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Kimkatya's Kalamitous Kavern Kontaining Krap Kontent

You know, I was thinking. You know Media althists where it's a list of different series based off a single pod? Like Star Trek and such?

Well, what series has a surprisingly tight continuity, an extensive spin-off franchise, multiple television series and an interesting set of ways things can turn out differently?

AHA!
 
You know, I was thinking. You know Media althists where it's a list of different series based off a single pod? Like Star Trek and such?

Well, what series has a surprisingly tight continuity, an extensive spin-off franchise, multiple television series and an interesting set of ways things can turn out differently?

AHA!
 
"Never mistake the enthusiasm of the minority for the support of the majority." - Neil Kinnock

"Blair? Really? The boring fucker?" Louis dived back into their crisps, took out a couple, and threw them into their mouth.
"Clean, smartly dressed, very polite, he would have attracted the right kind of people." Zoe replied.
The room was dingy. A small poster on the wall declaring the one great achievement of the Southwest Wiltshire Labour Party, the massive council by-election scalp of 2015, from before Zoe got in. The single bulb with its manky lampshade cast yellow light around the room.

"Right." Louis said, balling up the now empty bag of crisps. "My idea is..." They sat and thought for a moment. "Hear me out here. Bryan Gould."
Zoe stared into the ceiling. "Bryan Gould... remind me?"
Louis sighed, as they were one to do when someone was wrong about something. "The Kiwi."
"Oh, the market socialist guy? Did he have enough charisma?"
"I don't know, I think he was funny. I read his memoirs."
"'Course you did." Zoe smirked. "Did you read any bloody fiction this year?"
Louis glanced sideways at Zoe. "I read the Alan Partridge book."
"Doesn't count."

A buzzing noise erupted across the room, barely overtaking the hum of the electric light overhead. Zoe breathed in, and answered her phone.
"Hi, Mary. No, we aren't busy."
Louis flapped their hands about rapidly from across the room at this admittance of guilt. Zoe shot daggers at him.
"Yes, I'm able to deliver leaflets. Are they in the cupboard?"
Louis put their head in their hands.
Zoe rolled her eyes. "No, the other cupboard. Yeah. I'll be there in a second. See you soon."

"You like Mary."
"Fuck off, are you twelve?"
"Mentally, yes."
Zoe once again shot daggers at the joint Disabilities Officer and Equalities Officer of the CLP.
"We were having a perfectly good time." Louis leaned back in their chair.
"Party calls, Louis."
"So does Mary."

Zoe got up, and grabbed the jacket draped against the back of her chair. "Come on, Louis. We're never going to win another seat on the council if we don't hold the one we have now. You know that Mary's in trouble, and she needs support."
"Counterpoint: It's raining."
"Please just do this, Louis."
"I'm fucking with you. I'm heading out too."
Louis lifted themselves off the chair. "Nothing I can do here alone, anyway."
Zoe grimaced. She didn't entirely believe them.


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Not anything permanent, just an attempt to write... something. It's pretty hard to find pure rules of organisation of CLPs without diving into the Labour rulebook, so I mostly picked what actually goes on in them by osmosis. I probably got a ton wrong lmao. Characters are not permanent, and in traditional me style, I changed their genders multiple times over. If I make something serious out of this, I'll probably actually figure out a plot first, lol.
 
Story idea: It is 2017. After a major confrontation in the Baltic Sea, the Russians push the button in preparation for the end of days.

Nothing happens.

Suddenly, all the world's weapons just stop working, and you can't physically harm anyone anymore, at least not directly. World Peace is forced upon humanity, and theological questions are raised.
 
You know how in hypthetical romcoms, the female, hardworking but sensitive protagonist, being courted by a slice of human white bread, has an extremely stereotypical male gay friend?

I would definitely watch a film where a hardworking but sensitive male protagonist, being courted by the most generic woman alive, has an extremely stereotypical butch lesbian friend who plays sports and shit.

This really is a great Alternate History test thread.
 
The Complete Edition

1923: STANLEY BALDWIN (CONSERVATIVE)
1923-1924: HARRY TAWNEY (LABOUR MINORITY)
1923: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), H. H. Asquith (Liberal)

1924-29: STANLEY BALDWIN (CONSERVATIVE)
1924: Harry Tawney (Labour), H. H. Asquith (Liberal)
1929-31: RAMSAY MACDONALD (LABOUR)
1929: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), David Lloyd George (Liberal)
1931-32: STANLEY BALDWIN (CONSERVATIVE-NATIONAL LIBERAL COALITION)
1931: Ramsay MacDonald (Labour), Herbert Samuel (Liberal), John Simon (National Liberal)
1932-40: GEORGE LANSBURY (LABOUR)
1932: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative),
Herbert Samuel (Liberal)
1937:
Neville Chamberlain (Conservative), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal)
1940-46: HERBERT MORRISON (LABOUR-WAR GOVERNMENT)
1946-48: HERBERT MORRISON (NATIONAL)
1946: Anthony Eden (Continuity Conservative), Ernest Bevin (Continuity Labour), Stafford Cripps (Socialist Labour), Richard Acland (Liberal)

1948-50: JOHN SLESSOR (NONPARTISAN MILITARY GOVERNMENT)
1950-59: OLIVER LYTTELTON (CONSERVATIVE)
1950: Richard Acland (Liberal), Ernest Bevin (Continuity Labour), Stafford Cripps (Socialist Labour)
1955: James Callaghan (Labour), Mark Bonham-Carter (Liberal), Anthony Greenwood (Socialist Labour)
1959-69: IAN MACLEOD (CONSERVATIVE)
1960: George Brown (Labour), Anthony Greenwood (Socialist Labour), Mark Bonham-Carter (Liberal)
1964: George Brown (Labour), Enoch Powell (Unionist), Anthony Greenwood (Socialist Labour)

1969-78: PETER SHORE (LABOUR)
1969: Ian MacLeod (Conservative), Enoch Powell (Unionist), Barbara Castle (Socialist Labour)
1974: Jim Prior (Conservative), Enoch Powell (Unionist), Barbara Castle (Socialist Labour)
1978-85: ANTHONY MEYER (CONSERVATIVE)
1978: Peter Shore (Labour), Alan Clark (Unionist), Barbara Castle (Socialist Labour)
1983: David Owen (Labour), Alan Clark (Unionist), Albert Booth (Socialist Labour)

1985-94: DAVID OWEN (LABOUR)
1985: Anthony Meyer (Conservative), Albert Booth (Socialist Labour), Rhodes Boyson (Unionist)
1989: Cecil Parkinson (Conservative), Margaret Hodge (Socialist Labour), Rhodes Boyson (Unionist)
1992: Cecil Parkinson (Conservative), Margaret Hodge (Socialist Labour), Roger Knapman (Unionist)
1994-96: MARGARET HODGE (SOCIALIST LABOUR)
1996- : CHARLES KENNEDY (UNITED LABOUR)
1996: Anthony Lynton (Conservative), Roger Knapman (Unionist)
 
Those books are so unwieldy and unknown i can't imagine anyone that's not an academic or a member of the security services reading them.
I mainly use certain political biographies and books as giant resources for idea generating (since the internet only goes so far...), since reading a 600 political book about Trade Unions is the best way to cure insomnia.
 
I mainly use certain political biographies and books as giant resources for idea generating (since the internet only goes so far...), since reading a 600 political book about Trade Unions is the best way to cure insomnia.
part of the issue is that unless you have literal connections it's so difficult to find about internal struggles within unions, so any literature you can get to tell you how these giant factors in labour party operation actually run and work, you're at least 30% fucked, at least imo
 
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