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Kaiser Julius - Prequel to the Federation
Prequel to the Federation
Just the rough early back story to a novel I'm working on set in the Imperial Federation in the 1930's.
Benjamin Disraeli+: 1874-81 (Conservative) [1]
Stafford Northcote+: 1881-1886 (Conservative)
Spencer Cavendish: 1886-1890 (Liberal with Cecil Conservative Support) [2]
Archibald Primrose: 1890-91 (Emergency Government) [3]
Randolph Churchill: 1891-1895 (Democrat) [4]
Joseph Chamberlain: 1895-1906 (Democrat)
[1] Disraeli winning in 1880 due to Gladstone suddenly falling ill from pneumonia this making him unable to run the Midlothian is the POD. Of course Disraeli later dies the following year. Northcote takes over but is involved in a power struggle with Lord Salisbury that dogs his leadership. As a side-note the First Boer War goes on for longer under the Tories with Gen. Gordon eventually winning the war.
[2] Northcote dies in 1886 as OTL...right in the middle of a General Election. The Conservative party ruptures between Salisbury's supporters and those of one Randolph Churchill. Cecil agrees to form a government under the Liberal leader Lord Hartington while Churchill and the supporters of his "Fourth Party" form the reformist Tory Democracy party (later shortened to the Democracy/Democrat Party).
[3] Hartington is already having personal problems due to the death of his brother in Phoenix Park which is only exacerbated by the stress of being Prime Minister. So the Piggot Letters in 1888 push him over the edge and he orders Charles Parnell arrested. His death in prison only worsens the Irish bombing campaign leading to Hartington introducing harsher measures (eventually ruling exclusively through the House of Lords) supported by the reactionary Salisbury. The tipping point comes when he threatens outright war with Portugal over the OTL 1890 British Ultimatum leading to a parliamentary coup by Lord Primrose who declares an emergency government.
[4] Rosebury gains credit for making peace with Portugal with Nyasaland going to Portugal, but a clear border being defined. With the dust settling he then declares a general election in 1891. Churchill's Democrats were the first party to rise from the political ashes and beats the remnants of the Conservative Party with Rosebury becoming the Democrat leader in the Lords. He works out a peace deal for Irish Home Rule leaving Ulster in the UK while the rest was given self-dominion. He also declared war on France (in Sudan) and Russia (in a militarized Afghanistan) after both got involved in Ethiopia against Italy in 1893 and later Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1894. He still died of a brain tumor in 1895 as OTL so Chamberlain takes the credit as the war hero. It is also Chamberlain who re-organises the Empire into the Imperial Federation
Just the rough early back story to a novel I'm working on set in the Imperial Federation in the 1930's.
Benjamin Disraeli+: 1874-81 (Conservative) [1]
Stafford Northcote+: 1881-1886 (Conservative)
Spencer Cavendish: 1886-1890 (Liberal with Cecil Conservative Support) [2]
Archibald Primrose: 1890-91 (Emergency Government) [3]
Randolph Churchill: 1891-1895 (Democrat) [4]
Joseph Chamberlain: 1895-1906 (Democrat)
[1] Disraeli winning in 1880 due to Gladstone suddenly falling ill from pneumonia this making him unable to run the Midlothian is the POD. Of course Disraeli later dies the following year. Northcote takes over but is involved in a power struggle with Lord Salisbury that dogs his leadership. As a side-note the First Boer War goes on for longer under the Tories with Gen. Gordon eventually winning the war.
[2] Northcote dies in 1886 as OTL...right in the middle of a General Election. The Conservative party ruptures between Salisbury's supporters and those of one Randolph Churchill. Cecil agrees to form a government under the Liberal leader Lord Hartington while Churchill and the supporters of his "Fourth Party" form the reformist Tory Democracy party (later shortened to the Democracy/Democrat Party).
[3] Hartington is already having personal problems due to the death of his brother in Phoenix Park which is only exacerbated by the stress of being Prime Minister. So the Piggot Letters in 1888 push him over the edge and he orders Charles Parnell arrested. His death in prison only worsens the Irish bombing campaign leading to Hartington introducing harsher measures (eventually ruling exclusively through the House of Lords) supported by the reactionary Salisbury. The tipping point comes when he threatens outright war with Portugal over the OTL 1890 British Ultimatum leading to a parliamentary coup by Lord Primrose who declares an emergency government.
[4] Rosebury gains credit for making peace with Portugal with Nyasaland going to Portugal, but a clear border being defined. With the dust settling he then declares a general election in 1891. Churchill's Democrats were the first party to rise from the political ashes and beats the remnants of the Conservative Party with Rosebury becoming the Democrat leader in the Lords. He works out a peace deal for Irish Home Rule leaving Ulster in the UK while the rest was given self-dominion. He also declared war on France (in Sudan) and Russia (in a militarized Afghanistan) after both got involved in Ethiopia against Italy in 1893 and later Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1894. He still died of a brain tumor in 1895 as OTL so Chamberlain takes the credit as the war hero. It is also Chamberlain who re-organises the Empire into the Imperial Federation
- Kaiser Julius
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