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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

From an ancient King List deciphered by the archaeologists of the University of Neo-Mumbai.

List of 'Prime Ministers' of the United Kingdom
1945 AD-c.1950 AD: Clement Attlee [1]
c.1950 AD-1955 AD: Winston Churchill [2]
1955 AD-?: Anthony Eden [3]
fl. 1962 AD: Harold I Macmillan [4]
1964 AD: Alec Douglas-Home [5]
1964 AD-c.1970 AD: Harold II Wilson [6]
c.1970 AD-1974 AD: Ted Heath [7]
1974 AD-?: Harold II Wilson (restored) [7]
?-1979 AD: James Callaghan [8]
1979 AD-?: Margaret Thatcher [9]
fl. c.1995 AD: John Major [10]

NOTE: Dates are given in the AD format used at the time, which denotes the number of years that had passed After the Death of Jesús, a footballer who saved the World Cup thanks to a nailed-on cross and perfect execution. Most scholars agree that 1945 AD equates to ~6,256 BDA, although it should be noted that the ancient Britons began their years at the depths of winter, during our own month of Hen'Tai.

[1] - Clement is theorised to have served as Pope (a religious leader) as well as Prime Minister, judging by the occurrence of the name in Papal king lists found in USBs. He was certainly a cultic figure in the later cult of Nahus, which leads some classicists to believe that he was not a real king but a folk deity inserted into the regnal chronology at a later date.

[2] - Winston is perhaps the best known monarch of this period, his battles against King Hitler of the Holy Roman Empire being dramatised in a recent longvue serial. The fact that King Hitler is known to have faced his final defeat at the Battle of Deday in 1945, however, casts doubt on the accuracy of this king list. It may well be that Winston and Hitler were not contemporaneous, or that Winston had served as a dux bellorum under an earlier Prime Minister.

[3] - Whatever the truth about Winston, Prime Minister Anthony seems to have been a feebler leader, a weak man known not for his deeds but for a type of hat that he wore - not a crown, but possibly a decorative headpiece conceived to commemorate a military victory over King Hitler at Homburg (or the Hornburg, if King Theoden can indeed be confidently identified with this period). Anthony also suffered a shameful defeat himself at Sues, which is perhaps the origin of the phrase 'suing for peace'.

[4] - Little is known of Harold I, other than his bookishness and his reputation as a builder. Many stunning pieces of architecture, such as the 'Shard' and the 'Gherkin', are held to be products of Harold I's genius, but archaeologists now believe these to date from somewhat later in the era. The names of these buildings, of course, are not contemporary, and will only stick as descriptive nicknames until archaeologists work out what they were actually used for. The best guess so far is that they had a sacral or ritual purpose.

[5] - Prime Minister Alec only reigned one year, and came to power in the brutal Night of the Long Knives, whose victims included nobles such as Selwyn Lloyd, a royal butler named Rab, and some former allies of King Hitler who had defected to the British court, for instance Lord Roem. Alec was in turn defeated by Harold II.

[6] - Although bearing a different cognomen to Harold I, it is generally supposed that Harold II was a close relative of Macmillan, possibly through a female line. It would therefore make perfect sense that he would seek to avenge his kinsman against the usurper Alec. Harold II presents a mixed figure to historians: on the one hand, he won the World Cup (a ceremonial religious blood-sport) against the Holy Roman Empire, in a ritual victory that confirmed the results of the Hitlerian Wars, but on the other hand, he debased the coinage - ever the mark of a weak, short-termist leader. Only forty years later, the British economy collapsed.

[7] - Ted was another usurper, but seems to have died childless. He was even less impressive than Harold II, submitting Britain to the Empire only a few years after they had won the World Cup.

[8] - Ted's weakness extended to leaving his predecessor alive, and as Harold II had already seized the throne on one occasion, he could easily do it again with help from his allies in Russia. However, he seems to have died not long afterwards, without succeeding in liberating Britain from the Empire.

[9] - The new king, James, seems to have inherited an unstable position: he is known to have "gone cap in hand to the Imf" (perhaps he offered a Homburg hat to some sort of Arab sheikh as a form of tribute?) and was desperate enough in the face of Imperial domination that he instituted a three-day week - i.e. a four-day extravaganza of religious rituals aimed at grovelling to the gods for deliverance. Some scholars, however, ascribe the three-day week to Ted, but it is perfectly plausible that the supplication was attempted on two occasions. James' reign seems to have been a time of regional discontent, as the king himself was a Welshman (presumably chosen to pacify fractious regional elites who might otherwise have taken up arms in revolt) and he was killed in battle with the Irish chieftain Gerry Fitt, who rebelled against James despite his earlier demonstrations of loyalty.

[10] - Queen Margaret now came to power with the support of most of the nobles, and followed her east-country forebear Boadicea in asserting independence from the Empire, although it seems to have returned to authority over Britain shortly afterwards. Aside from the Holy Roman Empire, Margaret also rebuffed an invasion from the otherwise mysterious nation of Silverland (possibly Switzerland?). Despite her military prowess, Margaret continued to suffer from regional rebellions (principally from King Arthur, the hero of the Northumbrians and the Welsh who, it is claimed, will return when they are in their direst peril) and economic difficulties, going so far as to sell off some organs of the state - thus, inevitably, reducing the prestige of the nation and the monarchy. She was rumoured by hostile opponents to have had her daughter, Princess Diana, murdered, although it is unclear whether this actually happened during Margaret's reign. Possibly it took place at the same time as her other daughter was punished for her mother's supposedly harsh rule (a clearly sexist rejection of the emergent matriarchy) by being forced to eat the testicles of an Australian Two-Footed Horse.

[11] - King John (or 'Lackland') came from the affluent suburb of Brixton and, instead of dealing with Britain's very real problems, instead spent his time participating in a seemingly bacchanalian religious ritual called Cricket, the purpose of which seems to have been to create a trance-like state by spinning a ball for as much as five days, while drinking copious amounts of a type of beer made from hops and malt. John is the last king we can definitively name, and the decline of the country can be seen in the popularity of a folk legend about three lions - thought to represent Scotland, Wales and England savaging each other over the next "thirty years of hurt". As the Kingdom broke up into warring statelets after the Donaldian Plague, the bards can only have been prophetic - or, alternatively, the story may well have been made up after the fact and inserted into the histories.
 
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From an ancient King List deciphered by the archaeologists of the University of Neo-Mumbai.

List of 'Prime Ministers' of the United Kingdom
1945 AD-c.1950 AD: Clement Attlee [1]
c.1950 AD-1955 AD: Winston Churchill [2]
1955 AD-?: Anthony Eden [3]
fl. 1962 AD: Harold I Macmillan [4]
1964 AD: Alec Douglas-Home [5]
1964 AD-c.1970 AD: Harold II Wilson [6]
c.1970 AD-1974 AD: Ted Heath [7]
1974 AD-?: Harold II Wilson (restored) [7]
?-1979 AD: James Callaghan [8]
1979 AD-?: Margaret Thatcher [9]
fl. c.1995 AD: John Major [10]

NOTE: Dates are given in the AD format used at the time, which denotes the number of years that had passed After the Death of Jesús, a footballer who saved the World Cup thanks to a nailed-on cross and perfect execution. Most scholars agree that 1945 AD equates to ~6,256 BDA, although it should be noted that the ancient Britons began their years at the depths of winter, during our own month of Hen'Tai.

[1] - Clement is theorised to have served as Pope (a religious leader) as well as Prime Minister, judging by the occurrence of the name in Papal king lists found in USBs. He was certainly a cultic figure in the later cult of Nahus, which leads some classicists to believe that he was not a real king but a folk deity inserted into the regnal chronology at a later date.

