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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

Leaders of Lincolnshire County Council

1973-1981: Captain Sir Anthony Thorold, 15th Baronet (Conservative)
1973 (Minority) def. Independents, Labour, Democratic-Labour, Liberals
1977 (????) def. ????
1981-1989: ???? (Conservative)
1981 (Majority) def. Labour, Liberals, Independents, Social Democrats
1985 (Majority) def. SDP-Liberal Alliance, Labour, Independents, East Elloe Residents' Association
1989-1993: Bill Wyrill (Conservative)
1989 (Majority) def. Labour, Social and Liberal Democrats, Independents, Social Democrats
1993-1997: Rob Parker (Labour)
1993 (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def. Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Independents
1997-2002: Jim Speechly (Conservative)
1997 (Majority) def. Labour, Liberal Democrats, Independents
2001 (Majority) def. Labour, Liberal Democrats, Independents
2002-2005: Ian Croft (Conservative majority)
2005-2021: Martin Hill (Conservative)
2005 (Majority) def. Labour, Liberal Democrats, Independents
2009 (Majority) def. Liberal Democrats, Labour, Lincolnshire Independents, Independents, Boston Bypass Independents
2013 (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def. UKIP, Labour, Lincolnshire Independents, Liberal Democrats, Independents
2017 (Majority) def. Labour, Independents, Lincolnshire Independents, Liberal Democrats
 
This was going to be a silly little thing, but it sort of grew in the telling and I would recommend reading the footnotes.

List of Monarchs of the Unsighted Kingdom
1603-1642: Oberon (House of Unseelie) and Titania (House of Seelie) [1]
1642-1660: Puck (House of Goodfellow) [2]
1660-1789: Gloriana (House of Faerie) [3]
1789-1815: Morgan (House of Le Fay) [4]
1815-1945: Una (House of Elphame) [5]
1945-present: The Welsh Wizard (House of Le Fey) [6]

A Note on Dates: Faerieland is located on the outer stretches of Reality. As Time is, despite the earnest wishes of many, part of Reality, it is impossible to translate into English times as they occur in Faerie - the rods and cones of our mind simply cannot encompass such concepts as Infrawednesday and Ultralunchtime. We all know stories of medieval peasants wandering off with odd women and returning ten years later with a strange look in their eyes, as if they'd only been gone five minutes. As such, when Una, the Lady of Elphame, ascended the throne of the UK, her legends had already been known in Reality for centuries. It might be confusing for tourists, but the natives seem to manage.

[1] - Since Time Immemorial (see Note above for details), the land of Faerie had been divided into the Seelie Court, which was united by an amused tolerance of humanity, and the Unseelie Court, which, as human power over the middle portion of the Reality Spectrum increased, fought back by killing cattle, swapping babies and stealing food and beer. This guerrilla warfare continued for many centuries, but was always defensive. Finally, the two dwindling societies of Elves, Fairies, Goblins, Tylwyth Teg and the like, decided to unite, holding that strength in numbers was their only defense. Oberon and Titania thus married and merged their courts, although their marital problems and the teething troubles of merging two enemy Courts are, of course, well documented.

[2] - The less said about the reign of the hard-line Continuity Unseelie partisan Puck the better. Eventually, even humans started to realise what was going on, which was why Oliver Cromwell launched his brutal retaliatory attacks on Ireland, successfully eradicating the terrorist Tuatha De Danaan (although legends of the TDD eventually filtered through to mankind's ears, inspiring the formation of the IRA).

[3] - Gloriana, daughter of Oberon and Titania, deposed Puck in a bloodless coup (bloodless only because sprites, of course, do not bleed - he was in fact maimed horribly over several decades of torture) and presided over what many claim to be a Golden Age of Faerie culture, although others call it an Indian Summer. Unseelie activity declined due to the increased ability of human 'Witchfinders' to engage in counter-terrorist actions. Meanwhile, humanity began to experiment with technology to an unprecedented extent. This caused major problems for Faerie, as the inhabitants thereof are of course allergic to iron (hence the tradition of hanging a horseshoe over the door of a dwelling in order to protect it) and the Industrial Revolution seemed to them to be entirely motivated by a desire to make better iron in vast quantities. But Gloriana's Court was too decadent to take effective action against the threat and she was eventually deposed by Morgan Le Fay, a Welsh fairy who strove to give fair representation to Unseelie supporters.

It is worth noting that, as a result of the aforementioned issues with regard to Time and the complicated nature of Reality, vast numbers of Humans are convinced that Gloriana was in fact a human woman named Elizabeth who reigned in a period they call "1558-1603". In fact, these years never happened, apart from 1582, which seems to have occurred in March 1305.

