List of Alternate Presidents and PMs II

[lord caedus]

Next person who posts a list without notes of some kind is getting pistol whipped.

No story. Just random lists. Enjoy.

 

[Aaaaasima]

These words are not compatible.

Kovalenko has shown before that he is very good at writing. Why isn't he using this talent now?

Couldn't he at least use original people rather than "Carter/Mondale"?

 

[Japhy]

No story. Just random lists. Enjoy.

Cmon man

 

[dw93]

Tragedy Strikes in '81:

40. Ronald Reagan* | George HW Bush (Republican): 1981-1981

41. George HW Bush | Vacant (Republican): 1981-1981
41. George HW Bush | Paul Laxalt (Republican): 1981-1989

42. Bill Bradley | Dale Bumpers (Democratic): 1989-1993

43. Dick Lugar | Tom Kean (Republican): 1993-2001

44. Tom Kean | Trent Lott (Republican): 2001-2005

45. Howard Dean | Max Cleland (Democratic): 2005-2013

46. George Allen | Mitch Daniels (Republican): 2013-2017

47. Sherrod Brown | Xavier Becerra (Democratic): 2017-Present

 

[Mumby]

HUEYTOPIA

1933-1933: Huey Long / vacant (Democratic)
1932 def. Herbert Hoover / Charles Curtis (Republican)
1933-1945: Huey Long / James Farley (Democratic)
1936 def. William Borah / Styles Bridges (Republican)
1940 def. William H. Vandenburg / Charles L. McNary (Republican)

After Al Smith's untimely death before his inauguration, Long implemented what became known as 'The Every Man A King Plan' which would come to define 20th century America. It involved sweeping economic reform which was condemned from the right as socialist, and from the left as only tweaking the mechanisms of capitalism. Long, in alliance with the mechanically minded Farley, spread his vote-winning and more importantly power-keeping apparatus across the United States, using the recruitment of legions of unemployed into Keynesian public works programmes to displace local political patronage machines and build his own national machine. He narrowly reachieved victory against the elderly but insurgent Borah and won by a much wider margin in 1940 as he correctly predicted American isolationist instincts would be outweighed by concerns over events in Europe. America finally entered the war over German submarine warfare in the Atlantic that eventually sank an American vessel in Greenlander waters.

1945-1949: Huey Long / Henry A. Wallace (Democratic)
1944 def. Thomas E. Dewey / John W. Bricker (Republican)
1949-1953: Huey Long / James F. Byrnes (Democratic)
1948 def. Robert A. Taft / John W. Bricker (Republican), Henry A. Wallace / Glen H. Taylor (Progressive)

In 1944, many expected Long to stand aside. After all he had been President for twelve years, even if he had only won two terms himself. But at the last minute, with war still roiling in Europe and the Far East, he decided to stay on and see out the war. Farley resigned in disgust and there were fears a Democratic split could let an isolationist Republican into the White House. It came to nothing as it turned out Americans broadly approved of Long's decision to see through the war. He had been planning to groom the progressive, agrarian and former Republican Wallace to take his place in 1948 but it was not to be. Wallace's own eccentricities rubbed up Democrats the wrong way, and in lieu of a worthy successor, Long selected a fellow Southerner and ally of his economic agenda. With the Republicans swinging sharply right and against Long's involvement in international affairs (particularly his involvement in opposing the expansion of Communism abroad), he was able to win comfortably despite losing a couple of Northern states to the Progressives.

