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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

George Wallace American Independent Curtis lemay
1969_1973

1973-1977

Hubert Horatio Humphrey. Democratic Ed Muskie
1977-1981
Ronald Wilson Reagan. Republican Charles Percy
Ed muskie Democratic James Earl Carter
1981_1989
During the presidency of George Wallace
Russia and China have a limited exchange nuclear war. Both country s split into separate nations.
After president Wallace bombs Hanoi with a nuclear weapon
Refugees flee from Veitnam to Cambodia.
In1972 president wallace loses to Humphrey
President humphrey is unable to control the great recession of 1973 but does end the Veitnam war.
President Reagan faces oil shortage. Iran is nuclear bombed into the stone age
Reagan loses to ed Muskie in a landslide .
In the 1980s there is a successful movement to ban nuclear weapons.by 1988 earth is devoid of such weapons.
 
I thought about putting this into the Golden Age thing for the HoS list challenge, as a kind of flipping the concept on its head thing.

Unprepared: The Myth Of The American Century

1929-1935: Herbert Hoover (Republican)
1928 (with Charles Curtis) def. Al Smith (Democratic)
1932 (with Charles Curtis) def. William Gibbs McAdoo (Democratic)

1935-1936: Douglas MacArthur (Nonpartisan / War Government)
1936-1937: Charles Francis Adams III (Nonpartisan / Caretaker Government)
1937-1937: Huey Long (Union)
1936 (with William Lemke) def. Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic), Charles Francis Adams III (Nonpartisan / Republican), Henry L. Stimson (Independent Republican)
1937-1938: Douglas MacArthur (Nonpartisan / Unity Government)
1938: de facto collapse of the United States, beginning of the Warring States Period
1939: Anti-Japanese pogroms in California lead to intervention by the IJN and the installation of the Pacific Governorate
1941: Black Dragon Society establishes the Republic of New Ethiopia in the Black Belt and much of the Old South
1942: Depopulated Plains States are occupied by joint Pacific-Japanese forces
1943:
Hudson River Treaty establishes peace between the New England Republic and the rump US, now consolidated under the National Security Regime
1943-0000: J. Edgar Hoover (Nonpartisan / National Security Regime)
1973-1975: Richard Helms (Nonpartisan / National Security Regime)
1975-1975: James E. Carter (Nonpartisan / Caretaker Government)
1975: de jure dissolution of the United States and institution of joint occupation by the leftist regimes of Pacifica, African-America and New England
1975-1976: H. Rap Brown / Jim Jones / Raymond Levasseur (United Front For The Reconstruction Of North America)
1976: Failure of reunification talks, establishment of independent states out of the former United States


This is a deliberately quite pulpy TL - Japan and America go to war in 1932 over a more successful May 15th Incident, Hoover manages to get an incumbency 'rally around the flag' boost that gets him across the line. However, the war doesn't go America's way, and while both countries are poorly prepared for war with the other, America is absolutely shattered by a deepening Depression while Japan's newly installed dictatorship is able to militarise much much faster and soon knocks the US out of the Pacific Ocean. Hoover eventually tries to seek peace in 1935, but in desperation MacArthur tries to install himself as dictator - it doesn't work. The US goes through a kind of Versailles moment as MacArthur is pushed out and Adams' Caretakers establish peace. At the cost of ceding Hawaii to Japan.

Long becomes President amidst a deeply divided political field - the Republicans split, while the Democrats become momentarily the vehicle of American revanchism. That doesn't last long however. Long's platform of rolling back the frontiers of American imperialism domestically - post WW1 'normalcy' had been abandoned by Hoover and MacArthur and America's prisons were bursting with numerous radicals - was deemed a threat. This time, MacArthur's coup actually came off.

But not entirely. The US essentially broke out into civil war as Long's wide cast of regional populists took advantage of his death to stick their knife in the back of the Union. The Japanese Empire, riding high on the achievement of their last war, took advantage of the chaos and the thin justification of anti-Japanese killings in California to occupy the Pacific states. The Japanese intervention would eventually see the United States reduced to a rump north of the Carolinas and east of the Dakotas. The rump US was still economically powerful however and would become a key ally of the Greater German Reich after 1943, and the beginning of the international Great Game between the German and Japanese spheres.