[4] - Seeing the danger posed by the Industrialisation of Real Britain, Morgan took several tough decisions, most notably to meddle in Continental affairs and engineer the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte in an attempt to challenge the elites of Human Britain. However, the war effort merely fuelled the fires, so to speak, of factories which produced enormous quantities of iron and steel for use in cannon, rifles and bayonets. It seemed that every day, a water-nymph who had been innocently minding her own business in an enchanted pool with a collection of magical swords (bronze) would be sucked into a water-wheel and burned horribly by proximity to the fell metal. Driven to desperation, Morgan took action by setting Elf-General Ned 'King' Lud to driving Northern workers mad and setting them loose against the industrial technology which was causing all this trouble. The Luddites, however, were no match for the military-industrial complex.

Morgan is remembered by humans as an opponent to the defensive violence of King Arthur against the Saxons, although in fact she had stood with him - her stance against King George's defensive violence against the French is a source of confusion for simple-minded, four-dimensional human beings.

[5] - Morgan was followed by Una, who moved the Court to Scotland as England was becoming increasingly inhospitable to Faerie life. The Court's culture thus turned inwards and was mainly preoccupied with the West Lothian Question (i.e. whether West Lothian was in any sense real, or whether it had been invented by Walter Scott like the Jacobites and the Jews) and was, indeed, so weak that from the 1840s it was forced to pay a tithe to hell (i.e. America) in the form of vast quantities of Irish humans - driven from their home by what they thought was a perfectly natural potato blight. These events are memorialised in the 13th century ballad 'Thomas the Rhymer' (see Note above).

[6] - When Una faded away to nothing, she was followed by the first male ruler of Faerieland since Puck - The Welsh Wizard goes by many names, from Merlin to Owain Glyndwr, but he had spent the previous few decades in disguise as a human, mischievously ensnaring countless women into his embraces and attempting to keep the peace in Europe in order to prevent any more iron and steel from being produced in wartime industrial booms.

He failed, of course, and retired to Faerie to take up the Kingship. He could have been a great ruler if he had taken the throne earlier, but now, in the 20th century, defeat was in his heart, and he allowed the real power to be exercised by the so-called 'Iron Guard'. This group of ultra-Unseelie radicals sought to guard the declining Faerie peoples from the humans and their massive stockpiles of iron. To do this, they thought, they would have to weed out the weak and make a new Faerie society of strong, martial Elves who could take on far superior numbers of humans in the final fight. They mainly preach their doctrine of hate against long-nosed Goblins, but they also target Fairies. It is rumoured that they round up these undesirables, strip them, and march them into showers. The water in these showers is said to contain iron filings, which ensures an agonising death - after this, the bodies of these poor Faerie people are collected in rope netting, in which they are interred along with other races which the Iron Guard has taken a dislike to.

There are a lot of trolls, it is said, in the Inter Nets.
 
1997-2002: Jim Speechley (Conservative)
1997 (Majority) def. Labour, Liberal Democrats, Independents
2001 (Majority) def. Labour, Liberal Democrats, Independents
2002-2005: Ian Croft (Conservative majority)
2005-2005: Ian Croft (Conservative)
2005 (Minority) def. Labour, Liberal Democrats, Independents
2005-2009: Martin Hill (Conservative minority)
2009-2013: Marianne Overton (Lincolnshire Independents)
2009 (Coalition with Conservatives) def. Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Labour, Independents
2013-2017: Marianne Overton (Lincolnshire Independents)
2013 (Majority) def. UKIP, Labour, Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Independents
2017-2017: Marianne Overton (Lincolnshire Independents)
2017 (Majority) def. Labour, Independents, Conservatives, Liberal Democrats
2017-2021: Marianne Overton (Lincolnshire First majority)

So in this world, Speechley and Croft's corruption and other problems don't really come out until 2005 when Croft is fighting an election. The Tories are saved mostly by the fact there is little appetite for any of the other alternatives but Croft gets the boot and the Conservatives maintain a minority government held up by Independents.

In 2009, the rotten edifice is kicked in by Linconshire Independent and Liberal Democrat surges. The Lincolnshire Independents form a coalition with the Conservatives.

In 2013, UKIP surges on the coast, while the Liberal Democrats suffer from their association with the Coalition. Labour picks up a few seats but continue to languish in third place. The march of the Lincolnshire Independents however results in a majority.

In 2017, with the country preparing to leave the EU, UKIP loses all their seats and most of their voters move over to the Lincolnshire Independents. In fact all parties other than unaffiliated Independents lose seats and the Lincolnshire Independents are left as the only party with a seat count in double figures on the 70 seat county council. Shortly after the election, the Lincolnshire Independents rebrand as Lincolnshire First.
 
