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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

Redo because I deleted the original because reasons

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom of Great Bolt-ain

2005-2006: Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat-Labour "Progressive" Coalition)
Def 2005: Tony Blair (Labour) David Cameron (Conservative)
2006-2007: David Cameron (Conservative-English Democrat Coalition)
Def 2006: Charles Kennedy (Lib Dem) Gordon Brown (Labour)
2008-2009: Evan Harris (Federalist Democrat-Regionalist Coalition) (2008 me was really into devolution)
Def 2008: David Cameron (Conservative) Alex Salmond (Regionalist) David Miliband (Labour)
2010-2011: Nick Clegg (Progressive) (little Cleggmaniac Bolt)
2011-2011: Caroline Lucas (Green)

Def 2011 Alan Duncan (Conservative) Nick Clegg (Progressive) Alex Salmond (Regionalist) Ed Miliband (Labour)
2011-2013: Laurie Penny (Syndicalist minority)
Def 2011: Caroline Lucas (Green) Vince Cable and his hat (Progressive)
2013-2015: Caroline Lucas (Green Left-Syndicalist)
Def 2013: Vince Cable (Progressive) Laurie Penny (Syndicalist) Chuka Umunna (Moderate)
2015-2017: Patrick Harvie (Green Left)
Def 2015: Norman Lamb (Progressive) Collective Leadership (Syndicalist) Anna Soubrey (Moderate) Douglas Carswell (Libertarian Conservative)
2017-Present: Patrick Harvie (Green Left-Progressive Coalition with NHA S&D) (tough one, I'd prefer Greens but I vote Lib Dem,)
Def 2017: Harry Brewis (Syndicalist) Jo Swinson (Progressive) Anna Soubrey (Moderate) Douglas Carswell (Libertarian Conservative) Jack Monroe (NHA)

Basically a shift from the progressive, devolutionist centre to the left to the anarchist left and back slightly to the centre again.

Bonus!
Presidents of the United Bolts of America

2001-2005: Al Gorge/Joe Lieberman (Democrat) (Little me was annoyed about the Florida decision, okay?)
2005-2009: John Kerry/John Edwardss (Democrat) (I didnt know much more than that
2009-2013: Barack Obama/Joe Biden (Democrat)
2013-2016: Barack Obama/Elizabeth Warren (Democrat)
2016-____: Elizabeth Warren/Tammy Baldwin (Social Democrat)
 
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Turquoise Lights: Or Britain if it followed Tibby's every political whim

Gordon Brown (Labour majority) 2007-2010
When Brown decided to call an election in 2010, a hung parliament emerged, but a very unusual one where the Lib Dems surged, Labour held first place narrowly despite coming third in votes, and the Tories second, like always. Negotiating a Lib-Lab coalition, one thing Clegg demanded was his retirement within the next year or so, which Brown agreed to.

Gordon Brown (Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition) 2010-2011
Brown's second ministry was to be brief as the ambitious people in his cabinet all planned for the eventual leadership challenge. It was a relief to everyone involved, including the Prime Minister, when it was finally called and they all could openly stand.

Ed Miliband (Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition) 2011-2012
The rise of the Alliance of Regions in early 2012 brought Labour to a new low in polls, which turned out to be the end to Miliband's first ministry as Clegg announced he would withdraw support and force a vote of no confidence in the Government.

Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat-Labour coalition) 2012-2013
Clegg has done it, he has brought Labour low and became the first Liberal prime minister since David Lloyd George. With the Tories firmly rejecting a Grand Coalition, Labour was brought back in government this time as a junior partner. The Lib Dems this time would be the ones hammered in the polls as the Scottish election saw a wipeout in favour of the SNP and Plaid Cymru surged to win a Rainbow Coalition. Labour, still led by Ed Miliband after he fought off the second attempt at winning the leadership from his brother, decided to do unto Clegg the same as he did unto them.

Caroline Lucas (Green minority) 2013
In the end, the Tories collapsed as the Greens surged on a NIMBYist platform and both the Lib Dems and Labour lost. Labour however, recovered quite a bit while Clegg saw his party collapse to 23 seats. Lucas' ministry was inexperienced and after a major foreign policy fumble, a vote of no confidence was called and the Great British Public became frustrated at their ever-changing Government.

Leanne Wood (Alliance of Regions-Labour-Liberal Democrat-Green "Rainbow Coalition") 2013-2014
With the Tories resurgent under a charismatic leader, they came close to winning a majority, but in the end, all other parties agreed to form a Rainbow Coalition led by the leader of the second-biggest party, the Alliance of Regions. Wood's ministry was predictably chaotic, but she did implement federalism over the UK and establish an elected Senate to replace the House of Lords.

