Good idea for a timeline?

FOUR MORE VOTES

Margaret Thatcher gains just a few more MPs in the first ballot of the November 1990 leadership contest, and defeats Michael Heseltine, remaining Prime Minister until 1992.

In the 1992 election, Labour wins a majority of 30ish over the Tories, but is almost immediately flattened by the events of Black Tuesday (alt. Black Wednesday). MT resigns the Tory leadership in October 1992, and is replaced by someone else-- I'm thinking Malcolm Rifkind?

Tories win 97 election in a landslide, and British history changes dramatically. I'm thinking an Afghanistan, but no Iraq. Plus "unreformed" Labour and Conservative parties, allowing the Lib Dems to make significant gains. Maybe stronger Trade Unions too? BR remains nationalised... Hmm, that sort of stuff.

Interesting?
 

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FOUR MORE VOTES

Margaret Thatcher gains just a few more MPs in the first ballot of the November 1990 leadership contest, and defeats Michael Heseltine, remaining Prime Minister until 1992.

In the 1992 election, Labour wins a majority of 30ish over the Tories, but is almost immediately flattened by the events of Black Tuesday (alt. Black Wednesday). MT resigns the Tory leadership in October 1992, and is replaced by someone else-- I'm thinking Malcolm Rifkind?

Tories win 97 election in a landslide, and British history changes dramatically. I'm thinking an Afghanistan, but no Iraq. Plus "unreformed" Labour and Conservative parties, allowing the Lib Dems to make significant gains. Maybe stronger Trade Unions too? BR remains nationalised... Hmm, that sort of stuff.

Interesting?

Interesting, but I don't think it's possible after a decade of Thatcher they ain't going to choose a Tory government so fast again. I think Labour will win the 97 election almost no matter what.
 
FOUR MORE VOTES

Margaret Thatcher gains just a few more MPs in the first ballot of the November 1990 leadership contest, and defeats Michael Heseltine, remaining Prime Minister until 1992.

In the 1992 election, Labour wins a majority of 30ish over the Tories, but is almost immediately flattened by the events of Black Tuesday (alt. Black Wednesday). MT resigns the Tory leadership in October 1992, and is replaced by someone else-- I'm thinking Malcolm Rifkind?

Tories win 97 election in a landslide, and British history changes dramatically. I'm thinking an Afghanistan, but no Iraq. Plus "unreformed" Labour and Conservative parties, allowing the Lib Dems to make significant gains. Maybe stronger Trade Unions too? BR remains nationalised... Hmm, that sort of stuff.

Interesting?

Hmmm interesting, though are you suggesting Labour will lose in 97 because of Black Wednesday, which will still be the result of Tory policy? I'm not sure...

I could see an earlier, more left wing Labour leading Britain further into Europe and the Euro, earlier devolution maybe?

Also if you do have the Tories come back I'm sure they'd charge into an Iraq style mess anyway, despite what they say now they were every bit as keen as Labour at the time.

I suspect both parties would end up similar to OTL but it would happen later, if you have Labour crushed in '97 someone like Blair is gonna lead the party into the centre and the Tories will follow, can't see the Liberals becomning a true force.
 
I don't think it was improbable that the Tories could win in '97 if they'd lost '92. Labour would remain a noticeably left wing political movement (Neil Kinnock was not reallly the reformist people always seem to be talking about) and, after all, the decision to enter the ERM was in some ways more Labour policy than Tory (in the sense that the former supported it far more wholeheartedly). It is possible that in such a scenario, the 10-15 year party dominance that the British political system appears today to be based upon would be broken- i.e. there would be few landslide victories and governments could not rely upon more than one term.
 
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