Campbell-Bannerman Lives (No Mosleys or Powells allowed at any point)
1911: Henry Campbell-Bannerman (Liberal) [1]
1913: Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (Liberal-Conservative War Cabinet) [2]
1919: John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland (National Party) [3]
1923: Winston Churchill (National) [4]
1927: Winston Churchill (National-Saviours of Britain Coalition) [5]
1931: Winston Churchill (National-Saviours of Britain-Conservative Coalition) [6]
1934: Robert Falcon Scott (Saviours of Britain-Scoial Credit Coalition) [7]
1936: Robert Falcon Scott (Saviours of Britain-Social Credit War Cabinet) [8]
1945: Eric Blair (Saviours of Britain-Social Credit-National-Conservative-Liberal National Government) [9]
1950: Clement Attlee (Social Credit-National-Liberal Coalition) [10]
1954: Francis de Groot (Saviours of Britain-National-Conservative Coalition) [11]
1959: Francis de Groot (Saviours of Britain-Conservative Coalition) [12]
1963: Alfred Beveridge (Social Credit-Liberal Coalition) [13]
1967: Alfred Beveridge (Social Union) [14]
1971: Sir Hugh Greene (Liberal Conservative) [15]
1975: Arthur Kenneth Chesterton (Saviours of Britain-New Conservative Coalition) [16]
1979: Alfred Beveridge (Social Union) [17]
1982: David Owen (Social Union) [18]
1987: David Owen (Social Union) [19]
1992: David Owen (Social Union) [20]
1994: Natalie Hancock (Social Union) [21]
1998: Natalie Hancock (Social Union) [22]
[1] After a health scare in 1908 proved nothing more than a scare, Campbell Bannerman went to the country in 1911 after five years of successful, radical and Liberal administration. He and his party were rewarded with a moderately reduced majority, losing mostly to the Tories, but some seats to the Labour Representation Committee, which had renamed itself the Labour Party.
[2] Less than five months after the election, on January 27 1912, Kaiser Wilhelm II is assassinated in Berlin while viewing a parade for his birthday celebrations by a French nationalist. Kaiser Wilhelm III and Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg skillfully manages to provoke the French authorities by demanding that the Germans be allowed to investigate the roots in France on their own. Soon enough, armament starts along the Franco-German lines, and Britain finds herself dragged into the war when Germany enters Belgium. Henry Campbell-Bannerman proves a very inefficient war leader, and the Fiasco of the Jutland Campaign forces the old Prime Minister to resign. The Liberal leader in the House of Lords, Lord Rosebery, returns to office and forms a war cabinet with the Liberal Unionists and the Conservatives. Notably absent is the Labour Party from the coalition.
[3] France collapses in July 1919 and soon after the Russian war effort also collapses as that country descends into violent revolution. Although there is also significant unrest, the German Empire (now virtualy a Military Dictatorship) and thier Austrian allies are in almost complete controll of the European continent. As a result, Primrose requests and armistace with the Germans and is voted out in a vote of no confidence. As a result, John Sinclair, the leader of the "War Liberal" faction comes to power and merges the two members of the wartime coalition government into the National Party, leaving the remaining Liberals who didn't join and the increasingly radical Labour party. Although Britain remained in posscesion of all Germanies colonies and occupied much of the former Ottoman Empire, the armistace, workers unrest and violent rebbelion in Ireland during the war created a signifcant right wing swing and the beggining of a large red scare.
[4] Churchill expanded the armed forces, keeping control of the Empire, and stationing troops in restive cities. Churchill was accused of emulating the French military dictator Phillipe Petain, but he ignored these claims. Churchill was loudly supportive of the election of Charles Lindbergh as President of the United States and attempted to re-establish relations with Germany against Soviet Russia, particularly after Austria-Hungary collapsed and was reformed as the Social Union of Danubia.
