfred Duff Cooper (NDP) [6] 1955: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [7] 1958: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [8] 1963: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [9] 1967: Christmas Humphreys (NDP) [10] 1970: Christmas Humphreys (NDP-Social Alliance Coalition) [11] [1] A depressed Baldwin resigns as Conservative leader after the party spilts over tariffs. The protectionist Amery forms a government with Simonite support following a financial crisis and MacDonald's resignation. [2] Amery's government collapses in a vote of no confidence following internal government opposition over India and the issue of re-armanent. Maverick Labour leader Aneurin "Nye" Bevan becomes PM with pledges to protect British interests and reform society [3] Poland is invaded by the Soviet Union, resulting in an anti-communist alliance between France, Italy and the German Empire (under the control of von Papen with the return of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a figurehead Emperor) and a declaration of war against the USSR. Bevan is under pressure to join this effort but refuses, resulting in a vote of no confidence in the government and the Prime Minister's resignation. The Conservative leader, William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech, is invited by King Edward to form a National Government to fight the Soviets. These events seriously divide the Labour party, some virulently anti-communist Labourites join Harlech's coalition, whereas some Labourites sympathetic to the USSR are further radicalised by the myth of a royal coup against Bevan. [4] The Coalition is re-elected due to the desire to win the war. The war as a whole nearly went pear-shaped in 1942 as the Soviets swarmed as far as Magdeburg before running out of steam. Borders are getting close to Donetsk at the time of election. [5] Despite pushing the Soviets back into their own borders, the war effort after 1944 begins to turn into a stalemate as partisans and workers unrest continue to hamper the allied war effort. To make matters worse, with the election to the US Presidency of Henry Wallace, the significant aid the US had been giving to the allies in the form of Lend Lease disappeared virtually overnight. With casualties mounting, workers unrest on the home front growing and the danger of a communist uprising in India, the allies decide to go ahead with a joint nuclear/biological attack on the USSR. On what becomes known as D-Day, three crude nuclear devices are simultaneously dropped on Leningrad, Moscow and Minsk, followed up by dropping vast quantities of anthrax infected linseed cakes onto Soviet fields where they are consumed by cattle. Although the Soviet regime and economy for all intents and purposes collapses, the attack stiffens the resistance of the partisans and the remnants of the Red Army as well as creating even more unrest on the home front. With American criticism and suspicion of the allies at an all time high, Harlech is forced out of office after a vote of no confidence to be replaced by Alfred Duff Cooper. Duff Cooper immediately groups all members of the National Government to form the National Party in the face of increasing civil unrest. [6] In 1950, the Allies reach Moscow and the Soviet regime collapses. In Germany, however, a general strike leads to the collapse of von Papen's regime, the abolition of the monarchy and an SPD-KPD coalition. In France, a similar strike leads to a civil war which ends in the establishment of a military dictatorship. Duff Cooper in Britain calls a general election after the end of the war and forms the new "National Democratic Party" or NDP out of the remnants of the Conservative and the Liberals, winning a landslide majority. [7] The only hope for the left after the utter discrediting of Socialism due to the (unfair) association with Communism is for Left-Populism and 'share the wealth' ideas, such as those posited by the rising Common Wealth party, which absorbed almost the entirety of the old Labour vote and much of the left of the Liberal Party. Popular author and broadcaster J.B. Priestley, who only entered parliament in 1950, leads them to a small majority after disquiet over massive unemployment and the general malaise the population feels over the shared sense that the Britain the Army came home to was not fit for heroes who saved the world from Communism. [8] Priestley's populist position forced him into a corner over the Kenya Crisis. His successful broaching of an amicable peace with the rebels and the creation of the Union of Victoria as the first black majority dominion was enormously popular, and he called a snap election in 1958, in which he won a landslide majority. [9] Priestley won the election in 1963, becoming Britain's most popular Prime Minister of the 20th Century. He will not run again. [10] The Common Wealth party lose the 1967 election as Britain's economic power declines with the rise of American hegemony. The eccentric but brilliant former barrister and ex-Buddhist Christmas Humphreys leads the NDP to victory, hoping to reverse Priestley's anti-Americanism and social egalitarianism. [11] Humphreys continues to be personally popular, but his government makes a series of blunders. Humphreys calls a snap election, but passes legislation which means that as well as voting for the MP they want to represent their constituency, they also vote for who they want to be PM. Humphreys returns to power on a wave of popular support, but the NDP is in a minority position. He forges a coalition with the Social Alliance a broadly centre party, to keep his government in power.
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April 9th, 2012, 07:48 PM
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PM can't have held the office of PM, Leader of the Opposition, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary or Home Secretary OTL:
1931: Leo Amery (Conservative) [1] 1936: Leo Amery (Conservative minority) 1938: Aneurin Bevan (Labour) [2] 1940: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [3] 1944: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [4] 1947: Alfred Duff Cooper (National) [5] 1950: Alfred Duff Cooper (NDP) [6] 1955: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [7] 1958: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [8] 1963: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [9] 1967: Christmas Humphreys (NDP) [10] 1970: Christmas Humphreys (NDP-Social Alliance Coalition) [11] 1975: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [12] [1] A depressed Baldwin resigns as Conservative leader after the party spilts over tariffs. The protectionist Amery forms a government with Simonite support following a financial crisis and MacDonald's resignation. [2] Amery's government collapses in a vote of no confidence following internal government opposition over India and the issue of re-armanent. Maverick Labour leader Aneurin "Nye" Bevan becomes PM with pledges to protect British interests and reform society [3] Poland is invaded by the Soviet Union, resulting in an anti-communist alliance between France, Italy and the German Empire (under the control of von Papen with the return of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a figurehead Emperor) and a declaration of war against the USSR. Bevan is under pressure to join this effort but refuses, resulting in a vote of no confidence in the government and the Prime Minister's resignation. The Conservative leader, William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech, is invited by King Edward to form a National Government to fight the Soviets. These events seriously divide the Labour party, some virulently anti-communist Labourites join Harlech's coalition, whereas some Labourites sympathetic to the USSR are further radicalised by the myth of a royal coup against Bevan. [4] The Coalition is re-elected due to the desire to win the war. The war as a whole nearly went pear-shaped in 1942 as the Soviets swarmed as far as Magdeburg before running out of steam. Borders are getting close to Donetsk at the time of election. [5] Despite pushing the Soviets back into their own borders, the war effort after 1944 begins to turn into a stalemate as partisans and workers unrest continue to hamper the allied war effort. To make matters worse, with the election to the US Presidency of Henry Wallace, the significant aid the US had been giving to the allies in the form of Lend Lease disappeared virtually overnight. With casualties mounting, workers unrest on the home front growing and the danger of a communist uprising in India, the allies decide to go ahead with a joint nuclear/biological attack on the USSR. On what becomes known as D-Day, three crude nuclear devices are simultaneously dropped on Leningrad, Moscow and Minsk, followed up by dropping vast quantities of anthrax infected linseed cakes onto Soviet fields where they are consumed by cattle. Although the Soviet regime and economy for all intents and purposes collapses, the attack stiffens the resistance of the partisans and the remnants of the Red Army as well as creating even more unrest on the home front. With American criticism and suspicion of the allies at an all time high, Harlech is forced out of office after a vote of no confidence to be replaced by Alfred Duff Cooper. Duff Cooper immediately groups all members of the National Government to form the National Party in the face of increasing civil unrest. [6] In 1950, the Allies reach Moscow and the Soviet regime collapses. In Germany, however, a general strike leads to the collapse of von Papen's regime, the abolition of the monarchy and an SPD-KPD coalition. In France, a similar strike leads to a civil war which ends in the establishment of a military dictatorship. Duff Cooper in Britain calls a general election after the end of the war and forms the new "National Democratic Party" or NDP out of the remnants of the Conservative and the Liberals, winning a landslide majority. [7] The only hope for the left after the utter discrediting of Socialism due to the (unfair) association with Communism is for Left-Populism and 'share the wealth' ideas, such as those posited by the rising Common Wealth party, which absorbed almost the entirety of the old Labour vote and much of the left of the Liberal Party. Popular author and broadcaster J.B. Priestley, who only entered parliament in 1950, leads them to a small majority after disquiet over massive unemployment and the general malaise the population feels over the shared sense that the Britain the Army came home to was not fit for heroes who saved the world from Communism. [8] Priestley's populist position forced him into a corner over the Kenya Crisis. His successful broaching of an amicable peace with the rebels and the creation of the Union of Victoria as the first black majority dominion was enormously popular, and he called a snap election in 1958, in which he won a landslide majority. [9] Priestley won the election in 1963, becoming Britain's most popular Prime Minister of the 20th Century. He will not run again. [10] The Common Wealth party lose the 1967 election as Britain's economic power declines with the rise of American hegemony. The eccentric but brilliant former barrister and ex-Buddhist Christmas Humphreys leads the NDP to victory, hoping to reverse Priestley's anti-Americanism and social egalitarianism. [11] Humphreys continues to be personally popular, but his government makes a series of blunders. Humphreys calls a snap election, but passes legislation which means that as well as voting for the MP they want to represent their constituency, they also vote for who they want to be PM. Humphreys returns to power on a wave of popular support, but the NDP is in a minority position. He forges a coalition with the Social Alliance a broadly centre party, to keep his government in power. [12] After the Railwaymen's Strike of 1973-4 nearly fells the government (which itself is forced into a humiliating climbdown and the reversal of all existing downsizing plans), Pertwee's invigorated Common Wealth Party pick up their attacks on the Government and demand a 'return to regular service' (a poor pun on the plight that railwaymen had bestowed upon Humphreys, but popular nonetheless). After giving up more and more power to the Social Alliance to maintain support, Humphreys, a broken man, goes to the Palace a week before the Parliament will expire. Pertwee is ushered in with a majority of 68, and (despite the huge personal vote he received to become PM) pledges to undo the 'appallingly presidential' voting reforms in the Prime Minister Act of 1970. Common Wealth ministers begin immediate meetings with leaders of the TUC, with hopes that they will draw up a document and binding contract between the Crown and Congress House that will provide means of resolving disputes without industrial action.
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April 9th, 2012, 08:40 PM
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PM can't have held the office of PM, Leader of the Opposition, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary or Home Secretary OTL:
1931: Leo Amery (Conservative) [1] 1936: Leo Amery (Conservative minority) 1938: Aneurin Bevan (Labour) [2] 1940: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [3] 1944: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [4] 1947: Alfred Duff Cooper (National) [5] 1950: Alfred Duff Cooper (NDP) [6] 1955: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [7] 1958: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [8] 1963: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [9] 1967: Christmas Humphreys (NDP) [10] 1970: Christmas Humphreys (NDP-Social Alliance Coalition) [11] 1975: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [12] 1980: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [13] [1] A depressed Baldwin resigns as Conservative leader after the party spilts over tariffs. The protectionist Amery forms a government with Simonite support following a financial crisis and MacDonald's resignation. [2] Amery's government collapses in a vote of no confidence following internal government opposition over India and the issue of re-armanent. Maverick Labour leader Aneurin "Nye" Bevan becomes PM with pledges to protect British interests and reform society [3] Poland is invaded by the Soviet Union, resulting in an anti-communist alliance between France, Italy and the German Empire (under the control of von Papen with the return of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a figurehead Emperor) and a declaration of war against the USSR. Bevan is under pressure to join this effort but refuses, resulting in a vote of no confidence in the government and the Prime Minister's resignation. The Conservative leader, William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech, is invited by King Edward to form a National Government to fight the Soviets. These events seriously divide the Labour party, some virulently anti-communist Labourites join Harlech's coalition, whereas some Labourites sympathetic to the USSR are further radicalised by the myth of a royal coup against Bevan. [4] The Coalition is re-elected due to the desire to win the war. The war as a whole nearly went pear-shaped in 1942 as the Soviets swarmed as far as Magdeburg before running out of steam. Borders are getting close to Donetsk at the time of election. [5] Despite pushing the Soviets back into their own borders, the war effort after 1944 begins to turn into a stalemate as partisans and workers unrest continue to hamper the allied war effort. To make matters worse, with the election to the US Presidency of Henry Wallace, the significant aid the US had been giving to the allies in the form of Lend Lease disappeared virtually overnight. With casualties mounting, workers unrest on the home front growing and the danger of a communist uprising in India, the allies decide to go ahead with a joint nuclear/biological attack on the USSR. On what becomes known as D-Day, three crude nuclear devices are simultaneously dropped on Leningrad, Moscow and Minsk, followed up by dropping vast quantities of anthrax infected linseed cakes onto Soviet fields where they are consumed by cattle. Although the Soviet regime and economy for all intents and purposes collapses, the attack stiffens the resistance of the partisans and the remnants of the Red Army as well as creating even more unrest on the home front. With American criticism and suspicion of the allies at an all time high, Harlech is forced out of office after a vote of no confidence to be replaced by Alfred Duff Cooper. Duff Cooper immediately groups all members of the National Government to form the National Party in the face of increasing civil unrest. [6] In 1950, the Allies reach Moscow and the Soviet regime collapses. In Germany, however, a general strike leads to the collapse of von Papen's regime, the abolition of the monarchy and an SPD-KPD coalition. In France, a similar strike leads to a civil war which ends in the establishment of a military dictatorship. Duff Cooper in Britain calls a general election after the end of the war and forms the new "National Democratic Party" or NDP out of the remnants of the Conservative and the Liberals, winning a landslide majority. [7] The only hope for the left after the utter discrediting of Socialism due to the (unfair) association with Communism is for Left-Populism and 'share the wealth' ideas, such as those posited by the rising Common Wealth party, which absorbed almost the entirety of the old Labour vote and much of the left of the Liberal Party. Popular author and broadcaster J.B. Priestley, who only entered parliament in 1950, leads them to a small majority after disquiet over massive unemployment and the general malaise the population feels over the shared sense that the Britain the Army came home to was not fit for heroes who saved the world from Communism. [8] Priestley's populist position forced him into a corner over the Kenya Crisis. His successful broaching of an amicable peace with the rebels and the creation of the Union of Victoria as the first black majority dominion was enormously popular, and he called a snap election in 1958, in which he won a landslide majority. [9] Priestley won the election in 1963, becoming Britain's most popular Prime Minister of the 20th Century. He will not run again. [10] The Common Wealth party lose the 1967 election as Britain's economic power declines with the rise of American hegemony. The eccentric but brilliant former barrister and ex-Buddhist Christmas Humphreys leads the NDP to victory, hoping to reverse Priestley's anti-Americanism and social egalitarianism. [11] Humphreys continues to be personally popular, but his government makes a series of blunders. Humphreys calls a snap election, but passes legislation which means that as well as voting for the MP they want to represent their constituency, they also vote for who they want to be PM. Humphreys returns to power on a wave of popular support, but the NDP is in a minority position. He forges a coalition with the Social Alliance a broadly centre party, to keep his government in power. [12] After the Railwaymen's Strike of 1973-4 nearly fells the government (which itself is forced into a humiliating climbdown and the reversal of all existing downsizing plans), Pertwee's invigorated Common Wealth Party pick up their attacks on the Government and demand a 'return to regular service' (a poor pun on the plight that railwaymen had bestowed upon Humphreys, but popular nonetheless). After giving up more and more power to the Social Alliance to maintain support, Humphreys, a broken man, goes to the Palace a week before the Parliament will expire. Pertwee is ushered in with a majority of 68, and (despite the huge personal vote he received to become PM) pledges to undo the 'appallingly presidential' voting reforms in the Prime Minister Act of 1970. Common Wealth ministers begin immediate meetings with leaders of the TUC, with hopes that they will draw up a document and binding contract between the Crown and Congress House that will provide means of resolving disputes without industrial action. [13] Pertwee's attempts to resolve Britain's domestic problems are widely successfully and applauded by even the staunchest of critics to his government. However, with the passing of the Kingdom Devolution Act in 1979, (which saw the transfer of power to local regionalized governments for Scotland and Wales), many began to worry that Pertwee had slipped from his footing, and considerable right-wing pressure began to mount against his party in the run-up to the 1980 election - which played a significant role against the Prime Minister's sound health.
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#1805
April 9th, 2012, 09:54 PM
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PM can't have held the office of PM, Leader of the Opposition, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary or Home Secretary OTL:
1931: Leo Amery (Conservative) [1] 1936: Leo Amery (Conservative minority) 1938: Aneurin Bevan (Labour) [2] 1940: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [3] 1944: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [4] 1947: Alfred Duff Cooper (National) [5] 1950: Alfred Duff Cooper (NDP) [6] 1955: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [7] 1958: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [8] 1963: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [9] 1967: Christmas Humphreys (NDP) [10] 1970: Christmas Humphreys (NDP-Social Alliance Coalition) [11] 1975: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [12] 1980: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [13] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [14] [1] A depressed Baldwin resigns as Conservative leader after the party spilts over tariffs. The protectionist Amery forms a government with Simonite support following a financial crisis and MacDonald's resignation. [2] Amery's government collapses in a vote of no confidence following internal government opposition over India and the issue of re-armanent. Maverick Labour leader Aneurin "Nye" Bevan becomes PM with pledges to protect British interests and reform society [3] Poland is invaded by the Soviet Union, resulting in an anti-communist alliance between France, Italy and the German Empire (under the control of von Papen with the return of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a figurehead Emperor) and a declaration of war against the USSR. Bevan is under pressure to join this effort but refuses, resulting in a vote of no confidence in the government and the Prime Minister's resignation. The Conservative leader, William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech, is invited by King Edward to form a National Government to fight the Soviets. These events seriously divide the Labour party, some virulently anti-communist Labourites join Harlech's coalition, whereas some Labourites sympathetic to the USSR are further radicalised by the myth of a royal coup against Bevan. [4] The Coalition is re-elected due to the desire to win the war. The war as a whole nearly went pear-shaped in 1942 as the Soviets swarmed as far as Magdeburg before running out of steam. Borders are getting close to Donetsk at the time of election. [5] Despite pushing the Soviets back into their own borders, the war effort after 1944 begins to turn into a stalemate as partisans and workers unrest continue to hamper the allied war effort. To make matters worse, with the election to the US Presidency of Henry Wallace, the significant aid the US had been giving to the allies in the form of Lend Lease disappeared virtually overnight. With casualties mounting, workers unrest on the home front growing and the danger of a communist uprising in India, the allies decide to go ahead with a joint nuclear/biological attack on the USSR. On what becomes known as D-Day, three crude nuclear devices are simultaneously dropped on Leningrad, Moscow and Minsk, followed up by dropping vast quantities of anthrax infected linseed cakes onto Soviet fields where they are consumed by cattle. Although the Soviet regime and economy for all intents and purposes collapses, the attack stiffens the resistance of the partisans and the remnants of the Red Army as well as creating even more unrest on the home front. With American criticism and suspicion of the allies at an all time high, Harlech is forced out of office after a vote of no confidence to be replaced by Alfred Duff Cooper. Duff Cooper immediately groups all members of the National Government to form the National Party in the face of increasing civil unrest. [6] In 1950, the Allies reach Moscow and the Soviet regime collapses. In Germany, however, a general strike leads to the collapse of von Papen's regime, the abolition of the monarchy and an SPD-KPD coalition. In France, a similar strike leads to a civil war which ends in the establishment of a military dictatorship. Duff Cooper in Britain calls a general election after the end of the war and forms the new "National Democratic Party" or NDP out of the remnants of the Conservative and the Liberals, winning a landslide majority. [7] The only hope for the left after the utter discrediting of Socialism due to the (unfair) association with Communism is for Left-Populism and 'share the wealth' ideas, such as those posited by the rising Common Wealth party, which absorbed almost the entirety of the old Labour vote and much of the left of the Liberal Party. Popular author and broadcaster J.B. Priestley, who only entered parliament in 1950, leads them to a small majority after disquiet over massive unemployment and the general malaise the population feels over the shared sense that the Britain the Army came home to was not fit for heroes who saved the world from Communism. [8] Priestley's populist position forced him into a corner over the Kenya Crisis. His successful broaching of an amicable peace with the rebels and the creation of the Union of Victoria as the first black majority dominion was enormously popular, and he called a snap election in 1958, in which he won a landslide majority. [9] Priestley won the election in 1963, becoming Britain's most popular Prime Minister of the 20th Century. He will not run again. [10] The Common Wealth party lose the 1967 election as Britain's economic power declines with the rise of American hegemony. The eccentric but brilliant former barrister and ex-Buddhist Christmas Humphreys leads the NDP to victory, hoping to reverse Priestley's anti-Americanism and social egalitarianism. [11] Humphreys continues to be personally popular, but his government makes a series of blunders. Humphreys calls a snap election, but passes legislation which means that as well as voting for the MP they want to represent their constituency, they also vote for who they want to be PM. Humphreys returns to power on a wave of popular support, but the NDP is in a minority position. He forges a coalition with the Social Alliance a broadly centre party, to keep his government in power. [12] After the Railwaymen's Strike of 1973-4 nearly fells the government (which itself is forced into a humiliating climbdown and the reversal of all existing downsizing plans), Pertwee's invigorated Common Wealth Party pick up their attacks on the Government and demand a 'return to regular service' (a poor pun on the plight that railwaymen had bestowed upon Humphreys, but popular nonetheless). After giving up more and more power to the Social Alliance to maintain support, Humphreys, a broken man, goes to the Palace a week before the Parliament will expire. Pertwee is ushered in with a majority of 68, and (despite the huge personal vote he received to become PM) pledges to undo the 'appallingly presidential' voting reforms in the Prime Minister Act of 1970. Common Wealth ministers begin immediate meetings with leaders of the TUC, with hopes that they will draw up a document and binding contract between the Crown and Congress House that will provide means of resolving disputes without industrial action. [13] Pertwee's attempts to resolve Britain's domestic problems are widely successfully and applauded by even the staunchest of critics to his government. However, with the passing of the Kingdom Devolution Act in 1979, (which saw the transfer of power to local regionalized governments for Scotland and Wales), many began to worry that Pertwee had slipped from his footing, and considerable right-wing pressure began to mount against his party in the run-up to the 1980 election - which played a significant role against the Prime Minister's sound health. [14] After a battle with influenza takes a turn for the worse and nearly results in his death, Pertwee retires. His health will recover but thanks only to the end of his stressful career. He delivers a farewell address on New Year's Day, 1982. Brittan went from the first woman to sit in Number 11 to the first woman to sit in Number 10. Common Wealth received a major bump in support as the telegenic and charming new PM announced a 'mid-parliament manifesto' that would recast British politics for a generation.