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My England

1910 - 1935: HM George V (Windsor)
1935 - 0000: HM Edward VIII (Windsor)

1929 - 1931: Ramsay MacDonald (Labour minority with Liberal supply and confidence)
1931 - 1931: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative-'Simonite' Liberal minority coalition)
1931 - 1932: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative-'Simonite' Liberal coalition)
1931: George Lansbury (Labour); Herbert Samuel ('Samuelite' Liberal); John Simon ('Simonite' Liberal); David Lloyd George ('Independent' Liberal); Oswald Mosley (New)
1932 - 1935: Neville Chamberlain (Conservative-'Simonite' Liberal coalition)
1935 - 1940: George Lansbury (Labour majority)
1935: Neville Chamberlain (Conservative); David Lloyd George (Liberal); Oswald Mosley (New)
1940 - 0000: William Graham (Labour majority)

While no doubt the aging King George V would have liked Ramsay MacDonald to form a 'National Government,' the King was forced to admit that Labour could not possibly countenance the decision. With MacDonald cognizant of splitting within his own party - inasmuch as Oswald Mosley had formed his 'New Party' - and, so, much to the King's chagrin, Ramsay MacDonald tendered his own resignation, and a car was immediately dispatched to bring Stanley Baldwin to the palace to kiss hands. Baldwin, forming a coalition with the Simonite Liberals, had only a minority government, and so he was forced to go to the country. Labour, meanwhile, had replaced MacDonald, now showing signs of dementia, with the radical George Lansbury, who had been unopposed for the leadership when Arthur Henderson made it clear that he had no interest in standing.

In the 1931 election - held amidst the background of the shocking announcement by Chancellor Heinrich Bruning, that Prince Oskar of Prussia would be assuming the throne after the end of the term of President Hindenburg - despite the best hopes of Baldwin, and his new Chancellor, Neville Chamberlain - the Conservatives only gained a few seats, with the leadership of Lansbury seemingly enough to save the Labour party from the depths of Ramsay MacDonald's tenure. The Liberals, meanwhile, were, some thought, irreparably split between Free Traders, led by Herbert Samuel's faction and Lloyd George's 'Independent Liberals' - a party largely composed of members of his own family - and John Simon's faction, which, like the Conservatives, supported tariffs. Mosley, too, won Stoke, Merthyr, and several other seats on the banner of his 'New Party,' emboldened by the economic catastrophe.

With the Baldwin-Simon coalition remaining in largely the same situation as it had been in before the election, the press barons, led by Lords Rothermere and Beaverbrook, saw this as their time to strike for free trade. A crucial by-election defeat by a 'United Empire' candidate, backed by the press barons ultimately culminated in the end of Baldwin's ill-fated premiership. The only tenable candidate to replace Stanley Baldwin was his long-time heir apparent, Neville Chamberlain - Simon was ruled out, inasmuch as the Conservatives held far more seats than the Simonites.

Chamberlain, already an old man by the time he assumed the premiership, would view his role as merely leading Britain through its economic catastrophe. He, alongside his brother Austen, his Foreign Secretary, attended the coronation of the new Kaiser in 1933, an event notably boycotted by the Nazis, in decline after Hitler's death in 1932, and he would present his congratulations to the newly elected President, William G. McAdoo, who had emerged as the nominee at the contentious Democratic Convention of 1932. Meanwhile, Chamberlain's appointment of the young Anthony Eden - whose bright career would end in his death in a plane crash in 1939 - at the newly-created post of Secretary of State for League of Nations Affairs - a post later dubbed 'League Secretary' - would be widely lauded. Meanwhile, the Liberals, after evaluating the chaos of 1931, ultimately agreed to reunification, although a number of prominent Simonites - never Simon himself - would defect to the Conservatives. The only Liberal politician in the House of Commons with enough influence to hold the party together was the one and only Welsh Wizard, David Lloyd George, who became Leader of the Liberal Party once more in 1934.

As 1935 came closer, Chamberlain knew that he would need to call a new election, and he was not hopeful about its outcome. Lansbury had, over the past three years, become something of a messianic figure to the unemployed of Britain. The ultimate end of Chamberlain's premiership would be the death of King George V in 1935, and the ascension of the playboy Prince of Wales, the newly-crowned Edward VIII, to the throne. Securing an alliance with Germany - and informed by his own pro-German sentiments - Edward would marry Princess Frederica of Hanover, the Kaiser's niece, far younger than he - indeed, her mother had once been deemed a suitable bride for Edward. Edward's infidelity to his wife would become notorious. Chamberlain, upon the death of the King, decided to dissolve Parliament, believing that patriotism surrounding the coronation and the royal wedding might save the Coalition.

