2016 - 2019: Theresa May (Conservative)
2019: Boris Johnson (Conservative)
Johnson's minority government is unable to achieve anything but his opponents cannot agree on a course of action, leaving government paralysed while the Withdrawal Agreement sits there without being voted on. Unless there's either an election or vote of no confidence, there'll be no forward movement and the EU27 are getting pissed off. As the deadlock continues into December, the economy slumps and word comes down that the EU27 won't agree to an extension, while all party leaders (except Sturgeon in Scotland) are looking increasingly unpopular. Something has to give.
2019-2020: Amber Rudd (Conservative)
The coup is a brutal action that sees Rudd win through promise of bringing back the MPs who lost the whip and those who've defected to other parties. Unfortunately for Rudd, she can achieve this but now the ERG and chums refuse to back the Withdrawal Agreement - one revised to bring back the Northern Irish backstop - and the DUP can't help, having split over what to do. Labour faces internal conflict over what to do. The Lib Dems, SNP, and PC team up to demand a second referendum now. Deadlock continues.
Rudd gambles on the second referendum and No wins by 50.4%. Remain has been defeated. But the fact she did it at all has the ERG enraged and doesn't solve the "what next?" problem.
2020: Jacob Rees-Mogg (Conservative "& Brexit" Party) in supply-and-confidence with 'Hard DUP'
Coup Two, followed by a surprise merger of the party with Farage's. He believes this will force change. More party defections follow - all independent now, as the Lib Dems aren't taking rats in case they re-rat again - but he assumes an election will see him win. He's got Farage and Cummings on his side, an increasingly disgruntled nation, and a Labour Party divided by an increasingly brutal antisemitism conflict. All he has to do is get everyone to agree an election.
The EU27 sends quiet word to the opposition: just bloody do it.
2020 - 2021: Rebecca Long-Bailey (Labour) in supply-and-confidence with SNP
Against a combined Mogg/Farage force, most English and Welsh Remainers reluctantly go to Labour - helped by a sudden change in leadership soon before. Rees-Mogg thought this meant Labour was vulnerable, rather than benefitting from a leader that hasn't got baggage yet. Still, Labour has lost part of the northern "red wall" and requires the SNP to not be a minority (the Lib Dems are not contacted, but have stolen southern Tory seats from people freaked by Hard Brexit, while the DUP crashed to an Alliance surge).
A long transition to 'soft Brexit' beckons and a withdrawal bill is put through. While the details will take a long time, the government can focus on many new things like -- no it can't, the SNP want a new independence referendum nownowNOW and Labour has to reluctantly allow one for early 2021. Campaigning gets vicious and, in the end, Scotland votes to Remain. The SNP withdraws support to get back at Labour.
2021: Rebecca Long-Bailey (Labour) in supply-and-confidence with Liberal Democrats
More and more conflicts on policy slow down the pace of change. An election may be the only way out--
2021: Rebecca Long-Bailey (Labour) in supply-and-confidence with Liberal Democrats
2022 - 2026: Keir Starmer (Labour) in coalition with Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrats)
Both parties lose seats as a result of working with the other but gain seats in Scotland, where the SNP is losing some ground, and from Tory marginals as Mark Francois craps the bed. (A number of independent MPs are elected) Long-Bailey resigns - potentially pushed - and Chancellor of the Exchequer Starmer wins the party election. A slow, careful centre-left coalition government is organised and slowly grinds its way through. Increasingly, climate change policy is coming to dominate - severe flooding in 2025 forces a state of emergency as hundreds of thousands are displaced and critical infrastructure knocked out.
Because of this, a referendum is held alongside the election on rejoining the European Union for climate change reasons. This is also seen as a way to shore up votes for the government, who is not doing too well in the polls. It half works:
Rejoining: 58% AYE
2026 - 2034: Ruth Davidson (One Nation Party)
The first majority government since 2017, promising national unity and no culture wars and money for all and so forth. This is impossible to achieve especially as the UK is rejoining the EU on lesser terms than it used to have, but the fragmenting of the Labour Party and continuing fall of the former Tories helps Davidson win an early next election anyway. Conservative economic orthodoxy dooms this government in the end, which simply can't deal with the changing world order. The sight of the government operating out of old war bunkers after Hurricane Barry in '31 hits London is a perfect visual sign of this.