[2] - Winston is perhaps the best known monarch of this period, his battles against King Hitler of the Holy Roman Empire being dramatised in a recent longvue serial. The fact that King Hitler is known to have faced his final defeat at the Battle of Deday in 1945, however, casts doubt on the accuracy of this king list. It may well be that Winston and Hitler were not contemporaneous, or that Winston had served as a dux bellorum under an earlier Prime Minister.

[3] - Whatever the truth about Winston, Prime Minister Anthony seems to have been a feebler leader, a weak man known not for his deeds but for a type of hat that he wore - not a crown, but possibly a decorative headpiece conceived to commemorate a military victory over King Hitler at Homburg (or the Hornburg, if King Theoden can indeed be confidently identified with this period). Anthony also suffered a shameful defeat himself at Sues, which is perhaps the origin of the phrase 'suing for peace'.

[4] - Little is known of Harold I, other than his bookishness and his reputation as a builder. Many stunning pieces of architecture, such as the 'Shard' and the 'Gherkin', are held to be products of Harold I's genius, but archaeologists now believe these to date from somewhat later in the era. The names of these buildings, of course, are not contemporary, and will only stick as descriptive nicknames until archaeologists work out what they were actually used for. The best guess so far is that they had a sacral or ritual purpose.

[5] - Prime Minister Alec only reigned one year, and came to power in the brutal Night of the Long Knives, whose victims included nobles such as Selwyn Lloyd, a royal butler named Rab, and some former allies of King Hitler who had defected to the British court, for instance Lord Roem. Alec was in turn defeated by Harold II.

[6] - Although bearing a different cognomen to Harold I, it is generally supposed that Harold II was a close relative of Macmillan, possibly through a female line. It would therefore make perfect sense that he would seek to avenge his kinsman against the usurper Alec. Harold II presents a mixed figure to historians: on the one hand, he won the World Cup (a ceremonial religious blood-sport) against the Holy Roman Empire, in a ritual victory that confirmed the results of the Hitlerian Wars, but on the other hand, he debased the coinage - ever the mark of a weak, short-termist leader. Only forty years later, the British economy collapsed.

[7] - Ted was another usurper, but seems to have died childless. He was even less impressive than Harold II, submitting Britain to the Empire only a few years after they had won the World Cup.

[8] - Ted's weakness extended to leaving his predecessor alive, and as Harold II had already seized the throne on one occasion, he could easily do it again with help from his allies in Russia. However, he seems to have died not long afterwards, without succeeding in liberating Britain from the Empire.

[9] - The new king, James, seems to have inherited an unstable position: he is known to have "gone cap in hand to the Imf" (perhaps he offered a Homburg hat to some sort of Arab sheikh as a form of tribute?) and was desperate enough in the face of Imperial domination that he instituted a three-day week - i.e. a four-day extravaganza of religious rituals aimed at grovelling to the gods for deliverance. Some scholars, however, ascribe the three-day week to Ted, but it is perfectly plausible that the supplication was attempted on two occasions. James' reign seems to have been a time of regional discontent, as the king himself was a Welshman (presumably chosen to pacify fractious regional elites who might otherwise have taken up arms in revolt) and he was killed in battle with the Irish chieftain Gerry Fitt, who rebelled against James despite his earlier demonstrations of loyalty.

[10] - Queen Margaret now came to power with the support of most of the nobles, and followed her east-country forebear Boadicea in asserting independence from the Empire, although it seems to have returned to authority over Britain shortly afterwards. Aside from the Holy Roman Empire, Margaret also rebuffed an invasion from the otherwise mysterious nation of Silverland (possibly Switzerland?). Despite her military prowess, Margaret continued to suffer from regional rebellions (principally from King Arthur, the hero of the Northumbrians and the Welsh who, it is claimed, will return when they are in their direst peril) and economic difficulties, going so far as to sell off some organs of the state - thus, inevitably, reducing the prestige of the nation and the monarchy. She was rumoured by hostile opponents to have had her daughter, Princess Diana, murdered, although it is unclear whether this actually happened during Margaret's reign. Possibly it took place at the same time as her other daughter was punished for her mother's supposedly harsh rule (a clearly sexist rejection of the emergent matriarchy) by being forced to eat the testicles of an Australian Two-Footed Horse.

[11] - King John (or 'Lackland') came from the affluent suburb of Brixton and, instead of dealing with Britain's very real problems, instead spent his time participating in a seemingly bacchanalian religious ritual called Cricket, the purpose of which seems to have been to create a trance-like state by spinning a ball for as much as five days, while drinking copious amounts of a type of beer made from hops and malt. John is the last king we can definitively name, and the decline of the country can be seen in the popularity of a folk legend about three lions - thought to represent Scotland, Wales and England savaging each other over the next "thirty years of hurt". As the Kingdom broke up into warring statelets after the Donaldian Plague, the bards can only have been prophetic - or, alternatively, the story may well have been made up after the fact and inserted into the histories.

As much as I laughed (and I laughed a lot) this is actually a really good transplant of trying to guesstimate ancient rulers and ruling castes in Anglo-Saxon etc. times, which I'm sure was the point. Deeply impressive work.
 
From an ancient King List deciphered by the archaeologists of the University of Neo-Mumbai.

List of 'Prime Ministers' of the United Kingdom
1945 AD-c.1950 AD: Clement Attlee [1]
c.1950 AD-1955 AD: Winston Churchill [2]
1955 AD-?: Anthony Eden [3]
fl. 1962 AD: Harold I Macmillan [4]
1964 AD: Alec Douglas-Home [5]
1964 AD-c.1970 AD: Harold II Wilson [6]
c.1970 AD-1974 AD: Ted Heath [7]
1974 AD-?: Harold II Wilson (restored) [7]
?-1979 AD: James Callaghan [8]
1979 AD-?: Margaret Thatcher [9]
fl. c.1995 AD: John Major [10]

NOTE: Dates are given in the AD format used at the time, which denotes the number of years that had passed After the Death of Jesús, a footballer who saved the World Cup thanks to a nailed-on cross and perfect execution. Most scholars agree that 1945 AD equates to ~6,256 BDA, although it should be noted that the ancient Britons began their years at the depths of winter, during our own month of Hen'Tai.

[1] - Clement is theorised to have served as Pope (a religious leader) as well as Prime Minister, judging by the occurrence of the name in Papal king lists found in USBs. He was certainly a cultic figure in the later cult of Nahus, which leads some classicists to believe that he was not a real king but a folk deity inserted into the regnal chronology at a later date.

[2] - Winston is perhaps the best known monarch of this period, his battles against King Hitler of the Holy Roman Empire being dramatised in a recent longvue serial. The fact that King Hitler is known to have faced his final defeat at the Battle of Deday in 1945, however, casts doubt on the accuracy of this king list. It may well be that Winston and Hitler were not contemporaneous, or that Winston had served as a dux bellorum under an earlier Prime Minister.

[3] - Whatever the truth about Winston, Prime Minister Anthony seems to have been a feebler leader, a weak man known not for his deeds but for a type of hat that he wore - not a crown, but possibly a decorative headpiece conceived to commemorate a military victory over King Hitler at Homburg (or the Hornburg, if King Theoden can indeed be confidently identified with this period). Anthony also suffered a shameful defeat himself at Sues, which is perhaps the origin of the phrase 'suing for peace'.

[4] - Little is known of Harold I, other than his bookishness and his reputation as a builder. Many stunning pieces of architecture, such as the 'Shard' and the 'Gherkin', are held to be products of Harold I's genius, but archaeologists now believe these to date from somewhat later in the era. The names of these buildings, of course, are not contemporary, and will only stick as descriptive nicknames until archaeologists work out what they were actually used for. The best guess so far is that they had a sacral or ritual purpose.

