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  1. Pierre Trudeau doesn't walk in the snow?

    On 28 February 1984, long-time Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau went for a contemplative "walk in the snow" to think about his future in office. The next day, he announced publicly his plans to stand down. John Turner succeeded him as PM in June, and then was blown out of the water by the Progressive...

  2. AHC: Oust David Cameron pre-Indy Ref

    Challenge is in the name. Remove David Cameron as Prime Minister prior to the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence (so no ‘Scotland votes yes!’, even if the referendum is backdated as originally mooted), at some point after the announcement of the coalition in 2010. There were rumblings in...

  3. AHC: Bring Down the Coalition

    In May 2010, Britain's first coalition government since the Second World War was formed between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats. Three years on from the 2015 election, and all that entailed, your challenge is to topple the coalition at some point in the 2010-2015 parliamentary term...

  4. President George Smathers in the 1960s?

    There was some speculation in 1960 - and some on these forums - about the prospect of the Kennedy team choosing Florida Senator and family friend George Smathers as running mate in 1960, instead of Lyndon Johnson. This was compounded a few years later with an alleged promise by Bobby Kennedy to...

  5. WI: Disraeli formed a minority government in 1873?

    After the failure of the Irish Universities Bill in early 1873 Gladstone offered the Queen his resignation and recommended calling Disraeli to form a government. Disraeli declined, probably wary of Derby's troublesome experience with minority governments in 1852 and 1858-59, and went on to win...

  6. Reagan/Rumsfeld and John Hinckley

    Ronald Reagan settled on George H.W. Bush as his running mate in the 1980 presidential election, but according to Reagan aide Richard Allen, Donald Rumsfeld was up there with the top choices. The only reason Bush was picked over Rumsfeld, recounted in a later telephone conversation between Allen...

  7. WI: Atlee's Labour wins in 1951?

    In October 1951, a general election was called in the UK resulting in Clement Atlee's Labour being pushed from government (despite winning more votes than the incoming Conservatives). If the reverse election result had happened, and Labour had managed to cling to power, what would be the...

  8. AHC: Topple British Party Leaders

    With a POD after the formation of the coalition government in 2010, have all three leaders of the main British political parties (Ed Miliband for Labour, David Cameron for the Conservatives and Nick Clegg for the Liberal Democrats) be removed from their position as leader within the 2010-2015...

  9. WI: The IRA kill John Major, 1991

    I had a look around some other threads with a similar theme, but I found that some of my questions were left unanswered. What would be the effect if the IRA mortar attack on Downing Street in February 1991 had been successful, killing newly-elected prime minister John Major whilst he sat in...

  10. AHC: Make British Politics more like Italian Politics

    Your challenge is to make British politics more like Italian politics, primarily: • A multiparty political system • Multiparty coalition governments • Indecisive elections (or at least, elections where the outcome is not known for many weeks) • Multiple prime ministers in a short space of...

  11. The Quiet Coup: The Fall of Gordon Brown

    THE QUIET COUP: THE FALL OF GORDON BROWN Ever since his startling decision to call off an autumn election in 2007, Gordon Brown had been stuck with the label of 'one of the most unpopular prime ministers in British history'. His previously solid reputation as Chancellor transformed...

  12. AHC: President Lloyd Bentsen

    Your challenge is to put US Senator Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX) in the White House, preferably not with a POD of "Dukakis dies during the 1988 campaign and Bentsen beats Bush". The POD must be after 1948 (when Bentsen was elected to national office for the first time). Bonus points if Bentsen...

  13. AHC: PM Vince Cable

    Your challenge is to put Vince Cable, incumbent UK Business secretary and former deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats, into Number 10 as the head of the British government. The POD must be after 1982 (when he left Labour and joined the Social Democrats).

  14. DBWI: Duncan-Smith loses the vote?

    In 2003, UK Conservative party leader Iain Duncan Smith narrowly won a vote of no confidence in his leadership. What would have been the consequences if he had lost? Would Tony Blair still win a third consecutive landslide for Labour when faced with an alternate opposition leader, perhaps...

  15. WI: Huckabee vs Obama, 2012

    Assume that former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee had done what many had expected, and launched a 2012 presidential campaign. He narrowly beats Mitt Romney in the primaries and wins the GOP nomination. Would Huckabee do better or worse than Romney when pitted against Obama? Who would he...
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