The final stuttering death of the United States happened in the 1960s amidst the German-Japanese atomic exchange - and perhaps more importantly the re-emergence of communism in the form of the graduates of late Felix Eboue's 'School of Africa' which transformed the European colonial exile regimes south of the Sahara into a cohesive anti-fascist alliance, uniting half a continent. It didn't quite register that the regime was on its last legs however, until after Director-General Hoover's death. His successors proved far less adept at holding together the house of cards, especially as each of their neighbours in turn flipped toward the New Ideology storming north across the Mediterranean and sprouting up in China and India.

A final shortlived slip into military dictatorship would be the Union's death rattle as Admiral Carter accepted occupation by her newly red neighbours. Even then however, the naive hoped that this presaged a unification that would see America restored to her rightful place, a shining city on a hill to the Worker's World. But after a handful of months, it was clear talks were getting nowhere. Unification was not a realistic prospect - and no one could see the old rump US being allowed to govern itself undivided. It was too big and unwieldy, even as it was. And so, in 1976, the bicentennial of the declaration of independence, the United States was abolished.
 
1980: Harrold Stassen Republican Howard Baker
Def: James Earl Carter Democratic Walter Fritz Mondale

1984: Harrold Stassen Republican Howard Baker

Def: Walter Fritz Mondale Democratic Geraldine Ferroa

1988: Bill Clinton Democratic Lloyd Benson

Def: Howard Baker Republican Dan Quayle

Former California Governor Reagan decided not to run in 1980. Harold Stassen had run many times but in 1980 he finally won the Republican nomination. He easily defeated Carter who was unpopular due to the economy. by 1983 the economy slowly recovered. president Stassen was the most popular president since fdr. Stassen was the last cold war president. for vice president Bake, president Stassens popularity did not carry over to his v.p.
 
Also, oh dear, what happened in Zimbabwe?

Not too much that didn't happen in OTL, I suspect, save that in this timeline Rhodes has no historical constituency.

To the extent that even more awful things are happening, it's to explain why Rhodes waits as long as he does to try and invade, and to give the impression that the British territories in South Africa have other things happening besides the uninterrupted rise of the Uitlanders.

I mean, if I were doing this properly I'd have found other people than a simple list of Randlords, who would have probably been happier not ruling directly. And I'd have nodded to the fact that the British would never just withdraw- there'd be basing rights for the Royal Navy, etc... and, most importantly I'd have included something about how this actually affected the Africans.

Still, I'm happy with it as something I had the idea for then immediately sat down and wrote.
 
39. Reubin Askew Democratic Walter fritz Mondale 1977-1985
40.Gil Petterson Republican Pete Dupont 1985-1993
41. Albert Gore j r. Democratic Bill Clinton 1993-1997
Patrick Buchanon Republican 1997-2001.
 
1988: Gil Peterson Democratic Lloyd Benson'

def: George Walker Bush Dan Quayle

1988: Gil Peterson Democratic Lloyd Benson'

1992: Def: Dan Quayle Republican Jack Kemp

2000: Albert Gore Democratic Joe Lieberman
Def: Ralph Nader Green Wynona LA duke

2004: Collin Powell Republican John Mcain
 
Just an idea I had for a semi-stratocratic surviving Confederacy based on a presidential ticket I came up with for a CSA game run by True Whig over on the Old Country. Might expand on this with a writeup at a later point, I just want to get it down in writing for now in the event that my second dose of Pfizer ends up knocking me on my ass.

