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Brundlefly

A similar thing to Gaius Julius Magnus' party UK/USA analogues, here's a try with Germany/US. To use some idiosyncrasies of the German party system, some explanations. The obvious analogue for the two main parties would be SPD/Democrats and CDU/Republicans. However, that doesn't really work on several levels. A better analogue for the Democrats are in fact the Free Democrats (FDP), as they started out as a more or less nationalist party (this fits with the Southern Democrats), developing into a social liberal party in the late 1960s, while becoming very market-oriented in the early 1980s. The Bavarian CSU is socially conservative, economically liberal and very federalist, which makes it a perfect fit for States' Rights. So in this analogue, Republicans and States' Rights form one "ticket", with the States' Rights candidates appearing only in the Southern states. This may seem confusing from a historical point of view, but it basically comes down to a Southern Strategy 20 years earlier.

Looking at economic policy, the German post-war consensus was dominated by ordoliberalism for a long time (to a certain degree it still is), flanked by social democracy. In the USA, state intervention was very much consensus after the New Deal, but there was not a strong social democratic force. Later, "Reagonomics" was a product not of the Austrian, but the Chicago school of liberalism, therefore the change in economic policy was more extreme in America. That's why it is often said that in Germany the two main parties are competing for the centre, whereas in the US they are competing for the right (economically speaking). On the other side, the leftist/socialist parties in Europe are no fringe movements, but much more centrist and moderate. That's why I've split the different strands of the Democratic Party into (sometimes) Social Democrats, Greens and Free Democrats. I haven't really come up with a perfect analogue for Joschka Fischer, though. I even dabbled with a Democrat neocon, but couldn't find one with a past in the radical New Left of the late 1960s - any ideas?

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Republican = CDU
States' Rights = CSU
Progressive = SPD
Democrat = FDP
Green = Greens/Alliance '90
Socialist = The Left
U.S. Taxpayers' = AfD

1949-1956: Fletcher Bowron / Strom Thurmond (Republican/States' Rights-Democrat coalition)
1948 def. Walter Reuther (Progressive), Strom Thurmond (Democrat)
1952 def. Henry Wallace (Progressive), Strom Thurmond (Democrat)
1956-1960: Fletcher Bowron / Thomas McCabe (Republican/States' Rights)
1956 def. Henry Wallace (Progressive), Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat)
1960-1963: Fletcher Bowron / Thomas McCabe (Republican/States' Rights-Democrat coalition)
1960 def. William Fulbright (Progressive), Harry Byrd (Democrat)
1963-1966: Thomas McCabe / Harry Byrd (Republican/States' Rights-Democrat coalition)
1964 def. William Fulbright (Progressive), Harry Byrd (Democrat)
1965-1968: William Buckley / William Fulbright (Republican/States' Rights-Progressive coalition)
1968-1974: William Fulbright / Dean Rusk (Progressive-Democrat coalition)
1968 def. William Buckley (Republican), Dean Rusk (Democrat)
1972 def. Harold Stassen (Republican), Dean Rusk (Democrat)
1974-1982: Robert McNamara / Zbigniew Brzezinski (Progressive-Democrat coalition)
1976 def. William Scranton (Republican), Zbigniew Brzezinski (Democrat)
1980 def. George Wallace (States' Rights), Zbigniew Brzezinski (Democrat)
1982-1992: William Scranton / Zbigniew Brzezinski (Republican/States' Rights-Democrat coalition)
1984 def. Ed Koch (Progressive), Zbigniew Brzezinski (Democrat), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Green)
1988 def. Jerry Brown (Progressive), Zbigniew Brzezinski (Democrat), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Green)
1992-1998: William Scranton / William Cohen (Republican/States' Rights-Democrat coalition)
1992 def. Bernie Sanders (Progressive), Michael Bloomberg (Democrat), Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Green), Brian Moore (Socialist)
1996 def. Warren Christopher (Progressive), William Cohen (Democrat), Carol Browner (Green), Brian Moore (Socialist)
2000-2008: Bill Clinton / Carl Oglesby (Progressive-Green coalition)
2000 def. William Scranton (Republican), Lincoln Chafee (Democrat), Carl Oglesby (Green), Brian Moore (Socialist)
2004 def. Sam Brownback (States' Rights), Carl Oglesby (Green), Jared Polis (Democrat), Alyson Kennedy (Socialist)
2008-2010: Susan Collins / Robert Reich (Republican/States' Rights-Progressive coalition)
2008 def. Bill Clinton (Progressive), Walt Brown (Socialist), Jared Polis (Democrat), Carl Oglesby (Green)
2010-2012: Susan Collins / Joe Biden (Republican/States' Rights-Progressive coalition)
2012-2014: Susan Collins / Jared Polis (Republican/States' Rights-Democrat coalition)
2012 def. Joe Biden (Progressive), Bruce Babbitt (Green), Jared Polis (Democrat), Brian Moore (Socialist)
2014-2016: Susan Collins / Hubert Vo (Republican/States' Rights-Democrat coalition)
2016- : Susan Collins / Andrew Cuomo (Republican/States' Rights-Progressive coalition)
2016 def. Timothy Geitner (Progressive), Brian Moore/Gloria La Riva (Socialist), Bruce Babbitt/Pat LaMarche (Green), Joe Manchin (Democrat), Lars Peter Hansen (U.S. Taxpayers')
 