Ed Miliband (Labour majority) 2014-2015
In the end, it all proved too much, and the people decided to cast their vote for Labour to have a great big majority in the fourth election in four years. Miliband's second ministry would prove much more successful than his first, but just as brief. In 2015, the Labour Party split as the hard-left led by Jeremy Corbyn split off as the People's Socialist Movement or something, and that led to Miliband calling a general election to take them by surprise. It didn't exactly work out that well for Miliband honestly, as he lost power.

Leanne Wood (Alliance of Regions-Liberal Democrat coalition) 2015-2017
While Miliband's gambit did wipe out the PSM, the British voters were still angry at the fifth election in five years and chose to vote for the Regionalists instead. Wood's second ministry would mainly be known for the referendum on to get Britain in the Euro, which narrowly passed, but led to a popular backlash a year later and led to a new election as the Lib Dems withdrew from the coalition.

Sadiq Khan (Labour-led "Ministry of All the Talents") 2017-present
Prime Minister Khan elected to bring all the major parties together (Labour, Lib Dems, Tories, Regionalists, Greens) to form a "ministry of all the talents" to rise above the fractious politics that has doomed Britain to elections after elections after elections. He is quite popular those days, even as the Regionalists rise above Labour in polling for the first time since late 2015 while the Tories under Ruth Davidson is surging...
 
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That Option No Longer Exists: or how I learned to stop worrying and love Monetarism

1970-1974: Edward Heath (Conservative)
1970 (Majority): Harold Wilson (Labour), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1974-1976: Harold Wilson (Labour)
(Feb) 1974 (Minority): Edward Heath (Conservative), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal), William Wolfe (SNP)
(Oct) 1974 (Majority): Edward Heath (Conservative), William Wolfe (SNP), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)

1976-1982: James Callaghan (Labour)
1979 (Majority): Edward du Cann (Conservative), Margo McDonald & Jim Sillars (SNP-SLP Alliance), John Pardoe (Liberal)
1982-1982: Denis Healey (Labour Majority)
1982-1984: David Owen (Labour Majority)
1984-1988: Francis Pym (Conservative)

1984 (Coalition with Libeals): David Owen (Labour), Margo McDonald & Jim Sillars (SNP-SLP Alliance), Clement Freud (Liberal), Shirley Williams (Independent Radical)
1989-1994: Peter Jay (Labour)
1989 (Majority): Francis Pym (Conservative), Nina Fishman (Radical) & Alex Salmond (SNLP) (POPULAR FRONT), Alan Beith (Liberal)
1993 (Minority): George Young (Conservative), Nina Fishman (Radical) & Alex Salmond (SNLP) (POPULAR FRONT), Malcolm Bruce (Liberal)

1994-1996: Brenden Donnelly (Moderate)
1994 (Coalition with Radical): Peter Jay (Labour), Nina Fishman (Radical) & Alex Neil (SNLP) (POPULAR FRONT), Ann Widdecombe (Traditional)
1996-1999: Peter Jay (Labour)
1996 (Majority): Brenden Donnelly (Moderate), Nina Fishman & Alex Salmond (Radical), Kenny MacAskill (SNLP), Alan Clark (Traditional)
1999-2002: John Stevens (Moderate)
1999 (Coalition with Radical): Alan Howarth (Labour), Peter Hain & Martin Jacques (Radical), Kenny MacAskill (SNLP), Roger Knapman (Traditional)
2002-2007: Frank Field (Labour)
2002 (Majority): John Stevens (Moderate), Hilary Benn & Fiona Miller (Radical), Kenny MacAskill (SNLP)
2007-2007: David Davis (Labour Majority)
2007-2015: Chris Patten (Moderate)
2007 (Majority) David Davis (Labour), Neal Lawson & Sian Berry (Radical), Katy Clark (SNLP)

2012 (Coalition with Radical): Michael Gove (Labour), John Harris & Caroline Lucas (Radical), Katy Clark (SNLP)
2015-2018: Michael Gove (Labour)
2015 (Majority): John Bercow (Moderate), Owen Jones & Lisa Nandy (Radical), Katy Clark (SNLP)
2018-????: Patricia Hewitt (Labour Majority)

The October 1974 election would prove to be the most important in modern British history. Pulling off a mighty second landslide, with a 10 point difference and a thumping 123 seat majority, Harold Wilson's fourth electoral triumph established the Labour Party as Britain's "natural party of government". The result was a body blow for the Conservatives, suffering their third defeat out of four under the leadership of Edward Heath. Within hours of the result Heath was gone forever, sulking on the Conservative Party benches for another ten years before eventually, and rather inevitably, finding his way to the Liberal Party benches. The inevitable right-wing rebellion within the Conservative ranks saw Edward du Cann take up the leadership of a party many commentators began to describe as sociologically doomed. Labour had replaced their position as Britain's natural party, while polling showed the Liberals fast approaching second party status among young and first time voters. Heath's flirtations with a more laissez-faire economic policy had proven unworkable, and du Cann's election was not seen as a sensible long term solution. Nevertheless, the Liberals could not be too happy with themselves either. Thorpe's predicted breakthrough failed to materialize, going back on their previous performance in February, while also suffering the humiliation of losing third party status, being usurped by the remarkable growth of the SNP, winning an impressive 20 seats to the Liberals' 16. With a divided opposition, the future appeared Labour's forever. Many "Gladstonian Liberals" within the Conservative Party such as Keith Joseph even began envisaging the need for electoral reform if the country was to be saved from Socialism...


