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A Stitch in Time: A Cross-Atlantic Timeline

Graphics and flags that are too well made/finished to be quite realistic are something that are a recurring issue in AH.
 
Graphics and flags that are too well made/finished to be quite realistic are something that are a recurring issue in AH.
The Idle Toad here was an OTL localist thing in Liverpool and it had a shitty logo as well. The one I have here is basically just a jumped-up residents association. Well, a residents association association more to unite localist forces.

Basically just imagine if every single residents association decided to team up to run in general elections. That's them.

So yeah, they have a shitty logo because face it, residents associations don't have snazzy logos.
 
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The region is the devolved region. Whatever it's a Celtic nation or an English region (or both, don't ask about Cornwall)
The title of the leader is how they're normally referred as by both the public and the media.
The elected peerage is how they're referred to in the Houses of Parliament. You wouldn't refer to the First Minister of the South West as that, but as the Duke or Duchess of Wessex. Yes, peerages are tied to devolved- yes its ridiculous. It's deliberate. And yes, the N/A highlights that the peers unfortunately still have influence over the devolved areas. This Britain is a Tory Republic, let you know.
The name of the legislature is straightforward, what its called. One note about the Senedd is that the official name is Senedd Cymru, but it's widely called the Welsh Senedd. Which basically is the same thing, only half-English.
 
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Devonshire, Portland and Rutland duking it out for dominance in the East Midlands I assume?
 
At the risk of being mercilessly beaten into a bloody pulp by some who are sick of Braveheart representing their country to Americans, I have to ask:

Has the position of Guardian of Scotland been brought back, and if so, what responsibilities does it have?
 
Decided to retcon the Isle of Man out of it because it didn't quite make sense.

But here's a map of Britain's devolved regions, coloured by Grand Councils. Now, what are the Grand Councils? Well, they're half appointed by Parliament [tending to be government, apart from the ones chosen by the President] and half appointed by the devolved regions.

Their purpose is to basically go over regional strategies and stuff like investment needs. The Secretary of the Regions are mandated to attend every meeting [which is why meetings are never scheduled at the same time for two or more different Grand Councils].

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The Council of the North has pretenses at being the spiritual heir of the old Council of the North of medieval times. It's a fairly left-wing committee, with the Batters government's appointees finding themselves conflicting a lot with SDP or ILP appointed people from the regions. Thankfully for Batters, the more right-leaning Midlands provide some backing on their part for any possible unpleasant decisions.

The Council of the South is more or less "not Northern and not Celtic". Tends right-wing, and so Batters' lot tends to find themselves in good company and conservative investment/cuts are easily negotiated most of the time. Of course, this is the part that tends to have Idle Toad growing the most, so there's increasingly a wish to be seen to "stand up to Westminster" from the regional appointees.

The Council of the West, or as more people know it as, the "Celtic Council", was just Scotland and Wales up to the Mebyon Kernow government declaring they would send appointees to the Council of the West instead of the South. The Nationals floated the idea of reversing that, but was talked out of it by the federal Nationals. And of course, the CNP laughs at any idea of even doubting the idea of Cornwall being in the West. Generally, it tends to be the most "upstart" of the three Grand Councils, with nationalist influences being the strongest. With two nationalist governments and some appointees from the old Scottish one still around, it is the one Batters' team find most chilly a reception. It is hoped that the SNP appointing more unionist appointees will help matters.
 
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For those who will point out the absence of the Orkney and Shetland islands, rest assured that they're now included with the base map.

As you can see above. Basically the second round was between two polarising candidates. Churchill the man who sent troops to crack down on miners, or Maxton the radical "loony" socialist who refused to serve in WWI?

Churchill won, but the map kind of belies that as many Northern places refused to vote for him. Wales returned a dismal result for Churchill, helped by the dislike DLG had for Churchill who "robbed" him of his rightful nomination [ironically, the Liberal MPs intended Churchill to be a compromise choice between DLG and those who didn't want DLG to be President] and thus the Welsh Liberals basically just didn't do much. Tonypandy + DLG's dislike = Wales that gave Churchill around 11% of the vote in the first round.

In the second round, Churchill basically went "it's me or him" and scared enough moderate voters to back him and conservative voters begrudgingly voted for him to stop the Reds. But in many Northern places, people went "okay, I'll back Maxton instead". Hence why James Maxton gained 18% of the vote from the first round to the second, more than those that voted Dalton.

One famous newspaper title from this election is "CHURCHILL OR CHAOS", released by a widely-read right-wing newspaper the day before the run-off, portraying the choice as between "Strong patriot who fights for every Briton" Churchill and "Radical Marxist who wishes to destroy all Britain holds dear" Maxton. Pretty openly biased, but given Churchill's strong victory, it seems to have done the job.

Ernest Shepperson came away from the election satisfied. His result was the best the Agriculturalists ever had. Fourteen percent. Things were looking up for them, he nodded happily as he returned to Parliament. Hugh Dalton never expected to win. The SDP eclipsing the ILP properly was not quite there yet, that would require a War to create the right combination of patriotic sentiment and left-wing wishes to catapult them to government. But his performance was something the Party was fine with. A respectable performance.

