The Empire Parnell Built
- Thread starter Rattigan
- Start date
Considering he was the Russian Ambassador to Germany and a figure supporting the coup:
Strasser: Berezniki Must Go!
Kazembek: Who Must Go?
Strasser: Berezniki Must Go!
Kazembek: Who Must Go?
Is this meant to be a Pinochet/Allende analogue, much like De Gaulle is TTL’s Peron?
The date alludes to the OTL Brazilian coup but I imagine the economic policies of this military dictatorship to be a rough equivalent to Pinochet's, with the caveat that TTL's version of neoliberalism doesn't look like OTL's.
D’oh of course 🤦♂️
That makes me curious - how different are various ideologies ITTL compared to our TL?
So what was the purpose of the whole Citizens Party schtick for Stassen? Gaining the vote of people who liked his administration hut were too partisan to vote for a Republican?
Yeah, pretty much. He also didn't want to have to deal with GOP infrastructure anymore and free to conduct business with Congress without having to rely on the Republicans in Congress. There's also more than a touch of megalomania to it too.
Stassen is an under-used character in ATLs and I quite like your remarkable and unique Stassen-wank here
Will he try to make it a serious thing, to take with him all the various new Republicans who came to prominence with him and take the place of the GOP?
Are representative peers elected by a more restricted franchise, as in Ireland, or the same franchise as the MPs for the Commons?
So to vote for the Lords you have to be the holder of a title. Titles in the peerage of Great Britain can vote in both the English and Scottish elections and titles in the peerage of the UK can vote in all of English, Scottish and Irish elections.
On the franchise more generally, the holders of peerages can’t vote in elections to the Commons or the Second Order. The franchise for general elections in both Britain and Ireland still has a property qualification, which works out as about 80-85% of the population of both countries being eligible to vote (the turnout given in info boxes is the turnout amongst eligible voters). The franchise for local elections is universal.