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Osk

This is my attempt at converting the President's of Chile to the United States. Whigs/Republicans are the Conservatives/Nationals, Democrats are the Liberals, Liberal Democrats are the Progressives. Jacksonian Republicans are the Pipiolos.

1. 1789-1797: George Washington (Independent - Virginia)
2. 1797-1801: John Adams (Federalist - Massachusetts)
3. 1801-1809: Thomas Jefferson (Democratic Republican - Virginia)
4. 1809-1817: James Madison (Democratic Republican - Virginia)
5. 1817-1825: James Monroe (Democratic Republican - Virginia)
6. 1825-1826: John Randolph (Democratic Republican - Virginia)
7. 1826-1829: William Crawford (Democratic Republican - Georgia)
8. 1829: Andrew Jackson (Jacksonian Democrat - Tennessee)
9. 1829: Martin Van Buren (Jacksonian Democrat - New York)
10. 1829-1833: John Quincy Adams (Whig - Massachusetts)
11. 1833-1841: Henry Clay (Whig - Kentucky)
12. 1841-1849: Daniel Webster (Whig/Republican - Massachusetts)
13. 1849-1857: Winfield Scott (Republican - Virginia)
14. 1861-1865: Millard Fillmore (Republican - New York)
15. 1865-1873: Horace Greeley (Democrat - New York)
16. 1873-1881: Smith T. Van Buren (Democrat - New York)
17. 1881-1885: Ulysses S. Grant (Democrat - Illinois)
18. 1885-1889: James B. Weaver (Greenback Democrat - Iowa)
19. 1889-1893: Ezekiel Webster (Independent-Coalitionist - Massachusetts)
20. 1893-1897: Arthur Y. H. Greeley (Democrat - New York)
21. 1897-1901: Theodore Roosevelt (Democrat - New York)
22. 1901-1904: Charles Webster, Jr. (Republican - Massachusetts)
23. 1904-1909: Thomas W. Wilson (Democrat - New Jersey)
24. 1909-1913: Charles E. Hughes (Progressive - New York)
25. 1913-1917: John W. Weeks (Democrat - Massachusetts)
Government Junta: 1917-1918
26. 1919-1921: Gifford Pinchot (Progressive - Pennsylvania)
27. 1921-1922: John J. Pershing (Independent - Missouri)
28. 1922-1923: Herbert Hoover (Whig-Democrat-Progressive - Iowa)
29. 1923-1927: John W. Weeks (Democrat - Massachusetts)
30. 1927-1930: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Progressive - New York)
31. 1930-1931: Henry A. Wallace (Progressive - Iowa)
 

mlp

If South Korea retained its multi-party system and did not experience the Great Unification of 1990:

1948-1960: Rhee Syng-man (Liberal)
1960-1962: Yun Bo-seon (New Democratic)
1962-1963: Park Chung-hee (Junta)
1963-1979: Park Chung-hee (Democratic Republican)
1979-1980: Choi Kyu-hah (Independent)
1980-1988: Chun Doo-hwan (Democratic Justice)
1988-1993: Kim Dae-joong (Peace and Justice)
1993-1998: Kim Jong-pil (New Republican)
1998-2003: Roh Moo-hyun (Reunification Democratic)
2003-2005: Lee Hoi-chang (Democratic Justice)
2005-2010: Moon Jae-in (Reunification Democratic)
2010-2015: Sohn Hak-kyu (Reunification Democratic)
 
Callan

Callan

A redo of a list earlier in thread, my take on that scenario :"Dewey Wins, ENDS BADLY".