He was wrong. George Lansbury, heading "probably the most radical government in history," as he proudly called it, swept into office with the largest majority in the party's history - not much of a feat, this being only the party's third government. Mosley, meanwhile, having turned towards social credit, won two more seats, although the Liberals still held more.

Despite its relative brevity, the Lansbury premiership was one of the most transformative in British history. Like President McAdoo, he implemented a broad Keynesian works program, and, crucially, informed by his Christian pacifist ideals, began a wide program of selling off much of the British army and navy, using the proceeds to create a socialist state in Britain. Meanwhile, Lansbury began an ambition programme of what essentially entailed dismantling the British Empire, most prominently granting India total self-rule with Stafford Cripps by 1937 to the loud protest of many, including now-backbencher Winston Churchill, who, paraphrasing Virgil, famously "seemed to see the River Ganges, foaming with much blood." Despite all this, Lansbury and Gandhi met at 10 Downing Street, with India given home rule. Meanwhile, Lansbury, making good on the Balfour Declaration, and aided by his League Secretary, Philip Noel-Baker, would create Palestine as a Jewish homeland, administered largely by the League of Nations.

However, Lansbury was an old man, and despite his seeming youthfulness, he was - unbeknownst to himself, it seems - dying. Already 72 when assuming the leadership, Lansbury turned 80 during his time in office. Privately, Lansbury discussed resigning the leadership, but there was so much to do. Sadly, it all caught up to him - on January 15th, 1940, the Prime Minister died in office, with his Chancellor, the unassuming William Graham, succeeding him. Whichever way the country goes in 1940 - some believe the Tory's new leader, Kingsley Wood, may have a chance - there is no doubt that George Lansbury truly made his mark on history.
 
Uhura's Mazda said:
This was going to be a silly little thing, but it sort of grew in the telling and I would recommend reading the footnotes.

List of Monarchs of the Unsighted Kingdom
1603-1642: Oberon (House of Unseelie) and Titania (House of Seelie) [1]
1642-1660: Puck (House of Goodfellow) [2]
1660-1789: Gloriana (House of Faerie) [3]
1789-1815: Morgan (House of Le Fay) [4]
1815-1945: Una (House of Elphame) [5]
1945-present: The Welsh Wizard (House of Le Fey) [6]

A Note on Dates: Faerieland is located on the outer stretches of Reality. As Time is, despite the earnest wishes of many, part of Reality, it is impossible to translate into English times as they occur in Faerie - the rods and cones of our mind simply cannot encompass such concepts as Infrawednesday and Ultralunchtime. We all know stories of medieval peasants wandering off with odd women and returning ten years later with a strange look in their eyes, as if they'd only been gone five minutes. As such, when Una, the Lady of Elphame, ascended the throne of the UK, her legends had already been known in Reality for centuries. It might be confusing for tourists, but the natives seem to manage.

[1] - Since Time Immemorial (see Note above for details), the land of Faerie had been divided into the Seelie Court, which was united by an amused tolerance of humanity, and the Unseelie Court, which, as human power over the middle portion of the Reality Spectrum increased, fought back by killing cattle, swapping babies and stealing food and beer. This guerrilla warfare continued for many centuries, but was always defensive. Finally, the two dwindling societies of Elves, Fairies, Goblins, Tylwyth Teg and the like, decided to unite, holding that strength in numbers was their only defense. Oberon and Titania thus married and merged their courts, although their marital problems and the teething troubles of merging two enemy Courts are, of course, well documented.

[2] - The less said about the reign of the hard-line Continuity Unseelie partisan Puck the better. Eventually, even humans started to realise what was going on, which was why Oliver Cromwell launched his brutal retaliatory attacks on Ireland, successfully eradicating the terrorist Tuatha De Danaan (although legends of the TDD eventually filtered through to mankind's ears, inspiring the formation of the IRA).

[3] - Gloriana, daughter of Oberon and Titania, deposed Puck in a bloodless coup (bloodless only because sprites, of course, do not bleed - he was in fact maimed horribly over several decades of torture) and presided over what many claim to be a Golden Age of Faerie culture, although others call it an Indian Summer. Unseelie activity declined due to the increased ability of human 'Witchfinders' to engage in counter-terrorist actions. Meanwhile, humanity began to experiment with technology to an unprecedented extent. This caused major problems for Faerie, as the inhabitants thereof are of course allergic to iron (hence the tradition of hanging a horseshoe over the door of a dwelling in order to protect it) and the Industrial Revolution seemed to them to be entirely motivated by a desire to make better iron in vast quantities. But Gloriana's Court was too decadent to take effective action against the threat and she was eventually deposed by Morgan Le Fay, a Welsh fairy who strove to give fair representation to Unseelie supporters.

