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The Final Act of Richard Nixon
As Per the discussion in the Zoom Chat on Friday, here's my own take on that TL at the Other Place where Nixon is able to make a political comeback. In 1972 Watergate Hits hard but far worse is when the scandals of Vice President Agnew come out. The VP is defiant but is dropped from the ticket and eventually is charged in Federal Court. Worse for Nixon testimony is revealed showing the President had when the news arrived not sought to even chastise his Veep as an attempt to cover up for him. The scandal is such that the Plumbers are ill able to manipulate the Democratic nomination process. Ronald Reagan and Margaret Chase Smith enter the race to offer a "moral" alternative, and HHH's return to the Democratic ticket seals Nixon's fate and he is tossed out. In the aftermath Agnew is convicted and serves in Prison for One Month before being awarded clemency by Humphrey. Nixon is awarded a blanket pardon for his parts in the coverup process and "any other crimes" in office. Watergate has been swept away, a piece of inane trivia for political historians for decades to come. Nixon though is not totally disgraced, and a well-worked PR campaign sees the 1976 California Republican Party offer him it's a nomination for the United States Senate. Nixon secures it, and what is more, wins the seat. His stature can help the Stop Reagan movement in 1976/ For several years Nixon quietly sits in the United States Senate, developing a more relaxed and friendly image. He speaks at President Humphrey's funeral, but quietly he plots and plans. Barry Goldwater is destroyed. Pete McCloskey loses a reelection campaign. He regains standing on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and writes books. Spiro Agnew is caught in a second scandal and sent to prison for a second time while the new Democratic President declines to offer another pardon. Nixon appears affable. In 1980 he will host an episode of Saturday Night Live. But that year his quiet machinations to punish those Republicans he blames for his losses are derailed. His efforts to elect George Bush President are derailed, Ronald Reagan somehow returns, and against all of Nixon's public and private efforts, prevails. Nixon quietly curses Gravel for not using the information he offered on Reagan's talks with the new radical government of Iraq in the midst of the Kuwait Crisis. And he promises himself if Richard Nixon cannot rise again, that Ronald Reagan will enjoy no smooth presidency.
1969-1973: Richard M. Nixon / S. Theodore Agnew (Republican)
1968: Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr. / Edmund S. Muskie (Democratic), George C. Wallace, Jr. / Curtis T. LeMay (American Independence)
1973-1976: Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr. / Maurice R. “Mike” Gravel (Democratic)
1972: Richard M. Nixon / Nelson A. Rockefeller (Republican), Ronald W. Reagan / Margaret M. Chase Smith, various (Unofficial Republican) [National Write-In and Faithless Electors]
1976-1977: Maurice R. “Mike” Gravel / Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy (Democratic)
1977-1981: Maurice R. “Mike” Gravel / Adlai E. Stevenson III (Democratic)
1976: Charles M. Mathias, Jr. / Robert J. Dole (Republican), James L. Buckley / Samuel W. Yorty (Conservative)
1981-1987: Ronald W. Reagan / Howard H. Baker, Jr. (Republican)
1980: Maurice R. “Mike” Gravel / Adlai E. Stevenson III (Democratic)
1984: George S. McGovern / Thomas J. Bradley (Democratic)
1987-1989: Howard H. Baker, Jr. / John B. Connally, Jr. (Republican)
1989-1993: Joseph R. Biden, Jr. / Albert A. Gore, Jr. (Democratic)
1988: H. Ross Perot / Jack F. Kemp (Republican)
1993-2001: John S. McCain III / Caroll A. Campbell, Jr. (Republican)
1992: Joseph R. Biden, Jr. / Albert A. Gore, Jr. (Democratic), Paul D. Wellstone / Paul N. “Pete” McCloskey, Jr. (Independent “Reform”)
1996: D. Ann W. Richards / Andrew M. Cuomo (Democratic
1971-1977: John V. Tunney (Democratic)
As Per the discussion in the Zoom Chat on Friday, here's my own take on that TL at the Other Place where Nixon is able to make a political comeback. In 1972 Watergate Hits hard but far worse is when the scandals of Vice President Agnew come out. The VP is defiant but is dropped from the ticket and eventually is charged in Federal Court. Worse for Nixon testimony is revealed showing the President had when the news arrived not sought to even chastise his Veep as an attempt to cover up for him. The scandal is such that the Plumbers are ill able to manipulate the Democratic nomination process. Ronald Reagan and Margaret Chase Smith enter the race to offer a "moral" alternative, and HHH's return to the Democratic ticket seals Nixon's fate and he is tossed out. In the aftermath Agnew is convicted and serves in Prison for One Month before being awarded clemency by Humphrey. Nixon is awarded a blanket pardon for his parts in the coverup process and "any other crimes" in office. Watergate has been swept away, a piece of inane trivia for political historians for decades to come. Nixon though is not totally disgraced, and a well-worked PR campaign sees the 1976 California Republican Party offer him it's a nomination for the United States Senate. Nixon secures it, and what is more, wins the seat. His stature can help the Stop Reagan movement in 1976/ For several years Nixon quietly sits in the United States Senate, developing a more relaxed and friendly image. He speaks at President Humphrey's funeral, but quietly he plots and plans. Barry Goldwater is destroyed. Pete McCloskey loses a reelection campaign. He regains standing on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and writes books. Spiro Agnew is caught in a second scandal and sent to prison for a second time while the new Democratic President declines to offer another pardon. Nixon appears affable. In 1980 he will host an episode of Saturday Night Live. But that year his quiet machinations to punish those Republicans he blames for his losses are derailed. His efforts to elect George Bush President are derailed, Ronald Reagan somehow returns, and against all of Nixon's public and private efforts, prevails. Nixon quietly curses Gravel for not using the information he offered on Reagan's talks with the new radical government of Iraq in the midst of the Kuwait Crisis. And he promises himself if Richard Nixon cannot rise again, that Ronald Reagan will enjoy no smooth presidency.
1969-1973: Richard M. Nixon / S. Theodore Agnew (Republican)
1968: Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr. / Edmund S. Muskie (Democratic), George C. Wallace, Jr. / Curtis T. LeMay (American Independence)
1973-1976: Hubert H. Humphrey, Jr. / Maurice R. “Mike” Gravel (Democratic)
1972: Richard M. Nixon / Nelson A. Rockefeller (Republican), Ronald W. Reagan / Margaret M. Chase Smith, various (Unofficial Republican) [National Write-In and Faithless Electors]
1976-1977: Maurice R. “Mike” Gravel / Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy (Democratic)
1977-1981: Maurice R. “Mike” Gravel / Adlai E. Stevenson III (Democratic)
1976: Charles M. Mathias, Jr. / Robert J. Dole (Republican), James L. Buckley / Samuel W. Yorty (Conservative)
1981-1987: Ronald W. Reagan / Howard H. Baker, Jr. (Republican)
1980: Maurice R. “Mike” Gravel / Adlai E. Stevenson III (Democratic)
1984: George S. McGovern / Thomas J. Bradley (Democratic)
1987-1989: Howard H. Baker, Jr. / John B. Connally, Jr. (Republican)
1989-1993: Joseph R. Biden, Jr. / Albert A. Gore, Jr. (Democratic)
1988: H. Ross Perot / Jack F. Kemp (Republican)
1993-2001: John S. McCain III / Caroll A. Campbell, Jr. (Republican)
1992: Joseph R. Biden, Jr. / Albert A. Gore, Jr. (Democratic), Paul D. Wellstone / Paul N. “Pete” McCloskey, Jr. (Independent “Reform”)
1996: D. Ann W. Richards / Andrew M. Cuomo (Democratic
1971-1977: John V. Tunney (Democratic)
1970: George L. Murphy (Republican)
1977-1994: Richard M. Nixon (Republican)1976: John V. Tunney (Democratic), Barry M. Goldwater, Jr. (Conservative)
1982: Jesse M. Unruh (Democratic)
1988: E. Gerald “Jerry” Brown, Jr. (Democratic)
1994-2001: Harvey B. Milk (Democratic)1994: Salvatore P. “Sonny” Bono (Republican)
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I don't have a link but the guy didn't know how to write Nixon without power so be set it up so Nixon is in the cabinet pulling Reagan like a puppet as @Roberto El Rey put it.
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It wasn’t even the focus of this wonderful list but a Reagan / Chase Smith ticket is such a brilliant combination that I’m rather disappointed I never came up with it. Excellent as always, Japhy!
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I'm sorry are we going talk about this one or
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Honestly I was going for Grand Old Man of California politics gets a parting bow but now I'm questioning having him not get a whole term.
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Yeah that timeline would have been better if the fundamental idea behind it was better. But just going "Nixon but he's just so vindictive that he harnesses that condensed pure bitterness into success" didn't really make sense. I could tell the author didn't really know, where to go from there.
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Feinstein. Which means long term the Latinx Vote nationwide is going to wind up Republican in the 2010s but her toxic run for the Governorship and its potential impact from IOTL could really be it's own separate TL.
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Huh. I can see how her appointing a gay senator and being generally Feinstein would piss off Latinx voters in California, but would that be enough to swing the entire nationwide bloc? I know a lot of Latinx voters live in CA, but Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and Florida would all have a say in the matter too, wouldn’t they?
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Oh no in her IOTL race against Pete Wilson she went waaaay to the right on race baiting about migrants and the like. Wilsons time as governor helped entrench the GOP position on migration issues and their racism problem. Dianne would have done the same.
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That’s actually very interesting to me because for my Mexico timeline, I’m trying to figure out who the GOP would run in 2000 against a Hispanic Dem President who more or less monopolizes the Latinx vote. I initially disregarded Wilson without knowing much about him, but now it feels like he’d be a great contender, especially because a bit of race-baiting would be a perfect contrast to an emphatically pro-immigrant minority Prez.
