My knowledge of internal party politics from the 1950s-1970s is limited but I would guess your choices are:
James Callaghan (enough said)
Anthony Crosland (leader of the right wing faction, ambitious, intellectual heavyweight but possibly not popular enough within the party)
Roy Jenkins (this...
Finally caught up with the thread, I've been reading it over the last two days.
Just wanted to chime in to say how much I'm enjoying the TL. It's very fun. Readable without being too dramatic, factual and informed without being too technical. Just a great, relaxing weekend read. Thank you for...
Another really great update!
A continuing cold war is going to have all kinds of butterflies...I get the sense it'll all end in tears.
Sorry for harping on about Scotland but the implications of the timeline you've written are really interesting. Looks like Labour's got 35 seats in Scotland...
Re: the Libs. Ah, fair enough that's the sort of thing that can be hard to pick up between the lines in a timeline but once explained makes absolute sense and is a great addition to the story.
Re: a sovereign wealth fund: I think it's a mixture of both reasons. Maybe more so the short termist...
Interesting to see a Scottish Parliament coming in 14 years early! Are they using First Past the Post? No Libs elected in Scotland? I would have thought they'd do quite well. I've always thought one of the main reasons we don't have a British Sovereign Wealth fund from oil is because it would...
I put together the following to try and understand the post-war environment in the first few years after the war. It's very low effort, someone with more patience than me could put something together very quickly (using a basemap thats not from 2016).
If I was the USA, I'd be pretty worried...
The end of the war at last!
I wonder how the casualty ratios compare to our TL? Although the war was fought over three years rather than six and in only one theatre, I suppose the nature of the fighting, hard slogging over Belgium, will mean the British and French are much the same as OTL...
I've been following this thread as I've always been fascinated by this idea, if if it's completely ASB.
Others might find this timeline interesting, back from when folk used acronyms like TLIAD or TLIAW. It's from an age of the forum where folk made a lot more 'comtent', with less threads...