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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

United in Disunion
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Presidents of Videoland
a dumb list by Qaz
1989-1993:Mario Mario Sr./Cp.Toadbert Toadsworth(Spirit of '16)
1988:Mr.Game & Watch/Tortimer Kotobuki(Genesis)
1993-2001:Donkey Kong/Kirby Hal
1992:Mario Mario Sr./Cp.Toadbert Toadsworth(Spirit of '16),C.Sydney Bandicoot/James "Fox" McCloud(Change)
1996:K.K.Krool/John Madden(Spirit of '16),C.Sydney Bandicoot/Will Wright(Change)
2001-2009:Mario "Jumpman" Mario Jr./King DeeDee(Spirit of '16)
2000:Kirby Hat/Fellow Traveler(Genesis),Bubsey T.Cat/Various(Green)
2004:Falco Lombardi/Winston Payne(Genesis)
2009-2017:Sonic Maurice Hedgehog/Big Boss(Genesis)
2017-2021:Bowser "King" Koopa/Simon Belmont(Spirit of '16)

2016:Isabelle Kong/Slippy Toad(Genesis)
2020:Koopa/Belmont vs Boss/Inkling(Genesis) vs Parappa/Lammy(Birthday)
Luigi is Jeb Bush
 
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35. 1961-1963: John F. Kennedy (Democratic)
36. 1963-1963: Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
37. 1963-1965: John W. McCormack (Democratic)
38. 1965-1968: Sam Yorty (Democratic)
38. 1968-1969: Sam Yorty (Independent)
39. 1969-1971: Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
40. 1971-1972: George Bush (Republican)
41. 1972-1972: Carl Albert (Democratic)
42. 1972-1973: George Bush (Republican)
43. 1973-1975: Scoop Jackson (Democratic)
44. 1975-1976: George Bush (Republican)
45. 1976-1976: Dick Cheney (Republican / National Security Regime)
46. 1976-0000: Henry Kissinger (National Security Regime)

1961-1963: John F. Kennedy (Democratic)
1960 (with Lyndon B. Johnson) def. Richard Nixon (Republican), unpledged electors
1963-1963: Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
1963-1965: John W. McCormack (Democratic)
1965-1968: Sam Yorty (Democratic)
1964 (with George Wallace) def. Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
1968-1969: Sam Yorty (Independent)
1969-1971: Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
1968 (with George Bush) def. Sam Yorty (Independent), Eugene McCarthy (Democratic)
1971-1972: George Bush (Republican)
1972-1972: Carl Albert (Democratic)
1972-1973: George Bush (Republican)
1973-1975: Scoop Jackson (Democratic)
1972 (Hung electoral college); George Bush (Republican), Hubert Humphrey (Democratic), Lester Maddox (States' Rights)
1975-1976: George Bush (Republican)
1976-1976: Dick Cheney (Republican / National Security Regime)
1976 cancelled
1976-0000: Henry Kissinger (National Security Regime)
1980 (with Alexander Haig) def. unopposed
1984 (with Alexander Haig) def. unopposed
1988 (with Jeane Kirkpatrick) def. Joe Biden (National Democratic Movement)
1992 (with Bill Barr) def. Lyndon LaRouche (National Democratic Movement), Jerry Brown (Solidarity)
1996 (with Bill Barr) def. Bob Casey (National Democratic Movement)
2000 (with Bill Barr) def. Joe Lieberman (National Democratic Movement)
2004 (with Elliott Abrams) def. John McCain (National Democratic Movement)
2008 (with Condoleeza Rice) def. Joe Biden (National Democratic Movement)
2012 (with Robert Mueller) def. Rick Perry (National Democratic Movement)
2016 (with Robert Mueller) def. Mike Huckabee (National Democratic Movement)
2020 (with Bill Barr) def. Joe Biden (National Democratic Movement)
 
This is the Final Struggle

2017-2024: Donald Trump/Mike Pence

defeated Hillary Clinton/Mike Pence
defeated Joe Biden/Kamala Harris

- Buisnessman and Television Personality
- Charlottesville protest and murders (2017)
- Korean peace process begins (2018)
- SCOTUS given Conservative majority (2017, 2018, 2020)
- COVID-19 pandemic begins (2019/20/21/22)
- National civil unrest in response to police brutality against African-Americans (2020)
- SCOTUS halts counting of additional ballots in 2020 Election
- 1st Nationwide General Strike (2021)
- Dr. Cornel West killed during protest in Zuccotti Park (2022)
- American forces lose during Occupation of Nicaragua (2022)
- Introduction of the controversial Waged Work Act of 2023
- Died of kidney disease at age 77 (2024)


2024-2025: Mike Pence/vacant
- 7-month lame duck candidacy succeeding the late Trump (2024)
- Roughly one out of every hundred Americas now enlisted in a
militia (2024 DoD report to the President, unread)
- Increased military presence in Venezuela (2024)
- "The Waged Work Scheme - Americas new Serfdom?" - MSNBC (2025)

- Economic divide between upper and middle class more pronounced than ever (2025)

2025-2033: Donald Trump Jr./Kristi Noem
defeated Kamala Harris/Pete Buttegieg
defeated Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez/Andy Beshear

