The Awkward Squad are going to be the bane of Cameron's life but that's the nature of any leader in any party with a small majority. The big problem for Cameron in this TL is unlike in OTL where the Coalition Partner and Awkward Squad, aka Boners, hate each other here the DUP and the Boners have got a lot of common ground. On Europe, Law and Order, Gay Marriage etc. the DUP are far more comfortable with the Awkward Squad than with the Leadership and that seriously lessens the Leaderships ability to get stuff through by playing them off against each other.
TLIAD: Be Careful What You Wish For
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The Awkward Squad are going to be the bane of Cameron's life but that's the nature of any leader in any party with a small majority. The big problem for Cameron in this TL is unlike in OTL where the Coalition Partner and Awkward Squad, aka Boners, hate each other here the DUP and the Boners have got a lot of common ground. On Europe, Law and Order, Gay Marriage etc. the DUP are far more comfortable with the Awkward Squad than with the Leadership and that seriously lessens the Leaderships ability to get stuff through by playing them off against each other.
As Gay Marriage wasn't in the Tory manifesto, I think it's definitely not going to happen in this parliament. Cameron did it as a sop to the centre and because he knew he could get away with it because of the Lib Dems. Not so this time around.
A good ending, Thande, I enjoyed Cameron's 'familiar but different' speech - you have a knack for writing such things.
A good ending, Thande, I enjoyed Cameron's 'familiar but different' speech - you have a knack for writing such things.
Read the entire series, mildly disappointed for two main reasons:
1. I'm not familiar with British politics, and admittedly not very interested in them either, so most of this was lost on me.
2. From the opening entries about Big Ben I kept expecting the clock tower to fall down or explode or something.
Very well written, I'm just not the right audience.
Nice to see such brutal honesty, I suppose!
We don't fall apart like that. Clegg's gone and probably Huhne will replace him and then Huhne will go because of his problems. We don't lose huge numbers of councillors either, which will keep the party fairly buoyant. Old and Sad probably ends up as a LibDem gain which will boost morale.
The next election may be a problem, but not as much as OTL will be, whilst seats will be lost to Labour, there are seats to retrieve from the Tories if they have a rocky time.
Great work.
I for one refused to believe that this was a "Cameron pulls it off" TL until as late as I possibly could, just because it was so unheard of.Additional - and, I think, this is the very first BritPol timeline of "Cameron pulls it off".
We've had Clegg win, we've had Brown stay in power, we've had Coalitions with the Lib Dems, but I think this is a first.
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Evidently I'm just that avant-garde...
Even though the title page image was one of Cameron's campaign signs...I do wonder why nobody seems to have noticed that.
I'll be interested to see how this will affect UKIP. Perhaps Cameron won't be forced (meaning have a credible excuse) to reach out to the center through referenda on AV and Scottish independence, or Gay marriage. If Cameron is more focused on placating his base (as well as DUP), UKIP won't have quite the momentum it has OTL.
) to reach out to the center through referenda on AV and Scottish independence, or Gay marriage. If Cameron is more focused on placating his base (as well as DUP), UKIP won't have quite the momentum it has OTL.Orville_third
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Someone beat me to gay marriage.
Will there still be the Bradford East by-election?
Will there still be the Bradford East by-election?
Evidently I'm just that avant-garde...
Even though the title page image was one of Cameron's campaign signs...I do wonder why nobody seems to have noticed that.
Blatant subtlety...
Sorry to be impatient, but... when should we expect Part 2?
Hey, wait, wasn't there supposed to be a plane crash involving a major political figure? Or is that for part 2?
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Not for a while. I partly wrote this to get back into writing to gear up for other projects. I'll come back to it later when I have some more fully formed ideas of what to do with Cameron's time in office.
Alright, I'll keep an eye out. Guess I should get back to writing my own work.
It is always easier to write the horse-race than the governing, isn't it. TLs end up with the The Candidate ending... "Now what?"