It is worth noting that, as a result of the aforementioned issues with regard to Time and the complicated nature of Reality, vast numbers of Humans are convinced that Gloriana was in fact a human woman named Elizabeth who reigned in a period they call "1558-1603". In fact, these years never happened, apart from 1582, which seems to have occurred in March 1305.

[4] - Seeing the danger posed by the Industrialisation of Real Britain, Morgan took several tough decisions, most notably to meddle in Continental affairs and engineer the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte in an attempt to challenge the elites of Human Britain. However, the war effort merely fuelled the fires, so to speak, of factories which produced enormous quantities of iron and steel for use in cannon, rifles and bayonets. It seemed that every day, a water-nymph who had been innocently minding her own business in an enchanted pool with a collection of magical swords (bronze) would be sucked into a water-wheel and burned horribly by proximity to the fell metal. Driven to desperation, Morgan took action by setting Elf-General Ned 'King' Lud to driving Northern workers mad and setting them loose against the industrial technology which was causing all this trouble. The Luddites, however, were no match for the military-industrial complex.

Morgan is remembered by humans as an opponent to the defensive violence of King Arthur against the Saxons, although in fact she had stood with him - her stance against King George's defensive violence against the French is a source of confusion for simple-minded, four-dimensional human beings.

[5] - Morgan was followed by Una, who moved the Court to Scotland as England was becoming increasingly inhospitable to Faerie life. The Court's culture thus turned inwards and was mainly preoccupied with the West Lothian Question (i.e. whether West Lothian was in any sense real, or whether it had been invented by Walter Scott like the Jacobites and the Jews) and was, indeed, so weak that from the 1840s it was forced to pay a tithe to hell (i.e. America) in the form of vast quantities of Irish humans - driven from their home by what they thought was a perfectly natural potato blight. These events are memorialised in the 13th century ballad 'Thomas the Rhymer' (see Note above).

[6] - When Una faded away to nothing, she was followed by the first male ruler of Faerieland since Puck - The Welsh Wizard goes by many names, from Merlin to Owain Glyndwr, but he had spent the previous few decades in disguise as a human, mischievously ensnaring countless women into his embraces and attempting to keep the peace in Europe in order to prevent any more iron and steel from being produced in wartime industrial booms.

He failed, of course, and retired to Faerie to take up the Kingship. He could have been a great ruler if he had taken the throne earlier, but now, in the 20th century, defeat was in his heart, and he allowed the real power to be exercised by the so-called 'Iron Guard'. This group of ultra-Unseelie radicals sought to guard the declining Faerie peoples from the humans and their massive stockpiles of iron. To do this, they thought, they would have to weed out the weak and make a new Faerie society of strong, martial Elves who could take on far superior numbers of humans in the final fight. They mainly preach their doctrine of hate against long-nosed Goblins, but they also target Fairies. It is rumoured that they round up these undesirables, strip them, and march them into showers. The water in these showers is said to contain iron filings, which ensures an agonising death - after this, the bodies of these poor Faerie people are collected in rope netting, in which they are interred along with other races which the Iron Guard has taken a dislike to.

There are a lot of trolls, it is said, in the Inter Nets.
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Mazda, this is amazing - this could genuinely be a novel. Like a better Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell
 
National Assembly of the Federation of Moniba
3,500 miles south of Oakport lays the city of Wallebe, capital of the African republic of Moniba. A fishing village with a history dating back to the 2nd century BC, sat on gulf of Guinea between Togo and Gabon the relationship between Wallebe and Oakport is not immediately obvious, however following European contact in 1677 to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1807, Wallebe was colonised, renamed Port George-Louis, and used as port between Europe and the Americas, with Oakport the port of choice for slave ships. Following the abolition of slavery, thought to be resource poor (although in reality sitting upon vast iron and copper deposits, and with major oil fields off the coast), Moniba as a whole was relatively underdeveloped, instead used as a transport hub in Sub-Saharan Africa notable for the sweet taste of the local Wedgefish. As a result, what would become Moniba- the coastal south seized by the English and the mountainous North absorbed into German Africa following the Berlin conference- was heterogeneous, with traders travelling through and settling in and around Wallebe. Following the First World War, the north was annexed by Britain; initially, the Northern Moniban's protested, feeling themselves now the colony of a colony. Following the discovery of iron and the arrival of migrant workers from the south and other colonies, they felt swamped, although some tribal chiefs would form lasting fortune as landlords. Following the First World War, issues in the North came to head, and a violent rebellion was launched- the south, largely a 'benign colony', found itself in its own struggle for independence, although this was pacifistic relative to their northern cousins. In 1963, Moniba became independent and a republic was proclaimed...