To Arms in Dixie

Presidents/Vice-Presidents of the Confederate States of America
1861 - 1869: Jefferson Davis (Nonpartisan-VA)/Alexander Stevens (Nonpartisan-GA)
1869 - 1875: PGT Beauregard (Redeemer-LA)/Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (Redeemer-VA)
1874 - 1877: Nathan Bedford Forrest (Redeemer-TN)†/Robert Toombs (Democrat-GA)
1877 - 1881: Robert Toombs (Democrat-GA)/VACANT
1881 - 1887: Wade Hampton III (Fire Eater-SC)/Jubal Early (Fire Eater-VA)

1887 - 1893: James Longstreet (Redeemer-LA)/Ambrosio José Gonzales (Redeemer-SC)
 
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This is from my t.l. The beat goes on: the presidency of George Forsyth

1961-1965: John F. Kennedy / Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)

1960: Richard M. Nixon / Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Republican)
1965-1969: John F. Kennedy / Leroy Collins (Democratic)
1964: Barry M. Goldwater / Charles Hallack(Republican)
1969-1973: Richard M. Nixon/John Volpe (Republican)
1968: . Leroy Collins /George McGovern ( Democratic) George C. Wallace, Jr. / Enraza Benson Taft (American Independent)
1973-1976: Richard M. Nixon/John Volpe (Republican)
1972: Henry Jackson / Edward M. Kennedy (Democratic)
1974-1977: John Volpe / Gerald Ford (Republican)
1977-1979: Hubert H. Humphrey / James Carter (Democratic)

1976: John Volpe / Gerald Ford (Republican)
1979 -1985: James Earl Carter{ Bob Casey snr. (Democratic)
1980: Bob Dole { { Howard Baker Republican
1985-1993: Howard H. Baker, Jr. / Paul D. Laxalt (Republican)
1980: James Carter/ Bob Casey snr.(Democratic), Eugene J. McCarthy / John B. Anderson (Independent)
1984: Gary W. Hart / Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr. (Democratic)
1993- 2001: George Forsyth / Jay Rockefeller ( Democratic)
1988: / Paul Laxalt ( Republican) H. Ross Perot / Pat Choate (Reform)

1996: Jack Kemp/ M. Elizabeth A. H. Dole (Republican)

2001-2005: William H. Frist / Jeffry L. Flake (Republican)

2000: Richard A. Gephardt / Joe Lieberman (Democratic) / Ralph Nader{Winona LA duke (Reform)
2005-2013: John F. Kennedy, Jr. / William W. Bradley (Democratic)
2004: William H. Frist / Jeff Flakes (Republican)
2008: Mike Huckabee / Kelly A. Ayotte (Republican)
2013-: Michael Steele / Jon Kyl (Republican)
2012: Martin omalley / Andrew M. Cuomo (Democratic)


George Forsyth left New Jersey to seek a acting career in Hollywood in the late 1950s once established as a guest star in several t.v. shows like the fugitve Forsyth got a costaring role in the sitcom gidget.
Forsyth got involved in the Leroy Collins presidential campaign in 1968.
 
Just an idea I had for a semi-stratocratic surviving Confederacy based on a presidential ticket I came up with for a CSA game run by True Whig over on the Old Country. Might expand on this with a writeup at a later point, I just want to get it down in writing for now in the event that my second dose of Pfizer ends up knocking me on my ass.

To Arms in Dixie

Presidents/Vice-Presidents of the Confederate States of America
1861 - 1868: Jefferson Davis (Nonpartisan-VA)/Alexander Stevens (Nonpartisan-GA)
1868 - 1874: PGT Beauregard (Redeemer-LA)/Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson (Redeemer-VA)
1874 - 1877: Nathan Bedford Forrest (Redeemer-TN)/Robert Toombs (Democrat-GA)
1877 - 1880: Robert Toombs (Democrat-GA)/VACANT
1880 - 1886: Wade Hampton III (Fire Eater-SC)/Jubal Early (Fire Eater-VA)

1886 - 1892: James Longstreet (Redeemer-LA)/Ambrosio José Gonzales (Redeemer-SC)

I mean. Fire eater is certainly one of the more badass party names
 
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The Four Ages of Blair
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1979-1990: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)

Birmingham Northfield By-election 1982
Tony Blair (Labour): 36.4%
Roger Gale (Conservative): 35.5%
Stephen Ridley (Liberal): 26.1%
Ian Anderson (National Front): 0.9%
Peter Sheppard (Communist): 0.8%
Ronald Taylor (People's Progressive Party): 0.2%
Bill Boaks (Democratic Monarchist, Public Safety, White Resident): 0.1%

1990-1992: Nigel Lawson (Conservative) Coalition with James Molyneaux (UUP)

Tony Blair was elected as leader of the Labour Party in a contest against Bryan Gould, with support from John Smith, who would go on to be his first Chancellor. Labour began to reform, but the major changes were the recession, sleeze, Maastricht and the IRA making the Conservatives suddenly very unpopular.