2034 - 2044: Jamini Khan (National Labour)
A young radical as a "new girl" MP in 2021, Khan by now is 'the woman for the moment'. EU rules and restrictions are pushed to the limit in a series of state stimulus' to rework infrastructure and the economy the way she thinks it should be, making her both popular and controversial depending on what she reworks when. She notably ends the remaining domestic flights after the Irish Tunnel is built. She's accused, correctly, of using 'pork barrel' spending in parts of the UK to placate residents as climate refugees enter the country.
As her dirtier acts continue to stick, she resigns for the 2044 election to increase National Labour's chances - with the world getting less stable, war is likely and she wants to ensure it's a National Labour government if that happens.
2044 - 2049: Dec Llewellyn (National Labour)
2049 - 2051: Dec Llewellyn (government of national unity)
His premiership is defined by the climate reaching the feared 1.7C rise, the Russian Emergency (or War of the Russias) and the Second Middle Eastern War, and the early death of King William to heatstroke. In the end, this was too much for a single party and a GNU had to be formed as with much of the rest of Europe. While Llewellyn's grand plan had been to federalise the country (something already informally happening since 1999), he spends most of his time keeping everything upright.
2051 - 2057: Jimmy Kowalski (One Nation)
A populist and former social media manager, he is elected after promising the bad times are over. Economic growth does go up and the occupation of the Russias ends with the Treaty of Novrogod, but fatally once he's in power he's less able to make promises and be the fun guy you'd have a spliff with, while other opposition leaders can play the same game.
One popular stunt was to 'celebrate' the joint anniversary of Brexit and Bremain, an excuse for quaint retro cultural events. Everyone has a good laugh at how the past used to be. Cor, imagine thinking Bulgaria was weird and foreign!
2019: Boris Johnson (Conservative)
Johnson's minority government is unable to achieve anything but his opponents cannot agree on a course of action, leaving government paralysed while the Withdrawal Agreement sits there without being voted on. Unless there's either an election or vote of no confidence, there'll be no forward movement and the EU27 are getting pissed off. As the deadlock continues into December, the economy slumps and word comes down that the EU27 won't agree to an extension, while all party leaders (except Sturgeon in Scotland) are looking increasingly unpopular. Something has to give.
2019-2020: Amber Rudd (Conservative)
The coup is a brutal action that sees Rudd win through promise of bringing back the MPs who lost the whip and those who've defected to other parties. Unfortunately for Rudd, she can achieve this but now the ERG and chums refuse to back the Withdrawal Agreement - one revised to bring back the Northern Irish backstop - and the DUP can't help, having split over what to do. Labour faces internal conflict over what to do. The Lib Dems, SNP, and PC team up to demand a second referendum now. Deadlock continues.
Rudd gambles on the second referendum and No wins by 50.4%. Remain has been defeated. But the fact she did it at all has the ERG enraged and doesn't solve the "what next?" problem.
2020: Jacob Rees-Mogg (Conservative "& Brexit" Party) in supply-and-confidence with 'Hard DUP'
Coup Two, followed by a surprise merger of the party with Farage's. He believes this will force change. More party defections follow - all independent now, as the Lib Dems aren't taking rats in case they re-rat again - but he assumes an election will see him win. He's got Farage and Cummings on his side, an increasingly disgruntled nation, and a Labour Party divided by an increasingly brutal antisemitism conflict. All he has to do is get everyone to agree an election.
The EU27 sends quiet word to the opposition: just bloody do it.
