Not a Welsh Wizard, but a Grey One
1908: Herbert Henry Asquith (Liberal)
1910 (Jan): Herbert Henry Asquith (Liberal)
1910 (Dec): Herbert Henry Asquith (Liberal)
1914: Edward Grey (Liberal) [1]
1918: Edward Grey (Liberal-Labour Coalition) [2]
1920: George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (Conservative-National Liberal Coalition) [3]
1925: Ramsay MacDonald (Labour-IPP coalition) [4]
1927: Philip Snowden (Labour-IPP coalition) [5]
1930: Philip Snowden (Labour-Liberal coalition) [6]
1933: Oswald Mosley (Labour minority) [7]
1934: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative minority) [8]
1936: Oswald Mosley (Labour) [9]
1939: Oswald Mosley (Labour-IPP coalition) [10]
1941: Oswald Mosley (Labour) [11]
1946: Anthony Eden (Conservative-Liberal-IPP [12]
1950: Oswald Mosley (National Labour) [13]
1955: Oswald Mosley (National Labour) [14]
1959: Oswald Mosley (National Labour) [15]
1962: Dick Crossman (National Labour) [16]
1964: Harold Macmillan (NDP) [17]
1969: Anthony S. Beer (National Labour) [18]
1973: Anthony S. Beer (National Labour) [19]
[1] During a misjudged attempt at crossing the road, Asquith is clipped by a passing motorcar and suffers severe internal bleeding as three ribs are snapped. He resigns within a day and dies within the month. The hunt for his successor does not last long, and on 23 April 1914, Edward Grey kisses hands and becomes Prime Minister.
[2] As a result of the Home Rule Act, a civil war erupts in Ireland. Grey is helpless to intervene after the British Army mutinies. On the other hand, the government consolidates and extends welfare legislation at home, whilst the Conservatives remained divided over tariffs. A hung parliament in the 1918 election results in a Liberal-Labour coalition.
[3] The Conservatives easily win the 1920 election, which erupts after the deep divisions within the coalition over Labour's constitutional pledge to nationalise all means of production leads many prominent Liberals lead by Winston Churchill to cross the floor to sit as National Liberals. Both the Labour Party and the Liberal Party's votes fall drastically, with Labour voters disillusion with the moderation of the party of Keir Hardie and Liberal voters angered by the party of Gladstone going into open coalition with the socialists. Lord Curzon appoints Winston Churchill Home Secretary. Out on the continent, the Kaiser, whose aggressive foreign policy has been pushing the European peninsula towards war for over two decades, dies in a hunting accident in 1922. Wilhelm III is crowned Kaiser in Berlin.
[4] The Conservative Goverment was fatally wounded by the Vienna Telegram scandal, whereby they were was evidence found of discussions between the British, German and Austro-Hungarian governments over possible British neutrality if a war were to occur in the Balkans. As the Liberals were hopelessly divided, Labour come to power, one seat short of a majority, forming a coalition with the IPP.
[5] A formal opening of the Estuary Line on the London Underground turns to disaster when MacDonald is struck by the first train to pass through the platform. Labour quickly determine that Snowden, MacDonald's ally in Number 11 Downing Street, is the best choice for a successor. The IPP, too, are happy with Snowden.
[6] Inspired by the moderation of the labour movement in Scandinavia away from rigid Marxism, Philip Snowden pushes for the Labour Party to remove Clause IV, in order to strengthen their position as a credible party in government. Though it persuads the reunited Liberals under David Lloyd George that they can now cooperate with the Labour Party, many within the Labour Party is disillusioned by Snowden's move to the right, forming the Socialist Labour Party, committed to thorough nationalisation. After the 1930 election, Philip Snowden formally enters a coalition with the Liberals with Lloyd George as Deputy PM and Foreign Secretary. Debates commence in the House of Commons over electoral reform.