1992-1997: Tony Blair (Labour) Coalition with Paddy Ashdown (Liberal) and David Owen (SDP)

With David Owen as Foreign Secretary and Paddy Ashdown in the Home Office, Blair's first government was often criticised for having given up too much to the Alliance. Beyond this, Blair's early time in office is synonymous with Cool Britannia - The Millennium Dome was began in Hull and would run simultaneously with successful Olympic bid in Manchester. Section 28 was repealed. STV was adopted for EU elections and later for the Scottish Assembly. The Spice Girls and Cool Britannia was omnipresent and Britain even won Eurovision in 1996.

Meanwhile there were problems - The Alliance collapsed over Europe and other divisions, peace talks in Northern Ireland stalled, the Welsh devolution referendum failed and took Blair's ambitious plans for constitutional reform with it. The Spice Girls movie was not very good.

1997-2001: Michael Portillo (Conservative)

Labour came out of the 1997 election in the odd position of having increased their vote share and seat numbers, as the Alliance went from 41 seats down to six Liberal and three SDP. However, the Conservatives mustered a small and unhappy majority. 1997 was a good election to lose and no leader would have done well with it. The dot-com bubble burst, Victoria Adams left the Spice Girls, the 2001 Foot and Mouth outbreak ruined livelihoods, Princess Diana died, the early days of rail privatisation were terrible, the process of putting together the Millennium Festival and Games was excruciating and expensive.

There were good things too - the Millennium Festival and Olympics were a major success, ruined only by the fact that Portillo had spent most of the last three years blaming Blair for them. Even so, the year of good feelings gave him enough of a boost to consider an early election.

2001-2006: Tony Blair (Labour)

Blair was re-elected on a wave of Millennial optimism but then, in June 2001, everything changed when terrorists attacked the World Trade Centre. Blair put Britain on the front lines in Afghanistan (2001), Iraq (2003) and Iran (2006) and many of his legislative decisions; from the establishment of a Ministry of Homeland Security to new policing powers to introducing ID cards were done in the service of that.

Some decisions were less clearly motivated by the war - Lords Reform went through. 66.6% of Lords would be elected, annually and for ten year terms. The elections would be based on an electoral college of one third general election results, one third popular vote, and one third MPs. It was widely considered to be a terrible system but it passed.

This was the era when Cool Britannia got its second wind. Victoria Adams' new album Vicky Adams made it to number one worldwide and had a big Union Jack on the cover, British TV shows like The Office and Little Britain were popular - Graham Linehan made it in Hollywood. It was a more cynical and less PC age, reflected by a more cynical and less PC Blair.

2006-2009: Iain Duncan Smith (Conservative) Coalition with Richard Kilroy-Silk (SDP) and Iain Paisley (DUP)
Labour's majority vanished in 2006 - the votes actually went to RESPECT and the Greens - RESPECT managed three seats, with Salma Yaqoob taking one in Birmingham, Tony Blairs own back yard. The Greens only had one victory, in Cambridge. The Liberals under Charles Kennedy surged on an anti-war platform. However, the primary beneficiary were the Tories, Labour was divided on the correct response - David Miliband was the early front runner but as the tides of war started to turn against the Coalition in Iraq pro-peace candidate Jeremy Corbyn took the upper hand.

In a term where foreign policy dominated, the government also offered an in-out referendum on EU membership, which was technically also a ratification vote on the Treaty of Lisbon. A shambolic campaign for remain won just 42% of the vote and saw deep divisions appear between the Liberal anti-war centre and the populist left. Despite a clear majority, actually leaving the EU proved hard to accomplish on a majority of two.