1952-1961: Huey Long / Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
1952 def. Douglas MacArthur / Joseph McCarthy (Republican)
1956 def. Joseph McCarthy / Harold Stassen (Republican), Wayne Morse / Estes Kefauver (Progressive)
1961-1965: Huey Long / Richard Nixon (Democratic / Republican)
1960 def. Nelson Rockefeller / Richard Nixon (Republican), George Smathers / Orval E. Faubus (State's Rights), Wayne Morse / Stuart Symington (Progressive)

By 1952, the wheels were starting to come off Long's machine. The disparate coalition which had held him in power for two decades was falling apart. He realised that for the Democrats to continue to hold the Presidency they had to choose a side in the growing Civil Rights battle, lest they lose the North or the South. Kicking out Byrnes, he selected another Southerner, but one firmly on the opposite side of the aisle when it came to segregation. Long and Johnson's battle to overcome the South's prejudices was long and hard, and was frustrating to those on both sides who believed it was either a battle that shouldn't be fought in the first place, or was taking too long. The White House wanted to win the battle in such a way that they could still hold Democratic heartlands in the South. Meanwhile the Republicans went from isolationism to hawkishness, condemning Long's lack of vigour in preventing the growth of Communism in Southeast Asia or in Africa. Long himself was growing tired of his long reign, and saw in LBJ a worthy and suitable successor, and hoped to hand over to him once the Civil Rights battle was won to their mutual satisfaction. His best laid plans fell apart in the hung election of 1960 where no party emerged triumphant and Long was forced to accept a Republican Vice President.

1965-1966: John Connally / vacant (Independent)
1964 def. Lyndon B. Johnson / Eugene McCarthy (Democratic), Richard Nixon / John Connally (Independent), Barry Goldwater / George Wallace (Official 'Conservative' Republican / State's Rights), Nelson Rockefeller / Hubert H. Humphrey ('Liberal' Republican / Progressive)
1966-1969: Huey Long / John Connally (Democratic / Independent)

After four years of a bipartisan White House, Long made his decision to retire. He saw something of himself in Nixon and what satisfied with endorsing Johnson for the Democratic ticket, and felt that Nixon was a shoe in for the Republican nomination. No matter who won, he felt, Longism would be the victor. As it was, the Republicans fragmented horribly, as conservatives and liberals alike refused to endorse Nixon who was tainted by association with Long, but was nevertheless popular with the grassroots. His Independent candidacy nearly won through, and after the House could not choose a President, his V-P Connally became Acting President. After many stressful months in the House, it was eventually decided to bring Long out of retirement and back to the Presidency, after Democrats, Liberal Republicans and Progressives all agreed.

1969-1972: Huey Long / Robert F. Kennedy (Democratic)
1968 def. Richard Nixon / George W. Romney (Republican), John Connally / Curtis LeMay (Conservative)
1972-1973: Huey Long / vacant (Democratic)
1973-1975: Huey Long / Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
1972 def. John M. Ashbrook / Spiro Agnew (Republican)
1975-1975: Huey Long / vacant (Democratic)
1975-1978: Huey Long / Ronald Reagan (Democratic)
1976 def. Charles Mathias / Richard Schweiker (Republican)
1978-0000: Ronald Reagan / vacant (Democratic)

The last nine years of Long's Presidency were a farce of a man trying to retire and annoint a successor but that successor always dying. Long himself was now an institution, an embodiment of the Presidency itself, at the centre of the vast web of patronage, and state/federal bodies that implemented the 'Every Man A King' agenda. After RFK's death at the end of assassin's gun barrel and Johnson's return cut short by heart failure, Long plumped for a man much like himself in terms of showmanship and cutting a charismatic dash through the establishment. Long never got his retirement, passing away at the age of eighty-five, matching his father in age, having served as President for a total of forty-four of the past forty-five years.

 

[Cevolian]

The Comeback Kid
"When your back is against the wall there is only one thing to do, and that is to turn around and fight."
- John Major
​

