Ideas For First TL

My First TL?

  • The Common Man

    Votes: 1 3.0%
  • Our Fallen Leader

    Votes: 23 69.7%
  • For Want Of A Soapbox

    Votes: 9 27.3%

  • Total voters
    33
Hi all,
I've been reading this board for a while now and I've been toying with these three ideas for potential TLs.
So which one do you think I should do?
The Common Man-Michael Benn, the brother of the prominant MP Tony Benn, does not die during World War II-and succeeds to his father's peerage upon his death. This means no Peerage Act 1963 and Alec Douglas Hone can't become PM in 1963.
Our Fallen Leader-Eisenhower's 1955 heart attack proves fatal, making Nixon president.
For Want Of A Soapbox-John Major doesn't campaign as well as he did IOTL during the 1992 campaign and The Sun in particular come up with slightly less witty headlines, leading Niel Kinnock as Prime Minister of a Labour-lead government.
So which one would you prefer?
 
Hi guys,
Thanks for the voats and the comments so far!
Cathcan1-I agree the Cold War is fascinating. Of course IOTL Nixon was president during the middle stages of it and was involved since the begginning, in 1955 he'd be taking office when the Cold War was still in its infancy.
TheInfiniteApe-my thoughts exactly regarding Nixon in 55. I've read quite a few (mainly good) Timelines involving a victorious Nixon in 60, which is partly why I came up with the idea of Nixon being president in 55. There's also the alternate time/circumstances of his presidency fascinate me.
Historically he was president during the "counter-culture" and represented the exact opposit of that-authority/experience etc, here he's the youngest president in history, only been Veep for 2 and a half years and he's president in the late 50's, a radically different decade to the 1970's.
As it happens I came up with all 3 of these TL ideas because I've seen discussions on them, but no substancial TL.
Keep on voating-I'll poast the first installment of the timeline that's voated the favourite idea on Saturday, baring any RL delays...
 
Well in 'The Common Man' Benn and Hone both serve as Foreign Secretary at various points.
I also have a particular female politician in mind who will become PM a few years down the road from the main butterflies (definitely earlier than in OTL)-but it won't be Maggie.
 
I've seen the Nixon takes over after Ike's Heart attack scenario before (and I believe there were two of those at around the same time back when the last one was). But those were maybe a year ago now and I don't remember how far they got.
 
Might have to look for said Nixon 55 TL's-apart from anything as said above it's an interesting Pod. Would like to compare what happens in those with my own draft (personally I've got Nixon's presidency sussed and a rough draft on what will happen from the time Nixon leaves office until the mid to late 90's, which is my probable cut-off point). Still more than happy to do this TL though, even if there's another one somewhere with the same Pod.
 
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