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Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards: A Collaborative List
1974-1976: Harold Wilson (Labour)
1974 Def: (Majority) Ted Heath (Conservative), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal), William Wolfe (SNP), Gwynfor Evans (Plaid Cymru), Harry West (UUP), Gerry Fitt (SDLP), Ian Paisley (DUP), Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (Sinn Féin), John Kingsley Read (National Front)
1976-1979: Roy Jenkins (Labour)
1979-1984: Ronald Cartland (Conservative)
Def 1979: (Majority) Roy Jenkins (Labour), David Steel (Liberal), William Wolfe (SNP), Gwynfor Evans (Plaid Cymru), Harry West (UUP), Gerry Fitt (SDLP), Ian Paisley (DUP), Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (Sinn Féin), John Tyndell (National Front)
1984-1992: Micheal Meacher (Labour)
Def 1984: (Majority) Ronald Cartland (Conservative), David Steel-Shirley Williams (Liberal-SDP Alliance), Jim Sillars (SNP), Dafydd Elis Thomas (Plaid Cymru), James Molyenuex-Ian Paisley (UUP-DUP Alliance), John Hume (SDLP), Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (Sinn Féin), John Tyndell (National Front)
Def 1988: (Majority) Keith Joseph (Conservative), Robert Maclennan-David Penhaligon (Alliance), Alan Howarth (New Democratic Party), David Owen (New SDP), Nina Temple (Democratic Left), Jim Sillars (SNP), Dafydd Elis Thomas's (Plaid Cymru), James Molyenuex-Ian Paisley (UUP-DUP Alliance), John Hume (SDLP), Tomás Mac Giolla (Sinn Féin),John Tyndell (National Front)
1992-1997: Tony Benn (Labour)
Def 1992: (Coalition with Democratic Left) David Penhaligon-Vince Cable-Peter Temple Morris (Democratic Alliance), Rosie Barnes (New SDP),David Owen-Stephen Milligan (Renew!), Nina Temple (Democratic Left), Norman Tebbitt (Conservative), Margo MacDonald (SNP), Dafydd Elis Thomas (Plaid Cymru), Peter Robinson (Unionist Party), John Hume (SDLP), Seán Ó Cionnaith (Sinn Féin),John Tyndell (National Front), Robert Kilroy Silk (New Britian)
1997-2007: Peter Temple-Morris (Democratic Alliance)
Def 1997: (Coalition with New SDP) Tony Benn (Labour), Peter Mandelson (New SDP), David Owen (Renew!), Nina Temple (Democratic Left), Norman Tebbit (Conservative), Margo MacDonald (SNP), Dafydd Elis Thomas (Plaid Cymru), Peter Robinson (Unionist Party), John Hume (SDLP), Seán Ó Cionnaith (Sinn Féin), Robert Kilroy Silk (New Britian)
Def 2001: (Majority) Tony Banks (Labour), Peter Mandelson (New SDP), David Owen (Renew!), Julie Birchill (Democratic Left), William Hague (Conservative), Margo MacDonald (SNP), Dafydd Elis Thomas (Plaid Cymru), Peter Robinson (Unionist Party), Alex Attwood (SDLP), Marian Donnelly (Sinn Féin), Robert Kilroy Silk (New Britian)
Def 2004: (Coalition with Renew! & New SDP) Tony Banks (Labour), Ed Balls (New SDP), David Owen (Renew!), Derek Wall (Democratic Left), William Hague (National), Alex Neil (SNP), Ron Davies (Plaid Cymru), Peter Robinson (Unionist Party), Alex Attwood (SDLP), Marian Donnelly (Sinn Féin), Robert Kilroy Silk (Veritas)
Def 2006: (Majority) Chris Mullin (Labour), Tessa Jowell (New SDP), David Owen-Micheal Portillo (Renew!), Derek Wall (Democratic Left), Iain Duncan Smith (National), Alex Neil (SNP), Ron Davies (Plaid Cymru),Peter Robinson (Unionist Party), Alex Attwood (SDLP), Marian Donnelly (Sinn Féin), Damian Hockney (Veritas)
2007-2015: George Osborne (Democratic Alliance)
Def 2008: (Coalition with Renew!) John McDonnell (Labour), Tessa Jowell (New SDP), David Owen (Renew!), Billy Bragg (Democratic Left), John Redwood (National), Alex Neil (SNP), Ron Davies (Plaid Cymru),Peter Robinson (Unionist Party), Margaret Ritchie (SDLP), Marian Donnelly (Sinn Féin)
Def 2012: (Majority) John McDonnell (Labour), Tessa Jowell (New SDP), Nick Clegg (Renew!), Billy Bragg (Democratic Left), John Redwood (National), Kenny MacAskill (SNP), Leanne Wood (Plaid Cyrmru), Tom Elliot (Unionist Party), Paul Arthur (SDLP), Marian Donnelly (Sinn Féin)
Def 2015: (Coalition with National and Renew!) Jon Trickett (Labour), Angela Smith (New SDP), David Owen (Renew!), Billy Bragg (Democratic Left), Michael Gove (National), Kenny MacAskill (SNP), Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru), Tom Elliot (Unionist Party), Paul Arthur (SDLP), Michelle Gildernew (Sinn Féin)
2015-2016: Sue Kramer (Democratic Alliance)
2016-2018: David Laws (Democratic Alliance)
Def 2016: (Majority) Diana Abbott (Labour), Mary Creagh (New SDP), Mike Hancock (Renew!), Billy Bragg (Democratic Left), Micheal Gove (National), Kenny MacAskill (SNP), Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru), Iris Robinson (Unionist Party), Paul Arthur (SDLP), Caitríona Ruane (Sinn Féin)
Def 2018: (Coalition with Renew!) Diana Abbott (Labour), David Miliband (New SDP), David Owen (Renew!), Laurie Penny (Democratic Left), Jacob Rees-Mogg (National), Colin Fox (SNP), Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru), Iris Robinson (Unionist Party), Nichola Mallon (SDLP), Caitríona Ruane (Sinn Féin), David Campbell Bannerman (New Britain 20)
2018-2020: Vince Cable (Democratic Alliance)
2020-: Jon Lansman (Labour)
Def 2020: (Coalition with Democratic Left) Vince Cable (Democratic Alliance), Kezia Dugdale (New SDP), Stephen Milligan (Renew!), Laurie Penny-Elizabeth Hayden (Democratic Left), Jacob Rees-Mogg (National), Rosie Kane (SNP), Leanne Wood (Plaid Cyrmru), Nigel Dodds (Unionist Party), Nichola Mallon (SDLP), Caitríona Ruane (Sinn Féin), David Campbell Bannerman (New Britain 20)
Finally, after 23 years of Democratic Alliance rule we've finally got a Left Wing government again. None of that 'Radical Centrism for the 21st Century' bollocks or 'The Middle Way for the 21st Century' or 'Look we're not the New SDP, Labour, Democratic Left, National, Kilroy-Silk and David Owen okay, vote for us!'. Still how we got here was interesting. It probably all has to do with two people; Roy Jenkins and Ronald Cartland*, technically Britain's first two LGBT+ Prime Ministers, with quite similar views if anything (though Roy Jenkins was a Social Democrat with Liberal Values, whilst Ronald Cartland was a One Nation Tory with quite paternalistic Conservative values). Roy's failure to reign in the Unions, or control his constantly lurching cabinet and a sluggish economy was prime fodder for the Tories, who won the 1979 election rather easily. So Ronald Cartland became the Prime Minister, and instantly the same troubles that plagued Jenkins, plagued him too. Cartland's in ability to deal with the Unions, deal with the constantly squabbling cabinet of Monetrists and Middle Wayists and constant homophobic accusations from the tabloids would plague Cartland for his short stint as leader. Combined with a rise in the Far Right and recession halfway through his term, Cartland was seen as a rather useless leader. In stepped Micheal Meacher.
In the 1980 Labour Leadership election the Right splintered between Denis Healey and David Owen, whilst the Left had less pickings due to Tony Benn losing his seat in the 79' Election and Micheal Foot fraility caught up with him after a nasty fall down some stairs (he would live, but be in hospital for much of the leadership election). In stepped Meacher, a man that looked like a geography teacher who secretly was able to bring the charisma and also manage to get the Soft Left and the Hard Left on to his side when the voting came. By 1984, his secret charisma and the rise in a popular Centrist force, allowed Labour to win the election quite handily against the imploding Conservatives. Labour's program of Industrial Democracy, Co-Ops, Councils houses and eventually a new second house in the form of British Senate (replacing the House of Lords and voted using PR) would be popular. Whilst this is happening, after a series of racist attacks and an attempt on Home Secretary Chris Mullin's life, the National Front is banned with a number of it's supporters arrested.
By 1988 Labour would win another term, helped by the splitting of the Tories between the Monetarists lead by Norman Tebbit and the Middle Wayers lead by Alan Howarth, as well as the centrist vote splitting between the continuation of the Alliance (preaching Social Liberalism and Centrist economics) and David Owen's New SDP which was inspired by the Third Way ideas which were emerging across the world. But whilst this is happening a New Left wing force emerges, mixing EuroCommunism/Democratic Socialism with an emphasis on Green Issues, Feminism, Racial Issues and LGBT+ Rights, the Democratic Left does well amongst the Urban Left and many who are getting bored of being represented by old white men in wrinkled suits (even if the rise in Women Sections and Black Sections dampens this force a bit). In 1992, Meacher would step down after spending 8 years in office and in the ensuing leadership election Tony Benn, the stalwart of the Labour Left would win. And that's where the troubles began. Benn calls an election, but 8 years of Labour domination, the appearances of two radical new forces in politics and Benn's habit of talking about being against the EEC the upcoming European Union leads to Labour being forced into a coalition with the Democratic Left. The coalition goes smoothly for the most part, with Labour becoming focused on home issues increasing rights for various minorities and groups (despite Militants grumblings on focusing on the economic issues instead). Still when 1997 rolls around a new force in British politics comes around.