1963-1970: Dr Ozoemena Nkemakonam (Independent) [1]
def. 1964 (Government): various (Opposition)
def. 1967 (Coalition with MPP and FD): Arthur Nebeolisa (Moniban People's Party), Ozioma Chimaijem (Socialist National), Chiwetelu Izuchukwu (Freedom Democrats), Chukwualuka Ikemefuna (Democratic Progressive), Chidiebere Omeokachie (Communist)
1970-1978: Arthur Nebeolisa (Moniban People's Party)† [2]
def. 1970 (Free Democrats Coalition): Ozioma Chimaijem (National Left Alliance), Chukwualuka Ikemefuna (Democratic Progressive), Chiwetelu Izuchukwu (Free Democrats)
def. 1973 (Majority): Ozioma Chimaijem (National Left Alliance), Chukuwualuka Ikemefuna (Democratic Progressive), Chiwetelu Izuchukwu (Free Democrats)
def. 1976 (Democratic Progressive Coalition): Ozioma Chimaijem (National Left Alliance), Chukuwualuka Ikemefuna (Democratic Progressive)
1978-1979: Chukuwualuka Ikemefuna (Democratic Progressive)
1979-1985: Sebhat Temesgen (Moniban People's Party) [3]
def. 1979 (Democratic Progressive Coalition): Ozioma Chimaijem (National Left Alliance), Chukuwualuka Ikemefuna (Democratic Progressive), Yonatan Medhanie (Islamic Brotherhood)
def. 1982 (Democratic Progressive Coalition): Ozioma Chimaijem (National Left Alliance), Kodilinyechukwu Chiabuotu (Democratic Progressive), Yonatan Medhanie (Islamic Brotherhood)
1985-1985: Chidiebere Omeokachie (National Left Alliance) [4]
def. 1985 (Majority): Sebhat Temesgen (Moniban People's Party), Yonatan Medhanie (Islamic Brotherhood), Kodilinyechukwu Chiabuotu (Democratic Progressive)
1985-1992: Gen. Okwukwe Okwuoma (Independent-Military) [5]
1992-1995: Afwerki Chimaijem (Citizen's) [6]
def. 1992 Dec. (Majority): Chiwetelu Onyemauchechi (Liberal), Nwadimkpa Chiazagomekpere (Free Democrats), Yonatan Medhanie (Islamic Labour Union)
1995-2002: Chiwetelu Onvermauchechi (Liberal) [7]
def. 1995 (Majority): Afwerki Chimaijem (Citizen's), Nwadimkpa Chiazagomekpere (Free Democrats), Yonatan Medhanie (Islamic Labour Union)
def. 1998 (Majority): Ndubuisi Onwughara (Free Citizen's), Yonatan Medhanie (Islamic Labour Union)
def. 2001 (Majority): Ndubuisi Onwughara (Free Citizen's), Yonatan Medhanie (Islamic Labour Union)
2002-2004: Chidalu Oluchukwu (Liberal) [8]
2004-2013: Martin Goliwe (Moniban Growth!) [9]
def. 2004 (Majority): Chidalu Oluchukwu (Liberal), Yonatan Medhanie (Islamic Labour Union), Ndubuisi Onwughara (Free Citizen's)
def. 2007 (Majority): Temesgen Tewolde (Labour Union), Ndubuisi Onwughara (Free Citizen's), Neftalem Teodros (Liberal)
def. 2010 (Majority): Temesgen Tewolde (Labour Union), Neftalem Teodros (Coalition)
2013-2016: Temesgen Tewolde (Labour Union) [10]
def. 2013 (Majority): Martin Goliwe (Moniban Growth!), Neftalem Teodros (New Moniba)
2016-20??: Shukornia Efrem (Moniban Growth!) [11]
def. 2016 (Majority): Temesgen Tewolde (Labour Union)