[5] - Prime Minister Alec only reigned one year, and came to power in the brutal Night of the Long Knives, whose victims included nobles such as Selwyn Lloyd, a royal butler named Rab, and some former allies of King Hitler who had defected to the British court, for instance Lord Roem. Alec was in turn defeated by Harold II.

[6] - Although bearing a different cognomen to Harold I, it is generally supposed that Harold II was a close relative of Macmillan, possibly through a female line. It would therefore make perfect sense that he would seek to avenge his kinsman against the usurper Alec. Harold II presents a mixed figure to historians: on the one hand, he won the World Cup (a ceremonial religious blood-sport) against the Holy Roman Empire, in a ritual victory that confirmed the results of the Hitlerian Wars, but on the other hand, he debased the coinage - ever the mark of a weak, short-termist leader. Only forty years later, the British economy collapsed.

[7] - Ted was another usurper, but seems to have died childless. He was even less impressive than Harold II, submitting Britain to the Empire only a few years after they had won the World Cup.

[8] - Ted's weakness extended to leaving his predecessor alive, and as Harold II had already seized the throne on one occasion, he could easily do it again with help from his allies in Russia. However, he seems to have died not long afterwards, without succeeding in liberating Britain from the Empire.

[9] - The new king, James, seems to have inherited an unstable position: he is known to have "gone cap in hand to the Imf" (perhaps he offered a Homburg hat to some sort of Arab sheikh as a form of tribute?) and was desperate enough in the face of Imperial domination that he instituted a three-day week - i.e. a four-day extravaganza of religious rituals aimed at grovelling to the gods for deliverance. Some scholars, however, ascribe the three-day week to Ted, but it is perfectly plausible that the supplication was attempted on two occasions. James' reign seems to have been a time of regional discontent, as the king himself was a Welshman (presumably chosen to pacify fractious regional elites who might otherwise have taken up arms in revolt) and he was killed in battle with the Irish chieftain Gerry Fitt, who rebelled against James despite his earlier demonstrations of loyalty.

[10] - Queen Margaret now came to power with the support of most of the nobles, and followed her east-country forebear Boadicea in asserting independence from the Empire, although it seems to have returned to authority over Britain shortly afterwards. Aside from the Holy Roman Empire, Margaret also rebuffed an invasion from the otherwise mysterious nation of Silverland (possibly Switzerland?). Despite her military prowess, Margaret continued to suffer from regional rebellions (principally from King Arthur, the hero of the Northumbrians and the Welsh who, it is claimed, will return when they are in their direst peril) and economic difficulties, going so far as to sell off some organs of the state - thus, inevitably, reducing the prestige of the nation and the monarchy. She was rumoured by hostile opponents to have had her daughter, Princess Diana, murdered, although it is unclear whether this actually happened during Margaret's reign. Possibly it took place at the same time as her other daughter was punished for her mother's supposedly harsh rule (a clearly sexist rejection of the emergent matriarchy) by being forced to eat the testicles of an Australian Two-Footed Horse.

[11] - King John (or 'Lackland') came from the affluent suburb of Brixton and, instead of dealing with Britain's very real problems, instead spent his time participating in a seemingly bacchanalian religious ritual called Cricket, the purpose of which seems to have been to create a trance-like state by spinning a ball for as much as five days, while drinking copious amounts of a type of beer made from hops and malt. John is the last king we can definitively name, and the decline of the country can be seen in the popularity of a folk legend about three lions - thought to represent Scotland, Wales and England savaging each other over the next "thirty years of hurt". As the Kingdom broke up into warring statelets after the Donaldian Plague, the bards can only have been prophetic - or, alternatively, the story may well have been made up after the fact and inserted into the histories.
As much as I laughed (and I laughed a lot) this is actually a really good transplant of trying to guesstimate ancient rulers and ruling castes in Anglo-Saxon etc. times, which I'm sure was the point. Deeply impressive work.
I agree, it made me think of attempts to understand Post-Roman Britain in the early Middle Ages.
 
Many stunning pieces of architecture, such as the 'Shard' and the 'Gherkin', are held to be products of Harold I's genius, but archaeologists now believe these to date from somewhat later in the era. The names of these buildings, of course, are not contemporary, and will only stick as descriptive nicknames until archaeologists work out what they were actually used for.

I loved this bit particularly - both an understandable misremembering and great work with the names
 
Everyday is Like A Sunday...
1964-1968: Harold Wilson (Labour)

1964 (Majority) def: Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative), Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1966 (Majority) def: Ted Heath (Conservative), Jo Grimond (Liberal)

1968-1970: Cecil King (Coalition of Public Safety)
1968 (Coalition of Public Safety) def: Tony Benn (Social Democratic), Enoch Powell (Liberty), Anthony Greenwood (Democratic Labour)
1970-1974: William Rees Mogg (Coalition of Public Safety)
1970 (Majority) def: Tony Benn (Social Democratic), Enoch Powell (Liberty), Barbara Castle (Democratic Labour)
1974-1976: Enoch Powell-Tony Benn ('Liberty' Coalition)
1974 (Majority) def: William Rees Mogg (Public Safety), Ted Heath (Unionist), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal), Barbara Castle (Democratic Labour), Jack Jones (Workers Party)
1976-1984: Tony Benn (Social Democratic)
1976 (Majority) def: Ted Heath (Unionist), Jeremy Thorpe-Enoch Powell (Liberal-Liberty), Barbara Castle (Democratic Labour), Jack Jones (Workers Party)
1980 (Majority) def: Ted Heath (Unionist), Keith Joseph (Liberal-Liberty), Neil Kinnock (Socialist Labour), Ron Todd (Workers Party)

1984-1987: Francis Pym (Unionist)
1984 (Liberal-Liberty Confidence and Supply) def: Tony Benn (Social Democratic), Keith Joseph (Liberal-Liberty), Neil Kinnock (Democratic Labour), Ron Todd (Workers Party)
1987-1992: Jack Cunningham (Social Democratic)
1987 (Coalition with Democratic Labour) def: Francis Pym (Unionist), Keith Joseph (Liberal-Liberty), Neil Kinnock (Democratic Labour), Ron Todd (Workers Party)
1991 (Majority) def: Micheal Heseltine (Unionist), Nigel Lawson (Liberal-Liberty), Bryan Gould (Democratic Labour), Arthur Scargill (Workers Party)

1992-: Chris Mullin (Social Democratic)

*Becalmed by Brian Eno Plays over a montage of Harold Wilson smiling as he heads into No10, Tanks at Heathrow Airport, a grinning Cecil King heading into Downing Street, stock markets crashing, strikers being shot at by the army, Tony Benn and Enoch Powell shaking hands, Tony Benn looking grim at the 1980 Social Democratic Conference, Francis Pym looking frazzled, Jack Cunningham staring into a camera, Neil Kinnock laughing and smiling at a building site and an awkward looking Chris Mullin shaking Jack Cunningham's hand *

"This is a story about how British politics went from exciting and optimistic visions of the future to visions of a nightmare.

In this series we'll be looking at how the optimistic and technocratic vision of Harold Wilson would be tainted by the nightmarish visions and conspiracies of Cecil King and William Rees Mogg. How the hopeful beliefs of liberty would be consumed by a technocratic and odd dated vision of Britain provided by Tony Benn, how attempts to change Britain's future would be halted by similar machinations that helped cause the events of 1968 and how now the world that we live in is consumed with visions of corruption and paranoia like never before.

Because we have now all become Harold Wilson..."