1990-1992: John Major (Conservative Majority)
1992-1993: Neil Kinnock (Labour)
1992: (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def - John Major (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrats)
1993-1997: Gerald Kaufman (Labour Minority with SDLP Confidence and Supply)
1997-2003: Sir John Major (Conservative)
1997: (Majority) def - Gerald Kaufman (Labour), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrats), Alan Sked (UKIP)
2001: (Majority) def - Robin Cooke (Labour), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrats), Nigel Farage (UKIP)
2003-2005: Ken Clarke (Conservative Majority)
2005-2014: Alan Johnson (Labour)
2005: (Majority) def - Ken Clarke (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrats), Nigel Farage (UKIP)
2009: (Majority) def - Tim Collins (Conservative), Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrats), Gerard Batten (UKIP)
2013: (Majority) def - Douglas Carswell (Conservative), Aaron Banks (UKIP), Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrats)
2014-2017: Ed Miliband (Labour Majority)
2017-0000: Steve Hilton (Conservative)
2017: (New Deal Coalition with Patriotic Alliance) def - Ed Miliband (Labour), David Laws (Liberal Democrats), Aaron Banks (New Deal - Patriotic Alliance), Nigel Farage (National)


Ok, this is my attempt at a "John Major comeback" TL. The POD is that Sir John loses the 1992 election to Kinnock, but decides to stay on until 1993 and before he can be challenged for the eadership a worse Black Wednesday fells Kinnock and John Smith. Major, who jumped to criticise the Crisis early on races ahead in the opinion polls, especially after the Lib Dems exit their coalition with Labour and leave a weak minority government under Kaufman, which Major beats in 1997, winning a comfortable majority. Benefiting from an economy which seems to perform better after Black Wednesday Major wins again in 2001, and retires comfortably in 2003 in part thanks to "Currie-Gate". Ken Clarke then proceeds to lose the election as Nigel Farage's UKIP surges in Conservative Thatcherite heartlands. We get 12 years of Labour Government which sees sweeping reform, but also rising inequality after the 2009 recession, and though Labour manage to win in 2013 (partly because Aaron Banks' UKIP massively outperforms expectations on an economically "populist" message), Ed Miliband loses in 2017 to Tory Radical Steve Hilton who, in alliance with Banks (who's abandoning of explicitly Free Market principles led UKIP to split) forms a government promoting a radical, populist, agenda...

(P.S. pls don't hurt me @Japhy I provided notes just like you asked <3 )

 

[Cevolian]

Oh ffs cucked in this thread by Mumby again

 

[Mumby]

Oh ffs cucked in this thread by Mumby again

i swear i dont do it deliberately

 

[Cevolian]

i swear i dont do it deliberately

Clearly our cycles are just in sync

 

[Nofix]

List of Premiers to the Scottish House of Assembly

1985-1987: Janet Ray Michie (Alliance) [1]
def. Dennis Canavan (Labour), William McRae (Nationalist), Barry Henderson (Conservative)
1987-1991: Dennis Canavan (Labour) [2]
def. Janet Ray Michie (Alliance), Barry Henderson (Conservative), William McRae (Nationalist),
1991-1995: Dennis Canavan (Labour) [3]
def. Malcom Bruce (Alliance), Winnie Ewing (Nationalist), Barry Henderson (Conservative), various (Ind. Labour)
1995-1999: James White (Labour) [4]
def. Dick Douglas (Democratic) [5], Jackson Carlaw (Unionist) [6], Jim Wallace (Alliance), Neil MacCormick (Nationalist)
1999-????: David Mundell (Alliance) [7]
def. Stephen Maxwell (Democratic), Ian Lang (Labour), Jackson Carlaw (Unionist)

[1] Stood down from her MP seat to take an Assembly seat. As one of the lead Alliance MP's who shepherded through Scottish home rule, she was chosen as party leader and to serve as the first Premier after elections in 1985. While holding a plurality of seats, she had enough members that she could comfortably lead her party for the first two years. She and the First Alliance Government in Scotland were brought down by the Local Rate's Incident.

[2] Lead the First Labour Government in Scotland. Notably had difficult relations with the national Labour Party under Prime Minister Cook and earned quite a large amount of votes from disaffected Nationalist voters. Was almost assassinated in 1990.

[3] Lead the Second Labour Government in Scotland with a much reduced majority. Lead negotiations with Parliament over the proposed Scottish Senate, which was turned down in a 1994 referendum.

