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  1. A Better Britain: POD 1944

    Alright guys, this is my first timeline. I have a rough outline for what I'd like to do, but I'd like feedback, both on the concept and on what I have so far. POD: 1944. Tories realize that the coalition isn't going to continue after the war, and start working on an actual alternative domestic...
  2. Ico

    A British Tale of Two Parties.

    Introduced For nearly two decades now the British political parties system has been dominance by an long rivalry between the Conservative party (also known as the Tory party), and the Liberal Democrats (formally known as the Liberal Party), it's has been a long hard fought battle between...
  3. WI - Liberals come ahead of Labour in 1931

    The 1931 general election is remembered as having produced the largest majority in British history for Ramsay MacDonald's National Government, while Stanley Baldwin and the Tories won the largest number of seats ever won by a single party at 470. However, an interesting titbit of the election...
  4. Neocons in a longer Cold War

    So assuming the CW lasts longer and the WP has managed to stay a somewhat credible enemy to NATO: A similiar set of people to OTLs Bush Adminstration gets into power in the early 2000s. Not trying to venture into chat territory but I guess most members would agree, that the foreign policy of...
  5. Canada: A Political Landscape Changed Forever
    Threadmarks: Update #1: 2014 Parliament Hill Attacks//Poll

    Terrorist attacks in major cities had grown dramatically with examples such as 9/11, the 7/7 attacks and the Madrid train bombing. It was something that was tragically becoming all too common. Something that all security experts could agree on was that Canada was by far not immune to a terrorist...
  6. It's DD For Me - a British Politics Timeline
    Threadmarks: Chapter I: The 2005 Conservative Leadership Election and the 2007 General Election

    On May the 5th 2005, the electorate of the United Kingdom went to the polls to determine who would represent them in the oncoming Parliament and, as a result, who would form the next British Government. The result would prove to be a mixed result for all three major parties – tarnished by the...
  7. TLIAF: It's a Two Horse Race
    Threadmarks: Part I: Stanley Baldwin (1923 - 1924) and Ramsay MacDonald (1924)

    Stanley Baldwin Conservative 1923 – 1924 In May 1923, British Prime Minister Andrew Bonar Law found himself having to resign from office, as a result of a diagnosis of terminal cancer which would lead to his death in October. This left King George V with the task of appointing his successor...
  8. Chapman

    AHC: President John Ashbrook

    John M. Ashbrook was a Republican Congressman from Ohio, noted for his extreme conservative views. He was the only Ohioan to vote against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and later ran against President Richard Nixon in the 1972 Republican Primaries, claiming that Nixon was too liberal. He won no...
  9. WI: Churchill never defects to the Liberals

    Winston Churchill first entered Parliament in 1900, being elected as Member of Parliament for Oldham as a Conservative. However, in 1904, Churchill defected from the Conservatives to the Liberals, due to disagreements with Joseph Chamberlain's proposals for tariffs which were being accepted by...
  10. WI Horthy-ist putsch in 1956

    So what if the revolution of 1956 in Hungary would have been actually a well-outplanned coup of the Hungarian conservative forces backed by Spain and Portugal? How could things play out? Is there any chance to the coup succeding? If yes, what could be the further consquences? PLease tell me what...
  11. Chapman

    Liberal Response to Stagflation?

    In the 1970s and early 1980s, the US economy slowed largely due to what has been called "stagflation", a combination of high unemployment and high inflation. IOTL, Ronald Reagan and Conservatives at large responded to this with Supply-Side economics, and despite the criticisms of "Reaganomics"...
  12. The Bell Tolls For Thee, Britain

    The Conservative government were enduring a tough start to 1993. John Major's signing of the Maastricht Treaty, and the subsequent formation of the European Union the previous year had attracted the ire of Tory Eurosceptics such as Iain Duncan Smith, who began an attempt to block the passing of...
  13. Nightingale

    WI: FDR is not afraid to deficit spend early on

    Many say the had FDR not cut back on spending, the 1937 recession won't happen and there won't be any resurgence of the Conservative Coalition in 1938, even with the court-packing bonanza, and so, the New Deal Coalition would be even more dominant in such a scenario. Some even say that had that...
  14. No Apology: A History of the Romney Administration

    -------------------------------- All credits for the title go to @SargentHawk. Update coming soon...
  15. DBAHC: Make the Labour party primary opposition to the Tories

    Yesterday, Britons voted in an election which elected the Conservative party and took out PM Clegg, with the Labour party loses 30 seats This made me wonder, how could the Labour Party be the primary opposition to the Conservatives?
  16. Canadian Politics TL -- Professor Layton and the Confederation Conundrum

    I've had various ideas that I've wanted to incorporate into a Canadian politics TL for a very long time, but I could never put together a solid enough underlying concept to transubstantiate these threads into reality. The goal of this TL should be quite obvious from the title, and my political...
  17. DBWI: Conservative Republicans, Liberal Democrats

    Make the GOP the party of traditional marriage and low taxes, and the Democrats the party of Abortionists and regulation
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