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    What would a 1980s Tony Benn premiership look like?

    I know there are a few threads on here that ask about how to make the late (and great, to some including myself) Tony Benn PM in the 1980s, however there doesn't seem to be much talk about what his government might look like, the kind of policies it would implement in office, and how successful...
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    1960s/1970s Anti-Tax Movements beyond Scandinavia

    The early 1960s and early 1970s saw the rise of anti-tax movements successfully transitioning into political movements in the Scandinavian nations of Denmark, Norway, and (with less success) Sweden. However, these political movements and their ideologies of economic liberalism combined with a...
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    WI: Benn's Alternative Economic Strategy becomes policy

    Cross-posting from the other place... This is very much a shot in the dark here, but I'm hoping to get some ideas from learned colleagues and friends on the subject. Suppose that Heath manages to win the Feb. '74 general election with a reduced majority as most of the polling at the time...
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    AHC: Libertarian Democrats and big-government Republicans

    Something that I had a thought about was how parts of the libertarian ideology would have been quite so amenable to the Democratic Party during its battle for its soul over the matter of civil rights v. states' rights in the 1950s & 1960s. Your challenge, with a POD no earlier than 1900 (That...
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    WI/AHC: 21st Century Bevanism

    Essentially serving as a continuation of one of my previous Labour-related questions, how would it be possible for Bevanism to remain as part of the internal factions of the Labour Party (UK) into the 21st Century? Bevanism had its last hoorah IOTL with the election of Michael Foot as party...
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    As you wish it, Prime Minister - A British Political TL

    So this is- Yeah. But it’s not a- No. But we’re- Old habits. … … Are you worried about- Not really. Even though- They’re smart people. But can y- I can manage. … … Shall we? Let’s.
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    AHC: Post-1950s United Ireland

    I know that this is going to be quite the task ahead on this one, but here me out. Whilst in opposition in the 1970s, Harold Wilson said that he had a 16-point plan on crafting a united Ireland in addition the 'Doomsday' plan about leaving N. Ireland during the height the Troubles. The key...
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    AHC: Pertaining Footite faction in Labour

    With the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Leader last September and the possibility (No comment on how likely/unlikely) of him remaining so until the next general election, many are seeing this as the great victory of the Bennite faction within Labour that have been diminished in numbers &...
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    Anarchy in the UK: Thatcherism Stillborn

    All credit to SargeantHawk for the title card Spitting Image - March 1984 [The screen transitions to the cabinet room where members of the cabinet are seated. The room itself is badly lit by candles; the wallpaper is beginning to flay in the background. At the centre of the room is the...
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    AHC/WI: Paramilitary Scottish nationalism

    Following an 'interesting' conversation with a friend of mine, who is a staunch Unionist in every sense of the term, I had the notion of how would it be possible for the goal of an independent Scotland to become akin to the tactics and behaviour employed by the Provisional IRA and other militant...
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    TLIAW: Left is Right

    Edinburgh, UK - 18th February 2016 18:47 It was my first general election whilst living in Scotland, so I was rather excited to see the difference in opinion north of the border compared with the usual two-party focus back in Cornwall. Despite my own opinions and preference, it was an open...
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    AHC/WI: Left-wing Gang of Four (UK)

    The 'Gang of Four' in British politics refers to Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers, and Shirley Williams who left the Labour party in 1981 following long-standing tensions between the left and right-wings of the Labour Party and the subsequent election of Michael Foot as the new party...
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    AHC: Prime Minister (Eric) Blair

    Eric Blair, better known by his pen-name George Orwell, is amongst my favourite historical writers & probably my favourite writer of all time. He was a committed democratic socialist, highly critical of Stalinism whilst a had a more complex relationship with British imperialism. Your...
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    WI: Clynes remained Labour leader

    J. R. Clynes seems to be someone that doesn't seem to draw a large amount of interest for modern historians, at least when attempting to do more research into him (Which turned out to be quite sparse & limited). However, he served as the leader of the Labour Party going into the 1922 General...
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    TLIAW: Rendezvous with Destiny

    The 1948 United States presidential election was thought to be amongst the most dramatic that had been seen since the previous landscape altering election of 1944. The moderately popular & successful President Thomas E. Dewey was seeking re-election in the face of a continually aggressive social...
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    The Difference Engine

    I've been looking around for some more information on this book as it amongst the first Alt. Histories that I read, so I thought I'd set up a thread to also get others' thoughts & opinions on it. Other than the rather limited references to the rest of the world, does anyone have any notions...
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    AHC: Parliamentary America

    Woodrow Wilson, prior to his rise in American politics, believed and wrote that a parliamentary system akin to the British system in Westminster would be better for the nation instead of the system in the United States at the time. My question is would it be feasible and possible for there to...
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    Alternate PMs #1 - It's a Wild World

    Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world It's hard to get by just upon a smile Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world I'll always remember you like a child, girl The rest of the world seemed to be falling into ruin & chaos, but the Prime Minister would be damned if he was going to let his country fall like...
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    AHC/WI: Post-Stalin Survivable & Workable Troika

    Following the death of Stalin in 1953, to govern the Soviet Union a troika was established in the power vacuum consisting of Molotov, Beria & Malenkov. Whilst I believe that it could never has remained intact with Beria as a member (He'd try to outmanoeuvre his rivals to bring power completely...
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    AHC/WI: Huey's plan had worked

    Whilst it's known that Huey Long did want to take the White House, it's thought that he wouldn't have attempted to do so directly in 1936 after splitting with FDR over believing that the New Deal wasn't radical enough. Long's plan was then to run a third party campaign to split the left-wing...
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