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April 10th, 2012, 07:11 AM
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PM can't have held the office of PM, Leader of the Opposition, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary or Home Secretary OTL:
1931: Leo Amery (Conservative) [1] 1936: Leo Amery (Conservative minority) 1938: Aneurin Bevan (Labour) [2] 1940: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [3] 1944: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [4] 1947: Alfred Duff Cooper (National) [5] 1950: Alfred Duff Cooper (NDP) [6] 1955: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [7] 1958: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [8] 1963: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [9] 1967: Christmas Humphreys (NDP) [10] 1970: Christmas Humphreys (NDP-Social Alliance Coalition) [11] 1975: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [12] 1980: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [13] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [14] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth-NDP-Social Alliance-Social Evangelical Coalition) [15] [1] A depressed Baldwin resigns as Conservative leader after the party spilts over tariffs. The protectionist Amery forms a government with Simonite support following a financial crisis and MacDonald's resignation. [2] Amery's government collapses in a vote of no confidence following internal government opposition over India and the issue of re-armanent. Maverick Labour leader Aneurin "Nye" Bevan becomes PM with pledges to protect British interests and reform society [3] Poland is invaded by the Soviet Union, resulting in an anti-communist alliance between France, Italy and the German Empire (under the control of von Papen with the return of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a figurehead Emperor) and a declaration of war against the USSR. Bevan is under pressure to join this effort but refuses, resulting in a vote of no confidence in the government and the Prime Minister's resignation. The Conservative leader, William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech, is invited by King Edward to form a National Government to fight the Soviets. These events seriously divide the Labour party, some virulently anti-communist Labourites join Harlech's coalition, whereas some Labourites sympathetic to the USSR are further radicalised by the myth of a royal coup against Bevan. [4] The Coalition is re-elected due to the desire to win the war. The war as a whole nearly went pear-shaped in 1942 as the Soviets swarmed as far as Magdeburg before running out of steam. Borders are getting close to Donetsk at the time of election. [5] Despite pushing the Soviets back into their own borders, the war effort after 1944 begins to turn into a stalemate as partisans and workers unrest continue to hamper the allied war effort. To make matters worse, with the election to the US Presidency of Henry Wallace, the significant aid the US had been giving to the allies in the form of Lend Lease disappeared virtually overnight. With casualties mounting, workers unrest on the home front growing and the danger of a communist uprising in India, the allies decide to go ahead with a joint nuclear/biological attack on the USSR. On what becomes known as D-Day, three crude nuclear devices are simultaneously dropped on Leningrad, Moscow and Minsk, followed up by dropping vast quantities of anthrax infected linseed cakes onto Soviet fields where they are consumed by cattle. Although the Soviet regime and economy for all intents and purposes collapses, the attack stiffens the resistance of the partisans and the remnants of the Red Army as well as creating even more unrest on the home front. With American criticism and suspicion of the allies at an all time high, Harlech is forced out of office after a vote of no confidence to be replaced by Alfred Duff Cooper. Duff Cooper immediately groups all members of the National Government to form the National Party in the face of increasing civil unrest. [6] In 1950, the Allies reach Moscow and the Soviet regime collapses. In Germany, however, a general strike leads to the collapse of von Papen's regime, the abolition of the monarchy and an SPD-KPD coalition. In France, a similar strike leads to a civil war which ends in the establishment of a military dictatorship. Duff Cooper in Britain calls a general election after the end of the war and forms the new "National Democratic Party" or NDP out of the remnants of the Conservative and the Liberals, winning a landslide majority. [7] The only hope for the left after the utter discrediting of Socialism due to the (unfair) association with Communism is for Left-Populism and 'share the wealth' ideas, such as those posited by the rising Common Wealth party, which absorbed almost the entirety of the old Labour vote and much of the left of the Liberal Party. Popular author and broadcaster J.B. Priestley, who only entered parliament in 1950, leads them to a small majority after disquiet over massive unemployment and the general malaise the population feels over the shared sense that the Britain the Army came home to was not fit for heroes who saved the world from Communism. [8] Priestley's populist position forced him into a corner over the Kenya Crisis. His successful broaching of an amicable peace with the rebels and the creation of the Union of Victoria as the first black majority dominion was enormously popular, and he called a snap election in 1958, in which he won a landslide majority. [9] Priestley won the election in 1963, becoming Britain's most popular Prime Minister of the 20th Century. He will not run again. [10] The Common Wealth party lose the 1967 election as Britain's economic power declines with the rise of American hegemony. The eccentric but brilliant former barrister and ex-Buddhist Christmas Humphreys leads the NDP to victory, hoping to reverse Priestley's anti-Americanism and social egalitarianism. [11] Humphreys continues to be personally popular, but his government makes a series of blunders. Humphreys calls a snap election, but passes legislation which means that as well as voting for the MP they want to represent their constituency, they also vote for who they want to be PM. Humphreys returns to power on a wave of popular support, but the NDP is in a minority position. He forges a coalition with the Social Alliance a broadly centre party, to keep his government in power. [12] After the Railwaymen's Strike of 1973-4 nearly fells the government (which itself is forced into a humiliating climbdown and the reversal of all existing downsizing plans), Pertwee's invigorated Common Wealth Party pick up their attacks on the Government and demand a 'return to regular service' (a poor pun on the plight that railwaymen had bestowed upon Humphreys, but popular nonetheless). After giving up more and more power to the Social Alliance to maintain support, Humphreys, a broken man, goes to the Palace a week before the Parliament will expire. Pertwee is ushered in with a majority of 68, and (despite the huge personal vote he received to become PM) pledges to undo the 'appallingly presidential' voting reforms in the Prime Minister Act of 1970. Common Wealth ministers begin immediate meetings with leaders of the TUC, with hopes that they will draw up a document and binding contract between the Crown and Congress House that will provide means of resolving disputes without industrial action. [13] Pertwee's attempts to resolve Britain's domestic problems are widely successfully and applauded by even the staunchest of critics to his government. However, with the passing of the Kingdom Devolution Act in 1979, (which saw the transfer of power to local regionalized governments for Scotland and Wales), many began to worry that Pertwee had slipped from his footing, and considerable right-wing pressure began to mount against his party in the run-up to the 1980 election - which played a significant role against the Prime Minister's sound health. [14] After a battle with influenza takes a turn for the worse and nearly results in his death, Pertwee retires. His health will recover but thanks only to the end of his stressful career. He delivers a farewell address on New Year's Day, 1982. Brittan went from the first woman to sit in Number 11 to the first woman to sit in Number 10. Common Wealth received a major bump in support as the telegenic and charming new PM announced a 'mid-parliament manifesto' that would recast British politics for a generation. [15] Just days into Brittan's first government, the combined forces of the Republic of Argentina and its allies invaded the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic. Brittan, wary of being laelled with blame should the conflict go poorly, forms a coalition wartime government to deal with the problem, using all the major political forces in the House - including the up-and-coming left centre Social Evangelicalists, who pledged to support the Church of England and re-enforce British morals and civil decency.
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April 17th, 2012, 01:50 PM
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PM can't have held the office of PM, Leader of the Opposition, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary or Home Secretary OTL:
1931: Leo Amery (Conservative) [1] 1936: Leo Amery (Conservative minority) 1938: Aneurin Bevan (Labour) [2] 1940: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [3] 1944: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [4] 1947: Alfred Duff Cooper (National) [5] 1950: Alfred Duff Cooper (NDP) [6] 1955: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [7] 1958: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [8] 1963: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [9] 1967: Christmas Humphreys (NDP) [10] 1970: Christmas Humphreys (NDP-Social Alliance Coalition) [11] 1975: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [12] 1980: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [13] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [14] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth-NDP-Social Alliance-Social Evangelical Coalition) [15] 1983: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [1] A depressed Baldwin resigns as Conservative leader after the party spilts over tariffs. The protectionist Amery forms a government with Simonite support following a financial crisis and MacDonald's resignation. [2] Amery's government collapses in a vote of no confidence following internal government opposition over India and the issue of re-armanent. Maverick Labour leader Aneurin "Nye" Bevan becomes PM with pledges to protect British interests and reform society [3] Poland is invaded by the Soviet Union, resulting in an anti-communist alliance between France, Italy and the German Empire (under the control of von Papen with the return of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a figurehead Emperor) and a declaration of war against the USSR. Bevan is under pressure to join this effort but refuses, resulting in a vote of no confidence in the government and the Prime Minister's resignation. The Conservative leader, William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech, is invited by King Edward to form a National Government to fight the Soviets. These events seriously divide the Labour party, some virulently anti-communist Labourites join Harlech's coalition, whereas some Labourites sympathetic to the USSR are further radicalised by the myth of a royal coup against Bevan. [4] The Coalition is re-elected due to the desire to win the war. The war as a whole nearly went pear-shaped in 1942 as the Soviets swarmed as far as Magdeburg before running out of steam. Borders are getting close to Donetsk at the time of election. [5] Despite pushing the Soviets back into their own borders, the war effort after 1944 begins to turn into a stalemate as partisans and workers unrest continue to hamper the allied war effort. To make matters worse, with the election to the US Presidency of Henry Wallace, the significant aid the US had been giving to the allies in the form of Lend Lease disappeared virtually overnight. With casualties mounting, workers unrest on the home front growing and the danger of a communist uprising in India, the allies decide to go ahead with a joint nuclear/biological attack on the USSR. On what becomes known as D-Day, three crude nuclear devices are simultaneously dropped on Leningrad, Moscow and Minsk, followed up by dropping vast quantities of anthrax infected linseed cakes onto Soviet fields where they are consumed by cattle. Although the Soviet regime and economy for all intents and purposes collapses, the attack stiffens the resistance of the partisans and the remnants of the Red Army as well as creating even more unrest on the home front. With American criticism and suspicion of the allies at an all time high, Harlech is forced out of office after a vote of no confidence to be replaced by Alfred Duff Cooper. Duff Cooper immediately groups all members of the National Government to form the National Party in the face of increasing civil unrest. [6] In 1950, the Allies reach Moscow and the Soviet regime collapses. In Germany, however, a general strike leads to the collapse of von Papen's regime, the abolition of the monarchy and an SPD-KPD coalition. In France, a similar strike leads to a civil war which ends in the establishment of a military dictatorship. Duff Cooper in Britain calls a general election after the end of the war and forms the new "National Democratic Party" or NDP out of the remnants of the Conservative and the Liberals, winning a landslide majority. [7] The only hope for the left after the utter discrediting of Socialism due to the (unfair) association with Communism is for Left-Populism and 'share the wealth' ideas, such as those posited by the rising Common Wealth party, which absorbed almost the entirety of the old Labour vote and much of the left of the Liberal Party. Popular author and broadcaster J.B. Priestley, who only entered parliament in 1950, leads them to a small majority after disquiet over massive unemployment and the general malaise the population feels over the shared sense that the Britain the Army came home to was not fit for heroes who saved the world from Communism. [8] Priestley's populist position forced him into a corner over the Kenya Crisis. His successful broaching of an amicable peace with the rebels and the creation of the Union of Victoria as the first black majority dominion was enormously popular, and he called a snap election in 1958, in which he won a landslide majority. [9] Priestley won the election in 1963, becoming Britain's most popular Prime Minister of the 20th Century. He will not run again. [10] The Common Wealth party lose the 1967 election as Britain's economic power declines with the rise of American hegemony. The eccentric but brilliant former barrister and ex-Buddhist Christmas Humphreys leads the NDP to victory, hoping to reverse Priestley's anti-Americanism and social egalitarianism. [11] Humphreys continues to be personally popular, but his government makes a series of blunders. Humphreys calls a snap election, but passes legislation which means that as well as voting for the MP they want to represent their constituency, they also vote for who they want to be PM. Humphreys returns to power on a wave of popular support, but the NDP is in a minority position. He forges a coalition with the Social Alliance a broadly centre party, to keep his government in power. [12] After the Railwaymen's Strike of 1973-4 nearly fells the government (which itself is forced into a humiliating climbdown and the reversal of all existing downsizing plans), Pertwee's invigorated Common Wealth Party pick up their attacks on the Government and demand a 'return to regular service' (a poor pun on the plight that railwaymen had bestowed upon Humphreys, but popular nonetheless). After giving up more and more power to the Social Alliance to maintain support, Humphreys, a broken man, goes to the Palace a week before the Parliament will expire. Pertwee is ushered in with a majority of 68, and (despite the huge personal vote he received to become PM) pledges to undo the 'appallingly presidential' voting reforms in the Prime Minister Act of 1970. Common Wealth ministers begin immediate meetings with leaders of the TUC, with hopes that they will draw up a document and binding contract between the Crown and Congress House that will provide means of resolving disputes without industrial action. [13] Pertwee's attempts to resolve Britain's domestic problems are widely successfully and applauded by even the staunchest of critics to his government. However, with the passing of the Kingdom Devolution Act in 1979, (which saw the transfer of power to local regionalized governments for Scotland and Wales), many began to worry that Pertwee had slipped from his footing, and considerable right-wing pressure began to mount against his party in the run-up to the 1980 election - which played a significant role against the Prime Minister's sound health. [14] After a battle with influenza takes a turn for the worse and nearly results in his death, Pertwee retires. His health will recover but thanks only to the end of his stressful career. He delivers a farewell address on New Year's Day, 1982. Brittan went from the first woman to sit in Number 11 to the first woman to sit in Number 10. Common Wealth received a major bump in support as the telegenic and charming new PM announced a 'mid-parliament manifesto' that would recast British politics for a generation. [15] Just days into Brittan's first government, the combined forces of the Republic of Argentina and its allies invaded the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic. Brittan, wary of being labelled with blame should the conflict go poorly, forms a coalition wartime government to deal with the problem, using all the major political forces in the House - including the up-and-coming left centre Social Evangelicalists, who pledged to support the Church of England and re-enforce British morals and civil decency. [16] The war is officially declared over on February 1 1983. The Grand Coalition formally breaks up two weeks later, in time for the passage of Chancellor Foot's second budget. Brittan and Common Wealth enjoy a huge boost in support, with some calling for a snap election to make ten years of Common Wealth rule a possibility.