- Trustee and Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization
- Analysis; Junior won mostly due to sympathy vote and Democratic apathy - Pew Report (2024)
- Marriage to Alana Carmo Medeiros, Fox News Staffer, referred to as "Royal Wedding" (2025)
- "Erik Prince - the Military Contractor who has the ear of the President" - Vox article (2025)
- Steven Engel nominated as Chief Justice (2026)
- Functional COVID-19 vaccine introduced, final death count estimated 680k (2026)
- Average national debt quintuples in under two years, Dow-Jones in free-fall (2027)
- 2028 Democratic National Convention walkout
- Legislation granting "Labour Union Collectives" power of municipalities passed in several states (2030)
- Trump Junior visits frontlines in Nicaragua, "interferes" with Generals plans - MSNBC article (2031)
- SCOTUS throws out recount request for 2032 election
- Latin America War (2032)
- Organised armed resistance to federal police raids (2032)
- Unemployment rate reaches 23%, worldwide GDP drops 15% (2033)
- 2nd General Strike (2033/34)
- Trump Jr. and Noem convinced to resign, Interim Government of the Untied States declared (2034)


2034-2034: Joe Borelli/vacant
- Speaker of the House of Representatives, ascended upon resignation of Trump Jr. and Noem
- May Day Protests/Southern Spring (2034)
- Report: majority of American cities now run by Labour Union Collectives (2034)
- Assassinated by right-wing domestic terrorists (2034)


2034-2035: Alek Skarlatos/vacant
- Secretary of State, ascended upon assassination of Borelli
- White Power Militias attempt national hostile takeover (2034)
- Attempted military insurgency by US General Eddie Gallagher (2035)
- Peoples Majority Movement seize control of key government buildings (2035)


2035-2036: Bradley Lamar (Independent/Peoples Majority)
- Fmr. author, online personality, asylum seeker
- High-ranking officers beaten and slain in ceremonial fashion across continental United States military bases (2035)
- Centralised government role for Labour Union Collectives organised as American Congress of Collectives (2035)
- "Food, land, freedom." - campaign slogan (2035)
- Implemented new democratic elections for Head of State and Labour Collective Representatives (2035)


2036-2036: Kshama Sawant (Socialist Alternative)
defeated: Bradley Imer Tulin (Peoples Majority), Peyton Faucett (Opposition Front), Ricky Dale Harrington Jr. (American Libertarian), Richard Ojeda (Constitutional Democratic Party), others
- Fmr. Mayor of Seattle Washington (2026-2032), perennial socialist candidate
- Speaker of the Congress Lamar declares election interference, demands signing of the Legislative Agenda Reform Act (2036)
- Electoral Crisis results in Sawant resigning, Lamar instated by acclaim


2036-2039: Bradley Lamar (Peoples Majority)
- Speaker of the House, reelected due to Electoral Crisis
- Survives assassination attempt at Grand Central Station (2036)
- Peoples Majority forces begin hostile action against dissidents (2036)
- Trump family executed by government agents (2036)
- "No War, No Peace" policy implemented in South America fails (2037)
- Opposition Parties declared "un-American", representatives arrested as dissidents (2038)
- Secretary of the Peoples Army Josh Dukes flees to Canada (2038)
- Suffered cerebral haemorrhage, died several weeks later (2039)


2039-20??: Jolene Mulholland (Peoples Majority)
- fmr. student newspaper editor, member of Redneck Revolt and hacktivist convicted on hacking corporate bank accounts
- Given position of Peoples Majority Party Chief Whip as consolatory gesture (2035)
- New Cold War with European Union declared (2039)
- Penal labour camps for political dissidents erected (2040-ongoing)
- Mexican Invasion of Arizona, Texas and Louisiana (2040-ongoing)
- Beginning of the American Terror (2040-ongoing)
 
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1913-1921: GOVERNOR Thomas Woodrow WILSON / GOVERNOR Thomas Riley MARSHALL
1912: Defeated Former PRESIDENT Theodore ROOSEVELT Jr / GOVERNOR Hiram Warren JOHNSON, PRESIDENT William Howard TAFT / COL. UNI. PRESIDENT Nicholas Murray BUTLER
1916: Defeated Former ASSOCIATE JUSTICE Charles Evans HUGHES Sr / Former VICE PRESIDENT Charles Warren FAIRBANKS


1921-1921: GOVERNOR James Middleton COX / ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE NAVY Frankin Delano ROOSEVELT
1920: Defeated GOVERNOR Frank Orren LOWDEN / SENATOR Irvine Luther LENROOT

1921-1925: VICE PRESIDENT Franklin Delano ROOSEVELT / VACANT

1925-1933: PRESIDENT Franklin Delano ROOSEVELT / Former ATTORNEY GENERAL Alexander Mitchell PALMER
1924: Defeated GOVERNOR Gifford PINCHOT / MR. Herbert Clark HOOVER
1928: Defeated SENATOR James Eli WATSON / SENATOR Charles CURTIS


1933-1941: PRESIDENT Franklin Delano ROOSEVELT / SENATOR James Francis BYRNES
1932: Defeated Former MAYOR Jacob Sechler COXLEY Jr / SENATOR George William NORRIS
1936: Defeated MR. William Franklin KNOX / SENATOR William Edgar BORAH


