general election

Starting with their establishment in 1982, create a semi-plausible way in which the OMRLP wins a general election and forms a government in The United Kingdom. Also what would be the consequences of such an event? How would the party govern the UK beyond political satirism?

Britain's long and stored history with Europe is certainly a troubled one. Indeed, ever since Robert Schuman and Jean Monnet fathered the concept of a political union between European nations, based on a desire to keep peace in the continent, British scholars and commoners alike have been at...

In 1997, Labour entered the UK General Election with a 24% lead with the polls. They ended with a 13% lead in votes but a supermajority regardless. In 2017 the Conservatives entered the election with a 25% lead in the polls, but ended with only a 3% lead in votes and a minority government...

6 September 1978 10 Downing Street In his study in the confines of the townhouse, Prime Minister James 'Jim' Callaghan was crafting a carefully worded letter. Addressed to Her Majesty The Queen it was spelling out his plans to carry out both his best and worst-kept secret...

Something I'm thinking about in the context of my long inactive Frozen Spring TL, which I'm trying to revive. Basic premise is that a general election is called after Sarajevo, but before the Russians start even partial mobilisation. Broad timetable is below. For the background to the election...

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...

Lets say that Gordon Brown circa 2007 suddenly doesn't want the job and that Blair wants to stay on, perhaps a bit ASB I know, but could Blair win in 2010 against Cameron and Clegg? What form would the election take? Would we have the debates? Would we still have the same three parties at it...

...over a failed Dunkirk evacuation or whatever, what do they do afterwards? Assuming this does not change the general course of the war (Germany attacks the U.S.S.R. in 1941), would they re-enter the war at some point, a bit like what happened after the Treaty of Amiens in the early 19th...

The UK general election of 1964 was an incredibly close run affair with as Mark Bunny showing in his thread that a switch of only roughly 3,400 votes in 9 marginal constituencies would of swapped our timeline's result around giving the Conservatives rather than Labour a majority of 5 seats, or...