"Everyday is Like A Sunday, 2004, Adam Curtis"
 
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01/01/1994
John Silber [President]
Samuel "Terry" Goddard [Vice President]
Philip Habib [Secretary of State]
Charles E. Lindblom [Secretary of Economic Affairs]
William S. Lind [Secretary of Defense]
John Kroger [Attorney General]
J. James Exon [Secretary of Agriculture and Public Lands]
Elizabeth Warren [Secretary of Labor and Employment]
Gerald Baliles [Secretary of Commerce and Industry]
Samuel L. Stanley [Secretary of Health and Public Welfare]
Peggy Stevenson [Secretary of Urban Development]
Cecil Andrus [Secretary of Community Development and Rural Affairs]
Thomas Everhart [Secretary of Education]
Mike Antonovich [Secretary of Infrastructure]
Claude Steele [Secretary of Racial Equality]
Donna Shalala [Secretary of Women's Equality]
Paul E. Gray [Secretary of Innovation]
David M. Walker [Director of the National Statistical Bureau]
Howard Dean [Director of the National Planning Bureau]
Paul Volcker [Director of the Office of Management and Budget]
William Spelman [Director of the National Law Enforcement Bureau]
Michael McFaul [Director of the National Intelligence Bureau]
Bobby Ray Inman [Director of the National Security Bureau]
Bob Bullock [Director of the Internal Revenue Service]
Peter Ueberroth [Chair of the National Cultural Affairs Council]


John Silber's elevation to the Presidency - first as a sop to the "Cyberneticist" faction of the Democratic Party after Wayne Owens' stunning outsider campaign, then through Owens' tragic death in a mid-air collision over Jamaica Bay in Brooklyn in July of last year - elevated, without anyone really planning it, one of the most committed federal modernizers since Woodrow Wilson to the Presidency.

Those who hoped that, like Callaway before him, Silber would keep his predecessor's Cabinet mostly intact had their hopes dashed when Silber requested letters of resignation from every member of his Cabinet. While many, like Secretary of Agriculture and Public Lands Jim Exon and Secretary of Racial Equality Claude Steele, returned to their previous posts, others were reshuffled or unceremoniously told to leave government. On the former front, Peggy Stevenson's "NIMBYist" skepticism of Big Infrastructure led to her being shifted from that portfolio to Urban Development, with many suggesting that Silber would have fired her altogether if it had not meant firing one of the most popular people and only women in the Cabinet. In the latter case, popular figures like Labor and Employment Secretary Paul Wellstone and Attorney General John Grisham were removed in favor of academics like Elizabeth Warren and John Kroger, respectively.

Liberal critics of the Owens administration, both from the left and increasingly from libertarian figures like 1996 third-party presidential candidate John Perry Barlow, accused him of promoting "technocracy with a human face" rather than the fundamental reforms he had promised in his campaigns. Silber's administration, to many, lacks even that. A recent poll indicated that no Federal Executive figures other than President Silber, Secretary of State Philip Habib (retained from the Owens administration), and NCAC Chair Peter Ueberroth enjoyed any substantial level of recognition from the public, and fewer than 20 percent of Americans could name any member of the Cabinet. And with ongoing scandals over William Lind's accused racism and the budget-balancing measures made by virtually all federal departments, it is unlikely that more recognition will lead to anything good for the government.
 
01/01/1994
John Silber [President]
Samuel "Terry" Goddard [Vice President]
Philip Habib [Secretary of State]
Charles E. Lindblom [Secretary of Economic Affairs]
William S. Lind [Secretary of Defense]
John Kroger [Attorney General]
J. James Exon [Secretary of Agriculture and Public Lands]
Elizabeth Warren [Secretary of Labor and Employment]
Gerald Baliles [Secretary of Commerce and Industry]
Samuel L. Stanley [Secretary of Health and Public Welfare]
Peggy Stevenson [Secretary of Urban Development]
Cecil Andrus [Secretary of Community Development and Rural Affairs]
Thomas Everhart [Secretary of Education]
Mike Antonovich [Secretary of Infrastructure]
Claude Steele [Secretary of Racial Equality]
Donna Shalala [Secretary of Women's Equality]
Paul E. Gray [Secretary of Innovation]
David M. Walker [Director of the National Statistical Bureau]
Howard Dean [Director of the National Planning Bureau]
Paul Volcker [Director of the Office of Management and Budget]
William Spelman [Director of the National Law Enforcement Bureau]
Michael McFaul [Director of the National Intelligence Bureau]
Bobby Ray Inman [Director of the National Security Bureau]
Bob Bullock [Director of the Internal Revenue Service]
Peter Ueberroth [Chair of the National Cultural Affairs Council]


John Silber's elevation to the Presidency - first as a sop to the "Cyberneticist" faction of the Democratic Party after Wayne Owens' stunning outsider campaign, then through Owens' tragic death in a mid-air collision over Jamaica Bay in Brooklyn in July of last year - elevated, without anyone really planning it, one of the most committed federal modernizers since Woodrow Wilson to the Presidency.

Those who hoped that, like Callaway before him, Silber would keep his predecessor's Cabinet mostly intact had their hopes dashed when Silber requested letters of resignation from every member of his Cabinet. While many, like Secretary of Agriculture and Public Lands Jim Exon and Secretary of Racial Equality Claude Steele, returned to their previous posts, others were reshuffled or unceremoniously told to leave government. On the former front, Peggy Stevenson's "NIMBYist" skepticism of Big Infrastructure led to her being shifted from that portfolio to Urban Development, with many suggesting that Silber would have fired her altogether if it had not meant firing one of the most popular people and only women in the Cabinet. In the latter case, popular figures like Labor and Employment Secretary Paul Wellstone and Attorney General John Grisham were removed in favor of academics like Elizabeth Warren and John Kroger, respectively.

Liberal critics of the Owens administration, both from the left and increasingly from libertarian figures like 1996 third-party presidential candidate John Perry Barlow, accused him of promoting "technocracy with a human face" rather than the fundamental reforms he had promised in his campaigns. Silber's administration, to many, lacks even that. A recent poll indicated that no Federal Executive figures other than President Silber, Secretary of State Philip Habib (retained from the Owens administration), and NCAC Chair Peter Ueberroth enjoyed any substantial level of recognition from the public, and fewer than 20 percent of Americans could name any member of the Cabinet. And with ongoing scandals over William Lind's accused racism and the budget-balancing measures made by virtually all federal departments, it is unlikely that more recognition will lead to anything good for the government.

John Kroger is the perfect figure for "technocracy without a human face" - the guy's clearly a brilliant intellect but is just completely incapable of leadership.

When I was at Reed there was a graffiti meme around campus: JOHN KROGER IS LIZARD PERSON. One year all the graduating seniors handed him plastic lizards as they got their diplomas.
 
Hypernormalisation...

Prime Ministers of Great Britain:
1997-2007: Tony Blair (Labour)

1997 (Majority) def: John Major (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrat)
2001 (Majority) def: Ken Clarke (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Lib Dem)
2005 (Majority) def: Ken Clarke (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Lib Dem)

2007-2010: Gordon Brown (Labour)
2010-2015: David Miliband (Labour)
2010 (Coalition with Lib Dems) def: David Davies (Conservative), Simon Hughes (Lib Dem), Alex Salmond (SNP), Caroline Lucas (Green Party)
2015-2019: George Osborne (Conservative)
2015 (Majority) def: David Miliband (Labour), Simon Hughes (Lib Dem), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Natalie Bennett (Green Party), Douglas Carswell (UKIP)
2019-: Liz Kendall (Labour)
2019 (Coalition with Lib Dems) def: George Osborne (Conservative), Susan Kramer (Lib Dems), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Natalie Bennett-Cat Boyd (Green Party), Micheal Gove (UKIP)

Presidents of the United States:
2001-2005: Al Gore (Democratic)

2000 (With Joe Lieberman) def: George W. Bush (Republican), Donald Trump (Reform), Ralph Nader (Green)
2005-2009: John McCain (Republican)
2004 (With Jeb Bush) def: Al Gore (Democratic), Jerry Brown (Reform-Green)
2009-2017: Hillary Clinton (Democratic)
2008 (With Barack Obama) def: John McCain (Republican), Mike Gavel (Reform)
2012 (With Barack Obama) def: Mitt Romney (Republican), Lincoln Chafee (Reform), Ron Paul (Libertarian)

2017-: Jeb Bush (Republican)
2016 (With Marco Rubio) def: Kamala Harris (Democrat), Bernie Sanders ('Progressive Democrat'-Reform)
2020 (With Marco Rubio) def: Amy Kolbuchar (Democrat), Tulsi Gabbard (Reform), Marianne Williamson (Progressive)


*Scuba Z The Vanishing American Family starts playing, footage of Blair, Brown, Miliband, Osborne and Kendall all trying to Prime Ministeral despite chaos happening around them. Al Gore looks depressed, John McCain awkwardly shakes Jeb’s hand, Clinton grins a false grin, Jeb Bush fails to high five a supporter. Declining voting numbers, Jets bomb Syria, Protests occur outside banks, a man stares gloomily at a TV screen...*

“We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie, they know we know they lie, they don’t care. We say we care, but we do nothing. And nothing ever changes. It’s normal. Welcome to the post-truth world.”