[5] At the next election, in order to stave of growing support for the Labour and Communist Parties, Churchill enters in a coalition with the more extreme Saviours of Britain, led by former Antarctic hero and rabid anti-communist Robert Falcon Scott. However, Churchill's plans to create an Anti-Communist Coalition in Europe fail spectacularly when the Military regime in Germany is overthrown and a Social Democratic/Technocratic Republic established, which, although not full blown communist, immediately allies itself with the SUD and Soviet Russia. As a result, Churchill begins to re-establish relations with Petain's France and encourages the non-authoritarian but still rabidly anti-communist Lindbergh administration to enter into a non-agression pact with Japan so as to counter growing Soviet influence in Asia. Also, Churchill's second period in office also sees the beginning of the "Fourth Great Awakening" as the US sees an explosion of Evangelist Christianity.
[6] Social Credit emerges as a rallying call for the British people, neatly combining nationalism with left-wing social-economic policies. Churchill is forced to fall back on other parties of the right to maintain his government. Meanwhile, Trotsky's policies in the USSR are leading to a major fall in productivity, as millions starve from collectivisation and the military is elevated above the needs of the proletariat.
[7] Churchill retires and as a result, the coalition breaks up. In order to boost support for his own party, Scott enters into a coalition with the Social Credit Party, agreeing to implement some of that parties economic policies and, riding on an increasing fear of communism as a result of the atrocities in the USSR and elsewhere, this coalition is able to win the election with a fairly solid majority. Scott begins to promote his brand of what he calls "Democratic Fascism", emulating elements of the policies of countries such as Mussolini's Italy and others such as extreme nationalism and anti-communism while maintaining a functioning parliamentary documentary and maintaining British institutions. Scott also begins to gear up for another war as the Soviets, the SUD and the Germans begin to prepare to "Spread the Revolution".
[8] The 'Eastern Coalition' of Russia, Germany and Danubia started the 'Revolutionary War' with the Russian invasion of Finland. Scott soon formed a War Cabinet, and began preparing for the Conflict. The war years were a time of Britain's Second Industrial Revolution under Social Credit economic policies. But as the Communists and their allies shuddered across Europe, the BUF in France look less and less like it was up to the task of defending Britain.
[9] The war drags on, and on, and on. But by 1944, the sheer numbers of the Eastern Coalition finally overcome the technological lead that the Allies (UK, US, France, Italy, Japan) had and by the end of that year, only Iberia and part of the Italian Peninsula were the only parts of Europe in Allied hands. To make matters worse for the allies, the US suffers a coup by extremist army officers influenced by the "Fourth Great Awakening" and disgruntled at the currant administrations handling of the war, the result being the creation of the HSA (Holy States of America), effectively an evangelist theocracy. Despite the new regimes talk of destroying "Godless Communism" and continuing the war, the political instability means that Japan, who's campaign against the Soviets in Siberia had turned into a stalemate, betrayed it's erstwhile allies by attacking the American Base at Pearl Harbour and launching attacks on the Philippines, French Indo- China and the British bases at Hong Kong and Singapore. To add to the allies woes, Scott is killed early in 1945 during a German bombing raid and as a result, his Minister of Information, the charismatic Eric Blair, ascends to the premiership. With the war effort now desperate, Blair takes extreme measures, banning the Labour and Communist parties as well as the now militant TUC and forming an all party emergency national government.
[10] By 1948, only Britain remained unconquered. But the vast socialist empire was starting to disintegrate, between rebellions from the conquered peoples and disagreements between interpretations of socialism between Technocratic Germany, Trotskyist Russia and National Socialist (not that one) Danubia. By 1949, America was back on the front foot and had persuaded the Japanese to let go of conquered American Pacific territories in favour of attacking the Soviet Union. In June 1949, the Americans dropped a nuclear bomb on Berlin, Moscow, Vienna and Petrograd (reasoning that in Trotskyist Russia it wouldn't be Leningrad). This collapse in Central government allowed the rebels to take control, completely redrawing the map of Europe. After the war, the people wanted to relax and draw back from the feverish emotions of the war. The idea of a leisure society with more time for relaxation caught on and the Social Credit Party caught on. However, enough people felt that leftism was dangerous to vote for the Nationals. Clement Attlee lead a coalition of the Social Credit, National and Liberal Parties. During this time, Social Credit absorbed much of the old Labour electorate.
