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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State
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List of Presidents of the Pacific Republic:
1862-1870: William M. Gwin (Chivalry)[1]
1862-1870: William M. Gwin (Chivalry)[1]
1861 (with William T'Vault) elected unopposed
1865 (with William T'Vault) elected unopposed
1870-1878: William T'Vault (Chivalry)[2]1869 (with Andrés Pico) def. Henry Perrin Coon (People's)
1873 (with Andrés Pico) def. James McClatchy (People's)
1878-1883: Albert Maver Winn (People's)[3] 1877 (with William Tell Coleman) def. Volney E. Howard (Chivalry)
1881 (with William Tell Coleman) no legal opposition
1883-1888: William Tell Coleman (People's)[4]1885 (with George Hearst) def. Denis Kearney (Workingmen's)
1888-1891: George Hearst (People's)[5]1889 (with A.J. Bryant) def. Isaac Smith Kalloch (Workingmen's)
1891-1894: A.J. Bryant (People's)(vacant)
1894-1902: Sylvester Pennoyer (Workingmen's)[6]1893 (with Valentine McClatchy) def. A.J. Bryant (People's)
1897 (with Valentine McClatchy) def. Will J. Hunsaker (People's)
1902-1910: Wyatt Earp (People's)[7]1901 (with James D. Phelan) def. Sylvester Pennoyer (Workingmen's)
1905 (with James D. Phelan) def. Valentine McClatchy (Workingmen's)
1910-1914: William R. Hearst (People's)[8]1909 (with Joseph Knowland) def. John Sparks (Workingmen's)
1914-19xx: Harry Lane (Workingmen's)[9]1913 (with Hiram Johnson) def. Morris Goldwater (People's)
1. William M. Gwin, Senator and leader of the secessionist cause on the west coast. He guided California out of the Union, as the supposed radicalism of the abolitionists became apparent. Following the lynching of Joseph Lane, southern Oregon, a cesspool of secessionist fervor, joined the lot as the state of Jackson. Together, the two states formed the Republic of the Pacific. The mere militias of Pacifica were no where near as organized as their southern counterpart, having to resort to bushwhacking tactics. Despite this, upon intervention from the British and the French, the war was won by 1863 and the Union was fractured. The Pacificans passed a constitution modeled after that of the Republic of Venice, allowing for complete Chiv dominance. In the following years, the Gwin Administration spent its time building up the nation, as well as expanding its territory. Pacifican-populated mine settlements were established in Sonora and Baja California, leading to their eventual annexation during the French Intervention. The Alyeskan colony was bought from the Russian Empire using Californian gold. An actual trained military was created, through the efforts of General Albert S. Johnston.
The Dixie-Pacific Transnational Railroad, which was to lead from Texas and end in San Diego, thereby completing James Gadsden's vision, began construction as well. Of course, a railroad needed workers, and there weren't nearly enough slaves to complete the project. But Asian workers were coerced into the terrible job for equally terrible pay (some went without actual pay, instead given food and location to sleep). Soon enough, this exploited work force expanded into other sectors, such as factories and farms. With the new demand, more immigrants were brought over. As more and more Asians "stole" jobs from hardworking white folk, people got upset.
2. William T'Vault had had an instrumental role in the secession of southern Oregon, and was made Vice-President of the Pacific Republic for it. The important position made him the obvious successor to Gwin. He would go up against the People's Party of San Francisco, formed from before the war on the platform of frontier justice and nativism. T'Vault still won, but the opposition only grew stronger as the years went on. He inherited various issues from his predecessor. The most notable was the rampant crime throughout the nation. Whether it be Unionist guerrillas, natives, or just plain old outlaws, not much could be done to stop them. Pacifican citizens decided to take the matter into their own hands, and various towns throughout the nations formed their own vigilance committees to take care of crimes. While somewhat effective, these Committees often turned their eyes on to Asian workers and political opponents of the People's Party. As such, the Pacifican Congress opted to pass a law banning all vigilance committees.
3. The Populists went an interesting direction in their choice of candidate. General Albert Winn had been a Chiv and a slaveowner of southern origin, but had also been a fervent labor unionist and supporter of the San Francisco Vigilantes back in 1856. When the Anti-Vigilante Act was passed, he officially jumped ship and switched parties. Shortly after, he ran for President and won, despite his low-profile plus all the chicanery that occurred against his favor. His opponent, Volney E. Howard, did not like this very much, as did his voter base. Supported by the military, they took Los Angeles, forcing Winn and his loyalists to flee the Capitol. The two factions were generally split between the south and the north (asides from Jackson), the former supporting Howard's claim, and the latter Winn. However, while the Winn-ites outnumbered the Chivs, they were much better equipped and trained. To add to that, the Confederacy and Mexico sent equipment and volunteers to help them out, while the United States did the same for the other side. The Pacifican Civil War would last a brutal 3 years, ending in the eventual surrender of Howard and his loyalists following the Battle of Los Angeles.
The Pacifican Constitution was outdated and extremely biased in favor of the mercantile class, which lead to Winn calling for a Convention. The new constitution followed the tenants that of the United States' Constitution. The now democratically-elected Congress would go on to pass much legislation, such as the eight-hour work day, restrictions on Asiatic immigration and employment, prohibition of the sale of alcohol, and the repeal of the Anti-Vigilante Act. Another thing of note, was that some influential Populists openly supported the idea of re-joining the Union. Winn responded with a firm no, assuring the nation's independence, having fought for Pacifica as an officer during the War of Secession.
The great President Albert Maver Winn would eventually meet his end on August 26, 1883, dying from natural causes (though some conspiracists of the time placed blame on his vice-president and successor). His corpse would be laid to rest in Sacramento, where it remains till this day in the Winn Memorial Hall.
4. William Tell Coleman, leader of the original San Francisco Vigilance Committee, and one of the founders of the People's Party, did not share many opinions with A.M. Winn. Coleman was a businessman who was not fond of unions, believing them to be breeding grounds for anarchism. He was in fact rather vocal about it, leading to Denis Kearney among other socialists walking out of the convention to found the Workingmen's Party. Things only got worse from here, as strikes for better working conditions met resistance from vigilantes employed by the bosses. Among this, many citizens began violence against the now unemployed Asians of Pacifica. While Coleman had never been fond of them, he and his supporters could not stand for such disorder, leading to many Vigilance Committees defending Asians, in contrast to only a few years prior, where they would have been targeting them themselves. Violence continued, leading to the "Lion of the Vigilantes" being cut down in 1888 by a disgruntled worker employed at one of his mines.
5. Coleman's successor, however, was able to (relatively) calm the masses. Though extremely wealthy, he had portrayed himself as a man of the people, and who earned every penny he made fairly. The workingman could relate to this President, unlike his predecessor, hence Hearst was able to organize meetings between the bosses and labor leaders, forcing them to make a settlement. The issue took up most of Hearst's term, which ended when he died of cancer. His replacement, Andrew Jackson Bryant, would most notably annex the Sandwich Islands into the Pacific Republic.
6. Sylvester Pennoyer had been elected as Governor of Jackson on the platform of Sinophobia and populism. He won the Presidency with about the same principles. The majority of his first term was promoting various bills in favor of labor unions, including an amendment insuring the right workers' right to organize. He also succeeded in breaking up the powerful monopolies of Pacific. He did have fails however, mainly in his attempts to increase Presidential power, as well as put the nation on a silver standard, the latter being controversial enough to result in his Attorney-General William Jefferson Hunsaker to not only switch parties, but run against him for President. Pennoyer would attempt to run for a third-term, but lost to the one and only...
7. Wyatt Earp, the man that brought law back to Sonora. An American volunteer who opted to stay after the Civil War, he would eventually become Marshal, taking part in hunting down some of the last vestiges of Chiv loyalists, who had turned into nothing more than low-down bandits. In his quest, he had incurred quite the reputation, ending up with him being elected Governor of Sonora in 1898. Four years later he was convinced to run for the Presidency, with the People's Party believing him to be the only candidate to stand a chance against the rather popular "Sylpester Annoyer". Earp sought to modernize the Army and the Navy, as well as pursue a military dominance in the Pacific. A formal military alliance was also made with the United States. His administration, as did Populist Presidents prior, came into conflict with labor unions, especially the New Virginia Massacre, which resulted in many deaths when the Sonoran Rangers were ordered to remove striking copper miners. Earp would leave office with a mixed reputation, with an even worse one in later years.
8. William Randolph Hearst, newspaper tycoon and son of President George Hearst, could have really run in either political party, however, his wealthy status did not appeal to the Workingmen as it did Populists. He ran on a platform rather progressive for his party, mainly that of political reformism and anti-corruption. Still, Hearst would have most likely lost the election had it not been for his opponent's running mate, Eugene Schmitz, corruption to have been revealed the public. He would win of course, but was unable to implement much of his progressive legislation before something else proved to be a much bigger issue, and that was the Great War. His predecessor had allied the nation with the United States, thus Pacifica was obligated to join the war on the side of the Coalition. However, Hearst ended up making things worse when, in his deep distrust for both the British and the Japanese, provoked them into a naval battle. To his credit, they would have most likely joined the war as enemies, yet he was still blamed for bringing them into the conflict. Previously, there was only one front to worry about (Confederacy and Mexico), but with the addition of Britain, Canada became one as well. There was also the Pacific to now worry about. While Japanese-Pacificans were put into interment camps (a tactic employed again by the Pacific government in the Second Pacific War), the Coalition forces in North America continued to lose ground. Hearst was extremely unpopular, and it was clear that re-election was impossible, leading to the President announcing that he would not run again.
9. Senator Harry Lane, grandson of Joseph Lane, won in a landslide against Hearst. One of the few Congressman to have voted against entering the Great War, his ascension to the Presidency served as a 'I told you so' to Congress. First order of business was getting Pacifica out of the war, which he did at the Treaty of London. The treaty granted the Sandwich Islands to Japan, and reparations to both nations.
The Dixie-Pacific Transnational Railroad, which was to lead from Texas and end in San Diego, thereby completing James Gadsden's vision, began construction as well. Of course, a railroad needed workers, and there weren't nearly enough slaves to complete the project. But Asian workers were coerced into the terrible job for equally terrible pay (some went without actual pay, instead given food and location to sleep). Soon enough, this exploited work force expanded into other sectors, such as factories and farms. With the new demand, more immigrants were brought over. As more and more Asians "stole" jobs from hardworking white folk, people got upset.
2. William T'Vault had had an instrumental role in the secession of southern Oregon, and was made Vice-President of the Pacific Republic for it. The important position made him the obvious successor to Gwin. He would go up against the People's Party of San Francisco, formed from before the war on the platform of frontier justice and nativism. T'Vault still won, but the opposition only grew stronger as the years went on. He inherited various issues from his predecessor. The most notable was the rampant crime throughout the nation. Whether it be Unionist guerrillas, natives, or just plain old outlaws, not much could be done to stop them. Pacifican citizens decided to take the matter into their own hands, and various towns throughout the nations formed their own vigilance committees to take care of crimes. While somewhat effective, these Committees often turned their eyes on to Asian workers and political opponents of the People's Party. As such, the Pacifican Congress opted to pass a law banning all vigilance committees.