1949-1953: Tom Dewey / Earl Warren (Republican)[1]
1948: Harry Truman / Alben Barkley (Democratic), Strom Thurmond/ Fielding L. Wright (Dixiecrat)
1953-1957: Dwight D. Eisenhower / C. R. Smith (Independent)[2]
1952: Adlai Stephenson / John Sparkman (Democratic), Thomas E. Dewey / Earl Warren (Republican)
1957-1962: Lyndon B. Johnson / Robert F. Wagner (Democratic)[3]
1956: John Bricker / William F. Knowland (Republican)
1960: Richard Nixon / Margaret Chase Smith (Republican)[4], Edwin Walker / Albert Bewer (State's Rights)
1962-1965: Robert F. Wagner / Vacant (Democratic)
1965-1969: Robert F. Wagner / George Smathers (Democratic)[5]
1964: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr / James Rhodes (Republican), Edwin Walker / Bull Connor (State's Rights)[6]
1969-1973: Sam Yorty / George Smathers (Democratic)[7]
1968: Bill Scranton / Mark Hatfield (Republican)
1973-1977: John Lindsay / Robert MacNamara (Republican)[8]
1972: Sam Yorty / George Smathers (Democratic), Martin Luther King / Benjamin Spock (Peace & Freedom)[9]
1977-1981: Walter Mondale / Russell Long (Democratic)[10]
1976: John Lindsay / Robert MacNamara (Republican)
1981-1983: Walter Mondale / Jeane Kirkpatrick (Democratic)
1980: Robert MacNamara / Larry Pressler (Republican), Barry Goldwater / William Buckley (Independent)
1983-1983: Jeane Kirkpatrick / Vacant (Democratic)
1983-1985: Jeane Kirkpatrick / Charlton Heston (Democratic)[10]
1985-1993: Howard Baker / Joe Biden (Republican)[11]
1984: Charlton Heston / Thomas Eagleton (Democratic)
1988: Lloyd Bentsen / Dick Gephardt (Democratic)
1993-1997: Joe Biden / Benjamin Fernandez (Republican)[12]
1992: Robert Casey / Lawton M. Chiles (Democratic)
1997-2005: Chuck Robb / Tom Harkin (Democratic)[13]
1996: Joe Biden / Benjamin Fernandez (Republican)
2000: Elizabeth Dole / Judd Gregg (Republican)
2005-2013: Norm Coleman / Susan Collins (Republican)[14]
2004: Chuck Robb / Rick Perry (Democratic)
2008: Ron Brown / John Hoeven (Democratic)
2013-: Susana Martinez / Jack Reed (Democratic)[15]
2012: Susan Collins / Charlie Crist (Republican)

