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MIDCENTURY CYBERPUNK
1937-1940: Neville Chamberlain (Conservative leading National Government with Liberal Nationals and National Labour)
1940-1940: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1940 (Majority) def. Neville Chamberlain (Conservative), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), John Simon (Liberal National)
1940-1940: Herbert Morrison (Labour majority)
1940-1944: Herbert Morrison (Labour leading National Government with Conservatives, Liberal Nationals, Liberals and National Labour)
1944-1955: Herbert Morrison (Labour)
1944 (Majority) def. Anthony Eden (Conservative), Richard Acland (Common Wealth), Ernest Brown (Liberal National), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal)
1948 (Majority) def. Anthony Eden (Conservative), Ernest Brown (Liberal), Richard Acland (Common Wealth)
1950 (Majority) def. Ralph Assheton (Conservative), John Loverseed (Common Wealth), John Maclay (Liberal)
1955-1965: Richard Kidston Law (Conservative)
1955 (Majority) def. Herbert Morrison (Labour), John Loverseed (Common Wealth), John Maclay (Liberal), Aneurin Bevan (Anti-Morrison Labour)
1959 (New Model Government with Liberals and New Model Common Wealth) def. Hugh Gaitskell (Labour), Aneurin Bevan (Independent Labour / Common Wealth --- Socialist League), James Henderson-Stewart (Liberal), Harold Macmillan (Independent Conservative), E.F. Schumacher (New Model Common Wealth)
1963 (New Model Government with Liberals and National Monopoly Delegates) def. vacant (Labour), Colin Thornton-Kemsley (Liberal), Jennie Lee (Independent Labour), [Delegates from the National Monopolies]
1965-1975: Richard Kidston Law (New Model Unionist)
1965 (New Model List) def. unopposed
1970 (New Model List) def. unopposed
WW2 doesn't break out on cue and Labour win the 1940 general election, as it still appears think are about to go belly up and the National Government takes the blame. Morrison pulls his schtick and narrowly defeats Attlee in the ensuing leadership election. He goes on to lead Britain into war, which is slightly shorter thanks to greater preparedness in Western Europe and America. After the war, Morrison attempts to implement the welfare state but his prescriptions of nationalised industry which doesn't mandate internal reform and remains managerial combined with localised welfare doesn't go down very well. The wheels finally come off after his disastrous attempt to invade Egypt and restore the baby King of Egypt to the throne.
Richard Kidston Law becomes Prime Minister, at first leading a simple Conservative majority government. He privatises many of the industries nationalised by Morrison but doesn't break them up, they remain as private monopolies. He also removes national support for localised welfare. This does not go down well on the left of the party. However, his concessions to introduce a worker element in the newly privatised industries leads to a split in the hitherto united Common Wealth, and while he loses his majority in 1959, the enduring split in Labour helps him and he forms the first New Model Government with the Liberals and the amenable group of Common Wealth who look kindly on his move away from Morrisonite managerialism. By 1963, he had completed his privatisations, and introduced a corporatist element by adding a Crossbench to the Commons with the arrival of National Monopoly Delegates. Common Wealth had entirely dissolved, uniting behind Independent Labour, while the Independent Conservatives were reduced to Harold Macmillan alone. A secure majority in place with the National Monopolies, Law privatised the remaining elements of government 'responsibilities' and removed the vestiges of 'utopian democracy' to create the New Model State.
1937-1940: Neville Chamberlain (Conservative leading National Government with Liberal Nationals and National Labour)
1940-1940: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1940 (Majority) def. Neville Chamberlain (Conservative), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), John Simon (Liberal National)
1940-1940: Herbert Morrison (Labour majority)
1940-1944: Herbert Morrison (Labour leading National Government with Conservatives, Liberal Nationals, Liberals and National Labour)
1944-1955: Herbert Morrison (Labour)
1944 (Majority) def. Anthony Eden (Conservative), Richard Acland (Common Wealth), Ernest Brown (Liberal National), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal)
1948 (Majority) def. Anthony Eden (Conservative), Ernest Brown (Liberal), Richard Acland (Common Wealth)
1950 (Majority) def. Ralph Assheton (Conservative), John Loverseed (Common Wealth), John Maclay (Liberal)
1955-1965: Richard Kidston Law (Conservative)
1955 (Majority) def. Herbert Morrison (Labour), John Loverseed (Common Wealth), John Maclay (Liberal), Aneurin Bevan (Anti-Morrison Labour)
1959 (New Model Government with Liberals and New Model Common Wealth) def. Hugh Gaitskell (Labour), Aneurin Bevan (Independent Labour / Common Wealth --- Socialist League), James Henderson-Stewart (Liberal), Harold Macmillan (Independent Conservative), E.F. Schumacher (New Model Common Wealth)
1963 (New Model Government with Liberals and National Monopoly Delegates) def. vacant (Labour), Colin Thornton-Kemsley (Liberal), Jennie Lee (Independent Labour), [Delegates from the National Monopolies]
1965-1975: Richard Kidston Law (New Model Unionist)
1965 (New Model List) def. unopposed
1970 (New Model List) def. unopposed
WW2 doesn't break out on cue and Labour win the 1940 general election, as it still appears think are about to go belly up and the National Government takes the blame. Morrison pulls his schtick and narrowly defeats Attlee in the ensuing leadership election. He goes on to lead Britain into war, which is slightly shorter thanks to greater preparedness in Western Europe and America. After the war, Morrison attempts to implement the welfare state but his prescriptions of nationalised industry which doesn't mandate internal reform and remains managerial combined with localised welfare doesn't go down very well. The wheels finally come off after his disastrous attempt to invade Egypt and restore the baby King of Egypt to the throne.
Richard Kidston Law becomes Prime Minister, at first leading a simple Conservative majority government. He privatises many of the industries nationalised by Morrison but doesn't break them up, they remain as private monopolies. He also removes national support for localised welfare. This does not go down well on the left of the party. However, his concessions to introduce a worker element in the newly privatised industries leads to a split in the hitherto united Common Wealth, and while he loses his majority in 1959, the enduring split in Labour helps him and he forms the first New Model Government with the Liberals and the amenable group of Common Wealth who look kindly on his move away from Morrisonite managerialism. By 1963, he had completed his privatisations, and introduced a corporatist element by adding a Crossbench to the Commons with the arrival of National Monopoly Delegates. Common Wealth had entirely dissolved, uniting behind Independent Labour, while the Independent Conservatives were reduced to Harold Macmillan alone. A secure majority in place with the National Monopolies, Law privatised the remaining elements of government 'responsibilities' and removed the vestiges of 'utopian democracy' to create the New Model State.
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