I was going batty over the lack of pop culture infoboxes, so I sort of winged it and made one myself. Sorry if it kinda sucks though, I'm not that bloody good at this graphics design stuff
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I can't say I expected to ever see a mash up of God's Not Dead and What We Do In The Shadows, but something like the latter which takes the piss out of the former does sound interesting.
The 1995 United Kingdom general election was held on Thursday 4 May 1995, to elect 650 members to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The election resulted in the fourth consecutive victory for the Conservative Party since 1981 and would be the last time that the Conservatives would win an overall majority at a general election until 2015.
Opinion polls in the run-up to the election had suggested that it would end in a hung parliament or a narrow Labour majority. The fact that it produced a Conservative majority, with Labour ultimately losing seats, meant that it was one of the most dramatic and memorable elections in the UK since the end of the Second World War.
Ian Lang had won the 1992 Conservative leadership election following the resignation of Geoffrey Rippon due to ill health. During his first term he signed the Marseille Treaty that turned the European Economic Community into the European Union, oversaw the privatisation of the National Power Corporation and signed the Conservative Union agreement, which formally merged the Liberals and the Ulster Unionist Party into the Conservative Party.
While British economy was recovering from a sharp recession, the campaign focused largely on two major constitutional issues: the Devolution (Clarity) Act which greatly restricted the powers of devolved administrations, specifically the Scottish Assembly's ability to call an independence referendum, and Britain's membership of the European Single Currency. The Labour Party, under Jack Straw, strongly opposed both measures and campaigned for a moratorium and referendum on Britain's membership of the DucatZone, as well as on traditional issues such as the decrepit state of public services.
The election was also notable for a breakthrough for the third parties, especially the Greens. The Scottish Nationalists campaigned on the Conservative intrusion into Scottish self-government and heavily targeting Scottish Labour for their weak opposition to the clarity act, even as the nationalist-unionist saw SNP parliamentary leader Winnie Ewing lose her seat. The Unionist Party, heavily divided by the split and merger into the Conservatives by their more moderate members, rebranded as the New Unionsts campaigned against European integration and mass immigration under their new leader Ian Paisley, winning their best yet result in Great Britain.
Notably the Green Party made a breakthrough as well, appealing to disaffected liberal and environmentalist voters from both Labour and the Conservatives. At the time the Greens had an collective leadership structure and nominated Green MEP Sara Parkin as their "Lead Candidate" to represent the party in televised debates and likely negotiations in a hung parliament.
This breakthrough for third parties was blamed by many for Labour's defeat, splitting the anti-Conservative vote and allowing the incumbents to campaign against a Labour-led "free-for-all" in a hung-parliament.
Ian Lang served as Prime Minister until he was successfully challenged for the Conservative Leadership in 1997.
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I just today thought that Richard Shweiker would've been a good President probably... Do you know if he even had such ambitions IOTL? He never ran, probably because he was too liberal for his own party by 1980s
Also with Reagan killed like that no way Shweiker looses, and I'd imagine USSR and USA team up to kick Iran's ass and then split the country in two like in the 1940s
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Don't think USSR would tolerate an invasion of Cuba, the decaying USSR under Gorbachev - maybe, but certainly not under Andropov's lead, he was no nonsense kinda guy, but how did he even manage to live that long ITTL? He was on life support
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The 2003 UK General Election was held on Thursday 1 May 2003 to elect 650 members to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. It was notable for being the first election held under the new Alternative Vote (AV) system legislated under the 2001 Representation of the People Act.
The election resulted in a landslide re-election victory for the Labour Party, the largest achieved in its history and by any political party in British politics since the Second World War. With an uneventful campaign and turnout dropping to its lowest levels to the lowest levels since the 1930s, the election was widely dubbed "the quiet landslide".
The campaign took place in the aftermath of the 2002-2003 SARS pandemic, and strong public approval of the government's handling of the crisis was seen as a decisive factor in the result. Running on the slogan "Take the Right Road to Recovery", the Labour campaign focused on the economic recovery from the pandemic and pre-pandemic achievements in economic investments and public service reforms, most notably the Social Services Framework Agreement with local governments and home rule administrations.
The new electoral system produced mixed results for the opposition parties. The Conservatives, heavily divided over their response to the Ashdown Government's pandemic border closure and emergency powers legislation, won their worst result since 1945. There were several high profile Conservative defeats, include that of Conservative leader Peter Lilley, former Prime Minister Lynda Chalker and Shadow Chancellor Michael Fallon.