Ultimately the price of Labour's victory in October 74 was that it would be them who would do the dirty work of modernising social-democratic Britain. The IMF loan was the first of many stark realities that forced Jim Callaghan and Denis Healey to slowly begin the hard work of abandoning the mixed economy. Full employment was gradually abandoned, a harsher line was taken against the trade unions and while not selling off "the family silver" some of the non-essential nationalised industries were gradually returned to the market. Healeynomics became a phrase known in accademic and political circles around the world, symbolising the difficult and traumatizing adjustment of social democratic parties to the new demands of the neoliberal era. For many on the left, however, this proved a step too far. Slowly stalwarts of the left drift to margins of British political life, many sulking on the backbenches, abandoning parliament altogether or attempting numerous botched left-wing challenger parties. Jim Sillars' split just before the 1979 election proved the most longlasting, albeit with far greater implications for Scottish politics than British...


In 1979 the British people were offered the choice between two monetarist programmes for Britain, giving little choice for voters. While the troubles with the Trade Unions had been damaging for Callaghan's government, the sheer size of his majority made any outright defeat unlikely. The Liberal Party's new leader offered little beyond a vague support for a continuing mixed economy, and the SNP/Scottish Labour Alliance between husband and wife Margo MacDonald and Jim Sillars proved more of a political oddity and opportunity for protest votes in Scotland than a viable political project. Callaghan carried on, not exactly muddling, but lacking the dynamism of his predecessor.

After six years in office, Callaghan retired to his farm. After a short leadership election Healey was finally given the reins of power after eight years doing socialism's dirty work, making him the longest serving Chancellor in British history. A deal with Foreign Secretary David Owen saw him appointed Deputy Prime Minister and heir apparent, a slight over Healey's closer ally Roy Hattersley. While things were not perfect, the economy had begun to finally pickup after the harsh prescriptions of monetarism had been finally enforced in full. Despite being left something of a poisoned chalice by Callaghan, as 1982 hit April the feeling among many Labour MPs was that a gradual uptick in the economy would guarantee a third full term in 1983 or 84. That was before, however, the Malvinas Crisis.

As Argentinan troops landed on the undefended British territory, Healey was incapable of avoiding the blame. Under his cuts the islands had lost their defence capabilities, while a genuine apprehension to jump into war that only those who have actually fought in one seem to possess only hampered his standing further. Despite appealing to the UN for support, Healey was seen as weak for not acting unilaterally, coming under the harshest criticism from Owen. When Healey's infamous cabinet outburst was leaked to the press, his fall became inevitable. While Healey still stands by his belief that the islands were not worth young British soldiers "spilling their guts", the view did not chime with the British public. Within a few days David Owen had resigned and launched a leadership challenge, to say the instability of a leaderless government in the midst of a crisis, Healey surrendered power to the man he famously described as "a shit".

Despite an eventual, if bloody victory in the Falklands, Owen was unable to translate it into a third victory for Labour. His abrasive, arrogant and hawkish leadership had alienated both the left and large sections of the right, many of whom had put him power to begin with. Eventually, as the 1984 election campaign began, Labour found itself in an absurd position of having a more right-wing manifesto, both on defence, economics and social issues than the Conservatives, led by the Heathite Francis Pym. The embarrassment of Labour's intitial handling of the war permanently damaged the party's standing, despite Owen's best efforts. Scotland became a heartland for the left-wing Scottish Alliance, as most voters stood far to the left of Owen's Labour. And crucially, the disillusionment of many English Labour MPs on the Soft Left of the party, most of whom still clinging to the glory days of the post-war mixed economy, finally gave up the fight. Shirley Williams, a figure who embodied the ex-Owenite wing of the Labour Party, quit the party along with a dozen others, varying in faction into a loose collective of left-leaning intellectuals. Without formally forming a party, they stood under the same banner as "Independent Radicals".

Eventually the election result was indecisive, the second hung parliament in ten years. Despite Owen's attempts to win Williams back in to the fold, it was Francis Pym that finally marched through the doors of number 10, followed on by a dozen Liberal MPs, one of whom being Roy Jenkins, a man once tipped to be a Labour Prime Minister, taking up the mantel of deputy in a coalition government.