3. The Populists went an interesting direction in their choice of candidate. General Albert Winn had been a Chiv and a slaveowner of southern origin, but had also been a fervent labor unionist and supporter of the San Francisco Vigilantes back in 1856. When the Anti-Vigilante Act was passed, he officially jumped ship and switched parties. Shortly after, he ran for President and won, despite his low-profile plus all the chicanery that occurred against his favor. His opponent, Volney E. Howard, did not like this very much, as did his voter base. Supported by the military, they took Los Angeles, forcing Winn and his loyalists to flee the Capitol. The two factions were generally split between the south and the north (asides from Jackson), the former supporting Howard's claim, and the latter Winn. However, while the Winn-ites outnumbered the Chivs, they were much better equipped and trained. To add to that, the Confederacy and Mexico sent equipment and volunteers to help them out, while the United States did the same for the other side. The Pacifican Civil War would last a brutal 3 years, ending in the eventual surrender of Howard and his loyalists following the Battle of Los Angeles.
The Pacifican Constitution was outdated and extremely biased in favor of the mercantile class, which lead to Winn calling for a Convention. The new constitution followed the tenants that of the United States' Constitution. The now democratically-elected Congress would go on to pass much legislation, such as the eight-hour work day, restrictions on Asiatic immigration and employment, prohibition of the sale of alcohol, and the repeal of the Anti-Vigilante Act. Another thing of note, was that some influential Populists openly supported the idea of re-joining the Union. Winn responded with a firm no, assuring the nation's independence, having fought for Pacifica as an officer during the War of Secession.
The great President Albert Maver Winn would eventually meet his end on August 26, 1883, dying from natural causes (though some conspiracists of the time placed blame on his vice-president and successor). His corpse would be laid to rest in Sacramento, where it remains till this day in the Winn Memorial Hall.
4. William Tell Coleman, leader of the original San Francisco Vigilance Committee, and one of the founders of the People's Party, did not share many opinions with A.M. Winn. Coleman was a businessman who was not fond of unions, believing them to be breeding grounds for anarchism. He was in fact rather vocal about it, leading to Denis Kearney among other socialists walking out of the convention to found the Workingmen's Party. Things only got worse from here, as strikes for better working conditions met resistance from vigilantes employed by the bosses. Among this, many citizens began violence against the now unemployed Asians of Pacifica. While Coleman had never been fond of them, he and his supporters could not stand for such disorder, leading to many Vigilance Committees defending Asians, in contrast to only a few years prior, where they would have been targeting them themselves. Violence continued, leading to the "Lion of the Vigilantes" being cut down in 1888 by a disgruntled worker employed at one of his mines.
5. Coleman's successor, however, was able to (relatively) calm the masses. Though extremely wealthy, he had portrayed himself as a man of the people, and who earned every penny he made fairly. The workingman could relate to this President, unlike his predecessor, hence Hearst was able to organize meetings between the bosses and labor leaders, forcing them to make a settlement. The issue took up most of Hearst's term, which ended when he died of cancer. His replacement, Andrew Jackson Bryant, would most notably annex the Sandwich Islands into the Pacific Republic.
6. Sylvester Pennoyer had been elected as Governor of Jackson on the platform of Sinophobia and populism. He won the Presidency with about the same principles. The majority of his first term was promoting various bills in favor of labor unions, including an amendment insuring the right workers' right to organize. He also succeeded in breaking up the powerful monopolies of Pacific. He did have fails however, mainly in his attempts to increase Presidential power, as well as put the nation on a silver standard, the latter being controversial enough to result in his Attorney-General William Jefferson Hunsaker to not only switch parties, but run against him for President. Pennoyer would attempt to run for a third-term, but lost to the one and only...
7. Wyatt Earp, the man that brought law back to Sonora. An American volunteer who opted to stay after the Civil War, he would eventually become Marshal, taking part in hunting down some of the last vestiges of Chiv loyalists, who had turned into nothing more than low-down bandits. In his quest, he had incurred quite the reputation, ending up with him being elected Governor of Sonora in 1898. Four years later he was convinced to run for the Presidency, with the People's Party believing him to be the only candidate to stand a chance against the rather popular "Sylpester Annoyer". Earp sought to modernize the Army and the Navy, as well as pursue a military dominance in the Pacific. A formal military alliance was also made with the United States. His administration, as did Populist Presidents prior, came into conflict with labor unions, especially the New Virginia Massacre, which resulted in many deaths when the Sonoran Rangers were ordered to remove striking copper miners. Earp would leave office with a mixed reputation, with an even worse one in later years.
8. William Randolph Hearst, newspaper tycoon and son of President George Hearst, could have really run in either political party, however, his wealthy status did not appeal to the Workingmen as it did Populists. He ran on a platform rather progressive for his party, mainly that of political reformism and anti-corruption. Still, Hearst would have most likely lost the election had it not been for his opponent's running mate, Eugene Schmitz, corruption to have been revealed the public. He would win of course, but was unable to implement much of his progressive legislation before something else proved to be a much bigger issue, and that was the Great War. His predecessor had allied the nation with the United States, thus Pacifica was obligated to join the war on the side of the Coalition. However, Hearst ended up making things worse when, in his deep distrust for both the British and the Japanese, provoked them into a naval battle. To his credit, they would have most likely joined the war as enemies, yet he was still blamed for bringing them into the conflict. Previously, there was only one front to worry about (Confederacy and Mexico), but with the addition of Britain, Canada became one as well. There was also the Pacific to now worry about. While Japanese-Pacificans were put into interment camps (a tactic employed again by the Pacific government in the Second Pacific War), the Coalition forces in North America continued to lose ground. Hearst was extremely unpopular, and it was clear that re-election was impossible, leading to the President announcing that he would not run again.
9. Senator Harry Lane, grandson of Joseph Lane, won in a landslide against Hearst. One of the few Congressman to have voted against entering the Great War, his ascension to the Presidency served as a 'I told you so' to Congress. First order of business was getting Pacifica out of the war, which he did at the Treaty of London. The treaty granted the Sandwich Islands to Japan, and reparations to both nations.
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- Location
- Municipal Commune of Bourne
- Pronouns
- He/Him
based on a prompt in my test thread - basically the premise is that edward viii does a franco and democracy is hesitantly restored after his death - his wish for his brother george to take the throne never comes off as it quickly becomes clear that monarchy has had its day. 'Lord-Protector' is basically an additional title of the Prime Minister, in their responsibility as head of state and head of government.
Lord-Protectors of the British Republic
1972-1975: George, Duke of Kent (Nonpartisan / 'Continuity Windsor Regime')
1975-1982: David Mudd (National Centre & Mebyon Kernow)
1976 ('Coalition of The Willing' majority) def. Wogan Philipps (Communist), Duncan Sandys (Institutional)
1980 (Coalition with Institutionalists) def. Eric Heffer (Communist), Richard Marsh (Institutional), William C. Wolfe (Alliance of Regions)
1982-1989: Richard Marsh (Institutional)
1983 (Coalition with National Centre) def. Eric Heffer (Communist), Edward Heath (National Centre), William C. Wolfe (Alliance of Regions), David Mudd (Mebyon Kernow)
1987 (Minority coalition with National Centre) def. Robert Kilroy-Silk (Communist), Edward Heath (National Centre), Winnie Ewing (Alliance of Regions)
1989-1994: Robert Kilroy-Silk (Communist)
1989 (Coalition with Regionalist 'Fellow Travellers') def. Richard Marsh (Institutional), Edward Heath (National Centre), [disputed] (Alliance of Regions)
1993 (Coalition with CNI) def. Paul Channon (Centre of the National Institutions), David Mudd (Plain As Mudd), Winnie Ewing (Scottish National)
1994-1999: Paddy Ashdown (Plain As Mudd / Peoples')
1994 (Minority 'Broad-Bottomed Government') def. Robert Kilroy-Silk (Communist), Paul Channon (Centre of the National Institutions)
1998 (Coalition with Communists) def. Terry Major-Ball (Communist), William Blair (Centre of the National Institutions)
1999-2000: Gerald Kaufman (Communist-Peoples' coalition), Acting
2000-2008: Keith Flett (Communist)
2000 (Coalition with Peoples') def. Alex Salmond (Peoples'), William Blair (Centre of the National Institutions)
2004 (Coalition with Peoples') def. Kenneth Clarke (Centre of the National Institutions), Alex Salmond (Peoples'), Peter Davies (Pride)
2008-2014: Kenneth Clarke (Centre of the National Institutions)
2008 (Minority 'Broad-Bottomed Government') def. Charles Clarke (Communist), Alex Salmond (Peoples'), Peter Davies (Coalition of Local Independents)
2010 (Coalition with Peoples') def. Helena Kennedy (Communist), Andrew George (Peoples'), Alex Salmond (New)
2014-2021: Hilary Wainwright (Communist)
2014 (Coalition with Peoples') def. Oliver Letwin (Centre of the National Institutions), Andrew George (Peoples'), Alex Salmond (New)
2018 (Coalition with Peoples' and New) def. John Baron (Centre of the National Institutions), Graeme Logan (Peoples'), [disputed] (New)
2020 (Coalition with New) def. John Baron (Centre of the National Institutions), Gary Neville (New), Graeme Logan (Peoples')
2021-0000: Gary Neville (New)
2021 (Minority 'Broad-Bottomed Government') def. John Baron (Centre of the National Institutions), Hilary Wainwright (Communist), Graeme Logan (Peoples')
Lord-Protectors of the British Republic
1972-1975: George, Duke of Kent (Nonpartisan / 'Continuity Windsor Regime')
1975-1982: David Mudd (National Centre & Mebyon Kernow)
1976 ('Coalition of The Willing' majority) def. Wogan Philipps (Communist), Duncan Sandys (Institutional)
1980 (Coalition with Institutionalists) def. Eric Heffer (Communist), Richard Marsh (Institutional), William C. Wolfe (Alliance of Regions)
1982-1989: Richard Marsh (Institutional)
1983 (Coalition with National Centre) def. Eric Heffer (Communist), Edward Heath (National Centre), William C. Wolfe (Alliance of Regions), David Mudd (Mebyon Kernow)