[4] One of the alleged "6 Bastards" who were influential in blocking Canavan from a third term as Premier, and ending his political career. Formed coalition with the rump Scottish Nationalists and the two Independents.

[5] Lead an exodus of left-wing Nationalist Party members out to form a new party.

[6] Oversaw the independence of the Scottish Conservative Party as the Scottish Unionist Party, along the lines of the Bavarian Christian Social Union.

[7] Mundell won a narrow majority over the distant second, third, and fourth parties. Formed a coalition with the Unionists.

 

[Callan]

I'm not sure when this list became an excuse to make Stephen Harper a Liberal, but whatever.

Stephen Harper was a Liberal when he was at university and left for the Progressive Conservatives when Pierre Trudeau introduced the National Energy Policy. He then left the PCs because he didn't like how Mulroney was running up the deficit even further, and only joined the Reform Party after being personally introduced to Preston Manning.

Whichever party he ends up in is very easily butterfliable.

 

[Gordian]

Stephen Harper was a Liberal when he was at university and left for the Progressive Conservatives when Pierre Trudeau introduced the National Energy Policy. He then left the PCs because he didn't like how Mulroney was running up the deficit even further, and only joined the Reform Party after being personally introduced to Preston Manning.

Whichever party he ends up in is very easily butterfliable.

Honestly if he stayed in Ontario and at the University of Toronto instead of dropping out and heading to Alberta he very easily could have remained a Liberal.

 

[Cevolian]

A Very British Dictatorship

1916-1917: David Lloyd George (Liberal leading War Government with Conservative, Labour and the IPP)
1917-1917: Andrew Bonar Law (Conservative leading Peace Government with Liberals, Labour and the IPP)
1917-1924: Edward Carson (Radical Unionist)
1917 (Restoration Coupon with Anti-Treaty Conservatives and Nationals) def. William Adamson (Pro-Treaty Labour), Austen Chamberlain (Conservative / Liberal --- Pro-Treaty Coupon), George Nicoll Barnes (Anti-Treaty Labour)
1920 (Majority) def. James Andrew Seddon (British Workers' League), William Adamson (Labour), Austen Chamberlain (Liberal-Conservative)

Britain's defeat in the Great War did not lead to any great loss in territory excepting the colonies acquired for prestige during the age of New Imperialism. And of course, they were forced to concede the independence of Ireland. All of Ireland. While Germany reigned supreme in Europe, dominating France and taking a swathe of Eastern Europe from the former Russian Empire, the Kaiser hoped that the defeated Britain could become a key ally in the new 'Weltsystem'. Not to mention that the destruction of the German High Seas Fleet in the waning days of the war meant they could do little to enforce a humiliation of Britain on the scale of France. But it was not to be. Anti-Treaty parties won a majority in Parliament in 1917 and the Anti-Treaty forces of the Right eventually coalesced into the Radical Unionist Party, which called for the Restoration of British rule in Ireland, the end of reparations to Germany and the reconstruction of the British Empire's international standing. Pro-Treaty groups, condemned as unpatriotic and pacifist declined against the Radical Unionists and the British Workers' League. The BWL was equally opposed to the post-war treaties but was aligned to the left of the political spectrum and was sharply opposed to the Radical Unionists opposition to the traditional trade union movement and hostility to the pre-war Peoples Budget. Carson stepped down in 1924, making way for a supposedly more amicable figure to the BWL.

1924-1925: Winston Churchill (Radical Unionist majority)
1925-1925: Ernest Bevin (British Workers' League)
1925 (Coalition with Labour, with confidence and supply from Liberal-Conservatives) def. Winston Churchill (Radical Unionist), James Maxton (Labour), Austen Chamberlain (Liberal-Conservative)
1925-1926: Winston Churchill (Radical Unionist leading Emergency Government with Patriotic Workers' and Military support)

Churchill, whose progressive leaning had evaporated after the war, proved to be even more hardline than Carson and in the midst of a depressed economy, as a refusal to engage with Mitteleuropa, along with a killer combination of heavy tariffs and a switch to the gold standard led to rising costs of living, a General Strike was called. Aware that the general election was in less than a year, Churchill panicked and cracked down hard but his violent tactics merely hardened the resolve of the opposition and repulsed moderates. In 1925, the BWL managed to cobble together a coalition with Labour and a confidence and supply deal with Chamberlain, they had a majority. The Radical Unionists were still the largest party however and Churchill orchestrated a split in the BWL over the deal with Labour and with military support overthrew the shortlived socialist government. Churchill was Prime Minister again, but his time was short.