1941-1953: PRESIDENT Franklin Delano ROOSEVELT / AGRICULTURE SECRETARY Henry Agard WALLACE
1940: Defeated SENATOR Theodore Roosevelt III / VICE PRESIDENT James Francis BYRNES
1944: Defeated Former GOVERNOR Harold Edward STASSEN / SENATOR Robert Alphonso TAFT Sr
1948: Defeated SENATOR Leverett A. SALTONSTALL / GOVERNOR Earl WARREN

1953-1957: VICE PRESIDENT Henry Agard WALLACE / SENATOR Almer Stillwell MONRONEY
1952: Defeated GOVERNOR Earl WARREN / Former GOVERNOR Harold Edward STASSEN

1957-1965: GOVERNOR Earl WARREN/SENATOR George Harrison BENDER
1956: Defeated PRESIDENT Henry Agard WALLACE / VICE PRESIDENT Almer Stillwell MONRONEY
1960: Defeated SENATOR Lyndon Baines JOHNSON / GOVERNOR Herschel Cellel LOVELESS


1965-1968: Former GOVERNOR Gerhard Mennen WILLIAMS / SENATOR Abraham Alexander RIBICOFF
1964: Defeated VICE PRESIDENT George Harrison BENDER / AMBASSADOR Ann Clare Booth LUCE

1968-1969: VICE PRESIDENT Abraham Alexander RIBICOFF / VACANT

1969-1977: Former PRESIDENT Franklin Delano ROOSEVELT / SENATOR Fred Roy HARRIS
1968: Defeated GOVERNOR Nelson Aldrich ROCKEFELLER / GOVERNOR George Wilcken ROMNEY
1972: Defeated Former SENATOR Frank CARLSON / REPRESENTATIVE Paul Norton McCloskey Jr


1977-1981: GOVERNOR Ronald Wilson REAGAN / SENATOR Henry John HEINZ III
1976: Defeated SENATOR Morris King UDALL / GOVERNOR Edmund Gerald BROWN Jr
1980: Defeated GOVERNOR Edmund Gerald BROWN Jr / SENATOR Frank Forrester CHURCH III


1981-1981: VICE PRESIDENT Henry John HEINZ III / VACANT
1981-1989: PRESIDENT Henry John HEINZ III / GOVERNOR Albert Harold QUIE
1984: Defeated SENATOR George Stanley MCGOVERN / SENATOR Joseph Robinette BIDEN Jr

1989-1993: Former VICE PRESIDENT Fred Roy HARRIS / SENATOR Jesse Louis JACKSON Sr
1988: Defeated VICE PRESIDENT Albert Harold QUIE / Senator Addison Mitchell MCCONNELL Jr

1993-2001: GOVERNOR William Floyd WELD / GOVERNOR Terry Edward BRANSTAD
1992: Defeated PRESIDENT Fred Roy HARRIS / VICE PRESIDENT Jesse Louis JACKSON Jr
1996: Defeated Former SENATOR Joseph Robinette BIDEN Jr / REPRESENTATIVE Bernard SANDERS


2001-2009: Former GOVERNOR Arne Helge CARLSON / SENATOR Lincoln Davenport CHAFEE
2000: Defeated SENATOR Paul David WELLSTONE / REPRESENTATIVE Nancy Patricia PELOSI
2004: Defeated GOVERNOR Howard Gresham HAWKINS / SENATOR Edward John MARKEY


2009-2011: SENATOR Johnny Reid EDWARDS / Former SECRETARY OF STATE Maurice Robert GRAVEL
2008: Defeated VICE PRESIDENT Lincoln Davenport CHAFEE / SENATE MAJORITY LEADER Addison Mitchell MCCONNELL Jr

2011-2011: VICE PRESIDENT Maurice Robert GRAVEL / VACANT
2011-2013: PRESIDENT Maurice Robert GRAVEL / SENATOR Russell Dana FEINGOLD

2013-2018: Former SECRETARY OF DEFENCE John Sidney MCCAIN III / GOVERNOR Gary Earl JOHNSON
2012: Defeated PRESIDENT Maurice Robert GRAVEL / VICE PRESIDENT Russell Dana FEINGOLD
2016: Defeated SENATOR Bernard Sanders / SENATOR Elizabeth Ann WARREN


2018-2018: VICE PRESIDENT Gary Earl JOHNSON / VACANT
2018-2021: PRESIDENT Gary Earl JOHNSON / Former GOVERNOR Piyush JINDAL

2021-2021: Former VICE PRESIDENT Jesse Louis JACKSON Sr / REPRESENTATIVE Alexandria OCASIO-CORTEZ
2020: Defeated PRESIDENT Gary Earl Johnson / VICE PRESIDENT Piyush JINDAL

2021-2021: VICE PRESIDENT Alexandria OCASIO-CORTEZ / VACANT
2021-0000: PRESIDENT Alexandria OCASIO-CORTEZ / REPRESENTATIVE Lee Jin CARTER

The full Rooseverse. Intentionally wanky and silly.