“Despite the attempts to change society, it’s seems that the world is becoming more and more like a business. Politicians no longer offer visions of the future but instead manage the world we have and tell us they will keep forces of darkness away.”

“We see how the forces of change have become harnessed by people who actively seek to destroy the system that have been built, but offer no alternative. In this documentary it will explore how the world is becoming more and more managed even as it decays around and how we have seen this before...because we’re living in a false reality”

Hypernormalisation, Adam Curtis 2016
 
If It Had Happened Otherwise

List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
1919: Winston Churchill (Conservative-Liberal-National Democratic coalition)
1919-1923: H. A. L. Fisher (Conservative-Liberal-National Democratic coalition) [1]
1923-1927: G. M. Trevelyan (Conservative-Liberal-National coalition) [2]
1927-1928: Philip Guedalla (Liberal minority) [3]
1928-1936: G. K. Chesterton (Round Table) [4]
1936: Ronald Knox (Round Table)
1936-1939: J. C. Squire (Round Table) [5]
1939-1947: Hilaire Belloc (Round Table) [6]
1947-1960: Harold Nicolson (Round Table) [7]
1960-1974: Sir Charles Petrie (Round Table) [8]
1974-1975: Milton Waldman (Round Table) [9]

[1] - After the failed Bolshevik uprising was crushed at the Battle of Deptford, the coalition government was forced to rapidly regroup - not least because of the deaths of half the Cabinet in bombings and executions. Winston Churchill, who had led in the final stages of the crackdown after the demise of Lloyd George, was encouraged to step aside as a gesture of good faith towards the moderates and those rebels who now chose peaceful means of political action. The perfect replacement was a straight-forward Liberal with a hunger for incremental improvements in the social sphere: H. A. L. Fisher. He achieved very little of his reformist objectives, but managed to hold the Tories and Liberals together during the trying period of reconstruction. In the meantime, the Labour Party split between patriots and seditionists, with the former faction joining their former fellows in the National Democratic and Labour Party, which enjoyed an electoral pact with the other government parties.

[2] - Fisher resigned shortly after the results of the 1923 election came through: the surge in support for the Socialist Party boded ill for the safety of the loyal citizens of Britain, and he no longer felt that he could achieve a reconciliation between the two tribes that were emerging in post-war Britain. In came a new man, the urbane historian G. M. Trevelyan, who was touted as a new hope of progress and constitutionalism by the Liberal Party, but angered many in the Conservative Party, who were beginning to think that compromise with the Socialists was a fundamentally doomed option. However, the Tories knew that they couldn't govern alone, and Trevelyan's earlier forthrightness was clearly tempered by every day he spent in a position of actual responsibility, so the coalition held for a little longer. However, Trevelyan struggled to match his intellectual talents with the bonhomie required of a parliamentary statesman, and faced a leadership challenge within the Liberal Party. He lost and led a small faction into the Conservatives.

[3] - Philip Guedalla took power with only the support of the mainstream Liberals, while the Tories and Trevelyanites went into Opposition - partly because of the new Prime Minister's pungent wit. For the brief months of the Guedalla ministry, the Liberals relied on external support from the Socialists - a situation which brought about immense public anger. Guedalla was rumoured (on no factual basis) to be in league with the USSR, while anti-Semites had a field day and the militias of the anti-Socialist trade unions battled the extremists on the streets of London. When the clock ran out on a prorogued parliament, it was no surprise that the Liberals and their long-time abettors in the Conservative Party were thrown out on their ears.

[4] - Chesterton parlayed his reputation as a jaunty wit into a chance at high office by promoting his Round Table as the only basis for a new, united, national consensus. The party (if such it was) sprang from his own Distributist followers, as well as the Guild Socialists of the New Age and the Social Creditors on the fringes, and received a major boost from its merger with the ex-coalitionist National Party (the patriotic wing of the old Labour Representation Committee, with the vocal support of craft unionists and ex-servicemen) in 1927. Chesterton, seen as the personification of the British duffer, achieved enormous popular support for his replacement of Parliament with a corporatist Chamber, his fundamental reforms of the economy during the Great Depression, his defence of traditional social standards against the onslaughts of the flappers, and his sterling support for fraternal regimes in Spain and Italy. He introduced the Christian ethos into policymaking for the first time in British history: the Socialists locked up in his camps were allowed to go free as soon as they had succumbed to the "invisible hook" tugging them back towards political normality.

[5] - G. K. Chesterton could not survive forever - especially not in his condition. Although speculation in terms of his successor had been open and rife (and largely focused on his cousin A. K. Chesterton and the former National MP Sir Oswald Mosley), few people suspected that the choice of the Grand Council, meeting under the interim leadership of Chesterton's close colleague Ronald Knox, would fall on a has-been literary editor named J. C. Squire. While Squire (a former Marxist) had long been a key intellectual figure on the Right, he attracted opposition from the elitist Nicolson faction, who thought him vulgar. Squire's weakness for day-to-day leadership allowed the anti-State opposition forces to unite under Winston Churchill and begin a Resistance campaign of terrorism and gangsterism.

[6] - Squire resigned in favour of ex-Liberal Hilaire Belloc as soon as the going got tough. Belloc was a unifying figure throughout the Emergency: despite wasting political capital on efforts to bring the Church of England back into communion with the Church of Rome, he expressed a fiercely independent sense of Britishness that was based on traditional virtues and hatred of the Jews - both of which attracted huge support from the yeomen of the land. Later, it emerged that Belloc was simply exporting the Problem to the German Reich. It is also suspected that Winston Churchill and some of his Marxist comrades were dealt with in a similar manner.

[7] - With the post-Emergency world still waiting to be formed, Harold Nicolson took office with a pledge to bring the promises of Tory-Socialist synthesis to fruition with his 'National Labour Plan'. Although the economy had previously been largely directed by the State on an ad-hoc basis, this was the first five-year-plan, and it combined with the American aid given to anti-Communist European governments (e.g. those of Petain and Ciano, both of whom were facing serious insurgencies) to produce a post-war boom. This coincided with huge population growth (a 'Baby Boom') encouraged by the Government's financial incentives towards motherhood, and Nicolson is held in great adulation even by modern opponents of Chestertonianism for his institution of a true Welfare State. Instead of decadent Socialist versions of the idea, Nicolson's revolved around empowering the receiver by creating, for each deserving citizen, a quantity of State Credit to be paid as a monthly dividend.