The Democratic Alliance, a force of Radical Centrism and Social Liberalism, it calls itself the true descendent of Lloyd George, Attlee and Wilson. For the most part the Democratic Alliance will dominate British politics, with a constantly split Right Wing and Left Wing and Centre that is happy to work together for the most part (even if the New SDP's ideas on Neoliberalism annoy the true believers of the Democratic Alliance and David Owen's vague Renew! party being essentially a hype vehicle for David Owen if anything). Still for the most part the Democratic Alliance holds...well until 2015 that is. Due to there traditional coalition partners New SDP doing poorly, George Osborne is forced to seek a coalition with the National Party, the descendants of the Eurosecptic Monetarists who caused the New Democratic/Tory split. The minute there in Government they demand a referendum, things become worse from there. Osborne's Government collapses and David Laws is left picking up the pieces, not for long anyway as his Government is reliant on a razor thin majority and then another coalition with David Owen (who the public are starting to get sick off). Then the economy crashes, expanses scandals emerge and in that wake the Democratic Alliance bleeds like stuck pig as Laws is ousted by Cable in attempt to right the ship before it's too late. Whilst this has been happening Jon Lansman has reinvented the Labour party by taking inspiration from the Democratic Left, no longer will the Labour Party be the disgruntled remains of Meacher and Benn, it's a new force to bring change and true Democratic Socialist change for the 21st Century. When 2020 rolls around, the Left finally win again and Lansman finds himself in charge of the first Left Wing government, with the aim mainly to prepare for a coming future and help the Many not the Few.
*(@Yokai Man loves his deep cuts it seems).
1974-1976: Harold Wilson (Labour)
1974 Def: (Majority) Ted Heath (Conservative), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal), William Wolfe (SNP), Gwynfor Evans (Plaid Cymru), Harry West (UUP), Gerry Fitt (SDLP), Ian Paisley (DUP), Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (Sinn Féin), John Kingsley Read (National Front)
1976-1979: Roy Jenkins (Labour)
1979-1984: Ronald Cartland (Conservative)
Def 1979: (Majority) Roy Jenkins (Labour), David Steel (Liberal), William Wolfe (SNP), Gwynfor Evans (Plaid Cymru), Harry West (UUP), Gerry Fitt (SDLP), Ian Paisley (DUP), Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (Sinn Féin), John Tyndell (National Front)
1984-1992: Micheal Meacher (Labour)
Def 1984: (Majority) Ronald Cartland (Conservative), David Steel-Shirley Williams (Liberal-SDP Alliance), Jim Sillars (SNP), Dafydd Elis Thomas (Plaid Cymru), James Molyenuex-Ian Paisley (UUP-DUP Alliance), John Hume (SDLP), Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (Sinn Féin), John Tyndell (National Front)
Def 1988: (Majority) Keith Joseph (Conservative), Robert Maclennan-David Penhaligon (Alliance), Alan Howarth (New Democratic Party), David Owen (New SDP), Nina Temple (Democratic Left), Jim Sillars (SNP), Dafydd Elis Thomas's (Plaid Cymru), James Molyenuex-Ian Paisley (UUP-DUP Alliance), John Hume (SDLP), Tomás Mac Giolla (Sinn Féin),
1992-1997: Tony Benn (Labour)
Def 1992: (Coalition with Democratic Left) David Penhaligon-Vince Cable-Peter Temple Morris (Democratic Alliance), Rosie Barnes (New SDP),David Owen-Stephen Milligan (Renew!), Nina Temple (Democratic Left), Norman Tebbitt (Conservative), Margo MacDonald (SNP), Dafydd Elis Thomas (Plaid Cymru), Peter Robinson (Unionist Party), John Hume (SDLP), Seán Ó Cionnaith (Sinn Féin),
1997-2007: Peter Temple-Morris (Democratic Alliance)
Def 1997: (Coalition with New SDP) Tony Benn (Labour), Peter Mandelson (New SDP), David Owen (Renew!), Nina Temple (Democratic Left), Norman Tebbit (Conservative), Margo MacDonald (SNP), Dafydd Elis Thomas (Plaid Cymru), Peter Robinson (Unionist Party), John Hume (SDLP), Seán Ó Cionnaith (Sinn Féin), Robert Kilroy Silk (New Britian)
Def 2001: (Majority) Tony Banks (Labour), Peter Mandelson (New SDP), David Owen (Renew!), Julie Birchill (Democratic Left), William Hague (Conservative), Margo MacDonald (SNP), Dafydd Elis Thomas (Plaid Cymru), Peter Robinson (Unionist Party), Alex Attwood (SDLP), Marian Donnelly (Sinn Féin), Robert Kilroy Silk (New Britian)
Def 2004: (Coalition with Renew! & New SDP) Tony Banks (Labour), Ed Balls (New SDP), David Owen (Renew!), Derek Wall (Democratic Left), William Hague (National), Alex Neil (SNP), Ron Davies (Plaid Cymru), Peter Robinson (Unionist Party), Alex Attwood (SDLP), Marian Donnelly (Sinn Féin), Robert Kilroy Silk (Veritas)
Def 2006: (Majority) Chris Mullin (Labour), Tessa Jowell (New SDP), David Owen-Micheal Portillo (Renew!), Derek Wall (Democratic Left), Iain Duncan Smith (National), Alex Neil (SNP), Ron Davies (Plaid Cymru),Peter Robinson (Unionist Party), Alex Attwood (SDLP), Marian Donnelly (Sinn Féin), Damian Hockney (Veritas)
2007-2015: George Osborne (Democratic Alliance)
Def 2008: (Coalition with Renew!) John McDonnell (Labour), Tessa Jowell (New SDP), David Owen (Renew!), Billy Bragg (Democratic Left), John Redwood (National), Alex Neil (SNP), Ron Davies (Plaid Cymru),Peter Robinson (Unionist Party), Margaret Ritchie (SDLP), Marian Donnelly (Sinn Féin)
Def 2012: (Majority) John McDonnell (Labour), Tessa Jowell (New SDP), Nick Clegg (Renew!), Billy Bragg (Democratic Left), John Redwood (National), Kenny MacAskill (SNP), Leanne Wood (Plaid Cyrmru), Tom Elliot (Unionist Party), Paul Arthur (SDLP), Marian Donnelly (Sinn Féin)
Def 2015: (Coalition with National and Renew!) Jon Trickett (Labour), Angela Smith (New SDP), David Owen (Renew!), Billy Bragg (Democratic Left), Michael Gove (National), Kenny MacAskill (SNP), Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru), Tom Elliot (Unionist Party), Paul Arthur (SDLP), Michelle Gildernew (Sinn Féin)
2015-2016: Sue Kramer (Democratic Alliance)
2016-2018: David Laws (Democratic Alliance)
Def 2016: (Majority) Diana Abbott (Labour), Mary Creagh (New SDP), Mike Hancock (Renew!), Billy Bragg (Democratic Left), Micheal Gove (National), Kenny MacAskill (SNP), Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru), Iris Robinson (Unionist Party), Paul Arthur (SDLP), Caitríona Ruane (Sinn Féin)
Def 2018: (Coalition with Renew!) Diana Abbott (Labour), David Miliband (New SDP), David Owen (Renew!), Laurie Penny (Democratic Left), Jacob Rees-Mogg (National), Colin Fox (SNP), Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru), Iris Robinson (Unionist Party), Nichola Mallon (SDLP), Caitríona Ruane (Sinn Féin), David Campbell Bannerman (New Britain 20)
2018-2020: Vince Cable (Democratic Alliance)
2020-: Jon Lansman (Labour)
Def 2020: (Coalition with Democratic Left) Vince Cable (Democratic Alliance), Kezia Dugdale (New SDP), Stephen Milligan (Renew!), Laurie Penny-Elizabeth Hayden (Democratic Left), Jacob Rees-Mogg (National), Rosie Kane (SNP), Leanne Wood (Plaid Cyrmru), Nigel Dodds (Unionist Party), Nichola Mallon (SDLP), Caitríona Ruane (Sinn Féin), David Campbell Bannerman (New Britain 20)
Finally, after 23 years of Democratic Alliance rule we've finally got a Left Wing government again. None of that 'Radical Centrism for the 21st Century' bollocks or 'The Middle Way for the 21st Century' or 'Look we're not the New SDP, Labour, Democratic Left, National, Kilroy-Silk and David Owen okay, vote for us!'. Still how we got here was interesting. It probably all has to do with two people; Roy Jenkins and Ronald Cartland*, technically Britain's first two LGBT+ Prime Ministers, with quite similar views if anything (though Roy Jenkins was a Social Democrat with Liberal Values, whilst Ronald Cartland was a One Nation Tory with quite paternalistic Conservative values). Roy's failure to reign in the Unions, or control his constantly lurching cabinet and a sluggish economy was prime fodder for the Tories, who won the 1979 election rather easily. So Ronald Cartland became the Prime Minister, and instantly the same troubles that plagued Jenkins, plagued him too. Cartland's in ability to deal with the Unions, deal with the constantly squabbling cabinet of Monetrists and Middle Wayists and constant homophobic accusations from the tabloids would plague Cartland for his short stint as leader. Combined with a rise in the Far Right and recession halfway through his term, Cartland was seen as a rather useless leader. In stepped Micheal Meacher.
In the 1980 Labour Leadership election the Right splintered between Denis Healey and David Owen, whilst the Left had less pickings due to Tony Benn losing his seat in the 79' Election and Micheal Foot fraility caught up with him after a nasty fall down some stairs (he would live, but be in hospital for much of the leadership election). In stepped Meacher, a man that looked like a geography teacher who secretly was able to bring the charisma and also manage to get the Soft Left and the Hard Left on to his side when the voting came. By 1984, his secret charisma and the rise in a popular Centrist force, allowed Labour to win the election quite handily against the imploding Conservatives. Labour's program of Industrial Democracy, Co-Ops, Councils houses and eventually a new second house in the form of British Senate (replacing the House of Lords and voted using PR) would be popular. Whilst this is happening, after a series of racist attacks and an attempt on Home Secretary Chris Mullin's life, the National Front is banned with a number of it's supporters arrested.