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April 17th, 2012, 03:11 PM
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PM can't have held the office of PM, Leader of the Opposition, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary or Home Secretary OTL:
1931: Leo Amery (Conservative) [1] 1936: Leo Amery (Conservative minority) 1938: Aneurin Bevan (Labour) [2] 1940: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [3] 1944: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [4] 1947: Alfred Duff Cooper (National) [5] 1950: Alfred Duff Cooper (NDP) [6] 1955: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [7] 1958: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [8] 1963: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [9] 1967: Christmas Humphreys (NDP) [10] 1970: Christmas Humphreys (NDP-Social Alliance Coalition) [11] 1975: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [12] 1980: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [13] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [14] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth-NDP-Social Alliance-Social Evangelical Coalition) [15] 1983: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) 1987: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth)[17] [1] A depressed Baldwin resigns as Conservative leader after the party spilts over tariffs. The protectionist Amery forms a government with Simonite support following a financial crisis and MacDonald's resignation. [2] Amery's government collapses in a vote of no confidence following internal government opposition over India and the issue of re-armanent. Maverick Labour leader Aneurin "Nye" Bevan becomes PM with pledges to protect British interests and reform society [3] Poland is invaded by the Soviet Union, resulting in an anti-communist alliance between France, Italy and the German Empire (under the control of von Papen with the return of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a figurehead Emperor) and a declaration of war against the USSR. Bevan is under pressure to join this effort but refuses, resulting in a vote of no confidence in the government and the Prime Minister's resignation. The Conservative leader, William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech, is invited by King Edward to form a National Government to fight the Soviets. These events seriously divide the Labour party, some virulently anti-communist Labourites join Harlech's coalition, whereas some Labourites sympathetic to the USSR are further radicalised by the myth of a royal coup against Bevan. [4] The Coalition is re-elected due to the desire to win the war. The war as a whole nearly went pear-shaped in 1942 as the Soviets swarmed as far as Magdeburg before running out of steam. Borders are getting close to Donetsk at the time of election. [5] Despite pushing the Soviets back into their own borders, the war effort after 1944 begins to turn into a stalemate as partisans and workers unrest continue to hamper the allied war effort. To make matters worse, with the election to the US Presidency of Henry Wallace, the significant aid the US had been giving to the allies in the form of Lend Lease disappeared virtually overnight. With casualties mounting, workers unrest on the home front growing and the danger of a communist uprising in India, the allies decide to go ahead with a joint nuclear/biological attack on the USSR. On what becomes known as D-Day, three crude nuclear devices are simultaneously dropped on Leningrad, Moscow and Minsk, followed up by dropping vast quantities of anthrax infected linseed cakes onto Soviet fields where they are consumed by cattle. Although the Soviet regime and economy for all intents and purposes collapses, the attack stiffens the resistance of the partisans and the remnants of the Red Army as well as creating even more unrest on the home front. With American criticism and suspicion of the allies at an all time high, Harlech is forced out of office after a vote of no confidence to be replaced by Alfred Duff Cooper. Duff Cooper immediately groups all members of the National Government to form the National Party in the face of increasing civil unrest. [6] In 1950, the Allies reach Moscow and the Soviet regime collapses. In Germany, however, a general strike leads to the collapse of von Papen's regime, the abolition of the monarchy and an SPD-KPD coalition. In France, a similar strike leads to a civil war which ends in the establishment of a military dictatorship. Duff Cooper in Britain calls a general election after the end of the war and forms the new "National Democratic Party" or NDP out of the remnants of the Conservative and the Liberals, winning a landslide majority. [7] The only hope for the left after the utter discrediting of Socialism due to the (unfair) association with Communism is for Left-Populism and 'share the wealth' ideas, such as those posited by the rising Common Wealth party, which absorbed almost the entirety of the old Labour vote and much of the left of the Liberal Party. Popular author and broadcaster J.B. Priestley, who only entered parliament in 1950, leads them to a small majority after disquiet over massive unemployment and the general malaise the population feels over the shared sense that the Britain the Army came home to was not fit for heroes who saved the world from Communism. [8] Priestley's populist position forced him into a corner over the Kenya Crisis. His successful broaching of an amicable peace with the rebels and the creation of the Union of Victoria as the first black majority dominion was enormously popular, and he called a snap election in 1958, in which he won a landslide majority. [9] Priestley won the election in 1963, becoming Britain's most popular Prime Minister of the 20th Century. He will not run again. [10] The Common Wealth party lose the 1967 election as Britain's economic power declines with the rise of American hegemony. The eccentric but brilliant former barrister and ex-Buddhist Christmas Humphreys leads the NDP to victory, hoping to reverse Priestley's anti-Americanism and social egalitarianism. [11] Humphreys continues to be personally popular, but his government makes a series of blunders. Humphreys calls a snap election, but passes legislation which means that as well as voting for the MP they want to represent their constituency, they also vote for who they want to be PM. Humphreys returns to power on a wave of popular support, but the NDP is in a minority position. He forges a coalition with the Social Alliance a broadly centre party, to keep his government in power. [12] After the Railwaymen's Strike of 1973-4 nearly fells the government (which itself is forced into a humiliating climbdown and the reversal of all existing downsizing plans), Pertwee's invigorated Common Wealth Party pick up their attacks on the Government and demand a 'return to regular service' (a poor pun on the plight that railwaymen had bestowed upon Humphreys, but popular nonetheless). After giving up more and more power to the Social Alliance to maintain support, Humphreys, a broken man, goes to the Palace a week before the Parliament will expire. Pertwee is ushered in with a majority of 68, and (despite the huge personal vote he received to become PM) pledges to undo the 'appallingly presidential' voting reforms in the Prime Minister Act of 1970. Common Wealth ministers begin immediate meetings with leaders of the TUC, with hopes that they will draw up a document and binding contract between the Crown and Congress House that will provide means of resolving disputes without industrial action. [13] Pertwee's attempts to resolve Britain's domestic problems are widely successfully and applauded by even the staunchest of critics to his government. However, with the passing of the Kingdom Devolution Act in 1979, (which saw the transfer of power to local regionalized governments for Scotland and Wales), many began to worry that Pertwee had slipped from his footing, and considerable right-wing pressure began to mount against his party in the run-up to the 1980 election - which played a significant role against the Prime Minister's sound health. [14] After a battle with influenza takes a turn for the worse and nearly results in his death, Pertwee retires. His health will recover but thanks only to the end of his stressful career. He delivers a farewell address on New Year's Day, 1982. Brittan went from the first woman to sit in Number 11 to the first woman to sit in Number 10. Common Wealth received a major bump in support as the telegenic and charming new PM announced a 'mid-parliament manifesto' that would recast British politics for a generation. [15] Just days into Brittan's first government, the combined forces of the Republic of Argentina and its allies invaded the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic. Brittan, wary of being labelled with blame should the conflict go poorly, forms a coalition wartime government to deal with the problem, using all the major political forces in the House - including the up-and-coming left centre Social Evangelicalists, who pledged to support the Church of England and re-enforce British morals and civil decency. [16] The war is officially declared over on February 1 1983. The Grand Coalition formally breaks up two weeks later, in time for the passage of Chancellor Foot's second budget. Brittan and Common Wealth enjoy a huge boost in support, with some calling for a snap election to make ten years of Common Wealth rule a possibility. [17] Brittan maintains her majority, but her long time in power has earned the ire of many frontbenchers who think that she is passing over fresh-faced rising stars in favour of increasingly aged looking party stalwarts. Even her own backbench is uncomfortably with her increasingly authoritarian treatment of the party.
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April 20th, 2012, 03:15 PM
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PM can't have held the office of PM, Leader of the Opposition, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary or Home Secretary OTL:
1931: Leo Amery (Conservative) [1] 1936: Leo Amery (Conservative minority) 1938: Aneurin Bevan (Labour) [2] 1940: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [3] 1944: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [4] 1947: Alfred Duff Cooper (National) [5] 1950: Alfred Duff Cooper (NDP) [6] 1955: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [7] 1958: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [8] 1963: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [9] 1967: Christmas Humphreys (NDP) [10] 1970: Christmas Humphreys (NDP-Social Alliance Coalition) [11] 1975: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [12] 1980: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [13] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [14] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth-NDP-Social Alliance-Social Evangelical Coalition) [15] 1983: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) 1987: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [17] 1990: Norman Fowler (Liberal Evangelical) [18] [1] A depressed Baldwin resigns as Conservative leader after the party spilts over tariffs. The protectionist Amery forms a government with Simonite support following a financial crisis and MacDonald's resignation. [2] Amery's government collapses in a vote of no confidence following internal government opposition over India and the issue of re-armanent. Maverick Labour leader Aneurin "Nye" Bevan becomes PM with pledges to protect British interests and reform society [3] Poland is invaded by the Soviet Union, resulting in an anti-communist alliance between France, Italy and the German Empire (under the control of von Papen with the return of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a figurehead Emperor) and a declaration of war against the USSR. Bevan is under pressure to join this effort but refuses, resulting in a vote of no confidence in the government and the Prime Minister's resignation. The Conservative leader, William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech, is invited by King Edward to form a National Government to fight the Soviets. These events seriously divide the Labour party, some virulently anti-communist Labourites join Harlech's coalition, whereas some Labourites sympathetic to the USSR are further radicalised by the myth of a royal coup against Bevan. [4] The Coalition is re-elected due to the desire to win the war. The war as a whole nearly went pear-shaped in 1942 as the Soviets swarmed as far as Magdeburg before running out of steam. Borders are getting close to Donetsk at the time of election. [5] Despite pushing the Soviets back into their own borders, the war effort after 1944 begins to turn into a stalemate as partisans and workers unrest continue to hamper the allied war effort. To make matters worse, with the election to the US Presidency of Henry Wallace, the significant aid the US had been giving to the allies in the form of Lend Lease disappeared virtually overnight. With casualties mounting, workers unrest on the home front growing and the danger of a communist uprising in India, the allies decide to go ahead with a joint nuclear/biological attack on the USSR. On what becomes known as D-Day, three crude nuclear devices are simultaneously dropped on Leningrad, Moscow and Minsk, followed up by dropping vast quantities of anthrax infected linseed cakes onto Soviet fields where they are consumed by cattle. Although the Soviet regime and economy for all intents and purposes collapses, the attack stiffens the resistance of the partisans and the remnants of the Red Army as well as creating even more unrest on the home front. With American criticism and suspicion of the allies at an all time high, Harlech is forced out of office after a vote of no confidence to be replaced by Alfred Duff Cooper. Duff Cooper immediately groups all members of the National Government to form the National Party in the face of increasing civil unrest. [6] In 1950, the Allies reach Moscow and the Soviet regime collapses. In Germany, however, a general strike leads to the collapse of von Papen's regime, the abolition of the monarchy and an SPD-KPD coalition. In France, a similar strike leads to a civil war which ends in the establishment of a military dictatorship. Duff Cooper in Britain calls a general election after the end of the war and forms the new "National Democratic Party" or NDP out of the remnants of the Conservative and the Liberals, winning a landslide majority. [7] The only hope for the left after the utter discrediting of Socialism due to the (unfair) association with Communism is for Left-Populism and 'share the wealth' ideas, such as those posited by the rising Common Wealth party, which absorbed almost the entirety of the old Labour vote and much of the left of the Liberal Party. Popular author and broadcaster J.B. Priestley, who only entered parliament in 1950, leads them to a small majority after disquiet over massive unemployment and the general malaise the population feels over the shared sense that the Britain the Army came home to was not fit for heroes who saved the world from Communism. [8] Priestley's populist position forced him into a corner over the Kenya Crisis. His successful broaching of an amicable peace with the rebels and the creation of the Union of Victoria as the first black majority dominion was enormously popular, and he called a snap election in 1958, in which he won a landslide majority. [9] Priestley won the election in 1963, becoming Britain's most popular Prime Minister of the 20th Century. He will not run again. [10] The Common Wealth party lose the 1967 election as Britain's economic power declines with the rise of American hegemony. The eccentric but brilliant former barrister and ex-Buddhist Christmas Humphreys leads the NDP to victory, hoping to reverse Priestley's anti-Americanism and social egalitarianism. [11] Humphreys continues to be personally popular, but his government makes a series of blunders. Humphreys calls a snap election, but passes legislation which means that as well as voting for the MP they want to represent their constituency, they also vote for who they want to be PM. Humphreys returns to power on a wave of popular support, but the NDP is in a minority position. He forges a coalition with the Social Alliance a broadly centre party, to keep his government in power. [12] After the Railwaymen's Strike of 1973-4 nearly fells the government (which itself is forced into a humiliating climbdown and the reversal of all existing downsizing plans), Pertwee's invigorated Common Wealth Party pick up their attacks on the Government and demand a 'return to regular service' (a poor pun on the plight that railwaymen had bestowed upon Humphreys, but popular nonetheless). After giving up more and more power to the Social Alliance to maintain support, Humphreys, a broken man, goes to the Palace a week before the Parliament will expire. Pertwee is ushered in with a majority of 68, and (despite the huge personal vote he received to become PM) pledges to undo the 'appallingly presidential' voting reforms in the Prime Minister Act of 1970. Common Wealth ministers begin immediate meetings with leaders of the TUC, with hopes that they will draw up a document and binding contract between the Crown and Congress House that will provide means of resolving disputes without industrial action. [13] Pertwee's attempts to resolve Britain's domestic problems are widely successfully and applauded by even the staunchest of critics to his government. However, with the passing of the Kingdom Devolution Act in 1979, (which saw the transfer of power to local regionalized governments for Scotland and Wales), many began to worry that Pertwee had slipped from his footing, and considerable right-wing pressure began to mount against his party in the run-up to the 1980 election - which played a significant role against the Prime Minister's sound health. [14] After a battle with influenza takes a turn for the worse and nearly results in his death, Pertwee retires. His health will recover but thanks only to the end of his stressful career. He delivers a farewell address on New Year's Day, 1982. Brittan went from the first woman to sit in Number 11 to the first woman to sit in Number 10. Common Wealth received a major bump in support as the telegenic and charming new PM announced a 'mid-parliament manifesto' that would recast British politics for a generation. [15] Just days into Brittan's first government, the combined forces of the Republic of Argentina and its allies invaded the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic. Brittan, wary of being labelled with blame should the conflict go poorly, forms a coalition wartime government to deal with the problem, using all the major political forces in the House - including the up-and-coming left centre Social Evangelicalists, who pledged to support the Church of England and re-enforce British morals and civil decency. [16] The war is officially declared over on February 1 1983. The Grand Coalition formally breaks up two weeks later, in time for the passage of Chancellor Foot's second budget. Brittan and Common Wealth enjoy a huge boost in support, with some calling for a snap election to make ten years of Common Wealth rule a possibility. [17] Brittan maintains her majority, but her long time in power has earned the ire of many frontbenchers who think that she is passing over fresh-faced rising stars in favour of increasingly aged looking party stalwarts. Even her own backbench is uncomfortably with her increasingly authoritarian treatment of the party. [18] Brittan's government became increasingly unpopular due to its thinly-veiled moves towards greater governmental control, and after the proposed introduction of both ID cards and universal CCTV camera surveillance her government was forcibly dissolved and Brittan impeached. Norman Fowler, leader of the newly amalgamated and powerful Liberal Evangelical Party, formed a government with widespread support from across the house. He immediately set about bringing in liberal measures with the relaxation of governmental intervention in society.
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April 21st, 2012, 12:43 PM
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PM can't have held the office of PM, Leader of the Opposition, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary or Home Secretary OTL:
1931: Leo Amery (Conservative) [1] 1936: Leo Amery (Conservative minority) 1938: Aneurin Bevan (Labour) [2] 1940: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [3] 1944: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [4] 1947: Alfred Duff Cooper (National) [5] 1950: Alfred Duff Cooper (NDP) [6] 1955: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [7] 1958: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [8] 1963: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [9] 1967: Christmas Humphreys (NDP) [10] 1970: Christmas Humphreys (NDP-Social Alliance Coalition) [11] 1975: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [12] 1980: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [13] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [14] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth-NDP-Social Alliance-Social Evangelical Coalition) [15] 1983: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) 1987: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [17] 1990: Norman Fowler (Liberal Evangelical) [18] 1993: Shirley J. Douglas (Liberal Evangelical) [19] [1] A depressed Baldwin resigns as Conservative leader after the party spilts over tariffs. The protectionist Amery forms a government with Simonite support following a financial crisis and MacDonald's resignation. [2] Amery's government collapses in a vote of no confidence following internal government opposition over India and the issue of re-armanent. Maverick Labour leader Aneurin "Nye" Bevan becomes PM with pledges to protect British interests and reform society [3] Poland is invaded by the Soviet Union, resulting in an anti-communist alliance between France, Italy and the German Empire (under the control of von Papen with the return of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a figurehead Emperor) and a declaration of war against the USSR. Bevan is under pressure to join this effort but refuses, resulting in a vote of no confidence in the government and the Prime Minister's resignation. The Conservative leader, William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech, is invited by King Edward to form a National Government to fight the Soviets. These events seriously divide the Labour party, some virulently anti-communist Labourites join Harlech's coalition, whereas some Labourites sympathetic to the USSR are further radicalised by the myth of a royal coup against Bevan. [4] The Coalition is re-elected due to the desire to win the war. The war as a whole nearly went pear-shaped in 1942 as the Soviets swarmed as far as Magdeburg before running out of steam. Borders are getting close to Donetsk at the time of election. [5] Despite pushing the Soviets back into their own borders, the war effort after 1944 begins to turn into a stalemate as partisans and workers unrest continue to hamper the allied war effort. To make matters worse, with the election to the US Presidency of Henry Wallace, the significant aid the US had been giving to the allies in the form of Lend Lease disappeared virtually overnight. With casualties mounting, workers unrest on the home front growing and the danger of a communist uprising in India, the allies decide to go ahead with a joint nuclear/biological attack on the USSR. On what becomes known as D-Day, three crude nuclear devices are simultaneously dropped on Leningrad, Moscow and Minsk, followed up by dropping vast quantities of anthrax infected linseed cakes onto Soviet fields where they are consumed by cattle. Although the Soviet regime and economy for all intents and purposes collapses, the attack stiffens the resistance of the partisans and the remnants of the Red Army as well as creating even more unrest on the home front. With American criticism and suspicion of the allies at an all time high, Harlech is forced out of office after a vote of no confidence to be replaced by Alfred Duff Cooper. Duff Cooper immediately groups all members of the National Government to form the National Party in the face of increasing civil unrest. [6] In 1950, the Allies reach Moscow and the Soviet regime collapses. In Germany, however, a general strike leads to the collapse of von Papen's regime, the abolition of the monarchy and an SPD-KPD coalition. In France, a similar strike leads to a civil war which ends in the establishment of a military dictatorship. Duff Cooper in Britain calls a general election after the end of the war and forms the new "National Democratic Party" or NDP out of the remnants of the Conservative and the Liberals, winning a landslide majority. [7] The only hope for the left after the utter discrediting of Socialism due to the (unfair) association with Communism is for Left-Populism and 'share the wealth' ideas, such as those posited by the rising Common Wealth party, which absorbed almost the entirety of the old Labour vote and much of the left of the Liberal Party. Popular author and broadcaster J.B. Priestley, who only entered parliament in 1950, leads them to a small majority after disquiet over massive unemployment and the general malaise the population feels over the shared sense that the Britain the Army came home to was not fit for heroes who saved the world from Communism. [8] Priestley's populist position forced him into a corner over the Kenya Crisis. His successful broaching of an amicable peace with the rebels and the creation of the Union of Victoria as the first black majority dominion was enormously popular, and he called a snap election in 1958, in which he won a landslide majority. [9] Priestley won the election in 1963, becoming Britain's most popular Prime Minister of the 20th Century. He will not run again. [10] The Common Wealth party lose the 1967 election as Britain's economic power declines with the rise of American hegemony. The eccentric but brilliant former barrister and ex-Buddhist Christmas Humphreys leads the NDP to victory, hoping to reverse Priestley's anti-Americanism and social egalitarianism. [11] Humphreys continues to be personally popular, but his government makes a series of blunders. Humphreys calls a snap election, but passes legislation which means that as well as voting for the MP they want to represent their constituency, they also vote for who they want to be PM. Humphreys returns to power on a wave of popular support, but the NDP is in a minority position. He forges a coalition with the Social Alliance a broadly centre party, to keep his government in power. [12] After the Railwaymen's Strike of 1973-4 nearly fells the government (which itself is forced into a humiliating climbdown and the reversal of all existing downsizing plans), Pertwee's invigorated Common Wealth Party pick up their attacks on the Government and demand a 'return to regular service' (a poor pun on the plight that railwaymen had bestowed upon Humphreys, but popular nonetheless). After giving up more and more power to the Social Alliance to maintain support, Humphreys, a broken man, goes to the Palace a week before the Parliament will expire. Pertwee is ushered in with a majority of 68, and (despite the huge personal vote he received to become PM) pledges to undo the 'appallingly presidential' voting reforms in the Prime Minister Act of 1970. Common Wealth ministers begin immediate meetings with leaders of the TUC, with hopes that they will draw up a document and binding contract between the Crown and Congress House that will provide means of resolving disputes without industrial action. [13] Pertwee's attempts to resolve Britain's domestic problems are widely successfully and applauded by even the staunchest of critics to his government. However, with the passing of the Kingdom Devolution Act in 1979, (which saw the transfer of power to local regionalized governments for Scotland and Wales), many began to worry that Pertwee had slipped from his footing, and considerable right-wing pressure began to mount against his party in the run-up to the 1980 election - which played a significant role against the Prime Minister's sound health. [14] After a battle with influenza takes a turn for the worse and nearly results in his death, Pertwee retires. His health will recover but thanks only to the end of his stressful career. He delivers a farewell address on New Year's Day, 1982. Brittan went from the first woman to sit in Number 11 to the first woman to sit in Number 10. Common Wealth received a major bump in support as the telegenic and charming new PM announced a 'mid-parliament manifesto' that would recast British politics for a generation. [15] Just days into Brittan's first government, the combined forces of the Republic of Argentina and its allies invaded the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic. Brittan, wary of being labelled with blame should the conflict go poorly, forms a coalition wartime government to deal with the problem, using all the major political forces in the House - including the up-and-coming left centre Social Evangelicalists, who pledged to support the Church of England and re-enforce British morals and civil decency. [16] The war is officially declared over on February 1 1983. The Grand Coalition formally breaks up two weeks later, in time for the passage of Chancellor Foot's second budget. Brittan and Common Wealth enjoy a huge boost in support, with some calling for a snap election to make ten years of Common Wealth rule a possibility. [17] Brittan maintains her majority, but her long time in power has earned the ire of many frontbenchers who think that she is passing over fresh-faced rising stars in favour of increasingly aged looking party stalwarts. Even her own backbench is uncomfortably with her increasingly authoritarian treatment of the party. [18] Brittan's government became increasingly unpopular due to its thinly-veiled moves towards greater governmental control, and after the proposed introduction of both ID cards and universal CCTV camera surveillance her government was forcibly dissolved and Brittan impeached. Norman Fowler, leader of the newly amalgamated and powerful Liberal Evangelical Party, formed a government with widespread support from across the house. He immediately set about bringing in liberal measures with the relaxation of governmental intervention in society. [19] Norman Fowler is assassinated on Christmas Morning along with an entire congregation of Presbyterians attending the Christmas service when a shadowy terrorist organization blows up London City Presbyterian Church. Later the same day the Guardian, the Sun and the Daily Telegraph each receives a video and a 1500 word manifesto from a group that declares themselves to have organized the attack and the video contains evidence that they indeed were involved. The group declares themselves to be a cell of an organization called the "Order of Justiciar Knights" which they allege is a world-spanning organization "dedicated to fighting cultural Marxism and multiculturalism everywhere in all forms" to bring about a "Conservative Christian Western Confederation". They furthermore declare that this attack is only the first of many to come. Later on, it is discovered that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary have all been kidnapped. In an emergency session of Parliament called that very evening, the Deputy Prime Minister, Shirley J. Douglas, daughter of popular Scottish Baptist minister Tommy Douglas, is declared Prime Minister.