[8] - Petrie was a much more conservative figure within the Round Table than Nicolson had been, and had occasionally directed coded allegations of homosexuality towards his factional rival. However, the Grand Council nominated him in succession to the aging Nicolson on a unanimous vote, and sat back to watch him retrench the Welfare State. Although younger members of the Round Table favoured the development of a United States of Europe and the acknowledgement of separatist aims in the Third World, with a view to creating a Third Force against Communism and Godless Wall Street Finance Capitalism, Petrie shut down the modernists with an iron fist - and, ultimately, this is what led to the decline of the Round Table State. Party elites became increasingly greedy with the proceeds of economic development, and corruption increased. There were even rumours of a ring of influential paedophiles extending as high as Sir James Savile himself. Petrie simply left these issues to fester, while he busied himself on replacing King Edward VIII (who had been forced to reside in New Zealand for several decades due to his dangerous liberalism) with the Duke of Bavaria, which came to pass in 1967 - really the apogee of the diplomatic efforts of the aged Adolf Hitler.

[9] - Petrie's retirement was forced by the Grand Council, but few people had any ideas of what to do next. The appointment of Milton Waldman as Prime Minister was a very contentious vote, as Waldman was not only a colourless Party apparatchik, but had also been born in America - a fact which worried the younger, more internationalist members of the Round Table. After defeating that faction in the inner sanctum, Waldman set out to end them comprehensively: he reintroduced democratic rule and held free elections, complete with observers from America and other democratic states.

The process of de-Chestertonisation has been a long and arduous one.
 
1979-1994: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative and Unionist)
1979: (Majority) def: James Callaghan (Labour), David Steel (Liberal)
1983: (Majority) def: Michael Foot (Labour), David Steel and Roy Jenkins (SDP-Liberal Alliance)
1987: (Majority) def: Neil Kinnock (Labour), David Steel and David Owen (SDP-Liberal Alliance)
1992: (Majority) def: Neil Kinnock (Labour), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrat)
1994-1997: Joseph R. Biden II (Conservative and Unionist)
1997-2006: Frank Dobson (Labour)
1997: (Majority) def: Joseph R. Biden II (Conservative and Unionist), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrat), Alex Salmond (SNP)
2001: (Majority) def: Michael Howard (Conservative and Unionist), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat), Alex Salmond (SNP)
2006: (Majority) def: Michael Howard (Conservative and Unionist), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat), Roseanna Cunningham (SNP)
2006-2015: Alan Johnson (Labour)
2010: (Minority, with SNP C&S) def: Kenneth Clarke (Conservative and Unionist), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat), Roseanna Cunningham (SNP), Nigel Farage (UKIP)
2015-present: Joseph R. Biden II (Conservative and Unionist)
2015: (Majority) def: Alan Johnson (Labour), Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat), Keith Brown (SNP), Nigel Farage (UKIP)
2020: (Majority) def: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour), Keith Brown (SNP), Nigel Farage (UKIP), Alistair Carmichael (Liberal Democrat)
 
1979-1994: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative and Unionist)
1979: (Majority) def: James Callaghan (Labour), David Steel (Liberal)
1983: (Majority) def: Michael Foot (Labour), David Steel and Roy Jenkins (SDP-Liberal Alliance)
1987: (Majority) def: Neil Kinnock (Labour), David Steel and David Owen (SDP-Liberal Alliance)
1992: (Majority) def: Neil Kinnock (Labour), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrat)
1994-1997: Joseph R. Biden II (Conservative and Unionist)
1997-2006: Frank Dobson (Labour)
1997: (Majority) def: Joseph R. Biden II (Conservative and Unionist), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrat), Alex Salmond (SNP)
2001: (Majority) def: Michael Howard (Conservative and Unionist), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat), Alex Salmond (SNP)
2006: (Majority) def: Michael Howard (Conservative and Unionist), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat), Roseanna Cunningham (SNP)
2006-2015: Alan Johnson (Labour)
2010: (Minority, with SNP C&S) def: Kenneth Clarke (Conservative and Unionist), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat), Roseanna Cunningham (SNP), Nigel Farage (UKIP)
2015-present: Joseph R. Biden II (Conservative and Unionist)
2015: (Majority) def: Alan Johnson (Labour), Norman Lamb (Liberal Democrat), Keith Brown (SNP), Nigel Farage (UKIP)
2020: (Majority) def: Jonathan Ashworth (Labour), Keith Brown (SNP), Nigel Farage (UKIP), Alistair Carmichael (Liberal Democrat)
This is interesting and I would like to know more about how we got here, also how did Thatcher win 1992?
 
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This is interesting and I would like to know more about how we got here, also how did Thatcher win 1992?
Honestly? I didn't give it much thought. I just had Thatcher stay on and win 1992 as a sort of butterfly from Biden having been an MP since 1970 onwards. The main idea thought around it was 'What if the Biden family never left the UK?' and I wanted him to have a short stint in the 90s and so I had an extended Thatcher stay.
 
Cabinet of India (1982-3)

Prime Minister: Jagjivan Ram (Indian National Congress (Democratic))

Deputy Prime Minister: Charan Singh (Indian Democratic Revolutionary Party)

Minister of Home Affairs: Charan Singh (Indian Democratic Revolutionary Party)
Minister of Finance: Yashwantrao Chavan (Indian National Congress (Democratic))
Minister of External Affairs: Karan Singh (Indian National Congress (Democratic))
Minister of Defence: Atal Bihari Vajpayee (Indian Democratic Revolutionary Party)
Minister of Information and Broadcasting: H.N Bahugana (Indian National Congress (Democratic))
Minister of Industry: Raj Narain (Indian Democratic Revolutionary Party)
Minister of Agriculture: Parkash Singh Badal (Akali Dal)
Minister of Works and Housing and Supply and Rehabilitation: Biju Patnaik (Indian Democratic Revolutionary Party)
Minister for Energy: Madhu Limaye (Indian Democratic Revolutionary Party)
Minister of Education: Nanaji Deshmukh (Indian Democratic Revolutionary Party)
Minister of Law and Justice: Hans Raj Khanna (Indian Democratic Revolutionary Party)
Minister of Communications: Purushottam Kaushik (Indian Democratic Revolutionary Party)
Minister of the Railways: Lal Krishna Advani (Indian Democratic Revolutionary Party)
Minister of Health: Mohan Dharia (Indian Democratic Revolutionary Party)
Minister of Petroleum: Madhu Dandavate (Indian Democratic Revolutionary Party)
Minister of Labour and Parliamentary Affairs: Ravindra Varma (Indian Democratic Revolutionary Party)
Minister of Commerce: Subramanian Swamy (Indian Democratic Revolutionary Party)
Minister of Steel, Mines, and Coals: Krishna Kumar Goyal (Indian Democratic Revolutionary Party)
Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation: Hitendra Desai (Indian Democratic Revolutionary Party)

The 1982 presidential election and electoral defeat of President Sanjay Gandhi put an end to his brutal reign of terror, and the new president Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit freed political prisoners and called for a general election. The subsequent election was won totally and utterly by the Democratic alliance, an alliance between the Indian Democratic Revolutionary Party (an alliance of much of the opposition to Indira Gandhi), the Indian National Congress (Democratic) (a breakaway group from the Congress party), the Communists, the Marxists, and various small parties, which won 468 seats in the Lok Sabha in total. However, the Democrats lacked a real leader. Jayaprakash Narayan, who led the opposition before the Emergency, died in jail in 1978 from kidney failure (many allege that he was poisoned), and J.B. Kripalani, its other great old man, was on his deathbed. Thus, Charan Singh and Jagjivan Ram, the two people with the highest levels of support in the Democratic alliance, were forced to allow the elected MPs to decide. They decisively elected Jagjivan Ram for prime minister despite his prominent role as an Indira supporter prior to the Emergency. Subsequently, he became the first Dalit prime minister in Indian history.