1926-1930: Noel Pemberton Billing (Radical Unionist leading Emergency Government with Military support)
1930-1934: Noel Pemberton Billing (Radical Unionist majority)

The Radical Unionist absorbed the hard-right Patriotic Workers' Party and then turfed out Churchill who had allowed matters to worsen to the point where they could lose a general election. The hardline anti-Semite Noel Pemberton Billing took power. The BWL and the Labour Party were banned, as were general elections. By-elections took place in the vacated seats under heavy observation and the Radical Unionists emerged with a super-majority, opposed only by the Liberal-Conservatives. Pemberton Billing put Britain onto a war footing, introducing conscription, vastly expanding the Air Force and pouring money into infrastructure projects to alleviate unemployment and dissolve unrest. He treated behind closed doors with General Secretary Kirov to bring an end to German domination in Europe. He tested German resolve by expanding the Royal Navy and carrying out manoeuvres in the North Sea, beating the drum for British settlers rights in East Africa, and by demanding a referendum in Ulster on rejoining Britain. Germany acquiesced despite Irish opposition in 1933, and the majority Protestant regions were annexed peacefully. The following year, British forces crossed the border into the Republic and Germany declared war. They didn't expect the Soviets to side with Britain.

1934-1936: Noel Pemberton Billing (Radical Unionist leading War Government)
1936-1941: Hugh Trenchard (Independent leading War Government with Radical Unionists)
1941-1942: Hugh Trenchard (Independent leading Reconstruction Government)

Pemberton Billing proved to be a poor war leader, and was replaced with the cooler head of Hugh Trenchard who ensured that wartime strikes were efficiently crushed, and saw the much expanded Air Force put to devastating use in Europe. After five years, British and Russian soldiers shook hands in the ruins of Germany and immediately began plotting against one another. Trenchard remained in office to see the country steered back onto a peace economy and the settlement of the new borders in Europe and the newly expanded British Empire.

1942-1956: Reginald Dorman-Smith (Radical Unionist majority)
1956-1988: Harold Philby (Radical Unionist majority)
1988-1992: Norman St John Stevas (Radical Unionist majority)
1992-2011: Anthony Lyndon Blair (Radical Unionist majority)
2011-present: Quentin Davies (Radical Unionist majority)

The Prime Ministers of Britain since the Second Great War have tended not to be wild demagogues like Pemberton Billing, though all owe their presence in office to his legacy of a 'managed democracy'. They have tended to be level-headed chaps, of a certain conservative or even centrist bent, but nevertheless committed to strong and stable government. From the 50s through to the 80s, the overextended British Empire experienced a series of setbacks, losing much of Central Africa to Bolshevik inspired revolutionaries, while the monarchies of the Middle East and North Africa were overthrown and replaced by socialist republics. India was lost, and the colonies of her allies in Europe slipped from their fingers. But she has retained enough to still be a Great Power, with the backing of her Loyal Dominions, and with the quiet support of the United States, she is still the primary power in opposition to the Red Menace...