All that could define the Pym's ministry was moderation and inertia, the last hurrah of a warn out generation of post-war politicians. The attempts to slow the tide of neoliberalism was impossible, simply prolonging the warn out institutions of the day, and allowing Scargill's Strike in the winter of 1984 only further demonstrating the dire need for complete industrial modernisation. Ironically, it appeared only Labour could claim to show any real authority against the unions, and with Peter Jay, the former journalist and diplomat as well as arch-monetarist, taking the helm of the party leadership, it appeared that the party's transformation to vanguard of neoliberalism was becoming more pronounced than ever before.

...

Peter Jay's first premiership oversaw the last essential reforms of the transitional era from the mixed economy to a fully neoliberal "new order". Along with it, came the death of the Conservative Party, the formation of the Moderates, Nina Fishman's failed Popular Front, the realignment of the Scottish National Labour Party along "Fundamentalist" lines, and the first years of the far-right Traditionalists. The dynamics of British politics have been defined since then by a majoritarian Labour Party, wedded to Eurosceptic monetarism, challenged by the liberal, ProEuropean Moderate Party, serving almost always in coalition with the soft left Radical Party, dominated by old lefties, green activists, feminists and members of the left intelligentsia. On the periphery are the extreme separatist Scottish National Labour Party, with the ugly head of the Traditional Party occasionally rearing, despite failing to gain parliamentary representation since 2002.

Now, in 2018, it appears the next great change of British politics has finally arrived. Despite the ultraorthodoxies of the Field, Davis and Gove ministries, with Chris Patten's 8 years in office (the longest of any non-Labour PM since the war) being a strong outlier, the traditional socialist left has been re-forming. The old Bennites had been biding their time, continuing to fight the impossible war for democratization within the Labour Party, while the Radicals have seen a marked shift from vague welfare state social democracy to something a little more creative and exciting. Meanwhile Katy Clark's focus on "Socialism First" has seen far more productive electoral gains for the SNLP than pure separatism. The climax of these changes, with the final scrapping of MP votes in leadership elections saw the old Bennite backbencher Patricia Hewitt appear from nowhere early this year to challenge the embattled Michael Gove. His shock defeat has sounded a key change in British political life.

As Patricia Hewitt, the grand old woman of the Labour Left begins her first full day in office tomorrow, the promised land appears closer than ever for the true believers who stuck it out over all these years. Whether the so-called "Full Socialist Government" with the SNLP and Radicals is really going to happen remains to be seen, as does the prospect of Benn's Alternative Economic Strategy finally seeing the light of day.

As Labour Monetarism moves into the annals of history, it is up to Hewitt to decide what should come in its place.



Extra: List of Deputy Prime Ministers

"The office of Deputy Prime Minister developed in the 1980s from a constitutional oddity in Britain's parliamentary system, to a formal and consistently occupied office, particularly during the numerous coalition governments. Unofficially, it eventually developed into a tool of the Prime Minister's patronage, typically used to anoint the heir apparent. The most famous office holder being Robert Kilroy Silk, Peter Jay's right hand man, who served for longer than any other, while also being the only person to hold it on two non consecutive occasions before dying suddenly in 1998."

1979-1982: Michael Foot (Labour)
1982-1982: David Owen (Labour)

...
1984-1988: Roy Jenkins (Liberal)
1988-1994: Robert Kilroy Silk (Labour)

1994-1996: Nina Fishman (Radical)
1996-1998: Robert Kilroy Silk (Labour)*
...
1999-2001: Peter Hain (Radical)
2002-2007: David Davis (Labour)
2007-2007: Michael Gove (Labour)

2007-2011: Danny Finkelstein (Moderate)
2011-2012: John Bercow (Moderate)

2012-2015: John Harris (Radical)
2015-2018: Caroline Flint (Labour)
2018-: Emily Thornberry (Labour)


*died in office
 
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Officially Not On.

Chancellors of the Exchequer

1970-1970: Iain McLeod (Conservative)
1970-1974: Anthony Barber (Conservative)

1974-1982: Denis Healey (Labour)
1982-1982: Roy Hattersley (Labour)
1982-1983: Reg Prentice (Labour)
1983-1984: Peter Jay (Labour)

1984-1987: George Young (Conservative)
1987-1988: Roy Jenkins (Liberal)
1988-1994: Robert Kilroy-Silk (Labour)
1994-1996: Stephen Dorrell (Moderate)

1996-1998: George Robertson (Labour)
1998-1999: Frank Field (Labour)
1999-2001: Ian Lang (Moderate)

2001-2002: Vince Cable (Moderate)
2002-2005: Roger Godsiff (Labour)
2005-2007: Alan Milburn (Labour)
2007-2007: Michael Gove (Labour)

2007-2009: Vince Cable (Moderate)
2009-2014: Andrew Tyrie (Moderate)

2014-2015: Chuka Umunna (Independent)*
2015-2017: John Denham (Labour)
2017-2018: Chris Leslie (Labour)
2018-????: Emily Thornberry (Labour)

*Resigned the Radical whip upon appointment, later defected to Labour before defecting again to the Moderates following the election of Patricia Hewitt to the leadership.

