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  1. What are the concequences of Argentina winning the Falklands War?

    I think Thatcher is most likely gone in this scenario. Her handling of the economy had already left her historically unpopular to this point, so the deaths of most likely hundreds of service men and women and national humiliation would most likely make things untenable. If she goes, the Tories...

  2. WI Ken Clarke wins in 2001

    It would be interesting to see if he maintained his public opposition to Iraq. Clarke was never one to shy away from expressing his views, so my guess would be that he still speaks against the war, but grants his MPs a free vote on the issue. That in itself might be enough to trigger a coup...

  3. WI: Denis Healey Elected Leader of the Labour Party in 1980

    Benn would probably challenge Healey for the leadership instead of the Deputy position, and he could well win and trigger an even bigger breakaway from the right of the party.. Otherwise, Labour would still have the four years of civil war that we got IOTL. Healey would be harder on the left...

  4. If the U.K. Separated church from state in the 1950s what would it mean for Northern Ireland for the rest of the 20th century?

    If you have a UK political class that is sufficiently secular to support disestabilishment, then they might also be a bit more pro-Catholic too, but I dont think the act of disestabilishment itself would change much itself. Even changing religious attitudes in the UK isn't going to have a huge...

  5. "A Very British Transition" - A Post-Junta Britain TL

    That could itself be rhetoric. I don't doubt he sees himself as a socialist, but probably more in the OTL Burnham type way than a full on Corbynista.

  6. AHC: Margaret Thatcher remembered warmly by the left-wing

    My understanding of the Whigs is that they were (relatively) socially liberal as well as economically liberal, which is something Thatcher decidedly wasn't. So either her views change to the point that she is no longer the same as OTL Thatcher, or she is a marginalised figure who is unlikely to...

  7. "A Very British Transition" - A Post-Junta Britain TL

    I mean, that basically happened IRL with the Revolutionary Communist Party.

  8. "A Very British Transition" - A Post-Junta Britain TL

    A British version of Podemos, I see.

  9. WI/AHC: A reforming Labour government in the UK in the 1980s

    Maudling was second in 1965, and is generally a pretty common AH PM. I wonder how far-fetched a return to Douglas-Home would be at this point. It's the most common starting point for Enoch Powell leadership TLs, 'If Banks had Played' perhaps being one of the best examples. Whilst I think it...

  10. WI/AHC: A reforming Labour government in the UK in the 1980s

    1979-83 was always going to be a poisoned chalice, regardless of leader. Even if the PLP votes Healey in, the hard left would still hold significant power among the membership. Benn would challenge Healey for the leadership rather than the deputy role, and he could even win. There wouldn't be as...

  11. "A Very British Transition" - A Post-Junta Britain TL

    Wow! May I ask who it was, or would that be too much of a give away for where you are standing?

  12. "A Very British Transition" - A Post-Junta Britain TL

    I'm really liking the fact Yvette Cooper is Scottish in this-minor details like that are a hallmark of a really well researched TL for me.

  13. WI Britain Went Fascist

    As has been said, it's difficult to see the UK going fascist, and you'd need some pretty dramatic PoDs to achieve it. The closest plausible thing would be Mosley never joining the BUF and rising to become a Labour (or even Tory or Liberal) Prime Minister instead. He'd be kicked out by his own...

  14. "A Very British Transition" - A Post-Junta Britain TL

    Interesting. What does that work out to in terms of vote percentages?

  15. A discussion on Football: The consequences of Lionel Messi's 7th Ballon Do'r and what if Lewandowski had won it

    This is definitely getting moved to non-pol chat.

  16. Plausibility Check: Bonapartist restoration in CP victory scenario?

    Strangely, I was just contemplating a scenario that would achieve this in a round about way. Basically, France falls to a military dictatorship after the war that brings the Orleanists back to the throne. An uprising against the regime in the 1930s triggers a civil war, which ends with a...

  17. "A Very British Transition" - A Post-Junta Britain TL

    Interesting that two candidates of the right seem to have gathered the most nominations, and that Burnham seems to be a much more fully formed politician at this point in his career. His OTL campaigns for the Labour leadership were all over the place.

  18. "A Very British Transition" - A Post-Junta Britain TL

    She was born in Inverness, but her father was a prominent trade unionist, which I think meant they moved around a lot. Obviously, he probably wouldn't have got those opportunities under the Junta, so she may have stayed put.

  19. WI: Ferguson sacked in 1990

    Interesting. I see that Wimbledon also had a vacancy a month before Villa. Would there be any possibility of Ferguson filling that? I don't see him meeting with anything like the success he had at Man U, but I do like the idea of a Ferguson led Wimbledon that usually finishes in the top third of...

  20. AHC Make the right be paternalist and the left be anti welfare

    If Thatcher is a One Nation Conservative, then the circumstances under which she became leader would not arise. And as you touch upon, New Labour was defined by it's accommodation with the consensus ushered in by Thatcher. If that consensus is more left wing than OTL, then New Labour would be as...
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