HOW DID I NEVER SEE THIS

 

[Bolt451]

Le Royaume En Marche!
​

President of the French 5th Republic;


2012-2017: François Hollande (Parti Socialiste)
2012 (1st round) def - Nicolas Sarkozy (Union pour un Mouvement Populaire), Marine LePen (Front National), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (Front de Gauche), François Bayrou (MoDem)
2012 (2nd round) def - Nicolas Sarkozy (UMP)
2017-2027: Emmanuel Macron (En Marche!)
2017 (1st round) def - Marine LePen (Front National), François Fillon (Les Républicans), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (La France Insoumise), Benoit Harmon (Parti Socialite)
2017 (2nd round) def - Marine LePen (Front National)
2022 (1st round) def - Bruno Le Marie (Les Républicans), Nicholas Bay (Front National), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (Front Populaire - LFI/PS)
2022 (2nd round) def - Bruno Le Marie (Les Républicans)
2026 (Constitutional Referendum) - Should France abolish the 5th Republic and elect a King/Queen for a lifelong term? - Yes; 51.3%

Monarch of the Kingdom of France;

2027-2030: Emmanuel I (Macron - Le Royaume En Marche!)
2027 (1st round) def - François Hollande (Front Républican), Marine LePen (Front National - Action Français)
2027 (2nd round) def - François Hollande (Front Républican)
2030-2035: Brigitte (Macron - Regency)

President of the French 6th Republic;

2035-0000: Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet (Rassemblement pour une République Constitutionnelle)
2035 (1st round) def - Brigitte Macron (Macroniste), Nathalie Seguin (Alliance pour un Avenir Anticapitaliste)
2035 (2nd round) def - Brigitte Macron (Macroniste)

ooh I like it

*Benoit Hamon is crying* "I wanted a sixth republic but not like this!"

 

[Gorrister]

A Little Bit Of Wank

MPs for East (London)derry
2001-2010: Gregory Campbell (DUP)
2001 def: William Ross (UUP), John Dallat (SDLP), Francie Brolly (Sinn Féin), Yvonne Boyle (Alliance)
2005 def: David McClarty (UUP), John Dallat (SDLP), Billy Leonard (Sinn Féin), Yvonne Boyle (Alliance), Malcolm Samuel (Independent)
2010-2016: Wililam Ross (TUV)
2010 def: Gregory Campbell (DUP), David Harding (UUP), John Dallat (SDLP), Billy Leonard (Sinn Féin), Barney Fitzpatrick (Alliance)
2015 def: Claire Sugden (UUP), Gregory Campbell (DUP), Gerry Mullan (SDLP), Cathal Ó hOisín (Sinn Féin), Yvonne Boyle (Alliance), David McClarty (Independent), Russell Watton (PUP), Neil Paine (CISTA), Liz St. Clair-Legge (NI Conservative), Allison Watson (Green)
2016-2020: William Ross (NIPA)
2020-: Claire Sugden (UUP)
2020 def: Ruth Patterson (NIPA), John Dallat (SDLP), Gregory Campbell (Independent), Bernadette Archibald (Sinn Féin), George Robinson (DUP), Chris McCaw (Alliance), Gerry Mullan (Independent)

POD here is that the UUP elect Alan McFarland rather than Reg Empey in 2005. McFarland is at least slightly better at keeping the party above water for the 2007 Assembly Elections, not managing a complete disaster. As such, McFarland explicitly rules out a pact with the Tories for 2010, instead hoping to retake the mantle of unionism from the ascendant DUP and bring the party back from the cold. In East Londonderry this manifests itself in a very strong campaign from local candidate David Harding, who manages to cut into Gregory Campbell's voteshare. In addition, William Ross, attempting a comeback on the TUV bandwagon, was able to overcome concerns about his age to give Campbell a serious scare. The TUV surge was already giving DUP leaders at Stormont some amount of dread, but here it looked as if it could actually outpace them and steal a seat from under their noses. In addition to an apparently resurgent UUP, concerns were growing. And in the end, the fears were realised as William Ross scraped past Campbell on a recount, winning by what was perhaps one of the election's slimmest margins on 50 votes. The SDLP and Sinn Féin were dead even while the UUP was only peeking behind the DUP. The TUV double down on their success by winning three seats in 2011's Assembly elections, including one in their 'shining star' seat. Part of the TUV's extra influence at Stormont lead to a ban on double jobbing, which caused controversy for Campbell, who was not so secretly looking for his old seat back. As well as that, he attempted to contest the DUP's leadership election in 2014, called after Peter Robinson's resignation as a result of On The Runs. Nigel Dodds won the eventual contest but Campbell's relations with the party were soured somewhat, resulting in a testy selection contest for 2015 as the Stormont Government went in unpopular. Ross re-entered parliament even with a severely divided unionist opposition, leading calls for a pact between Sinn Féin and the SDLP whose united voteshare would've overtaken the unionists. The 2015 election also marked the first occassion of the TUV's electoral alliance with UKIP, who were on the rise both in Northern Ireland as an anti-corrpution force and nationally. This was later reinforced by a merger between the two parties in late 2016, done after UKIP's surge in the polls following Britain's vote to Remain in the EU. The two parties would become the Northern Irish Patriotic Alliance, led by Ruth Patterson.