Iain Duncan Smith responded with surprising bellicosity, threatening suspensions and an early election if parliament refused to ratify his exit deal in a time when the world economy was in chaos. 32 of his own MPs crossed the floor, and while nobody wanted an election, nobody wanted to supprt a government set up by any of the existing parties. This led to a surprising proposal.

2009-2011: Tony Blair (Independent); Coalition with Ed Miliband (Labour), David Miliband (The Independent Group), Charles Kennedy (Liberal), Naomi Long (AllianceNI), Margo MacDonald (SNP), Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru)

The events of March 2009 were some of the most dramatic in UK political History. On the 1st, four Labour MPs including Blair resigned from the party to form the Independent Group. By the 3rd they'd formed a new party group with the Remain Conservatives. By the 8th The Independent Group had a proposal to form a government with the Liberals. The 15th saw over half the Labour Party threatening to quit the party if Corbyn refused to go into an emergency Brexit-Credit Crisis Coalition. Corbyn resigned on the 18th and on the 25th the Conservative government was overthrown. On Thursday 20th March Tony Blair once again kissed hands with the queen and entered Downing Street to the words "a new dawn has broken, has it not?"

The response was immediate and extreme. London brimmed over with pro-Exit protestors, mingling unhappily with anti-austerity protestors in a movement that created strange bedfellows and terrible results. The movements never really went away, nor were the parties involved ever really forgiven. But the government was able to pass legislation, often relying on the Conservatives to push for a strict and unyielding form of austerity. Labour left the arrangement in late 2009, the SNP and Plaid Cymru left in 2010 after Scotland obtained a parliament and Wales got an Assembly of its own. However the government survived by sheer virtue of nobody else wanting the job until a general election had to be called.

2011-2020: Boris Johnson (Conservative)

Blair was defeated in a landslide as the country went into a new, more optimistic, world. "Brexit" as it had come to be known, was completed in 2012, and in 2014 England was given its own parliament. The economy improved slowly but in Boris' first term ruthless austerity was still the name of the game - the post office was privatised, the National Identity Office privatised, councils were encouraged to sell off social housing stock, the average cost of a degree rose from £8k to £14k and college loan arrangements became more strict.

After a second landslide in 2015 the situation improved - plans for high speed rail were created and investment in hydraulic fracking and nuclear power bought more money to the country. One year degrees allowed people to qualify quickly and cheaply, in 2016 England created the institution of same sex civil partnerships and the Conservatives stole one of Labour's more popular policies. Even the Middle Eastern War seemed to be going better. In 2016 a general ceasefire saw an attempt at power sharing between coalition allies and The New Caliphate. Meanwhile, culturally, Cool Britannia saw a minor resurgence as Twee Britannia with The Great British Bake Off popular worldwide, Victoria Adams taking over Good Morning Britain and a popular film trilogy based on The Archers.

Blair stood down as MP in 2012 and was elected the the House of Lords in 2016. He was not a quiet Lord and frequently appeared in the news, but focused most of his attention on his conversion to Catholicism and his charitable foundation dedicated to working for peace globally.

Boris' third term in 2019 promised more of the same, but muted by a smaller majority. The only fly in the ointment was a resumption of hostilities in the Middle East and a series of lobbying and sex scandals that nobody really cared about. Then the pandemic happened. Boris Johnson's gradual rightward turn had bought him under the influence of what would come to be viewed as the anti-lockdown faction within the party, while the Tory's much maligned centre chafed under familiar strains. The eight week lockdown in May-July only served to annoy Boris' supporters. Letters started to fly to the 1922 Committee

2020-2022: Tony Blair (Independent); Coalition with Rory Stewart (Conservative), Andy Burnham (Labour), Kate Hoey (SDP), Nick Clegg (Liberal)

Once again, a Conservative leader was ousted by a palace coup, and with him went two dozen MPs, enough to cost the Conservatives their majority and once again they sought a leader from outside of the party. In August. With the death toll already at 100,000 and another wave on the way, a national crisis government was formed under a neutral figure. The country's social distancing regime became draconian, with full lockdowns in August-November 2020, January-April 2021, and August-September 2021. Vaccine passports were tied to the National ID Database and new police powers helped the government track down COVID breaches. Schools were closed from August 2020 to November 2021.