By 1988 Labour would win another term, helped by the splitting of the Tories between the Monetarists lead by Norman Tebbit and the Middle Wayers lead by Alan Howarth, as well as the centrist vote splitting between the continuation of the Alliance (preaching Social Liberalism and Centrist economics) and David Owen's New SDP which was inspired by the Third Way ideas which were emerging across the world. But whilst this is happening a New Left wing force emerges, mixing EuroCommunism/Democratic Socialism with an emphasis on Green Issues, Feminism, Racial Issues and LGBT+ Rights, the Democratic Left does well amongst the Urban Left and many who are getting bored of being represented by old white men in wrinkled suits (even if the rise in Women Sections and Black Sections dampens this force a bit). In 1992, Meacher would step down after spending 8 years in office and in the ensuing leadership election Tony Benn, the stalwart of the Labour Left would win. And that's where the troubles began. Benn calls an election, but 8 years of Labour domination, the appearances of two radical new forces in politics and Benn's habit of talking about being against the EEC the upcoming European Union leads to Labour being forced into a coalition with the Democratic Left. The coalition goes smoothly for the most part, with Labour becoming focused on home issues increasing rights for various minorities and groups (despite Militants grumblings on focusing on the economic issues instead). Still when 1997 rolls around a new force in British politics comes around.
The Democratic Alliance, a force of Radical Centrism and Social Liberalism, it calls itself the true descendent of Lloyd George, Attlee and Wilson. For the most part the Democratic Alliance will dominate British politics, with a constantly split Right Wing and Left Wing and Centre that is happy to work together for the most part (even if the New SDP's ideas on Neoliberalism annoy the true believers of the Democratic Alliance and David Owen's vague Renew! party being essentially a hype vehicle for David Owen if anything). Still for the most part the Democratic Alliance holds...well until 2015 that is. Due to there traditional coalition partners New SDP doing poorly, George Osborne is forced to seek a coalition with the National Party, the descendants of the Eurosecptic Monetarists who caused the New Democratic/Tory split. The minute there in Government they demand a referendum, things become worse from there. Osborne's Government collapses and David Laws is left picking up the pieces, not for long anyway as his Government is reliant on a razor thin majority and then another coalition with David Owen (who the public are starting to get sick off). Then the economy crashes, expanses scandals emerge and in that wake the Democratic Alliance bleeds like stuck pig as Laws is ousted by Cable in attempt to right the ship before it's too late. Whilst this has been happening Jon Lansman has reinvented the Labour party by taking inspiration from the Democratic Left, no longer will the Labour Party be the disgruntled remains of Meacher and Benn, it's a new force to bring change and true Democratic Socialist change for the 21st Century. When 2020 rolls around, the Left finally win again and Lansman finds himself in charge of the first Left Wing government, with the aim mainly to prepare for a coming future and help the Many not the Few.
*(@Yokai Man loves his deep cuts it seems).
Based on some discussion in Friday's Zoom chat, here's a thing.
Political Career of Henry Clay
1803-1806: Kentucky State Congressman (Democratic-Republican)
1806-1807: United States Senator for Kentucky (Democratic-Republican)
1807-1810: Kentucky State Congressman; Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives (Democratic-Republican)
1810-1810: United States Senator for Kentucky (Democratic-Republican)
1810-1811: United States Congressman (Democratic-Republican)
1811-1814, 1815-1820, 1820-1823: United States State Congressman; Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (Democratic-Republican)
1825-1829: United States Secretary of State (Democratic-Republican / National Republican)
1831-1837: United States Senator for Kentucky (National Republican / Whig)
1837-1841: President of the United States of America (Whig)
1841-1847: United States Secretary of the Treasury (Whig)
Presidents: William Henry Harrison (Whig), John Tyler (Independent), Daniel Webster (Whig)
1849-1852: United States Senator for Kentucky (Whig)
First emerging on the scene as a local Kentucky politician where he helped to influence the direction of the Kentucky Constitution, he quickly entered on the national scene in 1810 as a War-Hawk in favour of war with Britain. Because of this, in 1811 he was elected Speaker of the House, where he proved extremely powerful in part because President Madison proved reluctant to assert his power. Furthermore, Clay' political views were changed dramatically as a result of the war - he was now in favour of tariffs, internal improvements, a central bank, and other policies traditionally associated with the Federalists, and he successfully implemented these policies. Known as the American System, they quickly became defining parts of his agenda. Clay was also known as an avowed compromiser on the issue of slavery, by being the architect of the Missouri Compromise. Despite being in favour of gradual emancipation, he was opposed to worsening the great sectional divide caused by slavery.
in 1824, he ran for President of the United States. He was very firmly defeated, but John Quincy Adams, a candidate with some similar positions, became president after a hung Electoral College and a House selection, and Clay became his Secretary of State. Jacksonian Democrats, who felt Andrew Jackson was the popularly elected president, frustrated most of Adams' and Clay's agenda. Ultimately, in 1828, Adams was defeated, and Andrew Jackson became president. To Clay, this was nothing short of disaster. Viewing Andrew Jackson as a wannabe military dictator and comparing him to Caesar, Cromwell, and Bonaparte, Clay was a hard critic of Andrew Jackson and his expansion of executive power, and now Clay believed the constitution needed to be amended to weaken the power of the presidency, to prevent the fall of representative government. Weakening the executive became Clay's mission, till the end of his life. It was entirely because of an intense suspicion of executive power that the anti-Jacksonian party, which Clay was a leader of, came to be known as the Whigs.
The bitter enmity between Clay and Jackson, and the popularity of Jackson, resulted in Clay's political career being one of seemingly perpetual opposition. This changed, however, with the Panic of 1835, generally blamed on Jackson's economic policies. In 1836, Clay became the Whig candidate for president, and beat Van Buren and became President. In this role, he undid most of Jackson's economic policies, re-establishing a central bank. Furthermore, he got a constitutional amendment ratified, weakening the power of the presidency. The presidential veto could now be overridden by Congress with a simple majority, and if the president took no action on a bill within ten days it would become law. Executive functionaries whose appointment required congressional approval, including members of the cabinet, now required congressional approval for removal; this was to weaken the spoils system established by Jackson. The Secretary of the Treasury was now separated from the executive branch and was now appointed and dismissed solely by Congress; this was because, in Clay's mind, power of the treasury was a power of the purse, and therefore it was a power strictly belonging to Congress and outside the executive branch. Finally, a one term limit on the presidency was established. These amendments were not intended, as critics alleged, to make the presidency toothless; rather, it was to avoid an overactive president and save representative government. Despite these amendments, Clay proved a fairly powerful president, but his power came from his influence over Congress, as well as his heavy knowledge of the legislative process. His power was dependent on Congress, as indeed was the intention of his amendments. And so, Clay's term as president came to an end.
His successor proved to be William Henry Harrison. But Clay wasn't done yet, and through his mastery over Congress he was able to make himself Secretary of the Treasury. In this role, Clay was able to exert vast amount of influence over policy and government. In effect, he became head of government. But this came to an end when, in 1842, Harrison died and his vice president John Tyler became president. John Tyler proved to hold few of the Whig policies, and the result was deep division between him and his cabinet. However, he found it impossible to remove his cabinet members as Congress refused, and as a result Clay maintained vast amounts of power. The only place where Tyler could exert large amounts of power was in foreign policy. Ultimately, the 1844 election proved to be a three way election, and sectional tensions over slavery were worsened after annexing Texas became part of the platforms of both Tyler and the Democratic candidate Cass. Despite worry of another hung college, the Whigs under Daniel Webster were able to eke out a victory, and ultimately they were able to avoid an annexation of Texas. Worry over a hung college, all the same, caused the amendment of presidential elections to simplify their process. In these four years, Webster was able to exercise more power as President than Tyler did, though Clay remained a powerful figure if no longer the de facto head of government. Ultimately, after the 1846 midterms ended up giving a victory to the Democrats, Clay was finally dismissed by Congress. Clay went on to run for the Senate, and he ultimately died in this position.
Henry Clay is one of the most important politicians in American history, both before, during, and after his presidency. He proved influential for most of his career, and his legislative prowess as President has never been equalled in American history. He was able to weaken the presidency, and he made its domestic power dependent on Congress; the executive branch in the United States continues to be split between the president and the treasury secretary today, with power often fluctuating between the two, dependent on the party and the charisma of the people involved. His economic agenda is often praised. His ability to compromise has been much praise, but more recently many have noted that the issue he compromised on was slavery - hardly something worthy of praise.