[1] Dewey defeats Truman, and everything goes south after that. He struggles with a stagnant economy, a hostile congress and nearly starts World War III after MacArthur uses nuclear weapons in Korea. The only reason he was the nominee in 1952 was that other Republican wanted to lose instead of him.
[2] Eisenhower was initially courted by the Democrats, but as Dewey sunk lower and lower he opted to run as an independent, winning a landslide. He established a transatlantic military alliance, the Western Treaty Organisation (Dewey had tried and failed to pass a similar law in 1949) and withdrew troops from Korea. He delegated most domestic policy to his bipartisan cabinet, and controversially nominated President Dewey to the position of Chief Justice. In spite of many draft efforts, Eisenhower refused to run for second term.
[3] Johnson easily got the Democratic machines behind him to defeat Kennedy, Symington and Stephenson for a "Better Society" platform of anti-poverty and infrastructure programmes. He enforced the strong desegregation decisions of Chief Justice Dewey, but further Civil Rights efforts were made difficult by the divided congress. Abroad, he chilled Soviet relations even further by providing aid to Hungarian Revolutionaries and began putting pressure on Batista to tone down his repression. His second term was dominated by efforts to pass Civil Rights legislation (the Democrats managed impressive congressional majorities in 1960), only for Johnson to collapse dead from an heart attack in 1962. He consistently ranked one of the top 5 Presidents by historians and the public.
[4] After a bruising Primary against the left of the party, hardliner Nixon nominated a female running mate as a Hail Mary Pass as he struggled in the polls. It didn't work.
[5] America's first Catholic President rose with little fuss, passing the Voting Rights Act in 1963 thanks to LBJ's martyrdom. After his easy re-election, he quickly proved himself to be in over his head, with his indecision in Vietnam and his poorly-handled dialogue with North China being taken as evidence of his being soft of Communism. Poorly-handled midterms led to progress on Civil Rights and other LBJ projects slowing to a crawl. Having disappointed the left and earned the loathing of the right, Wagner stood down in 1968 with little fuss.
[6] Segregationists, Dixiecrats and other assorted hardliners and loons congregated around Edwin Walker's charismatic States' Right's campaigns in response to the pro-Civil Rights stances of both main parties. They ended up election a couple of congressmen and a Senator, but the organisation fell apart after Walker was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald. He ultimately endorsed the Democratic Candidate in 1968, winding up the Party in the process.
[7] Yorty was the "hard hat" candidate, a reaction to the Liberalism of the previous twenty years. His hardline responses to 1970 riots was deemed to be an overreaction, as was his intensifying of military action in the Middle East, nearly starting World War III again with his response to the construction on the Berlin Wall. But he expanded medicare in to proper Universal Healthcare, which even his critics concede was probably a good thing.
[8] The glamorous Governor of New York joined forces with the technocratic Governor of California to defeat Yorty. He delegated most Foreign Policy to his VP and Secretary of State Bush, who were able to produce a Thaw in US-Soviet relations, leading to the successful Vienna Summit of 1974 and withdrawal of nuclear devices from both Germanies. He also started an embargo on Apartheid South Africa. So He was much more socially liberal than either Wagner or Yorty, with the Dewey Court legalising abortion and homosexuality to much controversy, although the Moral Majority Party was too disorganised to gain much traction politically. His defeat in 1976 was one of the closest elections in US history, with Lindsay conceding after the Maine recount.
[9] Mondale governed close to the Centre, continuing Lindsay's "NeuPolitik" foreign policies in spite of opposition from many of his advisors. He managed to gut Taft-Hartley union laws, and invested heavily in nuclear power. While he was criticised for not intervening to stop Iran's revolutions, it paid off as America maintained a good relationship as its relationships with much of the Arab World soured. After Russell Long was (wrongly) implicated in corruption scandals back in Louisiana, Mondale made history by nominating his U.N. Ambassador as his running mate. He was tragically assassinated on a visit to Montreal by a rogue Quebec Nationalist targeting Canadian PM Jean Marchand.
[10] Kirkpatrick had no desire to make history as the first woman President, and her tapping of California Governor Charlton Heston was correctly interpreted as her nominating a successor for 1984 onwards. Lacking a mandate of her own, she governed largely as a caretaker President, continuing Mondale's domestic policies. Her reservedness and lack of opportunism made her very popular.
[11] Baker won another tight election on a platform of "Better Government". While many of his deregulation plans were obstructed by the Democratic Congress, he achieved many tax cuts. His terms were dominated by the deteriorating situation in South Africa, culminating in Military Intervention in 1987 in order to prevent mass murders and secure its nuclear facilities. It was controversial, but gained a UN sanction in 1988. The policies of Treasury Secretary Greenspan produced something of an economic boom in his final term, allowing Baker to retire popular.
[12] The liberal Biden faced much hostility from an increasingly conservative party. His main initiative was a (mostly successful) programme to renew America's crumbling Transport infrastructure, as well as the multilateral disarmament with new Soviet Premier Gorbachev. However, the economic bubble of Baker and Greenspan burst halfway through Biden's term, and while his stimulus packages probably worked, they didn't work fast enough.
[13] Robb was a "safe choice" who oversaw the economic recovery and the subsequent growth "Silicon Boom" thanks to online businesses, mainly centred around the Midwest. The NeuPolitik policy fell apart following a putsch against Gorbachev and his replacement with a succession of hardline octogenarians, who were eventually replaced by Vladamir Putin in 2001, who immediately conducted a bloody crackdown on the Polish Government, on which Robb was criticised for his inaction.
[14] Another Moderate Senator, Coleman continued the deregulation efforts of Baker and Biden and oversaw the entry of Puerto Rico into the Union. With a stagnating economy and a hostile congress, Coleman would have probably lost in 2008 if it weren't for the Easter Crisis, in which Putin himself was the victim of a Putsch as the Eastern Bloc's economy collapsed. Coleman put together a "Second Marshall Plan" for the newly liberated country which was seen by the remaining communist countries in Asia and Africa as economic bribery. He was also forced to send troops into many of these liberated states as they found themselves unable to control ethnic strife.
[15]The Democrats found their candidate in Martinez, a Western moderate who was a bit too supportive of Republican economics, but was a good debater against the GOP's wishy-washy candidate. She's continued the intervention in the Eastern Bloc (albeit with some scepticism about how long it will last) and restarted the Apollo Programme (started by LBJ and cancelled by Mondale). After favourable midterms and an economy that's finally growing consistently, her re-election in 2016 looks very likely.
 
