Sorry everyone, I'll be bringing the Radverse to a close in the next couple of boxes.
You've thought at least once and I give you the benefit of the doubt on the second round.
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You've thought at least once and I give you the benefit of the doubt on the second round.
shiftygiant
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And like Miliband, just when you thought you were out you'll get dragged straight back in.Sorry everyone, I'll be bringing the Radverse to a close in the next couple of boxes.
Hey parts of my family were involved in the original Northern Ireland Labour Party! I'm not a bloodsucking evil Tory-lite!
Though I'm not complaining at 10 DUP seats.
Just the lack of any UUP seats. 
The United Kingdom general election of 1341 began when King Samuel II began the General Court dissolution process, having been requested to do so by First Lord Myles Bradshaw due to the tenuous condition of his majority. Early reports suggested that major gains, perhaps even the First Lordship, might be gained by High Contrarian John Parnell White - after all, Bradshaw was derided as an ivory-tower intellectual from Atlantis, and his response to the Secessio Plebis [1] of Niccajackian and Cambrian miners was seen as weak. In addition, his rather lukewarm support for full Pagan Emancipation pleased approximately nobody. However, he had his supporters, due to his perception as a firm hand on the tiller of interstate politics. In addition, the ictisad[2] was generally doing well.
The turning point, such as it was, was the end of hostilities in the Ilands of Lukaia[3]. That accomplishment, in the words of Fish-Eyed-aligned essayist Thomas Abdulrashid, "sewed up one of the Government's open wounds," proving Bradshaw's epistolary[4] talent and drawing attention to a past Hayduckian failure at the same time. In addition, the Ictisadian Cabinet reported late in Harvest[4] that the government's decision to enlarge the intherest part[5] had, to all appearances, worked. Lastly, the Fish-Eyed ilanic[6] campaign was unprecedented in its scale.
Bradshaw was re-elected with an increased majority, and pledged to begin "a definitive government with definitive politics," portending the Fish-Eyed Party's official change to the Definitive Party later in the year. Those policies included the founding of the Wellfare Cabinet and the implementation of Zamanish ictisad politics[7]. One notable result of the election was the unexpected success of the Novity Party, a radical and reformist party popular among rural pagans.
[1] strike
[2] economy
[3] the Bahamas
[4] November
[5] interest rate
[6] advertising
[7] monetarism, roughly
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Yeah, I probably need to, even if it is a one-off. The general idea is that greater success by the Umayyad leads to Islam establishing more of a foothold in Europe. The Renaissance begins in Muslim Spain, meaning that Arabic becomes an early language of scholarship. Meanwhile, less influence from France and Latin ensures that more Old English remains in use. Besides that, the backstory is fairly vague.
The Fish-Eyed is a fairly intellectual, establishment liberal, party - hence the initially pejorative name, coming from the likening of glasses to fish eyes. "Definitive", in this case, means roughly what "pragmatic" does in OTL - it's an effort to try and dispel with the notion of the party having its head in the clouds, so to speak. Hayduckies comes from Hejduk, referring to that party's hawkish stances - it's a more conservative party. Novity is a variant of OTL "novelty", and refers to the idea of a new government free from the bias and cronyism of the old one.
shiftygiant
Gone Fishin'
So what is the year zero, IoTL? Just so we can gauge when about this would have been.
It's the OTL Hijri calendar, just with English months. So the datum is 622 AD, and the year is 1922-23.
Quite honestly, I totally didn't notice. But let's say that the suit was adopted as a military uniform-based compromise between the more foppish English fashion and Continental styles.That explains the fashion variation
"Shock of the Century? Trump crushes Hillary Clinton in first debate"
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"Trump's odds of winning at least 40% according to our polls-plus model"
-FiveThirtyEight: 10/3/2016
"October Surprise? Wikileaks releases 30,000 deleted Clinton Emails"
-TheHill: 10/15/2016
"BREAKING: Classified markings found on 2 of deleted emails"
-Politico: 10/15/2016
"Trump: Our movement has won a great victory tonight. Together we are going to make America Great Again!"
