Prime Minister Piers Morgan?

In another world, somewhere in the Multiverse, there exists a reality where Piers Morgan went into politics instead of journalism (I can already hear the collective cries of "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!") My question is this: What would the UK look like with Piers Morgan as its PM, and further more, what would the relationship with the US be? Instead of Jeremy Clarkson, would he just get his clock cleaned by someone else? Possibly Nigel Farage? Mdallion446 is not afraid to ask the tough ahistorical questions.
 

shiftygiant

Gone Fishin'
Morgan is a smug, arrogant, vindictive, petty man, so him as Prime Minister is the closest we'd get to a Nixon in No. 10 (see: his appearance of HIGNFY is a good look at his personality). Given his rather toxic personality, I can't actually see how he would become Prime Minister. A Cabinet level, maybe, but I struggle to fathom how either the Conservative (most likely to join) or Labour (maybe, but the Tories are more likely) would elect him Leader.
 
Piers Morgan was born Piers Stefan O'Meara on 30 March 1965 in Newick, Sussex, England, to Vincent Eamonn O'Meara, an Irish-born dentist, originally from County Offaly, and Gabrielle Georgina Sybille (née Oliver).

After his parent's divorce, he took his stepfather's surname and became known as Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan. Piers attended the independent school Cumnor House from the ages of seven to thirteen, and then Chailey School, a comprehensive secondary school in Chailey, near Lewes, East Sussex, followed by Priory School for sixth form. Morgan studied Law at Harlow College. [1]

He was selected to stand in the General Election 1987, at the Conservative, safe seat of Streatham, having been controlled since the constituency was created during the General election of 1885. On 11 June, 1987, Piers Morgan was waiting on the platform at Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton Hill, waiting for the results, and then they came:

Party ---------- Candidate ---- ---- ------- Votes - Percentage
Labour ---------- Piers Morgan --------------- 20,406 - 48.4%
Conservative --- William Shelton ------------ 16,251 - 38.6%
Liberal ---------- Michael William Tuffrey ---- 5,431 - 12.9%

Piers was surprised to hear the result and that he had defeated the incumbent conservative Member of Parliament, William Shelton, since 1974 and becomes one of the 21 new labour MPs to be elected in 1987, along with Mo Mowlam, David Blunkett, Alistair Darling, Diane Abbott, George Galloway and Ken Livingstone.

In 1994, aged 29, he was appointed by Opposition Leader, Tony Blair, as Shadow Minister for Employment, bring Piers to the attention of national politics. After Labour's landslide victory in the 1997 General Election, Piers was elevated to Secretary for the new department of State for Culture, Media and Sport under Prime Minister, Blair.

He would serve in this position until 2003, when he resigned from the cabinet over Britain's involvement into the Iraq invasion

In October 2003, Conservative MP for Doncaster North, Jeremy Clarkson reportedly emptied a glass of water over Morgan while in the Parliament Bar, and the two would have again run a ground in March 2004, when Clarkson punched Morgan three times after Piers accidentally slipped information about Jeremy having an affair.

Piers became known as a rebellious politician who stuck to his guns and when Tony Blair resigned in 2007, Piers went against the grain and stood against Chancellor Gordon Brown, in the 2007 Labour Leadership election and beat him with support from the Unions and Labour Registered Supporters.

So on 27th June, 2007, Piers Morgan became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

[1] Instead of going into Journalism, Piers goes onto study Law.
[2] OTL results were Conservative William Shelton 18,916 45.0 where as Labour Mrs. E. Anna Tapsall 16,509, a majority of 2,407, with a tern out of 69.5%
 
Morgan is a smug, arrogant, vindictive, petty man, so him as Prime Minister is the closest we'd get to a Nixon in No. 10 (see: his appearance of HIGNFY is a good look at his personality). Given his rather toxic personality, I can't actually see how he would become Prime Minister. A Cabinet level, maybe, but I struggle to fathom how either the Conservative (most likely to join) or Labour (maybe, but the Tories are more likely) would elect him Leader.
Aww, c'mon! Humor me a little :) If a partially brain-dead troll like George W. Bush can become President of the United States, then surely Piers Morgan could have become the PM of the UK!
 
Piers Morgan was born Piers Stefan O'Meara on 30 March 1965 in Newick, Sussex, England, to Vincent Eamonn O'Meara, an Irish-born dentist, originally from County Offaly, and Gabrielle Georgina Sybille (née Oliver).

After his parent's divorce, he took his stepfather's surname and became known as Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan. Piers attended the independent school Cumnor House from the ages of seven to thirteen, and then Chailey School, a comprehensive secondary school in Chailey, near Lewes, East Sussex, followed by Priory School for sixth form. Morgan studied Law at Harlow College. [1]

He was selected to stand in the General Election 1987, at the Conservative, safe seat of Streatham, having been controlled since the constituency was created during the General election of 1885. On 11 June, 1987, Piers Morgan was waiting on the platform at Lambeth Town Hall, Brixton Hill, waiting for the results, and then they came:

Party ---------- Candidate ---- ---- ------- Votes - Percentage
Labour ---------- Piers Morgan --------------- 20,406 - 48.4%
Conservative --- William Shelton ------------ 16,251 - 38.6%
Liberal ---------- Michael William Tuffrey ---- 5,431 - 12.9%

Piers was surprised to hear the result and that he had defeated the incumbent conservative Member of Parliament, William Shelton, since 1974 and becomes one of the 21 new labour MPs to be elected in 1987, along with Mo Mowlam, David Blunkett, Alistair Darling, Diane Abbott, George Galloway and Ken Livingstone.