Note: Given the nature of the government being so different, DC and others are now states and the age at which one can run for office was reduced pretty much globally to the age of adulthood
 
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The Elective Executive

1909-1911: Sir Joseph Ward (Liberal)
Executive: Sir Joseph Ward, James Carroll, John A. Millar, James McGowan, John Findlay, Robert McNab, George Fowlds, Alexander Hogg (Liberal)
1911: Sir Joseph Ward (Liberal)
Executive: Sir Joseph Ward, James Carroll, John A. Millar, John Findlay, Roderick McKenzie, George Laurenson, David Buddo, Thomas Mackenzie (Liberal)
1911-1914: John A. Millar (Liberal)
Executive: John A. Millar, Sir Joseph Ward, James Carroll, John Findlay, Roderick McKenzie, George Laurenson, David Buddo, Thomas Mackenzie (Liberal)
1914-1915: William Massey (Reform)
Executive: William Massey, Francis Bell, James Allen, Alexander Herdman, Heaton Rhodes, Francis Fisher, William Herries, William Fraser (Reform)
1915-1919: William Massey (Reform)
Executive: William Massey, Francis Bell, James Allen, William Herries (Reform), Sir Joseph Ward, George Warren Russell, William MacDonald, Josiah Hanan (Liberal)
1919: William Massey (Reform)
Executive: William Massey, Francis Bell, James Allen, William Herries, Heaton Rhodes, William Fraser, James Parr, William Nosworthy (Reform)
1919-1922: Sir Joseph Ward (Liberal)
Executive: William Massey, Francis Bell, Heaton Rhodes (Reform), Sir Joseph Ward, Thomas Wilford, William MacDonald (Liberal), James McCombs (Labour), Charles Statham (Independent)
1920: William MacDonald (Lib) dies, replaced by Apirana Ngata (Lib)
1922-1925: Sir Joseph Ward (Liberal)
Executive: William Massey, Francis Bell, William Downie Stewart (Reform), Sir Joseph Ward, Thomas Wilford (Liberal), Harry Holland, Michael Joseph Savage (Labour), Gordon Coates (Independent Liberal)
1925: William Massey (Ref) dies, replaced by Maui Pomare (Ref)
1925-1928: Sir Joseph Ward (Liberal)
Executive: William Downie Stewart, William Nosworthy, James Parr, Maui Pomare (Reform), Harry Holland, Michael Joseph Savage (Labour), Sir Joseph Ward (Liberal), Gordon Coates (Independent Liberal)
1926: James Parr (Ref) appointed High Commissioner, replaced by Richard Bollard (Ref)
1928-1930: Sir Joseph Ward (Liberal)
Executive: William Downie Stewart, Sir William Nosworthy (Reform), Sir Joseph Ward, Sir Apirana Ngata (Liberal), Harry Holland, Michael Joseph Savage (Labour), Gordon Coates (Independent Liberal), Harry Atmore (Independent Liberal)
1930: Sir Joseph Ward (Lib) dies, replaced by Bill Veitch (Lib)
1930-1931: Gordon Coates (Independent Liberal)
Executive: William Downie Stewart, Sir William Nosworthy (Reform), Sir Apirana Ngata, Bill Veitch (Liberal), Harry Holland, Michael Joseph Savage (Labour), Gordon Coates (Independent Liberal), Harry Atmore (Independent Liberal)
1931-1934: Gordon Coates (Independent Liberal)
Executive: Harry Holland, Michael Joseph Savage, Peter Fraser (Labour), William Downie Stewart, Alexander McLeod (Reform), Bill Veitch (Liberal), Gordon Coates (Independent Liberal), Harry Atmore (Independent Liberal)
1933: Harry Holland (Lab) dies, replaced by Walter Nash (Lab)
1934-1935: Harry Atmore (Independent Liberal)
Executive: Michael Joseph Savage, Peter Fraser, Walter Nash, John A. Lee (Labour), Keith Holyoake (Reform), George Forbes (Liberal), Gordon Coates (Independent Liberal), Harry Atmore (Independent Liberal)

The elective executive was a typically Liberal reform, being based on the democratic ideal of the Cabinet being reliant upon the confidence of the people of New Zealand - said people being entirely identifiable with the Liberal Party, and the MPs pertaining thereunto. Late in the long Liberal government, the annual attempts by backbenchers to get the reform passed finally wore down the majority, and - beginning after the 1908 election - the first elective Cabinet was chosen. Members of the House of Representatives voted on 7 positions, with the top 7 vote-getters entering Cabinet and choosing a Prime Minister from among their number, while the Legislative Council elected a single Minister. Despite the hopes of the backbenchers who had promoted the reform, Ward carefully selected an official ticket and ruthlessly whipped dissident Liberals to vote for his candidates in order to prevent a fluke Opposition member getting in.

The radical Liberals, however, got their revenge. By combining with the opposition Reform Party, they reacted against the obvious oligarchical stitch-up by passing a new reform in the next parliament. This time, the vote on the Executive would be open to all voters, and held concurrently with the next general election. Ironically, in the event, the number of radical Liberals elected to the Cabinet in this manner actually decreased. Even worse, the Dominion was now in the absurd situation where the House had fallen narrowly to the Reform Party, while the Liberals had equally narrowly held onto every seat on the Executive. Joseph Ward resigned immediately, being replaced by John A. Millar, who had desperately wanted to be Prime Minister. However, the experience of leading a Government without the confidence of either House of the General Assembly was not what he had had in mind.

