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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

Good damn you make this into a convincingly pleasant miliverse
Pleasingly dull and unstressfull. In my head Khan takes over from Jarvis hence Lammy becoming Mayor.

I decided to poke fun at the idea that Mayor doesn't work for a region wide title by hanging a lampshade on it. I may also have flanderised Jarvis incompetence but once I picked him it was the obvious way to go.

And a surprising number of Milibands inner circle of MPs represented Yorkshire constituencies hence the Yorkshire Mafia

@KingCrawa Liam Fox and Theresa Villers may be a bridge to far on the defection front, but I'm happy to see someone remembers our twitter conversations ;)

I thought they might be but I just thought sod it. Send over the awkward squad.
It would mean she has to resign as NI sec but sod it.
 
1940-1945: Winston Churchill (Conservative leading War Government with Labour, Liberal Nationals, Liberals and National Labour)
1945-1947: Winston Churchill (Conservative leading War Government with Liberal Nationals and National Labour)
1947-1949: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1947 (Minority, with Liberal confidence and supply) def. Anthony Eden (National Government - Conservatives, Liberal Nationals), Richard Acland (Common Wealth), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal)
1949-1950: Waldron Smithers (Conservative minority, with Liberal confidence and supply)
1950-1968: Richard Acland (Common Wealth)
1950 (Majority) def. Herbert Morrison (Labour), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Waldron Smithers (Conservative)
1954 (Majority) def. Herbert Morrison (Left Opposition - Labour, Left Liberals), Harold Macmillan (Right Opposition - Conservatives, Right Liberals)
1958 (Majority) def. Megan Lloyd George (Progressive), Gwilym Lloyd-George (Democratic)
1962 (Majority) def. Gwilym Lloyd-George (Democratic), Megan Lloyd George (Progressive)
1966 (Majority) def. Gwilym Lloyd-George (United Opposition)

1968-1980: Terence Milligan (Common Wealth)
1971 (Majority) def. Enoch Powell (Common Sense), Mark Bonham Carter (Common Good)
1975 (Majority) def. Julian Amery (Common Sense), Mark Bonham Carter (Common Good)


Common Wealth - Britain's dominant party since the Conservatives made themselves the Party of Armageddon and Labour the Party of the Death Winter of '49. Uphold the national values of preparedness, collectivism and industrial democracy.

Common Sense - Arguably the modern incarnation of Toryism, they have emerged out of the ash of Conservatism, Macmillanite Democracy and now pursue a path of restoring the concept of private property and of alignment with Capone's military regime against the Fourth Reich.

Common Good - Their heirs of Gladstone, or so they claim. They wish to see a rolling back of the authoritarian survivor-state, the re-establishment of the concept of volunteer work, and believe a diplomatic channel should be opened up with the City Formerly Known As Warsaw.
 
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2017-2019: Theresa May (Conservative)
2017 (Minority with DUP confidence & supply): Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Tim Farron (Liberal Democrats), Arlene Foster (DUP), Gerry Adams (Sinn Féin)
2019-2020: Amber Rudd (Conservative minority with DUP confidence & supply)
2020-2023: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)

2020 (Majority): Amber Rudd (Conservative), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Arlene Foster (DUP-DVP Coalition), Sir Vince Cable (Liberal Democrats), Mary Lou McDonald (Sinn Féin)
2023-2030: Diane Abbott (Labour)
2025 (Majority): Gavin Williamson (Conservative), Arlene Foster (DUP-DVP Coalition), Shona Robinson (SNP), Layla Moran (Liberal Democrats), Mary Lou McDonald (Sinn Féin)
2030-Present: Jacob Rees-Mogg (Conservative - Patriotic Alliance)
2030 (Majority): Diane Abbott (Labour), Gary Middleton (DUP-DVP Coalition - Patriotic Alliance), Layla Moran/Miles Briggs (LibDem-Scottish Progressive Alliance), Humza Yousaf (SNP), Ed Miliband (British Section of the Génération.s Movement), Mary Lou McDonald (Sinn Féin)

This is based on a dream I had in the where political correctness is the most important issue in British politics. After Rudd defeats Boris Johnson for the Tory leadership, the DUP expands nationwide with the support of the insurgent Democrats & Veterans Party, is able to elect a dozen MPs to beat out the Liberal Democrats for fourth place. Corbyn wins a majority government and implements an elected House of Lords and refuses to enter into the Iran War with President Trump. Abbott takes over after his 2023 resignation (defeating Keir Starmer), and largely continues Corbyn's policies to a reduced majority in 2025. Jacob Rees-Mogg, winning the leadership on his third try, forms a Patriotic Alliance with the DUP-DVP Coalition to defeat Labour. Despite the Scottish party breaking off, JRM is able to win a majority due to Labour, the LibDems, the SNP, and Génération.s splitting the left-wing vote. Abbott's last-ditch attempts to form a government with the support of moderate Tories are a legendary political disaster. Just as Corbyn and Abbott changed the left forever, Rees-Mogg hopes to do the same to the right.
 