The heroic effort made by all parties kept a death toll that had been expected to reach 300,000 down to 150,000. But it exhausted and bankrupt the country. And notably, the anti-COVID measures were used most strongly against the wave of protests - the "Western Spring" of anti-racist, pro-LGBT, environmentalist, feminist protest that shook the western world, missed Britain almost entirely.

Culturally, that had its impact on the country. Megan Markle and Harry were forced to move to America, Graham Linehan and Morrissey channelled an increasing amount of money into the UK's burgeoning anti-LGBT scene which took inspiration from how anti-trans anti-vax anti-feminist hostility had pushed Trump into power in 2020, Julian Assange made the leap from tech journalism to Top Gear.

By 2022, with all variants of COVID were controlled and the whole population vaccinated, Tony Blair resigned and called for new elections. The Hero of Britain, the man who had defined the country for four decades, finally retired from public life. Probably.
 
“Hey Wayne, Lets do the mega happy ending”... I think? Maybe?
Or
Willie Rennie Holding a Monkey’s Paw

(I can shove this in a test thread if people would prefer)
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Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

2019-2023: Boris Johnson (Conservative)
2023: Scottish Independence Referendum: 52% Yes, 48% No
2023-2024: Rishi Sunak (Conservative)
2024-2027: Angela Rayner (Labour- “Progressive Alliance” Coalition)
2026: UK-Scottish Relationship Agreement signed.

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom of England, Wales and Northern Ireland

2027-2029: Angela Rayner (Labour- “Progressive Alliance” Coalition)
2028: Constitutional Convention Referendum: 53% Yes 47% No.
2029-2034: Angela Rayner (Labour-Green-Plaid Cymru)
2033: Irish Border Poll: 51% Join Ireland 49% Remain (NI) 56% Admit Northern Ireland 44% Reject (RoI)
2034-2035 :Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat-Pro Treaty Conservative Coalition)

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of England and Wales

2035-Present :Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat-Pro Treaty Conservative Coalition)
2036: Common Market Referendum 52% Yes 48% No.


Notes:
  • There is another flag that only existed 2026-2035 that is OTL Union flag but with Welsh flag Green instead of Blue
  • While still not a republic, Australia adopts this flag around 2037 because I liked seeing it in event horizon
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1963-1965: Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative)
1964 (Majority) def: Harold Wilson (Labour), Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1965-1970: Richard Crossman (Labour)
1965 (Majority) def: Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative), Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1970-1979: Ted Heath (Conservative)
1970 (Majority) def: Richard Crossman (Labour), Emlyn Hooson (Liberal)
1974 (Majority) def: Denis Healey (Labour), Emlyn Hooson (Liberal)

1978 (Majority) def: Denis Healey (Labour), Geraint Howells (Liberal), William Wolfe (SNP), John Tyndall (National Front)
1979-1982: Keith Joseph (Conservative)
1982-: Anne Kerr (Labour)

1982 (Majority) def: Keith Joseph (Conservative), Geraint Howells (Liberal), Stephen Maxwell (SNP)

The First Kerr Cabinet (1982-198X)

Prime Minister:
Anne Kerr
Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Employment: Eric Varley
Chancellor of the Exchequer: Peter Shore
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs: David Owen
Secretary of State for Home Affairs: Denzil Davies
Secretary of State for Defence: Roy Hattersley
Leader of the House of Commons: Reg Freeson
Secretary of State for Trade and Industry: Stanley Orme
Secretary of State for Education: Shirley Williams
Secretary of State for Health: Neil Kinnock
Secretary of State for Energy: Gerald Kaufman
Secretary of State for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: John Smith
Secretary of State for Transport: Illtyd Harrington
Chief Secretary to the Treasury: Bryan Gould
 
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