2020 - 2021: Rebecca Long-Bailey (Labour) in supply-and-confidence with SNP
Against a combined Mogg/Farage force, most English and Welsh Remainers reluctantly go to Labour - helped by a sudden change in leadership soon before. Rees-Mogg thought this meant Labour was vulnerable, rather than benefitting from a leader that hasn't got baggage yet. Still, Labour has lost part of the northern "red wall" and requires the SNP to not be a minority (the Lib Dems are not contacted, but have stolen southern Tory seats from people freaked by Hard Brexit, while the DUP crashed to an Alliance surge).
A long transition to 'soft Brexit' beckons and a withdrawal bill is put through. While the details will take a long time, the government can focus on many new things like -- no it can't, the SNP want a new independence referendum nownowNOW and Labour has to reluctantly allow one for early 2021. Campaigning gets vicious and, in the end, Scotland votes to Remain. The SNP withdraws support to get back at Labour.
2021: Rebecca Long-Bailey (Labour) in supply-and-confidence with Liberal Democrats
More and more conflicts on policy slow down the pace of change. An election may be the only way out--
2021: Rebecca Long-Bailey (Labour) in supply-and-confidence with Liberal Democrats
2022 - 2026: Keir Starmer (Labour) in coalition with Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrats)
Both parties lose seats as a result of working with the other but gain seats in Scotland, where the SNP is losing some ground, and from Tory marginals as Mark Francois craps the bed. (A number of independent MPs are elected) Long-Bailey resigns - potentially pushed - and Chancellor of the Exchequer Starmer wins the party election. A slow, careful centre-left coalition government is organised and slowly grinds its way through. Increasingly, climate change policy is coming to dominate - severe flooding in 2025 forces a state of emergency as hundreds of thousands are displaced and critical infrastructure knocked out.
Because of this, a referendum is held alongside the election on rejoining the European Union for climate change reasons. This is also seen as a way to shore up votes for the government, who is not doing too well in the polls. It half works:
Rejoining: 58% AYE
2026 - 2034: Ruth Davidson (One Nation Party)
The first majority government since 2017, promising national unity and no culture wars and money for all and so forth. This is impossible to achieve especially as the UK is rejoining the EU on lesser terms than it used to have, but the fragmenting of the Labour Party and continuing fall of the former Tories helps Davidson win an early next election anyway. Conservative economic orthodoxy dooms this government in the end, which simply can't deal with the changing world order. The sight of the government operating out of old war bunkers after Hurricane Barry in '31 hits London is a perfect visual sign of this.
2034 - 2044: Jamini Khan (National Labour)
A young radical as a "new girl" MP in 2021, Khan by now is 'the woman for the moment'. EU rules and restrictions are pushed to the limit in a series of state stimulus' to rework infrastructure and the economy the way she thinks it should be, making her both popular and controversial depending on what she reworks when. She notably ends the remaining domestic flights after the Irish Tunnel is built. She's accused, correctly, of using 'pork barrel' spending in parts of the UK to placate residents as climate refugees enter the country.
As her dirtier acts continue to stick, she resigns for the 2044 election to increase National Labour's chances - with the world getting less stable, war is likely and she wants to ensure it's a National Labour government if that happens.
2044 - 2049: Dec Llewellyn (National Labour)
2049 - 2051: Dec Llewellyn (government of national unity)
His premiership is defined by the climate reaching the feared 1.7C rise, the Russian Emergency (or War of the Russias) and the Second Middle Eastern War, and the early death of King William to heatstroke. In the end, this was too much for a single party and a GNU had to be formed as with much of the rest of Europe. While Llewellyn's grand plan had been to federalise the country (something already informally happening since 1999), he spends most of his time keeping everything upright.
2051 - 2057: Jimmy Kowalski (One Nation)
A populist and former social media manager, he is elected after promising the bad times are over. Economic growth does go up and the occupation of the Russias ends with the Treaty of Novrogod, but fatally once he's in power he's less able to make promises and be the fun guy you'd have a spliff with, while other opposition leaders can play the same game.
One popular stunt was to 'celebrate' the joint anniversary of Brexit and Bremain, an excuse for quaint retro cultural events. Everyone has a good laugh at how the past used to be. Cor, imagine thinking Bulgaria was weird and foreign!