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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

I like the concept but I'm not sure how economically viable an independent Newfoundland is.
Despite my love for my dear island home, I am inclined to agree that it would greatly struggle as an independent nation. There's a chance if different decisions were made in the 1880s that the economic problems of the 20th century could be avoided, but unfortunately I think an independent Newfoundland would likely end up being a economic and political basket case.
 
Too Early, and Much Too Fast

2007-2007: David Miliband (Labour majority)
2007 Labour leadership election: David Miliband (51.0%) def. Gordon Brown (49.0%)
2007-2011: David Cameron (Conservative)
2007 (Minority) def. David Miliband (Labour), Menzies Campbell (Liberal Democrats)
2008 Lisbon Treaty referendum: YES (50.3%) def. NO (49.7%)
2009 (Majority) def. Alan Johnson [replacing Gordon Brown] (Labour), Vince Cable [replacing Chris Huhne] (Liberal Democrats), Nigel Farage (UKIP)
2011 EU membership referendum: OUT (56.2%) def. IN (43.8%)

2011-2012: John Redwood (Conservative majority)
2011 Conservative leadership election (membership ballot): John Redwood (53.7%) def. William Hague (46.3%)
2012-2013: John Redwood (Conservative minority)
2013-2014: Alan Johnson (Labour)
2013 (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def. John Redwood (Conservative), Vince Cable (Liberal Democrats), Nigel Farage (UKIP)
2014 EU membership referendum: IN (52.6%) def. OUT (47.4%)


The idea here is that David Miliband successfully challenges Gordon Brown for the Labour leadership in 2007. Confident in his campaigning skills, and roundly praised after the events of the summer, he sends Britain to the polls in November. The public, however, is in a rebellious mood.

Cameron is the wunderkind but a minority means he's overly dependent on the DUP and his own backbenches. Gambling that fronting the NO campaign in the Lisbon referendum would put him on the road for an autumn majority, he falls into the Europe trap early on after an unexpected victory for YES. The promise to hold an IN/OUT referendum is enough to dampen a surging UKIP in the marginals, and leads the Tories to victory in the European elections. It emboldens Cameron enough to go back to the country in October 2009.

Initial sympathy for Gordon Brown's sudden blindness is replaced by rabid enthusiasm in the Tory ranks when Chris Huhne is arrested. UKIP surges, Cable's debate performance stops the Lib Dems going into freefall, and the dole queues continue to grow. The campaign is a free for all, but Cameron returns to Downing Street with a slender majority and a crushing realisation he has to make good on his promise of a referendum. Naturally, the public pumps for OUT, and in the chaos that follows the Vulcan takes Downing Street. The next two years are fractured, with the public torn between the "clean break" proffered by Redwood, Johnson's tightrope act, and the Lib Dems' nailing their colours to the mast of IN.

The parliamentary truce for the Olympics fails to raise morale, and a bunch of Cameron's A-Listers jump ship, defect, or simply stop voting with the government. Redwood's attempt to push on over the Article 50 deadline is the final straw, and the government is brought down by abstentions. Labour's balancing act is the Goldilocks option going into a bitter autumn election. With tempers flared and the discourse poisoned, the coalition pushes its side over the line in the hot summer of 2014.

The Conservatives are running in circles under former Defence Secretary Theresa May. Alan Johnson is privately already exhausted and looking for the exit door. In a pub garden in Kent, under a cloud of smoke, someone in a dodgy green suit - someone the polls now suggest is the nation's top choice for PM - chuckles and gets up to order another round.
 
The People in Your Neighbourhood
the political career of Ralph Nader

1959-1964: Private citizen, lawyer

- lectured at University of Hartford
- filed dispatches for the Christian Science Monitor and The Nation

1964-1971: Washington D.C. legal consultant
- '64-'65: Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- '65-66: Senator Abraham Ribicoff (unpaid)
- Published "Unsafe At Any Speed" exposé, subject of dispute with General Motors

1971: Founder of the Public Citizen (nonprofit)
- "Nader's Raiders" famously evaluate the efficacy and operation of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
1973: Plaintiff against Acting Attorney General Robert Bork
- defendant found guilty by Judge Gerhard Gesell
1974: Founder of the Critical Mass Energy Project (anti-nuclear umbrella group)
1980: Democratic primary candidate for Senator for Connecticut

- unopposed, endorsed by outgoing Senator Abraham Ribicoff
1981-2001: Senator for Connecticut
'80: defeated Richard Bozzuto
'86: defeated Roger Eddy
'92: defeated Brook Johnson, Richard D. Gregory (Concerned Citizens)
'98: defeated Gary Franks