Political Career of Henry Clay
1803-1806: Kentucky State Congressman (Democratic-Republican)
1806-1807: United States Senator for Kentucky (Democratic-Republican)
1807-1810: Kentucky State Congressman; Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives (Democratic-Republican)
1810-1810: United States Senator for Kentucky (Democratic-Republican)
1810-1811: United States Congressman (Democratic-Republican)
1811-1814, 1815-1820, 1820-1823: United States State Congressman; Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (Democratic-Republican)
1825-1829: United States Secretary of State (Democratic-Republican / National Republican)
1831-1837: United States Senator for Kentucky (National Republican / Whig)
1837-1841: President of the United States of America (Whig)
1841-1847: United States Secretary of the Treasury (Whig)
Presidents: William Henry Harrison (Whig), John Tyler (Independent), Daniel Webster (Whig)
1849-1852: United States Senator for Kentucky (Whig)
First emerging on the scene as a local Kentucky politician where he helped to influence the direction of the Kentucky Constitution, he quickly entered on the national scene in 1810 as a War-Hawk in favour of war with Britain. Because of this, in 1811 he was elected Speaker of the House, where he proved extremely powerful in part because President Madison proved reluctant to assert his power. Furthermore, Clay' political views were changed dramatically as a result of the war - he was now in favour of tariffs, internal improvements, a central bank, and other policies traditionally associated with the Federalists, and he successfully implemented these policies. Known as the American System, they quickly became defining parts of his agenda. Clay was also known as an avowed compromiser on the issue of slavery, by being the architect of the Missouri Compromise. Despite being in favour of gradual emancipation, he was opposed to worsening the great sectional divide caused by slavery.
in 1824, he ran for President of the United States. He was very firmly defeated, but John Quincy Adams, a candidate with some similar positions, became president after a hung Electoral College and a House selection, and Clay became his Secretary of State. Jacksonian Democrats, who felt Andrew Jackson was the popularly elected president, frustrated most of Adams' and Clay's agenda. Ultimately, in 1828, Adams was defeated, and Andrew Jackson became president. To Clay, this was nothing short of disaster. Viewing Andrew Jackson as a wannabe military dictator and comparing him to Caesar, Cromwell, and Bonaparte, Clay was a hard critic of Andrew Jackson and his expansion of executive power, and now Clay believed the constitution needed to be amended to weaken the power of the presidency, to prevent the fall of representative government. Weakening the executive became Clay's mission, till the end of his life. It was entirely because of an intense suspicion of executive power that the anti-Jacksonian party, which Clay was a leader of, came to be known as the Whigs.
The bitter enmity between Clay and Jackson, and the popularity of Jackson, resulted in Clay's political career being one of seemingly perpetual opposition. This changed, however, with the Panic of 1835, generally blamed on Jackson's economic policies. In 1836, Clay became the Whig candidate for president, and beat Van Buren and became President. In this role, he undid most of Jackson's economic policies, re-establishing a central bank. Furthermore, he got a constitutional amendment ratified, weakening the power of the presidency. The presidential veto could now be overridden by Congress with a simple majority, and if the president took no action on a bill within ten days it would become law. Executive functionaries whose appointment required congressional approval, including members of the cabinet, now required congressional approval for removal; this was to weaken the spoils system established by Jackson. The Secretary of the Treasury was now separated from the executive branch and was now appointed and dismissed solely by Congress; this was because, in Clay's mind, power of the treasury was a power of the purse, and therefore it was a power strictly belonging to Congress and outside the executive branch. Finally, a one term limit on the presidency was established. These amendments were not intended, as critics alleged, to make the presidency toothless; rather, it was to avoid an overactive president and save representative government. Despite these amendments, Clay proved a fairly powerful president, but his power came from his influence over Congress, as well as his heavy knowledge of the legislative process. His power was dependent on Congress, as indeed was the intention of his amendments. And so, Clay's term as president came to an end.
His successor proved to be William Henry Harrison. But Clay wasn't done yet, and through his mastery over Congress he was able to make himself Secretary of the Treasury. In this role, Clay was able to exert vast amount of influence over policy and government. In effect, he became head of government. But this came to an end when, in 1842, Harrison died and his vice president John Tyler became president. John Tyler proved to hold few of the Whig policies, and the result was deep division between him and his cabinet. However, he found it impossible to remove his cabinet members as Congress refused, and as a result Clay maintained vast amounts of power. The only place where Tyler could exert large amounts of power was in foreign policy. Ultimately, the 1844 election proved to be a three way election, and sectional tensions over slavery were worsened after annexing Texas became part of the platforms of both Tyler and the Democratic candidate Cass. Despite worry of another hung college, the Whigs under Daniel Webster were able to eke out a victory, and ultimately they were able to avoid an annexation of Texas. Worry over a hung college, all the same, caused the amendment of presidential elections to simplify their process. In these four years, Webster was able to exercise more power as President than Tyler did, though Clay remained a powerful figure if no longer the de facto head of government. Ultimately, after the 1846 midterms ended up giving a victory to the Democrats, Clay was finally dismissed by Congress. Clay went on to run for the Senate, and he ultimately died in this position.
Henry Clay is one of the most important politicians in American history, both before, during, and after his presidency. He proved influential for most of his career, and his legislative prowess as President has never been equalled in American history. He was able to weaken the presidency, and he made its domestic power dependent on Congress; the executive branch in the United States continues to be split between the president and the treasury secretary today, with power often fluctuating between the two, dependent on the party and the charisma of the people involved. His economic agenda is often praised. His ability to compromise has been much praise, but more recently many have noted that the issue he compromised on was slavery - hardly something worthy of praise.
Yossarian
a man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience
- Location
- surrounded by Treasury Brians
- Pronouns
- He/him/his
With Dirty Hearts And Hands Washed Clean
Career history of Clarence Potter (1882 - 1964)
1901 - 1904: Student, Yale University
1902: Scrum-half, Yale University rugby (American Code) First XV
1904: Graduated summa cum laude, Class of 1904
1905 - 1907: Second Lieutenant, 10th Virginia Brigade, III Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S. Army
1907 - 1909: Lieutenant, 23 (Shenandoah) Virginia Brigade, II Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S. Army
1909 - 1913: Captain, Confederate Army Intelligence Corps
1913 - 1917: Major, Confederate Army Intelligence Corps [3]
1917 - 1926: Private citizen: private investigator, journalist, member of the Democratic Party of South Carolina
1926 - 1928: Staffer, office of Rep. James Byrnes (D-SC) [4]
1928 - 1929: Independent consultant to Gov. Bibb Graves (D-AL) [5]
1930 - 1933 (passim): Advisor, office of Gov. Oliver Gardner (D-NC)
1930 - 1931: Independent consultant to Gov. Edward "Boss" Crump (D-TN)
1931 (Apr-Oct): Advisor, office of Sen. Carter Glass (D-VA)
1931 - 1932: Advisor without portfolio, office of Rep. Jack Garner (D-TX)
1932 - 1934: Independent consultant, office of Sen. Hugo Black (D-AL) [6]
1934 - 1936: Member, Emergency Committee to Combat Insurgency and Subversion [7]
1934 - 1935: Lieutenant Colonel, Confederate Army Intelligence Corps
1935 - 1936: Director, Internal Intelligence Unit
1936 - 1938: Deputy Director, Internal Security Office [8]
Reporting to Director Robert C. Richardson
1936 - 1939: Member, Committee for National Reconstruction
1938 - 1940: Assistant Secretary for State Security [9]
Reporting to Attorney-General Jack Garner
1938 - 1948: Director, Bureau of Communications [10]
1938 - 1940 reporting to Postmaster-General Herbert Drane (D-FL)
1940 - 1944 reporting to Secretary of National Defense William Simpson (N-TX)
1944 - 1946 reporting to Secretary of National Defense Carl Vinson (RL-GA)
1946 - 1948 reporting to Secretary of National Defense John Magruder (N-VA)
1940 - 1942: Assistant Secretary of Internal Security
Reporting to Attorney-General Sam Hobbs (RL-AL)
1942 - 1948: Secretary of Internal Affairs [11]
1942 - 1946: Cabinet of Huey Long (RL-LA)
1946 - 1948: Cabinet of Aubrey Williams (RL-AL) [12]
1948 - 1952: Consul-General to the United States of America (C.S. Consulate, New York City) [13]
Reporting to Ambassador Robert Lovett (RL-TX)
1952 - 1964: Private citizen: author, advisor to the Director of Internal Affairs, private investigator
Career history of Clarence Potter (1882 - 1964)
1901 - 1904: Student, Yale University
1902: Scrum-half, Yale University rugby (American Code) First XV
1904: Graduated summa cum laude, Class of 1904
1905 - 1907: Second Lieutenant, 10th Virginia Brigade, III Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S. Army
1907 - 1909: Lieutenant, 23 (Shenandoah) Virginia Brigade, II Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S. Army
1909 - 1913: Captain, Confederate Army Intelligence Corps
1913 - 1917: Major, Confederate Army Intelligence Corps [3]
1917 - 1926: Private citizen: private investigator, journalist, member of the Democratic Party of South Carolina
1926 - 1928: Staffer, office of Rep. James Byrnes (D-SC) [4]
1928 - 1929: Independent consultant to Gov. Bibb Graves (D-AL) [5]
1930 - 1933 (passim): Advisor, office of Gov. Oliver Gardner (D-NC)
1930 - 1931: Independent consultant to Gov. Edward "Boss" Crump (D-TN)
1931 (Apr-Oct): Advisor, office of Sen. Carter Glass (D-VA)
1931 - 1932: Advisor without portfolio, office of Rep. Jack Garner (D-TX)
1932 - 1934: Independent consultant, office of Sen. Hugo Black (D-AL) [6]
1934 - 1936: Member, Emergency Committee to Combat Insurgency and Subversion [7]
1934 - 1935: Lieutenant Colonel, Confederate Army Intelligence Corps
1935 - 1936: Director, Internal Intelligence Unit
1936 - 1938: Deputy Director, Internal Security Office [8]
Reporting to Director Robert C. Richardson
1936 - 1939: Member, Committee for National Reconstruction
1938 - 1940: Assistant Secretary for State Security [9]
Reporting to Attorney-General Jack Garner
1938 - 1948: Director, Bureau of Communications [10]
1938 - 1940 reporting to Postmaster-General Herbert Drane (D-FL)
1940 - 1944 reporting to Secretary of National Defense William Simpson (N-TX)
1944 - 1946 reporting to Secretary of National Defense Carl Vinson (RL-GA)
1946 - 1948 reporting to Secretary of National Defense John Magruder (N-VA)
1940 - 1942: Assistant Secretary of Internal Security
Reporting to Attorney-General Sam Hobbs (RL-AL)
1942 - 1948: Secretary of Internal Affairs [11]
1942 - 1946: Cabinet of Huey Long (RL-LA)
1946 - 1948: Cabinet of Aubrey Williams (RL-AL) [12]
1948 - 1952: Consul-General to the United States of America (C.S. Consulate, New York City) [13]
Reporting to Ambassador Robert Lovett (RL-TX)
1952 - 1964: Private citizen: author, advisor to the Director of Internal Affairs, private investigator
[1] Assigned to the Army of Northern Virginia's operational headquarters in the early days of the Great War, Major Potter became known as 'the Bloodhound' for his work unearthing, infiltrating, and breaking up Red cells among the Afro-Confederate logistics forces. His career was stalled by the personal intervention of General Stuart, but his reputation would precede him among the small but significant body of veterans of the Intelligence Corps.
