Any questions, thoughts or comments?![]()
In some respects the numbers themselves aren't important. The focus of this thread is to see how a battle between Wilson and Thatcher would have turned out.
For the Liberals to do that well, they must have won, or come close to winning the national vote, surely such a huge PoD requires some sort of explanation?
I know the Liberals are a lot stronger than they have been since the long gone days of the three-party system in the twenties, but their demands seem over the top. Almost as if they deliberately don't want a coalition.
We've had some flagrant Liberal-wanks on this forum in the past but unfortunately this is taking the biscuit with sheer ASB territory. Apologies if that seems rude but it's hard to take this seriously now - a Wilson-Thatcher battle would have been very interesting to watch but randomly boosting the Liberals to a degree that they didn't manage even under the best possible conditions in 2010 (your mileage may vary) is, frankly, nothing short of silliness.
Hmm. What can you suggest then? It's not rude at all
I'd give the Liberals a small boost in votes - protest or otherwise - but not many more seats. Then focus the story back on the real core of it - the potentially mentally unstable Wilson struggling to hold on against the not-quite-bathing-in-glory Thatcher.
The 1970s have some great personalities in politics (look at the Ted Short timeline in my sig to see some of them in action) and you don't always need big unexpected events like an ASB Liberal Surge to keep them interesting. Wilson, Thatcher, Foot, Benn, Whitelaw, Thorpe and more practically write the story themselves.
Well in your opinion would it be worth me refocusing on the wilson-thatcher battle or start a new thread and just focus on wilson-thatcher battle from the start with just a few liberal nods?
It's your TL and you must do what you enjoy doing. However, as you asked my opinion, I'd start this again and don't include the out of the blue Liberal successes. Give them maybe their best result since 1945, sure, but the situation they're in at the moment ITTL is, as I say, pretty ludicrous.