The composition of the cabinet proved a difficult balancing act. Charan Singh was naturally made deputy PM, as well as the Home Minister, and as such he was second in command. Yashwantrao Chavan, who previously served numerous portfolios in the cabinet under Indira before being sidelined by Sanjay, was given the ministry of finance, while Karan Singh, the former crown prince of Jammu and Kashmir who went on to become a cabinet minister in Indira's government was made Foreign Minister. The far less experienced Vajpayee was made minister of defence. Other notable appointments include Raj Narain, who beat Sanjay Gandhi in his own constituency, as minister of industry; Hans Raj Khanna, who previously served on the Supreme Court where he famously disagreed on its ruling that the government had the power to abrogate human rights before later being removed by President Sanjay Gandhi, as minister of law; and Subramanian Swamy, who in 1976 famously entered Parliament and denounced the government despite being a fugitive, as minister of commerce. The Communists and Marxists refused to allow ministers into the "bourgeois" cabinet, intent on only giving outside support until the restoration of the constitution.

After his honeymoon period, and after successfully passing the Forty-Third Amendment, which amended out the entirety of what Sanjay had placed within the constitution and turned India back into a parliamentary system while also adding further checks on the government, it suddenly faced the issue of actual governance. Charan Singh proved to be at loggerheads with the administration, disagreeing on most fundamental policies with Jagjivan Ram. Yashwantrao Chavan proved overall competent as minister of finance, but he upset many who desired more fundamental reform of the Indian economy. Karan Singh proved likewise competent in his portfolio as foreign minister, famously addressing the United Nations in Hindi, and his technocratic mode of running the foreign ministry received particular praise. But what surprised many was that Vajpayee, despite being formerly a member of the Hindu nationalist Jan Sangh, proved surprisingly competent and willing to work in the cabinet despite Jagjivan Ram's intense loathing of Hindu nationalism and Brahminism.

It was in 1983 that this cabinet faced its first scandal. Subramanian Swamy was dismissed from the cabinet and this, Jagjivan Ram stated, was because he made anti-Muslim statements. But Swamy denied this, alleging that Jagjivan Ram had conspired with Vajpayee to sideline him. By 1984, he aligned with the Sanjay Congress - with Sanjay Gandhi imprisoned over charges of gross corruption, his wife Maneka Gandhi became its leader and she proved quite willing to work with Hindu nationalists despite being a Sikh. The bickering between Charan Singh and Jagjivan Ram and its sheer scale was leaked to the press, creating a scandal that the two hastily tried to tape over and dismiss. But the cabinet truly collapsed when, in 1984, Jagjivan Ram announced the implementation of caste-based reservations in government jobs and university spaces. The result was a massive wave of protest, particularly by upper-caste students who felt their future jobs were on the line, and these protests included self-immolation. Charan Singh, a member of the Jat caste, accused Jagjivan Ram of being anti-Jat for giving them insufficient reservations, and he left the cabinet and created his own party. The Hindu nationalists Vajpayee and Advani also left the cabinet to create their own party, as their Brahmin-Bania base were suddenly angered. In an attempt to crush these splitters, Jagjivan Ram decided to hold an election. This proved a mistake. Not only was his majority in Parliament massively narrowed, but the Sanjay Congress rose from 27 seats to 116, thanks to Maneka Gandhi's competence and open toying with Hindu nationalism. And looking past the horizon, India's finances were getting worse and worse, aggravated by Sanjay Gandhi's years of theft from the treasury. Jagjivan Ram was to face a few more severe challenges by the time his tenure was done....
 
Britain as Japan(with some liberties take )
(a remake of this)
1932-1940:Arthur Harris(Military)
1940-1945:Oswald Mosley(Imperial)
1945-1945:Prince Henry Windsor(Royal family)
1945-1947:Archibald Sinclair(Liberal)
1947-1948:Ian Paisley(Conservative)
1948-1954:Clement Attlee(Social Democratic)
1954-1956:Jim Griffiths(Social Democratic)
1956-1957:Hebert Morrison(Social Democratic)
1957-1960:Walter Walker(Social Democratic)
1960-1964:James Callaghan(Social Democratic)
1964-1972:Michael Foot(Social Democratic)
1972-1974:Bob Mellish(Social Democratic)
1974-1976:Dave Steel(Social Democratic)
1976-1978:Denis Healey(Social Democratic)
1978-1980:Harold Wilson ±(Social Democratic)
1980-1982:Ted Heath(Social Democratic)
1982-1987:Arthur Scargill(Social Democratic)
1987-1989:Peter Shore(Social Democratic)
1989-1991:Gordon Brown(Social Democratic)
1991-1993:Roy Jenkins(Social Democratic)
1993-1994:Bryan Gould(Social Democratic)
1994-1996:Anthony Meyer(New Tory)
1996-1998:Tony Blair(Social Democratic)
1998-2000:Michael Howard(Social Democratic)
2000-2001:Ken Clarke(Social Democratic)
2001-2006:David Owen(Social Democratic)
2006-2007:Robin Cook(Social Democratic)
2007-2008:Alistair Darling(Social Democratic)
2008-2009:William Hague(Social Democratic)
2009-2012:Matt Hancock(Tory)
2012-2020:Robin Cook(Social Democratic)
2020-2021:Yvette Cooper(Social Democratic)
 
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Britain as Japan(with some liberties take )
(a remake of this)
1945-1945:Prince Henry Windsor(Royal family)
1945-1947:Archibald Sinclair(Liberal)
1947-1948:Ian Paisley(Conservative)
1948-1954:Clement Attlee(Social Democratic)
1954-1956:Jim Griffiths(Social Democratic)
1956-1957:Hebert Morrison(Social Democratic)
1957-1960:Walter Walker(Social Democratic)
1960-1964:James Callaghan(Social Democratic)
1964-1972:Michael Foot(Social Democratic)
1972-1974:Bob Mellish(Social Democratic)
1974-1976:Dave Steel(Social Democratic)
1976-1978:Denis Healey(Social Democratic)
1978-1980:Harold Wilson ±(Social Democratic)
1980-1982:Ted Heath(Social Democratic)
1982-1987:Arthur Scargill(Social Democratic)
1987-1989:Peter Shore(Social Democratic)
1989-1991:Gordon Brown(Social Democratic)
1991-1993:Roy Jenkins(Social Democratic)
1993-1994:Bryan Gould(Social Democratic)
1994-1996:Anthony Meyer(New Tory)
1996-1998:Tony Blair(Social Democratic)
1998-2000:Michael Howard(Social Democratic)
2000-2001:Ken Clarke(Social Democratic)
2001-2006:David Owen(Social Democratic)
2006-2007:Robin Cook(Social Democratic)
2007-2008:Alistair Darling(Social Democratic)
2008-2009:William Hague(Social Democratic)
2009-2012:Matt Hancock(Tory)
2012-2020:Robin Cook(Social Democratic)
2020-2021:Yvette Cooper(Social Democratic)
I have so many questions about this
 
Chairmen of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP)
Anton Drexler 1920-1921
Adolf Hitler 1921-1923

Hermann Esser 1923-1926
Ernst Rohm 1926-1928
Erich Ludendorff 1928-1930
Hermann Goering 1930-1933
Gregor Strasser 1933-1935
Joseph Goebbels 1935-1940
Otto Strasser 1940-1947


The NSDAP is one of the more unusual historical footnotes of Germany in between the world wars. The NSDAP was founded in 1920 by Anton Drexler as a revanchist, far-right, anti-Semitic party seeking retribution for the German defeat in World War I. The NSDAP briefly experienced a period of growth under the second leader, Adolf Hitler, but following his death in an ill-fated attempt to overthrow the Weimar Republic, the NSDAP greatly weakened. Hitler's ally Hermann Esser would take over the party and lead it in the 1925 elections, but was discredited following the triumph of Wilhelm Marx's Center Party. From there, the party would undergo quite a bit of difficulty owing to divisions between various wings of the party. The fight for control between Rohm and Hess in 1926 and the successful ouster of Rohm by supporters of Erich Ludendorff in 1928 weakened the party going into the post-Great Depression elections. Even under the relatively more pragmatic leadership of Hermann Goering in 1933, the party failed to gain ground. Ultimately, the NSDAP would see a bit of a revival in the late 1930's, as fears of the USSR caused the national government to crack down on communists. The 'Strasserist' wing of the NSDAP represented by the Strasser brothers and Joseph Goebbels would seize control of the party claiming that reaching angry members of the working class was the most viable strategy for the NSDAP. Under these three leaders, the NSDAP began to regain some of its lost influence. Ultimately, however, this pivot to the left would lead to the party being banned in 1947 on the basis of suspected Soviet ties just before the USSR launched an invasion of Poland, thus beginning World War II. This has not stopped some of the NSDAP leadership from being staples of German alternate history (especially Otto Strasser and Goebbels, though Gregor Strasser, Goering and Ludendorff sometimes are selected).
 
