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So recently I was thinking about the Labour Party and it's various leaders and how even the alternate ones often seem to repeat themselves (Clynes, Cripps, Bevan, Morrison, Benn, Harman etc.) so I was wondering what could be some interesting/odd choices for Labour Leader. Here's a couple of ideas:
Oliver Baldwin, Son of Stanley Baldwin, Journalist, Armenian Freedom Fighter, Labour MP, brief Lord and Govenor of a Caribbean Island he was a Socialist and also a Homosexual who was in a long term relationship with his partner Jack Parker Boyle. Having him become leader is hard but not impossible, have him win his seat in 1935, becomes part of the War Government, gets Minister of Defence in 45, and becomes the leader in the early 50s after Attlee leaves with Baldwin being sold as a compromise canidate from there well I can see him having some problems (what with being a prominent politician whose gay during a time when it was illegal so that couldn't be great).
Shirley Williams, MP and Cabinet Minister she would let join the Gang of Four in forming the SDP, however I could see if she stays around for a bit longer and doesn't lose her seat in 1979 I could see her becoming a candidate in the leadership competition of 1984 against the Labour left. Where things go from there, who knows.
Bernie Grant, this one is hard but not impossible,in 87 he becomes Deputy Leader and maybe after Neil Kinnock's loss in 92 during the following leadership election John Smith has heart problems and in the ensuing chaos Bernie Grant manages to sneak in promoted by the Socialist Campaign Group to get a canidate in, of course this would have some repercussions.
Micheal Gove...wait don't leave. He was briefly a Labour member but left in 1983, if he stays on and becomes part of the Blairite team I can see him somehow stumbling into the leadership role after Brown crashes. Of course his personality would have to be different I guess.
Other suggestions are always fun to hear.
Oliver Baldwin, Son of Stanley Baldwin, Journalist, Armenian Freedom Fighter, Labour MP, brief Lord and Govenor of a Caribbean Island he was a Socialist and also a Homosexual who was in a long term relationship with his partner Jack Parker Boyle. Having him become leader is hard but not impossible, have him win his seat in 1935, becomes part of the War Government, gets Minister of Defence in 45, and becomes the leader in the early 50s after Attlee leaves with Baldwin being sold as a compromise canidate from there well I can see him having some problems (what with being a prominent politician whose gay during a time when it was illegal so that couldn't be great).
Shirley Williams, MP and Cabinet Minister she would let join the Gang of Four in forming the SDP, however I could see if she stays around for a bit longer and doesn't lose her seat in 1979 I could see her becoming a candidate in the leadership competition of 1984 against the Labour left. Where things go from there, who knows.
Bernie Grant, this one is hard but not impossible,in 87 he becomes Deputy Leader and maybe after Neil Kinnock's loss in 92 during the following leadership election John Smith has heart problems and in the ensuing chaos Bernie Grant manages to sneak in promoted by the Socialist Campaign Group to get a canidate in, of course this would have some repercussions.
Micheal Gove...wait don't leave. He was briefly a Labour member but left in 1983, if he stays on and becomes part of the Blairite team I can see him somehow stumbling into the leadership role after Brown crashes. Of course his personality would have to be different I guess.
Other suggestions are always fun to hear.
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