Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes II

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Forget president; 20 years down the road, she'll be Empress of the Universe. Assuming there still is a universe.....

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The four awesome infoboxes. From the Catherverse. The parties of the Hawaiian Pacific Commonwealth. List of PMs here.

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Union of Centrists:
Born out of a split in the Pacific Labor Party and the desperation of the old Liberal Party of Hawaii. Former Labor moderates merged with the Liberals in order to form the Union of Centrists. In a tight three-way election caused by the UoC siding with the Conservatives to bring down Hanabusa's government, they eked out a bare minority, later bolstered by "Johnny-come-latelies" from the other three parties. Now a new election looms and the polls show the three parties in a dead-heat. Can the new party come out on top over the two established ones? Or will the burden of government prove damaging?

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Pacific Labor Party: The Hawaiian Pacific Commonwealth's social democratic party, it emerged as a main party out of the tumultous 70s, surpassing the Liberals. The governments of Daniel Akaka and Patsy Mink shifted the country leftwards, even in a world embracing neoliberalism. However, the Labor Party grew too big-tent and that came collapsing around after they returned to power in 2008 under Colleen Hanabusa. Tensions between the left and right of the party led to the majority becoming a minority as moderates walked out. Now back in Opposition, they aim to return to power hoping their former advantage regarding seats will benefit them.

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Hawaiian Conservatives: The HPC's conservative party, they dominated the HPC's early politics under Prime Ministers Jimmy Kealoha and Hiram Fong, and after the Burns-Matsunaga government ended in 1973, they dominated the 70s as the opposition was split between the Liberals and Labor. In opposition for all of the 80s and half of the 90s, but came roaring back in 1995, winning a strong majority. This lasted for 13 years (under Linda Lingle and Duke Aiona), but was eventually defeated by Labor in 2008. The split in Labor could have benefited the Conservatives, but most "anti-Labor" votes that would have gone Conservative went Centrist instead. They hope that the next election will give them a win (or at least second-place...).

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Polynesian Greens: The HPC's Green Party, they were born out of the student movement and the growing environmental issue. First entered the HoC in 1997, it grew and is now universally considered "the HPC's fourth party". Polls have them growing significantly as well as picking up the old Liberal/Centrist "protest vote".
 
Interesting concept, love those logos. Especially the centrist one.
Thanks. :D

The logic behind those are...

UoC: I wanted a logo that symbolised co-operation. I found one with four colors that matched the four parties and decided to go with that.
Labor: The red rose of socialism is a normal symbol, but I decided to give it a "Hawaiian" twist here by picking a native flower instead.
Cons: Another "Hawaiian twist", I chose the British Conservative torch as an example, but made it a tiki torch instead.
Greens: I wanted a general green-y logo and that particular logo is used in Hawaii in OTL, so I went with that, only recolored.
 
Here's the 2022 Canadian federal election.

Having won a majority government, Trudeau proceeded to embark on passing legislation that had floundered in the previous minority parliament. Some failed, like the government's attempts at electoral reform (the government's preferred method of alternative vote was defeated in a referendum, resulting in, at least for the foreseeable future, the status-quo of First Past the Post) while others succeeded (such as an agreement with First Nations similar to the 2005 Kelowna Accord, and a strong commitment with the provinces to reduce greenhouse gas emissions). These programs, combined with Trudeau's continued promises of financial stability, led to Conservative leader Jason Kenney accusing the government of "trying to have it both ways," essentially arguing that the government could either have these programs or have financial stability, but not both; during his time in opposition, Kenney would repeatedly warn Canadians that Trudeau was not preparing for an eventual downturn in the economy.

While the Liberals did see their support slip slowly over the course of the four year parliament, Kenney and his Conservatives were experiencing their own problems. Kenney already suffered from lacking the personal popularity that Trudeau and NDP leader Nathan Cullen had, but now saw his popularity begin to slip within his own party, following what some in the party considered a "disastrous" 2018 campaign and the party failing to win several winnable by-elections. An ultimately unsuccessful movement soon began in the party to replace Kenney with leadership runner-up James Moore, who said he didn't intend on challenging Kenney though only offered a tepid endorsement of his leadership. That said, Kenney was able to grow the Conservatives' popularity significantly, both in the Atlantic (where the unpopularity of the Harper government's cuts to Employment Insurance had begun to wear off), in Quebec, and amongst immigrants, though in each case they still found themselves behind the Liberals in support.