[2] Potter's first foray into national politics was not a glowing one. The safe Democrat seats of South Carolina had been shaky since the Armistice, and the Crash of '27, along with a smear campaign launched against Byrnes by the Freedom Party alleging that he was a closet Catholic, did much to alert him to the change in the way politics was 'done' in the CSA.
[3] The favour mill and the Yale old boys' network managed to land Potter a spot with the new Governor of Alabama, who had some union problems that the Bloodhound was perfectly suited to solving. In retrospect, the brutal crackdowns on organised labour by the Democratic old guard (of which the Battle of Sloss Works was merely one particularly bloody example) would prove instrumental in driving the working class to the steadily-radicalising Freedom and Rad-Lib parties.
But at the time they were an excellent opportunity for Potter, who proved himself something of a fixer in the fields of labour relations and discreet political conflict resolution. He would bounce from office to office, feathering a nest for himself even as the implosion of the C.S. economy (which looked even worse in comparison with the social-democratic experiment which had borne fruit north of the border) tore up the social contract in Dixie.
[5] These assignments ended up at the top level of the reform wing of the Democratic Party, with Potter playing an indeterminate but probably important (and almost certainly illegal) role in manoeuvering Senator Black into the 1933 Presidential nomination. He is also alleged to have played a role in the events surrounding the disputed election, both during (awful lot of missing ballots) and after (somebody was responsible for the talks with the Rad-Libs that officially never happened - who better than a man who was officially never employed by the Party?).
[6] A spotless record, sterling reputation, and impeccable political pedigree were sufficient qualifications for Potter to be assigned to a junior slot on the quasi-extralegal body tasked with rooting out enemy operatives on the home front. Com-Com tore up habeas corpus, organised 'pacifications' in restless areas, and detained twelve thousand Confederate citizens (and an unknown number of Afro-Confederate 'residents') of suspect loyalties without trial in 'preventive detention centres' over the course of the Civil War.
Potter was responsible for running operatives behind enemy lines and within the Freedom Party, with a network of rebels who had been turned and Legitimist infiltrators. Applying the lessons of the Red Rebellions, Com-Com was able to undermine the rebels' momentum, with the victory at Chapel Hill resulting from the intelligence gathered.
[7] As the Civil War wound down, Potter's brief evolved. With the war over, it was now time to win the peace. Among the flurry of summary executions, 'population reductions' in the overflowing detention camps for surrendered rebels, and 'Knoxville neckties' in the backwoods as various feuds resolved themselves, somebody had to organise the counterinsurgency campaigns and the infiltration of the ratlines to Mexico and Britain.
As part of the programme termed "the Cleansing" (1936 - 1940), Potter's men (jokingly referred to as "the Plumbers" for being up to their elbows in shit) worked to destroy the trust between old comrades in the Freedom Army, sowing doubt and encouraging them to turn in or turn upon each other. By and large they were successful, with only one high-profile escape resulting from a totally uncharacteristic lapse of judgment from Potter. A minor scandal at the time, audiences north of the border would become familiar with the story some years later, thanks to Katharine Hepburn's role in The Flight of Anne Colleton.
[8] The Attorney-General gave Potter a blank check to carry on his good work, and he took to it with gusto. Constitutional protections and habeas corpus remained nothing more than pretty words when the OIS boys came knocking, and large areas of the bayous and the southwestern deserts became home to some dissatisfied members of society.
[9] Evolving over time from a minor technical post concerned with implementing unified censorship guidelines for letter carriers, Potter leveraged the nationwide reach of the C.S. Postal Service (the largest department of the federal government), with its oversight of post, telegraph, and telephone communications between states, into an all-seeing ever-present domestic intelligence network. By 1943, it was said that you couldn't talk to your neighbour without the BOC hearing about it.
[10] As Secretary of Internal Affairs, Potter's intelligence network, which by now permeated every level of society, allowed him to act as the covert enforcer of (and, had he cared to be, the eminence grise behind) the Confederate regime. While his conservative sympathies were well-known, the Secretary was a pragmatist above all else, and proved able to work as easily with Long's Radicals and Hull and Williams' Liberals as any Democrat. Even easier, given the free hand their inexperience at governing gave him.
The Attorney-General remained responsible for the preventive detention centres throughout the Deep South and Southwest, but the arrest lists were increasingly drafted by the DIA. And the drafting instructions began to get broad. First it was senior Freedomites and select troublesome Reds, then it was bushwhackers and their families, after a while it was all former Freedom Party members, and eventually the net was widened to include various nebulously-defined 'enemies of the state'.
Even supporters of the government were not immune; sex scandals, bribery allegations, and even murder charges found their way into the lives of those who posed a threat to what the Secretary considered 'an orderly society'.
[11] By 1946, Potter was 64 and theoretically had a decade or more left in him. But when the Representative for Alabama took office under the slogan "A New Brush Sweeps Clean", it became apparent that men like Potter were seen as an unsavoury relic who had been necessary in a tight spot but were now an embarrassment among the civilised nations. After two years, after one threat too many from DIA, the President was able to launch an internal coup of his own. Internal Affairs was reduced from a cabinet-level position to a directorship within the new Justice Department, the Cleaners were disbanded, and the Secretary was encouraged to retire.
[12] The State Department naturally rubbished any rumours that Consul-General Potter was using his position in Manhattan to orchestrate intelligence-gathering of any kind. That was a preposterous allegation, and would be ungentlemanly conduct unbecoming of any Southern diplomat. Rather, it was a fitting reward for a long career of service to someone with northern ties as strong as those of the former Secretary.
When classified papers were leaked in 1996 which seemed to show that Potter had spent his autumn years organising a spy ring inside the American heavy-metal bomb project, nobody was surprised.
[2] Potter's first foray into national politics was not a glowing one. The safe Democrat seats of South Carolina had been shaky since the Armistice, and the Crash of '27, along with a smear campaign launched against Byrnes by the Freedom Party alleging that he was a closet Catholic, did much to alert him to the change in the way politics was 'done' in the CSA.
[3] The favour mill and the Yale old boys' network managed to land Potter a spot with the new Governor of Alabama, who had some union problems that the Bloodhound was perfectly suited to solving. In retrospect, the brutal crackdowns on organised labour by the Democratic old guard (of which the Battle of Sloss Works was merely one particularly bloody example) would prove instrumental in driving the working class to the steadily-radicalising Freedom and Rad-Lib parties.
But at the time they were an excellent opportunity for Potter, who proved himself something of a fixer in the fields of labour relations and discreet political conflict resolution. He would bounce from office to office, feathering a nest for himself even as the implosion of the C.S. economy (which looked even worse in comparison with the social-democratic experiment which had borne fruit north of the border) tore up the social contract in Dixie.
[5] These assignments ended up at the top level of the reform wing of the Democratic Party, with Potter playing an indeterminate but probably important (and almost certainly illegal) role in manoeuvering Senator Black into the 1933 Presidential nomination. He is also alleged to have played a role in the events surrounding the disputed election, both during (awful lot of missing ballots) and after (somebody was responsible for the talks with the Rad-Libs that officially never happened - who better than a man who was officially never employed by the Party?).
[6] A spotless record, sterling reputation, and impeccable political pedigree were sufficient qualifications for Potter to be assigned to a junior slot on the quasi-extralegal body tasked with rooting out enemy operatives on the home front. Com-Com tore up habeas corpus, organised 'pacifications' in restless areas, and detained twelve thousand Confederate citizens (and an unknown number of Afro-Confederate 'residents') of suspect loyalties without trial in 'preventive detention centres' over the course of the Civil War.
Potter was responsible for running operatives behind enemy lines and within the Freedom Party, with a network of rebels who had been turned and Legitimist infiltrators. Applying the lessons of the Red Rebellions, Com-Com was able to undermine the rebels' momentum, with the victory at Chapel Hill resulting from the intelligence gathered.
[7] As the Civil War wound down, Potter's brief evolved. With the war over, it was now time to win the peace. Among the flurry of summary executions, 'population reductions' in the overflowing detention camps for surrendered rebels, and 'Knoxville neckties' in the backwoods as various feuds resolved themselves, somebody had to organise the counterinsurgency campaigns and the infiltration of the ratlines to Mexico and Britain.
As part of the programme termed "the Cleansing" (1936 - 1940), Potter's men (jokingly referred to as "the Plumbers" for being up to their elbows in shit) worked to destroy the trust between old comrades in the Freedom Army, sowing doubt and encouraging them to turn in or turn upon each other. By and large they were successful, with only one high-profile escape resulting from a totally uncharacteristic lapse of judgment from Potter. A minor scandal at the time, audiences north of the border would become familiar with the story some years later, thanks to Katharine Hepburn's role in The Flight of Anne Colleton.
[8] The Attorney-General gave Potter a blank check to carry on his good work, and he took to it with gusto. Constitutional protections and habeas corpus remained nothing more than pretty words when the OIS boys came knocking, and large areas of the bayous and the southwestern deserts became home to some dissatisfied members of society.
[9] Evolving over time from a minor technical post concerned with implementing unified censorship guidelines for letter carriers, Potter leveraged the nationwide reach of the C.S. Postal Service (the largest department of the federal government), with its oversight of post, telegraph, and telephone communications between states, into an all-seeing ever-present domestic intelligence network. By 1943, it was said that you couldn't talk to your neighbour without the BOC hearing about it.
