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Depends on who is where and if the Liberals will overplay their hand as kingmakers.
If Labour-Liberal is the only option, Callaghan will either A) Resign, because he hated being so weak he'd have to rely on the Liberals and would rather let some other poor sod deal with it, or B) call a snap election and hope it's a clean switch.
If Conservative-Liberal is the only option, it depends on the leader. Pardoe would make it work, being cut from the same cloth as Thorpe. If Steel is, then it's not going to work, simple as. Both would seek either a vote in the Commons or Referendum for the country on the subject of electoral reform, possible MMP based off a report published after the October '74 election, or STV, as promised in the manifesto (though it would likely be negotiated to AV). That said, depends if Thatcher is leader- if so, she rejects out of hand and does what Wilson does. If it isn't Thatcher and someone like Whitelaw, then there would be a chance for a coalition.
Atlas Assistance or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and use my laser vision to dig wells in Africa
As they turned the Planetary Defenders over to a new generation they retirees found that the world still had problems, not all of them caused by evil. The primary drivers of the early Atlas organization were Admiral Aqua (North), Hyperman (Spittle) and Kickbox (Just). The Venusian (lop) and The Wanderer (???) were also involved, but he former was preparing to return to Zroblax Prime and the latter refused to reveal her secret identity. Atlas is currently headed by ex-Navy Seal and ex-Superhero Charles Cook (aka Fire Strike).
Primary functions of the organization include assistance is disaster areas, often clearing rubble. The organization maintains strict rules on conflict intervention as required by the Montevideo Agreement and Defenders internal regulations. Nonetheless Atlas has been heavily involved in removing refugees from dangerous conflict zones, such as Pakistan, Peru and Guggardia. Atlas also works to improve infrastructure across the globe. Nepal's modern road system, wells in Ethiopia and the large Hydroelectric Dam system in Brazil all saw significant assistance from ATlas, all for virtually no cost.
As they turned the Planetary Defenders over to a new generation they retirees found that the world still had problems, not all of them caused by evil. The primary drivers of the early Atlas organization were Admiral Aqua (North), Hyperman (Spittle) and Kickbox (Just). The Venusian (lop) and The Wanderer (???) were also involved, but he former was preparing to return to Zroblax Prime and the latter refused to reveal her secret identity. Atlas is currently headed by ex-Navy Seal and ex-Superhero Charles Cook (aka Fire Strike).
Primary functions of the organization include assistance is disaster areas, often clearing rubble. The organization maintains strict rules on conflict intervention as required by the Montevideo Agreement and Defenders internal regulations. Nonetheless Atlas has been heavily involved in removing refugees from dangerous conflict zones, such as Pakistan, Peru and Guggardia. Atlas also works to improve infrastructure across the globe. Nepal's modern road system, wells in Ethiopia and the large Hydroelectric Dam system in Brazil all saw significant assistance from ATlas, all for virtually no cost.
Just a quick idea that I had. After WW2, the Western Allies and the Soviets meet in about the same place and time that they did IOTL, but come to a different agreement regarding the final borders of Germany and the occupation zones. Instead of an Oder-Neisse line dividing Germany and Poland, there is an Elbe-Spree-Oder line making this division; compared to OTL Germany loses more of Pomerania but retains much of Silesia. As a result, a capitalist West Poland is created.
I also made a map of Europe in this scenario.
I also made a map of Europe in this scenario.
Based on a joke I made with @CanadianTory, I was originally going to make this a series where Progressive Conservative leader Robert Stanfield led his party to victory in the 1972 election and every subsequent election would reveal a true glimpse of the eldritch horror he really was until the final box would reveal him to look like a bald, bespectacled Cthulhu.
But because my photoshop-fu is weak, I decided to make a more mundane mini-series of a successful Stanfield prime ministry instead.
The basic gist is that the Liberal campaign falters even more in 1972, allowing Stanfield to come just shy of a majority, relying on the Social Credit Party for support. He calls an election in 1974 and wins a majority, mostly on the promise of having tougher anti-inflation measures than the Liberals under former PM Pierre Trudeau were willing to back and cementing support of official bilingualism through his steadfast support of it. Stanfield keeps on keeping on in 1978 winning a narrow majority, helped out by both Herb Gray's uninspiring campaign for the Liberals and the resulting tactical voting by many left-leaning Canadians for the NDP under new leader Ed Broadbent. By 1980, however, Stanfield's popularity is beginning to wane and his government becoming more and more precarious. With Social Credit all but extinct, the Liberals' domination of Quebec allows them a bastion while they make inroads across eastern Canada. With it unlikely that he will win a fourth straight election, Stanfield announces his resignation as PC leader after leading the party for 14 years. The ensuing leadership election sees Finance Minister Don Mazankowski take over. Mazankowski injects fresh energy into the PC government, leading them to another majority government in spite of Liberal gains.
