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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...

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...

What if, as expected, the Labour Party had won the UK election of 1992? By win, I don't necessarily mean win a majority - most contemporary expectations were for a hung Parliament with Labour holding the most seats. But what if Labour outvoted the Tories and gained at least a plurality of seats...

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...

IOTL, the 2010 GE campaign was, to a large degree, dominated by 'Cleggmania', a surge in support for the Lib Dems triggered by a strong performance by Nick Clegg in the first televised debate. Indeed, in several polls the party overtook the Conservatives to hold a slim lead around the mid-30s...

A fairly simple challenge: With a POD of May the 2nd 1997, have the Conservatives win the 2001 general election (or 2002, if Blair decides to wait until Parliament runs its course).

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...

You're starting another timeline? This isn't an interview. Are you actually going to do more than a handful of updates this time? I'm not making any promises. What's this one all about? Alternate recent history concerning Labour doing a bit better in the 2010 election. This better not...

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...

So, I'm working on a timeline about the rise of the Liberal Democrats as a major force in British Politics (More major than they were historically, at least). I'm curious as to who the politibrits much more knowledgeable than I am on the topic think would be the best leader for the Lib Dems in...

Oh dear, you're back. Yes, I'm back with another timeline. Well, it better not be as ASB as the last one. Hopefully it won't. So what's the premise for this one? Thank you for asking! For a while, this thread was floating around the top page of the forum, on what would have happened if...

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...

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...

~=+=~ Merry Christmas! And a Happy Holidays. So, this is your 'annual TLIA*'? Yep. The Kennedy one? Indeed. The one you thought may be distasteful given what's happened in the last year and month? Yeah, but I've stopped worrying about that. Okay. Doesn't look very... Kennedy to me...

What would happen if the Liberal Democrats get a larger share of the vote in 2010, and are able to negotiate from a stronger position so they get Single Transferable Vote (STV) put to a referendum rather than the OTL Alternative Vote (AV) referendum? Do the results differ at all? Is turnout higher?