1987 (Minority coalition with National Centre) def. Robert Kilroy-Silk (Communist), Edward Heath (National Centre), Winnie Ewing (Alliance of Regions)
1989-1994: Robert Kilroy-Silk (Communist)
1989 (Coalition with Regionalist 'Fellow Travellers') def. Richard Marsh (Institutional), Edward Heath (National Centre), [disputed] (Alliance of Regions)
1993 (Coalition with CNI) def. Paul Channon (Centre of the National Institutions), David Mudd (Plain As Mudd), Winnie Ewing (Scottish National)
1994-1999: Paddy Ashdown (Plain As Mudd / Peoples')
1994 (Minority 'Broad-Bottomed Government') def. Robert Kilroy-Silk (Communist), Paul Channon (Centre of the National Institutions)
1998 (Coalition with Communists) def. Terry Major-Ball (Communist), William Blair (Centre of the National Institutions)
1999-2000: Gerald Kaufman (Communist-Peoples' coalition), Acting
2000-2008: Keith Flett (Communist)
2000 (Coalition with Peoples') def. Alex Salmond (Peoples'), William Blair (Centre of the National Institutions)
2004 (Coalition with Peoples') def. Kenneth Clarke (Centre of the National Institutions), Alex Salmond (Peoples'), Peter Davies (Pride)
2008-2014: Kenneth Clarke (Centre of the National Institutions)
2008 (Minority 'Broad-Bottomed Government') def. Charles Clarke (Communist), Alex Salmond (Peoples'), Peter Davies (Coalition of Local Independents)
2010 (Coalition with Peoples') def. Helena Kennedy (Communist), Andrew George (Peoples'), Alex Salmond (New)
2014-2021: Hilary Wainwright (Communist)
2014 (Coalition with Peoples') def. Oliver Letwin (Centre of the National Institutions), Andrew George (Peoples'), Alex Salmond (New)
2018 (Coalition with Peoples' and New) def. John Baron (Centre of the National Institutions), Graeme Logan (Peoples'), [disputed] (New)
2020 (Coalition with New) def. John Baron (Centre of the National Institutions), Gary Neville (New), Graeme Logan (Peoples')
2021-0000: Gary Neville (New)
2021 (Minority 'Broad-Bottomed Government') def. John Baron (Centre of the National Institutions), Hilary Wainwright (Communist), Graeme Logan (Peoples')
Blackentheborg
Dennis Skinner's molotov
- Location
- Grand Hotel Abyss
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Political history of Jackson Hinkle
2019: Candidate for San Clemente City Council
lost to Gene James
2019-2022: Streamer, Twitch.TV [suspended for TOS violations]
2022-2025: Streamer, Rokfin [suspended for TOS violations]
2024-2025: Streamer, cozy.tv [service terminated]
2024: Convention delegate, Movement for a People's Party
- nominated comedian Jimmy Dore
2024: National Co-Chair, Jimmy Dore for President (2024 campaign)
(with Stef Zamorano, Fiorella Isabel, Nick Brana), Jimmy Dore/Geoff Young lost to Ron DeSantis/Greg Abbott (Republican), Kamala Harris/Pete Buttigieg (Democratic)
2025-2027: Political commentator, GreyzoneTV [let go]
2026: Democratic Primary candidate for New York's 14th Congressional District
lost to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [incumbent], Antonio Delgado, Kalman Yeger
2026: Independent (Forward Party-endorsed) candidate for New York's 14th Congressional District
lost to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [incumbent], Andrea Catsimatidis (Republican)
2027-2028: Streamer, Truth Social [suspended for TOS violations]
2028-2029: Political commentator, Right Side Broadcasting Network [service terminated]
2027-2029: Political commentator, Fox News [suspended following sexual harassment suit]
2030-2033: Political commentator, The Daily Wire [let go]
2032: Democratic Party primary candidate for President of the United States
lost to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [incumbent], Cory Hepola, other minor candidates
2033: Republican and Democratic primary candidate for California's 49th Congressional District
• lost to Kathryn Sanchez, Ray Gennawey, Brian Maryott, Erik Weigand
• lost to Bryant Odega, Ricardo Lara
2033: Independent candidate for California's 49th Congressional District
defeated by Bryant Odega (Democratic), Kathryn Sanchez (Republican), José Cortés (Peace and Freedom)
2034-2035: Defector to Russia [attempted]
- relocated to Moscow, ultimately refused citizenship and returned to the United States in 2035.
2035-2038: Streamer, Gab [suspended for TOS violations]
2036: Republican Party primary candidate for President of the United States
lost to Adi Sathi, Karoline Leavitt, Antwan McClellan, G.T. Bynum
2038-2042: Political commentator, PragerU [let go]
2043-20XX: Political commentator, Sputnik Live
2044: Republican Party primary candidate for President of the United States
defeated Ebo Entsuah, Austin Chenge, Ricky Gill, Wren Williams
2044: Republican Party candidate for President of the United States
(with Brian Matlock) lost to Mariah Parker/Franklin Bynum (Democratic)
2019: Candidate for San Clemente City Council
lost to Gene James
2019-2022: Streamer, Twitch.TV [suspended for TOS violations]
2022-2025: Streamer, Rokfin [suspended for TOS violations]
2024-2025: Streamer, cozy.tv [service terminated]
2024: Convention delegate, Movement for a People's Party
- nominated comedian Jimmy Dore
2024: National Co-Chair, Jimmy Dore for President (2024 campaign)
(with Stef Zamorano, Fiorella Isabel, Nick Brana), Jimmy Dore/Geoff Young lost to Ron DeSantis/Greg Abbott (Republican), Kamala Harris/Pete Buttigieg (Democratic)
2025-2027: Political commentator, GreyzoneTV [let go]
2026: Democratic Primary candidate for New York's 14th Congressional District
lost to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [incumbent], Antonio Delgado, Kalman Yeger
2026: Independent (Forward Party-endorsed) candidate for New York's 14th Congressional District
lost to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [incumbent], Andrea Catsimatidis (Republican)
2027-2028: Streamer, Truth Social [suspended for TOS violations]
2028-2029: Political commentator, Right Side Broadcasting Network [service terminated]
2027-2029: Political commentator, Fox News [suspended following sexual harassment suit]
2030-2033: Political commentator, The Daily Wire [let go]
2032: Democratic Party primary candidate for President of the United States
lost to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez [incumbent], Cory Hepola, other minor candidates
2033: Republican and Democratic primary candidate for California's 49th Congressional District
• lost to Kathryn Sanchez, Ray Gennawey, Brian Maryott, Erik Weigand
• lost to Bryant Odega, Ricardo Lara
2033: Independent candidate for California's 49th Congressional District
defeated by Bryant Odega (Democratic), Kathryn Sanchez (Republican), José Cortés (Peace and Freedom)
2034-2035: Defector to Russia [attempted]
- relocated to Moscow, ultimately refused citizenship and returned to the United States in 2035.
2035-2038: Streamer, Gab [suspended for TOS violations]
2036: Republican Party primary candidate for President of the United States
lost to Adi Sathi, Karoline Leavitt, Antwan McClellan, G.T. Bynum
2038-2042: Political commentator, PragerU [let go]
2043-20XX: Political commentator, Sputnik Live
2044: Republican Party primary candidate for President of the United States
defeated Ebo Entsuah, Austin Chenge, Ricky Gill, Wren Williams
2044: Republican Party candidate for President of the United States
(with Brian Matlock) lost to Mariah Parker/Franklin Bynum (Democratic)
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Meppo
Anticommunist Mole
- Location
- Default City, Russia
- Pronouns
- he/him
Blackentheborg
Dennis Skinner's molotov
- Location
- Grand Hotel Abyss
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Which is, unfortunately, almost exactly what President Daniil Yegorov after ordering Hinkle get sent backgood, we don't need people like him here
Meppo
Anticommunist Mole
- Location
- Default City, Russia
- Pronouns
- he/him
I feel like there's a verb missing in this sentence
What did he do for even them to think he's too much?
Blackentheborg
Dennis Skinner's molotov
- Location
- Grand Hotel Abyss
- Pronouns
- He/Him
They found out he was a Berniecrat at one point, which is a big no-no. Also he brigaded someone who criticised him
allthepresidentsmen
Oh fuck I might just be gay 🏳️🌈
- Pronouns
- he/him
God Yang's vanity vehicle fell off the political map fast
Imagine being so pathetic that even the Russia of Rotenberg, Malofeyev, and the Cannibal Kings says "no thanks, we don't want you"
With that said:
Not Much, But It's Something
But More Accurate This Time
No @Blackentheborg making AOC president isn't "not much"
Presidents of the United States of AmericaBut More Accurate This Time
No @Blackentheborg making AOC president isn't "not much"
46. Frm. Vice Pres. Joe Biden, DE (Democratic) 2021-2027
-20 (with Sen. Kamala Harris, CA): def. Pres. Donald Trump / Vice Pres. Mike Pence (Republican)
-24 (with Vice Pres. Kamala Harris): def. Frm. Pres. Donald Trump / IA Gov. Kim Reynolds (Republican)
-27: Joe Biden resigns from the office of the presidency on March 11.
47. Vice Pres. Kamala Harris, CA (Democratic) 2027-2033-27: PA Governor Josh Shapiro is confirmed and sworn in as Vice President on August 28.
-28 (with Vice Pres. Josh Shapiro): def. Frm. FL Gov. Ron DeSantis / ID Sen. Priscilla Giddings (Republican), Entrepreneur Jack Dorsey / Frm. NH State Rep. Jeremy Kauffman (Forward)
48. Activist and retired actor Chris Pratt, WA (Republican) 2033-2041-32 (with Gov. Orlando Owens, WI): def. VA Sen. Pete Buttigieg / MA Sen. Michelle Wu (Democratic)
-36 (with Vice Pres. Orlando Owens): def. NY Sen. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / Frm. HHS Sec. Andy Beshear (Democratic), HI Rep. Beth Fukumoto / Frm. TX Rep. Will Hurd (Common Sense)
49. Sen. Sam Lawrence, OH (Democratic) 2041-2049-40 (with Sen. Park Cannon, GA): def. Sen. Min. Ldr. Ted Budd / Frm. NH Sen. Marilinda Garcia (Republican), Frm. OH Rep. J. R. Majewski / '34 CO Sen. nominee Michelle Malkin (Patriot)
-43: Vice Pres. Park Cannon is assassinated in Mykolaiv, Ukraine by a former FSB collaborator on July 3; TX Senator Claudia Zapata is confirmed and sworn in as Vice President on October 2.
-44 (with Vice Pres. Claudia Zapata): def. VA Rep. Javon Price / WY Sen. Odessa Oldham (Republican), FL Rep. Laura Loomer / Commentator Jackson Hinkle (Patriot—American Workers)
-45—47: Third World War (Allies — NATO | EF | TW | JP | ROK | etc def. BRIC+ — PRC | RF | IR | BR | etc)
50. Vice Pres. Claudia Zapata, TX (Democratic) 2049-present-48 (with Rep. True Kander, MO): def. FL Sen. Ebo Entsuah / PA Sen. Karly Matthews (Republican), '44 Patriot VP nominee Jackson Hinkle / Commentator Calla Walsh (Anti-Imperialist Front)
An interesting tidbit: ITTL, every Democratic ticket from 2020 onwards has consisted of a white man from a state bordering the Mason-Dixon and a woman of minority descent from a state with a coastline.
Colors:
Democratic: #2C82C9
Republican: #E04646
Forward: #9365B8
Patriot: #CC9966
Common Sense: #66CCCC
American Workers: #D14841
Anti-Imperialist Front: #475577
Allies (WWIII): #3494FA
BRIC+ (WWIII): #CC6666
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Meppo
Anticommunist Mole
- Location
- Default City, Russia
- Pronouns
- he/him
in any case based Yegorov
would make a fine Massachusetts Senator in some sort of Gilded Age Coalition Retained timeline
allthepresidentsmen
Oh fuck I might just be gay 🏳️🌈
- Pronouns
- he/him
Isn’t she from NH? And yeah, she would.
