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  1. Agent Boot

    We're Alright (An Election Night Timeline)

    I'm definitely getting a kingmaker-with-options vibe here too. Basildon is the headline result but Torbay and Guildford are the more interesting ones. I've often wondered how it would work if Torbay was still a 'first to declare' contender, it being far more marginal than Sunderland. There must...
  2. Agent Boot

    We're Alright (An Election Night Timeline)

    Watching with interest. I'm sure I half-remember a discussion on this site a few years back about how big an effect the Rally actually had on the election result, as opposed to being an easy scapegoat after the fact due to the kind of "obvious in hindsight" narratives that tend to prevail...
  3. Agent Boot

    AH Vignette – 'Impossible Promises'

    I'm sorry I missed this at the time, but it is very good. The "with apologies" subtitle, combined with the female viewpoint actually threw me off the scent completely. The succession of little reveals manages to avert the usual tropes - of which I am quite guilty myself - common to this type of...
  4. Agent Boot

    TLIAD: Thicker Than Water

    Caroline Faber (Conservative) 1964-1974 By 1964 the average Briton could be forgiven for feeling as if they’d rather had their fill of reform and of the attendant upheaval. What was desired perhaps was a return to the ‘steady-as-she-goes’ style of government by unflappable patrician. Harold...
  5. Agent Boot

    TLIAD: Thicker Than Water

    See you've met Sam IRL, so you know I'm mostly joking when I say that. But yes you're probably right: 1-2 updates per day with a race to the finish on Friday evening/Saturday morning it is.
  6. Agent Boot

    TLIAD: Thicker Than Water

    I felt that keeping his OTL party affiliation, but making it make sense in-timeline was a more interesting challenge. Of course, because I'm totally consistent I didn't do this for Megan Lloyd George. You weren't far off to be honest - just replace "previous" with "OTL".
  7. Agent Boot

    TLIAD: Thicker Than Water

    OK, I make it just past 24 hours since I started, and with that I've quite clearly failed in the initial challenge. My private goal was to at least get into the 1970s, which marks the halfway point, and I'm not far off that in the current/next update. Looking at the notes I've got and the number...
  8. Agent Boot

    TLIAD: Thicker Than Water

    Alfred Roberts (Liberal) 1964 If the Liberal revival and triumph was an unlikely eventuality, what was more unlikely still was that the disparate coalition of interests and factions had held together for so long afterward. True, the government had lost its majority in 1962, thereafter being...
  9. Agent Boot

    TLIAD: Thicker Than Water

    I know what you mean. I now half wish I'd known about Richard Law, because he could have fitted one idea I had for the alt-1970s, so yes you're completely right about potentially stealing the thunder. Ultimately its only a bit of fun though - this isn't the kind of timeline that adheres to any...
  10. Agent Boot

    TLIAD: Thicker Than Water

    William Douglas-Home (Liberal) 1958-1964 The 2003 American teen comedy “What A Girl Wants” received mixed reviews from critics. While most were scathing of the films formulaic structure – with a poor American girl discovering that she is the long lost daughter of an English peer, with...
  11. Agent Boot

    TLIAD: Thicker Than Water

    It is, though that vignette is not necessarily set in this universe, if you get my meaning (basically because it stands on its own and is probably better). [HURRIEDLY REDRAFTS ALL OF PART 11] Sadly not, but now there's a figure for a dystopian vignette. His wikipedia portrait has a nice...
  12. Agent Boot

    TLIAD: Thicker Than Water

    Randolph Churchill (Conservative minority) 1955-1958 Randolph Churchill exceeded expectations – the expectations being that he would ruin himself within a year of his father’s death. In fact it took close to twenty years, but ruin himself he most certainly did. In most everything else he was a...
  13. Agent Boot

    TLIAD: Thicker Than Water

    Its all footnote. All of it. :) That's basically what this format is. You just don't have to keep scrolling up and down trying to remember which square-bracketed number corresponds to which bit while also losing your place (which granted is the worst thing about footnotes). I've found that...
  14. Agent Boot

    TLIAD: Thicker Than Water

    Megan Lloyd George (Labour) 1947-1955 “She was the People’s Matron” As with so much else surrounding the life of Megan Lloyd George, the best known line of her eulogy was entirely fictional – it was written for the 2008 film The Queen’s Speech, and not as widely believed for state funeral in...
  15. Agent Boot

    TLIAD: Thicker Than Water

    Oliver Baldwin, Viscount Corvedale (Labour) 1945-1947 “I don’t care if he fought against the Bolsheviks – he makes Tom bloody Dwiberg look wespectable!” While it is true that the outgoing Prime Minister’s view of his socialist successor was far from positive, it is also true that a further...
  16. Agent Boot

    TLIAD: Thicker Than Water

    Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Viscount Cranborne (Conservative leading Wartime Coalition) 1941-1945 “A day that will live in infamy” was how President Franklin Roosevelt referred to the destruction of the Houses of Parliament and the death of much of Britain’s political leadership. At this time...
  17. Agent Boot

    TLIAD: Thicker Than Water

    Winston Churchill (Conservative leading Wartime Coalition) 1940-1941 Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a man whose political career saw many incarnations through the first four decades of the Twentieth century. From South Africa war journalist turned Conservative MP, to Asquithian Liberal...
  18. Agent Boot

    TLIAD: Thicker Than Water

    Oh yeah? You know, I honestly can’t remember if its bold for internal voice or not… Look never mind that, what year do you think this is? What? Its 2016 m9. And everyone knows that what year it is determines precisely what can and can’t happen. Well obviously, it’s the twenty first century...
  19. Agent Boot

    TLIAW - The Second Protectorate: Life in George Galloway's Britain

    I like this a lot. An interesting use of an unreliable narrator, particularly given the two additional (perhaps equally unreliable) narrators permanently looking over her shoulder. Is Ruth going to stumble upon what actually happened, albeit half by accident? I like the "lost history" theme too...
  20. Agent Boot

    Earlier green party successes in UK

    By-elections are pretty much the life blood of minor parties. The Liberals, the SNP, and Plaid Cymru can all chart their modern successes from the profile of 'against the odds' by-election wins - I'm respectively thinking Orpington '62, Hamilton '68, and Carmarthen '67 in particular. The SDP...
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