[7] Snowden resigns as leader of the Labour Party after a sensational conference, during which he fails to convince the party to agree to co-operating with the Liberals on the Representation of the People Bill, being narrowly defeated on the conference floor. Oswald Mosley, the leading light in the party since the defection of many of the 'Clause IV Martyrs', assumes the leadership, tries to save the Coalition but to no avail, and pledges to call an election within 12 months.
[8] Following the victory of Baldwin, albiet in a minority, Mosley, who remains Labour leader, reinstates Clause IV, reuniting the Labour Party.
[9] Baldwin's unstable government proves unable to deal with the Long Recession and Mosley sweeps back to power on a manifesto entitled 'Thinking Labour'. A calm and measured approach to nationalisation begins, starting with the railways and core utilities...
[10] Mosley is praised for his handling of the Austrian crisis and subsequent Austrian Civil war, which leads in 1941 to the disestablishment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the creation of Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia and various other states. The German and Russian civil wars also begin in 1941 a year known as the new 1789. Mosley leads Britain through the crisis in coalition with the Irish Parliamentary Party.
[11] Refusing to grant the Irish Parliamentary Party further autonomy for Eire, Mosley breaks up the coalition and calls for a new general election. Labour's manifesto calls not only for further nationalizations, but is also heavily influenced by the Social Credit movement. In the period 1941-45, the steel industry, the coal industry, the communications industry and the electronics industry are all nationalized. When unemployment and recession starts returning in 1943, Mosley institutes the National Corps to provide jobs for unemployed youths, as well as setting up the Mosley Tariffs, limiting importation of many natural resources.
[12] The economic stagnation of Britain due to the utterly failed Mosley economic policies combined with public wariness at the disasterous brutal and multisided civil wars raging from Normandy to Petrograd to Belgrade (and the Mosley governments inaction thereof) lead to fatal loss for the Labour Party. The moderate faction led by Attlee divides the party while the Conservatives and Liberals make gains almost wholly at the expense of Labour. Some Irish communities in Northern British cities elect Irish Parliamentarians too. The Conservatives lack a majority but still have some 300 seats, while the Liberals have 95. The Irish join the National Coalition (as it is being called) to "restore the United Kingdom" (with promises of a measure of Irish devolution.) The Labour Party remains divided and despised with Attlee's British Socialist Party at the throat of the rump Labour Party, which by now is a rather toxic brand. Many associate Mosley's hard socialism with the ongoing workers rebellions on the continent. In other news, the South German Peoples Republic loses control over Vienna for the third time. The National Republic of Italy still has not been able to take Rome from the Kingdom of Italy, and the recent border crossings by the Occitan Phalangists towards Genoa may make this more difficult, as long as the Occitans can hold the State of France at Vichy.
[13] Eden's deregulation of the economy just makes the recession worse, and by cutting the taxation that Oswald imposed to fund the new economy he creates a massive deficit. There are massive strikes taking place, and many people are outraged when Eden refuses to extend the National Corps to create more jobs. Consequently, Oswald has by 1950 rebuilt his place, and several Conservative and Liberal MPs has crossed the floor to join his reunited National Labour Party with a manifesto of "patriotic democratic socialism." In 1950, the coalition is bitterly divided and Mosley can comfortably demand a vote of no confidence, which he wins. In the election that follows, the National Labour Party acquires 463 seats and Mosley triumphantly reenters Downing Street. His first action is bold and it is decisive: To raise revenue and to ensure that no further crises of the nature ever arises, all banks are across the board nationalized. The move proves tremendously popular, and is soon followed by a doubling of the budget of the National Corps. The National Assets Bill of 1953 which declares that any state company may be privatized after such a plan has passed through three consecutive parliaments (the argument being that public industries and public assets are the property of the people and that immediate privatization thus constitutes theft) proves Mosley's greatest triumph for this term in government. In 1954, Mosley's approval ratings reaches 88%.
[14] Mosley's approval ratings remain sky-high, but the government does not quite maintain its huge majority, winning 'only' 351 seats in the face of the now 'dominant among the Opposition' Conservative Party, led by the dynamic Harold Macmillan. Some say 'Supermac' is the only man capable of ending Mosley's stranglehold on the love of the masses.