Qaz_plm
White Castle soda bet
- Pronouns
- She/her
Future (List) Stupid
2021-2022: Joe Biden (Democratic)
2020: Donald Trump (Republican)
2021: 1/6 Attacks
2022-2025: Kamala Harris (Democratic)
2025-2029: Guy Who's Currently Running For Congress And Is Fifty Points Behind But He Is Scary (Republican)
2024: Kamala Harris (Democratic), Aaron Fechter (DSA/Minor Attached Party)
2026: Texas commits Suicide
2029-2033: Hunter Biden (Democratic)
2028: Q (I am real but I hate Republicans), some guy who made a racist tweet awhile ago (Republican), Youtuber who in a month who get revealed to be a sleazebag after I post this list (DSA/General Bigotry)
2033-: Ray William Johnson (Your Favorite Political Party)
2032(Not held in Michigan, Heaven knows why): Hunter Biden (Democratic/Republican), Gwen Burchell (MyAuntism)
2021-2022: Joe Biden (Democratic)
2020: Donald Trump (Republican)
2021: 1/6 Attacks
2022-2025: Kamala Harris (Democratic)
2025-2029: Guy Who's Currently Running For Congress And Is Fifty Points Behind But He Is Scary (Republican)
2024: Kamala Harris (Democratic), Aaron Fechter (DSA/Minor Attached Party)
2026: Texas commits Suicide
2029-2033: Hunter Biden (Democratic)
2028: Q (I am real but I hate Republicans), some guy who made a racist tweet awhile ago (Republican), Youtuber who in a month who get revealed to be a sleazebag after I post this list (DSA/General Bigotry)
2033-: Ray William Johnson (Your Favorite Political Party)
2032(Not held in Michigan, Heaven knows why): Hunter Biden (Democratic/Republican), Gwen Burchell (MyAuntism)
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Comrade Izaac
Secretary General of the Alt-Historians Union
- Pronouns
- They/Them
2021-2023: Joe Biden (Democratic)
(With Kamala Harris)
2020 def. OTL
2022: The Russian Federation invades Ukraine following territorial disputes and the reemergence of ultranationalist political currents in Russia
2023: At age 80, U.S President Joe Biden suffers a fatal stroke; He is succeeded by Vice President Kamala Harris
2023-2023: Kamala Harris (Democratic)
(With VACANT)
2023: Former U.S President Trump, under investigation for violating the Espionage Act, promotes the idea that President Biden's fatal stroke was a "Deep State Plot" orchestrated to ensure that Trump had a "Stronger, more awake opponent who actually knows where he is!" on Truth Social; While largely meant as a joke by the former President, the idea notably begins to circulate in radical right-wing circles
2023: Less than ten days after being sworn in as President, Kamala Harris dies in an auto accident after the Presidential motorcade strayed off path after departing a speech in Atlanta and into the path of a garbage truck; Having not had time to nominate a Vice President yet, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, holding a majority of just three seats, ascends to the office of the Presidency, sparking large scale protests against what is deemed a "Palace coup" by American media
2023-2025: Kevin McCarthy (Republican)
(With Jim Mattis)
2023: Numerous cabinet officials resign in protest of McCarthy's ascension to the Presidency
2023: Many begin to suggest that Vice President Harris's death was a planned assassination by right-wing elements in the Government aiming to install a conservative Government; This idea quickly gains tractions in liberal and progressive circles
2023: Independent former General and Trump Cabinet Secretary Jim Mattis nominated as Vice President in an effort to present a compromise candidate between Congressional factions; Notably, this does not happen and Mattis barely skirts by with support from more conservative Democrats in the Senate
2023: U.S and Chinese forces have a two week standoff in the South China Sea as the United States moves to Defcon 3; Conflict narrowly avoided following EU diplomatic intervention led by Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin
2023: A record hot summer marred by climate disasters and a tightening economy see tensions run high on the streets of major cities and even smaller towns in areas vulnerable to climate disaster, sparking one of the most violent three month periods in American history; After two climate justice organizers are shot by far-right militants, large protests break out in several cities, later leading to the formation of the Working Class Self Defense Front (WCSDF) or "Red Stars"
2023: With supply chains still poor and investor confidence completely blown after the death of Presidents Biden and Harris, the war scare in the South China Sea, and the "Red Hot Summer", the United States enters a recession in October; Beginning of the "Halloween Recession"
2024: A mutated form of infectious fungus called Blight Fungus, which causes welts and rotting of the skin and organs that eventually becomes fatal (similar to the blight that occurs in plants affected by a similar fungus) begins spreading in hotter and wetter regions of the country, most notably the American South; The Blight Fungus Pandemic affects several millions and claims a little over 100,000 lives by the end of 2024
2024: Former President Trump nominated by the Republicans in a blowout, with President McCarthy declining to even run in the first place; The Democrats, overtaken by more ambitious and radical currents after the Republicans Palace Coup, the South China Sea Standoff, and the beginning of the Halloween recession, nominate Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock
2024: In what would have been considered an extremely unlikely outcome just a year prior, Raphael Warnock defeats Donald Trump by a fairly considerable margin; Trump's defeat sparks rioting and violent retributions in more conservative areas, leading many states to declare states of emergency and call in the national guard, while WCSDF militias engage alt-right militias in open street combat
2025-2025: Raphael Warnock (Democratic)
(With Elizabeth Warren)
2024 def. Donald J. Trump Sr./Kristi Noem (Republican), Joe Scarborough/Jim Webb (Independent), Others
2025: "Inauguration Day Coup"; Radicalized rightist mid-level officers of the United States military overthrow the Government during the Inauguration of Raphael Warnock as large scale outbursts of politically and racially motivated violence break out across the country; Numerous high-ranking officials either killed or detained, including President McCarthy, President-elect Warnock, Vice President-elect Warren, and a majority of the Supreme Court
2025-2025: Alek Skarlatos (Patriotic Officers Movement)
2025: "General" Skarlatos declares nation-wide martial law as the United States military and police forces fracture along ideological lines
2025: Massive anti-coup protests and strikes turn violent as right-wing military and police elements, supported by far-right militias attempt to crack down on Democratic opposition; WCSDF begins actively engaging military and militia forces, uniting the radical opposition to the coup under their banner
2025: Vice President Mattis, running several hours late for the inauguration at the time of the coup, leads a counter-coup against Skarlatos, pushing the putschists out of D.C and freeing what remained of the detained political leadership of the country
2025-2025: Jim Mattis (Independent - Anti-Coup Front)
(With Numerous)
2025: Mattis forms provisional government with Temporary Speaker of the House-designate Katherine Clark
2025: While attempting to assemble a coalition government and organize a Federal response to the far-right insurrection and essential soft civil war now gripping the country, Mattis is infected with Blight Fungus, bedridden by the virus after a little over a week; Federal institutions continue to remain in shambles as the scattered leadership and political factions of the country attempt (and fail) to put forward an actionable program
2025: "American Autumn"; Far-right elements in the military hijack a nuclear silo and launch a nuclear missile at Washington D.C and Camp David, killing several million, including the bedridden President Mattis and most of what was left of Congress
2025: Beginning of the Great Collapse
(With Kamala Harris)
2020 def. OTL
2022: The Russian Federation invades Ukraine following territorial disputes and the reemergence of ultranationalist political currents in Russia
2023: At age 80, U.S President Joe Biden suffers a fatal stroke; He is succeeded by Vice President Kamala Harris
2023-2023: Kamala Harris (Democratic)
(With VACANT)
2023: Former U.S President Trump, under investigation for violating the Espionage Act, promotes the idea that President Biden's fatal stroke was a "Deep State Plot" orchestrated to ensure that Trump had a "Stronger, more awake opponent who actually knows where he is!" on Truth Social; While largely meant as a joke by the former President, the idea notably begins to circulate in radical right-wing circles
2023: Less than ten days after being sworn in as President, Kamala Harris dies in an auto accident after the Presidential motorcade strayed off path after departing a speech in Atlanta and into the path of a garbage truck; Having not had time to nominate a Vice President yet, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, holding a majority of just three seats, ascends to the office of the Presidency, sparking large scale protests against what is deemed a "Palace coup" by American media
2023-2025: Kevin McCarthy (Republican)
(With Jim Mattis)
2023: Numerous cabinet officials resign in protest of McCarthy's ascension to the Presidency
2023: Many begin to suggest that Vice President Harris's death was a planned assassination by right-wing elements in the Government aiming to install a conservative Government; This idea quickly gains tractions in liberal and progressive circles
2023: Independent former General and Trump Cabinet Secretary Jim Mattis nominated as Vice President in an effort to present a compromise candidate between Congressional factions; Notably, this does not happen and Mattis barely skirts by with support from more conservative Democrats in the Senate
2023: U.S and Chinese forces have a two week standoff in the South China Sea as the United States moves to Defcon 3; Conflict narrowly avoided following EU diplomatic intervention led by Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin
2023: A record hot summer marred by climate disasters and a tightening economy see tensions run high on the streets of major cities and even smaller towns in areas vulnerable to climate disaster, sparking one of the most violent three month periods in American history; After two climate justice organizers are shot by far-right militants, large protests break out in several cities, later leading to the formation of the Working Class Self Defense Front (WCSDF) or "Red Stars"
2023: With supply chains still poor and investor confidence completely blown after the death of Presidents Biden and Harris, the war scare in the South China Sea, and the "Red Hot Summer", the United States enters a recession in October; Beginning of the "Halloween Recession"
2024: A mutated form of infectious fungus called Blight Fungus, which causes welts and rotting of the skin and organs that eventually becomes fatal (similar to the blight that occurs in plants affected by a similar fungus) begins spreading in hotter and wetter regions of the country, most notably the American South; The Blight Fungus Pandemic affects several millions and claims a little over 100,000 lives by the end of 2024
2024: Former President Trump nominated by the Republicans in a blowout, with President McCarthy declining to even run in the first place; The Democrats, overtaken by more ambitious and radical currents after the Republicans Palace Coup, the South China Sea Standoff, and the beginning of the Halloween recession, nominate Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock
2024: In what would have been considered an extremely unlikely outcome just a year prior, Raphael Warnock defeats Donald Trump by a fairly considerable margin; Trump's defeat sparks rioting and violent retributions in more conservative areas, leading many states to declare states of emergency and call in the national guard, while WCSDF militias engage alt-right militias in open street combat
2025-2025: Raphael Warnock (Democratic)
(With Elizabeth Warren)
2024 def. Donald J. Trump Sr./Kristi Noem (Republican), Joe Scarborough/Jim Webb (Independent), Others
2025: "Inauguration Day Coup"; Radicalized rightist mid-level officers of the United States military overthrow the Government during the Inauguration of Raphael Warnock as large scale outbursts of politically and racially motivated violence break out across the country; Numerous high-ranking officials either killed or detained, including President McCarthy, President-elect Warnock, Vice President-elect Warren, and a majority of the Supreme Court
2025-2025: Alek Skarlatos (Patriotic Officers Movement)
2025: "General" Skarlatos declares nation-wide martial law as the United States military and police forces fracture along ideological lines
2025: Massive anti-coup protests and strikes turn violent as right-wing military and police elements, supported by far-right militias attempt to crack down on Democratic opposition; WCSDF begins actively engaging military and militia forces, uniting the radical opposition to the coup under their banner
2025: Vice President Mattis, running several hours late for the inauguration at the time of the coup, leads a counter-coup against Skarlatos, pushing the putschists out of D.C and freeing what remained of the detained political leadership of the country
2025-2025: Jim Mattis (Independent - Anti-Coup Front)
(With Numerous)
2025: Mattis forms provisional government with Temporary Speaker of the House-designate Katherine Clark
2025: While attempting to assemble a coalition government and organize a Federal response to the far-right insurrection and essential soft civil war now gripping the country, Mattis is infected with Blight Fungus, bedridden by the virus after a little over a week; Federal institutions continue to remain in shambles as the scattered leadership and political factions of the country attempt (and fail) to put forward an actionable program
2025: "American Autumn"; Far-right elements in the military hijack a nuclear silo and launch a nuclear missile at Washington D.C and Camp David, killing several million, including the bedridden President Mattis and most of what was left of Congress
2025: Beginning of the Great Collapse
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Comrade Izaac
Secretary General of the Alt-Historians Union
- Pronouns
- They/Them
2034
Federal Republic of New England (New England, Upstate New York)
Capitol: Boston, Massachusetts Commonwealth
Government Structure: Constitutional Federal Semi-Presidential Republic
Head of State: President Michelle Wu (Eco-Democrats)
Last Election: Michelle Wu (Eco-Democrats) def. Marilinda Garcia (Conservative Unionist), Patrick Kennedy II (Independent backed by National Liberal), Kendra Lara (Socialist)
Working People's Republic of America (The Great Lakes, The Industrial Midwest, New York City/Lower New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Northern Appalachia)
Capitol: Chicago, Illinois WPR
Government Structure: Semi-Direct Democratic Constitutional Socialist Republic
Head of State: Speaker Ja'Mal Green (Workers Democracy) [Left Socialist Faction]
Last Election: Ja'Mal Green (Workers Democracy) [Left Socialist Faction] def. Sara Innamorato (Workers Democracy) [Reform Socialist Faction], Cathy Rojas [Marxist-Leninist Faction]
Free States of America (The Great Plains)
Capitol: Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Government Structure: Confederal Constitutional Decentralized Republic (Proclaimed) / Constitutional Oligarchic Military Dictatorship (De Facto)
Head of State: Chair of the Council of Governors Kris Kobach (God, Guns, Country)
Last Election: God, Guns, Country (Kris Kobach) def. National (Ash Hinson), People's (Mauree Turner)
Southron Union (Dixie, Southern Virginia, Southern Appalachia)
Capitol: Atlanta, Georgia
Government Structure: Confederal Constitutional Parliamentary Republic (Proclaimed) / Stratocratic Warlord State (De Facto)
Head of State: President Stacey Abrams (Southron Democratic) (In Power Sharing Agreement with Gen. Darnell Cross)
Last Election: Stacy Abrams (Southron Democratic) def. Bo Hines (Constitutional Conservative), Ricky Dale Harrington Jr. (Libertarian), Marquita Bradshaw (Democratic Socialist)
Notable Militia Movements within the South: Patriotic Front (Right-Wing Nationalists), The Great Storm (American Nazism), Workers' Banner (Marxist-Leninists), Popular Front/BLM-DSA-WCSDF (Various Socialist and Communist Movements), Various Bandit and Raider Groups
Free State of Florida (Florida Lmao)
Capitol: Tallahassee, Florida
Government Structure: Stratocratic Constitutional Presidential Republic
Head of State: Great Protector Pam Bondi (Independent)
Last Election: Pam Bondi (Ind) def. Augustus Sol Invictus (Ind), Carlos Curbelo (Ind)
Texas-Aztlan Union (Texas and the Four Corners States except West Utah)
Capitol: Houston, Texas
Government Structure: Constitutional Federal Semi-Presidential Republic
Head of State: President Lina Hidalgo (Independent backed by New Democratic, Lone Star, Green)
Last Election: Lina Hidalgo (Independent - Constitutional People's Alliance) def. Katrina Pierson (Christian National), Terri Castillo (Popular Platform), John Arnold (Armadillo)
New California Republic (California, Nevada, West Utah)
Capitol: Sacramento, California (Legislative and Federal) / San Francisco, California (Judicial and Economic)
Government Structure: Constitutional Federal Semi-Presidential Republic
Head of State: President Tony Thurmond (California Dream)
Last Election: [Second Round] - Tony Thurmond (California Dream) def. Brace Belden (Socialism and Liberation)
Cascadian People's Union (Cascadia, Idaho)
Capitol: Seattle, Washington
Government Structure: Constitutional Federal Socialist Parliamentary Republic
Head of State: Olivia Katbi (Democratic Socialists of Cascadia)
Last Election: Olivia Katbi (DSC) def. Jess Spear (Socialist Alternative), Paige Keirsman (Progressive and Green), Jamie Herrera Butler (Conservative)
Everyone's Republic of Hawai'i (Hawaii, Various Smaller Island Chains in Micronesia)
Capitol: Honolulu, Hawaii
Government Structure: Constitutional Semi-Direct Democratic Federal Parliamentary Republic
Head of State: Kaniela Ing (Aloha Aina)
Last Election: Kaniela Ing (Aloha Aina) def. Tulsi Gabbard (Ka nalu o kanaka), Ed Case (Liberal)
Alaskan Free Republic (Alaska)
Capitol: Anchorage, Alaska
Government Structure: Constitutional Federal Semi-Presidential Republic
Head of State: Natasha Von Imhoff (Frontier)
Last Election: Natasha Von Imhoff (Frontier) def. Mary Petola (Reform)
Steve Brinson
The possum is not OK. Neither are we.
- Location
- Brooklyn (originally Houston)
- Pronouns
- he/him
This is a construction for a country name I don't think I've ever seen before - I quite like it.
- Location
- Municipal Commune of Bourne
- Pronouns
- He/Him
lazy version of @Ciclavex 's current project but only post 45 pms
1940-1943: Harold Macmillan (Conservative / Committee of Public Safety)
1943-1948: Theresa May (Conservative / Committee of Public Safety, then Caretaker Government)
1948-1958: Gordon Brown (Labour)
1948 (Majority) def. Theresa May (Conservative, Liberal National / National Government), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal)
1953 (Majority) def. Theresa May (Conservative, Liberal, Liberal National / National Alliance)
1958-1962: Theresa May (Conservative / National Alliance)
1958 (Majority) def. Gordon Brown (Labour)
1962-1968: Margaret Thatcher (Liberal / National Alliance)
1963 (Majority) def. Hugh Gaitskell (Labour), Honor Balfour (Radical)
1968-1974: Winston Churchill (Conservative / National Alliance)
1968 (Majority) def. Tony Greenwood (Labour, Radical - Peoples' Alliance), George Brown (Social Democratic)
1972 (Minority w. SDP c&s) def. Jim Callaghan (Labour), George Brown (Social Democratic), Donald Swann (Radical)
1974-1975: Jim Callaghan (Labour)
1974 (Majority) def. Winston Churchill (Conservative, Liberal, Social Democratic / National Alliance), Donald Swann (Radical)
1975-1982: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1976 (Majority) def. Airey Neave (Conservative, Social Democratic / National Alliance), Teddy Goldsmith (Radical), Keith Joseph (Liberal)
1981 (Majority) def. Alick Buchanan-Smith (National Democratic), Teddy Goldsmith (Radical), Keith Joseph (Liberal)
1982-1984: Anthony Blair (National Democratic)
1982 (Minority w. Radical and Liberal c&s) def. Clement Attlee (Labour), Teddy Goldsmith (Radical), Nigel Lawson (Liberal)
1984-1990: Alex Johnson (National Democratic)
1984 (Coalition w. Radicals) def. Clement Attlee (Labour), Teddy Goldsmith (Radical), Nigel Lawson (Liberal)
1985 (Majority) def. Clement Attlee (Labour), Teddy Goldsmith (Radical), Edmund Dell (Liberal)
1990-2002: John Major-Ball (Labour)
1990 (Majority) def. Alex Johnson (National Democratic), David Icke (Radical)
1994 (Majority) def. Michael Heseltine (National Democratic)
1998 (Majority) def. Edwina Currie (National Democratic), Jimmy Goldsmith (Radical Refoundation)
2002-2005: David Cameron (National Democratic)
2002 (Minority w. RRP c&s) def. John Major-Ball (Labour), David Bellamy (Radical Refoundation)
2005-2008: Ted Heath (National Democratic)
2006 (Minority w. RRP c&s) def. Jon Cruddas (Labour), David Bellamy (Radical Refoundation)
2008-2011: Alec Douglas-Home (National Democratic)
2009 (Coalition w. RRP) def. Jon Cruddas (Labour), Zac Goldsmith (Radical Refoundation), Rob Hopkins (Earth Front)
2011-2017: Tony Eden (National Democratic / New Alliance)
2013 (Majority) def. Yvette Cooper (Labour), 'Galadriel' (Earth Front)
2017-2020: Harold Wilson (Labour)
2017 (Minority) def. Tony Eden (National Democratic, Radical Refoundation / New Alliance), 'Ned Ludd' (Earth Front)
2020-0000: Tony Eden (National Democratic / National Government)
Supermac is a decade or so older than IOTL, and was a senior officer during WW1. That gets parlayed into an earlier political career and when Chamberlain goes down in 1940, Supermac is ideally placed to lead an emergency government - successfully winning over Labour and the Liberals with his promises of domestic reforms during the war. Macmillan uses the opportunity to essentially dissolve parliamentary democracy for the duration of the war which leaves a pall over British politics for the next couple of decades. Macmillan proves to be not that inspirational a war leader, and his statement 'you've never had it so good' when referring to the fact few people were going hungry under rationing, did not go down well while Singapore burned.
Macmillan was displaced by Anglican vicar's daughter Theresa May, who had ascended the rungs of power on the back of suffragism, following the example of the likes of Christabel Pankhurst. Something like the third elected woman MP, she earned a minor ministerial position in MacDonald's National ministry, and advanced steadily from there. Became the equivalent of Home Secretary on Macmillan's undemocratic Committee and with his fall in fortunes was nominated to lead - mostly because nobody else was confident enough to grasp the nettle themselves and she seemed like a safe pair of hands. May saw out the remainder of the war, and somewhat successfully cast herself as a latter day Britannia - those who had put her in power found her more difficult to control than they expected. Nevertheless, expectations her 'strong and stable' example would see her triumph over the opposition in 1948 proved unfounded.