[11] The Nationals, who objected to some of the more left-wing elements of Attlee's economic reforms, jumped the coalition and instead, along with the Conservatives, backed the Saviours of Britain at the '54 election, which the new coalition, with charismatic Irishman Francis de Groot elected Prime Minister, won. By this time, Social Credit policies had began to make the beginnings of the "Leisure Society" come in to being and with a large variety of consumer goods being produced by Britain's modern industrial base, it seemed to many that after years of war, the good times had finally arrived. On he International Stage, de Groot, following previous Social Credit Policy, began to invest heavily in the Empire, with large scale investment in industry and resource extraction while binding the White Dominions closer.
[12] Despite America's eventual domination of the war effort, its extreme religiosity and a return to isolationism leave Britain the only unconquered European Great Power to pick up the pieces. But the destruction wreaked by German and Russian bombers takes up so much cost that the Empire slowly disintegrates due to the sheer expense. Fortunately, the war effort had re-industrialised a flagging economy and it didn't take a lot post war to turn armaments factories into factories for the manufacture of consumer goods. Keeping to Social Credit ideas, money is reinvested into new technologies allowing people to have more free time. By 1961, working hours had reduced and for the first time since the war, Britain and the remaining Empire could relax. The National Party collapses, and is absorbed by the Liberal and Conservative Parties.
[13] Son of Liberal cabinet minister William Beveridge, Alfred had a distinctly radical streak and though he was close to the Liberals joined the Social Credit Party. After the Social Credit-Liberal alliance won the 1963 election in a surprise upset, they begun to restructure the British Welfare State, introducing the British Medicine Bureau to administer health care. Beveridge, like his father, was a supporter of the eugenics movement which after the war was gaining substantial popularity in the country. The extreme religiosity of the Holy States and their denunciation of Darwinism had led the British to embrace it as a symbol of opposition, and in the early 60s, advocates of Eugenics were making the argument that its implementation was only the natural next step. In 1967 Beveridge managed to push through the Genetic Health Act, instituting the Department of Eugenics, charged with ensuring that only genetically healthy coupled were allowed to marry and that "unhealthy and undesirable elements of society" were sterilized.
[14] In an attempt to strengthen his position, the Social Credit and Liberal Parties are united into the Social Union Party. Evidence is shown by the Eugenics Department scientists that mixed race unions produce healthier children due to the greater genetic variation that such a union would produce. Hence, the Cultural Mescegenation Act is passed encouraging more migration from and to the White Dominions. The Union of South Africa declares independence over the Act arguing that racial apartness is the correct path. In other news, the United Kingdom is federalised to make it more similar in structure to the broadly federal British Dominions. The Federation of Zanj (East Africa) becomes a new British Dominion, as does the Union of Cippain (Carribean).
[15] The recession of the late 1960s hands the election narrowly to the Lib Cons, who formally merged in 1959. After years in the wilderness, Greene has led the Lib Cons into the centre ground of the post-Social Credit consensus and does not repeal many measures pursued by the preceding governments, despite wailing and gnashing of teeth from his backbenchers.
[16] After over 10 years in the wilderness, the Saviours of Britain return under A.K. Chesterton. Chesterton had fought his campaign trail on the platform of completing a federalisation of the Empire, abolishing the Cultural Mescegenation Act, and reacting more robustly to the worsening Cairo Riots. The Liberal Conservatives and the Social Unionists had argued for bringing Egypt into the Empire as a Dominion, united with Sudan and the remaining chunk of British Somaliland but under their own king. This had not gone down well, and the Saviours of Britain violently opposed a Dominion in the Empire not having King Edward as monarch. Chesterton had played down his previous involvement in anti-Semitic and racist groups, but had promised to separate British politics from the Social Credit consensus and rebuild Britain anew.
[17] Chesterton failed to bring down the Cultural Mescegenation Act, and the coal miners' strike of 1979 makes the coalition collapse from within in bitter infighting, and in the consequent election Alfred Beveridge brings the Social Unionists back into government at the remarkable age of 72 years. He only sits as Prime Minister for two more years before retiring so that his much younger Foreign Secretary, David Owen, may assume the premiership.
