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    The effects of a Failed May 16th Coup?

    Something I’ve pondered for a while, but what would be the effects of a Failed May 16th Coup on both the Second Republic of Korea, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, America and Asia beyond? Now firstly, the Coup is very easy to have fail, the Americans didn’t support it (and some...
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    The causes and effects of a Cyprus Conflict in the Mid 60s?

    So in the immediate aftermath of Cyprus’s independence, in 1963 - 64 inter communal violence would flare up. In Turkey, the minority government of Ismet Inonu was currently in a coalition with the Nationalist, Republican Villagers Nation Party and under consist threat of coups decided to start...
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    What If the Korean Second Republic survived?

    The Korean Second Republic was a sad affair, a nation brought about a revolution, the brief democracy of the Second Republic would be crushed by the coup of Park Chung Hee. But what if it survived? Now the initial period would be not great, though the government of Chang Myon was beginning...
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    Korea Democratisation in the Early 80s?

    In 1979 and 1980, in reaction to the Military Dictatorship of South Korea of initially Park Chung-Hee and then after Park’s assassination, Chun Doo-hwan there were a series of protests and uprisings in Busan, Masan and infamously in 1980, the Gwangju Uprising. Whilst these uprisings were...
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    The effects of Gorbachev being Assassinated in 1990?

    I found a fascinating if weird POD for the 1990s. On Revolution Day 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev was nearly assassinated by a democracy activist called Alexander Shmonov. The plan was that Shmonov was to shoot Gorbachev with a hunting rifle, and he nearly managed to do it but a security guard jerked...
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    WI: A Mid 20s Liberal Minority Government?

    What If, instead of Ramsay Mac leading the first Labour Minority Government in 23/24 what if the Liberals managed to gain one last minority before there eventual collapse? What would be the effects of per say a brief ‘23-25’ Asquith or DLG Government reliant on Labour support? How could this...
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    WI: The 1952 Yoshida Assassination Plan Occurred?

    In 1952, a small group of militarists concocted a plan to kill then Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida due to his perceived Pro-American policy and replace him with Ichiro Hatoyama. Now given this is Pre-1955 system, it’s fair to say that we’re unlikely to see a formation of the LDP, given that...
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    No 1953 Iranian Coup/Later Coup?

    So, what would the effects be of there being no 1953 Coup or a much later Coup? An easy way you could do this is having Attlee win a Majority in 1950 as he proposed keeping an economic boycott/using agents to undermine Mohammad Mosaddegh. One undercurrent I could see is an eventual clash...
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    A More Successful Scottish Socialist Party and other related ideas?

    How could you make the Scottish Socialist Party more successful? I get the sense, have the SNP and SLP crash and burn at the same time would help, or Tommy Sheridan not getting into a tiff with News of the World and all that. Additionally I ponder, what would the impact be of groups like...
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    AHC: Have Labour and the Liberals be the two major parties of Britain Politics?

    So with a POD no earlier than 1910, how could you have the Liberals and Labour be the main two parties of British Politics? Given the fluid nature of the Conservative party over the years and the policy’s of the Liberals this maybe be hard but I don’t think it would be impossible. I guess you...
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    Fate of the Liberals With No SDP split?

    So, if there was No SDP Split (as in maybe Woy bumbles off to the Liberals but William’s, Owen and Rodgers stay put in 81’) what would be the effect on the Liberals? An important question would be if there would be any form of Modernisation of the party in the late 80s, with a Ashdown or maybe...
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    No New Labour and it’s Effects?

    The effects of Blair and New Labour have had a profound impact on Labour for both good and ill, but inspired by reading too many Late 20th century Timelines what if Blair just became a Lawyer or something and when a 96/97 election rolls around it’s someone else behind the driving wheel (take...
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    How can you make Peter Shore Labour Leader?

    Peter Shore is someone that comes up often as Alternative Labour Leaders but from what I’ve heard it’s very hard to do given his syncretic beliefs, general behaviour and generally not being as charming and popular as folks like Foot, Kinnock or Smith. But what would be a way to get Shore to...
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    The Effects of a Early 90s John Smith Government?

    So what would be the effects of a John Smith Government? I know has called him a ‘A socially Conservative Brownite Government’ but I think it would be interesting to consider what an Early 90s one could be, since Brownism is more of a Late 90s thing. I’ll do two scenarios, One is Smith coups...
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    The Effects of a Right Opposition/Bukharinist lead Soviet Union?

    So per say Stalin died in the early 1920s and Trotsky was ousted for Bonapartistism by the late 20s and we would probably get a Right Opposition/Bukharinist Soviet Union by the Early 1930s, so what would be the effects of that? I think if Economic Decentralisation/NEP was to best established...
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    A More Successful 'Spring Tide' and it's Outcomes?

    So I've discussed this with other folks before but I'm rather interested in the idea of the Irish Labour Party having an even more successful 'Spring Tide' in 1992. I have two proposals for how this could happen; 1). Fine Gael's decline get's even worse and Labour gains even more seats from...
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    How can you ensure a better 1987 election for Labour?

    In 1987 Britain went had an election and Thatcher got a majority again, but the true winner in a sense was probably Labour who had managed to avoid being outmanoeuvred by the Alliance as the main opposition and was able to showcase it could adapt to the changing times. Now of course, Labour...
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    How Can You Get A SDP style split of the Labour Left?

    How could gain a SDP style split of the Labour Left, because it seems rather hard, since it seems much of the Labour Left have an intense loyalty to Labour despite it all. But with a POD no earlier than (let's say) 1955 how could you have a SDP style split of the Labour Left? Does Gaitskell...
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    What would be the ramifications of Roy Hattersley winning the 1983 Labour Leadership Election?

    In yet another @Time Enough ponders different avenues for Labour in the 1980s, I was wondering what would be the effect of Roy Hattersley winning the 1983 Labour Leadership contest? Now the way I would do this is Kinnock still gets caught in his 1983 car crash as OTL during the campaign but...
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    Days Like These: A Late 80s Labour Timeline
    Threadmarks: Prologue

    “These are the basic Socialist values and principles – individual liberty, equality, citizenship, the diffusion of power, the importance of collective and social action…these principles may not have the satisfying certainty of Marxist analysis, nor may they constitute quite the same stirring...
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