Turquoise Blue

Turquoise Blue

Inspired by the above Democratic Martinez...

The Loyal and True
1961-1963: John F. Kennedy (Democratic)*
1963-1973: Ronald Reagan (Democratic)
1973-1977: John B. Connally (Democratic)
1977-1985: Pete McCloskey (Republican)
1985-1993: John V. Lindsay (Republican)
1993-2001: Rick Perry (Democratic)
2001-2001: Lincoln Chafee (Republican)*
2001-2009: Hillary Rodham (Republican)
2009-2017: Susana Martinez (Democratic)
 
Turquoise Blue

Turquoise Blue

Dardani1996 said:
No Great Depression

Calvin Coolidge (1923-1933)
Cordell Hull (1933-1941)
Thomas E. Dewey (1941-1949)
Earl Warren (1949-1957)
Joseph Kennedy Jr. (1957-1965)
Barry Goldwater (1965-1973)
Ronald Reagan (1973-1981)
Robert F. Kennedy (1981-1989)
George H. W. Bush (1989-1997)
Bill Clinton (1997-2005)
Al Gore (2005-2009)
Rudy Giuliani (2009-Now)
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Let me stop you there.

1) Coolidge being re-elected would not have stopped the Depression.
2) The Democrats were in such a sorry state in the 1920s that only the Depression could have energized them. No way they win 1932.
3) Dewey and Warren? Why? What makes those men come to the fore?
4) Goldwater, Reagan? Getting very convergent here...
5) Bush, Clinton, Gore? Now you're just copying OTL.
 
Gigachad3k

Gigachad3k

Turquoise Blue said:
Let me stop you there.

1) Coolidge being re-elected would not have stopped the Depression.
2) The Democrats were in such a sorry state in the 1920s that only the Depression could have energized them. No way they win 1932.
3) Dewey and Warren? Why? What makes those men come to the fore?
4) Goldwater, Reagan? Getting very convergent here...
5) Bush, Clinton, Gore? Now you're just copying OTL.
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Is Just in my Own Opinion

I Am Just Predicting how it look like

I'm Sorry that i did not mean to Copy the OTL
 
Turquoise Blue

Turquoise Blue

Japhy said:
How the hell is it that no one uses footnotes or offers explanations anymore?
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HAI, GUYS, I HAVE A TOTALLY ORIGINAL TIMELINE!!! :D