Brown was a dour son of the Kirk, who had been left behind as one of the few individuals with ministerial experience after the near wipeout of 1931. The former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and author of the 'Brown Memorandum' was thrust into power with a sweeping majority and soon got to work implementing a work that had been almost two decades in the making. Brown avoided nationalisation of industry outside of the steady establishment of the National Hospitals Trust, which slowly acquired struggling medical facilities into the largest health provider in Britain by the end of the following decade. In the aftermath of the King's death, Brown was restored with another healthy majority - the 'anti-socialist' parties formed a pact helmed by the tenacious May.
And May returned after a decade out of power - and soon became controversial. Alongside electoral reforms that were both sops to her Alliance partners and an obvious attempt to weaken Labour in its urban heartlands, she worked to halt and reverse West Indian migration to the UK. The so-called 'Windrush Affair' was never directly linked to May in her capacity as Prime Minister and her Home Secretary was forced to resign but by 1962 the Tories were keen for a change heading into the next election. In an attempt to make the Alliance appear like less of a Tory dominated vehicle, they nominated a Liberal for the leadership.
Thatcher was at least on the surface cast in May's image. She was at least two decades younger however, having grown up in the aftermath of WW1 rather than before it, and her parliamentary career only began when Parliament reassembled in 1948. Thatcher had served in the relatively junior position of Education Minister under May and was again chosen because Tory grandees believed she could be controlled. Thatcher soon proved herself stronger than that and welded together a coalition within the Alliance of 'dry' fellow travellers. She took an axe to the funding of the NHT, alleging it was a force of creeping socialism, whilst at the same time leading the UK into the European Communities against the ever present threat of international communism. Her premiership began to fall apart as she faced off against a radicalising student movement as the '68 protests spread across Europe her efforts to crackdown were simultaneously limp-wristed and heavy-handed. The Tories needed to reassert control and put the whip into the hands of a man they could trust to make it crack.
Churchill was an aristocrat, the kind of Tory who harked back to the Victorian era. But he had no patience for that centuries' conventions. Tanks rolled through Whitehall, then Oxford and Cambridge, as the Bulldog restored order to Britain's streets. 'We will fight them on the beaches' he intoned as the blood of mods and rockers, spilt without distinction, was hosed into the sea. The 1968 election was fought amidst an atmosphere of intimidation - the secret ballot was almost a legal fiction, and the breakaway of George Brown's SDP was seen as somewhat artificial. By the dawn of the 1970s, Churchill had been forced to row back his more extreme measures, and as such he faced quite a severe fall back in the polls, particularly against a less radical Labour leader. His government struggled onwards for another couple of years before collapsing.
Callaghan had served in the navy during the war and had faced down fascism both then and its domestic cousin which had emerged in the ensuing decades. Perhaps it was inevitable then that when all other efforts failed, certain elements in the security state decided to take matters into their own hands. Callaghan was slain by an assassin's bullet and his quiet deputy was thrust into the limelight.
Attlee was not an anticipated leader - ascended almost by accident and in the ensuing leadership election only triumphed due to his incumbency and division amongst the other prospective candidates. Attlee quickly sought to shore up his position with a snap election in 1976 - the result was predictably a foregone conclusion with the Tories mired in the post-Callaghan assassination investigations. Nobody anticipated quite how transformative the Attlee years would be. The post war consensus had definitively broken down across most of the world - not only were the Progressive institutions of the West breaking down by the Red Autocracy which had pervaded the Eastern bloc was giving way to a new order. 'Socialism with a human face' was the order of the day and it was the quiet Attlee who presided over the collectivisation of the commanding heights of industry, the expansion of the NHT into the modern health service, formalised and restructured the voting system, and properly engaged with Britain's destiny as a post-colonial power. By the end of his term however, the limits of Attlee's radicalism was being reached. He was a man out of time to some degree, a veteran of the Italian and Middle Eastern fronts of WW2. He had no stomach for the 'permissive society' which was emerging. Despite his majority, the government struggled with a recalictrant left which called for the legalisation of homosexuality, the expansion of women's liberation, reform to drugs policy. So it was in 1982 that Attlee tried to repeat the success of 1976.
Blair was a post-74 Tory - the investigations had torn the structures of the Alliance apart, and it was only with great efforts to detoxify the party's culture that the National Democrats became perceived as a credible party of government again. Blair claimed to admire Callaghan and even Attlee the man he faced over the despatch box and his government accepted much of the Attlee consensus that had been established. The re-emergence of Cold War tensions shortly after his election soon came to define the next two decades however, and Blair keenly followed the Washington line. He quickly found himself in deep water however, reliant on support from parties which under the new voting system commanded a larger parliamentary presence than ever before. And these parties hardly saw eye to eye. The Radicals had transformed from an anti-Alliance Liberal splinter into an ecologist movement, while the Liberals firmly rejected the 'neosocialist' consensus that had emerged across much of the Western world. Blair's solution to governance was not to engage with each parties' ideals but to buy them. The Cash For Honours crisis that emerged after the ennoblement of a whole tranch of Liberal and Radical figures was enough to shake the NDP's hard earned reputation. Blair had to be pushed from the premiership and it was a very different man who emerged to take the reins.
Johnson became Prime Minister a decade after the departure of Churchill and almost consciously aped the former strongman's style. While he continued elements of the Attlee Consensus, he went much more bitterly on the attack against the socialist institutions that had emerged. Most notably he reformed the voting system following a referendum, restoring a majoritarian system which he immediately took advantage to establish the first Tory majority government since Churchill's suspect snap election in 1968. Ramping up of elements of the security state amidst the Cold War also mirrored Churchill. Socially liberal legislation which Johnson had cheered in Blair's coalition Cabinet was put firmly on the backburner with the Liberals decimated by the majoritarian voting system. Despite his achievements, Johnson was never particularly popular with his parliamentary colleagues and as the AIDS pandemic burst into life, he soon began to get buried under criticism over the government's slow response to what was initially categorised as 'gay disease'. His government adopted a high-handed moralistic approach decrying post-69 'libertinism' and called upon citizens to restrain their sexual proclivities and 'think of England'. The revelation that amidst that, Johnson had sired an unreckoned number of illegitimate children and carried on a number of affairs from within Number 10 was enough to collapse his reputation both in the party and the country. Never one to respect a convention, Johnson doggedly went into the 1990 election to hand Labour its biggest majority in history.
Major-Ball was and is the most electorally successful Labour leader in history. He dominated the 90s and for a moment it seemed that he could go on and on. He was a breath of fresh air for many, a loose lipped Brixton lad, after generations of quiet middle class Labour leaders and often aristocratic Tories. He presided over the ignominious death of the Radicals and the most two party polarised election since the 1950s. Major-Ball slowly detached the UK from Blair's attachment to the United States and drew Britain closer toward the reformed European Communities which had brought in much of Eastern Europe (with the exception of the 'national-communist' regime in Poland). The adoption of the stelo common currency brought some acrimony from elements of the opposition but the former Liberal NDP leader Heseltine heartily applauded it (arguably providing the kindling for the Radical Refoundation in its modern, more explicitly Eurosceptic guise). Major-Ball presided over the sweeping social legislation Attlee had ignored, Blair struggled with and Johnson tried to sweep under the rug. By the time his affair with the former leader of the opposition was revealed in 1999, few Britons raised their eyebrows in comparison to Johnson's shenanigans. But eventually the wheels did have to come over. Over a decade in power and continued prosperity from integration into the world's largest customs union could only get so far. Disquiet about the immigration of Southern Europeans, particularly from the former military regimes of the PIGS states, fanned the flames of the Radical Refoundation and the NDP quietly repositioned themselves to try and absorb an emergent populist movement. Simultaneously, Major-Ball's explicitly pro-working class agenda included support for the coal industry which drew criticism from his left. While Labour again emerged the largest party in 2002, parliamentary arithmetic was sufficient to put the Tories in Number 10.
Cameron stood on the government benches and told Major-Ball 'you were the future once' in a way that his Etonian accent may have made sound patronising. Nevertheless, he realised how weak his government was, and lived in fear of a possible RRP switch to support for Labour. His efforts to please his partners actually proved his undoing as his promises to deliver the 'greenest government ever' raised the hackles of the High Tory grandees. Voting reform to restore a proportional system was the first straw. The passage of the legalisation of gay marriage relied upon Labour support amidst a wide ranging Tory backbench rebellion and proved to be the last straw. Shortly after, he received a vote of no confidence from the 1922 committee.
Ironically Heath only emerged victorious due to the backbiting ambitions of the other Tory contenders, from the bitterly homophobic populists to the stodgy Blairites. Heath is Britain's first openly homosexual (and asexual) Prime Minister, and if the Tory backbenchers had been repulsed by Cameron they were outright shaken by Heath's acclamation by the membership. Heath was quickly forced to seek a snap election and won a plurality in Parliament, alongside a tranch of 'Heathite' liberal Tories. Far more secure in government than Cameron ever was, Heath nevertheless had a hard time negotiating with his coalition partners - this time, it was his warm attitude to European integration that proved sticky. A backbench vote on a referendum on a new European treaty surprisingly won a majority with the assistance of Eurosceptic Labour backbenchers, and while Heath organised to have the House of Lords reject the referendum, it was clear his premiership was holed below the waterline.
Douglas-Home was the last in a string of short-lived Tory Prime Ministers, but ironically had an easier time of it in Parliament than either of his predecessors. The RRP split as the more hardline ecologists broke from an increasingly Eurosceptic-defined movement. As the world heated up, Douglas-Home attempted to parlay a new Alliance with the RRP. As the newborn Earth Front joined a range of other street movements that put pressure on the existing party system, Douglas-Home faced an assassination attempt and called for the restoration of long-neglected police powers. He was joined in this call by the Labour Party which seemed to have forgotten how these powers could be used to suppress their own electoral prospects. Douglas-Home was never quite a Churchill or even a Johnson however. He was something of a fish out of water, a Scottish laird in a world with a changing climate and emerging debates about gender recognition. In 2011, he acknowledged his own weaknesses and with the establishment of the New Alliance, handed over to a man more fitting for the debates of the day.
Tony Eden is a handsome, sleek, fashionably moustachioed figure - as much a celebrity as a politician. There are an uncomfortable amount of #tonyeden fancams on the clock app. Barely out of his 30s, Eden inspired a generation to look at the Tories and think 'cool'. The 2013 snap election confirmed this, the first held with the New Alliance agreement in place. Eden won a majority of the youth vote (helped by the Earth Front snatching away left-wing activists). Nevertheless his actual policy in power belied the cool affect. He left much of domestic policy to his ministers, who continued the use of expanded police powers, and continued to accept neosocialist consensus, presiding over the lowest unemployment figures in a generation. The RRP led Home Office abolished many strictures on recreational substances, which Eden soon used to garnish his public reputation. His real focus was on foreign policy, in which position he simultaneously drew the UK closer to Washington and established a new accord with European partners, particularly France. What proved to be dominant issue of his premiership and was at least temporarily his undoing was the collapse of the Polish dictatorship. While allegedly under the influence, Eden with his French and Levantine counterparts took part in a 'special operation' to install a pro-European provisional government, over the heads of the United Nations. Forced to back down by Washington, led the Alliance into the 2017 election in disgrace.