- Ranking member of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection (1988-1997)
- direct credit for the enactments of the Freedom of Information Act, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Clean Water Act, Consumer Product Safety Act, and Whistleblower Protection Act
- potential nominee for Secretary of Labor or Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for Bill Clinton, who lost to incumbent president George H.W. Bush

1988: Democratic primary candidate for President [write-in]
- [refused nomination], lost to Michael Dukakis
1992: Democratic primary candidate for President
- lost to Bill Clinton, Jerry Brown, Paul Tsongas, Tom Harkin, others
1996: Reform Party primary candidate for President [write-in]
- [refused nomination], lost to Richard Lamm
1996: Green Party USA primary candidate for President [write-in]
- [refused nomination], lost to Malik Rahim
2000: Democratic primary candidate for President
defeated Tom Harkin, Bill Bradley, Joe Biden, others
2001-2009: President of the United States
(serving with Ann Richards (2001-2006), Brian Schweitzer (2006-2009))
'00: defeated Dan Quayle, others

'04: defeated Alan Keyes, Joe Lhota (Reform), others
- Referred to as the "spoiler" for upsetting twenty years of Republican presidencies
- First term saw repeal of NAFTA, expansion of the renewable energy sector, and the beginning of the preventative War on Terror
- Sweeping second-term reform of social security, Wall Street regulation and introduction of Capital Gains Tax adverts possible Great Recession

- Survived three seperate assassination attempts by right-wing
extremists, left office with an 74% approval rating
2009-2011: Private citizen, activist
- vocally supported and funded the Congressional Accountability Project
2011-2017: Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency
- appointed by President Barbara Lee (2009-2017)
- worked closely with cabinet following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill to tighten regulations

2017-present: Private citizen, author
 
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The fall and Rise of Labour (and the Lib Dems, I guess)

Basically if some current polling continues to the next election (ish)

2019-2024: Boris Johnson (Conservative)
2024-2025: Kier Starmer (Labour minority with SNP and Lib Dem S&C)

Def 2024: Boris Johnson (Conservative, lost seat) Nicola Sturgeon (SNP) Michelle O’Neil (Sinn Fein) Arlene Foster (DUP) Naomi Long (Alliance) Adam Price (Plaid Cymru) Ed Davey (Lib Dem, lost seat) Jon Barley/Sian Lloyd (GPEW)
2025 Scottish Independence Referendum: Yes-51% No- 49%
2025 Electoral Reform referendum:
Question one: Yes- 52% No- 48%
Question Two: AMS: 35% STV:27% AV+: 22% AV:16%
2025: Angela Rayner. (Labour minority with SNP S&C)
2025-2034: Rishi Sunak (Conservative minority, arrangements variously with Reform, DUP, UUP and Liberal Democrat parties)

Def October 2025: Angela Rayner Wera Hobhouse (Lib Dem) Nicola Sturgeon (SNP) Jon Barley/Sian Lloyd (GPEW) Nigel Farage (Reform) Michelle O’Neil) (Sinn Fein) Arlene Foster (DUP) Adam Price (Plaid Cymru) Naomi Long (Alliance) Steve Aiken (UUP) Colum Eastwood (SDLP) Patrick Harvie (Scottish Greens)
Def 2030: Lisa Nandy (Labour) Layla Moran (Lib Dem) Jon Barley/Sian Lloyd (GPEW) Nigel Farage (Reform) Michelle O’Neil) (Sinn Fein) Paul Girvan (DUP) Adam Price (Plaid Cymru) Stephen Farry (Alliance) Steve Aiken (UUP)
2034-2038: Liz Truss (Conservative minority, arrangements variously with Reform, DUP, UUP and Liberal Democrat parties)
Def 2035: Lisa Nandy (Labour) Layla Moran (Lib Dem) Magid Magid/Amelia Womack (GPEW) Toby Young (Reform) Michelle O’Neil (Sinn Fein) Paul Girvan (DUP) Adam Price (Plaid Cymru) Stephen Farry (Alliance) Steve Aiken (UUP)
2038-2049: Luke Pollard (Labour-GPEW Coalition with Alliance and Plaid Cymru S&C, then Labour GPEW Coalition)
Def 2042: Leo Docherty (Conservative) Layla Moran (Lib Dem) Benali Hamdache/Lily Fitzgibbon (GPEW) Orflaith Begley (Sinn Fein) Carla Lockhart (DUP) Paul Joseph Watson (Reform) Cariad Jones* (Plaid Cymru) Luke Patterson (Alliance) Michael O’Brien* (UUP)
Def 2047: Emma Mi (Conservative) Alex Dunham* (Lib Dem) Benali Hamdache/Lily Fitzgibbon (GPEW) Aodhán Ó hAdhmaill (Sinn Fein) Carla Lockhart (DUP) Michael Blackman* (Reform) Cariad Jones* (Plaid Cymru) Luke Patterson (Alliance) Michael O’Brien* (UUP)
2049-Present: Arthur Webber(Labour-GPEW Coalition)