[18] Owen presides over a time where the policies of previous governments come of age. A rapidly increasing percentage of the population is mixed race, the last colonies are given responsible government as independent republics, and the Commonwealth Meetings of Prime Ministers become an annual affair. Owen held a general election in 1982, increasing the majority for the Social Unionists, after an attempt by the Holy States to blockade British exports failed in spectacular fashion largely due to the efforts of Owen's government. The Saviours of Britain split in two into the New Nationals, a more right-wing version of Conservatism and the Patriot's Front a more fascist-like and racialist organisation.
[19] With no effective opposition after its latest division, Owen waits for as long as possible before calling a new election, anticipating that he will win nonetheless, and thus bides his time to maximize the Social Union's time in government. As expected, Owen wins in the Silent Landslide, gaining 416 seats for Social Union in the House of Commons.
[20] Owen had another largely quiet term, but in 1992 just before the general election, the German Central Bank collapsed from lack of trust in the Deutschmark and rapid inflation. The interconnectedness of European banks starts a recession. The British relative separation from Europe allows it to stand up better, but Owen's government discusses radical moves. By this point the 'Beveridge Children' are having children of their own, and increasingly forming a plurality of the British population, dominating Parliament particularly through the Social Unionists. Owen says he will step down at the next election.
[21] David Owen steps down after 14 years in Downing Street, leaving power to his Chancellor, Natalie Hancock, who becomes the first woman Prime Minister.
[22] Hancock continues the policies of her predecessor. However in 1999, race riots consume the Highlands, deprived areas of the English North and the poorer areas of North Wales as well as reigniting tensions in Ireland. The emergence of a 'British' mixed ethnicity separate from the white constituent countries has caused considerable tensions with the white working poor who perceive the emergence of a mixed race political class as exemplified by Hancock and her cabinet to be sidelining their separate national interests. The racial disturbances quickly cease, but the tensions feed into new right-wing parties concerned with breaking up the Union into its constituent parts to try and preserve 'white independence'. It must be stressed that these nationalists parties are very much in the minority.
1911: Henry Campbell-Bannerman (Liberal) [1]
1913: Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery (Liberal-Conservative War Cabinet) [2]
1919: John Sinclair, 1st Baron Pentland (National Party) [3]
1923: Winston Churchill (National) [4]
1927: Winston Churchill (National-Saviours of Britain Coalition) [5]
1931: Winston Churchill (National-Saviours of Britain-Conservative Coalition) [6]
1934: Robert Falcon Scott (Saviours of Britain-Scoial Credit Coalition) [7]
1936: Robert Falcon Scott (Saviours of Britain-Social Credit War Cabinet) [8]
1945: Eric Blair (Saviours of Britain-Social Credit-National-Conservative-Liberal National Government) [9]
1950: Clement Attlee (Social Credit-National-Liberal Coalition) [10]
1954: Francis de Groot (Saviours of Britain-National-Conservative Coalition) [11]
1959: Francis de Groot (Saviours of Britain-Conservative Coalition) [12]
1963: Alfred Beveridge (Social Credit-Liberal Coalition) [13]
1967: Alfred Beveridge (Social Union) [14]
1971: Sir Hugh Greene (Liberal Conservative) [15]
1975: Arthur Kenneth Chesterton (Saviours of Britain-New Conservative Coalition) [16]
1979: Alfred Beveridge (Social Union) [17]
1982: David Owen (Social Union) [18]
1987: David Owen (Social Union) [19]
1992: David Owen (Social Union) [20]
1994: Natalie Hancock (Social Union) [21]
1998: Natalie Hancock (Social Union) [22]
[1] After a health scare in 1908 proved nothing more than a scare, Campbell Bannerman went to the country in 1911 after five years of successful, radical and Liberal administration. He and his party were rewarded with a moderately reduced majority, losing mostly to the Tories, but some seats to the Labour Representation Committee, which had renamed itself the Labour Party.