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Ehhhhhh, doesn't seem all that creative tbh. Too many ripped from the headlines picks.
 
Ehhhhhh, doesn't seem all that creative tbh. Too many ripped from the headlines picks.
Yeah. If I was to pick a possible future Tory PM, it would be Tom Tugendhat. Military veteran, fairly smart man, and if the Tories are somehow still in power after Brexit happens, he's well-positioned there as the foreign policy guy, and could be the "Post-Brexit" candidate.
 
Ehhhhhh, doesn't seem all that creative tbh. Too many ripped from the headlines picks.
Given that May, Corbyn, and Cable have been in politics since the cretaceous period, party leaders aren’t always the freshest choices.
 
Given that May, Corbyn, and Cable have been in politics since the cretaceous period, party leaders aren’t always the freshest choices.
I mean, both Cable and May have only been ‘in politics’ in the sense of relevance since the mid90s, and both came into the national stage in the early 2000s, but sure they’re ancient I guess.
 
Ehhhhhh, doesn't seem all that creative tbh. Too many ripped from the headlines picks.
Excitement over Patriotic Alliances aside, swap out Abbott for Emily Thornberry and you have a pretty realistic shot at the OTL 2020s. I'm quite a fan of 'well, here's a serious stab at FH' lists.

I mean, both Cable and May have only been ‘in politics’ in the sense of relevance since the mid90s, and both came into the national stage in the early 2000s, but sure they’re ancient I guess.
Clegg, Cameron and Miliband became party leaders 2, 4 and 5 years after entering parliament, I think this encapsulated the Generation Pygmy attitude many had already picked up and cemented it. Then when we moved decisively against that as a country again, it made the 90s the new ancient.
 
Yeah. If I was to pick a possible future Tory PM, it would be Tom Tugendhat. Military veteran, fairly smart man, and if the Tories are somehow still in power after Brexit happens, he's well-positioned there as the foreign policy guy, and could be the "Post-Brexit" candidate.
Rory Stewart ticks all those boxes and more. Only difference is he isn't a committee chair
 
The last military veteran (or 'former soldier', or 'member of the armed forces', or 'ex-Army type', or any of the other Not What The Americans Say versions of that particular status) to lead a political party was IDS, so
 
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1909-1913: William Howard Taft (Republican)
1908 (with James S. Sherman) def. William Jennings Bryan (Democrat)
1913-1921: Woodrow Wilson (Democrat)
1912 (with Thomas R. Marshall) def. William Howard Taft (Republican), Eugene V. Debs (Socialist), Hiram Johnson (Progressive)
1916 (with Thomas R. Marshall) def. Charles W. Fairbanks (Republican), Arthur LeSueur (Socialist)

1921-1925: Leonard Wood (Republican)
1920 (with William Gibbs McAdoo) def. Woodrow Wilson (Democrat), Eugene V. Debs (Socialist)
1925-1927: Leonard Wood (National Union)
1924 (with John W. Davis) def. Parley P. Christensen (Socialist), William Gibbs McAdoo (Democrat)
1927-1933: John W. Davis (National Union)
1928 (with Charles G. Dawes) def. Victor L. Berger (Socialist), Theodore G. Bilbo (Democrat)
1933-1937: Norman Thomas (Socialist)
1932 (with James R. Cox) def. John W. Davis (National Union), James A. Reed (Democrat)
 
Since when did looks matter in the the PM stakes.

Oh excuse me I appear to have mentally skipped 1997 - 2016
It doesn't matter a huge amount but Ed Miliband got a lot of stick for his appearance, and Rory Stewart is probably the least attractive man I've ever seen in politics (in a nice way), and that will be a limiting factor in his career.
 
It doesn't matter a huge amount but Ed Miliband got a lot of stick for his appearance, and Rory Stewart is probably the least attractive man I've ever seen in politics (in a nice way), and that will be a limiting factor in his career.
Fair enough.

It shouldn't btw. He'd make a far better Foreign Secretary than Boris
 
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