[15] Now well into his sixties, Mosley declares that this is the last campaign he will be fighting as leader of the National Labour Party. The popular leader is once again reelected, but now only with 338 seats (there exist at this point 600 seats in the Commons). Harold Macmillan and Liberal Leader Jo Grimond agree to merge their respective parties into the New Democratic Party, to act as a united force against the National Labour Party. In 1961, the government passes the Economic Planning and Stability Act, which lays out a binding schedule of acts to make Britain a centralized, planned economy by 1981.
[16] Mosley retires in a blaze of glory and Crossman, the economic genius behind much of his final government's work takes charge after a bitter leadership contest with Harold Wilson and Selwyn Lloyd.
[17] After decades of almost uninterrupted labour or national labour government, voters finally throw out the party. Infighting, political and economic stagnation plus a great deal of sleaze in a party far too comfortable with governing does the party in. Evidence of bribery and election tampering prove too much, and a significant portion of National Labours backbenchers join the NDP in a vote of no confidence. In the ensuring election the NDP sweeps to power with a very large majority. A liberalization of the over centralized economic system is their main priority, as Britain is falling behind even a few German sucessor states, as far as vitality and growth goes.
[18] National Labour may have been corrupt, but the NDP proves inept, stumbling from crisis to crisis. Plagued by cabinet resignations and a high level of ministerial churn, only MacMillan's charisma and personal popularity allows the party to hang on until the election of 1969. In opposition, the remaining rump of National Labour gravitates to the first-term MP for Manchester Openshaw, Anthony S. Beer, and his forward-looking, 'futurist' ginger group. In 1969, Beer wins a narrow majority for his party.
[19] The policy of 'sensible planning' and Beer's personal pushing of Cybersyn (the marriage of economic planning with emerging computer technology to calculate all possible outcomes in one central database) proves popular, and a swift deployment of the SAS during the Guernsey Hostage Crisis sees a full-scale war with Normandy averted. Off the back of this, National Labour incredibly return to power with an increased majority.
1908: Herbert Henry Asquith (Liberal)
1910 (Jan): Herbert Henry Asquith (Liberal)
1910 (Dec): Herbert Henry Asquith (Liberal)
1914: Edward Grey (Liberal) [1]
1918: Edward Grey (Liberal-Labour Coalition) [2]
1920: George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (Conservative-National Liberal Coalition) [3]
1925: Ramsay MacDonald (Labour-IPP coalition) [4]
1927: Philip Snowden (Labour-IPP coalition) [5]
1930: Philip Snowden (Labour-Liberal coalition) [6]
1933: Oswald Mosley (Labour minority) [7]
1934: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative minority) [8]
1936: Oswald Mosley (Labour) [9]
1939: Oswald Mosley (Labour-IPP coalition) [10]
1941: Oswald Mosley (Labour) [11]
1946: Anthony Eden (Conservative-Liberal-IPP [12]
1950: Oswald Mosley (National Labour) [13]
1955: Oswald Mosley (National Labour) [14]
1959: Oswald Mosley (National Labour) [15]
1962: Dick Crossman (National Labour) [16]
1964: Harold Macmillan (NDP) [17]
1969: Anthony S. Beer (National Labour) [18]
1973: Anthony S. Beer (National Labour) [19]
[1] During a misjudged attempt at crossing the road, Asquith is clipped by a passing motorcar and suffers severe internal bleeding as three ribs are snapped. He resigns within a day and dies within the month. The hunt for his successor does not last long, and on 23 April 1914, Edward Grey kisses hands and becomes Prime Minister.
[2] As a result of the Home Rule Act, a civil war erupts in Ireland. Grey is helpless to intervene after the British Army mutinies. On the other hand, the government consolidates and extends welfare legislation at home, whilst the Conservatives remained divided over tariffs. A hung parliament in the 1918 election results in a Liberal-Labour coalition.
