Woo hoo Brown won, I'm currently doing research for a Brown TL if I ever have time to write it
 
Excellent work! :)

Thank you very much! :)

A postscipt is the PS; your afterthoughts on the TL.

Yes I know. Right I'll see what I'll think up.

Woo hoo Brown won, I'm currently doing research for a Brown TL if I ever have time to write it

Thanks. Brown's an interesting fellow, what PoD are you going for him being leader?

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I'd just like to thank everyone who helped me out with this TL, you all know who you are and I am grateful for the assistance in facts, information, critique and the story as a whole. I'd also like to thank all those of you who read, liked and commented on this timeline; it did mean a lot to me writing this.

This TL was generally based on a WI I thought of last year, concerning what if the Old-Right of the Labour Party remained in the ascendent and hadn't fallen by the roadside in the early 1960s. Naturally, with a figure such as Callaghan and other old-right social conservatives in power, social liberal change would either be delayed, stalled, or even stopped at least for the period they were in power. Initially this TL had Callaghan lose the 1970 general election to a Conservative-Liberal coalition, which would be initially led by Macleod and then, after his death, Reggie Maudling. I believe and hope that this version of events in this TL that I chose to go with has been enjoyable, effective, and plausible to an extent.

When I started this TL I set out to write a TL under the general idea I set out above, but to not stray into the wank territory. I hope I can be said to have succeeded in that endeavour and to have made a generally plausible, yet also enjoyable TL in the process. When I started this TL I didn't really think I'd finish it, so I am mighty chuffed that I finally managed to do it, and at that finish it in the way I had envisioned it to happen, not a rushed project; that is why I opted for the TLIAPOT heading.

I have put thought towards perhaps pursuing a sequel TL to this: 'The Road to Babylon' if there is interest expressed in it happening. If I do launch it, it will probably be later in the month, after my mocks/exams have concluded. If anyone has any suggestions, critiques or points they'd like to make, my door is always open (so to speak)!

Once again thank you all very much, and here is Manfred Mann's Earth Band to play us out:

 
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Thanks. Brown's an interesting fellow, what PoD are you going for him being leader?
Well I've got two ideas, Richard Crossman estimated that if Anthony Greenwood he would cost Wilson 50-60 votes and with Callaghan finish bottom , his votes going mostly to Brown and he has momentum from finishing comfortably top to win the leadership (The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman, op cit/ Tired and Emotional The Life of Lord George Brown ,p.123.).

The other idea is delaying Hugh Gaitskell's death or making illness more prolonged so George builds up his base and gets more use to being deputy leader and defacto leader without Hugh.
 
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