Recent content by NCW8

So even Roland Rat wasn’t able to save TV-AM. Or is it the lack of Roland and his friends which led to the downfall of the station?

From the trailers, it looks like the story involves the ship rising from the sea and going on a rampage, destroying every iceberg that it comes across.

The new Rocky XXIII movie. I’ve heard there’s a twist ending.

Even better - give them a travel card. That way you can repatriate the same person several times a week and the stats will look really good.

He’s actually quite good. Similar in style to some of Lenny Henry’s sketch comedy. As far as the Anglosphere was concerned, the migration was in the other direction. See the Ten Pound Poms for example.

Oh, dear. Germany expelling an “unwanted” minority - I wonder why they didn’t do that? To go back to the British case, by the Seventies these guest workers will have been living there for twenty years or more and have children born there. By that time Britain was their home. As Lenny Henry put...

Yeah, that German guest worker program has certainly prevented the development of a multicultural society. As @Ingsoc says, those guest workers are going to settle down in Britain, marry, have children and lead to pretty much the same situation as if the British Nationality Act had been passed.

There were already refugees in Britain from WWII, not all of whom would be inclined to return home, so there’s going to be some immigration anyway. Without immigration from the Commonwealth another group, such as the Poles, could be faced with prejudice. The British Nationality Act wasn’t...

Yeah - who on Earth would do a story featuring singing Daleks. OK, apart from Rob Shearman, who would do a story about singing Daleks.

Another question is what happens to Eurovision? The success of ABBA with Waterloo breathed new life into the song contest that was, by that time, becoming staid and boring. Without ABBA would the contest have survived to the present day ?

"The first British mainframe, known as the Electronic Brain of Great Britain, was developed for the British Government during the Sixties. Similar computers were purchased, not just by the Government, but also by Industry and the Banks. Soon everyone had the EB-GBs"

Great update! I don't think I'd have come through my awkward teenage years quite so soon. I still haven't developed into a network of trade unions.

Interesting, but the real question is why the rest of the party would go along with the idea ITTL.

I'm not sure why a renaming was necessary - it doesn't sound a very conservative thin to do. Oh No ! Think of all the poor programmers that have to write banking and accounting software using £sd !

So, David Nixon for Prime Minister ? I'm really loving this TL, by the way.