[2] Less than five months after the election, on January 27 1912, Kaiser Wilhelm II is assassinated in Berlin while viewing a parade for his birthday celebrations by a French nationalist. Kaiser Wilhelm III and Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg skillfully manages to provoke the French authorities by demanding that the Germans be allowed to investigate the roots in France on their own. Soon enough, armament starts along the Franco-German lines, and Britain finds herself dragged into the war when Germany enters Belgium. Henry Campbell-Bannerman proves a very inefficient war leader, and the Fiasco of the Jutland Campaign forces the old Prime Minister to resign. The Liberal leader in the House of Lords, Lord Rosebery, returns to office and forms a war cabinet with the Liberal Unionists and the Conservatives. Notably absent is the Labour Party from the coalition.
[3] France collapses in July 1919 and soon after the Russian war effort also collapses as that country descends into violent revolution. Although there is also significant unrest, the German Empire (now virtualy a Military Dictatorship) and thier Austrian allies are in almost complete controll of the European continent. As a result, Primrose requests and armistace with the Germans and is voted out in a vote of no confidence. As a result, John Sinclair, the leader of the "War Liberal" faction comes to power and merges the two members of the wartime coalition government into the National Party, leaving the remaining Liberals who didn't join and the increasingly radical Labour party. Although Britain remained in posscesion of all Germanies colonies and occupied much of the former Ottoman Empire, the armistace, workers unrest and violent rebbelion in Ireland during the war created a signifcant right wing swing and the beggining of a large red scare.
[4] Churchill expanded the armed forces, keeping control of the Empire, and stationing troops in restive cities. Churchill was accused of emulating the French military dictator Phillipe Petain, but he ignored these claims. Churchill was loudly supportive of the election of Charles Lindbergh as President of the United States and attempted to re-establish relations with Germany against Soviet Russia, particularly after Austria-Hungary collapsed and was reformed as the Social Union of Danubia.
[5] At the next election, in order to stave of growing support for the Labour and Communist Parties, Churchill enters in a coalition with the more extreme Saviours of Britain, led by former Antarctic hero and rabid anti-communist Robert Falcon Scott. However, Churchill's plans to create an Anti-Communist Coalition in Europe fail spectacularly when the Military regime in Germany is overthrown and a Social Democratic/Technocratic Republic established, which, although not full blown communist, immediately allies itself with the SUD and Soviet Russia. As a result, Churchill begins to re-establish relations with Petain's France and encourages the non-authoritarian but still rabidly anti-communist Lindbergh administration to enter into a non-agression pact with Japan so as to counter growing Soviet influence in Asia. Also, Churchill's second period in office also sees the beginning of the "Fourth Great Awakening" as the US sees an explosion of Evangelist Christianity.
[6] Social Credit emerges as a rallying call for the British people, neatly combining nationalism with left-wing social-economic policies. Churchill is forced to fall back on other parties of the right to maintain his government. Meanwhile, Trotsky's policies in the USSR are leading to a major fall in productivity, as millions starve from collectivisation and the military is elevated above the needs of the proletariat.
[7] Churchill retires and as a result, the coalition breaks up. In order to boost support for his own party, Scott enters into a coalition with the Social Credit Party, agreeing to implement some of that parties economic policies and, riding on an increasing fear of communism as a result of the atrocities in the USSR and elsewhere, this coalition is able to win the election with a fairly solid majority. Scott begins to promote his brand of what he calls "Democratic Fascism", emulating elements of the policies of countries such as Mussolini's Italy and others such as extreme nationalism and anti-communism while maintaining a functioning parliamentary documentary and maintaining British institutions. Scott also begins to gear up for another war as the Soviets, the SUD and the Germans begin to prepare to "Spread the Revolution".
[8] The 'Eastern Coalition' of Russia, Germany and Danubia started the 'Revolutionary War' with the Russian invasion of Finland. Scott soon formed a War Cabinet, and began preparing for the Conflict. The war years were a time of Britain's Second Industrial Revolution under Social Credit economic policies. But as the Communists and their allies shuddered across Europe, the BUF in France look less and less like it was up to the task of defending Britain.
