Can I assume everything is a bit to the right of OTL?Please feel free the butterflies are screaming at me already...
Can I assume everything is a bit to the right of OTL?Please feel free the butterflies are screaming at me already...
Well if we have Christian Democrats then I suppose we are going with more "European" naming. The Radicals in France were originally Liberals (classical variety) and split into the Socialist aligned Movement Radical Gauche and the main faction that became centre right, (not counting all the other little groupings). Bits of the Radical party eventually ended up in the UDF to support Giscard (thus moving to the centre again), others ended up going Gaullist (on the right) As for the SNP they are centre left now OTL, but have not always been and used to be the alternate Tartan Tories.
I can see Thatcher, or least Thatcherites using the term Radical, rather suits Keith Joseph for example. Conservatives have used all sorts of names in local elections so its not that big a stretch to expand the concept.
As for no significant Catholic population and not being able to win seats.. well the Irish National Party won Liverpool Exchange OTL, not off of Church of England communicants one suspects. There were and are significant areas of Britain with Catholic populations, including Liverpool, Glasgow and Birmingham. Not enough to win 100 seats, but you are assuming that the CDs don't get evangelical protestant support. Its a question of whether they can bridge the faith divide. If they can then there are significant areas where there are religious voters. This could somewhat damage the Liberals in their nonconformist Welsh and Cornish heartlands and cost the SNP the Western Isles for example. Both Dutch and German Christian Democrats have appealed (eventually) across the religious divide. Then there is the potential appeal of welfarist policies to the working class
Without giving too much away not necessarily, I haven't given enough attention to the Liberals yet, but that's coming.Can I assume everything is a bit to the right of OTL?
PS I'm slightly busy with the election and then I'm off to the Cook Islands for a week so there may not be any replies or updates for a week or so, please do keep this on your watchlist though as it will be updated after that.
Oilman?Jax frowned to herself.
“What do you think?” She said.
“I can’t say I’m a huge fan of the oilman, but he is popular, and pretty charismatic. He must be a potential future chancellor, if not party leader, if Stella and Owen fuck it up.” Kevin said.
“Well, he’s still a CD, it’s not as if he’s the enemy. And he did vote to protect funding for family planning.”
“Exactly. He’s a symbol of the progress that wing have made over the last few years.”
“Hmmm. There’s the Brompton connection as well though.” Jax was skimming through Encarta.pedia on her Amstrad tablet.
“Yeah, but is that even a real thing any more?”
“Well, I suppose the whole point of working on this with him to push the London Credit Union plan. That’s hardly an oil industry or bankers plot.”
“Look, just go for it, it’s temporary anyway.” Kevin stood and went over to Jax, resting a hand lightly on her shoulder.
“I sense a calling.” Jax said with a smile.
It’s an “as you know Watson” moment which is allowed on the news or butterflies this is a different Susie.Susie being a recent Scottish migrant who's lived in London as recently as a decade ago probably knows those things but otherwise good!
It’s an “as you know Watson” moment which is allowed on the news or butterflies this is a different Susie.
Thanks though!![]()
The frantic retcon workedI apologise and withdraw
A woman playing ignorant on TV so a male expert can explain things to the audience? Surely not.
Synod general elections are my jam, though it seems odd considering the POD. But I am looking forward to how it goes.
Presumably it's Anglicans only. I know I would vote if entitled to, but for the life of me I can't imagine how. It's there a protest option?