My Frozen Spring TL is still proceeding, at its usual glacial pace, but I'm now reasonably sure of where I'm going up to the end of WW1. I would like however to get feedback on one issue.
There is going to be another General Election in the ATL, in 1914. The reasons for that should be fairly clear from the last couple of posts in the TL thread. The Lib-Lab coalition of 1913 is fragile and the Constitutional Convention has failed. The details of the failure and the consequences haven't been posted yet, but Asquith is left with no choice but to call yet another election. It is the timing of this election that gives me concern. I want events in Europe – the assassination, the political manoeuvrings, the mobilisations of various armies – to impinge on the election and vice versa, but I'm still looking for Britain to get involved, probably about 2-3 weeks later than OTL, although I haven't yet pinned down the precise timing.
I'm thinking that the greatest uncertainty for all concerned would be if the election was called for domestic reasons, after Sarajevo, with the result just before Germany moves into Belgium, so making the response to that invasion the first task of the new administration.
Any thoughts?
There is going to be another General Election in the ATL, in 1914. The reasons for that should be fairly clear from the last couple of posts in the TL thread. The Lib-Lab coalition of 1913 is fragile and the Constitutional Convention has failed. The details of the failure and the consequences haven't been posted yet, but Asquith is left with no choice but to call yet another election. It is the timing of this election that gives me concern. I want events in Europe – the assassination, the political manoeuvrings, the mobilisations of various armies – to impinge on the election and vice versa, but I'm still looking for Britain to get involved, probably about 2-3 weeks later than OTL, although I haven't yet pinned down the precise timing.
I'm thinking that the greatest uncertainty for all concerned would be if the election was called for domestic reasons, after Sarajevo, with the result just before Germany moves into Belgium, so making the response to that invasion the first task of the new administration.
Any thoughts?