01) Son of North Moniban landlords and a Cambridge educated heart doctor, Doctor Ozoemena 'Oz' Nkemakonam was an unlikely leader of Moniba. The fact he was a doctor, and one educated in England, was likely the reason he was given the role of Prime Minister by the last British Governor-General. The fact he was from the North gave him the authority to negotiate a settlement with North Moniban rebels and bring them to the ballot box over the bullet. Fiercely nationalistic and patriotic, Nkemakonam built a centre-right coalition with the christian democratic Moniban People's Party, and free market Freedom Democrats in his second term, with the intention of implementing state building reforms. Remembered primarily for building the three major institutions that have existed today- the bank, the health service, and the civil service- as well as a number of smaller reforms that have since be altered or adjusted, Nkemakonam is generally regarded as the founding father of Moniba. His use of the Military remains controversial, which he used to remove potentially damaging Communist and Nationalist opposition in the lead up to the 1967 Assembly elections, and to violently quash mining strikers in 1969 on the advice of his Interior Minister, Chiwerelu Izuchukwu. Regardless of this, his legacy remains strong, that of a nation builder and consensus setter, and his decision to step down in 1970 is regarded as installing a strong sense of democracy that, bar a few extraordinary years, has lasted until the present...
02) The name Nebeolisa remains one synonymous with 'progress'. Born to a fishing village outside of Wallebe, Arthur Nebeolisa entered politics as a young intellectual educated in England by the Church, fighting for Moniban Independence in the coffee houses and beer halls of Wallebe. Organiser for the first political party of Moniba, the Moniban People's Party, Nebeolisa became Prime Minister following the sudden resignation of Dr Nkemakonam. As noted, Nebeolisa's reign is one defined by progress, although not in a whiggish sense. For him, progress was money in the national purse. Progress was education. Progress was the building of schools and hospitals, and the emergence of a citizenry that would perpetuate that progress. A technocracy would forge a nation in the white heat of revolution, and that is what Nebeolisa gave. However he faced resistance- Communists in the north, led by Chidiebere Omeokachie, posed a threat to Nebeolisa's emerging consensus, winning Governor elections in the Northern provinces of Moniba. Their rule in the province was a success, and posed an alternative to submitting to Keynesians free marketism; their folding into the Socialist National movement to form the National Left Alliance only gave them more popularity. With the discovery of Oil, the United States made this their concern- a communist Government would not be tolerated, and if Nebeolisa couldn't sort out his own issues, they would for him. The elections of 1973 and 1976 remain a blot on his legacy, clear cases of electoral fraud and voter intimidation delivering Governments that had little democratic validity. For Nebeolisa, it was a case of securing the country. For historians, it was a lurch to the dictatorship and the erosion of the democratic principles that Dr Nkemakonam fought for. Nebeolisa died in the Winter of 1978, his car crashing in the road outside of Wallebe. Some believe it was an American assassination for the failure to deliver key oil contracts to US companies, instead of the national Oil company. Others see it as a Soviet murder to destabilise the Government. Most just view it as an accident.
03) Sebhat Temesgan was not meant to become Leader. A lowly Administrative Minister and an ethnic minority, his propulsion into High Office remains improbable, however fateful. Born in the North, Temesgan moved to Wallebe in 1954 to work in a bookshop. From there, he became involved first in the Communist Party, and, in 1960, the Moniban People's Party, a fervent follower of Dr Nkemakonam. An atheist, he was a curious choice to lead a christian democratic party. However he was chosen. If Nebeolisa represented a slide in the democratic institution then Temesgan represented a reaffirmation of them, winning two clean elections off the back of economic growth, increasingly employment, and personal charisma. His defeat in 1985 is down to a number of reasons: a desire for change among the electorate, economic recession (although Moniba had been well insulated from economic events beyond its shores thanks to its oil and mineral exports, everything began to catch up), and the collapse of the Moniban People's Party's popularity following corruption scandals. Although Temesgan remained personally popular, he would not be able to stop defeat. Voted out, he would leave the country following the December Coup, vowing to return only when democracy returned. He died in 1991.
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That's an interesting one Moth, I eagerly await your further footnotes.

Also a question to the audience, is there some simple way to get more color options that I'm missing? I've been going to another site to get color codes and it seems impractical.
 
MPs for Great Grimsby
1977-1983: Austin Mitchell (Labour)
1983-1986: Trevor Hoggard (Liberal)

MPs for North Lincolnshire
1986-1991: Elliot Morley (Labour), Richard Hickmet (Conservative), Trevor Hoggard (Liberal)
1991-1996: Elliot Morley (Labour), Trevor Hoggard (Liberal), Michael Brown (Conservative)

MPs for South Humberside
1996-2001: Elliot Morley (Labour), Shona McIsaac (Labour), Trevor Hoggard (Liberal), Donald Stewart (Conservative)
2001-2006: Shona McIsaac (Labour), Ian Cawsey (Labour), Trevor Hoggard (Independent), Donald Stewart (Conservative)
2006-2011: Shona McIsaac (Labour), Ian Cawsey (Labour), Trevor Hoggard (Independent), Matthew Vickers (Conservative)
2011-2016: Martin Vickers (Conservative), Andrew Percy (Conservative), Shona McIsaac (Labour), Trevor Hoggard (Independent)
2016-present: Trevor Hoggard (Anti-Federalist), Chris Hoggard (Anti-Federalist), Andrew Percy (Conservative), Nic Dakin (Labour)

A propos of the conversation in the Sports and Social about incredibly parochial TLs.