In 1914, the electorate finally rectified their error of three years before, and the final terms of the deadlocked, do-nothing Liberal Government were put behind them. Or so they thought: after entering the First World War, new Prime Minister Bill Massey did the honourable thing and invited the Liberals into a National Government for the duration. He would have liked to expand the Cabinet (the work was now too much for 8 people, thus requiring the appointment of increasing numbers of undersecretaries as time went on) but statute prevented this, and instead he pressured half of his loyal followers to resign - casual vacancies were filled by a vote of both Houses to avoid the expense of a national by-election. The experiment with Coalition ended as soon as the war was over, but a mixture of Liberal self-seeking and the idealistic reformism of Reformer Francis Bell resulted in the passage of electoral reform for both the Legislative Council and the Executive. The latter would be elected by national-level STV, thus resulting in a reasonably proportional outcome which would still allow for the selection of the best men by the people at large.

The next decade saw a series of three-party governments, all led by Sir Joseph Ward as the compromise candidate between Reform and Labour - and all the while, the Liberal Party was declining into irrelevance and spinning off Independents at an alarming rate. This was a decade of pusillanimous compromise and missed opportunities, symbolised by the fact that both Ward and Massey were so comfortable in their arrangement that they died in the harness - and Massey's replacement as Reform leader was wheelchair-bound due to arthritis. Even the Labour Party, which opposed a system which would have forced them into permanent co-operation with the forces of reaction, became gradually tamed as even its boldest orators, Holland and Savage, grew accustomed to seeking limited progress along institutionally entrenched battle-lines. Their main flurry of activity was in putting up Bob Semple as a forlorn-hope candidate when a casual vacancy sprang up in 1926 - an attention-seeking gesture, as by convention these replacements were unopposed.

The Elective Executive system reached its nadir at the time of the Great Depression, when the big, established names who had the public profile to be elected to a consensus-driven Cabinet proved unequal to the task of finding quick and effective solutions to a cataclysm for which quietly prosperous New Zealand was unprepared. The new Prime Minister, Gordon Coates, was a centre-right Independent, who himself favoured moderately statist solutions to the crisis, but people like Veitch and Downie Stewart dug in to ensure his compliance in passing their arid laissez-faire policies, while Labour and another Independent Liberal, Atmore, began to dabble in Social Credit.

Finally, after the 1934 election, Labour had a majority in the House and four out of eight seats in the Cabinet on a pledge of - among other things - abolishing the Elective Executive. This was especially urgent, as the inconsiderate electorate had filled one of those seats with the maverick monetary reformer Jack Lee, with whom Labour Leader Michael Joseph Savage had a torrid relationship. By contrast, Labour never got round to abolishing the relatively benign Legislative Council - or, in fact, delivering on a great many of their manifesto promises. Their leaders had been inured to moderation and indolence.

With the support of their friendly Independent, Harry Atmore (who was allowed to be a decorative Prime Minister for a short while), Labour pushed through a return to the status quo ante and - at long last - achieved the ostensible goal of the original proponents of the idea: a Government responsible to the electorate as mediated through a democratic majority in the House. The standard of government in New Zealand does not seem to have notably improved as a result of this.
 
Doctor Who Unbound, Sympathy For The Devil: The PMs

1964 - 1971: Harold Wilson (Labour)

1971 - 1976: Enoch Powell (Conservative, Government of National Emergency)

1977 - 1982: Tony Benn (New Labour)

1982 - 1988: Shirley Williams (United Party)

1988 - 1992: Kenneth Clarke (United Party)

1992 - 2002: George Galloway (New Labour)

2002 - 2006: Jeffrey Archer (Britannia)

2006: Nigel Farage (Britannia)

2006: Ross Brinnicombe-Wood (emergency rule)

2006 - 2020: Harriet Jones (Democratic Union Party leading coalition, then Democratic Union)

2020 - xx:
Daniel Barton (United Party)


Everything Wilson had achieved was undone by "Black Thursday" - the Auton attack that saw thousands dead across London, home counties, and Midlands, including numerous members of government, military, infrastructure, and broadcasting. Under the direction of UNIT's Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Britain underwent the economically ruinous "plastic purges" to prevent the Nestene reaching Earth again. Thus the country fell into an economic pit, seeing Labour collapse and Powell's Tories take control. But subsequent alien attacks and scientific disasters could barely be halted, especially not the Silurian terror campaigns that climaxed in a bomb crater in the middle of London and UNIT discredited. A coalition government could not hold the country together and the public turned to Tony Benn's socialism as a way out.

National economic planning, "Fair Rations", and union collaboration more-or-less kept the lights on but the deprivation and increasing lawlessness still blighted the nation, and the rest of the world was in hideous shape as well. China would not even remain in the UN after disastrous peace conferences. Shirley Williams' union of disgruntled Tories, 'Old Labour', and the Liberals took control and had four years of economic surgery to get Britain moving before Mondas in 1986 smacked the country back into recession. A second Cyber-raid on Windsor in 1988 saw Williams resign in an unsuccessful attempt to save the party from association, and rabble-rouser Galloway got New Labour back into power. Through grubby acts of corruption, patronage, and "police investigations", Galloway grimly held onto power and regretted it when it meant he was in charge when the Ke Le Divisions went mad across China. Britain was once again falling off the world stage, hit by other country's crises.