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Finally, the great Vinlandic timeline of Makemakean is here: The Adamantine Age: Olaf Tryggvasson Chooses the Aesir Updated: 2 January 2012.
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April 21st, 2012, 02:58 PM
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PM can't have held the office of PM, Leader of the Opposition, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary or Home Secretary OTL:
1931: Leo Amery (Conservative) [1] 1936: Leo Amery (Conservative minority) 1938: Aneurin Bevan (Labour) [2] 1940: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [3] 1944: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [4] 1947: Alfred Duff Cooper (National) [5] 1950: Alfred Duff Cooper (NDP) [6] 1955: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [7] 1958: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [8] 1963: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [9] 1967: Christmas Humphreys (NDP) [10] 1970: Christmas Humphreys (NDP-Social Alliance Coalition) [11] 1975: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [12] 1980: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [13] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [14] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth-NDP-Social Alliance-Social Evangelical Coalition) [15] 1983: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) 1987: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [17] 1990: Norman Fowler (Liberal Evangelical) [18] 1993: Shirley J. Douglas (Liberal Evangelical) [19] 1998: Benjamin Thomas (National Alliance) [20] [1] A depressed Baldwin resigns as Conservative leader after the party spilts over tariffs. The protectionist Amery forms a government with Simonite support following a financial crisis and MacDonald's resignation. [2] Amery's government collapses in a vote of no confidence following internal government opposition over India and the issue of re-armanent. Maverick Labour leader Aneurin "Nye" Bevan becomes PM with pledges to protect British interests and reform society [3] Poland is invaded by the Soviet Union, resulting in an anti-communist alliance between France, Italy and the German Empire (under the control of von Papen with the return of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a figurehead Emperor) and a declaration of war against the USSR. Bevan is under pressure to join this effort but refuses, resulting in a vote of no confidence in the government and the Prime Minister's resignation. The Conservative leader, William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech, is invited by King Edward to form a National Government to fight the Soviets. These events seriously divide the Labour party, some virulently anti-communist Labourites join Harlech's coalition, whereas some Labourites sympathetic to the USSR are further radicalised by the myth of a royal coup against Bevan. [4] The Coalition is re-elected due to the desire to win the war. The war as a whole nearly went pear-shaped in 1942 as the Soviets swarmed as far as Magdeburg before running out of steam. Borders are getting close to Donetsk at the time of election. [5] Despite pushing the Soviets back into their own borders, the war effort after 1944 begins to turn into a stalemate as partisans and workers unrest continue to hamper the allied war effort. To make matters worse, with the election to the US Presidency of Henry Wallace, the significant aid the US had been giving to the allies in the form of Lend Lease disappeared virtually overnight. With casualties mounting, workers unrest on the home front growing and the danger of a communist uprising in India, the allies decide to go ahead with a joint nuclear/biological attack on the USSR. On what becomes known as D-Day, three crude nuclear devices are simultaneously dropped on Leningrad, Moscow and Minsk, followed up by dropping vast quantities of anthrax infected linseed cakes onto Soviet fields where they are consumed by cattle. Although the Soviet regime and economy for all intents and purposes collapses, the attack stiffens the resistance of the partisans and the remnants of the Red Army as well as creating even more unrest on the home front. With American criticism and suspicion of the allies at an all time high, Harlech is forced out of office after a vote of no confidence to be replaced by Alfred Duff Cooper. Duff Cooper immediately groups all members of the National Government to form the National Party in the face of increasing civil unrest. [6] In 1950, the Allies reach Moscow and the Soviet regime collapses. In Germany, however, a general strike leads to the collapse of von Papen's regime, the abolition of the monarchy and an SPD-KPD coalition. In France, a similar strike leads to a civil war which ends in the establishment of a military dictatorship. Duff Cooper in Britain calls a general election after the end of the war and forms the new "National Democratic Party" or NDP out of the remnants of the Conservative and the Liberals, winning a landslide majority. [7] The only hope for the left after the utter discrediting of Socialism due to the (unfair) association with Communism is for Left-Populism and 'share the wealth' ideas, such as those posited by the rising Common Wealth party, which absorbed almost the entirety of the old Labour vote and much of the left of the Liberal Party. Popular author and broadcaster J.B. Priestley, who only entered parliament in 1950, leads them to a small majority after disquiet over massive unemployment and the general malaise the population feels over the shared sense that the Britain the Army came home to was not fit for heroes who saved the world from Communism. [8] Priestley's populist position forced him into a corner over the Kenya Crisis. His successful broaching of an amicable peace with the rebels and the creation of the Union of Victoria as the first black majority dominion was enormously popular, and he called a snap election in 1958, in which he won a landslide majority. [9] Priestley won the election in 1963, becoming Britain's most popular Prime Minister of the 20th Century. He will not run again. [10] The Common Wealth party lose the 1967 election as Britain's economic power declines with the rise of American hegemony. The eccentric but brilliant former barrister and ex-Buddhist Christmas Humphreys leads the NDP to victory, hoping to reverse Priestley's anti-Americanism and social egalitarianism. [11] Humphreys continues to be personally popular, but his government makes a series of blunders. Humphreys calls a snap election, but passes legislation which means that as well as voting for the MP they want to represent their constituency, they also vote for who they want to be PM. Humphreys returns to power on a wave of popular support, but the NDP is in a minority position. He forges a coalition with the Social Alliance a broadly centre party, to keep his government in power. [12] After the Railwaymen's Strike of 1973-4 nearly fells the government (which itself is forced into a humiliating climbdown and the reversal of all existing downsizing plans), Pertwee's invigorated Common Wealth Party pick up their attacks on the Government and demand a 'return to regular service' (a poor pun on the plight that railwaymen had bestowed upon Humphreys, but popular nonetheless). After giving up more and more power to the Social Alliance to maintain support, Humphreys, a broken man, goes to the Palace a week before the Parliament will expire. Pertwee is ushered in with a majority of 68, and (despite the huge personal vote he received to become PM) pledges to undo the 'appallingly presidential' voting reforms in the Prime Minister Act of 1970. Common Wealth ministers begin immediate meetings with leaders of the TUC, with hopes that they will draw up a document and binding contract between the Crown and Congress House that will provide means of resolving disputes without industrial action. [13] Pertwee's attempts to resolve Britain's domestic problems are widely successfully and applauded by even the staunchest of critics to his government. However, with the passing of the Kingdom Devolution Act in 1979, (which saw the transfer of power to local regionalized governments for Scotland and Wales), many began to worry that Pertwee had slipped from his footing, and considerable right-wing pressure began to mount against his party in the run-up to the 1980 election - which played a significant role against the Prime Minister's sound health. [14] After a battle with influenza takes a turn for the worse and nearly results in his death, Pertwee retires. His health will recover but thanks only to the end of his stressful career. He delivers a farewell address on New Year's Day, 1982. Brittan went from the first woman to sit in Number 11 to the first woman to sit in Number 10. Common Wealth received a major bump in support as the telegenic and charming new PM announced a 'mid-parliament manifesto' that would recast British politics for a generation. [15] Just days into Brittan's first government, the combined forces of the Republic of Argentina and its allies invaded the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic. Brittan, wary of being labelled with blame should the conflict go poorly, forms a coalition wartime government to deal with the problem, using all the major political forces in the House - including the up-and-coming left centre Social Evangelicalists, who pledged to support the Church of England and re-enforce British morals and civil decency. [16] The war is officially declared over on February 1 1983. The Grand Coalition formally breaks up two weeks later, in time for the passage of Chancellor Foot's second budget. Brittan and Common Wealth enjoy a huge boost in support, with some calling for a snap election to make ten years of Common Wealth rule a possibility. [17] Brittan maintains her majority, but her long time in power has earned the ire of many frontbenchers who think that she is passing over fresh-faced rising stars in favour of increasingly aged looking party stalwarts. Even her own backbench is uncomfortably with her increasingly authoritarian treatment of the party. [18] Brittan's government became increasingly unpopular due to its thinly-veiled moves towards greater governmental control, and after the proposed introduction of both ID cards and universal CCTV camera surveillance her government was forcibly dissolved and Brittan impeached. Norman Fowler, leader of the newly amalgamated and powerful Liberal Evangelical Party, formed a government with widespread support from across the house. He immediately set about bringing in liberal measures with the relaxation of governmental intervention in society. [19] Norman Fowler is assassinated on Christmas Morning along with an entire congregation of Presbyterians attending the Christmas service when a shadowy terrorist organization blows up London City Presbyterian Church. Later the same day the Guardian, the Sun and the Daily Telegraph each receives a video and a 1500 word manifesto from a group that declares themselves to have organized the attack and the video contains evidence that they indeed were involved. The group declares themselves to be a cell of an organization called the "Order of Justiciar Knights" which they allege is a world-spanning organization "dedicated to fighting cultural Marxism and multiculturalism everywhere in all forms" to bring about a "Conservative Christian Western Confederation". They furthermore declare that this attack is only the first of many to come. Later on, it is discovered that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary have all been kidnapped. In an emergency session of Parliament called that very evening, the Deputy Prime Minister, Shirley J. Douglas, daughter of popular Scottish Baptist minister Tommy Douglas, is declared Prime Minister. [20] Douglas' insistence that British liberties must not be compromised by terrorists is not popular, particularly after a captured Justicar is acquitted and then goes on machine gun a crowd in Brighton before turning the gun on himself. The National Alliance, lead by Benjamin Thomas, wins the election on a platform of a hardline stringent destruction of the Justicar Knights, through new measures. Elements of plans formed by the Brittan administration are dusted off...
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April 21st, 2012, 09:25 PM
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PM can't have held the office of PM, Leader of the Opposition, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary or Home Secretary OTL:
1931: Leo Amery (Conservative) [1] 1936: Leo Amery (Conservative minority) 1938: Aneurin Bevan (Labour) [2] 1940: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [3] 1944: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [4] 1947: Alfred Duff Cooper (National) [5] 1950: Alfred Duff Cooper (NDP) [6] 1955: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [7] 1958: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [8] 1963: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [9] 1967: Christmas Humphreys (NDP) [10] 1970: Christmas Humphreys (NDP-Social Alliance Coalition) [11] 1975: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [12] 1980: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [13] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [14] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth-NDP-Social Alliance-Social Evangelical Coalition) [15] 1983: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) 1987: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [17] 1990: Norman Fowler (Liberal Evangelical) [18] 1993: Shirley J. Douglas (Liberal Evangelical) [19] 1998: Benjamin Thomas (National Alliance) [20] 1998: Christopher Soames (National Alliance) [21] [1] A depressed Baldwin resigns as Conservative leader after the party spilts over tariffs. The protectionist Amery forms a government with Simonite support following a financial crisis and MacDonald's resignation. [2] Amery's government collapses in a vote of no confidence following internal government opposition over India and the issue of re-armanent. Maverick Labour leader Aneurin "Nye" Bevan becomes PM with pledges to protect British interests and reform society [3] Poland is invaded by the Soviet Union, resulting in an anti-communist alliance between France, Italy and the German Empire (under the control of von Papen with the return of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a figurehead Emperor) and a declaration of war against the USSR. Bevan is under pressure to join this effort but refuses, resulting in a vote of no confidence in the government and the Prime Minister's resignation. The Conservative leader, William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech, is invited by King Edward to form a National Government to fight the Soviets. These events seriously divide the Labour party, some virulently anti-communist Labourites join Harlech's coalition, whereas some Labourites sympathetic to the USSR are further radicalised by the myth of a royal coup against Bevan. [4] The Coalition is re-elected due to the desire to win the war. The war as a whole nearly went pear-shaped in 1942 as the Soviets swarmed as far as Magdeburg before running out of steam. Borders are getting close to Donetsk at the time of election. [5] Despite pushing the Soviets back into their own borders, the war effort after 1944 begins to turn into a stalemate as partisans and workers unrest continue to hamper the allied war effort. To make matters worse, with the election to the US Presidency of Henry Wallace, the significant aid the US had been giving to the allies in the form of Lend Lease disappeared virtually overnight. With casualties mounting, workers unrest on the home front growing and the danger of a communist uprising in India, the allies decide to go ahead with a joint nuclear/biological attack on the USSR. On what becomes known as D-Day, three crude nuclear devices are simultaneously dropped on Leningrad, Moscow and Minsk, followed up by dropping vast quantities of anthrax infected linseed cakes onto Soviet fields where they are consumed by cattle. Although the Soviet regime and economy for all intents and purposes collapses, the attack stiffens the resistance of the partisans and the remnants of the Red Army as well as creating even more unrest on the home front. With American criticism and suspicion of the allies at an all time high, Harlech is forced out of office after a vote of no confidence to be replaced by Alfred Duff Cooper. Duff Cooper immediately groups all members of the National Government to form the National Party in the face of increasing civil unrest. [6] In 1950, the Allies reach Moscow and the Soviet regime collapses. In Germany, however, a general strike leads to the collapse of von Papen's regime, the abolition of the monarchy and an SPD-KPD coalition. In France, a similar strike leads to a civil war which ends in the establishment of a military dictatorship. Duff Cooper in Britain calls a general election after the end of the war and forms the new "National Democratic Party" or NDP out of the remnants of the Conservative and the Liberals, winning a landslide majority. [7] The only hope for the left after the utter discrediting of Socialism due to the (unfair) association with Communism is for Left-Populism and 'share the wealth' ideas, such as those posited by the rising Common Wealth party, which absorbed almost the entirety of the old Labour vote and much of the left of the Liberal Party. Popular author and broadcaster J.B. Priestley, who only entered parliament in 1950, leads them to a small majority after disquiet over massive unemployment and the general malaise the population feels over the shared sense that the Britain the Army came home to was not fit for heroes who saved the world from Communism. [8] Priestley's populist position forced him into a corner over the Kenya Crisis. His successful broaching of an amicable peace with the rebels and the creation of the Union of Victoria as the first black majority dominion was enormously popular, and he called a snap election in 1958, in which he won a landslide majority. [9] Priestley won the election in 1963, becoming Britain's most popular Prime Minister of the 20th Century. He will not run again. [10] The Common Wealth party lose the 1967 election as Britain's economic power declines with the rise of American hegemony. The eccentric but brilliant former barrister and ex-Buddhist Christmas Humphreys leads the NDP to victory, hoping to reverse Priestley's anti-Americanism and social egalitarianism. [11] Humphreys continues to be personally popular, but his government makes a series of blunders. Humphreys calls a snap election, but passes legislation which means that as well as voting for the MP they want to represent their constituency, they also vote for who they want to be PM. Humphreys returns to power on a wave of popular support, but the NDP is in a minority position. He forges a coalition with the Social Alliance a broadly centre party, to keep his government in power. [12] After the Railwaymen's Strike of 1973-4 nearly fells the government (which itself is forced into a humiliating climbdown and the reversal of all existing downsizing plans), Pertwee's invigorated Common Wealth Party pick up their attacks on the Government and demand a 'return to regular service' (a poor pun on the plight that railwaymen had bestowed upon Humphreys, but popular nonetheless). After giving up more and more power to the Social Alliance to maintain support, Humphreys, a broken man, goes to the Palace a week before the Parliament will expire. Pertwee is ushered in with a majority of 68, and (despite the huge personal vote he received to become PM) pledges to undo the 'appallingly presidential' voting reforms in the Prime Minister Act of 1970. Common Wealth ministers begin immediate meetings with leaders of the TUC, with hopes that they will draw up a document and binding contract between the Crown and Congress House that will provide means of resolving disputes without industrial action. [13] Pertwee's attempts to resolve Britain's domestic problems are widely successfully and applauded by even the staunchest of critics to his government. However, with the passing of the Kingdom Devolution Act in 1979, (which saw the transfer of power to local regionalized governments for Scotland and Wales), many began to worry that Pertwee had slipped from his footing, and considerable right-wing pressure began to mount against his party in the run-up to the 1980 election - which played a significant role against the Prime Minister's sound health. [14] After a battle with influenza takes a turn for the worse and nearly results in his death, Pertwee retires. His health will recover but thanks only to the end of his stressful career. He delivers a farewell address on New Year's Day, 1982. Brittan went from the first woman to sit in Number 11 to the first woman to sit in Number 10. Common Wealth received a major bump in support as the telegenic and charming new PM announced a 'mid-parliament manifesto' that would recast British politics for a generation. [15] Just days into Brittan's first government, the combined forces of the Republic of Argentina and its allies invaded the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic. Brittan, wary of being labelled with blame should the conflict go poorly, forms a coalition wartime government to deal with the problem, using all the major political forces in the House - including the up-and-coming left centre Social Evangelicalists, who pledged to support the Church of England and re-enforce British morals and civil decency. [16] The war is officially declared over on February 1 1983. The Grand Coalition formally breaks up two weeks later, in time for the passage of Chancellor Foot's second budget. Brittan and Common Wealth enjoy a huge boost in support, with some calling for a snap election to make ten years of Common Wealth rule a possibility. [17] Brittan maintains her majority, but her long time in power has earned the ire of many frontbenchers who think that she is passing over fresh-faced rising stars in favour of increasingly aged looking party stalwarts. Even her own backbench is uncomfortably with her increasingly authoritarian treatment of the party. [18] Brittan's government became increasingly unpopular due to its thinly-veiled moves towards greater governmental control, and after the proposed introduction of both ID cards and universal CCTV camera surveillance her government was forcibly dissolved and Brittan impeached. Norman Fowler, leader of the newly amalgamated and powerful Liberal Evangelical Party, formed a government with widespread support from across the house. He immediately set about bringing in liberal measures with the relaxation of governmental intervention in society. [19] Norman Fowler is assassinated on Christmas Morning along with an entire congregation of Presbyterians attending the Christmas service when a shadowy terrorist organization blows up London City Presbyterian Church. Later the same day the Guardian, the Sun and the Daily Telegraph each receives a video and a 1500 word manifesto from a group that declares themselves to have organized the attack and the video contains evidence that they indeed were involved. The group declares themselves to be a cell of an organization called the "Order of Justiciar Knights" which they allege is a world-spanning organization "dedicated to fighting cultural Marxism and multiculturalism everywhere in all forms" to bring about a "Conservative Christian Western Confederation". They furthermore declare that this attack is only the first of many to come. Later on, it is discovered that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary have all been kidnapped. In an emergency session of Parliament called that very evening, the Deputy Prime Minister, Shirley J. Douglas, daughter of popular Scottish Baptist minister Tommy Douglas, is declared Prime Minister. [20] Douglas' insistence that British liberties must not be compromised by terrorists is not popular, particularly after a captured Justicar is acquitted and then goes on machine gun a crowd in Brighton before turning the gun on himself. The National Alliance, lead by Benjamin Thomas, wins the election on a platform of a hardline stringent destruction of the Justicar Knights, through new measures. Elements of plans formed by the Brittan administration are dusted off... [21]Benjamin Thomas was assassinated by athiest member of the radical "Red Fist" organization Ian Howard. A government of national stability is formed under Christopher Soames, descendant of the the famous 19th century politician Randolph Churchill.