*Denotes fictional person

bugger me that took a long time. I hope I've not missed anyone outn
 
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2038-2049: Luke Pollard (Labour-GPEW Coalition with Alliance and Plaid Cymru S&C, then Labour GPEW Coalition)
Def 2042: Leo Docherty (Conservative) Layla Moran (Lib Dem) Benali Hamdache/Lily Fitzgibbon (GPEW) Orflaith Begley (Sinn Fein) Carla Lockhart (DUP) Paul Joseph Watson (Reform) Cariad Jones* (Plaid Cymru) Luke Patterson (Alliance) Michael O’Brien* (UUP)
Def 2047: Emma Mi (Conservative) Alex Dunham (Lib Dem) Benali Hamdache/Lily Fitzgibbon (GPEW) Aodhán Ó hAdhmaill (Sinn Fein) Carla Lockhart (DUP) Michael Blackman* (Reform) Cariad Jones* (Plaid Cymru) Luke Patterson (Alliance) Michael O’Brien* (UUP)
2049-Present: Arthur Webber(Labour-GPEW Coalition)
Ah, that Labour LGBT+ representation we've been craving.
 
I couldn't resist. @Sideways , its a requirement I put Arthur Webber in future TLs , yeah ?
Always, yes. The little McDonnellite that could and all that (also he needs to eventually find out that folks on the internet are including him in Timelines).
Benali Hamdache (who might be something like DPM, though the Greens may insist on two) too
He seems cool, his facial hair is on point too.
 
BTW its a fair assumption that Pollard had shifted a bit to the left or Webber to the right before becoming PM
I like the idea of Pollard going slightly to the Left instead of the Little McDonellite becoming a Brownite.
 
Def 2047: Emma Mi (Conservative) Alex Dunham* (Lib Dem) Benali Hamdache/Lily Fitzgibbon (GPEW) Aodhán Ó hAdhmaill (Sinn Fein) Carla Lockhart (DUP) Michael Blackman* (Reform) Cariad Jones* (Plaid Cymru) Luke Patterson (Alliance) Michael O’Brien* (UUP)

I was a bit overeliant on members of Youth wings of parties. Means that most of these people are in their late 40s early 50s. You might still see younger current MPs who are around 30 in party leadership

There was a partially constructed writeup of all of this but I think the list is self explanatory
 
Campaign for Real Revolution

1970-1973: Reginald Maudling (Conservative)
1970 (Majority) def. Harold Wilson (Labour), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1973-1975: Quintin Hogg (Conservative majority)
1975-1976: Harold Wilson (Labour)
1975 (Coalition with Liberals) def. Quintin Hogg (Conservative), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1976-1980: Roy Jenkins (Labour-Liberal coalition)
1980-1994: Keith Joseph (Conservative)
1980 (Majority) def. Roy Jenkins (Labour), David Steel (Liberal), Fenner Brockway, Baron Brockway (Independent Labour)
1984 (Majority) def. Roy Jenkins (Reform), Cyril Smith (Centre), Tony Benn (Independent Labour)
1989 (Majority) def. Peter Hain [Prime Minister-designate] (Popular Front - Independent Labour, Greens, Liberals), David Owen (Reform), Ian Gilmour (One Nation)
1994 (Majority) def. Peter Hain [Prime Minister-designate] (Popular Front - Independent Labour, Greens, Liberals), David Owen / Michael Heseltine (Alliance - Reform, One Nation)

1994-1995: Norman Tebbit (Conservative majority)
1995-2000: John Redwood (Conservative)
1995 (Majority) def. David Alton (Alliance), Roger Protz / Derek Wall / Hilary Wainwright (Popular Front - Independent Labour, Greens, Liberals) [abstentionist]
2000 election cancelled amidst Millennium Bug Crisis

2000-present: Second British Civil War

2000-2001: David Richards (British Army)

2003-2006: Ian Paisley (British Covenant)

2007-present: Roger Protz, de jure / collective, de facto (Popular Assembly of the New Commonwealth)

Please note, leaders prior to 2000 are Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom. Post-2000, the leaders are those who controlled a majority of the landmass of Great Britain.
 
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