[9] The war drags on, and on, and on. But by 1944, the sheer numbers of the Eastern Coalition finally overcome the technological lead that the Allies (UK, US, France, Italy, Japan) had and by the end of that year, only Iberia and part of the Italian Peninsula were the only parts of Europe in Allied hands. To make matters worse for the allies, the US suffers a coup by extremist army officers influenced by the "Fourth Great Awakening" and disgruntled at the currant administrations handling of the war, the result being the creation of the HSA (Holy States of America), effectively an evangelist theocracy. Despite the new regimes talk of destroying "Godless Communism" and continuing the war, the political instability means that Japan, who's campaign against the Soviets in Siberia had turned into a stalemate, betrayed it's erstwhile allies by attacking the American Base at Pearl Harbour and launching attacks on the Philippines, French Indo- China and the British bases at Hong Kong and Singapore. To add to the allies woes, Scott is killed early in 1945 during a German bombing raid and as a result, his Minister of Information, the charismatic Eric Blair, ascends to the premiership. With the war effort now desperate, Blair takes extreme measures, banning the Labour and Communist parties as well as the now militant TUC and forming an all party emergency national government.
[10] By 1948, only Britain remained unconquered. But the vast socialist empire was starting to disintegrate, between rebellions from the conquered peoples and disagreements between interpretations of socialism between Technocratic Germany, Trotskyist Russia and National Socialist (not that one) Danubia. By 1949, America was back on the front foot and had persuaded the Japanese to let go of conquered American Pacific territories in favour of attacking the Soviet Union. In June 1949, the Americans dropped a nuclear bomb on Berlin, Moscow, Vienna and Petrograd (reasoning that in Trotskyist Russia it wouldn't be Leningrad). This collapse in Central government allowed the rebels to take control, completely redrawing the map of Europe. After the war, the people wanted to relax and draw back from the feverish emotions of the war. The idea of a leisure society with more time for relaxation caught on and the Social Credit Party caught on. However, enough people felt that leftism was dangerous to vote for the Nationals. Clement Attlee lead a coalition of the Social Credit, National and Liberal Parties. During this time, Social Credit absorbed much of the old Labour electorate.
[11] The Nationals, who objected to some of the more left-wing elements of Attlee's economic reforms, jumped the coalition and instead, along with the Conservatives, backed the Saviours of Britain at the '54 election, which the new coalition, with charismatic Irishman Francis de Groot elected Prime Minister, won. By this time, Social Credit policies had began to make the beginnings of the "Leisure Society" come in to being and with a large variety of consumer goods being produced by Britain's modern industrial base, it seemed to many that after years of war, the good times had finally arrived. On he International Stage, de Groot, following previous Social Credit Policy, began to invest heavily in the Empire, with large scale investment in industry and resource extraction while binding the White Dominions closer.
[12] Despite America's eventual domination of the war effort, its extreme religiosity and a return to isolationism leave Britain the only unconquered European Great Power to pick up the pieces. But the destruction wreaked by German and Russian bombers takes up so much cost that the Empire slowly disintegrates due to the sheer expense. Fortunately, the war effort had re-industrialised a flagging economy and it didn't take a lot post war to turn armaments factories into factories for the manufacture of consumer goods. Keeping to Social Credit ideas, money is reinvested into new technologies allowing people to have more free time. By 1961, working hours had reduced and for the first time since the war, Britain and the remaining Empire could relax. The National Party collapses, and is absorbed by the Liberal and Conservative Parties.
[13] Son of Liberal cabinet minister William Beveridge, Alfred had a distinctly radical streak and though he was close to the Liberals joined the Social Credit Party. After the Social Credit-Liberal alliance won the 1963 election in a surprise upset, they begun to restructure the British Welfare State, introducing the British Medicine Bureau to administer health care. Beveridge, like his father, was a supporter of the eugenics movement which after the war was gaining substantial popularity in the country. The extreme religiosity of the Holy States and their denunciation of Darwinism had led the British to embrace it as a symbol of opposition, and in the early 60s, advocates of Eugenics were making the argument that its implementation was only the natural next step. In 1967 Beveridge managed to push through the Genetic Health Act, instituting the Department of Eugenics, charged with ensuring that only genetically healthy coupled were allowed to marry and that "unhealthy and undesirable elements of society" were sterilized.