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April 22nd, 2012, 04:06 AM
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PM can't have held the office of PM, Leader of the Opposition, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary or Home Secretary OTL:
1931: Leo Amery (Conservative) [1] 1936: Leo Amery (Conservative minority) 1938: Aneurin Bevan (Labour) [2] 1940: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [3] 1944: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [4] 1947: Alfred Duff Cooper (National) [5] 1950: Alfred Duff Cooper (NDP) [6] 1955: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [7] 1958: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [8] 1963: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [9] 1967: Christmas Humphreys (NDP) [10] 1970: Christmas Humphreys (NDP-Social Alliance Coalition) [11] 1975: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [12] 1980: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [13] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [14] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth-NDP-Social Alliance-Social Evangelical Coalition) [15] 1983: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) 1987: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [17] 1990: Norman Fowler (Liberal Evangelical) [18] 1993: Shirley J. Douglas (Liberal Evangelical) [19] 1998: Benjamin Thomas (National Alliance) [20] 1998: Christopher Soames (National Alliance) [21] 2003: Steffan Cravos (Progressive) [22] [1] A depressed Baldwin resigns as Conservative leader after the party spilts over tariffs. The protectionist Amery forms a government with Simonite support following a financial crisis and MacDonald's resignation. [2] Amery's government collapses in a vote of no confidence following internal government opposition over India and the issue of re-armanent. Maverick Labour leader Aneurin "Nye" Bevan becomes PM with pledges to protect British interests and reform society [3] Poland is invaded by the Soviet Union, resulting in an anti-communist alliance between France, Italy and the German Empire (under the control of von Papen with the return of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a figurehead Emperor) and a declaration of war against the USSR. Bevan is under pressure to join this effort but refuses, resulting in a vote of no confidence in the government and the Prime Minister's resignation. The Conservative leader, William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech, is invited by King Edward to form a National Government to fight the Soviets. These events seriously divide the Labour party, some virulently anti-communist Labourites join Harlech's coalition, whereas some Labourites sympathetic to the USSR are further radicalised by the myth of a royal coup against Bevan. [4] The Coalition is re-elected due to the desire to win the war. The war as a whole nearly went pear-shaped in 1942 as the Soviets swarmed as far as Magdeburg before running out of steam. Borders are getting close to Donetsk at the time of election. [5] Despite pushing the Soviets back into their own borders, the war effort after 1944 begins to turn into a stalemate as partisans and workers unrest continue to hamper the allied war effort. To make matters worse, with the election to the US Presidency of Henry Wallace, the significant aid the US had been giving to the allies in the form of Lend Lease disappeared virtually overnight. With casualties mounting, workers unrest on the home front growing and the danger of a communist uprising in India, the allies decide to go ahead with a joint nuclear/biological attack on the USSR. On what becomes known as D-Day, three crude nuclear devices are simultaneously dropped on Leningrad, Moscow and Minsk, followed up by dropping vast quantities of anthrax infected linseed cakes onto Soviet fields where they are consumed by cattle. Although the Soviet regime and economy for all intents and purposes collapses, the attack stiffens the resistance of the partisans and the remnants of the Red Army as well as creating even more unrest on the home front. With American criticism and suspicion of the allies at an all time high, Harlech is forced out of office after a vote of no confidence to be replaced by Alfred Duff Cooper. Duff Cooper immediately groups all members of the National Government to form the National Party in the face of increasing civil unrest. [6] In 1950, the Allies reach Moscow and the Soviet regime collapses. In Germany, however, a general strike leads to the collapse of von Papen's regime, the abolition of the monarchy and an SPD-KPD coalition. In France, a similar strike leads to a civil war which ends in the establishment of a military dictatorship. Duff Cooper in Britain calls a general election after the end of the war and forms the new "National Democratic Party" or NDP out of the remnants of the Conservative and the Liberals, winning a landslide majority. [7] The only hope for the left after the utter discrediting of Socialism due to the (unfair) association with Communism is for Left-Populism and 'share the wealth' ideas, such as those posited by the rising Common Wealth party, which absorbed almost the entirety of the old Labour vote and much of the left of the Liberal Party. Popular author and broadcaster J.B. Priestley, who only entered parliament in 1950, leads them to a small majority after disquiet over massive unemployment and the general malaise the population feels over the shared sense that the Britain the Army came home to was not fit for heroes who saved the world from Communism. [8] Priestley's populist position forced him into a corner over the Kenya Crisis. His successful broaching of an amicable peace with the rebels and the creation of the Union of Victoria as the first black majority dominion was enormously popular, and he called a snap election in 1958, in which he won a landslide majority. [9] Priestley won the election in 1963, becoming Britain's most popular Prime Minister of the 20th Century. He will not run again. [10] The Common Wealth party lose the 1967 election as Britain's economic power declines with the rise of American hegemony. The eccentric but brilliant former barrister and ex-Buddhist Christmas Humphreys leads the NDP to victory, hoping to reverse Priestley's anti-Americanism and social egalitarianism. [11] Humphreys continues to be personally popular, but his government makes a series of blunders. Humphreys calls a snap election, but passes legislation which means that as well as voting for the MP they want to represent their constituency, they also vote for who they want to be PM. Humphreys returns to power on a wave of popular support, but the NDP is in a minority position. He forges a coalition with the Social Alliance a broadly centre party, to keep his government in power. [12] After the Railwaymen's Strike of 1973-4 nearly fells the government (which itself is forced into a humiliating climbdown and the reversal of all existing downsizing plans), Pertwee's invigorated Common Wealth Party pick up their attacks on the Government and demand a 'return to regular service' (a poor pun on the plight that railwaymen had bestowed upon Humphreys, but popular nonetheless). After giving up more and more power to the Social Alliance to maintain support, Humphreys, a broken man, goes to the Palace a week before the Parliament will expire. Pertwee is ushered in with a majority of 68, and (despite the huge personal vote he received to become PM) pledges to undo the 'appallingly presidential' voting reforms in the Prime Minister Act of 1970. Common Wealth ministers begin immediate meetings with leaders of the TUC, with hopes that they will draw up a document and binding contract between the Crown and Congress House that will provide means of resolving disputes without industrial action. [13] Pertwee's attempts to resolve Britain's domestic problems are widely successfully and applauded by even the staunchest of critics to his government. However, with the passing of the Kingdom Devolution Act in 1979, (which saw the transfer of power to local regionalized governments for Scotland and Wales), many began to worry that Pertwee had slipped from his footing, and considerable right-wing pressure began to mount against his party in the run-up to the 1980 election - which played a significant role against the Prime Minister's sound health. [14] After a battle with influenza takes a turn for the worse and nearly results in his death, Pertwee retires. His health will recover but thanks only to the end of his stressful career. He delivers a farewell address on New Year's Day, 1982. Brittan went from the first woman to sit in Number 11 to the first woman to sit in Number 10. Common Wealth received a major bump in support as the telegenic and charming new PM announced a 'mid-parliament manifesto' that would recast British politics for a generation. [15] Just days into Brittan's first government, the combined forces of the Republic of Argentina and its allies invaded the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic. Brittan, wary of being labelled with blame should the conflict go poorly, forms a coalition wartime government to deal with the problem, using all the major political forces in the House - including the up-and-coming left centre Social Evangelicalists, who pledged to support the Church of England and re-enforce British morals and civil decency. [16] The war is officially declared over on February 1 1983. The Grand Coalition formally breaks up two weeks later, in time for the passage of Chancellor Foot's second budget. Brittan and Common Wealth enjoy a huge boost in support, with some calling for a snap election to make ten years of Common Wealth rule a possibility. [17] Brittan maintains her majority, but her long time in power has earned the ire of many frontbenchers who think that she is passing over fresh-faced rising stars in favour of increasingly aged looking party stalwarts. Even her own backbench is uncomfortably with her increasingly authoritarian treatment of the party. [18] Brittan's government became increasingly unpopular due to its thinly-veiled moves towards greater governmental control, and after the proposed introduction of both ID cards and universal CCTV camera surveillance her government was forcibly dissolved and Brittan impeached. Norman Fowler, leader of the newly amalgamated and powerful Liberal Evangelical Party, formed a government with widespread support from across the house. He immediately set about bringing in liberal measures with the relaxation of governmental intervention in society. [19] Norman Fowler is assassinated on Christmas Morning along with an entire congregation of Presbyterians attending the Christmas service when a shadowy terrorist organization blows up London City Presbyterian Church. Later the same day the Guardian, the Sun and the Daily Telegraph each receives a video and a 1500 word manifesto from a group that declares themselves to have organized the attack and the video contains evidence that they indeed were involved. The group declares themselves to be a cell of an organization called the "Order of Justiciar Knights" which they allege is a world-spanning organization "dedicated to fighting cultural Marxism and multiculturalism everywhere in all forms" to bring about a "Conservative Christian Western Confederation". They furthermore declare that this attack is only the first of many to come. Later on, it is discovered that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary have all been kidnapped. In an emergency session of Parliament called that very evening, the Deputy Prime Minister, Shirley J. Douglas, daughter of popular Scottish Baptist minister Tommy Douglas, is declared Prime Minister. [20] Douglas' insistence that British liberties must not be compromised by terrorists is not popular, particularly after a captured Justicar is acquitted and then goes on machine gun a crowd in Brighton before turning the gun on himself. The National Alliance, lead by Benjamin Thomas, wins the election on a platform of a hardline stringent destruction of the Justicar Knights, through new measures. Elements of plans formed by the Brittan administration are dusted off... [21]Benjamin Thomas was assassinated by athiest member of the radical "Red Fist" organization Ian Howard. A government of national stability is formed under Christopher Soames, descendant of the the famous 19th century politician Randolph Churchill. [22] The National Alliance completely succeeds in its aims. The Justiciar Knights and the Red Fst is ended. But then the NA collapses. The Progressive Party, up to that point a minor party, rose to win the 2003 election. Steffan Cravos is the first Welsh-speaking Prime Minister in almost a century.
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April 22nd, 2012, 11:46 AM
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PM can't have held the office of PM, Leader of the Opposition, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary or Home Secretary OTL:
1931: Leo Amery (Conservative) [1] 1936: Leo Amery (Conservative minority) 1938: Aneurin Bevan (Labour) [2] 1940: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [3] 1944: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [4] 1947: Alfred Duff Cooper (National) [5] 1950: Alfred Duff Cooper (NDP) [6] 1955: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [7] 1958: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [8] 1963: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [9] 1967: Christmas Humphreys (NDP) [10] 1970: Christmas Humphreys (NDP-Social Alliance Coalition) [11] 1975: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [12] 1980: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [13] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [14] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth-NDP-Social Alliance-Social Evangelical Coalition) [15] 1983: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) 1987: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [17] 1990: Norman Fowler (Liberal Evangelical) [18] 1993: Shirley J. Douglas (Liberal Evangelical) [19] 1998: Benjamin Thomas (National Alliance) [20] 1998: Christopher Soames (National Alliance) [21] 2003: Steffan Cravos (Progressive) [22] 2008: Steffan Cravos (Progressive-Green-Social Unison-Nationalist Coalition)[23] [1] A depressed Baldwin resigns as Conservative leader after the party spilts over tariffs. The protectionist Amery forms a government with Simonite support following a financial crisis and MacDonald's resignation. [2] Amery's government collapses in a vote of no confidence following internal government opposition over India and the issue of re-armanent. Maverick Labour leader Aneurin "Nye" Bevan becomes PM with pledges to protect British interests and reform society [3] Poland is invaded by the Soviet Union, resulting in an anti-communist alliance between France, Italy and the German Empire (under the control of von Papen with the return of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a figurehead Emperor) and a declaration of war against the USSR. Bevan is under pressure to join this effort but refuses, resulting in a vote of no confidence in the government and the Prime Minister's resignation. The Conservative leader, William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech, is invited by King Edward to form a National Government to fight the Soviets. These events seriously divide the Labour party, some virulently anti-communist Labourites join Harlech's coalition, whereas some Labourites sympathetic to the USSR are further radicalised by the myth of a royal coup against Bevan. [4] The Coalition is re-elected due to the desire to win the war. The war as a whole nearly went pear-shaped in 1942 as the Soviets swarmed as far as Magdeburg before running out of steam. Borders are getting close to Donetsk at the time of election. [5] Despite pushing the Soviets back into their own borders, the war effort after 1944 begins to turn into a stalemate as partisans and workers unrest continue to hamper the allied war effort. To make matters worse, with the election to the US Presidency of Henry Wallace, the significant aid the US had been giving to the allies in the form of Lend Lease disappeared virtually overnight. With casualties mounting, workers unrest on the home front growing and the danger of a communist uprising in India, the allies decide to go ahead with a joint nuclear/biological attack on the USSR. On what becomes known as D-Day, three crude nuclear devices are simultaneously dropped on Leningrad, Moscow and Minsk, followed up by dropping vast quantities of anthrax infected linseed cakes onto Soviet fields where they are consumed by cattle. Although the Soviet regime and economy for all intents and purposes collapses, the attack stiffens the resistance of the partisans and the remnants of the Red Army as well as creating even more unrest on the home front. With American criticism and suspicion of the allies at an all time high, Harlech is forced out of office after a vote of no confidence to be replaced by Alfred Duff Cooper. Duff Cooper immediately groups all members of the National Government to form the National Party in the face of increasing civil unrest. [6] In 1950, the Allies reach Moscow and the Soviet regime collapses. In Germany, however, a general strike leads to the collapse of von Papen's regime, the abolition of the monarchy and an SPD-KPD coalition. In France, a similar strike leads to a civil war which ends in the establishment of a military dictatorship. Duff Cooper in Britain calls a general election after the end of the war and forms the new "National Democratic Party" or NDP out of the remnants of the Conservative and the Liberals, winning a landslide majority. [7] The only hope for the left after the utter discrediting of Socialism due to the (unfair) association with Communism is for Left-Populism and 'share the wealth' ideas, such as those posited by the rising Common Wealth party, which absorbed almost the entirety of the old Labour vote and much of the left of the Liberal Party. Popular author and broadcaster J.B. Priestley, who only entered parliament in 1950, leads them to a small majority after disquiet over massive unemployment and the general malaise the population feels over the shared sense that the Britain the Army came home to was not fit for heroes who saved the world from Communism. [8] Priestley's populist position forced him into a corner over the Kenya Crisis. His successful broaching of an amicable peace with the rebels and the creation of the Union of Victoria as the first black majority dominion was enormously popular, and he called a snap election in 1958, in which he won a landslide majority. [9] Priestley won the election in 1963, becoming Britain's most popular Prime Minister of the 20th Century. He will not run again. [10] The Common Wealth party lose the 1967 election as Britain's economic power declines with the rise of American hegemony. The eccentric but brilliant former barrister and ex-Buddhist Christmas Humphreys leads the NDP to victory, hoping to reverse Priestley's anti-Americanism and social egalitarianism. [11] Humphreys continues to be personally popular, but his government makes a series of blunders. Humphreys calls a snap election, but passes legislation which means that as well as voting for the MP they want to represent their constituency, they also vote for who they want to be PM. Humphreys returns to power on a wave of popular support, but the NDP is in a minority position. He forges a coalition with the Social Alliance a broadly centre party, to keep his government in power. [12] After the Railwaymen's Strike of 1973-4 nearly fells the government (which itself is forced into a humiliating climbdown and the reversal of all existing downsizing plans), Pertwee's invigorated Common Wealth Party pick up their attacks on the Government and demand a 'return to regular service' (a poor pun on the plight that railwaymen had bestowed upon Humphreys, but popular nonetheless). After giving up more and more power to the Social Alliance to maintain support, Humphreys, a broken man, goes to the Palace a week before the Parliament will expire. Pertwee is ushered in with a majority of 68, and (despite the huge personal vote he received to become PM) pledges to undo the 'appallingly presidential' voting reforms in the Prime Minister Act of 1970. Common Wealth ministers begin immediate meetings with leaders of the TUC, with hopes that they will draw up a document and binding contract between the Crown and Congress House that will provide means of resolving disputes without industrial action. [13] Pertwee's attempts to resolve Britain's domestic problems are widely successfully and applauded by even the staunchest of critics to his government. However, with the passing of the Kingdom Devolution Act in 1979, (which saw the transfer of power to local regionalized governments for Scotland and Wales), many began to worry that Pertwee had slipped from his footing, and considerable right-wing pressure began to mount against his party in the run-up to the 1980 election - which played a significant role against the Prime Minister's sound health. [14] After a battle with influenza takes a turn for the worse and nearly results in his death, Pertwee retires. His health will recover but thanks only to the end of his stressful career. He delivers a farewell address on New Year's Day, 1982. Brittan went from the first woman to sit in Number 11 to the first woman to sit in Number 10. Common Wealth received a major bump in support as the telegenic and charming new PM announced a 'mid-parliament manifesto' that would recast British politics for a generation. [15] Just days into Brittan's first government, the combined forces of the Republic of Argentina and its allies invaded the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic. Brittan, wary of being labelled with blame should the conflict go poorly, forms a coalition wartime government to deal with the problem, using all the major political forces in the House - including the up-and-coming left centre Social Evangelicalists, who pledged to support the Church of England and re-enforce British morals and civil decency. [16] The war is officially declared over on February 1 1983. The Grand Coalition formally breaks up two weeks later, in time for the passage of Chancellor Foot's second budget. Brittan and Common Wealth enjoy a huge boost in support, with some calling for a snap election to make ten years of Common Wealth rule a possibility. [17] Brittan maintains her majority, but her long time in power has earned the ire of many frontbenchers who think that she is passing over fresh-faced rising stars in favour of increasingly aged looking party stalwarts. Even her own backbench is uncomfortably with her increasingly authoritarian treatment of the party. [18] Brittan's government became increasingly unpopular due to its thinly-veiled moves towards greater governmental control, and after the proposed introduction of both ID cards and universal CCTV camera surveillance her government was forcibly dissolved and Brittan impeached. Norman Fowler, leader of the newly amalgamated and powerful Liberal Evangelical Party, formed a government with widespread support from across the house. He immediately set about bringing in liberal measures with the relaxation of governmental intervention in society. [19] Norman Fowler is assassinated on Christmas Morning along with an entire congregation of Presbyterians attending the Christmas service when a shadowy terrorist organization blows up London City Presbyterian Church. Later the same day the Guardian, the Sun and the Daily Telegraph each receives a video and a 1500 word manifesto from a group that declares themselves to have organized the attack and the video contains evidence that they indeed were involved. The group declares themselves to be a cell of an organization called the "Order of Justiciar Knights" which they allege is a world-spanning organization "dedicated to fighting cultural Marxism and multiculturalism everywhere in all forms" to bring about a "Conservative Christian Western Confederation". They furthermore declare that this attack is only the first of many to come. Later on, it is discovered that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary have all been kidnapped. In an emergency session of Parliament called that very evening, the Deputy Prime Minister, Shirley J. Douglas, daughter of popular Scottish Baptist minister Tommy Douglas, is declared Prime Minister. [20] Douglas' insistence that British liberties must not be compromised by terrorists is not popular, particularly after a captured Justicar is acquitted and then goes on machine gun a crowd in Brighton before turning the gun on himself. The National Alliance, lead by Benjamin Thomas, wins the election on a platform of a hardline stringent destruction of the Justicar Knights, through new measures. Elements of plans formed by the Brittan administration are dusted off... [21]Benjamin Thomas was assassinated by athiest member of the radical "Red Fist" organization Ian Howard. A government of national stability is formed under Christopher Soames, descendant of the the famous 19th century politician Randolph Churchill. [22] The National Alliance completely succeeds in its aims. The Justiciar Knights and the Red Fst is ended. But then the NA collapses. The Progressive Party, up to that point a minor party, rose to win the 2003 election. Steffan Cravos is the first Welsh-speaking Prime Minister in almost a century. [22] By now, the political spectrum in Britain had dramatically altered. The scared years of the past were replaced with outspoken movements from the left, centre and the Nationalist right. Cravos, popular for his measures to reduce government interference in the economy during his first term, was suddenly hit by the major economic recession that broke out in 2007 with the collaspe of the Southern Rock bank. The bail-out that followed affected his popularity, and depsite achieving relative stability by the election, he was only able to form a minority coalition to prevent Jim Crawford's Conservative Rural Party from stealing the government.