But because my photoshop-fu is weak, I decided to make a more mundane mini-series of a successful Stanfield prime ministry instead.
The basic gist is that the Liberal campaign falters even more in 1972, allowing Stanfield to come just shy of a majority, relying on the Social Credit Party for support. He calls an election in 1974 and wins a majority, mostly on the promise of having tougher anti-inflation measures than the Liberals under former PM Pierre Trudeau were willing to back and cementing support of official bilingualism through his steadfast support of it. Stanfield keeps on keeping on in 1978 winning a narrow majority, helped out by both Herb Gray's uninspiring campaign for the Liberals and the resulting tactical voting by many left-leaning Canadians for the NDP under new leader Ed Broadbent. By 1980, however, Stanfield's popularity is beginning to wane and his government becoming more and more precarious. With Social Credit all but extinct, the Liberals' domination of Quebec allows them a bastion while they make inroads across eastern Canada. With it unlikely that he will win a fourth straight election, Stanfield announces his resignation as PC leader after leading the party for 14 years. The ensuing leadership election sees Finance Minister Don Mazankowski take over. Mazankowski injects fresh energy into the PC government, leading them to another majority government in spite of Liberal gains.
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Based on a joke I made with @CanadianTory, I was originally going to make this a series where Progressive Conservative leader Robert Stanfield led his party to victory in the 1972 election and every subsequent election would reveal a true glimpse of the eldritch horror he really was until the final box would reveal him to look like a bald, bespectacled Cthulhu.
But because my photoshop-fu is weak, I decided to make a more mundane mini-series of a successful Stanfield prime ministry instead.
The basic gist is that the Liberal campaign falters even more in 1972, allowing Stanfield to come just shy of a majority, relying on the Social Credit Party for support. He calls an election in 1974 and wins a majority, mostly on the promise of having tougher anti-inflation measures than the Liberals under former PM Pierre Trudeau were willing to back and cementing support of official bilingualism through his steadfast support of it. Stanfield keeps on keeping on in 1978 winning a narrow majority, helped out by both Herb Gray's uninspiring campaign for the Liberals and the resulting tactical voting by many left-leaning Canadians for the NDP under new leader Ed Broadbent. By 1980, however, Stanfield's popularity is beginning to wane and his government becoming more and more precarious. With Social Credit all but extinct, the Liberals' domination of Quebec allows them a bastion while they make inroads across eastern Canada. With it unlikely that he will win a fourth straight election, Stanfield announces his resignation as PC leader after leading the party for 14 years. The ensuing leadership election sees Finance Minister Don Mazankowski take over. Mazankowski injects fresh energy into the PC government, leading them to another majority government in spite of Liberal gains.
Forgive me for my ignorance on Canadian politics but, why was Stanfield so bad?
Also, how do you make those Canadian election maps?
Previous Entry: 1940 Election
While President Lindbergh's splendid isolationism had kept the United States out of the War in Europe, this was not to be the case in the Pacific. With the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the United States was brought into war with the Japanese Empire. Germany had remained diplomatically mute on the subject, while pseudo allied with Japan the Reich did not wish to antagonize in what was a neutral and somewhat friendly United States. With the full weight of the American military might coming down on Japan they were defeated in late 1944 with the dropping of the Atom bomb Hiroshima and Kyoto.
President Lindbergh's policies and actions throughout his first term drew praise from both Conservative wings of the Republicans and Democrats. Though he was deeply hated by many of the east coast liberal members of his party, who had wished to support the now fallen United Kingdom and France. The media and many members of both liberal wings of each party had accused the President of being a crypto-fascist, due to his neutrality in Europe and his perceived friendliness with the Third Reich. Though the President would remain very popular with the population and enjoyed high approval ratings throughout his first term in office.
Lindbergh would face opposition in the primaries coming from his left in Thomas Dewey, but the President would somewhat easily defeat his challenger. With Dewey's defeat many liberal delegates would walk out of the convention, refusing to support Lindbergh's renomination. The Democrats too would face internal strife between the two wings of their Party with many southern conservative Democrats supporting the President, but through internal party machinations the New Dealist Alben W. Barkley and Henry A. Wallace had been selected. This had caused another walkout from Conservative members of the party who intended to support the President. Two new political parties would come out of the smoldering ruins of the Republicans and Democrats. The President's National Conservative Party and the opposition new Liberal Republican Party.