The rest of the opposition, though, wasn't in much better shape. While NDP leader Nathan Cullen had high personal approval ratings, the NDP saw its support slip in his home province of British Columbia, where not only was Trudeau's government well liked, but where the NDP was handicapped by a recently elected provincial government, as well as Quebec, where the party continued its downward trend in the polls. The Bloc Quebecois, meanwhile, actually suffered due to having its leader in the House of Commons, as Mario Beaulieu saw himself with the most amount of attention since having been elected leader. Voters responded negatively to Beaulieu's staunch separatist stances, especially compared to Forces et Democratie and its leader, Jean-Francois Larose, which saw their support steadily rise at the expense of the Bloc. The Greens, meanwhile, selected Yukon MP and former Green Party of Ontario leader Frank de Jong as leader following the retirement of Elizabeth May. More than any other party, the Greens were all over the map in polling, though it was generally agreed they had increased their support since the past election.

When the election was called, the Liberals were still in the lead, although some polls had the Conservatives at their heels, with many predicting the government would be reduced to a minority. Trudeau campaigned largely on his record of a socially progressive and fiscally strong policies, and pledged to continue this if re-elected. Kenney, meanwhile, campaigned on a platform of stronger fiscal management, often arguing that Trudeau "hasn't been saving up for a rainy day." However, his support began to slip following statements by several Conservative candidates that spending on social programs would be significantly cut back if elected.

Ultimately, thanks to a poor Conservative campaign, and a lack of any major scandals on the part of his government, Trudeau was re-elected with a second majority. The Conservatives, Greens, and Forces et Democratie each made gains, while the NDP and the Bloc fell, with the latter losing all of it's seats, ultimately never again winning a seat in the House of Commons.

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Canada's Future:
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Some more ideas for the unimaginative British Presidency conceit.


(7) It was generally agreed that, once we could afford it, all this grubby history should be... demolished and replaced with a modern building of glass and concrete. I remember walking in St James’s Park one lunchtime with Humphrey Maud, a contemporary in the office. We paused on the old iron bridge across the lake, now replaced, and I passed some admiring remark on the... facade in the distance, and hoped it would be spared. 'If I thought you really believed that,’ he... replied, ‘I would have serious doubts of your intelligence.’ - Memoirs of Douglas Hurd, diplomat and former Ambassador to China

The fact is that a building suitable for [Henry Temple's] day and relations with half a dozen powers, conducted by despatches in manuscript, is just not suitable for modern communications with about a hundred nations... The decision is then firmly taken and it remains to make sure that Gilbert Scott’s building is replaced by a new one which is both efficient and beautiful. I hope it can be done. – Alexander Douglas-Home, Permanent Under-Secretary, State Department, 1966

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(8) “Hizzoner”.

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(9) Why must they always make up names for these New Towns? What was wrong with Bletchley?

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(10) This is what dystopia looks like.

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I pray "football" does not refer to the American concept.

The POD is the 1780s, so football is the British mob version turned into a spectator sport without American influence, as OTL. I think we will keep the Sheffield rules 'rouges' as a way of spicing it up, so it will end up a mix of association and Australian rules. 'Union football' is a mix between rugby and gridiron. Cricket turned into 20:20 by the 1880s; the first class game is long dead. Hence the dystopia; no sitting in the Upper Compton with a pleasant hamper and the Spectator over the 3rd day of Middlesex-Surrey for me. :(
 

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Now that is terrifying. Especially since it implies fifties-sixties brutalism is a malevolent architectural ideology that preys on timelines even with such an early POD...
 
The POD is the 1780s, so football is the British mob version turned into a spectator sport without American influence, as OTL. I think we will keep the Sheffield rules 'rouges' as a way of spicing it up, so it will end up a mix of association and Australian rules. 'Union football' is a mix between rugby and gridiron. Cricket turned into 20:20 by the 1880s; the first class game is long dead. Hence the dystopia; no sitting in the Upper Compton with a pleasant hamper and the Spectator over the 3rd day of Middlesex-Surrey for me. :(
Oh dear, oh dear.

You know what, you should do a "reverse" version. An America that's roughly based off Britain (perhaps it decides to copy Britain, throwing out the proposal for a Constitution, which Britain later adopts). That would definitely be a very interesting scenario.
 
The parliamentary diagram tool isn't working anymore. Does anyone have anything else I could use to make Congressional diagrams?
 
Oh dear, oh dear.

You know what, you should do a "reverse" version. An America that's roughly based off Britain (perhaps it decides to copy Britain, throwing out the proposal for a Constitution, which Britain later adopts). That would definitely be a very interesting scenario.

I've seen timelines on here that purport to be 'a Parliamentary America'. They inevitably result in new Prime Ministers being appointed by a Parliamentary vote after elections that seem to fall on the same date every fourth year. Henry Clay always seems to get the nod from the lower House. The fact that becoming Prime Minister OTL in the early 19th Century had absolutely nothing to with what mere MPs thought always eludes the authors.

I'm more happy with my own versions. I am currently working on some boxes, but not a timeline. The Tatchell box gives a hint.

(11) And now (I couldn't resist, I'm sorry): “Omnium consensu capax imperii nisi imperasset” – redeemed himself somewhat in a valuable role during the Second World War.

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