Archer took advantage of this, with his nationalist Britannia Party sweeping to power and promising to make Britain a powerhouse once more - with mass privatisations, legal reforms, and police & army spending to match it. Parts of the country seethed, other parts were glad at least things seemed secure and our new weapons sure looked impressive and you could walk the streets at night and wait oh no the Slitheen just ate the Prime Minister and wore his skin.

UNIT-backed European forces landed on Britain to secure the country's nuclear arsenal and clear out the aliens. Junior minister Nigel Farage was the only Cabinet member left alive and control slipped through his fingers, and he made the truly dumb decision to violently resist the peacekeepers. UNIT officer General Brinnicombe-Wood was put in emergency control of the country until a government could be elected, and Harriet Jones of the minority Democratic Union Party would find herself running a four-party coalition through multiple successive alien attacks.

Willing to do near-Bennite command spending on social issues and Archerite defence spending, Jones narrowly kept the country together through the blood and thunder of the late 00s, and came out of it Prime Minister of an elected majority and with a huge deficit. She continued to build up "Britain's Golden Age" but proved unable to ever bring the country's debts down, and the party was over in 2018 when "Spidergate" hit Sheffield and the clean-up made the house of cards fall down. With a recession on, the United Party was back in but increasingly dominated by the right wing monetarists, and tech mogul Daniel Barton became Prime Minister with promises of great change...
 
Things Can Always Be Worse:
2019-2023: Boris Johnson (Conservative)

2019 (Majority) def: Jermey Corbyn (Labour), Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrats), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Johnathan Bartley-Sian Berry (Green Party)
2023-2024: Grant Shapps (Conservative)
2024-2032: Keir Starmer (Labour)
2024 (Lib Dem & SNP Confidence & Supply) def: Grant Shapps (Conservative), Ed Davey (Lib Dems), Kate Forbes (SNP), Johnathan Bartley-Sian Berry (Green Party), Nigel Farage (Reform)
2025 Scottish Referendum: Remain 54%, Leave 46%
2025 British Referendum: Federalism 60%, Union 40%
2026 MMP Referendum: For 53%, Against 47%
2028 (Coalition with Greens & Lib Dems) def: Rishi Sunak (Conservative), Ed Davey (Lib Dems), Kate Forbes (SNP), Mhiari Black (Scottish Progressive Party), Sian Berry-Magid Magid (Green), Nigel Farage (Reform), Laura Pidcock (Workers)

2032-2036: Nus Ghani (Conservative)
2032 (Coalition with Reform & Workers) def: Keir Starmer (Labour), Layla Moran (Lib Dems), Kate Forbes (SNP), Mhairi Black (SPP), Alexandra Philips-Magid Magid (Green), Ben Bradley (Reform), Laura Pidcock (Workers)
2036-2042: Angela Rayner (Labour)
2036 (Coalition with Greens) def: Nus Ghani (Conservative), Layla Moran (Lib Dems), Mhairi Black (SPP), Tom Pashby-Alexandra Philips (Green), Ben Bradley-Laura Pidcock (Workers-Reform), Ash Sarkar-Bradley Allsop (Alternative)
2040 (Coalition with Greens & Alternative) def: Elliot Colburn (Conservative), Katharine Macy (Lib Dems), Mhairi Black (SPP), Tom Pashby-Talia Ormand (Green), Darren Grimes (Reform Alliance), Ash Sarkar-Bradley Allsop (Alternative)

2042-: Nadia Whittome (Labour)
2044 (Coalition with Greens) def: Elliot Colburn (Conservative), Katharine Macy (Lib Dems), Mhairi Black (SPP), Tom Pashby-Talia Ormand (Green), Darren Grimes (Reform Alliance), Ash Sarkar-Lucy Madigan (Alternative)

2044...And so Labour wins another term, the Socialist Promise of Nadia Whittome and her Deputy Leader Arthur Webber curtailing the Left Wing Populism and Aging Corbynism of Alternative, Elliot Colburn’s bland but stable leadership is no match for the power of Darren Grimes and the schizophrenic Reform Alliance, Tom Pashby and Talia Ormand have showcased there Green Mandate for Change that isn’t ‘Build More Sea Walls’, Mhairi Black is rather confused how her party has managed to survive whilst the SNP descended into a squabbling match over Referendum’s, Trans Rights and Sturgeon’s legacy and Katherine Macy is just happy that the Liberal Democrat’s are still going really, gained two extra seats, thanks MMP.

Oh also the NIP is threatening to succeed from the Federal Union to uphold Burnham’s memory, the Netherlands is underwater, President Cortez is fighting the illegitimate Free States and Pakistan is radioactive slag. So...not the best scenario.

I chose someone I knew for the other Alternative leader because it isn’t hard to see him leading a Corbynite Left Wing Populist outfit. No one tell him this though.
 
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I think this is the stupidest idea I've ever had for a list.