Secretaries of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

1970-1974: Sir Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative)
1974-1976: James Callaghan (Labour)
1976-1977: Anthony Crosland (Labour)*
1977-1982: David Owen (Labour)
1982-1982: Peter Shore (Labour)**
1982-1984: Roy Mason (Labour)
1984-1987: Roy Jenkins (Liberal)
1987-1988: Peter Walker (Conservative)
1988-1994: George Robertson (Labour)
1994-1995: Michael Heseltine (Moderate)

1995-1996: John Stevens (Moderate)
1996-1998: Robert Kilroy-Silk (Labour)*
1998-1999: Gordon Brown (Labour)

1999-2002: Peter Hain (Radical)
2002-2006: Stephen Pound (Labour)

2006-2007: Michael Gove (Labour)
2007-2007: Caroline Flint (Labour)
2007-2009: Menzies Campbell (Moderate)
2009-2012: John Bercow (Moderate)
2012-2014: Caroline Lucas (Radical)
2014-2015: Dave Cameron (Moderate)
2015-2018: Tim Collins (Belfast Labour)
2018-????: Shami Chakrabarti (Radical)***

* Died in office.
** Acting
***As part of Patricia Hewitt's new "Full Socialist Government"

Secretaries of State for the Home Department

1970-1972: Reginald Maudling (Conservative)
1972-1974: Robert Carr (Conservative)

1974-1976: Roy Jenkins (Labour)
1976-1980: Merlyn Rees (Labour)
1980-1982: Roy Hattersley (Labour)
1982-1982: Peter Shore (Labour)
1982-1982: Michael Foot (Labour)*
1982-1984: Merlyn Rees (Labour)

1984-1987: William Whitelaw (Conservative)
1987-1988: Michael Heseltine (Conservative)

1988-1991: John Cartwright (Labour)
1991-1994: Alan Howarth (Labour)

1994-1996: Nina Fishman (Radical)
1996-1999: Alan Howarth (Labour)

1999-2001: Alan Haselhurst (Moderate)
2001-2002: Chris Patten (Moderate)

2002-2007: David Davis (Labour)
2007-2007: John Mann (Labour)
2007-2011: Daniel Finkelstein (Moderate)

2011-2012: James Purnell (Moderate)**
2012-2015: John Harris (Radical)
2015-2016: John Mann (Labour)
2016-2018: Caroline Flint (Labour)

2018-????: Beatrix Campbell (Radical)***

* Acting
** Defected to Labour in 2012, defected back to the Moderates in 2018 following Patricia Hewitt's election.
*** Part of Patricia Hewitt's "Full Socialist Government"
 
A World Turned Upside Sideways

(Because I am enjoying this concept a lot)

1997-2003: Tony Blair (Labour)
The last Labour government was elected on a small majority, with the Liberal Democrats close to second place. Devolution for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland was implemented. The government's handling of the Milennium Bug Crisis caused a massive split in the party and Blair limped on, even managing to push the elections back a year to deal with the crisis.

2003-2008: Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat)
Propelled into government as the party most strongly associated with opposition to Blair's handling of Y2K and international terrorism, the Liberal Democrats avoided the wars in the Middle East, implemented STV, brought in the Euro, created an elected Senate and bought in regional devolution, but did little to deal with left wing agitation that broke out in the next election. Particularly during the Credit Crisis.

2008-2011: Caroline Lucas (Green Party England & Wales)
Caroline Lucas had never served in Parliament, but found herself suddenly at the front of a Red-Green Alliance. The new government worked towards implementing LVT, legalised Cannabis, and brought in gay marriage but came to be seen as revisionist by the more left wing elements, who were brought into power following a general strike.

2011-2014: Ian Bone (Anarchist)
Britain's revolutionary government spent three years operating on a narrow majority, having to make deals with the Liberals, Greens, and even the Conservative-Labour Alliance to pass laws. Those laws included full drug decriminalisation and massive defunding for police, along with incentives to help people establish communes and worker's co-ops. Three years in, they finally failed to cobble together enough support to keep the government running and an election was called.

