U wat.Classic choices as 'the dull centrist' between the extremes of monetarism and a trade union/Bennite revolution: Roy Jenkins, David Owen, William Whitelaw.
I'd like to see something in which Howard wins Leadership in '97 and Hague 'waits his turn' until 2005 or around then, but Hauge seems to be too much off a foot-in for a lot of 'Tories Win' scenario.I find William Hague as a PM to be rather cliched. He usually seems to end up around the 2000's as a Tory PM.
Hopefully once Comissario and I have done our respective timelines Stafford Cripps premierships will become a fixture.
Tory Tony Blair is a personal bugbear and it's been done so many times.
Ken Clarke is another Tory one. Somehow the fact that his views on Europe are completely at odds with the rest of his party does not stop him becoming leader.
I have some vague ideas of swapping Blair and Benn around, with Benn becoming an arch-Gaitskilite, and Blair taking the party towards a revolutionary direction.Tory Tony Blair is a personal bugbear and it's been done so many times.
I have some vague ideas of swapping Blair and Benn around, with Benn becoming an arch-Gaitskilite, and Blair taking the party towards a revolutionary direction.
I find Terry Sanford as a Democratic VP in the late 1960's and 1970's to be rather boring after a while; yes he's pretty much an all rounder; but there's got to be someone else (Reubin Askew, Fritz Hollings, Jimmeh?)
Ken Clarke is another Tory one. Somehow the fact that his views on Europe are completely at odds with the rest of his party does not stop him becoming leader.
Rab Butler annoys me because he's a foot-in for any situation in which neither Eden nor Macmillan can become Leader, which shows more ignorance of the period on the authors part. That said, I don't mind him as an alternate Macmillan successor, and I have used him as a deliberately 'past him prime' figure myself.Rab Butler is the other post war Tory "lost leader" who's always talked about, even though it seems he wasn't up to the job.