Recent content by Charles James Fox

This is nonsensical, Indian independence in 1935 would require an earlier POD, which of course is going to change a great deal. It’s not like Stanley Baldwin can wake up one day in 1935 and go ‘I know, let’s give India independence.’ I suspect the men in the grey suits would be around sharpish...

Near impossible short of something like a global nuclear war, no point speculating otherwise.

Heseltine as PM would have some interesting consequences: no poll tax but major local government reform (unitarisation, directly elected mayors), earlier membership of ERM in 1985/6, a beefed up Department of Trade and Industry, a more tolerant attitude on race. Europe would not be a serious...

This assumes that parties are passive victims of events and can't influence and take advantage of them. You only have to look at the recent history of the British Conservative party in power since 2010 to see how they have built a new coalition, or how the party recovered post-Suez under...

This seems overly optimistic. Labour only narrowly won the 1964 election with a majority of 4 seats. It's quite possible that Gaitskell performs even worse than the telegenic northern grammar school boy Wilson (the claims of a 'Etonian Magic Circle' installing Home as PM would have less salience...

Whitelaw would be the obvious frontrunner, but Jim Prior, Michael Heseltine, or if Peter Carrington disclaims his peerage are others.

Leicester winning the Premier League at 5000-1 odds.

Agree that Maudling and Whitelaw are far more likely prospects for Tory leader than Powell and were being actively discussed as such in the run-up to the 1970 election if I call Ziegler's Heath correctly. Callaghan if healthy is probably the most likely successor to Wilson (although he had...

There is some truth to this and without the Second World War the UK's welfare state and health service may look very different, but there were strong pressures for healthcare reform before the war. The voluntary hospitals were going bankrupt so the government was going to take more control...

Wouldn't Gephardt be the natural frontrunner if Dukakis drops out? Gore ran well to the right in '88 and Gephardt is probably closer to the mainstream of the party and has union support. IOTL he won Iowa and came a close second in New Hampshire.

List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom 1945 - 1951: Herbert Morrison (Labour) 1945: Winston Churchill (Conservative), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal) 1951 - 1955: Winston Churchill (Conservative) 1951: Herbert Morrison (Labour), Clement Davies (Liberal) 1955 - 1959: Anthony Eden...

With all of Ireland in revolt the UK is in no position to enforce this, an attempt would lead to civil war and unification. And would lead to liberal outrage at home.

Thatcher should have left office earlier than she did, by the time of the 1987 election most of the successful parts of her agenda were in motion and the less successful parts starting to cause trouble (social policy, poll tax, Europe). An earlier alternative would be Thatcher coming to power...

February 2019 reshuffle Prime Minister: Boris Johnson Chancellor of the Exchequer: Sajid Javid Foreign and International Development Secretary: Dominic Raab Home Secretary: Priti Patel Defence Secretary: Ben Wallace BEIS: Rishi Sunak DHSC: Matt Hancock DFE: Gavin Williamson MHCLG: Robert...

Yep you're right sorry having a brain fade.