AHC: Setting up a dystopian 2010s - Worst possible leaders in the world?

Perhaps, instead of trying to find the worst possible government of the UK, have there be a hung parliament that can't form a coalition, and a series of weak minority governments which can't control the nation?
 
For a dystopian UK you need a very right wing tory to become leader straight after Brown.

You need to have Brown be more unpopular. I'm sure this is quite possible and easy to do with the financial crisis blowing up under his watch. Make the Tory spin convince the UK electorate that their problems are all due to Brown and Labour.

With that, the Conservatives get in quite easily I think, even under a quite right wing Tory. After the election where the Tories win a majority, the Tories go back on manifesto and add a lot more in.

With the right wing having complete control, they do the following.

1) Repeal Civil Partnership laws, re-introduce a Section 28 style discrimination law and even repeal anti-discrimination laws for Homosexuals

2) Try to end multiculturalism under a political heading of "integration". Vastly reduce immigration, repeal race anti-discrimination laws. Repeal Hate speech laws.

3) Prioritise punishment a lot over rehabilitation in prisons. Prision conditions become horrid.

4) To do this all this they withdraw unilaterally from the EU (without a referendum) Which is linked to the ECHR

I think this is as much as they could get away with in modern British politics and afterwards they would be pretty unpopular but in the end it would be a modern, democratic British dystopia...
 

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Well, if Golden Shower are getting in Greece, how about Jobbik in Hungary and the Great Romania Party in Romania.
Perhaps we should look into far-left ideologies getting into power as well? For example, how about Nepalese Civil War instead of ending with a negotiated peace ends with a Maoist Revolution? Or would that not be very different from what ended up happening OTL?
 

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For the ultimate worst ruler of Russia, I recommend Edouard Limonov, of the National Bolsheviks. Putin's never been accused of rape, or being a Nazi or an anti-Semite.
Russia: The Nazbols overthrow the government and set up a Neo-Nazi regime.
I thought Zhirinovsky would have been nominated as the worst Russian ruler in this dystopic world.
I can't see the Nazbol gaining enough support to overthrow the government or gain power through democratic means. They are just too extreme IMO (this is supposed to be dystopian setting, not ASB). But if someone wants to propose a scenario for how they might get into power, I would be interested in hearing it.

That being said, getting Edouard Limonov as president is a lot easier. At one point Limonov was a member of Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic Party and supposedly rather "high up"in the echelons of the party. OTL he had a falling out with Zhirinovsky and split off to form the National Bolshevik party. Have Limonov stick with the LDP and have the party get into power (OTL LDP by now is 3rd biggest party after the Communists and I could see them getting into power in a dystopian TL much more easily than the guys that try to overtly combine National Socialism and Communism) either under him or Zhirinovsky and you may end up with Edouard Limonov as president.
 
Perhaps we should look into far-left ideologies getting into power as well? For example, how about Nepalese Civil War instead of ending with a negotiated peace ends with a Maoist Revolution? Or would that not be very different from what ended up happening OTL?
To expand on this scenario, Maoist Nepal turns into a haven for India's Naxalite insurgents. Then in a scenario where the '08 financial crisis turns into a second Great Depression, the Naxalites get a major upswing in support, with the situation escalating into an Indian Civil War.

....But that's kind of verging on ASB territory, since India would probably invade Nepal in such a scenario and do its utmost to crush the revolution in its cradle. Still, it'd be fun to read a TL with a post-Soviet radical left-wing revolution occurring somewhere, plausible or otherwise.
 

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To expand on this scenario, Maoist Nepal turns into a haven for India's Naxalite insurgents. Then in a scenario where the '08 financial crisis turns into a second Great Depression, the Naxalites get a major upswing in support, with the situation escalating into an Indian Civil War.

....But that's kind of verging on ASB territory, since India would probably invade Nepal in such a scenario and do its utmost to crush the revolution in its cradle. Still, it'd be fun to read a TL with a post-Soviet radical left-wing revolution occurring somewhere, plausible or otherwise.
Actually, India's involvement may be "good" if we are building a dystopia. Just imagine:

Nepal is taken over by Maoists. When Naxalites carry out large-scale attacks in India, Nepal provides them with a refuge and a base from which to work outside India's reach.

The Indian government demands that Nepal hand over the terrorists but Kathmandu refuses. India invades Nepal.

China sees this as an opportunity to bring down their rival down a notch and supports the Nepalese & Naxalites (OTL from what I know PRC supported the Monarchist government over the Maoist rebels during the Nepalese Civil War, but this is a dystopia!). Beijing provides the communists with weapons, military advisors and volunteers (the Neo International Brigades?)

Thus India is stuck fighting a mountainous guerrilla war in the Himalayas against Chinese-backed communists. Pakistan probably gets involved somehow too.
 
Actually, India's involvement may be "good" if we are building a dystopia. Just imagine:

Nepal is taken over by Maoists. When Naxalites carry out large-scale attacks in India, Nepal provides them with a refuge and a base from which to work outside India's reach.

The Indian government demands that Nepal hand over the terrorists but Kathmandu refuses. India invades Nepal.

China sees this as an opportunity to bring down their rival down a notch and supports the Nepalese & Naxalites (OTL from what I know PRC supported the Monarchist government over the Maoist rebels during the Nepalese Civil War, but this is a dystopia!). Beijing provides the communists with weapons, military advisors and volunteers (the Neo International Brigades?)

Thus India is stuck fighting a mountainous guerrilla war in the Himalayas against Chinese-backed communists. Pakistan probably gets involved somehow too.
Why would Beijing support the Maoists:eek: To do that, you would probably need a Chinese POD. The easiest way would be to butterfly away Li Keqiang through having him die of cancer, which he did get. Li Yuanchao would be the heir to the CYL faction, but unlike Li Keqiang, his position would not be locked up, and then we could have Bo Xilai becoming the Premier-in-waiting instead. The CYL faction would in this case get the NPC presidency in reward, which is after all powerless. Then you get Zhou Yongkang and Bo Xilai in the Politburo at the same time:eek: Goodness knows what's going to happen next!
 
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