WI: UK Prime Minster Beaten with Ceremonial Mace

May 27, 1976: Whilst swinging the ceremonial Mace, Michael Heseltine accidentally lets go, sends it flying into the front bench, directly at Harold Wilson. This would also be the day that Wilson announced the infamous 'Lavender List'. The mace strikes Wilson in the head, with him dying almost immediately. Heseltine is immediately arrested, and Wilson is mourned. The Mace is now completely out of reach from MP's.
Heseltine letting go at the wrong moment does very much sound like the makings of a Meadow/Roem TL to be honest.

"Agent Lavender is dead, I repeat, Agent Lavender is dead."

"Copy. Circumstances of death? Что?!"
 
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As PDF says, this has (almost) happened. Michael Heseltine is the most famous example - he was enraged by Labour MPs singing The Red Flag after the Tories accused them of breaking a pairing agreement, and picked up the Mace and swung it around for a bit.

An opposition leader, though, is never going to do it. An angry backbencher, maybe, but nobody who would actually become leader. Even Corbyn got the job partly because he's the 'softly-spoken' bit of the angry backbenches.

I can see Skinner trying to kill IDS with it if things got truly Edge in a Cameronpunk scenario.

Quite. However, the new Shadow Chancellor did get himself expelled from the House in 2009, when he threw the Mace on the floor during an especially bitter debate on Heathrow.
 
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