And as for poor Samuel Hoare... The Foreign Secretary knew that going up against Churchill, who took two coalition parties and reduced his loyal parties to just the Tories and Liberal Unionists, was difficult. But his failed negotiations to end the Italian-Ethiopian War led to many ridicule and many seeing Churchill as a more able foreign policy choice, even if his view on appeasement was... not ideal. And Hoare himself (on the radio where the five candidates were permitted ten minutes to sell themselves to the public) didn't come across as warm or likeable compared to the bombastic Churchill. And when the narrative of "Churchill or chaos" struck, he collapsed.

As Churchill enters office as Britain's first democratically-elected head of state, many in Liberal circles start to regret ever nominating him. He was meant to lose and get out of the way, damn it...
 
There are certain people you would expect to be Unionist. But they're not. Unionist does not equal UKIP.

Mike Hookem is Independent Labour and a List MP. He's part of the "Old Left" tendency in the party.

Anne-Marie Waters was Independent Labour but since her expulsion in late 2018, she has formed "Forward Britain", a 'Fortuynite' party that is Eurosceptic and Islamophobic while clothing itself in LGBT and socially liberal rhetoric. Part of a disappointing trend in the EuroFed.

Alan Sked is a long serving Liberal MP and argues that the Liberals need to see that the EuroFed isn't protecting civic liberties but undermining them. Has been rather louder those days since the Unionists talk more about a referendum those days.

Robert Kilroy-Silk is an ILP peer (the Earl of Ormskirk). But one that is in the doghouse at present due to his controversial statements. Has floated the idea of challenging the long serving ILP East Midlands leader Dennis Skinner before the next East Midlands election.

Henry Bolton is part of the Eurosceptic Liberal streak, along with Alan Sked, and is a MASE (Member of the Assembly of the South East, yes its stupid sounding). Came second in the South East England Liberal leadership election of 2013, losing to Stephen Lloyd.

Julia Reid is a Social Democrat EAM (European Assembly Member) but one that has been very vocally anti EF and is rumoured to be a possible defection to either the Unionists or Alan Sked's Eurosceptic Liberal side. Certainly would be a feather in his cap in his fight to turn the Liberals off the EF.

Stuart Agnew is an Agriculturalist MP and a known critic of the way Batters has taken the party, arguing that the Agriculturalist League has lost its way and became a party of mushy centrist platitudes. He is a firm supporter of the idea that the Agriculturalists should ally with the Unionists and that there should be a referendum on the EF. Also, global warming is a hoax and all this 'trendy' green stuff just encourages baloney and woolly thinking apparently
 
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The region is the devolved region. Whatever it's a Celtic nation or an English region (or both, don't ask about Cornwall)
The title of the leader is how they're normally referred as by both the public and the media.
The elected peerage is how they're referred to in the Houses of Parliament. You wouldn't refer to the First Minister of the South West as that, but as the Duke or Duchess of Wessex. Yes, peerages are tied to devolved- yes its ridiculous. It's deliberate. And yes, the N/A highlights that the peers unfortunately still have influence over the devolved areas. This Britain is a Tory Republic, let you know.
The name of the legislature is straightforward, what its called. One note about the Senedd is that the official name is Senedd Cymru, but it's widely called the Welsh Senedd. Which basically is the same thing, only half-English.

I adore this.

I was toying with similar for The British Republics but couldn't quite get the idea out. You've done this brilliantly.

Ehhh... Define reformed.

How does the Lords vary from OTL. Are any elected? How does it relate to the results in the Commons?

Also what powers does the President have?
 
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How does the Lords vary from OTL. Are any elected? How does it relate to the results in the Commons?
A complicated mess of appointed by the Commons, appointed by the regions, a select few are elected by functional constituencies for some reason and some are even chosen by trade unions. The whole place is just honestly a hodge-podge.

But the hereditary peers, even after a cleaning out under Maxton, has still a considerable presence.
Also what powers does the President have?
In theory, absolute. In practise, ceremonial.
 
In theory, absolute. In practise, ceremonial.

Lots of emergency powers and stuff thats held off by tradition and "not just the done thing"

I really like this TL. You portray a very different and very recognisable Britain and America.

In the wider world. Was there a WW2? I mean the PoD for America is what, back in the 1910s? Earlier? and Britain I'd imagine its at least with the Abdication crisis?

Sorry if you're going to get to this. Im just excited!
 
In the wider world. Was there a WW2? I mean the PoD for America is what, back in the 1910s? Earlier? and Britain I'd imagine its at least with the Abdication crisis?
Yes, there was a WWII. It's what created the National Union in America of Republicans and Democrats against the isolationist Long and it was what made Churchill uncontested for a second term. It's all in the write-ups on the first page :p

The point of divergence is somewhere in the early 1890s.
 
Yes, there was a WWII. It's what created the National Union in America of Republicans and Democrats against the isolationist Long and it was what made Churchill uncontested for a second term. It's all in the write-ups on the first page :p

The point of divergence is somewhere in the early 1890s.

Butts, I'll go re-read everything then :p Sorry
 
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