DBWI: PM King resigns!

After over two decades in the PMO, PM Mackenzie King has finally passed the torch to Pearson. Apparently he wanted to go for a seventh election, but Cabinet put their foot down. Health isn't that great, as you saw during the annual Easter address...
 
After over two decades in the PMO, PM Mackenzie King has finally passed the torch to Pearson. Apparently he wanted to go for a seventh election, but Cabinet put their foot down. Health isn't that great, as you saw during the annual Easter address...
You mean when he had trouble just walking to the podium, and then forgot half his speech (alright, maybe not quite half)?
 
After over two decades in the PMO, PM Mackenzie King has finally passed the torch to Pearson. Apparently he wanted to go for a seventh election, but Cabinet put their foot down. Health isn't that great, as you saw during the annual Easter address...

Good - he was starting to get senile and paranoid anyway (what was it with him when he was using a Ouija board during one of his Cabinet meetings?) - maybe Mike could control some of the reckless policies under King. And what was he thinking about suggesting that Newfoundland should be a province of Canada? That has to be the most bizarre thing I've ever heard - more so from him than the Barrelman.
 
IOTL Mackenzie King preferred Lester Pearson to succeed him. Pearson refused, and St-Laurent took his place. King initially wanted to fight a seventh election in 1949 on "Peace, Prosperity, and Newfoundland" after the postwar welfare-state expansion from '45 onwards. The party and his rapidly declining health (he died on the first day of Korea) dictated otherwise.
 
IOTL Mackenzie King preferred Lester Pearson to succeed him. Pearson refused, and St-Laurent took his place. King initially wanted to fight a seventh election in 1949 on "Peace, Prosperity, and Newfoundland" after the postwar welfare-state expansion from '45 onwards. The party and his rapidly declining health (he died on the first day of Korea) dictated otherwise.

OOC: I already knew that. I'm also using Pearson's nickname "Mike" since he's a big presence at my university; there is even a graduate students' bar called "Mike's Place" that, yes, is named after Pearson.

IC: Well, now that you're back, what did you think of Mike's first Question Period?
 
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