Recent content by Agent Boot

I'm definitely getting a kingmaker-with-options vibe here too. Basildon is the headline result but Torbay and Guildford are the more interesting ones. I've often wondered how it would work if Torbay was still a 'first to declare' contender, it being far more marginal than Sunderland. There must...

Watching with interest. I'm sure I half-remember a discussion on this site a few years back about how big an effect the Rally actually had on the election result, as opposed to being an easy scapegoat after the fact due to the kind of "obvious in hindsight" narratives that tend to prevail...

I'm sorry I missed this at the time, but it is very good. The "with apologies" subtitle, combined with the female viewpoint actually threw me off the scent completely. The succession of little reveals manages to avert the usual tropes - of which I am quite guilty myself - common to this type of...

Caroline Faber (Conservative) 1964-1974 By 1964 the average Briton could be forgiven for feeling as if they’d rather had their fill of reform and of the attendant upheaval. What was desired perhaps was a return to the ‘steady-as-she-goes’ style of government by unflappable patrician. Harold...

See you've met Sam IRL, so you know I'm mostly joking when I say that. But yes you're probably right: 1-2 updates per day with a race to the finish on Friday evening/Saturday morning it is.

I felt that keeping his OTL party affiliation, but making it make sense in-timeline was a more interesting challenge. Of course, because I'm totally consistent I didn't do this for Megan Lloyd George. You weren't far off to be honest - just replace "previous" with "OTL".

OK, I make it just past 24 hours since I started, and with that I've quite clearly failed in the initial challenge. My private goal was to at least get into the 1970s, which marks the halfway point, and I'm not far off that in the current/next update. Looking at the notes I've got and the number...

Alfred Roberts (Liberal) 1964 If the Liberal revival and triumph was an unlikely eventuality, what was more unlikely still was that the disparate coalition of interests and factions had held together for so long afterward. True, the government had lost its majority in 1962, thereafter being...

I know what you mean. I now half wish I'd known about Richard Law, because he could have fitted one idea I had for the alt-1970s, so yes you're completely right about potentially stealing the thunder. Ultimately its only a bit of fun though - this isn't the kind of timeline that adheres to any...

William Douglas-Home (Liberal) 1958-1964 The 2003 American teen comedy “What A Girl Wants” received mixed reviews from critics. While most were scathing of the films formulaic structure – with a poor American girl discovering that she is the long lost daughter of an English peer, with...

It is, though that vignette is not necessarily set in this universe, if you get my meaning (basically because it stands on its own and is probably better). [HURRIEDLY REDRAFTS ALL OF PART 11] Sadly not, but now there's a figure for a dystopian vignette. His wikipedia portrait has a nice...

Randolph Churchill (Conservative minority) 1955-1958 Randolph Churchill exceeded expectations – the expectations being that he would ruin himself within a year of his father’s death. In fact it took close to twenty years, but ruin himself he most certainly did. In most everything else he was a...

Its all footnote. All of it. :) That's basically what this format is. You just don't have to keep scrolling up and down trying to remember which square-bracketed number corresponds to which bit while also losing your place (which granted is the worst thing about footnotes). I've found that...

Megan Lloyd George (Labour) 1947-1955 “She was the People’s Matron” As with so much else surrounding the life of Megan Lloyd George, the best known line of her eulogy was entirely fictional – it was written for the 2008 film The Queen’s Speech, and not as widely believed for state funeral in...

Oliver Baldwin, Viscount Corvedale (Labour) 1945-1947 “I don’t care if he fought against the Bolsheviks – he makes Tom bloody Dwiberg look wespectable!” While it is true that the outgoing Prime Minister’s view of his socialist successor was far from positive, it is also true that a further...