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April 22nd, 2012, 12:57 PM
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PM can't have held the office of PM, Leader of the Opposition, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary or Home Secretary OTL:
1931: Leo Amery (Conservative) [1] 1936: Leo Amery (Conservative minority) 1938: Aneurin Bevan (Labour) [2] 1940: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [3] 1944: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [4] 1947: Alfred Duff Cooper (National) [5] 1950: Alfred Duff Cooper (NDP) [6] 1955: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [7] 1958: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [8] 1963: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [9] 1967: Christmas Humphreys (NDP) [10] 1970: Christmas Humphreys (NDP-Social Alliance Coalition) [11] 1975: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [12] 1980: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [13] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [14] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth-NDP-Social Alliance-Social Evangelical Coalition) [15] 1983: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) 1987: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [17] 1990: Norman Fowler (Liberal Evangelical) [18] 1993: Shirley J. Douglas (Liberal Evangelical) [19] 1998: Benjamin Thomas (National Alliance) [20] 1998: Christopher Soames (National Alliance) [21] 2003: Steffan Cravos (Progressive) [22] 2008: Steffan Cravos (Progressive-Green-Social Unison-Nationalist Coalition)[23] 2012: Steffan Cravos (Progressive) [23] [1] A depressed Baldwin resigns as Conservative leader after the party spilts over tariffs. The protectionist Amery forms a government with Simonite support following a financial crisis and MacDonald's resignation. [2] Amery's government collapses in a vote of no confidence following internal government opposition over India and the issue of re-armanent. Maverick Labour leader Aneurin "Nye" Bevan becomes PM with pledges to protect British interests and reform society [3] Poland is invaded by the Soviet Union, resulting in an anti-communist alliance between France, Italy and the German Empire (under the control of von Papen with the return of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a figurehead Emperor) and a declaration of war against the USSR. Bevan is under pressure to join this effort but refuses, resulting in a vote of no confidence in the government and the Prime Minister's resignation. The Conservative leader, William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech, is invited by King Edward to form a National Government to fight the Soviets. These events seriously divide the Labour party, some virulently anti-communist Labourites join Harlech's coalition, whereas some Labourites sympathetic to the USSR are further radicalised by the myth of a royal coup against Bevan. [4] The Coalition is re-elected due to the desire to win the war. The war as a whole nearly went pear-shaped in 1942 as the Soviets swarmed as far as Magdeburg before running out of steam. Borders are getting close to Donetsk at the time of election. [5] Despite pushing the Soviets back into their own borders, the war effort after 1944 begins to turn into a stalemate as partisans and workers unrest continue to hamper the allied war effort. To make matters worse, with the election to the US Presidency of Henry Wallace, the significant aid the US had been giving to the allies in the form of Lend Lease disappeared virtually overnight. With casualties mounting, workers unrest on the home front growing and the danger of a communist uprising in India, the allies decide to go ahead with a joint nuclear/biological attack on the USSR. On what becomes known as D-Day, three crude nuclear devices are simultaneously dropped on Leningrad, Moscow and Minsk, followed up by dropping vast quantities of anthrax infected linseed cakes onto Soviet fields where they are consumed by cattle. Although the Soviet regime and economy for all intents and purposes collapses, the attack stiffens the resistance of the partisans and the remnants of the Red Army as well as creating even more unrest on the home front. With American criticism and suspicion of the allies at an all time high, Harlech is forced out of office after a vote of no confidence to be replaced by Alfred Duff Cooper. Duff Cooper immediately groups all members of the National Government to form the National Party in the face of increasing civil unrest. [6] In 1950, the Allies reach Moscow and the Soviet regime collapses. In Germany, however, a general strike leads to the collapse of von Papen's regime, the abolition of the monarchy and an SPD-KPD coalition. In France, a similar strike leads to a civil war which ends in the establishment of a military dictatorship. Duff Cooper in Britain calls a general election after the end of the war and forms the new "National Democratic Party" or NDP out of the remnants of the Conservative and the Liberals, winning a landslide majority. [7] The only hope for the left after the utter discrediting of Socialism due to the (unfair) association with Communism is for Left-Populism and 'share the wealth' ideas, such as those posited by the rising Common Wealth party, which absorbed almost the entirety of the old Labour vote and much of the left of the Liberal Party. Popular author and broadcaster J.B. Priestley, who only entered parliament in 1950, leads them to a small majority after disquiet over massive unemployment and the general malaise the population feels over the shared sense that the Britain the Army came home to was not fit for heroes who saved the world from Communism. [8] Priestley's populist position forced him into a corner over the Kenya Crisis. His successful broaching of an amicable peace with the rebels and the creation of the Union of Victoria as the first black majority dominion was enormously popular, and he called a snap election in 1958, in which he won a landslide majority. [9] Priestley won the election in 1963, becoming Britain's most popular Prime Minister of the 20th Century. He will not run again. [10] The Common Wealth party lose the 1967 election as Britain's economic power declines with the rise of American hegemony. The eccentric but brilliant former barrister and ex-Buddhist Christmas Humphreys leads the NDP to victory, hoping to reverse Priestley's anti-Americanism and social egalitarianism. [11] Humphreys continues to be personally popular, but his government makes a series of blunders. Humphreys calls a snap election, but passes legislation which means that as well as voting for the MP they want to represent their constituency, they also vote for who they want to be PM. Humphreys returns to power on a wave of popular support, but the NDP is in a minority position. He forges a coalition with the Social Alliance a broadly centre party, to keep his government in power. [12] After the Railwaymen's Strike of 1973-4 nearly fells the government (which itself is forced into a humiliating climbdown and the reversal of all existing downsizing plans), Pertwee's invigorated Common Wealth Party pick up their attacks on the Government and demand a 'return to regular service' (a poor pun on the plight that railwaymen had bestowed upon Humphreys, but popular nonetheless). After giving up more and more power to the Social Alliance to maintain support, Humphreys, a broken man, goes to the Palace a week before the Parliament will expire. Pertwee is ushered in with a majority of 68, and (despite the huge personal vote he received to become PM) pledges to undo the 'appallingly presidential' voting reforms in the Prime Minister Act of 1970. Common Wealth ministers begin immediate meetings with leaders of the TUC, with hopes that they will draw up a document and binding contract between the Crown and Congress House that will provide means of resolving disputes without industrial action. [13] Pertwee's attempts to resolve Britain's domestic problems are widely successfully and applauded by even the staunchest of critics to his government. However, with the passing of the Kingdom Devolution Act in 1979, (which saw the transfer of power to local regionalized governments for Scotland and Wales), many began to worry that Pertwee had slipped from his footing, and considerable right-wing pressure began to mount against his party in the run-up to the 1980 election - which played a significant role against the Prime Minister's sound health. [14] After a battle with influenza takes a turn for the worse and nearly results in his death, Pertwee retires. His health will recover but thanks only to the end of his stressful career. He delivers a farewell address on New Year's Day, 1982. Brittan went from the first woman to sit in Number 11 to the first woman to sit in Number 10. Common Wealth received a major bump in support as the telegenic and charming new PM announced a 'mid-parliament manifesto' that would recast British politics for a generation. [15] Just days into Brittan's first government, the combined forces of the Republic of Argentina and its allies invaded the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic. Brittan, wary of being labelled with blame should the conflict go poorly, forms a coalition wartime government to deal with the problem, using all the major political forces in the House - including the up-and-coming left centre Social Evangelicalists, who pledged to support the Church of England and re-enforce British morals and civil decency. [16] The war is officially declared over on February 1 1983. The Grand Coalition formally breaks up two weeks later, in time for the passage of Chancellor Foot's second budget. Brittan and Common Wealth enjoy a huge boost in support, with some calling for a snap election to make ten years of Common Wealth rule a possibility. [17] Brittan maintains her majority, but her long time in power has earned the ire of many frontbenchers who think that she is passing over fresh-faced rising stars in favour of increasingly aged looking party stalwarts. Even her own backbench is uncomfortably with her increasingly authoritarian treatment of the party. [18] Brittan's government became increasingly unpopular due to its thinly-veiled moves towards greater governmental control, and after the proposed introduction of both ID cards and universal CCTV camera surveillance her government was forcibly dissolved and Brittan impeached. Norman Fowler, leader of the newly amalgamated and powerful Liberal Evangelical Party, formed a government with widespread support from across the house. He immediately set about bringing in liberal measures with the relaxation of governmental intervention in society. [19] Norman Fowler is assassinated on Christmas Morning along with an entire congregation of Presbyterians attending the Christmas service when a shadowy terrorist organization blows up London City Presbyterian Church. Later the same day the Guardian, the Sun and the Daily Telegraph each receives a video and a 1500 word manifesto from a group that declares themselves to have organized the attack and the video contains evidence that they indeed were involved. The group declares themselves to be a cell of an organization called the "Order of Justiciar Knights" which they allege is a world-spanning organization "dedicated to fighting cultural Marxism and multiculturalism everywhere in all forms" to bring about a "Conservative Christian Western Confederation". They furthermore declare that this attack is only the first of many to come. Later on, it is discovered that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary have all been kidnapped. In an emergency session of Parliament called that very evening, the Deputy Prime Minister, Shirley J. Douglas, daughter of popular Scottish Baptist minister Tommy Douglas, is declared Prime Minister. [20] Douglas' insistence that British liberties must not be compromised by terrorists is not popular, particularly after a captured Justicar is acquitted and then goes on machine gun a crowd in Brighton before turning the gun on himself. The National Alliance, lead by Benjamin Thomas, wins the election on a platform of a hardline stringent destruction of the Justicar Knights, through new measures. Elements of plans formed by the Brittan administration are dusted off... [21]Benjamin Thomas was assassinated by athiest member of the radical "Red Fist" organization Ian Howard. A government of national stability is formed under Christopher Soames, descendant of the the famous 19th century politician Randolph Churchill. [22] The National Alliance completely succeeds in its aims. The Justiciar Knights and the Red Fst is ended. But then the NA collapses. The Progressive Party, up to that point a minor party, rose to win the 2003 election. Steffan Cravos is the first Welsh-speaking Prime Minister in almost a century. [22] By now, the political spectrum in Britain had dramatically altered. The scared years of the past were replaced with outspoken movements from the left, centre and the Nationalist right. Cravos, popular for his measures to reduce government interference in the economy during his first term, was suddenly hit by the major economic recession that broke out in 2007 with the collaspe of the Southern Rock bank. The bail-out that followed affected his popularity, and depsite achieving relative stability by the election, he was only able to form a minority coalition to prevent Jim Crawford's Conservative Rural Party from stealing the government. [23] By virtue of his ability to keep such different parties together for four years, and due to the economic recovery leading Britain out of the recession, albeit with a lot of damage, Cravos is re-elected in 2012, this time there is no need of a coalition. He has been in the position of Prime Minister for almost 10 years, the second longest. He will not run again in 2017.
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PM can't have held the office of PM, Leader of the Opposition, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary or Home Secretary OTL:
1931: Leo Amery (Conservative) [1] 1936: Leo Amery (Conservative minority) 1938: Aneurin Bevan (Labour) [2] 1940: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [3] 1944: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [4] 1947: Alfred Duff Cooper (National) [5] 1950: Alfred Duff Cooper (NDP) [6] 1955: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [7] 1958: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [8] 1963: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [9] 1967: Christmas Humphreys (NDP) [10] 1970: Christmas Humphreys (NDP-Social Alliance Coalition) [11] 1975: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [12] 1980: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [13] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [14] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth-NDP-Social Alliance-Social Evangelical Coalition) [15] 1983: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) 1987: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [17] 1990: Norman Fowler (Liberal Evangelical) [18] 1993: Shirley J. Douglas (Liberal Evangelical) [19] 1998: Benjamin Thomas (National Alliance) [20] 1998: Christopher Soames (National Alliance) [21] 2003: Steffan Cravos (Progressive) [22] 2008: Steffan Cravos (Progressive-Green-Social Unison-Nationalist Coalition)[23] 2012: Jonathan M Singh (Social Unison-Progressive-Green Coalition) [1] A depressed Baldwin resigns as Conservative leader after the party spilts over tariffs. The protectionist Amery forms a government with Simonite support following a financial crisis and MacDonald's resignation. [2] Amery's government collapses in a vote of no confidence following internal government opposition over India and the issue of re-armanent. Maverick Labour leader Aneurin "Nye" Bevan becomes PM with pledges to protect British interests and reform society [3] Poland is invaded by the Soviet Union, resulting in an anti-communist alliance between France, Italy and the German Empire (under the control of von Papen with the return of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a figurehead Emperor) and a declaration of war against the USSR. Bevan is under pressure to join this effort but refuses, resulting in a vote of no confidence in the government and the Prime Minister's resignation. The Conservative leader, William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech, is invited by King Edward to form a National Government to fight the Soviets. These events seriously divide the Labour party, some virulently anti-communist Labourites join Harlech's coalition, whereas some Labourites sympathetic to the USSR are further radicalised by the myth of a royal coup against Bevan. [4] The Coalition is re-elected due to the desire to win the war. The war as a whole nearly went pear-shaped in 1942 as the Soviets swarmed as far as Magdeburg before running out of steam. Borders are getting close to Donetsk at the time of election. [5] Despite pushing the Soviets back into their own borders, the war effort after 1944 begins to turn into a stalemate as partisans and workers unrest continue to hamper the allied war effort. To make matters worse, with the election to the US Presidency of Henry Wallace, the significant aid the US had been giving to the allies in the form of Lend Lease disappeared virtually overnight. With casualties mounting, workers unrest on the home front growing and the danger of a communist uprising in India, the allies decide to go ahead with a joint nuclear/biological attack on the USSR. On what becomes known as D-Day, three crude nuclear devices are simultaneously dropped on Leningrad, Moscow and Minsk, followed up by dropping vast quantities of anthrax infected linseed cakes onto Soviet fields where they are consumed by cattle. Although the Soviet regime and economy for all intents and purposes collapses, the attack stiffens the resistance of the partisans and the remnants of the Red Army as well as creating even more unrest on the home front. With American criticism and suspicion of the allies at an all time high, Harlech is forced out of office after a vote of no confidence to be replaced by Alfred Duff Cooper. Duff Cooper immediately groups all members of the National Government to form the National Party in the face of increasing civil unrest. [6] In 1950, the Allies reach Moscow and the Soviet regime collapses. In Germany, however, a general strike leads to the collapse of von Papen's regime, the abolition of the monarchy and an SPD-KPD coalition. In France, a similar strike leads to a civil war which ends in the establishment of a military dictatorship. Duff Cooper in Britain calls a general election after the end of the war and forms the new "National Democratic Party" or NDP out of the remnants of the Conservative and the Liberals, winning a landslide majority. [7] The only hope for the left after the utter discrediting of Socialism due to the (unfair) association with Communism is for Left-Populism and 'share the wealth' ideas, such as those posited by the rising Common Wealth party, which absorbed almost the entirety of the old Labour vote and much of the left of the Liberal Party. Popular author and broadcaster J.B. Priestley, who only entered parliament in 1950, leads them to a small majority after disquiet over massive unemployment and the general malaise the population feels over the shared sense that the Britain the Army came home to was not fit for heroes who saved the world from Communism. [8] Priestley's populist position forced him into a corner over the Kenya Crisis. His successful broaching of an amicable peace with the rebels and the creation of the Union of Victoria as the first black majority dominion was enormously popular, and he called a snap election in 1958, in which he won a landslide majority. [9] Priestley won the election in 1963, becoming Britain's most popular Prime Minister of the 20th Century. He will not run again. [10] The Common Wealth party lose the 1967 election as Britain's economic power declines with the rise of American hegemony. The eccentric but brilliant former barrister and ex-Buddhist Christmas Humphreys leads the NDP to victory, hoping to reverse Priestley's anti-Americanism and social egalitarianism. [11] Humphreys continues to be personally popular, but his government makes a series of blunders. Humphreys calls a snap election, but passes legislation which means that as well as voting for the MP they want to represent their constituency, they also vote for who they want to be PM. Humphreys returns to power on a wave of popular support, but the NDP is in a minority position. He forges a coalition with the Social Alliance a broadly centre party, to keep his government in power. [12] After the Railwaymen's Strike of 1973-4 nearly fells the government (which itself is forced into a humiliating climbdown and the reversal of all existing downsizing plans), Pertwee's invigorated Common Wealth Party pick up their attacks on the Government and demand a 'return to regular service' (a poor pun on the plight that railwaymen had bestowed upon Humphreys, but popular nonetheless). After giving up more and more power to the Social Alliance to maintain support, Humphreys, a broken man, goes to the Palace a week before the Parliament will expire. Pertwee is ushered in with a majority of 68, and (despite the huge personal vote he received to become PM) pledges to undo the 'appallingly presidential' voting reforms in the Prime Minister Act of 1970. Common Wealth ministers begin immediate meetings with leaders of the TUC, with hopes that they will draw up a document and binding contract between the Crown and Congress House that will provide means of resolving disputes without industrial action. [13] Pertwee's attempts to resolve Britain's domestic problems are widely successfully and applauded by even the staunchest of critics to his government. However, with the passing of the Kingdom Devolution Act in 1979, (which saw the transfer of power to local regionalized governments for Scotland and Wales), many began to worry that Pertwee had slipped from his footing, and considerable right-wing pressure began to mount against his party in the run-up to the 1980 election - which played a significant role against the Prime Minister's sound health. [14] After a battle with influenza takes a turn for the worse and nearly results in his death, Pertwee retires. His health will recover but thanks only to the end of his stressful career. He delivers a farewell address on New Year's Day, 1982. Brittan went from the first woman to sit in Number 11 to the first woman to sit in Number 10. Common Wealth received a major bump in support as the telegenic and charming new PM announced a 'mid-parliament manifesto' that would recast British politics for a generation. [15] Just days into Brittan's first government, the combined forces of the Republic of Argentina and its allies invaded the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic. Brittan, wary of being labelled with blame should the conflict go poorly, forms a coalition wartime government to deal with the problem, using all the major political forces in the House - including the up-and-coming left centre Social Evangelicalists, who pledged to support the Church of England and re-enforce British morals and civil decency. [16] The war is officially declared over on February 1 1983. The Grand Coalition formally breaks up two weeks later, in time for the passage of Chancellor Foot's second budget. Brittan and Common Wealth enjoy a huge boost in support, with some calling for a snap election to make ten years of Common Wealth rule a possibility. [17] Brittan maintains her majority, but her long time in power has earned the ire of many frontbenchers who think that she is passing over fresh-faced rising stars in favour of increasingly aged looking party stalwarts. Even her own backbench is uncomfortably with her increasingly authoritarian treatment of the party. [18] Brittan's government became increasingly unpopular due to its thinly-veiled moves towards greater governmental control, and after the proposed introduction of both ID cards and universal CCTV camera surveillance her government was forcibly dissolved and Brittan impeached. Norman Fowler, leader of the newly amalgamated and powerful Liberal Evangelical Party, formed a government with widespread support from across the house. He immediately set about bringing in liberal measures with the relaxation of governmental intervention in society. [19] Norman Fowler is assassinated on Christmas Morning along with an entire congregation of Presbyterians attending the Christmas service when a shadowy terrorist organization blows up London City Presbyterian Church. Later the same day the Guardian, the Sun and the Daily Telegraph each receives a video and a 1500 word manifesto from a group that declares themselves to have organized the attack and the video contains evidence that they indeed were involved. The group declares themselves to be a cell of an organization called the "Order of Justiciar Knights" which they allege is a world-spanning organization "dedicated to fighting cultural Marxism and multiculturalism everywhere in all forms" to bring about a "Conservative Christian Western Confederation". They furthermore declare that this attack is only the first of many to come. Later on, it is discovered that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary have all been kidnapped. In an emergency session of Parliament called that very evening, the Deputy Prime Minister, Shirley J. Douglas, daughter of popular Scottish Baptist minister Tommy Douglas, is declared Prime Minister. [20] Douglas' insistence that British liberties must not be compromised by terrorists is not popular, particularly after a captured Justicar is acquitted and then goes on machine gun a crowd in Brighton before turning the gun on himself. The National Alliance, lead by Benjamin Thomas, wins the election on a platform of a hardline stringent destruction of the Justicar Knights, through new measures. Elements of plans formed by the Brittan administration are dusted off... [21]Benjamin Thomas was assassinated by athiest member of the radical "Red Fist" organization Ian Howard. A government of national stability is formed under Christopher Soames, descendant of the the famous 19th century politician Randolph Churchill. [22] The National Alliance completely succeeds in its aims. The Justiciar Knights and the Red Fst is ended. But then the NA collapses. The Progressive Party, up to that point a minor party, rose to win the 2003 election. Steffan Cravos is the first Welsh-speaking Prime Minister in almost a century. [22] By now, the political spectrum in Britain had dramatically altered. The scared years of the past were replaced with outspoken movements from the left, centre and the Nationalist right. Cravos, popular for his measures to reduce government interference in the economy during his first term, was suddenly hit by the major economic recession that broke out in 2007 with the collaspe of the Southern Rock bank. The bail-out that followed affected his popularity, and depsite achieving relative stability by the election, he was only able to form a minority coalition to prevent Jim Crawford's Conservative Rural Party from stealing the government. [23] Cravos' new term suffered from a lack of faith in coalition governments outside of war. However, a number of important reforms were made in particular a pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce wage inequalities and make a concerted effort to invest in British culture. However these reforms did not benefit Cravos who appeared to just be implementing the policies of others while not having ideas of his own. This resulted in Social Unison winning a government to enormous surprise. However it did need Progressive and Green support to get a majority.