-FoxNews: 11/9/2016
"Trump's 270-268 Victory in electoral college and narrow popular vote victory will go down as one of the closest run affairs in our nation's history"
-CNN Election Center: 11/9/2016
"Clinton concedes election; apologizes to America"
-NBC: 11/9/2016
"Trump to begin receiving extensive classified briefings ahead of transition to Presidency"
-Fox News: 11/12/2016
"Did Trump just reveal classified information on national television?"
-MSNBC: 11/28/2016
"BOMBSHELL: Trump's Kremlin ties far more extensive than initially thought"
-MSNBC: 12/12/2016
"BREAKING: Two Electors from Texas faithless cast their votes for Hillary Clinton, making her apparent winner"
-TheHill: 12/19/2016
"BREAKING: Democrats attempt to steal election from Trump in Electoral College"
-Druge Report: 12/19/2016
"Hillary Clinton: I don't agree with the principle of the Electoral College, but the results are the results"
-MSNBC: 12/19/2016
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-Fox News: 12/20/2016
"BREAKING: Anticipating legal challenges at the nation's highest court, Obama recess appoints Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court"
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"Texas Electors reportedly had no idea of the other's intentions"
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Lyndon LaRouche is an American politican, one of the proponents of the Cohle Doctrine, and the architect of NAWPA. First joining the nascent American Labor Party in 1949, after their suprising results with nominee Jack Boyd, LaRouche became a prominent activist for the radical left of the ALP. He became involved in Henry Wallace's presidential run in 1952, but was shocked when the race came to no fruitful end with a brokered electoral collage electing the Democratic ticket. LaRouche took this as to mean that the ALP had not been radical enough to attract the support of the people. However the ALP took great lengths to moderate themsleves and make themselves more electable, much to LaRouche's chargin. Nonetheless, the ALP elected their first presidnet in the form of Hubert H. Humphrey in 1956, and LaRouche was not happy with him. Despite this, he continued to rally supporters behind the ALP, especially during the war on Cuba, when LaRouche adopted a decidedly more anti-communist tone, although he was pretty close to it.
It was only with the rise of the Labor Hardline in the mid 1970s that LaRouche was able to truly rise to prominence. Joining Mathew Cohle, a labor leader in Michigan, he laid the groundwork for the "Cohle Doctrine," a radically left wing but socially conservative ideology, extolling law and order values as well. With the support of Cohle, he ran for Senator in New York against Coalition Senator Jacob Javits and won through a slim margin. Becoming an ally of Cohle during the turbulent 1980s, he also created the plan known as NAWPA, a plan that would divert Alaskan rivers via Canada to the American West to prevent drought using nuclear explosions. The plan would not be implemented when Cohle first took office as president after the death of Frank Church due to tough opposition and only having a year as president, but when he was elected as president in 1988, LaRouche would be appointed Secretary of the Interior and would go about the project.
In fact NAWPA would get completed by 1993 after billions allocated and years of work, and would prove divisive, with Laborites praising the plan as a job creator and saving the American West, but the Coalition for the most part came to deride the plan, with the exception of more Labor friendly Coaltioners. Despite Cohle's loss in 1996, LaRouche came back to campaign for him in 2000 despite his advancing age, and was reappointed Secretary of the Interior by Cohle, as he was regarded well by even the more libertarian parts of Labor. Even the assassination of Cohle in 2002 by Islamic militants that put George W. Bush into power did not dislodge LaRouche, due to the alliance between the Coalition Christian Right and the Cohleites maintaining, and Bush's support of NAWPA. LaRouche retired after Populist Jesse Ventura was elected, and enjoys a status as an elder statesman to many Laborites, some times speaking at universities and other occasions.
(note, these are my interpretation of the game's events, it was really vague)
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Things changed out of the United States, but it wasn't elaborated a lot. There was a war in Cuba in the 1960s. Vietnam war happened too around the same time, and ended in a ceasefire, but in the 1980s it started up again, ended in 1992 and I believe the North lost that time. The Iraq war and occupation lasted almost 20 years too. War in Afganistan as well and the US withdrew in 2012. Besides those wars, the USSR lasted a bit longer and there was more detente, that is all I can find. So yes mostly US.
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