Inspired by the various 2010 GE timelines and particularly Maskedpickle's President Perot TL I'm planning my first properly written timeline. It will be a wide-ranged butterfly timeline dealing with a wide stage following the initial PoD. At least inspired by and possibly completely Shamelessly ripping off Maskedpickle in style and approach
All my ideas centre around the 1997 General Election and events leading up to it.
My Ideas are as follows.
1) What ever happened to The Prince of Darkness: Peter Mandelson isn't selected by Neil Kinnock to work for the Labour party as director of communications. Thus he is never involved in the Labour electionof 1987 and doesnt bcome an MP in 1990. It'd track a moderately changed Labour party without the influence of Mandelson and his labelling as the first "Spin Doctor". Particularly leading up to 1997 but the (probable) Labour government following this.
2) The Man who would be Grin: Towards the beginning of the 1997 Election. Tony Blair is killed in a Car Crash. The TL would folllow Labour through a General election with John Prescott suddenly having the lead the party and subequent premiership or leadership competition (possibly leading to Gordon Brown as Prime Minister from 1997)
3) Same as 2 but Blair is killed just before the Labour Leadership vote in 1994.
4) The Best of enemies : Owing to a bad case of food poisoning either Tony Blair or Gordon Brown postpones their meeting at the Granita restaurant. They eventually cancel the meeting and Goron Brown goes into the leadership election against Blair in 1994,
5) A Brighter shade of Blue: Britain never enters the ERM and so never suffers Black Wednesday. This follows a more popular Major premiership and 1997 election.
Opinions and preference please!!
6) As 5) but Britain stays in the ERM at least until after 1997.
EDIT: The damn poll didnt work. Oh well!