Ross retired in 2020, well past the age of 80. Patterson dropped herself in what was seen as the party's most winnable seat, angering the local association. Campbell tried one last time but after being told he wouldn't be selected decided to stand as an independent. The SDLP would face a splinter of its own as former candidate Gerry Mullan broke off to run his own campaign. The UUP's 2015 candidate, Claire Sugden, ran a tough campaign against Patterson, aiming to win on a broad coalition of unionists and nationalists. She succeeded in doing so, just about pipping Patterson to the post while Dallat ran a close third. Patterson would resign, to be replaced on a temporary basis by party grandee Lord Allister, with the likely successor being North Belfast MLA Jolene Bunting.

 

[Cevolian]

WiP

First Minister of the English Parliament (2000-Present):

2000-2005: John Prescott (Labour)
2000: (Minority with Liberal Democrat Confidence and Supply) def - Frank Dobson (Conservative), Nigel Farage (UKIP)
2005-2014: David Cameron (Conservative)
2005: (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def - John Prescott (Labour), Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrats), Malcolm Pearson (UKIP), Nick Griffin (BNP)
2009 (JAN): (Grand Coalition with Labour) def - Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats), Malcolm Pearson (UKIP), Nick Griffin (BNP), collective (Abolish The Assembly), Steve Radford (Liberal)
2009 (OCT): (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def - James Purnell (Labour), Malcolm Pearson (UKIP), collective (Abolish The Assembly), Steve Radford (Liberal), Nick Griffin (BNP)
2014-2014: Priti Patel (Conservative-UKIP-Abolish The Assembly-Liberal Coalition)
2014-2016: Malcolm Pearson, Baron Pearson of Ranoch (UKIP)
2014: (Coalition with Abolish The Assembly and Liberals) def - Jon Crudas (Labour), Priti Patel (Conservative), Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrats), Tommy Robinson (English Democrats), Nick Griffin (Continuity BNP)
2015: Should the English Assembly be abolished and all powers returned to the Westminster Parliament? - No, 58.2%
2016-0000: Aaron Banks (Patriotic Union of Britons)
2016: (Coalition with Abolish The Assembly and Liberals with English Democrats Confidence and Supply) def - Jon Crudas (Labour), Malcolm Pearson (Official UKIP and "Brexit" Conservative Parliamentary Group), David Cameron ("Government" Conservative), Tim Farron (Liberal Democrats), collective (The Yorkshire Party)

 

[Utgard96]

So Abolish the Assembly becomes a party of government? How ironic.

 

[Cevolian]

So Abolish the Assembly becomes a party of government? How ironic.

Ironically, yes.

 

[Turquoise Blue]

I once did a list called "The People's Democracy". Now I'm doing a different version of it, seeing how the dream can become a nightmare.

The People's Democracy?
PoD: McCarthy is shot in 1974 and declines to run for a second term.

42: Gore Vidal (Social Democratic) 1976-1981
1975: def. Arvo Halberg (Communist), Jack McCain (Liberal-Moderate), Spiro Agnew (Constitution)
- The presidency of Gore Vidal was one of missed opportunities. Elected as McCarthy's successor, he initially appeared to be a good and competent president, his barbed attacks on rivals such as William F. Buckley, Jr. sank his presidency into controversy, and as a nation wished it could have a president who would unite the country, not divide it, they turned to an alternative.