I quite like this, although I've always thought that had Hitler died in 1923 (either by being shot during the putsch or in the suicide attempt at Putzi's house) that Albrecht von Graefe and his DVFP would've taken de facto control of the volkisch movement, considering that the Strasser boys were actually making moves to merge with the DVFP while Hitler was in 'prison'. Von Graefe was pretty crappy, though, and so frankly the most optimistic thing I see in Germany's future is the iron boot of Goerdeler or Von Schleicher, rather than that of Hitler.
 
What do you do when you can't sleep? I personally chose to spend an hour painstakingly copying hexadecimal codes into the forum software to bring you this list in all its technicolour glory.


Coalition Coupon Retained [1]

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

1908-1910: H. H. Asquith (Liberal)
1910-1915: H. H. Asquith (Liberal with support from IPP and Labour)

1910 (Jan) def. Arthur Balfour (Conservative), John Redmond (IPP), Arthur Henderson (Labour)
1910 (Dec) def. Arthur Balfour (Conservative), John Redmond (IPP), Arthur Henderson (Labour)

1915-1916: H. H. Asquith (Liberal leading War Coalition with Conservatives and Labour)
1916-1918: David Lloyd George (Liberal leading War Coalition with Conservatives and Labour)

1918-1921: David Lloyd George† (Liberal leading Coalition Coupon with Conservatives and NDLP)

1918 def. Bonar Law (Conservative), Eamon de Valera (Sinn Fein), William Adamson (Labour), H. H. Asquith (Independent Liberal), George Barnes (NDLP)

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

1921-1927: Austen Chamberlain (National Conservative leading Coalition Coupon with National Liberals and NDLP)
1923 def. J. R Clynes (Labour), Winston Churchill (National Liberal), Bonar Law† (Independent Conservative), Donald Maclean (Independent Liberal), George Barnes (NDLP), A. V. Alexander (Co-op), Shapurji Saklatvala (CPGB)
1927-1928: Winston Churchill (National Liberal leading Coalition Coupon with National Conservatives and NDLP)
1928-1929: J. R. Clynes (Labour leading ‘Opposition Coalition’ with Independent Liberals, Independent Conservatives, Co-op and Social Credit)

1928 def. Stanley Baldwin (National Conservative), Winston Churchill (National Liberal), Leo Amery (Independent Conservative), Donald Maclean (Independent Liberal), George Barnes (NDLP), A. V. Alexander (Co-op), C. H. Douglas (Social Credit), Walton Newbould (CPGB)
1929-1931: George Barnes (NDLP leading Coalition Coupon with National Liberals, National Conservatives and Social Credit)
1929 def. J. R. Clynes (Labour), Stanley Baldwin (National Conservative), Winston Churchill (National Liberal), Donald Maclean (Independent Liberal), C. H. Douglas (Social Credit), A. V. Alexander (Co-op), Walton Newbould (CPGB), Leo Amery (Independent Conservative)
1931-1935: Sir John Simon (National Conservative leading Coalition Coupon with National Liberals, Social Credit and NDLP)
1932 def. Ramsay Macdonald (Labour), Neville Chamberlain (National Liberal), William Wedgwood Benn (Radical), Oswald Mosley (Social Credit), A. V. Alexander (Co-op), Shapurji Saklatvala (CPGB), John Taylor (NDLP)
1935-1938: Ramsay Macdonald† (Labour leading Popular Front with Radicals, Co-op and CPGB)
1935 def. Sir John Simon (National Conservative), Richard Acland (National Liberal), William Wedgwood Benn (Radical), A. V. Alexander (Co-op), Oswald Mosley (Social Credit), R. Palme Dutt (CPGB), John Taylor (NDLP)
1938-1938: Megan Lloyd George (Radical leading Popular Front with Labour, Co-op and CPGB)
1938-0000: A. V. Alexander (Co-op leading Popular Front with Labour, Radical and CPGB)


Asquith doesn't get back into Parliament after losing his seat in 1918, followed by Lloyd George conveniently dying before he can turn Chanak into a Crisis. Chamberlain and Churchill perpetuate the Coupon as a grand bulwark of anti-socialism, which leads to Interesting Parliamentary Arithmetic where neither Labour nor the National Parties control enough seats to govern alone, necessitating the support of smaller parties to govern and bringing about the gradual evolution of two more-or-less stable coalitions that eventually (i.e. immediately after the end of this list) become parties in their own right.



[1] I'm not even sorry
 
Future Shock: A Dumb List:
So I was thinking the other day...how do we get to this thing below?

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Whereupon this thing of a list below was spawned, in which I guess politicians across Britain decided to start huffing glue and make incredibly bad choices in leaders...

Prime Ministers of Great Britian:
1970-1978: Ted Heath

1970 (Majority) def: Harold Wilson (Labour), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1974 (Majority) def: James Callaghan (Labour), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)

1978-1979: John Stonehouse (Labour)
1978 (Scottish National Party Confidence & Supply) def: Ted Heath (Conservative), David Steel (Liberal), William Wolfe (Scottish National Party), Tony Benn (Social Democrats)
1979-1982: Louis Mountbatten (Independent- Leading Grand Coalition)
1982-1990: Micheal Heseltine (Conservative)
1982 (Majority) def: Robert Kilroy Silk (Labour), David Steel (Liberal), Roseanna Cunningham (New Scottish Party), Tony Benn (Social Democrats), Neil Kinnock (Workers)
1986 (Coalition with Liberals) def: Robert Kilroy Silk (Labour), Clement Freud (Liberal), Roseanna Cunningham (New Scottish Party), Tony Benn (Social Democrats), Neil Kinnock (Workers)

1990: Malcolm Rifkind (Conservative)
1990-1998: Micheal Meacher (Social Democrats)

1990 (Coalition with Workers) def: Malcolm Rifkind (Conservative), Robert Kilroy Silk (Labour), Paddy Ashdown (Ct Liberal), Roseanna Cunningham (NSP), Neil Kinnock (Workers)
1994 (Majority) def: Norman Tebbitt (Conservative), Robert Kilroy Silk (Labour), Paddy Ashdown (Democrats), Alex Salmond (NSP), Neil Kinnock (Workers)

1998-2006: Margaret Beckett (Social Democrats)
1998 (Majority) def: Norman Tebbitt-Robert Kilroy Silk (Labour-Conservative Alliance), Matthew Taylor (Democrats), Roseanna Cunningham (NSP), John Prescott (Workers)
2002 (Majority) def: John Redwood-Robert Kilroy Silk (Lab-Con Alliance), Matthew Taylor (Democrats), Roaseanna Cunningham (NSP), Ann Black (Workers)

2006-: Kate Hoey (Labour-Conservative Alliance)
2006 (Majority) def: Margaret Beckett (Social Democrats), Matthew Taylor (Democrats), John Swinney (NSP), Ann Black (Workers)
 
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