In the end the President and his new running mate Harry F. Byrd (Taft had declined to run due to health problems) would win his reelection convincingly, sweeping the south and midwest. Thomas Dewey and Alben W. Barkley would win only New England and the West coast, as the President had been too popular to unseat. The 1944 election would forever change the American Political landscape and much of the entire world too.
While President Lindbergh's splendid isolationism had kept the United States out of the War in Europe, this was not to be the case in the Pacific. With the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor the United States was brought into war with the Japanese Empire. Germany had remained diplomatically mute on the subject, while pseudo allied with Japan the Reich did not wish to antagonize in what was a neutral and somewhat friendly United States. With the full weight of the American military might coming down on Japan they were defeated in late 1944 with the dropping of the Atom bomb Hiroshima and Kyoto.
President Lindbergh's policies and actions throughout his first term drew praise from both Conservative wings of the Republicans and Democrats. Though he was deeply hated by many of the east coast liberal members of his party, who had wished to support the now fallen United Kingdom and France. The media and many members of both liberal wings of each party had accused the President of being a crypto-fascist, due to his neutrality in Europe and his perceived friendliness with the Third Reich. Though the President would remain very popular with the population and enjoyed high approval ratings throughout his first term in office.
Lindbergh would face opposition in the primaries coming from his left in Thomas Dewey, but the President would somewhat easily defeat his challenger. With Dewey's defeat many liberal delegates would walk out of the convention, refusing to support Lindbergh's renomination. The Democrats too would face internal strife between the two wings of their Party with many southern conservative Democrats supporting the President, but through internal party machinations the New Dealist Alben W. Barkley and Henry A. Wallace had been selected. This had caused another walkout from Conservative members of the party who intended to support the President. Two new political parties would come out of the smoldering ruins of the Republicans and Democrats. The President's National Conservative Party and the opposition new Liberal Republican Party.
In the end the President and his new running mate Harry F. Byrd (Taft had declined to run due to health problems) would win his reelection convincingly, sweeping the south and midwest. Thomas Dewey and Alben W. Barkley would win only New England and the West coast, as the President had been too popular to unseat. The 1944 election would forever change the American Political landscape and much of the entire world too.
What? What are you talking about?
You have to download them off of Wikipedia and then edit them using Inkscape, using the color-dropper to change the map colors, the transform objects function to change the bar lengths and use appropriate fonts to replace the numbers and names that you've changed from the OTL results.
Excellent work and nice graphics @lord caedus!
It's interesting how even when the scenario of Stanfield winning has been talked about a lot it's never really truly been done that many times, which makes this glimpse of a successful Stanfield premiership really interesting and well-done.
It's interesting how even when the scenario of Stanfield winning has been talked about a lot it's never really truly been done that many times, which makes this glimpse of a successful Stanfield premiership really interesting and well-done.
Thank you.
Oh. The jokes is from this series of posts, starting from the fact that @CanadianTory really likes Robert Stanfield, the moderate leader of the Progressive Conservative Party from the late 1960s and mid-1970s. The added bonus of the joke is that Robert Stanfield was, by all accounts, a really personable and gentlemanly politician, so making him slowly revealed to have been an insanity-inducing cosmic monstrosity would have been pretty amusing for people with baseline knowledge of 1970s-era Canadian politics.
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Eh, my favorite Canadian PM was Mackenzie King, second best would probably be Pearson. That's all I really know.
I need to read up on Canadian history, it's not as well documented as American history, which is quite unfortunate, and unfair to Canadians.
On the other hand American history is pretty obscured by the fact they nearly exterminated their native people.
I need to read up on Canadian history, it's not as well documented as American history, which is quite unfortunate, and unfair to Canadians.
On the other hand American history is pretty obscured by the fact they nearly exterminated their native people.
This brought 1d4 tears to my eyes.I made something stupid off of a joke in the Politiyank thread:
I have always wondered what would have happned if The lib dems got in bed with labour
"What was with Stanfield's line about how his true form 'is behind the veil of human understanding' and that if he said his real name it would 'be the death-song of the universe, sung by the mouths of Those Who Lie Beyond'?"
"I don't know, but his plan for a fiscally-sensible, yet generous budget mean he's got my vote."
I must say I am liking the new spoiler boxes for large text and pix combos.
Does make it easier to scroll past all the samey US election boxes
Does make it easier to scroll past all the samey US election boxes
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