43: Elvis Presley (United) 1981-1991
1980: def. Jeane Jordan (Communist), Gore Vidal (Social Democratic)
1985: def. Ronald Reagan (Communist), Birch Bayh (Social Democratic)
- The charismatic Southern preacher Elvis Presley struck a well-balanced tone. Decidely conservative, yet rejecting the "heartless ideological commitment" of Barry Goldwater in favour of a more "adaptive" view towards the economy, he created the modern American right, a very religious and socially conservative movement, yet one pragmatic on wallet issues.

44: Joe Biden (Communist) 1991-1993
1990: def. Pat Buchanan (United), Bernard Sanders (Social Democratic)
- Perhaps it was inevitable, but with the SDP languishing at twenty percent and Presley getting more extreme over time, the Communists won with the youthful revolutionary Joe Biden. But investigations into deals with the Soviet Union forced the military to step in a second time and remove the president - "for the good of the Republic".

45: Walter Mondale (Military) 1993-2001
- Admiral Mondale would not be known as the hero of the Republic like George Washington or George McGovern, but rather a deeply controversial figure. Realizing that the Communists' ties to Moscow went deep, he decided to root out the "communist menace" and when Congress voted against his actions, he sent in the troops, in what is known as "Powell's Purge" where General Powell forcibly disbanded Congress. Declaring the Third Republic dead, he oversaw a new convention that effectively made the military a fourth branch of government in the "Fourth Republic". Stepping down in 2001, he left the country far more austere and depressed than when he seized power.

46: Jefferson Blythe (Reform) 2001-2011
2000: def. Elizabeth Herring (Social Democratic), Donald Trump (Freedom)
2005: def. Condoleezza Rice (Social Democratic), John McCain (Freedom)
- Blythe was the ideal austere president for austere times. A solemn man who was rarely known for doing anything more pleasurable than finishing work, he was the ideal candidate for the conservative Reform Party, to show that America was finished with communist experimentation. His presidency was much like the man himself - boring, uncomplicated, insular.

47: Anthony Weiner (Social Democratic) 2011-2014
2010: def. Mitt Romney (Reform), Orrin Hatch (Freedom)
- A nation chafed under austere governance and wished for new hope for a new millennium. Governor Weiner, a fresh-faced and charismatic Social Democrat, promised that new hope. And for the first two years of his presidency, everything seemed to go well, moderate liberal reforms were passed and the country seemed to be slowly shifting to the left. But then it happened.

- As a country was in shock at the sexting scandal, President Weiner first denied it and then vowed never to do it again. When he was caught a second time, he was forced to resign in disgrace.

48: Evan Bayh (Social Democratic) 2014-2016
- President Bayh struggled to gather up the pieces after the SDP's popularity plummeted in the light of Weiner's scandals and resignation. The country shifted more and more to the right. His defeat was inevitable.

49: John Bush (Reform) 2016-present
2015: def. Ed Cruz (Freedom), Evan Bayh (Social Democratic)
- As the conservative establishment took control, the SDP fell to third a second time. President Bush, known for being a conservative crusader, is determined to crush out "liberal corruption" in American politics and an American populace heavily distrustful of the left after it disgraced itself twice [Biden and Weiner] is willing to let Bush return the country to conservative values for a conservative country. And the alternative to Bush? Even worse! As Social Democrats look over what went wrong, they wish things were back in the days of Eugene McCarthy. Things could have been better...

 

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2008-Barack Obama /Joe Biden 2009_20017 (D)

2016- Sony Bono / John Kasich 2017_ (R)

Sony Bono who defeated Arnold Schwarzenegger

in 2006 to become governor of California. Sony Bono then went on to

Narrowly defeating Donald trump for g.o.p nomination defeated H.R.C. in a close election