Meppo
Anticommunist Mole
- Location
- Default City, Russia
- Pronouns
- he/him
Very nice list
I assume the TSA intervenes more often than not to liquidate would-be progressors and mind snatchers trying to alter the universe to benefit their country
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- Start date
I assume the TSA intervenes more often than not to liquidate would-be progressors and mind snatchers trying to alter the universe to benefit their country
- Location
- Sheffield
- Pronouns
- she/her
- Location
- Sheffield
- Pronouns
- she/her
musing as a potential entry to the HoS challenge
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2019-2022: Boris Johnson (Conservatives)
2019 (Majority) def: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrats), Adam Price (Plaid Cymru), Jonathan Bartley & Siân Berry (Greens)
2022-2022: Liz Truss (Conservatives)
2022-2024: Rishi Sunak (Conservatives)
2024-2030: Keir Starmer (Labour)
2024 (Majority) def: Rishi Sunak (Conservatives), Ed Davey (Liberal Democrats), Humza Yousaf (SNP), Rhun ap Iorwerth (Plaid Cymru), Carla Denyer & Adrian Ramsay (Greens), Jeremy Corbyn (Peace and Justice)
2028 (Minority) def: Kemi Badenoch (Conservatives), Ed Davey (Liberal Democrats), Carla Denyer & Adrian Ramsay (Greens), Angus Robertson (SNP), Rhun ap Iorwerth (Plaid Cymru)
2030-2032: Wes Streeting (Labour)
2032-2042: Tom Harwood (Conservatives)
2032 (Majority) def: Wes Streeting (Labour), Amelia Womack & Zac Larkham (Greens), Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrats), Angus Roberston (SNP), Lee Anderson (Homeland), Katy Loudon (Scottish Future), Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru)
2037 (Majority) def: Kira Lewis (Labour), Amelia Womack & Zac Larkham (Greens), Eleanor Kelly (Liberal Democrats), Angus Roberston (SNP), Katy Loudon (Scottish Future), Lee Anderson (Homeland), Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru)
2041 (Minority with D3 confidence and supply) def: Kira Lewis (Labour), Zac Larkham & Zoë Garbett (Greens), Eleanor Kelly (Liberal Democrats), collective leadership (D3), Angus Roberston (SNP), Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru), Katy Loudon (Scottish Future)
2042 de-digitalisation referendum: Yes 48%, No 52%
2042-0000: Seb Payne (Conservatives)
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2019-2022: Boris Johnson (Conservatives)
2019 (Majority) def: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrats), Adam Price (Plaid Cymru), Jonathan Bartley & Siân Berry (Greens)
2022-2022: Liz Truss (Conservatives)
2022-2024: Rishi Sunak (Conservatives)
2024-2030: Keir Starmer (Labour)
2024 (Majority) def: Rishi Sunak (Conservatives), Ed Davey (Liberal Democrats), Humza Yousaf (SNP), Rhun ap Iorwerth (Plaid Cymru), Carla Denyer & Adrian Ramsay (Greens), Jeremy Corbyn (Peace and Justice)
2028 (Minority) def: Kemi Badenoch (Conservatives), Ed Davey (Liberal Democrats), Carla Denyer & Adrian Ramsay (Greens), Angus Robertson (SNP), Rhun ap Iorwerth (Plaid Cymru)
2030-2032: Wes Streeting (Labour)
2032-2042: Tom Harwood (Conservatives)
2032 (Majority) def: Wes Streeting (Labour), Amelia Womack & Zac Larkham (Greens), Christine Jardine (Liberal Democrats), Angus Roberston (SNP), Lee Anderson (Homeland), Katy Loudon (Scottish Future), Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru)
2037 (Majority) def: Kira Lewis (Labour), Amelia Womack & Zac Larkham (Greens), Eleanor Kelly (Liberal Democrats), Angus Roberston (SNP), Katy Loudon (Scottish Future), Lee Anderson (Homeland), Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru)
2041 (Minority with D3 confidence and supply) def: Kira Lewis (Labour), Zac Larkham & Zoë Garbett (Greens), Eleanor Kelly (Liberal Democrats), collective leadership (D3), Angus Roberston (SNP), Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru), Katy Loudon (Scottish Future)
2042 de-digitalisation referendum: Yes 48%, No 52%
2042-0000: Seb Payne (Conservatives)
- Pronouns
- He/Him
“Ah hey look, Labour has it’s first trans leader’
‘Ah that’s neat’
‘Yeah, they’re also a firm Starmerite”
“Oh…that’s not great”
- Location
- Sheffield
- Pronouns
- she/her
It was too good of a punchline not to include!
