Agent Lavender: The Flight of Harold Wilson

How does Mr. Ashdown like his martinis made?

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Im glad to see that Maggie is showing some common sense. Yes, shes letting herself be bulldozed a bit, but it IS an emergency. I rather suspect the conspiracists will find the Iron Lady makes a lousy puppet.

As much as i dislike her, she had an iron will and backbone, and a very good sense of what was politically feasible, usually. None of which make for good a puppet.

Nice to see HRMs take, too.
 
Of course, Paddy Ashdown does have a twitter account nowadays - someone should probably introduce him to this :p
 

AndyC

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Also good to see:

- Sir John and Sir Michael shitting bricks over what they've done (to be fair, it's a very difficult situation that they're in)
- Sir Martin tearing Sir John a new one over the position he's put HM into.
- HM's discomfort over the situation coupled with pragmatism.

All in all, excellent update.
 
I would love for Paddy to see this, but I'd prefer that this happens once they've got it finished and placed in the Completed timeline forum just so it is easily readable for the non forum regular.
 
I would love for Paddy to see this, but I'd prefer that this happens once they've got it finished and placed in the Completed timeline forum just so it is easily readable for the non forum regular.

Meadow and I have some fun ideas about where we could take this once it is done, but we'll certainly have a formal read-through for the final version.
 
I'm thinking that in this TL punk is going to be turned up to 11, and will be breaking out any day now.

(If you'll pardon the impure and inappropriate stadium-rock reference.)

I'm really, really enjoying this and looking forward to finding out what happens.
 
I'm thinking that in this TL punk is going to be turned up to 11, and will be breaking out any day now.

(If you'll pardon the impure and inappropriate stadium-rock reference.)

I'm really, really enjoying this and looking forward to finding out what happens.

This isn't Thaxted, so impacts on the world of music are not our strong point. But there'll be plenty of pop culture background info as things become public.
 
Apparently our intrepid authors have been seized by shadowy forces operating in the bowls of the UK intelligence bureacracies.

Edit: bowels. Thanks, Geordie.
 
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Apparently our intrepid authors have been seized by shadowy forces operating in the bowls of the UK intelligence bureacracies.
I didn't realise that the UK intelligence services (including those that don't officially exist) specialised in crockery... :confused:
 
I always hate it when a TL I'm enjoying comes back to the top after ages away (*cough - still up for balls *cough*) because I know it's just someone bumping it usually.

However, when the OP himself then comes on and says "Tomorrow", then I'm actually really happy.
 
However, the primary de facto principle of the Constitution must be borne in mind and the outcome of this isn't known: "Did it work"?

As for constitutionality, the key is whether Sir Michael had been in contact with the Queen.

I think the central issue for defacto politics now is which unions strike when. If the Labour Party had been asked to form government with backbenchers, that would be a different matter. Given that Lavender has been summoned, one can reasonably assume that Soviet aligned communists in the union movement may shortly be receiving instructions, either privately or through meetings and newspapers.

yours,
Sam R.
 
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