I would have loved to see the Ukip timeline

What would have been the big ideas of this TL ?
And what is the big idea of your next TL ?
UKIP will still happen, it's quite a bit shorter than the other two (only covering a couple of years rather than two decades) so I might release it first if I find myself with not enough time to write a full TL but enough time to do a TLIAM. The main idea for Purple Rain was that Nigel Farage stands in the 2013 Eastleigh by-election (UKIP came within 5 points of winning it OTL) with Farage's national profile and bad luck for the Lib Dems and Tories, Farage enters the Commons in 2013, from their UKIP builds to become a proper third party with multiple MPs like the Lib Dems and SNP (I might also say that AV passed in 2011) it will chronicle UKIP's rise to legitimacy and the impact that has on British politics

For A Very British Transition, my next TL, the rumoured coup in the 1960s happens and Britain falls under a Spanish/Portuguese style military Junta, the junta lasts around 40 years, finally crashing down in the 2000s after the death of incumbent Lord Protector Baron Hill-Norton, a general strike, student protests and external pressure from the EU. The TL would document Britain directly after the fall of the Junta, the restoration of democracy, dealing with political violence and questions around justice for the crimes committed during the Junta.
 
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Would be interesting if it were like a Cambodia situation with the monarchy either going into exile and acting against the junta from foreign countries or leading an internal resistance against the junta. The idea of a Monarchy holdout in Ulster (if I remember correctly Ulster was very very pro-monarchy until the 1990s otl) is even more interesting in this regards.
 
Would be interesting if it were like a Cambodia situation with the monarchy either going into exile and acting against the junta from foreign countries or leading an internal resistance against the junta. The idea of a Monarchy holdout in Ulster (if I remember correctly Ulster was very very pro-monarchy until the 1990s otl) is even more interesting in this regards.
Sorry to bump this thread, but I think the intent of the coup was in fact to keep the monarchy in place. That was why they offered Mountbatten the chance to lead it, because he was a close relative and confidant of the royal family.

Additionally (I'm not sure how much of this is true or how much of it was embellished for The Crown), there were rumblings that Harold Wilson and his government had increasingly republican sympathies, and the coup was also seen as a means of preserving the monarchy.
 
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A Very British Transition

After nearly 40 years of military rule, the First Lord is dead, the Junta has fallen, the United Kingdom faces an uncertain future. With a divided public, threats of political violence and an agitated military, whoever takes over will have a mountain to climb. For the first time since 1966 the British public goes to the polls, the results of this election will set the stage for a new decade of British democracy.

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Let me get this straight—Mountbatten lives to be 105? Wild, absolutely wild. Needless to say I can’t wait.
 
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A Very British Transition

After nearly 40 years of military rule, the First Lord is dead, the Junta has fallen, the United Kingdom faces an uncertain future. With a divided public, threats of political violence and an agitated military whoever takes over will have a mountain to climb. For the first time since 1966 the British public goes to the polls, the results of this election will set the stage for a new decade of British democracy.

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v. hyped
 
RISE and Socialist Alternative? RISE on 2.7% of the UK-wide vote, standing only in Scotland? That's got to be some crazy Scottish politics.

Can't wait to see what you've got in store next pal.
 
Will the timeline begin with the coup and work its way to the modern day, or will we be drip fed information as we read about the struggles of modern TTL Britain
Similar to the Commonwealth the TL will start in media res, on election night 2005. The coup and the Junta years will be background noise as I don't know a huge amount about 60s/70s politics and its fairly ASB. The TL will be mostly about fighting to preserve democracy and all the challenges a new democracy faces.
 
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A Very British Transition

After nearly 40 years of military rule, the First Lord is dead, the Junta has fallen, the United Kingdom faces an uncertain future. With a divided public, threats of political violence and an agitated military whoever takes over will have a mountain to climb. For the first time since 1966 the British public goes to the polls, the results of this election will set the stage for a new decade of British democracy.

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Yes yes, looking forward to this one.
 
Similar to the Commonwealth the TL will start in media res, on election night 2005. The coup and the Junta years will be background noise as I don't know a huge amount about 60s/70s politics and its fairly ASB. The TL will be mostly about fighting to preserve democracy and all the challenges a new democracy faces.
I imagine the UK will be quite different considering what the effects of a dictatorship would be - though this all depends on the severity of the dictatorship. Economically, demographically, and in terms of relations with other countries it will be interesting.

If it went bad enough then the UK might be on the receiving end of some type of TTL-EU funding
 
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