ORIGINAL TIMELINE!!!!
HONEST ABE! (gop) 1861-1869
GENERAL GRANT! (gop) 1869-1877
SAMUEL TILDEN! OMG SO ORIGINAL! (dem) 1877-1885
GROVER CLEVELAND! (dem) 1885-1889
BENJAMIN HARRISON (gop) 1889-1893
GROVER CLEVELAND! (dem) 1893-1897
WILLIAM MCKINLEY (gop) 1897-1901 [1]
[1] YOU WON'T BELIEVE WHO COMES AFTER HIM!!! :eek:
FIGHTING BOB LAFOLLETTE! (gop) 1901-1909
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (gop) 1909-1913
EUGENE V. DEBS!!! (soc) 1913-1921 [2]
[2] THIS HAS NOT BEEN DONE BEFORE! LIKE I SAID, OMG, HOW SO ORIGINAL!!! :p
WARREN HARDING (gop) 1921-1929
CALVIN COOLIDGE (gop) 1929-1933
FDR! (soc) 1933-1945 [3]
[3] BECAUSE THE SOCIALISTS ARE PROGRESSIVE, HE DEFECTS TO THEM FROM THE COLLAPSING DEMS!
HENRY WALLACE (soc) 1945-1949
WE LIKE IKE! (gop-dem) 1949-1961 [4]
[4] THE DEMS, NOW BAD SEGREGATIONISTS, ENDORSES THE GOP CANDIDATE FROM 1936 ONWARDS! IKE WINS IN A LANDSLIDE! :):):)
LBJ! (soc) 1961-1963 [5]
[5] HE GETS SHOT!!! AMERICA WILL FOREVER PUZZLE OVER THE QUESTION "WHO SHOT LBJ?" :eek:
JFK! (soc) 1963-1969 [6]
[6] AMERICA'S MOST LIBERAL PRESIDENT! CIVIL RIGHTS! GREAT SOCIETY! UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE BECAUSE NO SEGREGATIONISTS IN HIS PARTY! :D
ROCKY! (gop-dem) 1969-1974 [7]
[7] TO THE SHOCK OF THE WORLD, HE DIES IN HIS PRESIDENCY! :eek:
TRICKY DICK NIXON! (dem-gop) 1974-1977 [8]
[8] HE JOINS THE DEMS BECAUSE HE LIKES THEM BETTER! WOW! WHAT A TWIST! :D
JIMMY CARTER (soc) 1977-1981 [9]
[9] HE'S A MODERATE PRESIDENT, BUT CAN'T FIGHT STAGFLATION! LOSES IN A LANDSLIDE!!! :(:(:(
REAGAN (gop-dem) 1981-1989
PAPPY BUSH (gop-dem) 1989-1993
BILL CLINTON! (soc) 1993-2001 [10]
[10] HE JOINS THE SOCIALISTS BECAUSE THEY'RE THE LIBERAL PARTY BY HIS TIME! WINS MORE SOUTHERN STATES THAN ANY SOCIALIST EVER!
JOHN KERRY (soc) 2001-2005 [11]
[11] CLINTON'S veep! LOSES 2004 DUE TO 9/11!
JOHN MCCAIN (gop-dem) 2005-2009 [12]
[12] GETS AMERICA INTO IRAQ AND THE RECESSION! DEFEATED IN 2008 BY...
HILLARY CLINTON (soc) 2009-2017 [13]
[13] OBAMA IS HER veep AND THE CANDIDATE IN 2016! CAN HE DEFEAT MITT ROMNEY, THE CANDIDATE OF THE gop-dems? OR WILL HE LOSE? :eek:
 
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The Uchronian

Japhy said:
How the hell is it that no one uses footnotes or offers explanations anymore?
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At this point, Japhy, I honestly couldn't care much less either way. And this is coming from a guy, who, by the way, actually enjoys doing footnotes for his own lists as a way to engage in worldbuilding.

Daltonia said:
I see what you did there. :p And I like it.
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Yeah, TB, it's a decent satire, for sure. :)

Am I? Oh. Not sure what to say about that. Any comments my list?
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I'll try to find yours soon and give it a review. :D
 

Osk

One thing I've noticed is that a lot of current lists (including my last one) depict an attempt to replicate another countries "presidents" with our own, and so the challenge or aim is to create a mirror, not so much an actual timeline.
 
Mumby

Mumby

FEAR NOT COMRADES. I COME BRINGING THE GIFT OF FOOTNOTES. FOR THIS, OLYMPUS WILL PUNISH ME, BUT I DO IT FOR THE BENEFIT OF YOU.