The Labour and Tory leader are both firm supporters of trans rights.
Unfortunately, in many other important areas, they have capital-I Issues.
- Location
- Sheffield
- Pronouns
- she/her
2008-2016: Alex Ferguson (Labour)
2008 (Majority) def: tbd (Conservatives)
2011 Libya vote: Yes
2012 (Majority) def: tbd (Conservatives)
2016-2020: Alan Sugar (Conservatives)
2016 (Minority) def: Carol Vorderman (Labour)
2020-prsnt: Martin Lewis (Labour)
2016 (Minority) def: Alan Sugar (Conservatives)
2008 (Majority) def: tbd (Conservatives)
2011 Libya vote: Yes
2012 (Majority) def: tbd (Conservatives)
2016-2020: Alan Sugar (Conservatives)
2016 (Minority) def: Carol Vorderman (Labour)
2020-prsnt: Martin Lewis (Labour)
2016 (Minority) def: Alan Sugar (Conservatives)
- Location
- Sheffield
- Pronouns
- she/her
friends fear she is conducting research for new projects
theconversation.com
Challenging the whiteness of classics – remembering the Black Romans
We can’t judge the Roman period by our standards and assume that it was predominantly White.
theconversation.com
- Location
- Sheffield
- Pronouns
- she/her
as cross-posted to the 38th list challenge
Career of John Prescott
Born 1938, Died 2001
1954-1955: Volunteer at the Welsh National Guard
1955-1957: Seaman at the Commonwealth Navy
1957-1958: Petty Officer at the Commonwealth Navy
1958-1962: Midshipman at the Commonwealth Navy
1962-1965: Student at the Hull Technical Institute
1965-1968: Student at the University of Wales
1968-1988: Delegate to the Rhyl Council of Workers' Deputies (Ultracommunist)
1970-1988: Delegate to the Welsh Congress of Workers' Deputies (Ultracommunist)
1975-1988: Delegate to the General Congress of British Workers' Deputies (Ultracommunist)
1980-2001: Delegate to the Rhyl Council of Workers' Deputies (Centralist)
1980-2001: Delegate to the Welsh Congress of Workers' Deputies (Centralist)
1980-2001: Delegate to the General Congress of British Workers' Deputies (Centralist)
1993-2001: Chair of the Public Works Committee of the General Congress of British Workers' Deputies (Centralist)
To first take up arms, at age 16, while the Russians detonated their first Damoclean weapon must have felt like a bad omen to the young Prescott - given the path his life took from there, perhaps it was. He had already spent his early years seeing the adults fight the brisk but bloody German War, his late childhood reading newspaper reports of the pogrom of Salonica and his adolescence listening over the wireless as Ishbel MacDonald christened the Steel Shroud and the beginning of the Societal Struggle. His service with the Welsh National Guard was otherwise an unnoticeable one - it was not until his service in the Commonwealth Navy that the young John gained his reputation.
Prescott's national service was at a time of heightened anxiety about a confrontation with the Russian-led Danzig Treaty Organisation due to the detonation of the Damoclean weapon and a fear that the Black Baron Wrangel would march the Russian fighting machine west as his predecessor von Ungern-Sternberg had threatened. He cut his teeth in confrontations in the Baltic, but only saw active combat during the Indian Emergency. His service was admirable, but he gained his aforementioned reputation as a radical and an Ultracommunist which saw him chafe with the military brass. He advanced to the rank of Midshipman prior to his honourable discharge to pursue Higher Education in 1962. He gained a foundational degree from the Hull Technical Institute before graduating to study economics at the University of Wales; his thesis being that only a Marxian explanation for the worker's revolution was epistemologically justifiable.
During his studies he made important connections with other Ultracommunists, and in 1968 he successfully leveraged these connections to his advantage and was elected as a delegate to the Rhyl Council of Workers' Deputies. He quickly became known for his impassioned speech where he accused fellow delegates - particularly Libertarians - of being workshy, criticising the inefficiencies of the councillist system and arguing for a state-centric approach which would be a legitimate dictatorship of the proletariat. On the back of this speech his grouping swept the following Rhyl Council elections in 1970, and he along with many of his compatriots were elected first to the Welsh Congress of Workers' Deputies, and then to the General Congress of British Workers' Deputies in 1975.