[10] As Secretary of Internal Affairs, Potter's intelligence network, which by now permeated every level of society, allowed him to act as the covert enforcer of (and, had he cared to be, the eminence grise behind) the Confederate regime. While his conservative sympathies were well-known, the Secretary was a pragmatist above all else, and proved able to work as easily with Long's Radicals and Hull and Williams' Liberals as any Democrat. Even easier, given the free hand their inexperience at governing gave him.
The Attorney-General remained responsible for the preventive detention centres throughout the Deep South and Southwest, but the arrest lists were increasingly drafted by the DIA. And the drafting instructions began to get broad. First it was senior Freedomites and select troublesome Reds, then it was bushwhackers and their families, after a while it was all former Freedom Party members, and eventually the net was widened to include various nebulously-defined 'enemies of the state'.
Even supporters of the government were not immune; sex scandals, bribery allegations, and even murder charges found their way into the lives of those who posed a threat to what the Secretary considered 'an orderly society'.
[11] By 1946, Potter was 64 and theoretically had a decade or more left in him. But when the Representative for Alabama took office under the slogan "A New Brush Sweeps Clean", it became apparent that men like Potter were seen as an unsavoury relic who had been necessary in a tight spot but were now an embarrassment among the civilised nations. After two years, after one threat too many from DIA, the President was able to launch an internal coup of his own. Internal Affairs was reduced from a cabinet-level position to a directorship within the new Justice Department, the Cleaners were disbanded, and the Secretary was encouraged to retire.
[12] The State Department naturally rubbished any rumours that Consul-General Potter was using his position in Manhattan to orchestrate intelligence-gathering of any kind. That was a preposterous allegation, and would be ungentlemanly conduct unbecoming of any Southern diplomat. Rather, it was a fitting reward for a long career of service to someone with northern ties as strong as those of the former Secretary.
When classified papers were leaked in 1996 which seemed to show that Potter had spent his autumn years organising a spy ring inside the American heavy-metal bomb project, nobody was surprised.
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ATLF: The Purge
1997-2005: Phil Gramm (Republican)
1996 (with John McCain): Bill Clinton (Democratic), Ross Perot (Reform)
2000 (with John McCain): Al Gore (Democratic), Ralph Nader (Green)
2005-2010: John McCain (Republican)
2004 (with Fred Thompson): Joe Biden (Democratic), Cornel West (Green)
2008 (with Fred Thompson): Hillary Clinton (Democratic), Mike Gravel (Independent Fusion)
2010-2013: Fred Thompson (Republican)
2013-2014: John McAfee (Independent)
2012 (with Erik Prince): Cynthia McKinney (Green), Bill Richardson (Democratic), Michelle Bachmann (Republican)
2014-2021: John McAfee (New Founding Fathers of America)
2016 (with Erik Prince): Martin O'Malley (Democratic), Ajamu Baraka (Green), John Kasich (Independent Republican)
2021-2026: Dana Rohrabacher (New Founding Fathers of America)
2020 (with Erik Prince): various
2024 (with Martin Shkreli): various
2026-2033: Martin Shkreli (New Founding Fathers of America)
2028 (with Arlo Sabian): various
2033-2041: Arlo Sabian (New Founding Fathers of America)
2032 (with Caleb Warrens): various Independents
2036 (with Caleb Warrens): disorganized Independent opposition
2041-0000: Charlie Roan (Independent)
2040 (with Nya Davis): Edwidge Owens (New Founding Fathers of America)
The Recession of 07'-08' would very quickly lead to the Second Great Depression following the Dreadful Winter of 2008-09. Of course, President McCain's death in early 2010 wouldn't make things much better as his ailing replacement would only further confine themselves to the economists of his predecessor as he desperately searched for a way out from skyrocketing crime and unemployment. But there would be no way out for Fred Thompson. His decision to step down from his re-election campaign nearly coincided with a massive fundraising shift away from the dying Republican brand in the lead-up to the 2012 elections. America's new oligarchs, further horrified by the effects of the economic devastation lain by the "double-dip" of winter 2011, quickly get behind the quixotic fringe campaign of former tech mogul John McAfee.
The massive pour-in of cash and connections would be enough to lift McAfee's campaign over a divided and financially destitute opposition. Once in office McAfee initially set about stabilizing the American economy but that job would be far more difficult than he ever imagined. Working heavily with Vice President Prince (who many would see as a power behind the throne) McAfee would establish corporatist economic policies to create the first real sense of economic stability in years. But in 2014, just as it appeared that the economy had bottomed out, the nation would see the Bloody Summer (best exemplified by The Queensbridge Incident and Covina Alley Murders) where violence marred the entire nation. In a propaganda coup, McAfee announced heavy policing policies to be instituted immediately. McAfee and Prince's new political party, flush with donor cash, would see an extraordinary victory in 2014's midterms which when combined with massive Republican defections gave them commanding majorities in both chambers of Congress.
The Purges wouldn't begin until 2017, after McAfee's re-election and the stop-gap totalitarian measures of National Voter ID and militarized policing. Following the success of Arlo Sabian's experiment with death squads on Staten Island, the Purge was instituted nationwide as a way for the government to cover a night of mass death squad and mercenary deployment in order to massively cull America's homeless and poor populations via extrajudicial killings. By the early 2020s the Purge had reached cultural normalcy and turned into a treasured aspect of the growing mythology of the New Founding Fathers of America. In 2024 an elderly VP Prince would finally step down after having served two terms under McAfee and one under his successor, Dana Rohrabacher. It was then when the wheels started to come off.
Embarrassments like the Polite Stranger Incident would soon become commonplace under the Rohrabacher and Shkreli administrations. Things got so bad for Shkreli at one point he was nearly removed by the NFFA after he faced massive public protests for a public corruption scandal and nearly leaked the truth of the policies behind the Purge in a TV interview. As unrest grew the NFFA knew that a firmer hand was necessary at the controls. Longtime party insider Arlo Sabian was ushered into the presidency with party patriarch Caleb Warrens at his side. Sabian, leading a cornered government, was forced to offer some concessions to protesters the most important of which was the end to National Voter ID. Completely alone in the world (other formerly Purge-friendly already scrapped their plans or were about to do so) opposition to the NFFA regime would continue to grow. As the 2030s wore on the Purge would become less and less a government-backed purge and more a "murder day" for a generation of Americans that had now grown up socially isolated in an authoritarian country. Suffice to say, the Purge was an increasing embarrassment and opposition parties took advantage of that by making opposition to the Purge cornerstones of their campaigns. The 62% that Sabian accrued during his 2036 re-election bid showed to many that the NFFA could be defeated.
Senator Charlie Roan was able to unite a formerly disparate opposition behind her quixotic bid to end the Purge in 2040. Roan would win that year's presidential campaign following the disastrous 2040 Purge (in which Vice President Warrens was killed) and the self-destructive presidential campaign of her radically pro-Purge opponent, Edwidge Owens. Roan would end the Purge in January, 2041. She would face heavy blowback from pro-Purge organizations that were largely astroturfed by America's massive home security and weapons cartels. The Hot Summer of 2041 would see these protesters ultimately stand down in the face of a government now actively being cleansed of the corrupt and fascistic elements of the old regime. When the Supreme Court blocked President Roan's anti-monopoly economic policies, she would successfully institute court-packing measures. Although vehemently unpopular among certain sections of the population, Roan would win big in the 2042 midterms on the back of an infodump leak of nearly all of the NFFA's extensive illegal and immoral activities. Although the Incel Rebellion of 2043 has been a more recent difficulty for the President to overcome, she looks confidently towards her re-election in 2044.
1997-2005: Phil Gramm (Republican)
1996 (with John McCain): Bill Clinton (Democratic), Ross Perot (Reform)
2000 (with John McCain): Al Gore (Democratic), Ralph Nader (Green)
2005-2010: John McCain (Republican)
2004 (with Fred Thompson): Joe Biden (Democratic), Cornel West (Green)
2008 (with Fred Thompson): Hillary Clinton (Democratic), Mike Gravel (Independent Fusion)
2010-2013: Fred Thompson (Republican)
2013-2014: John McAfee (Independent)
2012 (with Erik Prince): Cynthia McKinney (Green), Bill Richardson (Democratic), Michelle Bachmann (Republican)
2014-2021: John McAfee (New Founding Fathers of America)
2016 (with Erik Prince): Martin O'Malley (Democratic), Ajamu Baraka (Green), John Kasich (Independent Republican)
2021-2026: Dana Rohrabacher (New Founding Fathers of America)
2020 (with Erik Prince): various
2024 (with Martin Shkreli): various
2026-2033: Martin Shkreli (New Founding Fathers of America)
2028 (with Arlo Sabian): various
2033-2041: Arlo Sabian (New Founding Fathers of America)
2032 (with Caleb Warrens): various Independents
2036 (with Caleb Warrens): disorganized Independent opposition
2041-0000: Charlie Roan (Independent)
2040 (with Nya Davis): Edwidge Owens (New Founding Fathers of America)
The Recession of 07'-08' would very quickly lead to the Second Great Depression following the Dreadful Winter of 2008-09. Of course, President McCain's death in early 2010 wouldn't make things much better as his ailing replacement would only further confine themselves to the economists of his predecessor as he desperately searched for a way out from skyrocketing crime and unemployment. But there would be no way out for Fred Thompson. His decision to step down from his re-election campaign nearly coincided with a massive fundraising shift away from the dying Republican brand in the lead-up to the 2012 elections. America's new oligarchs, further horrified by the effects of the economic devastation lain by the "double-dip" of winter 2011, quickly get behind the quixotic fringe campaign of former tech mogul John McAfee.