Wilson had to deal with a rotten situation was the beginning. His attempts to compete with Eden's carefully crafted public persona always came across a little forced - it was universally acknowledged that Wilson preferred tobacco to cannabis, no matter how often he pointed the fat bong in the lounge of Number 10. Nevertheless, the New Alliance had fallen back thanks to Eden's international shenanigans and the Earth Front were never going to prop up a Tory. Wilson promised to unleash the 'white heat of technology' to deliver 21st Century Socialism, as the neosocialist consensus broke down as inevitably as its Progressive predecessor. His Home Secretary helmed the passage of gender recognition legislation. His efforts won some plaudits and there were rumours in 2019 that he would seek a snap election to bring about a more stable parliamentary situation. The beginning of the 2K-19 computer viral outbreak proved to be the end of his hopes in that regard. The newly established computer systems in the reformed Whitehall were vulnerable to the 2K-19 attack and while he could conceal some of what was happening, the problems the emergent supply-line crisis presented when government ministries struggled to make their printers work could only work for so long. Wilson was forced to reveal the extent of the problems in a televised speech, and he faced a major backbench rebellion afterwards. The formation of an emergency unity government to handle the 2K-19 crisis saw him retire to relative obscurity as Minister for Intragovernmental Relations in Eden's new cabinet. Allegations that Wilson is a Soviet agent pervade infoglobe fora to this day.
Eden was restored to power at the head of an all party emergency government - and while the 2K-19 crisis is now mostly over with most businesses and public services prepared with suitable anti-viral countermeasures, it's unclear when Eden will choose to go. He looks tired these days - usage of no longer illicit substances particularly at the height of the crisis have taken their toll. Many reckon he'll bow out later this year or maybe the next. What is clear that he will go when he chooses to, as the most powerful Prime Minister, if no longer as popular as he once was, since Major-Ball.
1940-1943: Harold Macmillan (Conservative / Committee of Public Safety)
1943-1948: Theresa May (Conservative / Committee of Public Safety, then Caretaker Government)
1948-1958: Gordon Brown (Labour)
1948 (Majority) def. Theresa May (Conservative, Liberal National / National Government), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal)
1953 (Majority) def. Theresa May (Conservative, Liberal, Liberal National / National Alliance)
1958-1962: Theresa May (Conservative / National Alliance)
1958 (Majority) def. Gordon Brown (Labour)
1962-1968: Margaret Thatcher (Liberal / National Alliance)
1963 (Majority) def. Hugh Gaitskell (Labour), Honor Balfour (Radical)
1968-1974: Winston Churchill (Conservative / National Alliance)
1968 (Majority) def. Tony Greenwood (Labour, Radical - Peoples' Alliance), George Brown (Social Democratic)
1972 (Minority w. SDP c&s) def. Jim Callaghan (Labour), George Brown (Social Democratic), Donald Swann (Radical)
1974-1975: Jim Callaghan (Labour)
1974 (Majority) def. Winston Churchill (Conservative, Liberal, Social Democratic / National Alliance), Donald Swann (Radical)
1975-1982: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1976 (Majority) def. Airey Neave (Conservative, Social Democratic / National Alliance), Teddy Goldsmith (Radical), Keith Joseph (Liberal)
1981 (Majority) def. Alick Buchanan-Smith (National Democratic), Teddy Goldsmith (Radical), Keith Joseph (Liberal)
1982-1984: Anthony Blair (National Democratic)
1982 (Minority w. Radical and Liberal c&s) def. Clement Attlee (Labour), Teddy Goldsmith (Radical), Nigel Lawson (Liberal)
1984-1990: Alex Johnson (National Democratic)
1984 (Coalition w. Radicals) def. Clement Attlee (Labour), Teddy Goldsmith (Radical), Nigel Lawson (Liberal)
1985 (Majority) def. Clement Attlee (Labour), Teddy Goldsmith (Radical), Edmund Dell (Liberal)
1990-2002: John Major-Ball (Labour)
1990 (Majority) def. Alex Johnson (National Democratic), David Icke (Radical)
1994 (Majority) def. Michael Heseltine (National Democratic)
1998 (Majority) def. Edwina Currie (National Democratic), Jimmy Goldsmith (Radical Refoundation)
2002-2005: David Cameron (National Democratic)
2002 (Minority w. RRP c&s) def. John Major-Ball (Labour), David Bellamy (Radical Refoundation)
2005-2008: Ted Heath (National Democratic)
2006 (Minority w. RRP c&s) def. Jon Cruddas (Labour), David Bellamy (Radical Refoundation)
2008-2011: Alec Douglas-Home (National Democratic)
2009 (Coalition w. RRP) def. Jon Cruddas (Labour), Zac Goldsmith (Radical Refoundation), Rob Hopkins (Earth Front)
2011-2017: Tony Eden (National Democratic / New Alliance)
2013 (Majority) def. Yvette Cooper (Labour), 'Galadriel' (Earth Front)
2017-2020: Harold Wilson (Labour)
2017 (Minority) def. Tony Eden (National Democratic, Radical Refoundation / New Alliance), 'Ned Ludd' (Earth Front)
2020-0000: Tony Eden (National Democratic / National Government)
Supermac is a decade or so older than IOTL, and was a senior officer during WW1. That gets parlayed into an earlier political career and when Chamberlain goes down in 1940, Supermac is ideally placed to lead an emergency government - successfully winning over Labour and the Liberals with his promises of domestic reforms during the war. Macmillan uses the opportunity to essentially dissolve parliamentary democracy for the duration of the war which leaves a pall over British politics for the next couple of decades. Macmillan proves to be not that inspirational a war leader, and his statement 'you've never had it so good' when referring to the fact few people were going hungry under rationing, did not go down well while Singapore burned.
Macmillan was displaced by Anglican vicar's daughter Theresa May, who had ascended the rungs of power on the back of suffragism, following the example of the likes of Christabel Pankhurst. Something like the third elected woman MP, she earned a minor ministerial position in MacDonald's National ministry, and advanced steadily from there. Became the equivalent of Home Secretary on Macmillan's undemocratic Committee and with his fall in fortunes was nominated to lead - mostly because nobody else was confident enough to grasp the nettle themselves and she seemed like a safe pair of hands. May saw out the remainder of the war, and somewhat successfully cast herself as a latter day Britannia - those who had put her in power found her more difficult to control than they expected. Nevertheless, expectations her 'strong and stable' example would see her triumph over the opposition in 1948 proved unfounded.
Brown was a dour son of the Kirk, who had been left behind as one of the few individuals with ministerial experience after the near wipeout of 1931. The former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and author of the 'Brown Memorandum' was thrust into power with a sweeping majority and soon got to work implementing a work that had been almost two decades in the making. Brown avoided nationalisation of industry outside of the steady establishment of the National Hospitals Trust, which slowly acquired struggling medical facilities into the largest health provider in Britain by the end of the following decade. In the aftermath of the King's death, Brown was restored with another healthy majority - the 'anti-socialist' parties formed a pact helmed by the tenacious May.
And May returned after a decade out of power - and soon became controversial. Alongside electoral reforms that were both sops to her Alliance partners and an obvious attempt to weaken Labour in its urban heartlands, she worked to halt and reverse West Indian migration to the UK. The so-called 'Windrush Affair' was never directly linked to May in her capacity as Prime Minister and her Home Secretary was forced to resign but by 1962 the Tories were keen for a change heading into the next election. In an attempt to make the Alliance appear like less of a Tory dominated vehicle, they nominated a Liberal for the leadership.
Thatcher was at least on the surface cast in May's image. She was at least two decades younger however, having grown up in the aftermath of WW1 rather than before it, and her parliamentary career only began when Parliament reassembled in 1948. Thatcher had served in the relatively junior position of Education Minister under May and was again chosen because Tory grandees believed she could be controlled. Thatcher soon proved herself stronger than that and welded together a coalition within the Alliance of 'dry' fellow travellers. She took an axe to the funding of the NHT, alleging it was a force of creeping socialism, whilst at the same time leading the UK into the European Communities against the ever present threat of international communism. Her premiership began to fall apart as she faced off against a radicalising student movement as the '68 protests spread across Europe her efforts to crackdown were simultaneously limp-wristed and heavy-handed. The Tories needed to reassert control and put the whip into the hands of a man they could trust to make it crack.
Churchill was an aristocrat, the kind of Tory who harked back to the Victorian era. But he had no patience for that centuries' conventions. Tanks rolled through Whitehall, then Oxford and Cambridge, as the Bulldog restored order to Britain's streets. 'We will fight them on the beaches' he intoned as the blood of mods and rockers, spilt without distinction, was hosed into the sea. The 1968 election was fought amidst an atmosphere of intimidation - the secret ballot was almost a legal fiction, and the breakaway of George Brown's SDP was seen as somewhat artificial. By the dawn of the 1970s, Churchill had been forced to row back his more extreme measures, and as such he faced quite a severe fall back in the polls, particularly against a less radical Labour leader. His government struggled onwards for another couple of years before collapsing.
Callaghan had served in the navy during the war and had faced down fascism both then and its domestic cousin which had emerged in the ensuing decades. Perhaps it was inevitable then that when all other efforts failed, certain elements in the security state decided to take matters into their own hands. Callaghan was slain by an assassin's bullet and his quiet deputy was thrust into the limelight.
Attlee was not an anticipated leader - ascended almost by accident and in the ensuing leadership election only triumphed due to his incumbency and division amongst the other prospective candidates. Attlee quickly sought to shore up his position with a snap election in 1976 - the result was predictably a foregone conclusion with the Tories mired in the post-Callaghan assassination investigations. Nobody anticipated quite how transformative the Attlee years would be. The post war consensus had definitively broken down across most of the world - not only were the Progressive institutions of the West breaking down by the Red Autocracy which had pervaded the Eastern bloc was giving way to a new order. 'Socialism with a human face' was the order of the day and it was the quiet Attlee who presided over the collectivisation of the commanding heights of industry, the expansion of the NHT into the modern health service, formalised and restructured the voting system, and properly engaged with Britain's destiny as a post-colonial power. By the end of his term however, the limits of Attlee's radicalism was being reached. He was a man out of time to some degree, a veteran of the Italian and Middle Eastern fronts of WW2. He had no stomach for the 'permissive society' which was emerging. Despite his majority, the government struggled with a recalictrant left which called for the legalisation of homosexuality, the expansion of women's liberation, reform to drugs policy. So it was in 1982 that Attlee tried to repeat the success of 1976.