It was in this time that he met and became voraciously opposed to Margaret Roberts, at that point known more for her work as Chair of the Grantham Greengrocers Group than as a Libertarian rising star. Prescott found Roberts' ideas to be antithetical to his own, describing them as "one step from capitalism" and the woman herself as "nothing more than a nasty little greengrocer's daughter". It was his opposition to Roberts that most drove him into the arms of the opposing Centralists, in addition to the sectarian splits within the Ultracommunist camp, and Prescott formalised his political change in 1980 when he appeared arm-in-arm with Centralist dynasts Ishbel and Malcolm MacDonald; Malcom's speech next year at Ishbel's funeral, at which Prescott was a pallbearer, was widely seen as a "passing of the torch" from the MacDonalds to a new generation of Centralists.
Prescott was a war hawk and spent the 80s warning of the threat of a renewed Russia under Boris Pashkovsky, even as many others in the British establishment were warming to his more moderate leadership. Prescott openly celebrated the 1988 assassination of Pashkovsy and hailed the Freedom Fighters of Poland as "heroes", which caused condemnation even from fellow Centralist allies. Prescott warned that Vasilyev was a threat, and called for a pre-emptive strike against Russia - which was widely mocked at the time, but following the Warsaw Massacre in 1989 and the assassination of Russian refugee Alisa Rosenbaum on British soil in 1990, his words seemed almost prophetic. He was a leading proponent of the 1991 Twilight War, and the swift fall of the All-Russian State gave Prescott immense political prestige and capital at home.
He leveraged this capital to become Chair of the Public Works Committee in 1993, and embarked on a wealth of infrastructure projects which he hoped would define the post-struggle age and prove the superiority of a Centralist state. No one really remembers most of the smaller projects - it's the Humber Dam that comes to mind for everyone, without fail. A truly utopian project which would have provided enough electricity to power all 31 council areas of the Yorkshire Council Republic and open up thousands of acres of land for agriculture. There were acknowledged to be environmental issues, of course - the destruction of habitats and the death of wildlife - but such considerations had never stood in the way of British infrastructure projects before. Prescott overruled local opposition, mocked environmentalist protests, and openly chastised the new Gaian contingent in the General Congress for valuing "hawks and kippers over mothers and daughters".
On May 26 2001, Prescott visited Cleethorpes to celebrate the breaking of ground on the project that would define 21st century Britain. He was jeered by the environmentalist radical Heather Moon, who fired one shot into the back of his head, and a second into her own. Prescott was pronounced dead on the scene, and the Humber Dam project was greatly reduced in scope to the now-Humber Bridge.
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A Bridge Too Far
A Bridge Too Far
Career of John Prescott
Born 1938, Died 2001
1954-1955: Volunteer at the Welsh National Guard
1955-1957: Seaman at the Commonwealth Navy
1957-1958: Petty Officer at the Commonwealth Navy
1958-1962: Midshipman at the Commonwealth Navy
1962-1965: Student at the Hull Technical Institute
1965-1968: Student at the University of Wales
1968-1988: Delegate to the Rhyl Council of Workers' Deputies (Ultracommunist)
1970-1988: Delegate to the Welsh Congress of Workers' Deputies (Ultracommunist)
1975-1988: Delegate to the General Congress of British Workers' Deputies (Ultracommunist)
1980-2001: Delegate to the Rhyl Council of Workers' Deputies (Centralist)
1980-2001: Delegate to the Welsh Congress of Workers' Deputies (Centralist)
1980-2001: Delegate to the General Congress of British Workers' Deputies (Centralist)
1993-2001: Chair of the Public Works Committee of the General Congress of British Workers' Deputies (Centralist)
To first take up arms, at age 16, while the Russians detonated their first Damoclean weapon must have felt like a bad omen to the young Prescott - given the path his life took from there, perhaps it was. He had already spent his early years seeing the adults fight the brisk but bloody German War, his late childhood reading newspaper reports of the pogrom of Salonica and his adolescence listening over the wireless as Ishbel MacDonald christened the Steel Shroud and the beginning of the Societal Struggle. His service with the Welsh National Guard was otherwise an unnoticeable one - it was not until his service in the Commonwealth Navy that the young John gained his reputation.