In 1994, aged 29, he was appointed by Opposition Leader, Tony Blair, as Shadow Minister for Employment, bring Piers to the attention of national politics. After Labour's landslide victory in the 1997 General Election, Piers was elevated to Secretary for the new department of State for Culture, Media and Sport under Prime Minister, Blair.

He would serve in this position until 2003, when he resigned from the cabinet over Britain's involvement into the Iraq invasion

In October 2003, Conservative MP for Doncaster North, Jeremy Clarkson reportedly emptied a glass of water over Morgan while in the Parliament Bar, and the two would have again run a ground in March 2004, when Clarkson punched Morgan three times after Piers accidentally slipped information about Jeremy having an affair.

Piers became known as a rebellious politician who stuck to his guns and when Tony Blair resigned in 2007, Piers went against the grain and stood against Chancellor Gordon Brown, in the 2007 Labour Leadership election and beat him with support from the Unions and Labour Registered Supporters.

So on 27th June, 2007, Piers Morgan became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

[1] Instead of going into Journalism, Piers goes onto study Law.
[2] OTL results were Conservative William Shelton 18,916 45.0 where as Labour Mrs. E. Anna Tapsall 16,509, a majority of 2,407, with a tern out of 69.5%
You, Sir, have thoroughly succeeded at bringing a tear to my eye with this in-depth (and frighteningly plausible) response :) Bravo! Bravo I say!
 
In 2011, PM Piers Morgan is humiliated by Yankee Ambassador Penn Jillette in a live telecast on the Graham Norton Show.

He subsequently resigns and goes to America to become a "news analyst" on MSNBC.
 
Piers Morgan as PM? Then a giant chasm a mile wide opens up, splitting London in two allowing Satan to emerge and shake Piers by the hand in No. 10 declaring, ''well done my boy'' as they both share a glass of the dark lord's favourite tipple and smoke fat cigars lit by Satan's fingertip. Meanwhile, the four horsemen come a calling and the dead roam the earth!
 
You, Sir, have thoroughly succeeded at bringing a tear to my eye with this in-depth (and frighteningly plausible) response :) Bravo! Bravo I say!
It roughly follows the OTL of Mr Morgan and I like to think his arrogant, vindictive and petty personality makes it easy for him to rise through the ranks and not worry whose fingers he steps on.
 
I really think we're scraping the barrel in conceiving ways in which British politics could be any worse than OTL :-D
 
I dunno...

@Jonathan , now your post is making me think of Jeremy Clarkson as PM... And since you cast him as Britain's Vladimir Zhirinovsky...

Clarkson's New British Empire, anyone?

If he's elected in the 2000s then Clarkson would probably have to resign in disgrace the first (maybe the third) time he uses a racial slur during PMQ.
 

Quebec_Dave

Banned
In another world, somewhere in the Multiverse, there exists a reality where Piers Morgan went into politics instead of journalism (I can already hear the collective cries of "NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!") My question is this: What would the UK look like with Piers Morgan as its PM, and further more, what would the relationship with the US be? Instead of Jeremy Clarkson, would he just get his clock cleaned by someone else? Possibly Nigel Farage? Mdallion446 is not afraid to ask the tough ahistorical questions.

If you take OTL Piers Morgan and combine him with his ATL politician self, don't you basically end up with Michael Gove?
 

shiftygiant

Gone Fishin'
Aww, c'mon! Humor me a little :) If a partially brain-dead troll like George W. Bush can become President of the United States, then surely Piers Morgan could have become the PM of the UK!
I did try, but the issue really is how foul he is. The New Labour route could be interesting, but I dispute that Piers Morgan could beat Gordon Brown. Maybe him becoming Leader of Labour now-ish, it really is that his personality is that toxic.
If you take OTL Piers Morgan and combine him with his ATL politician self, don't you basically end up with Michael Gove?
Michael Gove isn't so vindictive, petty, spiteful, and horrid.
 
Piers Morgan as PM? Then a giant chasm a mile wide opens up, splitting London in two allowing Satan to emerge and shake Piers by the hand in No. 10 declaring, ''well done my boy'' as they both share a glass of the dark lord's favourite tipple and smoke fat cigars lit by Satan's fingertip. Meanwhile, the four horsemen come a calling and the dead roam the earth!
That bad, huh? XD
 
I did try, but the issue really is how foul he is. The New Labour route could be interesting, but I dispute that Piers Morgan could beat Gordon Brown. Maybe him becoming Leader of Labour now-ish, it really is that his personality is that toxic.

Michael Gove isn't so vindictive, petty, spiteful, and horrid.
Btw, I did watch the video your link led me to on YouTube (I actually added the video to my list of Favorites) I have to say, I've never laughed so hard in my life! Not only at the MERCILESS reaming Piers Morgan took at the hands of Ian Hislop and the ever-brilliant Clive Anderson, but the comment section really gives you insight into just how HATED this man is XD Absolutely brilliant! By the by, did you ever notice that "Piers Morgan" and "Prime Minister" BOTH share the same abbreviation? No doubt the man is a skidmark in the underpants of humanity, but let us not forget the age-old rule of the Multiverse: Anything Can Happen.
 
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