Blair was a post-74 Tory - the investigations had torn the structures of the Alliance apart, and it was only with great efforts to detoxify the party's culture that the National Democrats became perceived as a credible party of government again. Blair claimed to admire Callaghan and even Attlee the man he faced over the despatch box and his government accepted much of the Attlee consensus that had been established. The re-emergence of Cold War tensions shortly after his election soon came to define the next two decades however, and Blair keenly followed the Washington line. He quickly found himself in deep water however, reliant on support from parties which under the new voting system commanded a larger parliamentary presence than ever before. And these parties hardly saw eye to eye. The Radicals had transformed from an anti-Alliance Liberal splinter into an ecologist movement, while the Liberals firmly rejected the 'neosocialist' consensus that had emerged across much of the Western world. Blair's solution to governance was not to engage with each parties' ideals but to buy them. The Cash For Honours crisis that emerged after the ennoblement of a whole tranch of Liberal and Radical figures was enough to shake the NDP's hard earned reputation. Blair had to be pushed from the premiership and it was a very different man who emerged to take the reins.
Johnson became Prime Minister a decade after the departure of Churchill and almost consciously aped the former strongman's style. While he continued elements of the Attlee Consensus, he went much more bitterly on the attack against the socialist institutions that had emerged. Most notably he reformed the voting system following a referendum, restoring a majoritarian system which he immediately took advantage to establish the first Tory majority government since Churchill's suspect snap election in 1968. Ramping up of elements of the security state amidst the Cold War also mirrored Churchill. Socially liberal legislation which Johnson had cheered in Blair's coalition Cabinet was put firmly on the backburner with the Liberals decimated by the majoritarian voting system. Despite his achievements, Johnson was never particularly popular with his parliamentary colleagues and as the AIDS pandemic burst into life, he soon began to get buried under criticism over the government's slow response to what was initially categorised as 'gay disease'. His government adopted a high-handed moralistic approach decrying post-69 'libertinism' and called upon citizens to restrain their sexual proclivities and 'think of England'. The revelation that amidst that, Johnson had sired an unreckoned number of illegitimate children and carried on a number of affairs from within Number 10 was enough to collapse his reputation both in the party and the country. Never one to respect a convention, Johnson doggedly went into the 1990 election to hand Labour its biggest majority in history.
Major-Ball was and is the most electorally successful Labour leader in history. He dominated the 90s and for a moment it seemed that he could go on and on. He was a breath of fresh air for many, a loose lipped Brixton lad, after generations of quiet middle class Labour leaders and often aristocratic Tories. He presided over the ignominious death of the Radicals and the most two party polarised election since the 1950s. Major-Ball slowly detached the UK from Blair's attachment to the United States and drew Britain closer toward the reformed European Communities which had brought in much of Eastern Europe (with the exception of the 'national-communist' regime in Poland). The adoption of the stelo common currency brought some acrimony from elements of the opposition but the former Liberal NDP leader Heseltine heartily applauded it (arguably providing the kindling for the Radical Refoundation in its modern, more explicitly Eurosceptic guise). Major-Ball presided over the sweeping social legislation Attlee had ignored, Blair struggled with and Johnson tried to sweep under the rug. By the time his affair with the former leader of the opposition was revealed in 1999, few Britons raised their eyebrows in comparison to Johnson's shenanigans. But eventually the wheels did have to come over. Over a decade in power and continued prosperity from integration into the world's largest customs union could only get so far. Disquiet about the immigration of Southern Europeans, particularly from the former military regimes of the PIGS states, fanned the flames of the Radical Refoundation and the NDP quietly repositioned themselves to try and absorb an emergent populist movement. Simultaneously, Major-Ball's explicitly pro-working class agenda included support for the coal industry which drew criticism from his left. While Labour again emerged the largest party in 2002, parliamentary arithmetic was sufficient to put the Tories in Number 10.
Cameron stood on the government benches and told Major-Ball 'you were the future once' in a way that his Etonian accent may have made sound patronising. Nevertheless, he realised how weak his government was, and lived in fear of a possible RRP switch to support for Labour. His efforts to please his partners actually proved his undoing as his promises to deliver the 'greenest government ever' raised the hackles of the High Tory grandees. Voting reform to restore a proportional system was the first straw. The passage of the legalisation of gay marriage relied upon Labour support amidst a wide ranging Tory backbench rebellion and proved to be the last straw. Shortly after, he received a vote of no confidence from the 1922 committee.
Ironically Heath only emerged victorious due to the backbiting ambitions of the other Tory contenders, from the bitterly homophobic populists to the stodgy Blairites. Heath is Britain's first openly homosexual (and asexual) Prime Minister, and if the Tory backbenchers had been repulsed by Cameron they were outright shaken by Heath's acclamation by the membership. Heath was quickly forced to seek a snap election and won a plurality in Parliament, alongside a tranch of 'Heathite' liberal Tories. Far more secure in government than Cameron ever was, Heath nevertheless had a hard time negotiating with his coalition partners - this time, it was his warm attitude to European integration that proved sticky. A backbench vote on a referendum on a new European treaty surprisingly won a majority with the assistance of Eurosceptic Labour backbenchers, and while Heath organised to have the House of Lords reject the referendum, it was clear his premiership was holed below the waterline.
Douglas-Home was the last in a string of short-lived Tory Prime Ministers, but ironically had an easier time of it in Parliament than either of his predecessors. The RRP split as the more hardline ecologists broke from an increasingly Eurosceptic-defined movement. As the world heated up, Douglas-Home attempted to parlay a new Alliance with the RRP. As the newborn Earth Front joined a range of other street movements that put pressure on the existing party system, Douglas-Home faced an assassination attempt and called for the restoration of long-neglected police powers. He was joined in this call by the Labour Party which seemed to have forgotten how these powers could be used to suppress their own electoral prospects. Douglas-Home was never quite a Churchill or even a Johnson however. He was something of a fish out of water, a Scottish laird in a world with a changing climate and emerging debates about gender recognition. In 2011, he acknowledged his own weaknesses and with the establishment of the New Alliance, handed over to a man more fitting for the debates of the day.
Tony Eden is a handsome, sleek, fashionably moustachioed figure - as much a celebrity as a politician. There are an uncomfortable amount of #tonyeden fancams on the clock app. Barely out of his 30s, Eden inspired a generation to look at the Tories and think 'cool'. The 2013 snap election confirmed this, the first held with the New Alliance agreement in place. Eden won a majority of the youth vote (helped by the Earth Front snatching away left-wing activists). Nevertheless his actual policy in power belied the cool affect. He left much of domestic policy to his ministers, who continued the use of expanded police powers, and continued to accept neosocialist consensus, presiding over the lowest unemployment figures in a generation. The RRP led Home Office abolished many strictures on recreational substances, which Eden soon used to garnish his public reputation. His real focus was on foreign policy, in which position he simultaneously drew the UK closer to Washington and established a new accord with European partners, particularly France. What proved to be dominant issue of his premiership and was at least temporarily his undoing was the collapse of the Polish dictatorship. While allegedly under the influence, Eden with his French and Levantine counterparts took part in a 'special operation' to install a pro-European provisional government, over the heads of the United Nations. Forced to back down by Washington, led the Alliance into the 2017 election in disgrace.
Wilson had to deal with a rotten situation was the beginning. His attempts to compete with Eden's carefully crafted public persona always came across a little forced - it was universally acknowledged that Wilson preferred tobacco to cannabis, no matter how often he pointed the fat bong in the lounge of Number 10. Nevertheless, the New Alliance had fallen back thanks to Eden's international shenanigans and the Earth Front were never going to prop up a Tory. Wilson promised to unleash the 'white heat of technology' to deliver 21st Century Socialism, as the neosocialist consensus broke down as inevitably as its Progressive predecessor. His Home Secretary helmed the passage of gender recognition legislation. His efforts won some plaudits and there were rumours in 2019 that he would seek a snap election to bring about a more stable parliamentary situation. The beginning of the 2K-19 computer viral outbreak proved to be the end of his hopes in that regard. The newly established computer systems in the reformed Whitehall were vulnerable to the 2K-19 attack and while he could conceal some of what was happening, the problems the emergent supply-line crisis presented when government ministries struggled to make their printers work could only work for so long. Wilson was forced to reveal the extent of the problems in a televised speech, and he faced a major backbench rebellion afterwards. The formation of an emergency unity government to handle the 2K-19 crisis saw him retire to relative obscurity as Minister for Intragovernmental Relations in Eden's new cabinet. Allegations that Wilson is a Soviet agent pervade infoglobe fora to this day.
Eden was restored to power at the head of an all party emergency government - and while the 2K-19 crisis is now mostly over with most businesses and public services prepared with suitable anti-viral countermeasures, it's unclear when Eden will choose to go. He looks tired these days - usage of no longer illicit substances particularly at the height of the crisis have taken their toll. Many reckon he'll bow out later this year or maybe the next. What is clear that he will go when he chooses to, as the most powerful Prime Minister, if no longer as popular as he once was, since Major-Ball.
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I don't know if LavendAnon, Churchill as A Very British Pinochet, or Eden making his meths habits public is my favourite part, but I'd just like to add one thing:
"First of all, let us be clear. We have not changed the principles set out in our unwritten constitution. We will not change the principles of the policy we set out in our declaration of war. Those policies, those policies remain exactly the same. Let me make one thing clear to you, Mr Hitler; we will pursue this war to the end. Nothing has changed! Nothing has changed."
"First of all, let us be clear. We have not changed the principles set out in our unwritten constitution. We will not change the principles of the policy we set out in our declaration of war. Those policies, those policies remain exactly the same. Let me make one thing clear to you, Mr Hitler; we will pursue this war to the end. Nothing has changed! Nothing has changed."
34.Chester Nimitz (Republican)
W.w.2 admiral when the admiral heard General Dwight D.Eisenhower was going for the presidency,he said no more general presidents.Nimits defeated Adali Stevenson in 52 and 56.
35.William F.Knowland (Republican)
Narrowly defeated Senator Lyndon B.Johnson to win the presidency.Tragedly gunned down in New York January 12.1963
36.Charles Halleck(Republican)
Place holder president who refused to run for term of his own.
37.Hubert Horatio Humphrey (Democratic)
Signed civil rights into law ended u.s. presence in south Veitnam.relected in 1968.
38.William Scranton (Republican)
Poor economy of the 70s was a plague during Scrantons presidency.
Lost to...
39. Ronald Wilson Reagan (Democratic)
Served 2 terms former Governor of California after defeating pat Brown senior in primary to go into win against Senator Richard M.Nixon in the 66 governors election
W.w.2 admiral when the admiral heard General Dwight D.Eisenhower was going for the presidency,he said no more general presidents.Nimits defeated Adali Stevenson in 52 and 56.
35.William F.Knowland (Republican)
Narrowly defeated Senator Lyndon B.Johnson to win the presidency.Tragedly gunned down in New York January 12.1963
36.Charles Halleck(Republican)
Place holder president who refused to run for term of his own.
37.Hubert Horatio Humphrey (Democratic)
Signed civil rights into law ended u.s. presence in south Veitnam.relected in 1968.
38.William Scranton (Republican)
Poor economy of the 70s was a plague during Scrantons presidency.
Lost to...
39. Ronald Wilson Reagan (Democratic)
Served 2 terms former Governor of California after defeating pat Brown senior in primary to go into win against Senator Richard M.Nixon in the 66 governors election
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How do you see Nimitz differing from Eisenhower?