The Scottish Nationalists won their worst result since the 1970s, attributed to the new AV system enabling anti-SNP voters to vote tactically against the party. Conversely, the Greens and the New Unionists both achieved significant breakthroughs that were attributed to winning the second preferences of Labour and Conservative voters.
The election campaign was heavily influenced by pandemic-era restrictions; there were few mass-rallies and much campaigning was done virtually over television, Ceefax and the Minitel. Because of pandemic concerns 50.6% of votes were cast by postal ballot, which caused significant delays in tallying results and widespread irregularities in many marginal constituencies. The large number of postal ballots meant that for the first time in decades there was no exit poll.
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Here's a link to the madlad- post 5,099 in this thread.
Not reposting it directly because it slows the page down so much.
Might Redux it.
Shahid Malik had defeated his predecessor Paddy Ashdown in the 2011 Labour leadership election, becoming the first Muslim Prime Minister and the first Prime Minister and major party leader of non-European ancestry. During his first term he passed the Accountability Act, the repeal of pandemic-era emergency powers legislation and announced the withdrawal of British armed forces from Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The election campaign focused on recovery from the late 2000s recession, national security concerns and corruption. The Labour Party campaigned on a record of thirteen years of strong management of the economy and public services but the campaign was severely disrupted by a series of embarrassing leaks regarding backroom negotiations and agreements by Shahid Malik and other senior Labour officials to remove Paddy Ashdown as leader during the 2011 leadership election.
The Conservatives had also ousted their leader in the year before the election. Former army officer and Shadow Defence Secretary Tim Collins lwas the first Conservative leader and leader of the opposition to represent an Irish seat since Edward Carson. The Conservative campaign focused on the cost of living, national security and the series of corruption scandals that had hit the Labour government in the 2007-2012 parliament, most notably the Maxwell Affair that ultimately led to Ashdown's downfall. Collins regularly referred to Malik's Accountability Act as "the Great Whitewash" and promised a full public inquiry into the scandal if elected Prime Minister.
While maintaining wide leads over the Labour Party in the year leading up to the general election, by the time the campaign began Labour and Conservative polling was tied and remained so throughout the campaign. As a result there was much speculation over a potential hung parliament and potential coalitions and inter-party agreements, with the major third parties largely campaigning on the demands they planned to make on either Labour or the Conservatives. All three major third parties, the Greens, the New Unionists and the Scottish Nationalists, came under immense pressure to declare a preference for a Labour or Conservative government; all parties refused to make explicit confirmations.
Since a hung parliament had been largely anticipated by the opinion polls in the run-up to the election, politicians and voters were relatively well-prepared for the constitutional process that would follow such a result. The coalition government that was subsequently formed was the first to result directly from a UK election. Coalition talks began immediately between the Labour Party and the Greens and lasted for two weeks. There was an aborted attempt to put together a Conservative-Green-SNP Coalition (although 10 seats from other smaller parties and independents would have been required). To facilitate this, Tim Collins announced on the evening of Monday 15 May that he would resign as Leader of the Conservative Party in order to facilitate a "Fourth National Government" made up of members from all parties.
The next day, Shahid Malik asked King Charles III's permission to form a minority government in his name and remain Prime Minister. He accepted this request, despite public and private calls to delay this appointment until the conclusion of Labour and Conservative talks with smaller parties. Just after midnight on 17 May, the Green Party national executive approved the proposed agreement "overwhelmingly", sealing a coalition of the Green and Labour Parties, with Green leader Rupert Read becoming Deputy Prime Minister and four other Green MPs and Peers becoming ministers. This agreement, and the Second Malik Ministry, lasted three years until the Greens broke the coalition in 2015 over the 2015 Defence and Security Review.
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The May 2013 Spanish general election was held on the 26th May 2013 to elect the 400 members of the Spanish Cortes, the unicameral legislature of Spain. Incumbent Prime Minister Carme Chacón was running for re-election to a second term.
Chacón’s first term had been dominated by the Great Recession, which had hit Spain particularly hard since it first broke during the preceding term. Her government sought to combat the country’s economic problems by cutting government spending, raising taxes (though not income taxes) and working to crack down on tax fraud, with severe penalties for companies found guilty of such behaviour. This proved controversial both with those on the right, who saw the policies as harming businesses, and with the left, who saw them as promoting austerity; the nickname ‘Chacher’, negatively comparing her policies to those of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, became popular among Chacón’s left-wing critics.