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April 22nd, 2012, 01:18 PM
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[QUOTE=Mumby;5948232]PM can't have held the office of PM, Leader of the Opposition, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary or Home Secretary OTL:
1931: Leo Amery (Conservative) [1] 1936: Leo Amery (Conservative minority) 1938: Aneurin Bevan (Labour) [2] 1940: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [3] 1944: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [4] 1947: Alfred Duff Cooper (National) [5] 1950: Alfred Duff Cooper (NDP) [6] 1955: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [7] 1958: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [8] 1963: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [9] 1967: Christmas Humphreys (NDP) [10] 1970: Christmas Humphreys (NDP-Social Alliance Coalition) [11] 1975: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [12] 1980: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [13] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [14] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth-NDP-Social Alliance-Social Evangelical Coalition) [15] 1983: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) 1987: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [17] 1990: Norman Fowler (Liberal Evangelical) [18] 1993: Shirley J. Douglas (Liberal Evangelical) [19] 1998: Benjamin Thomas (National Alliance) [20] 1998: Christopher Soames (National Alliance) [21] 2003: Steffan Cravos (Progressive) [22] 2008: Steffan Cravos (Progressive-Green-Social Unison-Nationalist Coalition)[23] 2012: Jonathan M Singh (Social Unison-Progressive-Green Coalition) [24] 2014: Stephen Byers (New Commonwealth) [25] [1] A depressed Baldwin resigns as Conservative leader after the party spilts over tariffs. The protectionist Amery forms a government with Simonite support following a financial crisis and MacDonald's resignation. [2] Amery's government collapses in a vote of no confidence following internal government opposition over India and the issue of re-armanent. Maverick Labour leader Aneurin "Nye" Bevan becomes PM with pledges to protect British interests and reform society [3] Poland is invaded by the Soviet Union, resulting in an anti-communist alliance between France, Italy and the German Empire (under the control of von Papen with the return of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a figurehead Emperor) and a declaration of war against the USSR. Bevan is under pressure to join this effort but refuses, resulting in a vote of no confidence in the government and the Prime Minister's resignation. The Conservative leader, William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech, is invited by King Edward to form a National Government to fight the Soviets. These events seriously divide the Labour party, some virulently anti-communist Labourites join Harlech's coalition, whereas some Labourites sympathetic to the USSR are further radicalised by the myth of a royal coup against Bevan. [4] The Coalition is re-elected due to the desire to win the war. The war as a whole nearly went pear-shaped in 1942 as the Soviets swarmed as far as Magdeburg before running out of steam. Borders are getting close to Donetsk at the time of election. [5] Despite pushing the Soviets back into their own borders, the war effort after 1944 begins to turn into a stalemate as partisans and workers unrest continue to hamper the allied war effort. To make matters worse, with the election to the US Presidency of Henry Wallace, the significant aid the US had been giving to the allies in the form of Lend Lease disappeared virtually overnight. With casualties mounting, workers unrest on the home front growing and the danger of a communist uprising in India, the allies decide to go ahead with a joint nuclear/biological attack on the USSR. On what becomes known as D-Day, three crude nuclear devices are simultaneously dropped on Leningrad, Moscow and Minsk, followed up by dropping vast quantities of anthrax infected linseed cakes onto Soviet fields where they are consumed by cattle. Although the Soviet regime and economy for all intents and purposes collapses, the attack stiffens the resistance of the partisans and the remnants of the Red Army as well as creating even more unrest on the home front. With American criticism and suspicion of the allies at an all time high, Harlech is forced out of office after a vote of no confidence to be replaced by Alfred Duff Cooper. Duff Cooper immediately groups all members of the National Government to form the National Party in the face of increasing civil unrest. [6] In 1950, the Allies reach Moscow and the Soviet regime collapses. In Germany, however, a general strike leads to the collapse of von Papen's regime, the abolition of the monarchy and an SPD-KPD coalition. In France, a similar strike leads to a civil war which ends in the establishment of a military dictatorship. Duff Cooper in Britain calls a general election after the end of the war and forms the new "National Democratic Party" or NDP out of the remnants of the Conservative and the Liberals, winning a landslide majority. [7] The only hope for the left after the utter discrediting of Socialism due to the (unfair) association with Communism is for Left-Populism and 'share the wealth' ideas, such as those posited by the rising Common Wealth party, which absorbed almost the entirety of the old Labour vote and much of the left of the Liberal Party. Popular author and broadcaster J.B. Priestley, who only entered parliament in 1950, leads them to a small majority after disquiet over massive unemployment and the general malaise the population feels over the shared sense that the Britain the Army came home to was not fit for heroes who saved the world from Communism. [8] Priestley's populist position forced him into a corner over the Kenya Crisis. His successful broaching of an amicable peace with the rebels and the creation of the Union of Victoria as the first black majority dominion was enormously popular, and he called a snap election in 1958, in which he won a landslide majority. [9] Priestley won the election in 1963, becoming Britain's most popular Prime Minister of the 20th Century. He will not run again. [10] The Common Wealth party lose the 1967 election as Britain's economic power declines with the rise of American hegemony. The eccentric but brilliant former barrister and ex-Buddhist Christmas Humphreys leads the NDP to victory, hoping to reverse Priestley's anti-Americanism and social egalitarianism. [11] Humphreys continues to be personally popular, but his government makes a series of blunders. Humphreys calls a snap election, but passes legislation which means that as well as voting for the MP they want to represent their constituency, they also vote for who they want to be PM. Humphreys returns to power on a wave of popular support, but the NDP is in a minority position. He forges a coalition with the Social Alliance a broadly centre party, to keep his government in power. [12] After the Railwaymen's Strike of 1973-4 nearly fells the government (which itself is forced into a humiliating climbdown and the reversal of all existing downsizing plans), Pertwee's invigorated Common Wealth Party pick up their attacks on the Government and demand a 'return to regular service' (a poor pun on the plight that railwaymen had bestowed upon Humphreys, but popular nonetheless). After giving up more and more power to the Social Alliance to maintain support, Humphreys, a broken man, goes to the Palace a week before the Parliament will expire. Pertwee is ushered in with a majority of 68, and (despite the huge personal vote he received to become PM) pledges to undo the 'appallingly presidential' voting reforms in the Prime Minister Act of 1970. Common Wealth ministers begin immediate meetings with leaders of the TUC, with hopes that they will draw up a document and binding contract between the Crown and Congress House that will provide means of resolving disputes without industrial action. [13] Pertwee's attempts to resolve Britain's domestic problems are widely successfully and applauded by even the staunchest of critics to his government. However, with the passing of the Kingdom Devolution Act in 1979, (which saw the transfer of power to local regionalized governments for Scotland and Wales), many began to worry that Pertwee had slipped from his footing, and considerable right-wing pressure began to mount against his party in the run-up to the 1980 election - which played a significant role against the Prime Minister's sound health. [14] After a battle with influenza takes a turn for the worse and nearly results in his death, Pertwee retires. His health will recover but thanks only to the end of his stressful career. He delivers a farewell address on New Year's Day, 1982. Brittan went from the first woman to sit in Number 11 to the first woman to sit in Number 10. Common Wealth received a major bump in support as the telegenic and charming new PM announced a 'mid-parliament manifesto' that would recast British politics for a generation. [15] Just days into Brittan's first government, the combined forces of the Republic of Argentina and its allies invaded the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic. Brittan, wary of being labelled with blame should the conflict go poorly, forms a coalition wartime government to deal with the problem, using all the major political forces in the House - including the up-and-coming left centre Social Evangelicalists, who pledged to support the Church of England and re-enforce British morals and civil decency. [16] The war is officially declared over on February 1 1983. The Grand Coalition formally breaks up two weeks later, in time for the passage of Chancellor Foot's second budget. Brittan and Common Wealth enjoy a huge boost in support, with some calling for a snap election to make ten years of Common Wealth rule a possibility. [17] Brittan maintains her majority, but her long time in power has earned the ire of many frontbenchers who think that she is passing over fresh-faced rising stars in favour of increasingly aged looking party stalwarts. Even her own backbench is uncomfortably with her increasingly authoritarian treatment of the party. [18] Brittan's government became increasingly unpopular due to its thinly-veiled moves towards greater governmental control, and after the proposed introduction of both ID cards and universal CCTV camera surveillance her government was forcibly dissolved and Brittan impeached. Norman Fowler, leader of the newly amalgamated and powerful Liberal Evangelical Party, formed a government with widespread support from across the house. He immediately set about bringing in liberal measures with the relaxation of governmental intervention in society. [19] Norman Fowler is assassinated on Christmas Morning along with an entire congregation of Presbyterians attending the Christmas service when a shadowy terrorist organization blows up London City Presbyterian Church. Later the same day the Guardian, the Sun and the Daily Telegraph each receives a video and a 1500 word manifesto from a group that declares themselves to have organized the attack and the video contains evidence that they indeed were involved. The group declares themselves to be a cell of an organization called the "Order of Justiciar Knights" which they allege is a world-spanning organization "dedicated to fighting cultural Marxism and multiculturalism everywhere in all forms" to bring about a "Conservative Christian Western Confederation". They furthermore declare that this attack is only the first of many to come. Later on, it is discovered that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary have all been kidnapped. In an emergency session of Parliament called that very evening, the Deputy Prime Minister, Shirley J. Douglas, daughter of popular Scottish Baptist minister Tommy Douglas, is declared Prime Minister. [20] Douglas' insistence that British liberties must not be compromised by terrorists is not popular, particularly after a captured Justicar is acquitted and then goes on machine gun a crowd in Brighton before turning the gun on himself. The National Alliance, lead by Benjamin Thomas, wins the election on a platform of a hardline stringent destruction of the Justicar Knights, through new measures. Elements of plans formed by the Brittan administration are dusted off... [21]Benjamin Thomas was assassinated by athiest member of the radical "Red Fist" organization Ian Howard. A government of national stability is formed under Christopher Soames, descendant of the the famous 19th century politician Randolph Churchill. [22] The National Alliance completely succeeds in its aims. The Justiciar Knights and the Red Fst is ended. But then the NA collapses. The Progressive Party, up to that point a minor party, rose to win the 2003 election. Steffan Cravos is the first Welsh-speaking Prime Minister in almost a century. [23] By now, the political spectrum in Britain had dramatically altered. The scared years of the past were replaced with outspoken movements from the left, centre and the Nationalist right. Cravos, popular for his measures to reduce government interference in the economy during his first term, was suddenly hit by the major economic recession that broke out in 2007 with the collaspe of the Southern Rock bank. The bail-out that followed affected his popularity, and depsite achieving relative stability by the election, he was only able to form a minority coalition to prevent Jim Crawford's Conservative Rural Party from stealing the government. [24] Cravos' new term suffered from a lack of faith in coalition governments outside of war. However, a number of important reforms were made in particular a pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce wage inequalities and make a concerted effort to invest in British culture. However these reforms did not benefit Cravos who appeared to just be implementing the policies of others while not having ideas of his own. This resulted in Social Unison winning a government to enormous surprise. However it did need Progressive and Green support to get a majority. [25] Common Wealth had not quite died a death in the early 1990s. Maintaining a core of, at one time, only 32 MPs, it continued to modernise and became increasingly popular with the intellectual classes and the impressive graduates from Britain's universities. By 2012, they were only three seats short of being the official opposition, which they became when the Progressives entered government. The ensuing chaos of the Coalition, and the failure of Singh's economic measures ('harder, deeper, faster') led to the slick but indecisive Byers leading the NCP to an unexpected landslide, with the Conservative Rurals forming the opposition.
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Cravos won the 2012 election, so yours are vetoed. Please change it.