Prescott's national service was at a time of heightened anxiety about a confrontation with the Russian-led Danzig Treaty Organisation due to the detonation of the Damoclean weapon and a fear that the Black Baron Wrangel would march the Russian fighting machine west as his predecessor von Ungern-Sternberg had threatened. He cut his teeth in confrontations in the Baltic, but only saw active combat during the Indian Emergency. His service was admirable, but he gained his aforementioned reputation as a radical and an Ultracommunist which saw him chafe with the military brass. He advanced to the rank of Midshipman prior to his honourable discharge to pursue Higher Education in 1962. He gained a foundational degree from the Hull Technical Institute before graduating to study economics at the University of Wales; his thesis being that only a Marxian explanation for the worker's revolution was epistemologically justifiable.
During his studies he made important connections with other Ultracommunists, and in 1968 he successfully leveraged these connections to his advantage and was elected as a delegate to the Rhyl Council of Workers' Deputies. He quickly became known for his impassioned speech where he accused fellow delegates - particularly Libertarians - of being workshy, criticising the inefficiencies of the councillist system and arguing for a state-centric approach which would be a legitimate dictatorship of the proletariat. On the back of this speech his grouping swept the following Rhyl Council elections in 1970, and he along with many of his compatriots were elected first to the Welsh Congress of Workers' Deputies, and then to the General Congress of British Workers' Deputies in 1975.
It was in this time that he met and became voraciously opposed to Margaret Roberts, at that point known more for her work as Chair of the Grantham Greengrocers Group than as a Libertarian rising star. Prescott found Roberts' ideas to be antithetical to his own, describing them as "one step from capitalism" and the woman herself as "nothing more than a nasty little greengrocer's daughter". It was his opposition to Roberts that most drove him into the arms of the opposing Centralists, in addition to the sectarian splits within the Ultracommunist camp, and Prescott formalised his political change in 1980 when he appeared arm-in-arm with Centralist dynasts Ishbel and Malcolm MacDonald; Malcom's speech next year at Ishbel's funeral, at which Prescott was a pallbearer, was widely seen as a "passing of the torch" from the MacDonalds to a new generation of Centralists.
Prescott was a war hawk and spent the 80s warning of the threat of a renewed Russia under Boris Pashkovsky, even as many others in the British establishment were warming to his more moderate leadership. Prescott openly celebrated the 1988 assassination of Pashkovsy and hailed the Freedom Fighters of Poland as "heroes", which caused condemnation even from fellow Centralist allies. Prescott warned that Vasilyev was a threat, and called for a pre-emptive strike against Russia - which was widely mocked at the time, but following the Warsaw Massacre in 1989 and the assassination of Russian refugee Alisa Rosenbaum on British soil in 1990, his words seemed almost prophetic. He was a leading proponent of the 1991 Twilight War, and the swift fall of the All-Russian State gave Prescott immense political prestige and capital at home.
He leveraged this capital to become Chair of the Public Works Committee in 1993, and embarked on a wealth of infrastructure projects which he hoped would define the post-struggle age and prove the superiority of a Centralist state. No one really remembers most of the smaller projects - it's the Humber Dam that comes to mind for everyone, without fail. A truly utopian project which would have provided enough electricity to power all 31 council areas of the Yorkshire Council Republic and open up thousands of acres of land for agriculture. There were acknowledged to be environmental issues, of course - the destruction of habitats and the death of wildlife - but such considerations had never stood in the way of British infrastructure projects before. Prescott overruled local opposition, mocked environmentalist protests, and openly chastised the new Gaian contingent in the General Congress for valuing "hawks and kippers over mothers and daughters".
On May 26 2001, Prescott visited Cleethorpes to celebrate the breaking of ground on the project that would define 21st century Britain. He was jeered by the environmentalist radical Heather Moon, who fired one shot into the back of his head, and a second into her own. Prescott was pronounced dead on the scene, and the Humber Dam project was greatly reduced in scope to the now-Humber Bridge.
Walpurgisnacht
It was in the Year of Maximum Danger
- Location
- Banned from the forum
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Liltou Level: Yorkshire.