2014-xxxx: Natalie Bennett (Green Party)
The first Green majority government was elected on a landslide and has overseen a period of relative prosperity where Britain has lead moves towards disarmament, nuclear decommissioning and environmental policies. An election is likely to be called next year, but barring catastrophe it is hard to imagine anything unseating Natalie Bennett for a long, long time to come.
 
d32123's America

Presidents of the United States of America

1993-2001: Bill Clinton / Al Gore (Democratic Party)
2001-2005: Al Gore / Joe Lieberman (Democratic Party)
2005-2009: Al Gore / Wesley Clark (Democratic Party)
2009-2013: Hillary Clinton / Gary Locke (Democratic Party)
2013-2015: Jill Stein / Chelsea Manning (Green Party)


Supreme Leader of the United State of America
2015-2017: Augustus Sol Invictus /
Tulsi Gabbard (National Salvation Front)

Presidents of the United States of America (Restored)
2017: Hillary Clinton / J. Sakai (United Front)

General-Secretaries of the All-Federation Communist Party of the Socialist Federation of North America
2017-present: Gloria La Riva / Michael Prysner (All-Federation Communist Party)
 
Like a Moth to the Flame

1997-2008: Tony Blair (Labour)
def. 1997 (Majority): John Major (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrats)
def. 2001 (Majority): William Hague (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrats)
def. 2005 (Majority): Michael Howard (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrats)

2008-2011: David Cameron (Conservative)
def. 2008 (Minority): Tony Blair (Labour), Graham Watson (Liberal Democrats)
2011-2014: Ed Miliband (Labour)
def. 2011 (Labour Minority): David Cameron (Conservative), Graham Watson (Liberal Democrats)
2014-2015: Graham Watson (Liberal Democrats)
def. 2014 (Labour Coalition): George Osbourne (Conservative), Ed Miliband (Labour), Nigel Farage (UKIP)
2015-2015: Ed Miliband (Labour)
2015-2016: Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats)
2016-2017: Tim Farron (Liberal Democrats)
2017-2000: Gordon Brown (Labour)

def. 2017 (Majority): Tim Farron (Liberal Democrats), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Tim Aker (UKIP-Libertarian Alliance), Boris Johnson (Conservative)
 
I think you win the prize for most dramatic political swing. Pagan fascism to Clinton to Marxism within a year?

Okay to be clear I, like a lot of people who came across the "Florida Libertarian Party candidate drinks goats blood" headline just thought Sol Invictus was an eccentric joke candidate rather than an outright fascist. My politics for the first couple years after I graduated college were pretty fucked (it's amazing what complete social isolation, depression, and spending too much time on Atlas Forum can do), but I was never an actual fascist. Just really really really edgy.

Now I'm just really edgy.
 
First in the Nation

1969-1973: Richard Nixon / Spiro Agnew (Republican) [1]
1972 def. Ed Muskie / Endicott Peabody (Democratic)
1973: Richard Nixon (Republican) / vacant
1973: Richard Nixon / Gerald Ford (Republican)
1973-1974: Gerald Ford (Republican) /
vacant
1974-1977: Gerald Ford / Wallace Johnson (Republican)
1977-1981: Jimmy Carter / Ray Rollinson (Democratic) [2]

1976 def. Gerald Ford / Wallace Johnson (Republican)
1981-1985: Ronald Reagan / Jesse Helms (Republican) [3]
1980 def. Jimmy Carter / Walter Mondale (Democratic)
1984-1989: Gary Hart / Gerald Willis (Democratic) [4]
1984 def. Ronald Reagan / George Bush (Republican)
1989-1993: George Bush / Wayne Green (Republican) [5]
1988 def. Michael Dukakis / David Duke (Democratic)
1993-1997: George Bush / Herb Clark, Jr. (Republican)
1992 def. Paul Tsongas / Endicott Peabody (Democratic), Andre Marrou / Nancy Lord (Libertarian)
1997-1998: Bill Clinton / Al Gore (Democratic) [6]
1996 def. Pat Buchanan / Colin Powell (Republican), Harry Browne / Irwin Schiff (Libertarian)
1998: Al Gore (Democratic) / vacant
1998-2001: Al Gore / Wladimir Kubiak (Democratic)
2001-2005: John McCain / William Bryk (Republican) [7]

2000 def. Al Gore / Wladimir Kubiak (Democratic)
2005-2009: John Kerry / John Edwards (Democratic)
2004 def. George W. Bush / Dick Cheney (Republican)
2009-0000: John McCain / Jack Barnes (Republican)
2008 def. Hillary Clinton / Ray Stebbins (Democratic)

[1] When their obviously fraudulent “Canuck Letter” failed to trip up the cool and collected Muskie, the Committee to Re-Elect the President turned to desperate measures. Secret plots unfolded by the dozen, and suspicions about the administration’s involvement in the Watergate break-in or Jack Anderson’s death were already widespread by November. Muskie only lost by a hair. Pundits suggested that if the man from Maine had tried to balance the ticket geographically, rather than selecting the liberal aristocrat Peabody in a gesture towards the McGovernites, he might have won Texas and the election. When the Anderson affair exploded into the headlines, however, such academic questions were forgotten.