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1931: Leo Amery (Conservative) [1] 1936: Leo Amery (Conservative minority) 1938: Aneurin Bevan (Labour) [2] 1940: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [3] 1944: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [4] 1947: Alfred Duff Cooper (National) [5] 1950: Alfred Duff Cooper (NDP) [6] 1955: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [7] 1958: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [8] 1963: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [9] 1967: Christmas Humphreys (NDP) [10] 1970: Christmas Humphreys (NDP-Social Alliance Coalition) [11] 1975: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [12] 1980: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [13] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [14] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth-NDP-Social Alliance-Social Evangelical Coalition) [15] 1983: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) 1987: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [17] 1990: Norman Fowler (Liberal Evangelical) [18] 1993: Shirley J. Douglas (Liberal Evangelical) [19] 1998: Benjamin Thomas (National Alliance) [20] 1998: Christopher Soames (National Alliance) [21] 2003: Steffan Cravos (Progressive) [22] 2008: Steffan Cravos (Progressive-Green-Social Unison-Nationalist Coalition)[23] 2012: Steffan Cravos (Progressive) [23] 2016: Stephen Byers (New Commonwealth) [24] [1] A depressed Baldwin resigns as Conservative leader after the party spilts over tariffs. The protectionist Amery forms a government with Simonite support following a financial crisis and MacDonald's resignation. [2] Amery's government collapses in a vote of no confidence following internal government opposition over India and the issue of re-armanent. Maverick Labour leader Aneurin "Nye" Bevan becomes PM with pledges to protect British interests and reform society [3] Poland is invaded by the Soviet Union, resulting in an anti-communist alliance between France, Italy and the German Empire (under the control of von Papen with the return of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a figurehead Emperor) and a declaration of war against the USSR. Bevan is under pressure to join this effort but refuses, resulting in a vote of no confidence in the government and the Prime Minister's resignation. The Conservative leader, William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech, is invited by King Edward to form a National Government to fight the Soviets. These events seriously divide the Labour party, some virulently anti-communist Labourites join Harlech's coalition, whereas some Labourites sympathetic to the USSR are further radicalised by the myth of a royal coup against Bevan. [4] The Coalition is re-elected due to the desire to win the war. The war as a whole nearly went pear-shaped in 1942 as the Soviets swarmed as far as Magdeburg before running out of steam. Borders are getting close to Donetsk at the time of election. [5] Despite pushing the Soviets back into their own borders, the war effort after 1944 begins to turn into a stalemate as partisans and workers unrest continue to hamper the allied war effort. To make matters worse, with the election to the US Presidency of Henry Wallace, the significant aid the US had been giving to the allies in the form of Lend Lease disappeared virtually overnight. With casualties mounting, workers unrest on the home front growing and the danger of a communist uprising in India, the allies decide to go ahead with a joint nuclear/biological attack on the USSR. On what becomes known as D-Day, three crude nuclear devices are simultaneously dropped on Leningrad, Moscow and Minsk, followed up by dropping vast quantities of anthrax infected linseed cakes onto Soviet fields where they are consumed by cattle. Although the Soviet regime and economy for all intents and purposes collapses, the attack stiffens the resistance of the partisans and the remnants of the Red Army as well as creating even more unrest on the home front. With American criticism and suspicion of the allies at an all time high, Harlech is forced out of office after a vote of no confidence to be replaced by Alfred Duff Cooper. Duff Cooper immediately groups all members of the National Government to form the National Party in the face of increasing civil unrest. [6] In 1950, the Allies reach Moscow and the Soviet regime collapses. In Germany, however, a general strike leads to the collapse of von Papen's regime, the abolition of the monarchy and an SPD-KPD coalition. In France, a similar strike leads to a civil war which ends in the establishment of a military dictatorship. Duff Cooper in Britain calls a general election after the end of the war and forms the new "National Democratic Party" or NDP out of the remnants of the Conservative and the Liberals, winning a landslide majority. [7] The only hope for the left after the utter discrediting of Socialism due to the (unfair) association with Communism is for Left-Populism and 'share the wealth' ideas, such as those posited by the rising Common Wealth party, which absorbed almost the entirety of the old Labour vote and much of the left of the Liberal Party. Popular author and broadcaster J.B. Priestley, who only entered parliament in 1950, leads them to a small majority after disquiet over massive unemployment and the general malaise the population feels over the shared sense that the Britain the Army came home to was not fit for heroes who saved the world from Communism. [8] Priestley's populist position forced him into a corner over the Kenya Crisis. His successful broaching of an amicable peace with the rebels and the creation of the Union of Victoria as the first black majority dominion was enormously popular, and he called a snap election in 1958, in which he won a landslide majority. [9] Priestley won the election in 1963, becoming Britain's most popular Prime Minister of the 20th Century. He will not run again. [10] The Common Wealth party lose the 1967 election as Britain's economic power declines with the rise of American hegemony. The eccentric but brilliant former barrister and ex-Buddhist Christmas Humphreys leads the NDP to victory, hoping to reverse Priestley's anti-Americanism and social egalitarianism. [11] Humphreys continues to be personally popular, but his government makes a series of blunders. Humphreys calls a snap election, but passes legislation which means that as well as voting for the MP they want to represent their constituency, they also vote for who they want to be PM. Humphreys returns to power on a wave of popular support, but the NDP is in a minority position. He forges a coalition with the Social Alliance a broadly centre party, to keep his government in power. [12] After the Railwaymen's Strike of 1973-4 nearly fells the government (which itself is forced into a humiliating climbdown and the reversal of all existing downsizing plans), Pertwee's invigorated Common Wealth Party pick up their attacks on the Government and demand a 'return to regular service' (a poor pun on the plight that railwaymen had bestowed upon Humphreys, but popular nonetheless). After giving up more and more power to the Social Alliance to maintain support, Humphreys, a broken man, goes to the Palace a week before the Parliament will expire. Pertwee is ushered in with a majority of 68, and (despite the huge personal vote he received to become PM) pledges to undo the 'appallingly presidential' voting reforms in the Prime Minister Act of 1970. Common Wealth ministers begin immediate meetings with leaders of the TUC, with hopes that they will draw up a document and binding contract between the Crown and Congress House that will provide means of resolving disputes without industrial action. [13] Pertwee's attempts to resolve Britain's domestic problems are widely successfully and applauded by even the staunchest of critics to his government. However, with the passing of the Kingdom Devolution Act in 1979, (which saw the transfer of power to local regionalized governments for Scotland and Wales), many began to worry that Pertwee had slipped from his footing, and considerable right-wing pressure began to mount against his party in the run-up to the 1980 election - which played a significant role against the Prime Minister's sound health. [14] After a battle with influenza takes a turn for the worse and nearly results in his death, Pertwee retires. His health will recover but thanks only to the end of his stressful career. He delivers a farewell address on New Year's Day, 1982. Brittan went from the first woman to sit in Number 11 to the first woman to sit in Number 10. Common Wealth received a major bump in support as the telegenic and charming new PM announced a 'mid-parliament manifesto' that would recast British politics for a generation. [15] Just days into Brittan's first government, the combined forces of the Republic of Argentina and its allies invaded the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic. Brittan, wary of being labelled with blame should the conflict go poorly, forms a coalition wartime government to deal with the problem, using all the major political forces in the House - including the up-and-coming left centre Social Evangelicalists, who pledged to support the Church of England and re-enforce British morals and civil decency. [16] The war is officially declared over on February 1 1983. The Grand Coalition formally breaks up two weeks later, in time for the passage of Chancellor Foot's second budget. Brittan and Common Wealth enjoy a huge boost in support, with some calling for a snap election to make ten years of Common Wealth rule a possibility. [17] Brittan maintains her majority, but her long time in power has earned the ire of many frontbenchers who think that she is passing over fresh-faced rising stars in favour of increasingly aged looking party stalwarts. Even her own backbench is uncomfortably with her increasingly authoritarian treatment of the party. [18] Brittan's government became increasingly unpopular due to its thinly-veiled moves towards greater governmental control, and after the proposed introduction of both ID cards and universal CCTV camera surveillance her government was forcibly dissolved and Brittan impeached. Norman Fowler, leader of the newly amalgamated and powerful Liberal Evangelical Party, formed a government with widespread support from across the house. He immediately set about bringing in liberal measures with the relaxation of governmental intervention in society. [19] Norman Fowler is assassinated on Christmas Morning along with an entire congregation of Presbyterians attending the Christmas service when a shadowy terrorist organization blows up London City Presbyterian Church. Later the same day the Guardian, the Sun and the Daily Telegraph each receives a video and a 1500 word manifesto from a group that declares themselves to have organized the attack and the video contains evidence that they indeed were involved. The group declares themselves to be a cell of an organization called the "Order of Justiciar Knights" which they allege is a world-spanning organization "dedicated to fighting cultural Marxism and multiculturalism everywhere in all forms" to bring about a "Conservative Christian Western Confederation". They furthermore declare that this attack is only the first of many to come. Later on, it is discovered that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary have all been kidnapped. In an emergency session of Parliament called that very evening, the Deputy Prime Minister, Shirley J. Douglas, daughter of popular Scottish Baptist minister Tommy Douglas, is declared Prime Minister. [20] Douglas' insistence that British liberties must not be compromised by terrorists is not popular, particularly after a captured Justicar is acquitted and then goes on machine gun a crowd in Brighton before turning the gun on himself. The National Alliance, lead by Benjamin Thomas, wins the election on a platform of a hardline stringent destruction of the Justicar Knights, through new measures. Elements of plans formed by the Brittan administration are dusted off... [21]Benjamin Thomas was assassinated by athiest member of the radical "Red Fist" organization Ian Howard. A government of national stability is formed under Christopher Soames, descendant of the the famous 19th century politician Randolph Churchill. [22] The National Alliance completely succeeds in its aims. The Justiciar Knights and the Red Fst is ended. But then the NA collapses. The Progressive Party, up to that point a minor party, rose to win the 2003 election. Steffan Cravos is the first Welsh-speaking Prime Minister in almost a century. [22] By now, the political spectrum in Britain had dramatically altered. The scared years of the past were replaced with outspoken movements from the left, centre and the Nationalist right. Cravos, popular for his measures to reduce government interference in the economy during his first term, was suddenly hit by the major economic recession that broke out in 2007 with the collaspe of the Southern Rock bank. The bail-out that followed affected his popularity, and depsite achieving relative stability by the election, he was only able to form a minority coalition to prevent Jim Crawford's Conservative Rural Party from stealing the government. [23] By virtue of his ability to keep such different parties together for four years, and due to the economic recovery leading Britain out of the recession, albeit with a lot of damage, Cravos is re-elected in 2012, this time there is no need of a coalition. He has been in the position of Prime Minister for almost 10 years, the second longest. He will not run again in 2017. [24] Common Wealth had not quite died a death in the early 1990s. Maintaining a core of, at one time, only 32 MPs, it continued to modernise and became increasingly popular with the intellectual classes and the impressive graduates from Britain's universities. By 2012, they were only three seats short of being the official opposition. At the end of 2015, documents relating to concerted Progressive Party smear campaigns were leaked to the press, and it became clear how Cravos had been muscling out his coalition opponents. 'It's time to turn out the turntabler' came the cry from the streets as unrest spilled into 2016 and the link to Cravos became harder and harder to ignore. After Progressive Party Senior Adviser Andy Coulson's testimony at the Old Bailey directly implicated the Prime Minister in the investigation, Cravos resigned and called an immediate General Election. Untainted by the mess, the New Commonwealth Party swept to power, unexpectedly propelling the flashy but indecisive Stephen Byers to Downing Street.
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PM can't have held the office of PM, Leader of the Opposition, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary or Home Secretary OTL:
1931: Leo Amery (Conservative) [1] 1936: Leo Amery (Conservative minority) 1938: Aneurin Bevan (Labour) [2] 1940: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [3] 1944: William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech (National Government) [4] 1947: Alfred Duff Cooper (National) [5] 1950: Alfred Duff Cooper (NDP) [6] 1955: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [7] 1958: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [8] 1963: J.B. Priestley (Common Wealth) [9] 1967: Christmas Humphreys (NDP) [10] 1970: Christmas Humphreys (NDP-Social Alliance Coalition) [11] 1975: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [12] 1980: John Pertwee (Common Wealth) [13] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [14] 1982: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth-NDP-Social Alliance-Social Evangelical Coalition) [15] 1983: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) 1987: Shirley Brittan (Common Wealth) [17] 1990: Norman Fowler (Liberal Evangelical) [18] 1993: Shirley J. Douglas (Liberal Evangelical) [19] 1998: Benjamin Thomas (National Alliance) [20] 1998: Christopher Soames (National Alliance) [21] 2003: Steffan Cravos (Progressive) [22] 2008: Steffan Cravos (Progressive-Green-Social Unison-Nationalist Coalition)[23] 2012: Steffan Cravos (Progressive) [23] 2016: Stephen Byers (New Commonwealth) [24] 2019: Kelly Holmes (New Commonwealth) [25] [1] A depressed Baldwin resigns as Conservative leader after the party spilts over tariffs. The protectionist Amery forms a government with Simonite support following a financial crisis and MacDonald's resignation. [2] Amery's government collapses in a vote of no confidence following internal government opposition over India and the issue of re-armanent. Maverick Labour leader Aneurin "Nye" Bevan becomes PM with pledges to protect British interests and reform society [3] Poland is invaded by the Soviet Union, resulting in an anti-communist alliance between France, Italy and the German Empire (under the control of von Papen with the return of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a figurehead Emperor) and a declaration of war against the USSR. Bevan is under pressure to join this effort but refuses, resulting in a vote of no confidence in the government and the Prime Minister's resignation. The Conservative leader, William Ormsby-Gore, Baron Harlech, is invited by King Edward to form a National Government to fight the Soviets. These events seriously divide the Labour party, some virulently anti-communist Labourites join Harlech's coalition, whereas some Labourites sympathetic to the USSR are further radicalised by the myth of a royal coup against Bevan. [4] The Coalition is re-elected due to the desire to win the war. The war as a whole nearly went pear-shaped in 1942 as the Soviets swarmed as far as Magdeburg before running out of steam. Borders are getting close to Donetsk at the time of election. [5] Despite pushing the Soviets back into their own borders, the war effort after 1944 begins to turn into a stalemate as partisans and workers unrest continue to hamper the allied war effort. To make matters worse, with the election to the US Presidency of Henry Wallace, the significant aid the US had been giving to the allies in the form of Lend Lease disappeared virtually overnight. With casualties mounting, workers unrest on the home front growing and the danger of a communist uprising in India, the allies decide to go ahead with a joint nuclear/biological attack on the USSR. On what becomes known as D-Day, three crude nuclear devices are simultaneously dropped on Leningrad, Moscow and Minsk, followed up by dropping vast quantities of anthrax infected linseed cakes onto Soviet fields where they are consumed by cattle. Although the Soviet regime and economy for all intents and purposes collapses, the attack stiffens the resistance of the partisans and the remnants of the Red Army as well as creating even more unrest on the home front. With American criticism and suspicion of the allies at an all time high, Harlech is forced out of office after a vote of no confidence to be replaced by Alfred Duff Cooper. Duff Cooper immediately groups all members of the National Government to form the National Party in the face of increasing civil unrest. [6] In 1950, the Allies reach Moscow and the Soviet regime collapses. In Germany, however, a general strike leads to the collapse of von Papen's regime, the abolition of the monarchy and an SPD-KPD coalition. In France, a similar strike leads to a civil war which ends in the establishment of a military dictatorship. Duff Cooper in Britain calls a general election after the end of the war and forms the new "National Democratic Party" or NDP out of the remnants of the Conservative and the Liberals, winning a landslide majority. [7] The only hope for the left after the utter discrediting of Socialism due to the (unfair) association with Communism is for Left-Populism and 'share the wealth' ideas, such as those posited by the rising Common Wealth party, which absorbed almost the entirety of the old Labour vote and much of the left of the Liberal Party. Popular author and broadcaster J.B. Priestley, who only entered parliament in 1950, leads them to a small majority after disquiet over massive unemployment and the general malaise the population feels over the shared sense that the Britain the Army came home to was not fit for heroes who saved the world from Communism. [8] Priestley's populist position forced him into a corner over the Kenya Crisis. His successful broaching of an amicable peace with the rebels and the creation of the Union of Victoria as the first black majority dominion was enormously popular, and he called a snap election in 1958, in which he won a landslide majority. [9] Priestley won the election in 1963, becoming Britain's most popular Prime Minister of the 20th Century. He will not run again. [10] The Common Wealth party lose the 1967 election as Britain's economic power declines with the rise of American hegemony. The eccentric but brilliant former barrister and ex-Buddhist Christmas Humphreys leads the NDP to victory, hoping to reverse Priestley's anti-Americanism and social egalitarianism. [11] Humphreys continues to be personally popular, but his government makes a series of blunders. Humphreys calls a snap election, but passes legislation which means that as well as voting for the MP they want to represent their constituency, they also vote for who they want to be PM. Humphreys returns to power on a wave of popular support, but the NDP is in a minority position. He forges a coalition with the Social Alliance a broadly centre party, to keep his government in power. [12] After the Railwaymen's Strike of 1973-4 nearly fells the government (which itself is forced into a humiliating climbdown and the reversal of all existing downsizing plans), Pertwee's invigorated Common Wealth Party pick up their attacks on the Government and demand a 'return to regular service' (a poor pun on the plight that railwaymen had bestowed upon Humphreys, but popular nonetheless). After giving up more and more power to the Social Alliance to maintain support, Humphreys, a broken man, goes to the Palace a week before the Parliament will expire. Pertwee is ushered in with a majority of 68, and (despite the huge personal vote he received to become PM) pledges to undo the 'appallingly presidential' voting reforms in the Prime Minister Act of 1970. Common Wealth ministers begin immediate meetings with leaders of the TUC, with hopes that they will draw up a document and binding contract between the Crown and Congress House that will provide means of resolving disputes without industrial action. [13] Pertwee's attempts to resolve Britain's domestic problems are widely successfully and applauded by even the staunchest of critics to his government. However, with the passing of the Kingdom Devolution Act in 1979, (which saw the transfer of power to local regionalized governments for Scotland and Wales), many began to worry that Pertwee had slipped from his footing, and considerable right-wing pressure began to mount against his party in the run-up to the 1980 election - which played a significant role against the Prime Minister's sound health. [14] After a battle with influenza takes a turn for the worse and nearly results in his death, Pertwee retires. His health will recover but thanks only to the end of his stressful career. He delivers a farewell address on New Year's Day, 1982. Brittan went from the first woman to sit in Number 11 to the first woman to sit in Number 10. Common Wealth received a major bump in support as the telegenic and charming new PM announced a 'mid-parliament manifesto' that would recast British politics for a generation. [15] Just days into Brittan's first government, the combined forces of the Republic of Argentina and its allies invaded the Falkland Islands in the south Atlantic. Brittan, wary of being labelled with blame should the conflict go poorly, forms a coalition wartime government to deal with the problem, using all the major political forces in the House - including the up-and-coming left centre Social Evangelicalists, who pledged to support the Church of England and re-enforce British morals and civil decency. [16] The war is officially declared over on February 1 1983. The Grand Coalition formally breaks up two weeks later, in time for the passage of Chancellor Foot's second budget. Brittan and Common Wealth enjoy a huge boost in support, with some calling for a snap election to make ten years of Common Wealth rule a possibility. [17] Brittan maintains her majority, but her long time in power has earned the ire of many frontbenchers who think that she is passing over fresh-faced rising stars in favour of increasingly aged looking party stalwarts. Even her own backbench is uncomfortably with her increasingly authoritarian treatment of the party. [18] Brittan's government became increasingly unpopular due to its thinly-veiled moves towards greater governmental control, and after the proposed introduction of both ID cards and universal CCTV camera surveillance her government was forcibly dissolved and Brittan impeached. Norman Fowler, leader of the newly amalgamated and powerful Liberal Evangelical Party, formed a government with widespread support from across the house. He immediately set about bringing in liberal measures with the relaxation of governmental intervention in society. [19] Norman Fowler is assassinated on Christmas Morning along with an entire congregation of Presbyterians attending the Christmas service when a shadowy terrorist organization blows up London City Presbyterian Church. Later the same day the Guardian, the Sun and the Daily Telegraph each receives a video and a 1500 word manifesto from a group that declares themselves to have organized the attack and the video contains evidence that they indeed were involved. The group declares themselves to be a cell of an organization called the "Order of Justiciar Knights" which they allege is a world-spanning organization "dedicated to fighting cultural Marxism and multiculturalism everywhere in all forms" to bring about a "Conservative Christian Western Confederation". They furthermore declare that this attack is only the first of many to come. Later on, it is discovered that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Foreign Secretary and the Home Secretary have all been kidnapped. In an emergency session of Parliament called that very evening, the Deputy Prime Minister, Shirley J. Douglas, daughter of popular Scottish Baptist minister Tommy Douglas, is declared Prime Minister. [20] Douglas' insistence that British liberties must not be compromised by terrorists is not popular, particularly after a captured Justicar is acquitted and then goes on machine gun a crowd in Brighton before turning the gun on himself. The National Alliance, lead by Benjamin Thomas, wins the election on a platform of a hardline stringent destruction of the Justicar Knights, through new measures. Elements of plans formed by the Brittan administration are dusted off... [21]Benjamin Thomas was assassinated by athiest member of the radical "Red Fist" organization Ian Howard. A government of national stability is formed under Christopher Soames, descendant of the the famous 19th century politician Randolph Churchill. [22] The National Alliance completely succeeds in its aims. The Justiciar Knights and the Red Fst is ended. But then the NA collapses. The Progressive Party, up to that point a minor party, rose to win the 2003 election. Steffan Cravos is the first Welsh-speaking Prime Minister in almost a century. [22] By now, the political spectrum in Britain had dramatically altered. The scared years of the past were replaced with outspoken movements from the left, centre and the Nationalist right. Cravos, popular for his measures to reduce government interference in the economy during his first term, was suddenly hit by the major economic recession that broke out in 2007 with the collaspe of the Southern Rock bank. The bail-out that followed affected his popularity, and depsite achieving relative stability by the election, he was only able to form a minority coalition to prevent Jim Crawford's Conservative Rural Party from stealing the government. [23] By virtue of his ability to keep such different parties together for four years, and due to the economic recovery leading Britain out of the recession, albeit with a lot of damage, Cravos is re-elected in 2012, this time there is no need of a coalition. He has been in the position of Prime Minister for almost 10 years, the second longest. He will not run again in 2017. [24] Common Wealth had not quite died a death in the early 1990s. Maintaining a core of, at one time, only 32 MPs, it continued to modernise and became increasingly popular with the intellectual classes and the impressive graduates from Britain's universities. By 2012, they were only three seats short of being the official opposition. At the end of 2015, documents relating to concerted Progressive Party smear campaigns were leaked to the press, and it became clear how Cravos had been muscling out his coalition opponents. 'It's time to turn out the turntabler' came the cry from the streets as unrest spilled into 2016 and the link to Cravos became harder and harder to ignore. After Progressive Party Senior Adviser Andy Coulson's testimony at the Old Bailey directly implicated the Prime Minister in the investigation, Cravos resigned and called an immediate General Election. Untainted by the mess, the New Commonwealth Party swept to power, unexpectedly propelling the flashy but indecisive Stephen Byers to Downing Street. [25] The ship Cornwall carrying Stephen Byers from the United Kingdom to Spain for a diplomatic visit showing the new cordial relations between Britain and Spain had a large hole broken in it by explosives placed by a sole anarchist who wanted the death of the Prime Minister. The ship sank, and even though the Prime Minister was saved from it, he later died of shock. Kelly Holmes is chosen as the new Prime Minister. She is the first Jamaican-descended Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Anglo-Spanish relations turns frosty due to the Government thinking Spain planned it.
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