Her domestic and national policy was fairly liberal, entering negotiations with the ETA to try to secure a ceasefire from the group, relaxing laws on undocumented immigration and trying to provide ‘easier paths to citizenship’ to expand the Spanish workforce, and introducing a Gender Identity Law providing a simpler path to legal recognition for transgender individuals. These were well received by the affected communities and met with severe criticism from parts of the opposition PPR, though its new leader Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría took a moderate stance on them and focused more on the PSOE’s failure to exponentially reduce the country’s unemployment rate or restore its economic growth.
Due to the PSOE losing momentum due to discontent with Chacón and the PPR continuing to be tainted by scandals, not only the Gürtel case but others which emerged after it such as the Nóos case, political discontent started to take different forms to protest voting for the opposition as had traditionally been seen in Spain. The 15-M or Indignados Movement that emerged in May 2011 around the time of the local elections saw significant media coverage of the impact of austerity emerge, with between 6.5 and 8 million Spaniards participating in such protests. While they forced Chacón’s government to soften austerity measures somewhat, this led to harsher critique of the government from the right.
Support for political parties besides the two main ones also started to become prominent around this time. IU, now known as Plural Left (Spanish: La Izquierda Plural, IP) enjoyed a significant and consistent rise in support, and its new leader Cayo Lara proved an unconventional but popular figure; a farmer by trade, he appealed to many rural voters who had typically eschewed IP as a party of urban and cosmopolitan communists. Unlike figures in the other major parties, he also participated in the 15-M Movement and gained significant popularity through this, in addition to recruiting a diverse range of experienced politicians from Xosé Manuel Beiras to Jorge Verstrynge (who had moved significantly to the left ideologically since the demise of the CDS).
Simultaneously, a small party called Union, Progress and Democracy (Spanish: Unión, Progreso y Democracia, UPyD), which was social liberal, Spanish nationalist, centrist and reformist and had won 2 seats and become the fourth-largest national party (as opposed to regional ones) in 2009, came to prominence. As a big-tent populist party which allowed significant divergence between its members, with both a popular leader on its left (Rosa Díez) and its right (Albert Rivera), it gained popularity, and established itself as more pragmatic than IU, seeking to act as a kingmaker in any coming election. Its use of the slogan ‘Keeping Spain Together’ also strengthened its public image.
The next election was due in June 2013, but the Cortes was dissolved at the end of April after the official declaration of a cessation of violent activity by the Basque nationalist terrorist group ETA. Negotiations had been conducted from around November 2011 to June 2012 between ETA and Chacón’s interior minister Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba which ended with ETA announcing a ceasefire that would be ‘permanent’. The announcement of the end of ETA activity allowed the PSOE to improve its polling numbers, which is believed to have encouraged Chacón to call the election slightly earlier than expected.
During the campaign, however, while the PSOE retained a lead other parties proved unwilling to commit to supporting another government under its leadership. In addition to the IP and UPyD surges, the incorporation of left-wing Basque nationalist parties Amaiur and EH Bildu into the IR/ER coalition strengthened the left-wing nationalist bloc, arguing that the end of ETA terrorism could allow a peaceful path to Basque independence.
The results were noted for being the most fragmented since the 1950s, as both the PSOE and PPR lost significant ground. The PSOE lost its overall majority while the PPR, already reduced to its worst result since the 1980s, performed even worse than it had in those elections, winning just 101 seats, the worst result in its history and the worst since the PRR’s landslide defeat in 1967. By contrast, IP won its best result ever with 18% of the vote, UPyD won just over 10% of the vote, and IR won five provinces (two in Catalonia, two in the Basque Country and Navarre) as well as a new record high in both votes and seats.
The morning after the election, Chacón announced she would seek the support of the Cortes to be elected to a second term, and stated during her speech ‘The people have given me a clear mandate’ (Spanish: ‘El pueblo me ha dado un gran mandato’). This soon became a popular internet meme in the Spanish-speaking world used to joke about people claiming more support for a course of action they want than they actually have.
Despite her confidence, Chacón found negotiations with IP more difficult than expected, and they proceeded for several months. Eventually, a deal was agreed between the two parties, but since relations between Chacón and the ER had broken down, the nationalists refused to vote for the new government. Consequently, the vote of confidence in the new government’s formation held at the end of September 2013 failed to pass, and President Fernández de la Vega dissolved the Cortes. This marked the first time in the history of the Republic that two elections would be held in the same year, the first time that a Cortes that had been elected had failed to produce a government and the end of the shortest Cortes in modern Spanish history.
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I love this series so far. Very creative, plausible, and well written.
Remus pulled an assassin outclassin on his brother I assume?Remusian Empire, from my Historica: Tale of Empires series.
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