Supermac Is Back

1983: David Steel (Liberal-SDP Alliance minority coalition) [1]
def. Michael Foot (Labour), Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)
1985 (Mar): Harold Macmillan (Conservative-Social Democrat minority coalition) [2]
1985 (Oct): Harold Macmillan (Conservative-Social Democrat coalition) [3]
def. Neil Kinnock (Labour), David Steel (Liberal)
1986: James Prior (Conservative-Social Democrat coalition) [4]
1990: Neil Kinnock (Labour majority) [5]
def. James Prior (Conservative), David Owen (Social Democrat), Alan Beith (Liberal)
1991: John Smith (Labour majority) [6]
1994: Gordon Brown (Labour majority) [7]
1995: Gordon Brown (Labour majority) [8]
def. Michael Heseltine (Conservative), John Cartwright (Social Democrat), Alan Beith (Liberal)
2000: Chris Patten (Democratic majority) [9]
def. Gordon Brown (Labour), Simon Hughes (Liberal)

[1] Military cutbacks and a heavy handed American intervention to prevent war meant that Thatcher agreed to concede the Falklands to Argentina. The subsequent deportations and the arrival of Falklanders to England was a major vote winner for the Opposition, but Labour was in a poor position to pick up seats. The Conservatives crashed to under 200 seats, and a shaky minority government under the shock victors of the night was established.
[2] The coalition fell apart as Steel tried to pursue a moderated form of Thatcher's economic policy. The SDP broke away and allied with a Conservative party that under an aging Macmillan had turned back to the post-war consensus. A weak government, Macmillan was eager to set Britain's economy back on the straight and narrow.
[3] The reappearance of Supermac was hugely exciting, and the Liberals and SDP suffered at the polls. The Conservatives continued to languish, and while Labour emerged as the largest party, she failed to get a majority, and Macmillan was able to continue the Conservative-Social Democrat coalition. Macmillan spent his days in office preparing the ground for his successor.
[4] The Grand Old Man finally died in 1986, having taken Conservative domestic policy back to the centre-left. He had however ensured that the board was laid out for his chosen successor. Jim Prior, a man who was considered a friend to the unions, was coronated, and pursued the same centrist, technocratic consensus.
[5] The government dealt with violence in Northern Ireland with a heavy hand, and while they were able to negotiate a way out of continued strikes by bringing in employee representation, the continued effectiveness of the coalition was in doubt. Labour won in a landslide in 1990, a tired Conservative party giving way. Kinnock was excited to lead the first Labour government for eleven years.
[6] Kinnock was killed in an IRA mortar attack on Downing Street, and his charismatic deputy filled the void. Smith pursued a reforming agenda, largely keeping to the Macmillanite consensus, and instead tweaking the constitution by bringing in the steady introduction of federalism, as well as laying out plans for reform to the House of Lords, as well as a National Minimum Wage.
[7] Regarded somewhat as Smith's protege, Brown was mildly more radical and had a keen economic mind. Aware that an election was around the corner, Brown took a gamble and called snap election, and put in the manifesto an ambitious programme that would extend Assemblies across the United Kingdom, as well as breaking the existing Scottish and Welsh ones down into smaller units, based on cultural/economic lines. This was a controversial move, but Brown banked on the honeymoon period benefiting him, as well as a fractured right.
[8] On a reduced majority, but a majority nonetheless, Brown instituted his controversial 'Federal Agenda', which broke every constituent part of the Union into new Assemblies with the exception of Northern Ireland. Economically, Brown aimed to eliminate poverty, but increasingly came up against a reinvigorated right. He also had to deal with the consequences of the new federal politics as the new Assemblies held their elections. However, the position of Britain in relation to Europe rose to haunt Brown as his own party turned against him as he tried to draw the United Kingdom into ever closer union. Embroiled in backbench rebellions as well as scandals related to the institution of the Federal Agenda, Brown was on the backfoot going into the Millennial Election.
[9] Having absorbed the Social Democrats, the Conservatives returned to power under the formidable personality of Chris Patten. He pursued 'common sense' politics, and his time in government would see the blue flag raised in many regions in which they previously had not enjoyed success, in part thanks to the readjustment of voter bases by the absorption of the Social Democrats, and in part due to realignment of the party system in Gordon Brown's Assemblies.
 
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