WI: Tony Blair hadn't been PM in 1997?

And we had had a more anti-royal Labour Priminister. Do You Guys think that this guy would have used the chance to end the monarchy in United Kingdom?

/Fred
 
Not really; even with the Diana hysteria the anti-monarchy/Republican movement still isn't a major political force.

I think it would take some major event for it to become enough of a political issue to make the amount of time and effort it would take seem worthwhile-I think there will always be more pressing issues the UK needs to resolve than this.
 
Bollocks. Had a long reply typed out there.

Needless to say, ASB in respect of the circumstances.
 
And we had had a more anti-royal Labour Priminister. Do You Guys think that this guy would have used the chance to end the monarchy in United Kingdom?

/Fred
No government would make such a change without putting it in their manifesto. If it was in the Labour manifesto, they wouldn't have been elected. Even the "longest suicide note in history" didn't go that far.

Also, who are you thinking of? All the republicans in the Labour party (Benn, Skinner, Corbyn...) refuse to have anything to do with New Labour, and are mostly so hard-left as to be unelectable as PM. If you get rid of New Labour, then the Tories may well win in 1997.
 
Frankly, I don't think the Tories could win anything in 1997. The Country was exhausted, and NEEDED something different. Its a longshot, but with Labour in total disrepair, and the Tories practically walking corpses, but the Lib dems, provided they had strong leadership, might make an impressive play.

I doubt even then they'd win, but they might form a Coalition government with Labour, and THAT would be interesting. Of course, this sounds ASB, but really 1997 to me seems alot like 2010 is shaping up to be- Crap Conservatives and a Leaderless Labour.
 
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