[3] The Conservatives easily win the 1920 election, which erupts after the deep divisions within the coalition over Labour's constitutional pledge to nationalise all means of production leads many prominent Liberals lead by Winston Churchill to cross the floor to sit as National Liberals. Both the Labour Party and the Liberal Party's votes fall drastically, with Labour voters disillusion with the moderation of the party of Keir Hardie and Liberal voters angered by the party of Gladstone going into open coalition with the socialists. Lord Curzon appoints Winston Churchill Home Secretary. Out on the continent, the Kaiser, whose aggressive foreign policy has been pushing the European peninsula towards war for over two decades, dies in a hunting accident in 1922. Wilhelm III is crowned Kaiser in Berlin.
[4] The Conservative Goverment was fatally wounded by the Vienna Telegram scandal, whereby they were was evidence found of discussions between the British, German and Austro-Hungarian governments over possible British neutrality if a war were to occur in the Balkans. As the Liberals were hopelessly divided, Labour come to power, one seat short of a majority, forming a coalition with the IPP.
[5] A formal opening of the Estuary Line on the London Underground turns to disaster when MacDonald is struck by the first train to pass through the platform. Labour quickly determine that Snowden, MacDonald's ally in Number 11 Downing Street, is the best choice for a successor. The IPP, too, are happy with Snowden.
[6] Inspired by the moderation of the labour movement in Scandinavia away from rigid Marxism, Philip Snowden pushes for the Labour Party to remove Clause IV, in order to strengthen their position as a credible party in government. Though it persuads the reunited Liberals under David Lloyd George that they can now cooperate with the Labour Party, many within the Labour Party is disillusioned by Snowden's move to the right, forming the Socialist Labour Party, committed to thorough nationalisation. After the 1930 election, Philip Snowden formally enters a coalition with the Liberals with Lloyd George as Deputy PM and Foreign Secretary. Debates commence in the House of Commons over electoral reform.
[7] Snowden resigns as leader of the Labour Party after a sensational conference, during which he fails to convince the party to agree to co-operating with the Liberals on the Representation of the People Bill, being narrowly defeated on the conference floor. Oswald Mosley, the leading light in the party since the defection of many of the 'Clause IV Martyrs', assumes the leadership, tries to save the Coalition but to no avail, and pledges to call an election within 12 months.
[8] Following the victory of Baldwin, albiet in a minority, Mosley, who remains Labour leader, reinstates Clause IV, reuniting the Labour Party.
[9] Baldwin's unstable government proves unable to deal with the Long Recession and Mosley sweeps back to power on a manifesto entitled 'Thinking Labour'. A calm and measured approach to nationalisation begins, starting with the railways and core utilities...
[10] Mosley is praised for his handling of the Austrian crisis and subsequent Austrian Civil war, which leads in 1941 to the disestablishment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the creation of Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia and various other states. The German and Russian civil wars also begin in 1941 a year known as the new 1789. Mosley leads Britain through the crisis in coalition with the Irish Parliamentary Party.
[11] Refusing to grant the Irish Parliamentary Party further autonomy for Eire, Mosley breaks up the coalition and calls for a new general election. Labour's manifesto calls not only for further nationalizations, but is also heavily influenced by the Social Credit movement. In the period 1941-45, the steel industry, the coal industry, the communications industry and the electronics industry are all nationalized. When unemployment and recession starts returning in 1943, Mosley institutes the National Corps to provide jobs for unemployed youths, as well as setting up the Mosley Tariffs, limiting importation of many natural resources.
[12] The economic stagnation of Britain due to the utterly failed Mosley economic policies combined with public wariness at the disasterous brutal and multisided civil wars raging from Normandy to Petrograd to Belgrade (and the Mosley governments inaction thereof) lead to fatal loss for the Labour Party. The moderate faction led by Attlee divides the party while the Conservatives and Liberals make gains almost wholly at the expense of Labour. Some Irish communities in Northern British cities elect Irish Parliamentarians too. The Conservatives lack a majority but still have some 300 seats, while the Liberals have 95. The Irish join the National Coalition (as it is being called) to "restore the United Kingdom" (with promises of a measure of Irish devolution.) The Labour Party remains divided and despised with Attlee's British Socialist Party at the throat of the rump Labour Party, which by now is a rather toxic brand. Many associate Mosley's hard socialism with the ongoing workers rebellions on the continent. In other news, the South German Peoples Republic loses control over Vienna for the third time. The National Republic of Italy still has not been able to take Rome from the Kingdom of Italy, and the recent border crossings by the Occitan Phalangists towards Genoa may make this more difficult, as long as the Occitans can hold the State of France at Vichy.
