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The New Dawn – A British Political TL Given I have bunch of free time on my hand, I've decided to do redo a TL that I had plans for last year but never actually got around to posting or writing out fully. Its going to be chiefly focused on British politics in the late 90s and the 2000s, but I...

During my first year at University one of my projects was to design a dream constitution/political system. I held onto it and over the years I was thinking about what the UK would look like with my magic constitution. The result was this TL. 1999, New Alliances President Blair's already...

Events, Dear Boy A British Political Timeline So, an idea I've had for a while, but one I'm only just finally getting around to putting into an actual timeline. The POD for this TL is that Tony Benn, instead of Denis Healey, wins the 1981 UK Labour Party deputy leadership contest. This TL...

Hague Announces New Commitment To Europe Referendum 20th May 1999: “In an announcement this week in the lead up to the European Parliament Election William Hague ,Conservative Party Leader, has announced that a Conservative Government would have a referendum on EU membership ‘within our first...

With a POD at any time after Tony Blair was elected Labour leader in 1994, how can he win a landslide similar to OTL's 418 in 1997 but then suffer a humiliating setback to somewhere around 310-330 seats, facing a strong Conservative bounce-back in 2001 (or thereabouts, I know the 2001 election...

Another "last year" thread I'm afraid. It is technically a fact that, had you subtracted the overwhelmingly likely Labour votes of those who perished so needlessly in the Grenfell fire the following week, then Labour would not have gained Kensington for the first time (the first time, I should...

Here's a suggestion. Francis Beckett (it'll be on the Guardian website somewhere) put forward the notion that, had John Smith lived and won in 1997, a 'New Tory' movement led by Michael Portillo (who wouldn't have lost his seat because Labour's majority had been more modest) would have led the...

When on January 20, 1948, longtime Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King called on the Liberal Party to hold a national convention to choose a new leader, his shadow rightfully loomed large. Hand chosen to be the next leader of the Liberal Party by former Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier...

IOTL, the Conservatives did quite well at the 2005 General Election, recovering from their harrowing results in 1997 and 2001 and winning 198 seats to position the Party on a clear springboard to challenge Labour in 2010. But what if the Conservatives did better, and won the General Election...

February 1991. In the two months since his election as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, John Major had already left his mark on the British political scene. His government had formed a coalition with the United States to defend Kuwait from Iraqi invasion, and had entered the Gulf War upon...

As said in the title, the challenge of this thread is to make a plausible scenario having the UK Conservatives win in 1929 over Labour and tank due to the Great Depression, allowing Labour to take over the government by 1931.

Preface: For chunks of 1993 and 1994, the Conservatives did fall to third in the polls, behind the Liberal Democrats. While it would be unlikely that the Conservatives would fall to third in terms of seats, a situation where they collapse down to a level where they are overtaken at around 25% of...

November, 1990. Margaret Thatcher and her Conservative government have been in power for over eleven years, presiding over the end of the post-war consensus, industry privatisation, a war in the Falklands, and battles with the trade unions, and have been mired in equal controversy for roughly...

With a PoD no earlier than 2nd May 1997, find a way for the Conservative Party in the UK to fall to third place in the House of Commons, behind Labour and the Liberal Democrats (or some other party). Please no ASB or any silliness, but you can be adventurous. A Labour/Lib Dem wank is probably...

Your challenge, should you accept it, is with a PoD after 1992, kill the UK Conservative Party. The party doesn't need to be totally destroyed but should be eliminated from ever winning government itself and displaced from the two-party system, go the way of the Liberals. How could this be...

What if Michael Portillo did not lose his seat of Enfield Southgate in the 1997 UK election? he was considered a frontrunner for the party leadership, so if he kept his seat would Portillo become leader of the Tories? If so, how would he do? The Tories had just received the worst defeat in their...