[14] In an attempt to strengthen his position, the Social Credit and Liberal Parties are united into the Social Union Party. Evidence is shown by the Eugenics Department scientists that mixed race unions produce healthier children due to the greater genetic variation that such a union would produce. Hence, the Cultural Mescegenation Act is passed encouraging more migration from and to the White Dominions. The Union of South Africa declares independence over the Act arguing that racial apartness is the correct path. In other news, the United Kingdom is federalised to make it more similar in structure to the broadly federal British Dominions. The Federation of Zanj (East Africa) becomes a new British Dominion, as does the Union of Cippain (Carribean).
[15] The recession of the late 1960s hands the election narrowly to the Lib Cons, who formally merged in 1959. After years in the wilderness, Greene has led the Lib Cons into the centre ground of the post-Social Credit consensus and does not repeal many measures pursued by the preceding governments, despite wailing and gnashing of teeth from his backbenchers.
[16] After over 10 years in the wilderness, the Saviours of Britain return under A.K. Chesterton. Chesterton had fought his campaign trail on the platform of completing a federalisation of the Empire, abolishing the Cultural Mescegenation Act, and reacting more robustly to the worsening Cairo Riots. The Liberal Conservatives and the Social Unionists had argued for bringing Egypt into the Empire as a Dominion, united with Sudan and the remaining chunk of British Somaliland but under their own king. This had not gone down well, and the Saviours of Britain violently opposed a Dominion in the Empire not having King Edward as monarch. Chesterton had played down his previous involvement in anti-Semitic and racist groups, but had promised to separate British politics from the Social Credit consensus and rebuild Britain anew.
[17] Chesterton failed to bring down the Cultural Mescegenation Act, and the coal miners' strike of 1979 makes the coalition collapse from within in bitter infighting, and in the consequent election Alfred Beveridge brings the Social Unionists back into government at the remarkable age of 72 years. He only sits as Prime Minister for two more years before retiring so that his much younger Foreign Secretary, David Owen, may assume the premiership.
[18] Owen presides over a time where the policies of previous governments come of age. A rapidly increasing percentage of the population is mixed race, the last colonies are given responsible government as independent republics, and the Commonwealth Meetings of Prime Ministers become an annual affair. Owen held a general election in 1982, increasing the majority for the Social Unionists, after an attempt by the Holy States to blockade British exports failed in spectacular fashion largely due to the efforts of Owen's government. The Saviours of Britain split in two into the New Nationals, a more right-wing version of Conservatism and the Patriot's Front a more fascist-like and racialist organisation.
[19] With no effective opposition after its latest division, Owen waits for as long as possible before calling a new election, anticipating that he will win nonetheless, and thus bides his time to maximize the Social Union's time in government. As expected, Owen wins in the Silent Landslide, gaining 416 seats for Social Union in the House of Commons.
[20] Owen had another largely quiet term, but in 1992 just before the general election, the German Central Bank collapsed from lack of trust in the Deutschmark and rapid inflation. The interconnectedness of European banks starts a recession. The British relative separation from Europe allows it to stand up better, but Owen's government discusses radical moves. By this point the 'Beveridge Children' are having children of their own, and increasingly forming a plurality of the British population, dominating Parliament particularly through the Social Unionists. Owen says he will step down at the next election.
[21] David Owen steps down after 14 years in Downing Street, leaving power to his Chancellor, Natalie Hancock, who becomes the first woman Prime Minister.
[22] Hancock continues the policies of her predecessor. However in 1999, race riots consume the Highlands, deprived areas of the English North and the poorer areas of North Wales as well as reigniting tensions in Ireland. The emergence of a 'British' mixed ethnicity separate from the white constituent countries has caused considerable tensions with the white working poor who perceive the emergence of a mixed race political class as exemplified by Hancock and her cabinet to be sidelining their separate national interests. The racial disturbances quickly cease, but the tensions feed into new right-wing parties concerned with breaking up the Union into its constituent parts to try and preserve 'white independence'. It must be stressed that these nationalists parties are very much in the minority.