The massive pour-in of cash and connections would be enough to lift McAfee's campaign over a divided and financially destitute opposition. Once in office McAfee initially set about stabilizing the American economy but that job would be far more difficult than he ever imagined. Working heavily with Vice President Prince (who many would see as a power behind the throne) McAfee would establish corporatist economic policies to create the first real sense of economic stability in years. But in 2014, just as it appeared that the economy had bottomed out, the nation would see the Bloody Summer (best exemplified by The Queensbridge Incident and Covina Alley Murders) where violence marred the entire nation. In a propaganda coup, McAfee announced heavy policing policies to be instituted immediately. McAfee and Prince's new political party, flush with donor cash, would see an extraordinary victory in 2014's midterms which when combined with massive Republican defections gave them commanding majorities in both chambers of Congress.
The Purges wouldn't begin until 2017, after McAfee's re-election and the stop-gap totalitarian measures of National Voter ID and militarized policing. Following the success of Arlo Sabian's experiment with death squads on Staten Island, the Purge was instituted nationwide as a way for the government to cover a night of mass death squad and mercenary deployment in order to massively cull America's homeless and poor populations via extrajudicial killings. By the early 2020s the Purge had reached cultural normalcy and turned into a treasured aspect of the growing mythology of the New Founding Fathers of America. In 2024 an elderly VP Prince would finally step down after having served two terms under McAfee and one under his successor, Dana Rohrabacher. It was then when the wheels started to come off.
Embarrassments like the Polite Stranger Incident would soon become commonplace under the Rohrabacher and Shkreli administrations. Things got so bad for Shkreli at one point he was nearly removed by the NFFA after he faced massive public protests for a public corruption scandal and nearly leaked the truth of the policies behind the Purge in a TV interview. As unrest grew the NFFA knew that a firmer hand was necessary at the controls. Longtime party insider Arlo Sabian was ushered into the presidency with party patriarch Caleb Warrens at his side. Sabian, leading a cornered government, was forced to offer some concessions to protesters the most important of which was the end to National Voter ID. Completely alone in the world (other formerly Purge-friendly already scrapped their plans or were about to do so) opposition to the NFFA regime would continue to grow. As the 2030s wore on the Purge would become less and less a government-backed purge and more a "murder day" for a generation of Americans that had now grown up socially isolated in an authoritarian country. Suffice to say, the Purge was an increasing embarrassment and opposition parties took advantage of that by making opposition to the Purge cornerstones of their campaigns. The 62% that Sabian accrued during his 2036 re-election bid showed to many that the NFFA could be defeated.
Senator Charlie Roan was able to unite a formerly disparate opposition behind her quixotic bid to end the Purge in 2040. Roan would win that year's presidential campaign following the disastrous 2040 Purge (in which Vice President Warrens was killed) and the self-destructive presidential campaign of her radically pro-Purge opponent, Edwidge Owens. Roan would end the Purge in January, 2041. She would face heavy blowback from pro-Purge organizations that were largely astroturfed by America's massive home security and weapons cartels. The Hot Summer of 2041 would see these protesters ultimately stand down in the face of a government now actively being cleansed of the corrupt and fascistic elements of the old regime. When the Supreme Court blocked President Roan's anti-monopoly economic policies, she would successfully institute court-packing measures. Although vehemently unpopular among certain sections of the population, Roan would win big in the 2042 midterms on the back of an infodump leak of nearly all of the NFFA's extensive illegal and immoral activities. Although the Incel Rebellion of 2043 has been a more recent difficulty for the President to overcome, she looks confidently towards her re-election in 2044.
- Location
- The Place Beyond The Pines
- Pronouns
- he/him
Titles of Levi ‘the Liberator’ Gutfreund
2644-2663: Peasant, Post of Monmouth
2663-2664: Leader, Monosite Liberation Revolt
2664-2676: Graf, Kounti of Teykhvald
2676-2684: Firsht, Dutshi of Dzherzhi
2684-2703: Melech, Mamlachah of Niu York
2687-2703: Chief Spokesman, Chabad
The City of Lakewood would survive The Event much as many other cities on the Eastern Seaboard, by the skin of its teeth, and by the mobilization of its Jewish Community in the wake of Societal Collapse. Its rulers for the next few centuries mostly respected the Jews' sovereignty, with the Americanists of Jersey being of the more Tolerant Gotham School. Monmouth would pay their taxes alternatively to the Republic of New York or whatever petty lord who was powerful in Jersey at the time, but always left alone. This would change with the rise of Nicholas Ehman, a petty warlord from Freehold with big ambitions; to fun his expansionist urges, he began to heavily tax the Jews of Lakewood, seemingly thinking nothing of it. A young Peasant named Levi would have none of this oppression, and led a Peasant Rebellion against Ehman, and establishing an Independent Jewish State in 'Teykhvald'. Levi would through wise rule, and Military Skill unite the Regions of Dzherzhi, Niu York, and Konetekut into a powerful Kingdom.
2644-2663: Peasant, Post of Monmouth
2663-2664: Leader, Monosite Liberation Revolt
2664-2676: Graf, Kounti of Teykhvald
2676-2684: Firsht, Dutshi of Dzherzhi
2684-2703: Melech, Mamlachah of Niu York
2687-2703: Chief Spokesman, Chabad
The City of Lakewood would survive The Event much as many other cities on the Eastern Seaboard, by the skin of its teeth, and by the mobilization of its Jewish Community in the wake of Societal Collapse. Its rulers for the next few centuries mostly respected the Jews' sovereignty, with the Americanists of Jersey being of the more Tolerant Gotham School. Monmouth would pay their taxes alternatively to the Republic of New York or whatever petty lord who was powerful in Jersey at the time, but always left alone. This would change with the rise of Nicholas Ehman, a petty warlord from Freehold with big ambitions; to fun his expansionist urges, he began to heavily tax the Jews of Lakewood, seemingly thinking nothing of it. A young Peasant named Levi would have none of this oppression, and led a Peasant Rebellion against Ehman, and establishing an Independent Jewish State in 'Teykhvald'. Levi would through wise rule, and Military Skill unite the Regions of Dzherzhi, Niu York, and Konetekut into a powerful Kingdom.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Electoral History of Maxine Peake
Born Westhoughton, Bolton, 1974
1988-1995: Communist Party of Britain Member, Salford
1995-2010: Private Citizen (Actress)
2010-Present: Labour Party Member, Salford
2012-2015: Salford City Councillor, Claremont Ward, Labour
2012: Def Norman Bates (Lib Dem), Chris Bates (Con)
2014: Def Mary Ferrer (UKIP), Bob Goodall (Con)
2015-Present: Member of Parliament for Salford and Eccles, Labour
2015: Def Greg Downes (Con), Paul Doyle (UKIP), Emma Van Dyke (Green)
2017: Def Jason Sugarman (Con),Chris Barnes (UKIP), John Reid (Lib Dem)
2019: Def Attika Choudhary (Con), Matt Mickler (Brexit), Jake Overend (Lib Dem)
2024: Def Attika Choudhary (Con), Claire Fox (Reform), Sarah Wollaston (Lib Dem)
2027: Def Arnie Saunders (Con), Nigel Farage (Reform), Angela Smith (Lib Dem), Gavin Shukar (New Party), Jonathan Bartley (Green)
Positions Held
2015: Backbencher
2015-2017: Shadow Minister for Media (Corbyn Cabinet)
2017-2020: The Shadow Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Corbyn Cabinet)
2020: Labour Party Leadership Candidate, Defeated by Keir Starmer (Won 42% of Vote)
2020-2022:Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding (Starmer Cabinet)
2022-2024:The Shadow Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Starmer Cabinet)
2024-Present: Leader of the Labour Party
2024 def: Wes Streeting, Clive Lewis, Jess Philips, Louise Haigh, Rosena Allin-Khan
2024-2027: Leader of the Opposition
2027-Present: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Labour
Def: Rushi Sunak (Con), Layla Moran (Lib Dem), Nigel Farage (Reform), Gavin Shukar (New Party), Magid Magid (Green)
Simple POD really, John McDonnell manages to get onto the 2010 ballot and looking like he has a good chance of winning Maxine Peake joins the Labour Party, from there she continues to take part in the party as shown.
Born Westhoughton, Bolton, 1974
1988-1995: Communist Party of Britain Member, Salford
1995-2010: Private Citizen (Actress)
2010-Present: Labour Party Member, Salford
2012-2015: Salford City Councillor, Claremont Ward, Labour
2012: Def Norman Bates (Lib Dem), Chris Bates (Con)
2014: Def Mary Ferrer (UKIP), Bob Goodall (Con)
2015-Present: Member of Parliament for Salford and Eccles, Labour
2015: Def Greg Downes (Con), Paul Doyle (UKIP), Emma Van Dyke (Green)
2017: Def Jason Sugarman (Con),Chris Barnes (UKIP), John Reid (Lib Dem)
2019: Def Attika Choudhary (Con), Matt Mickler (Brexit), Jake Overend (Lib Dem)
2024: Def Attika Choudhary (Con), Claire Fox (Reform), Sarah Wollaston (Lib Dem)
2027: Def Arnie Saunders (Con), Nigel Farage (Reform), Angela Smith (Lib Dem), Gavin Shukar (New Party), Jonathan Bartley (Green)
Positions Held
2015: Backbencher
2015-2017: Shadow Minister for Media (Corbyn Cabinet)
2017-2020: The Shadow Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Corbyn Cabinet)
2020: Labour Party Leadership Candidate, Defeated by Keir Starmer (Won 42% of Vote)
2020-2022:Shadow Minister for Domestic Violence and Safeguarding (Starmer Cabinet)
2022-2024:The Shadow Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (Starmer Cabinet)
2024-Present: Leader of the Labour Party
2024 def: Wes Streeting, Clive Lewis, Jess Philips, Louise Haigh, Rosena Allin-Khan
2024-2027: Leader of the Opposition
2027-Present: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Labour
Def: Rushi Sunak (Con), Layla Moran (Lib Dem), Nigel Farage (Reform), Gavin Shukar (New Party), Magid Magid (Green)
Simple POD really, John McDonnell manages to get onto the 2010 ballot and looking like he has a good chance of winning Maxine Peake joins the Labour Party, from there she continues to take part in the party as shown.
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