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Uhura's Mazda - Oh, Brother, Wher - Oh, You're In Downing Street. Fair.
I suspect I've done something like this before.
Oh, Brother, Wher - Oh, You're In Downing Street. Fair.
1940-1945: John Spencer-Churchill (Conservative)
1945-1951: Tom Attlee (Labour)
1951-1957: In Commission
1957-1963: Arthur Macmillan (Conservative)
1963-1964: William Douglas-Home (Liberal)
1964-1970: In Commission
1970-1974: John Heath (Conservative)
1974-1976: In Commission
1976-1979: Dorothy Callaghan (Labour)
1979-1990: Muriel Cullen (Conservative)
1990-1997: Terry Major-Ball (Labour)
1997-2007: William Blair (Conservative)
2007-2010: Andrew Brown (Labour)
2010-2016: Alexander Cameron (Conservative)
2016-0000: In Commission
The Second World War, naturally, left deep scars in Europe. British Prime Minister Spencer-Churchill, whose brother Field Marshal Churchill was in overall command of the Western Front, had won the War against the Nazis (along with the Soviet Union) but he had not won the war at home, where the Labour MPs who had not joined the National Government kept up their barrage of complaints about the admittedly parlous state of the home front. In the 1945 general election, where the Tories expected to be returned, it was in fact Attlee's team of conscientious objectors who were given a majority, and they set about building a Socialist Jerusalem on England's green and pleasant land.
This project naturally worried the Isolationist Americans, and more pertinently the British Establishment, so in the wake of rumours of Communist infiltration of the Government (later revealed to be true when some of the French OrgEspi files were declassified in 2014), Field Marshal Churchill removed Tom Attlee from the reins of power and dissolved Parliament. For the next few years, a Collective Cabinet of Conservative and Military figures, chaired by the King, rolled back the Leftist innovations and upheld the only non-Socialist state in Europe. In 1957, it was judged that democracy could be re-extended, and old-school administrator Arthur Macmillan won the first election handily. Labour was not permitted to engage in the elections, however, meaning that the Opposition consisted of the moribund Liberal Party. And in the second election six years later, the Liberals won - mostly because Labour voters had no alternative better than the Liberals. Douglas-Home was from the left wing of the Party and had been a strenuous critic of the Second World War, so obviously when he started to implement a programme of employment reforms that were unacceptable to the Establishment, he had to do very little to alienate them completely. Democracy was once more suspended - and remained so until 1976, apart from a brief period when the Socialist insurgency died down a little in the early '70s due to most of the ringleaders having... yeah, died down.
The handover to Labour in 1976 was historic, not only as membership of Labour had been a capital offence only three months before, but also because Dorothy Callaghan was the first woman to become Prime Minister. She was replaced by another woman at the ballot box in 1979, but this one was a Conservative, and returned to the old hands-off approach to economic planning. 20,000 people died in the cold Winter of 1984. And Britain was still a nation alone in Europe, the forward bulwark of Freedom.
For the next couple of decades, democratic transitions became the norm, with Labour and Conservative Prime Ministers being permitted to rule the country with only limited input from the Armed Forces and the Queen. But in 2016, a significant and vocal minority of Labourites and Communists made themselves heard so loudly that the ordinarily sober Prime Minister Cameron called a Referendum on entering the Union of European Socialist Republics. And on voting day, the disaffected White Working Class made their voice heard: 52% voted to join the EUSR.
Of course, the result of this referendum (dubbed 'Brentry' by the EUSR Propburo) could not be conceived of, let alone implemented. It was just too complex. So the Queen, as is her right, dissolved Parliament - since July, Cabinet meetings have been chaired by Her Majesty herself, and all active Brentryists are placed under strict house arrest for the safety of the general populace. God Save the Queen!
Oh, Brother, Wher - Oh, You're In Downing Street. Fair.
1940-1945: John Spencer-Churchill (Conservative)
1945-1951: Tom Attlee (Labour)
1951-1957: In Commission
1957-1963: Arthur Macmillan (Conservative)
1963-1964: William Douglas-Home (Liberal)
1964-1970: In Commission
1970-1974: John Heath (Conservative)
1974-1976: In Commission
1976-1979: Dorothy Callaghan (Labour)
1979-1990: Muriel Cullen (Conservative)
1990-1997: Terry Major-Ball (Labour)
1997-2007: William Blair (Conservative)
2007-2010: Andrew Brown (Labour)
2010-2016: Alexander Cameron (Conservative)
2016-0000: In Commission
The Second World War, naturally, left deep scars in Europe. British Prime Minister Spencer-Churchill, whose brother Field Marshal Churchill was in overall command of the Western Front, had won the War against the Nazis (along with the Soviet Union) but he had not won the war at home, where the Labour MPs who had not joined the National Government kept up their barrage of complaints about the admittedly parlous state of the home front. In the 1945 general election, where the Tories expected to be returned, it was in fact Attlee's team of conscientious objectors who were given a majority, and they set about building a Socialist Jerusalem on England's green and pleasant land.
This project naturally worried the Isolationist Americans, and more pertinently the British Establishment, so in the wake of rumours of Communist infiltration of the Government (later revealed to be true when some of the French OrgEspi files were declassified in 2014), Field Marshal Churchill removed Tom Attlee from the reins of power and dissolved Parliament. For the next few years, a Collective Cabinet of Conservative and Military figures, chaired by the King, rolled back the Leftist innovations and upheld the only non-Socialist state in Europe. In 1957, it was judged that democracy could be re-extended, and old-school administrator Arthur Macmillan won the first election handily. Labour was not permitted to engage in the elections, however, meaning that the Opposition consisted of the moribund Liberal Party. And in the second election six years later, the Liberals won - mostly because Labour voters had no alternative better than the Liberals. Douglas-Home was from the left wing of the Party and had been a strenuous critic of the Second World War, so obviously when he started to implement a programme of employment reforms that were unacceptable to the Establishment, he had to do very little to alienate them completely. Democracy was once more suspended - and remained so until 1976, apart from a brief period when the Socialist insurgency died down a little in the early '70s due to most of the ringleaders having... yeah, died down.
The handover to Labour in 1976 was historic, not only as membership of Labour had been a capital offence only three months before, but also because Dorothy Callaghan was the first woman to become Prime Minister. She was replaced by another woman at the ballot box in 1979, but this one was a Conservative, and returned to the old hands-off approach to economic planning. 20,000 people died in the cold Winter of 1984. And Britain was still a nation alone in Europe, the forward bulwark of Freedom.
For the next couple of decades, democratic transitions became the norm, with Labour and Conservative Prime Ministers being permitted to rule the country with only limited input from the Armed Forces and the Queen. But in 2016, a significant and vocal minority of Labourites and Communists made themselves heard so loudly that the ordinarily sober Prime Minister Cameron called a Referendum on entering the Union of European Socialist Republics. And on voting day, the disaffected White Working Class made their voice heard: 52% voted to join the EUSR.
Of course, the result of this referendum (dubbed 'Brentry' by the EUSR Propburo) could not be conceived of, let alone implemented. It was just too complex. So the Queen, as is her right, dissolved Parliament - since July, Cabinet meetings have been chaired by Her Majesty herself, and all active Brentryists are placed under strict house arrest for the safety of the general populace. God Save the Queen!
- Uhura's Mazda
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