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  1. RyanF

    There Shall Be a Scottish Assembly - Yes in 1979

    *COMING SOON* *well, tomorrow* Yes, I know it was already Yes in 1979 OTL - Threshold Pased in 1979 doesn't have the same ring to it.
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    Different parties in New States of Germany

    WI: After German reunification the new states of Germany developed a distinct party system from the West? From the parties that contested the only free elections in East Germany in 1990 there are several possibilities. The CDU and SED in East Germany would almost certainly have still merged...
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    WI: Bigger Labour Victory in 1966 Election

    In 1966 for the second time in less than two years the UK went to the polls, the Labour Party under Prime Minister Harold Wilson wanted to increase their meagre 4 seat majority to something more workable. Unlike certain recent gambles of this sort it paid off for Wilson and Labour, and their...
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    WI: Third Dalton Bond film kills the franchise?

    By 1990 the Bond franchise was not in it's best shape, the previous four entries had been, and remain to this day, the lowest grossing films of the series. The last entry, Licence to Kill, still stands as the lowest grossing in the 55 year history of the franchise. Pre-production moved ahead on...
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    WI: Tony Benn Still Alive?

    Tony Benn, former MP and cabinet minister of the Labour Party died in March 2014 at the age of 88, two years after suffering a debilitating stroke that kept him in hospital for almost a year. In the almost three years since his death we have seen the ascendency of the left wing of the Labour...
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    TLIAW: You Can't Always Get What You Want
    Threadmarks: Clement Attlee

    "I would rather people wondered why I was not Prime Minister than why I was." -Denis Healey, February 2011 As a rule, Prime Ministers don’t resign in the first quarter of a year unless they have fouled up badly. Though there are those, including myself, who could not be happier with the events...
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    WI No SDP-Liberal Alliance?

    Whilst it may seem a no-brainer for the third and fourth largest parties in a two party system to work together it might it not have gone any further than an informal alliance along the lines of the Gladstone-MacDonald pact in individual seats? Might Roy Jenkins defecting to the Liberal Party...
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    Successful Labour party in Northern Ireland

    How could there be an electorally successful Labour Party in Northern Ireland in 2016? One that could appeal to both unionist and nationalist communities? Either from a home grown party, from the UK Labour Party, or from the Labour Party in the Republic? Home grown Northern Irish Labour Party...
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    Earlier green party successes in UK

    In last years UK general election the Green Party polled 1.1 million votes (3.8% of the total) but only returned 1 MP (Caroline Lucas in Brighton, now co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales) due to the FPTP electoral system. This was the greatest success a green party had ever had in...
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    WI: Labour Party negotiates UK entry to EEC

    If Labour were to have a majority after the 1970 general election one of the governments priorities was going to be to apply for EEC membership once again; how would the negotiations of differed from those that happened OTL under the Conservatives? Would the Labour Party have tried to resist...
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    WI: UK General Election 1957

    What were the chances that a general election could be called in the wake of the Suez Crisis? If Eden still steps down when he did would either Macmillan or Butler be inclined to call an election? I could see Labour under Gaitskell probably winning an election called shortly after Suez...
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    UK Trams nationalised alongside rail network

    What do people think the chances were of Britain's tram network being nationalised in the late 1940s under the Attlee government, either as part of British Rail or as a separate entity? Would this see many tram networks closed OTL instead remain open to present day or would they all still...
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    Oregon boundary dispute 'detached territory option'

    I was reading up on the boundary dispute today and discovered this image on wikipedia: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/OrBoundaryMapDetached.jpg (image too large to post) The image had the accompanying description: 'An undated map showing the detached territory option proposed...
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    Shooting Yourself in the Foot

    Shooting Yourself in the Foot The Election of 1824 In the United States presidential election fo 1824, Andrew Jackson was elected President on February 9, 1825, after the election was decided by the House of Representatives. The one-party government that had persisted in the United States...
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    Manifest Destiny in British North America?

    If Britain had managed to hold on to the Thirteen Colonies and keep the Americans relatively content, could some concept along the lines that Manifest Destiny was in the United States take hold, in the colonies or the entire empire? If so, could this concept successfully lead to great...
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    Thirteen More Minutes

    On 8/11/1939, the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch, Adolf Hitler delivered his yearly speech at the Bürgerbräukeller, while a bomb ticked away precisely to its intended detonation at 21:20. Georg Elser had worked for months on placing the bomb there, and everything went exactly to plan...
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