For A Certain Value of Elected

Presidents of the United Kingdom:


2000-2024: Elizabeth Windsor (Independent)
def 2000: George Galloway (REVIVE--The People Power Movement), Jon Temple (Res Publica)
def 2005: unopposed
def 2010: unopposed
def 2015: unopposed
def 2020: unopposed

2024-2030: Charles Windsor (Indepedent, then Green)
def 2025: unopposed
2030-xxxx: Harry Windsor (National Health Action)
def 2030: William Windsor (Independent), Charles Windsor (Green)

The 'Millennium Republic' project was perhaps an example of Blair overreaching himself. The original idea was simple--Britain would be free from being represented on the world stage by an arbitrary unelected member of the Windsor family, and instead be able to choose some worthy statesman who could properly act as a unifying figure for the whole of the UK. Unfortunately, while the PM had managed to talk Elizabeth round into stepping down, he hadn't entirely reckoned on the queen's intense popularity with the public, which had persisted despite the scandals around Andrew and the death of Diana. When wealthy private citizen Elizabeth Windsor announced her independent run for the Presidency, she was quickly endorsed by a vast array of figures and parties, and after Labour's preferred candidate David Attenborough declined to run, there was little other alternative. Elizabeth was swept to victory over a pair of republican campaigns that spent more time attacking each other than her, and proceeded to preside much as she had done since 1953.

Then, in 2024, things changed. Again. While the country went into mourning over the death of a woman most still referred to as 'the Queen', Charles Windsor, private citizen and owner of Duchy Originals Organic Food, was startled to discover he was still next in line. Apparently Elizabeth had decided that she may as well go with tradition in naming her Vice-President. The wave of public sympathy was enough for Charles to sweep back into office, but then the trouble started. Unlike his mother, Charles wasn't content to let the country run itself. Many saw his open alignment with a political party, and his subsequent lobbying on their behalf (he even made an appearance in their European election campaign video), as not very fitting of the standards of the office. Others merely saw the causes he lobbied for as problems, disliking his preferences for premodern architecture and population control, wishing that he would speak out on inequality and mental health. Eventually, things came to a head.

The 2030 election was fundamentally a battle between two different visions of the Presidency. Should it be an impartial figurehead that represented the nation without changing it, or should it be a politicised role that tried to change the nation at the risk of no longer representing it? Charles' campaign for re-election quickly fell by the wayside, with a well-publicised falling out with new Green leader Magid Magid losing him the party's support. The election had become a race between two brothers, neither of whom seemed to really want to be there. William reiterated over and over that he was only running due to the tarnishing of the Presidential office by his father, and Harry had only agreed to run under his minor-party banner because of a perception by the public that only a Windsor could win. Now, after a family spat cunningly disguised as an election concludes, and the UK's first Presidential Instagram Account begins operation, the British people wonder how their Presidential system ended up as the worst of both worlds.
 
Things Can Always Be Worse:
2019-2023: Boris Johnson (Conservative)

2019 (Majority) def: Jermey Corbyn (Labour), Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrats), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Johnathan Bartley-Sian Berry (Green Party)
2023-2024: Grant Shapps (Conservative)
2024-2032: Keir Starmer (Labour)
2024 (Lib Dem & SNP Confidence & Supply) def: Grant Shapps (Conservative), Ed Davey (Lib Dems), Kate Forbes (SNP), Johnathan Bartley-Sian Berry (Green Party), Nigel Farage (Reform)
2025 Scottish Referendum: Remain 54%, Leave 46%
2025 British Referendum: Federalism 60%, Union 40%
2026 MMP Referendum: For 53%, Against 47%
2028 (Coalition with Greens & Lib Dems) def: Rishi Sunak (Conservative), Ed Davey (Lib Dems), Kate Forbes (SNP), Mhiari Black (Scottish Progressive Party), Sian Berry-Magid Magid (Green), Nigel Farage (Reform), Laura Pidcock (Workers)

2032-2036: Nus Ghani (Conservative)
2032 (Coalition with Reform & Workers) def: Keir Starmer (Labour), Layla Moran (Lib Dems), Kate Forbes (SNP), Mhairi Black (SPP), Alexandra Philips-Magid Magid (Green), Ben Bradley (Reform), Laura Pidcock (Workers)
2036-2042: Angela Rayner (Labour)
2036 (Coalition with Greens) def: Nus Ghani (Conservative), Layla Moran (Lib Dems), Mhairi Black (SPP), Tom Pashby-Alexandra Philips (Green), Ben Bradley-Laura Pidcock (Workers-Reform), Ash Sarkar-Bradley Allsop (Alternative)
2040 (Coalition with Greens & Alternative) def: Elliot Colburn (Conservative), Katharine Macy (Lib Dems), Mhairi Black (SPP), Tom Pashby-Talia Ormand (Green), Darren Grimes (Reform Alliance), Ash Sarkar-Bradley Allsop (Alternative)

2042-: Nadia Whittome (Labour)
2044 (Coalition with Greens) def: Elliot Colburn (Conservative), Katharine Macy (Lib Dems), Mhairi Black (SPP), Tom Pashby-Talia Ormand (Green), Darren Grimes (Reform Alliance), Ash Sarkar-Lucy Madigan (Alternative)

2044...And so Labour wins another term, the Socialist Promise of Nadia Whittome and her Deputy Leader Arthur Webber curtailing the Left Wing Populism and Aging Corbynism of Alternative, Elliot Colburn’s bland but stable leadership is no match for the power of Darren Grimes and the schizophrenic Reform Alliance, Tom Pashby and Talia Ormand have showcased there Green Mandate for Change that isn’t ‘Build More Sea Walls’, Mhairi Black is rather confused how her party has managed to survive whilst the SNP descended into a squabbling match over Referendum’s, Trans Rights and Sturgeon’s legacy and Katherine Macy is just happy that the Liberal Democrat’s are still going really, gained two extra seats, thanks MMP.