[2] Gerald Ford’s term in office was dominated so completely by the Nixon trials that his administration was rendered toothless. Even his appointment of affable liberal Wallace Johnson as Vice President failed to win him any positive press. Ford considered declining his party’s nomination in 1976, but no one else wanted the poisoned chalice of the Party of Manslaughter.

Carter didn’t disappoint the voters who had handed him his historic mandate, at least not at first. His call to treat the energy crisis as the “moral equivalent of war” was followed up upon by OPA-style economic controls and a massive expansion of coal mining and offshore drilling (the latter project helmed by his vice president, former governor Ray “Buttercup” Rollinson of Florida). The nation’s enthusiasm began to flag, however, after several years of Carter’s Emergency Program of authoritarianism and autarky. 1980 was a hot year in America, marked by assassinations and terrorist attacks; Buttercup was pulled from the ticket after losing a leg in a Monkey Wrench Gang bombing. Ronald Reagan pleaded for “peace on the home front” and warned that the USA was in danger of becoming an “evil empire.” It was a cruel irony to those who remembered his reign as Governor of California – but the rest of America was ready to believe, and they called upon Ronnie to save democracy.

[3] Unlike Nixon and Carter, the country never turned on Ronald Reagan, at least not personally. He released dozens of political prisoners on his first day in office, earning grudging respect even on the left, and then there was the boom. An economy already stoked white-hot by Carter’s investments was boosted still further as Reagan did away with wage and price controls and slashed taxes across the board. It was morning in America – until the bottom fell out in 1984. Even then, the savior of the republic took little blame. The ire was saved for those around him. Vice President Helms, the bilious racist who Reagan had put on the ticket to reassure his base as he ran towards the center, was painted as the biggest villain, having supposedly distracted the administration and the country with culture wars as economic problems festered.

[4] Gary Hart had been Carter’s leading Democratic critic; Alabama governor Gerald Willis one of the President’s staunch supporters. Together they would reunite their party just long enough to win the election. With little support from the Carterite wing of the party (organized labor and the South), Hart worked together with the slim Republican majorities in Congress to push ahead with Reagan’s economic reforms, expand foreign trade, and focus investment towards education, science, and technology. The Hart administration’s efforts made college affordable to practically every American, but the technocrat-in-chief was accused of looking the other way as industrial jobs dried up and minority communities stagnated in poverty. Famously, it was a labor publication, the International Woodworker, that first publicized Hart’s marital affairs – although the subsequent hysteria engulfed the entire press.

[5] Dubbing the “tabloid-style” coverage of his personal life a “distraction to my work as President,” Hart ruled out running for re-election. He devoted the last year of his presidency to international diplomacy, plugging away at fruitless peace talks in Northern Ireland. Meanwhile, the Democrats began to coalesce behind Michael Dukakis as his replacement. The traditionally liberal governor of Massachusetts was a comforting presence to a party that had undergone two decades of severe ideological turmoil, and Dukakis found himself facing George Bush that fall. He projected an air of calm competence, successfully distancing himself from Gary Hart on a personal level while embracing the president’s most popular initiatives. GOP attacks rolled right off the high-flying Democratic nominees (inevitably nicknamed the “Dukes of Harvard” by a hack reporter). Until, that is, Lee Atwater dug up some dirt on David Duke.

The baby-faced social conservative from Louisiana was, it seemed, a bit of a flake – he’d only passed a single bill in the state legislature, and his voting record in the US Senate was abysmal. Most damningly of all, he was not a natural blonde. It was classic Atwater, making a mountain out of a molehill, but Duke’s dark roots may have made the difference in the close contest.

George Bush took office not long after the Soviet Union’s first democratic elections, and the Great Thaw set the tone of the rest of his (largely) happy term in office. The first two-term president since Eisenhower weathered a few recessionary blips, a controversial but ultimately successful war in the Gulf, and rumors of sexual harassment which likely would have sunk a politician today. Yet his approval ratings rarely dipped underwater. When he died in 2016, polls showed most Americans agreeing with the president’s old friend Saddam Hussein, who in his eulogy referred to Bush as the greatest president of the postwar era. More critical assessments from former veep Green, who had turned to a career in conservative radio after one too many controversial outbursts, and from veteran Senator Andre Marrou were dismissed as the jealous comments of bitter old men.

[6] If Bush was an American superstar by the end of his term, his luster had long faded for the Republican base. Cynicism about his political moderation and reservations about his foreign adventures had boosted the insurgent Libertarian Party, and in 1996 led to the narrow primary victory of paleoconservative Pat Buchanan. Buchanan’s belligerence and flirtations with anti-Semitism were a bridge too far for most Americans – it was a dark day when Harry Browne could plausibly claim to be the sensible conservative choice – and his reluctant choice of Colin Powell as a running mate made for a schizophrenic ticket.

