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I tried searching for similar threads but the search function was playing up for me. There probably have been threads along these lines, but I couldn't find any. Anyway, I've long-since been fascinated with Richard Nixon. He had a rather impressive rise to power, being Vice President age 40...

Thing of a POD that could get Thande permanently banned from AH.com, without venturing into ASB territory.

Let's say that in early 2009, a Cabinet coup was successful in forcing a Labour leadership election replacing Gordon Brown with David Miliband. How would this have affected the 2010 general election? Were Labour doomed to failure anyway; was a sympathy vote for Gordon Brown a factor in the...

Some feel that Thatcher's downfall in 1990 came perhaps too early (or too late). What would be the latest possible date for her resignation, with relatively acceptable PODs and nothing too ASB. Maybe, if she somehow survived November/December 1990, or the putsch never happened in the first...

Who would have been the best candidate of the Labour Cabinet to challenge Gordon Brown in replacing Tony Blair? Jack Straw said he was tempted to do so, before deciding against it and leading Brown's campaign. He talked to others, too -- Harriet Harman, David Miliband, Alan Johnson...

After watching the 2005 and 2010 Election Night broadcasts (well, clips, not the whole night/morning and in the case of 2010, afternoon), I got thinking. What's the best, most effective way of ensuring a fourth Labour government with a majority in the House of Commons, repeating the...

What is the best way of ensuring that George Wilcken Romney becomes President of the United States? He ran in 1968 as a front-runner, before acrimonious remarks about the Vietnam War made him lose ground. What if after leaving the Michigan governorship, Romney ran for the Senate in 1968, kept...

The post-war consensus of nationalising key industries, taxing the rich at progressive rates and maintaining large unions was ended in the 80s, and has since fundamentally changed politics. Nowadays, centre-left parties stand on platforms in favour (however begrudgingly) of privatisations and...

Formula One is probably the most popular form of motorsport in Europe, where a majority of its races are, with growing interest from the emerging markets, such as in Asia and the Middle East. Also, Brazil has been very successful in the sport and has a popular grand prix. However, the sport...

As we all know, Coe was a Conservative MP from 1992 until 1997, when he lost his re-election campaign. He was made a life peer in 2000 as a Tory, and later went onto chair the London 2012 bid, and now is chairman of Locog. However, what if Coe won re-election in 1997? What if the coat-tails...

Based on a similar premise but with Bruce Springsteen, make Sly a successful politician, with a POD no earlier than the Rocky and Rambo franchises. And in case you're wondering which party he is, he's a Republican.

What if Tony Blair followed his father's wishes and joined the Conservatives in 1982 and sought to reform the party to become a "socially tolerant, progressive and responsible" party with similar pro-capitalist, pro-competition policies and a low tax system? If I had the ingenuity and...

Over the course of the 20th century, Labour displaced the Liberal Party as the main opponent of the Conservatives, for various reasons. There was even a time that a Liberal parliamentary party meeting could take place in the back of a taxi! So your challenge is to keep the Tories-Liberal diarchy...

What conditions would be necessary for the Labour Party to win the 1983 general election? Who would lead the party, if not Michael Foot? Would the Falklands War have to had been averted, either through diplomacy or by it simply never occurring in the first place? How different would Labour...

How possible would this have been in 1997? Who would have had to lead the Conservative and Labour Parties, would there have been a Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition like today, and what would be the future ramifications?

What would be the consequences of a major terrorist attack in the UK? The scale of this would be an attack primarily aimed in London, but with subsidiary strikes in Manchester and Glasgow. Also, it would involve huge bombings and casualties. What difference would the result be if it was...

This is a purely hypothetical situation that will encounter many a-butterfly. Let's say that in 1998, Tony Blair had a vision of God telling him to adopt STV as the electoral system to the House of Commons. This is later implemented by 'the Parliament Act 1999'. What effects would this...

The 'what if' of this topic is what would have happened if Labour and the Liberal Democrats merged in 1995/1996, with Blair and Ashdown as leader and deputy leader respectively? The Progressive Party, as it could be called, would have scored a huge landslide against the Tories though would be...