TLIAM: A Series Of Quite Fortunate Events

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Geordie

Fascinating stuff.

The day before polling is clearly going to be a big event.

Does it write off Supermac? Or wipe out a minibus filled with possible successors?

Is it Ulster terrorists? White Nationalist Africans? Somebody tripping down the stairs? The news that he's been sharing a mistress with Gromyko?

The obstructionist v integralist debate sounds like one that will consume the time and even careers of historians specialising in the NDLP-era UK.
 
Meadow

Meadow

I'm very pleased to say that this has now been finished, and published by Sea Lion Press. The story concludes with four brand new chapters and some edits along the way. It's available now!

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Belschaft

Have just read it on Kindle - an excellent story from the two of you as usual, but I found the ending somewhat disappointing. Perhaps it was because the focus was so heavily focused on Macmillan’s Britain but the apparent collapse of the European economies leading to “the Berlin Wall having been thrown open to allow starving West Berliners the chance to share in the Eastern Miracle” seemed to come completely out of nowhere. Andropov and his economic reforms aren’t mentioned until 1982, and whilst it’s possible they were happening long before there really didn’t appear to be any indication of increased prosperity in the eastern block or malaise in Western Europe before the Epilogue.
 
Meadow

Meadow

Belschaft said:
Have just read it on Kindle - an excellent story from the two of you as usual, but I found the ending somewhat disappointing. Perhaps it was because the focus was so heavily focused on Macmillan’s Britain but the apparent collapse of the European economies leading to “the Berlin Wall having been thrown open to allow starving West Berliners the chance to share in the Eastern Miracle” seemed to come completely out of nowhere. Andropov and his economic reforms aren’t mentioned until 1982, and whilst it’s possible they were happening long before there really didn’t appear to be any indication of increased prosperity in the eastern block or malaise in Western Europe before the Epilogue.
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The US and USSR swapping fates is seeded as early as Suez, and it’s a major theme of the book, in order to make Englandization/Finlandisation work: the UK must be aligned with but not dominated by a superpower that ends up losing. The more erratic US presidencies, the greater Soviet diplomatic victories in the 70s, the USA getting bogged down in Northern Ireland, etc, it all leads up to Jackson-as-Gorbachev and of course Andropov-as-Reagan. If the book was primarily about the USSR, we probably would’ve gone into more detail on all of it. But it was in the story to enable the Finland/Kekkonen comparison to work for the country as a whole, not just Macmillan.

Nevertheless, thanks for your feedback.
 

Belschaft

Meadow said:
The US and USSR swapping fates is seeded as early as Suez, and it’s a major theme of the book, in order to make Englandization/Finlandisation work: the UK must be aligned with but not dominated by a superpower that ends up losing. The more erratic US presidencies, the greater Soviet diplomatic victories in the 70s, the USA getting bogged down in Northern Ireland, etc, it all leads up to Jackson-as-Gorbachev and of course Andropov-as-Reagan. If the book was primarily about the USSR, we probably would’ve gone into more detail on all of it. But it was in the story to enable the Finland/Kekkonen comparison to work for the country as a whole, not just Macmillan.

Nevertheless, thanks for your feedback.
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Ah! I wasn’t looking at the timeline as a Finland parallel, but was rather thinking of Japan or Singapore. In retrospect that makes a great deal of sense and had I been reading it with that comparison in mind I think it would of come as less of a surprise to me.
 
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