[13] Eden's deregulation of the economy just makes the recession worse, and by cutting the taxation that Oswald imposed to fund the new economy he creates a massive deficit. There are massive strikes taking place, and many people are outraged when Eden refuses to extend the National Corps to create more jobs. Consequently, Oswald has by 1950 rebuilt his place, and several Conservative and Liberal MPs has crossed the floor to join his reunited National Labour Party with a manifesto of "patriotic democratic socialism." In 1950, the coalition is bitterly divided and Mosley can comfortably demand a vote of no confidence, which he wins. In the election that follows, the National Labour Party acquires 463 seats and Mosley triumphantly reenters Downing Street. His first action is bold and it is decisive: To raise revenue and to ensure that no further crises of the nature ever arises, all banks are across the board nationalized. The move proves tremendously popular, and is soon followed by a doubling of the budget of the National Corps. The National Assets Bill of 1953 which declares that any state company may be privatized after such a plan has passed through three consecutive parliaments (the argument being that public industries and public assets are the property of the people and that immediate privatization thus constitutes theft) proves Mosley's greatest triumph for this term in government. In 1954, Mosley's approval ratings reaches 88%.
[14] Mosley's approval ratings remain sky-high, but the government does not quite maintain its huge majority, winning 'only' 351 seats in the face of the now 'dominant among the Opposition' Conservative Party, led by the dynamic Harold Macmillan. Some say 'Supermac' is the only man capable of ending Mosley's stranglehold on the love of the masses.
[15] Now well into his sixties, Mosley declares that this is the last campaign he will be fighting as leader of the National Labour Party. The popular leader is once again reelected, but now only with 338 seats (there exist at this point 600 seats in the Commons). Harold Macmillan and Liberal Leader Jo Grimond agree to merge their respective parties into the New Democratic Party, to act as a united force against the National Labour Party. In 1961, the government passes the Economic Planning and Stability Act, which lays out a binding schedule of acts to make Britain a centralized, planned economy by 1981.
[16] Mosley retires in a blaze of glory and Crossman, the economic genius behind much of his final government's work takes charge after a bitter leadership contest with Harold Wilson and Selwyn Lloyd.
[17] After decades of almost uninterrupted labour or national labour government, voters finally throw out the party. Infighting, political and economic stagnation plus a great deal of sleaze in a party far too comfortable with governing does the party in. Evidence of bribery and election tampering prove too much, and a significant portion of National Labours backbenchers join the NDP in a vote of no confidence. In the ensuring election the NDP sweeps to power with a very large majority. A liberalization of the over centralized economic system is their main priority, as Britain is falling behind even a few German sucessor states, as far as vitality and growth goes.
[18] National Labour may have been corrupt, but the NDP proves inept, stumbling from crisis to crisis. Plagued by cabinet resignations and a high level of ministerial churn, only MacMillan's charisma and personal popularity allows the party to hang on until the election of 1969. In opposition, the remaining rump of National Labour gravitates to the first-term MP for Manchester Openshaw, Anthony S. Beer, and his forward-looking, 'futurist' ginger group. In 1969, Beer wins a narrow majority for his party.
[19] The policy of 'sensible planning' and Beer's personal pushing of Cybersyn (the marriage of economic planning with emerging computer technology to calculate all possible outcomes in one central database) proves popular, and a swift deployment of the SAS during the Guernsey Hostage Crisis sees a full-scale war with Normandy averted. Off the back of this, National Labour incredibly return to power with an increased majority.