Bill Clinton’s landslide victory and abrupt death from heart failure less than a year into his term has since been popular fodder for alternate history writers. Would the pragmatic Arkansan have put as much emphasis on the environment as Gore did? Perhaps Clinton could have avoided a repeat of the Carter-era energy wars, with anti-government terrorism springing this time from rancher militias rather than deep greens. Certainly Clinton’s version of health care reform wouldn’t have included the comprehensive psychosexual health coverage pushed by Gore’s closest confidant, former Ambassador to Japan Wlad Kubiak. We can thank Bubba’s cheeseburger overdose for contemporary America’s free-at-the-point-of-use qi workshops and testosterone supplements.

[7] The centrist Clinton may also have proved a tougher target for John McCain’s hippie-bashing campaign in 2000. The conservative maverick tore up the consensus politics of the post-1970s era with thunderous denunciations of the Gore administration’s “creeping socialism” and underhanded personal attacks. At a time when many Republicans would consider such language beyond the pale, McCain implied that Vice President Kubiak was a disloyal “Russkie” and compared him to the boogeyman Soviet president, Eduard Limonov. McCain’s vitriol might have turned off some swing voters, but the American public had begun to sour on Gore and Kubiak’s flower power. The wild man from Arizona would dominate American politics both in and out of office for the two decades to come…

[Inspired by my recent discovery of the New Hampshire Vice-Presidential primary. It's pretty silly, as befits a gimmick list, and also a little dark, but there might be a salvageable concept or two in there. I do actually like the idea of Tyrant Carter making "the moral equivalent of war" a reality, but it's a bit too similar to @Thande 's Tyrant Jerry Ford to merit its own TL.]

[Also, Wlad Kubiak ran for mayor of Kyoto in 1993; I ought to do a rundown of all these wacky VP candidates.]
 
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Medieval king sof England if Louis VIII is victorious in England
Kings
Junior King of England (crowned as co-kings during their predecessor's reign - not usually counted in the list)
Claimant (not usually counted in the list)

King of England
1216 - 1243 : Louis I "The Lion" (House of Capet)


King of France and England
1223 - 1243 : Louis VIII - I "the Lion" (House of Capet)

1229 - 1243 : Louis IX (House of Capet)
1243 - 1288 : Louis IX - II " the Fair" (House of Capet)
1245 - 1256 / 1258- 1260 : Geoffroy I (House of Plantagenêt-Tournemine)
1262 - 1278 : Philip (House of Capet)
1269 - 1270 : Simon (House de Montfort) as Lord Regent of the Kingdom of England
1282-1288 : John II (House of Capet)
1288 - 1297 : John I - II " the Good" (House of Capet)
King of France, England and Burgundy
1288 - 1297 : John I - II " the Good" (House of Capet)


King of England
1297 - 1312 : Simon I "the Blood-Handed" (House of Monfort)

1297 - 1302 : Louis X of France (House of Capet)
1307 - 1312 : Henry (House of Monfort)
1312 - 1356 : Henry III "the Fierce" (House of Monfort)
1312 - 1356 : Henry (House of Monfort)
1356 - 1374 : Henry IV "the Hard-Pressed" (House of Monfort)
1356- 1362 : Guy (House de Montfort)
1370 - 1374 : Simon II (House of Monfort)

King of England and Scotland
1374 - 1377 : Simon II - I "the Great" (House of Monfort)


1377 - 1415 : Guy I "the Lion" (House of Monfort)
1393 - 1411 : Henry (House of Monfort)
1411 - 1415 : Andrew (House of Clare-Moray)

1415 - 1429 : Andrew I (House of Clare-Moray)
1423 - 1430 : Charles III "the Hunchback" of France (House of Capet-Courtnenay)

King of England

1429 - 1434 : Henry V "the Quiet" (House of Evry)
1423 - 1430 : Charles III "the Hunchback" of France (House of Capet-Courtnenay)
1429 - 1452 : Simon II of Scotland "the Young" (House of Clare-Moray)
1430 - 1442 : Louis XI "the Great" of France (House of Capet-Courtenay)

1442 - 1457 : John III "the Bold" (House of Capet-Courtenay)
1442 - 1452 : Simon II of Scotland "the Young" (House of Clare-Moray)
1444 - 1457 : Henry (House of Capet-Courtenay)

1457 - 1494 : Henry V "the Fair" (House of Capet-Courtenay)
1469 - 1480 : John (House of Capet-Courtenay)
1482 - 1486 : Louis (House of Capet-Courtenay)
1487 - 1494 : John (House of Capet-Courtenay)

1494 - 1515 : John IV (House of Capet-Courtenay)
1499- 1519 : Guy of Cumberland (House of Clare-Moray) as Junior King of England between 1499 and 1515

1515 - 1566 : John V (House of Capet-Guinèdes)
1499- 1519 : Guy of Cumberland (House of Clare-Moray)
 
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