Oh also the NIP is threatening to succeed from the Federal Union to uphold Burnham’s memory, the Netherlands is underwater, President Cortez is fighting the illegitimate Free States and Pakistan is radioactive slag. So...not the best scenario.

I chose someone I knew for the other Alternative leader because it isn’t hard to see him leading a Corbynite Left Wing Populist outfit. No one tell him this though.

I half jokingly told Arthur Webber on Twitter that I'd write him as an MP in some alternate history or scifi. I didnt tell him this had already happened.
 
Leaders of the Labour Party:
1963-1976: Harold Wilson
1976-1979: Michael Foot
1979-1984: Denis Healey
1984-: Neil Kinnock


Deputy Leaders of the Labour Party:
1960-1970: George Brown
1970-1972: Roy Jenkins
1972-1976: Ted Short
1976-1979: Denis Healey
1979-1984: Roy Hattersley
1984-: Micheal Meacher


Prime Ministers of Great Britain:
1974-1976: Harold Wilson (Labour)

1974 (Majority) def: Ted Heath (Conservative), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1976-1978: Michael Foot (Labour)
1978-1985: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)
1978 (Majority) def: Michael Foot (Labour), Roy Jenkins-David Steel (Alliance)
1983 (Majority) def: Denis Healey (Labour), David Owen-David Steel (Alliance), Bob Cryer (Solidarity)
1985-1988: Michael Heseltine (Conservative)
1986 (Coalition with *SDP) def: Neil Kinnock (Labour), David Owen (*SDP), Shirley Williams-David Steel (Alliance), Pat Wall (Solidarity)
1988-: Neil Kinnock (Labour)
1988 (Majority) def: Michael Heseltine (Conservative), Rosie Barnes (*SDP), Paddy Ashdown (Alliance), Frank Field-Liz Davies (Solidarity)

1976, Wilson steps down and whilst in the midst of a chaotic leadership election James Callaghan slips in the bath and suffers a concussion. Whilst not enough to stop him losing the first ballot it does give Jenkins a slight boost in support which makes him stay on the second ballot. With Jenkins and Callaghan splitting the Right, Foot manages to break in on the Left but any perception that this would mean Trotskyism and Red Flags in Britain was sadly mistaken. Foot's Government besieged by financial problems and other issues is unable to succeed in dealing with the raises in unemployment and problems with the Trade Unions, however Foot does decide to promote some new young radicals to the Front Bench with folks like Gould and importantly Kinnock getting some Junior Minister jobs. Kinnock in the dying rumblings of the Foot Government is briefly promoted to Secretary of Education as Roy Jenkins and Co decide that Labour's time is up and creates the Social Democrats decreeing that Benn was too strong an influence on Foot. In the spring of 1978, Labour goes to the polls and despite putting up a good fight, Thatcher wins a substantial majority as the Alliance bites into Labour's vote.

The subsequent leadership election is won by Denis Healey decisively against Peter Shore and the Right comes into power of the Labour Party machinations...it doesn't work out. The hunt against Militant becomes a clusterfuck and instead of a slow trickle and death of British Trotskyism the massive kick outs and perception by some on the Left that Militant is being unfairly treated by the Right means a bizarre gaggle of Bennites, Trots and Left Wing oddities join 'Solidarity'. The economy bounces back, Thatcher is rather popular and the Falklands occurs, leading to 1983 becoming a wash for Labour as Healey is unable to deal with the more modern campaigns of the Conservatives and Alliance with a landslide victory occurring for Thatcher. The subsequent leadership elections are considered a referendum on the Labour Right's ability to govern and with the Kinnock-Meacher ticket winning indicating that the answer is a firm 'NO'!

Kinnock helps correct the ship, leading a Modern but Left Wing Labour in reaction to the failure of the Labour Right to modernise either, meanwhile Solidarity's mask slips off during problems with the Liverpool Council, Thatcher battles Heseltine in 1985 over Westland and crashes and burns as Heseltine becomes leader and Owen starts disagreeing with David Steel. The chaos within the Conservative Government ripples outwards and what seems to be a definite Conservative victory becomes a hung parliament with Conservative advantage as Solidarity popularity tumbles off a cliff, Kinnock is able to use the chaos of the Tory Government to his advantage and David Owen nearly destroys the Alliance by taking the 'Gang of Four 2' with him into a coalition with the Conservatives. Within the next two chaotic years nothing much is done and Heseltine stays around by just his finger nails whilst Owen buggers off to the House of Lords in the Winter of 1988.

1988 Heseltine lose a vote of confidence and once again the parties go to the nation, and after 10 years of chaotic rule, Kinnock's stable vision of a Modern, Nuclear Free, Social Democratic Britain seems to appeal to the public over whatever Heseltine has to offer.

And so Kinnock wins and his vision of achieving a 'Bevanite 21st Century' as he joked at the 1987 Labour Party conference may turn out to be true...
 
I half jokingly told Arthur Webber on Twitter that I'd write him as an MP in some alternate history or scifi. I didnt tell him this had already happened.
We must ensure that Webber never finds out about this forum for this reason (I half joke). But he would be a fun character in a '2017 Goes Differently or Something' timeline or something like that.
 
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