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It has a list but it's not a full list. It just says "countless towns and villages have also been destroyed". The problem with that is, for instance, that Aldershot is a small town which doubles as the HQ of the British Army yet it's not on the list (indeed, I don't think any army bases...

Maps I'm trying to put material together so I can try developing a game based on the P&S universe and set in the UK where the player takes the role of a regional commissioner (don't get your hopes up about playing the game - I really am in the very earliest stages and it may go nowhere)...

That's fair enough though it's worth remembering that a lot of people joined the youth wing of the Liberals because it was a way to talk about left wing ideas without the communist label being thrown at them. Also, while it's believable that the Liberal MPs are still in a state of shock, I...

Loving the updates though, to be honest, I can't believe the Liberals are still in the government. The erosion of civil liberties under Mountbatten would be far, far too much for the majority of the Liberal party to stomach (in fact the youth wing, in particular, was very left wing around...

To answer the OP - no. Roman society was so male dominated and misogynistic that there is no way you could have female legionaries without the culture changing so much it arguably would not be Roman any more. That being said, I want to call out some bullshit in this thread about women being...

When you put it like that it does seem rather plausible that Ashdown would behave as he does in the update - objection withdrawn lol But with the name change I'm still not convinced. Mainly because the Lib Dems would have had that name before Zhirinovsky started his party (ditto for the likes...

Oh, one thing I forgot to mention is that the lib den constitution has a "triple lock" clause which requires the parliamentary party, the membership elected federal executive and a special conference all to agree to a coalition or confidence and supply deal before it can go ahead.

No problem :) But if you don't mind I'd like to quickly suggest some things I find a bit implausible about the last update plus one small error - sorry! The first is that the official name of the Liberal Democrats is the Liberal Democrats - not the Liberal Democratic Party and UK media...

Well I'm pretty involved with UK politics in my spare time (I'm a minor aparatchik in one of the big three parties) and I'm also fairly familiar with EU politics so if you just drop me a message I'd be happy to help give you some advice/info on the subject. If you're dead set on Labour's time...

The problem is that there aren't 5% of voters to Cameron's right - and those there are simply aren't numerous enough to make up for the centrist voters who'd be lost. But on the other hand, Labour remaining in power for more than four terms maximum would be impossible as well. I think you might...

That butterfly is pretty much guaranteed. A lot of eastern bloc countries will find it difficult to meet the economic/democratic requirements for joining the EU thanks to the destabilising actions of the UIS before we even get to political reasons why they might not want to join. I expect...

The problem is that the Tories shorn of the moderates simply can't get enough votes to be in power. David Cameron OTL took the Tories a massive step towards more moderate voters and he still couldn't get a majority. I also tend to think that a UK which is a member of the euro and the schengen...

Brilliant, and frightening, TL. Regarding the question of the European Union (which was raised a while back) my gut instinct would be that it exists - perhaps even a bit more integrated than OTL. Don't forget, the Euro was originally planned in the 1992 Maastricht Treaty which also...

The best time for this to happen would be immediately post WW2 - and if it did happen then you could expect to see places like Malta (which overwhelmingly supported becoming part of the UK at the time) joining as well. This would I think, have a chance of causing enough momentum that all the...

While that's true, the UK still had literally millions of empire troops to fall back on. Yes a lot of them were tied up overseas but there were plenty that could have been brought to Europe - the all-volunteer Indian army alone was 2.5 million strong and the third largest allied contingent in...

Of course, Paddy Ashdown does have a twitter account nowadays - someone should probably introduce him to this :p

On the plus side, I predict big gains for my beloved Liberal party :) (Was the "red guard" in charge of the Young Liberals at this point?) EDIT: Just did a quick bit of research, looks like the Liberals were right in the middle of their community politics era which was to bring them massive...

Even under the circumstances I severely doubt many Labour MPs would defect to the tories. And given that the Liberals have just 13 MPs, I suspect a more likely option would be a much earlier version of the SDP - a patriotic centre left party of sorts founded by Labour defectors...

Blimey. I'm not sure I'm liking this coup very much. Especially as I suspect that no one has sought the official approval of the sovereign before unilaterally changing the government.

If you want to look at ways to make a Sea Lion possible then your best bet is a POD at some point earlier that year. For example, a failure of the Dunkirk evacuation or the Germans successfully seizing the French navy. But without any POD prior to the invasion itself then there does seem to be a...