Trevor Hoggard, the Methodist minister who had been arm-twisted into standing for the Liberals in Gainsborough in 1979 (IOTL he refused), had been bitten by the partisan bug by the experience, and when the opportunity came to stand in Grimsby, to which circuit he had recently been stationed (IOTL he went to Measham instead), he jumped at the chance. Reluctantly, the local SDP branch relinquished the right to the Great Grimsby candidacy in return for that of Brigg and Cleethorpes.

On the day, Labour's Austin Mitchell fell prey to the Alliance wave and returned to New Zealand, later becoming Prime Minister of that country. His successor, Hoggard, was one of over 100 new Alliance MPs, and hope was high that they would enter into coalition with Labour (who had come third in the popular vote). However, the Alliance had not worked together on post-election options, so it eventuated that David Owen convinced the SDP to support the Conservatives in return for not very much apart from electoral reform. As such, Great Grimsby was swallowed up into the three-member STV constituency of North Lincolnshire before the collapse of the increasingly tenuous Conservative-SDP coalition. With second preferences from all parties, the Liberals did well in the 1986 election, but the Conservatives also managed to cannibalise SDP votes and continued to govern with the newfangled Green Party and the remnants of the SDP.

Only in 1991 did a resurgent Labour become the largest party in Parliament, but the divisive leadership of Tony Benn alienated all possible coalition partners, including the Liberals. The new Tory leader, Heseltine, therefore went into coalition with the Liberals on an almost equal basis, which enabled the approval of the Maastricht Treaty and an agreement in principle to join the Ecu. This, however, caused disagreements with Liberal backbenchers, including Hoggard, who desired a referendum on the subject, and the media jumped on the ideological divisions of the Liberals. Accusations of division quickly gave way to ones of opportunism when they crossed the floor to support the Blair government after the 1996 election, and the Liberals slowly splintered over the next few years - David Alton's Christian Democrats, Alan Sked's Anti-Federalists and John Hein's Sexual Freedom Alliance being the most prominent among them. Hoggard, however, judged that he would gain more electoral support and enjoy more policy freedom by becoming an Independent, and promptly did so. Hoggard was one of many Independents, a group which numbered 47 after the 2006 election and formed its own Technical Group to maximise speaking time for its members.

As an Independent, Hoggard saw out the rest of the Labour-Liberal coalition as a localist warrior on the subjects of piers, potholes and petrol prices, benefiting electorally from Eurosceptic votes, second preferences from Liberals, Social Democrats and Christian Democrats, and poorly balanced Conservative slates. For the European elections in 2014, he established 'Trevor Hoggard's: The Humbersiders', for which his son Chris won a seat thanks to Anti-Federalist preferences. The relationship with the liberal-Eurosceptic AFL became closer as the League gained popularity with the decline of the much more right-wing Veritas party, and both Trevor and Chris were voted into the House of Commons on their ticket in 2016 - one of many constituencies in which the AFL topped the poll, and thus enabled the end of the one-term Conservative-Christian Democrat coalition. The price of the AFL's support for the Cooper government was the promise of a referendum on EU membership, while Trevor Hoggard became one of the junior party's Cabinet ministers - as Minister for Housing, he is responsible for covering the Green Belt with an endless swathe of red-brick three-bed semis.
 
A Theoretical Look Forward: The Twilight's Last Gleaming by Tom Anderson (Published By Sea Lion Press)

ATLF's are, for the uninitiated, fun little thought experiments taking works of Alternate History and similar stories and taking their stories to some future limit. They are not canon or meant to be part of the canon of the book, nor do they reflect the ideas of the original authors. Spoilers are an inherent component of the concept so if you haven't read the source material, you should definitely check that out before looking at the footnotes.

1885-1885: S. Grover Cleveland / Thomas A. Hendricks (Democratic)
1884: James G. Blaine / John A. Logan (Republican), John St. John / William Daniel (Prohibition), Benjamin F. Butler / Absolom M. West (Greenback-Anti-Monopolist)
1885-1887: S. Grover Cleveland / vacant (Democratic)
1887-1889: Thomas F. Bayard / vacant (Democratic) [Acting]
1889-1897: Thomas B. Reed / James A. Walker (Republican)
1888: Thomas F. Bayard / John M. Palmer (Official “National” Democratic), Henry George / Leonidas L. Polk, Richard P. Bland (People’s / Minority “Popular” Democratic / Liberal)
1892: Walter Q. Gresham / James S. Hogg (Populist), Joseph C. S. Blackburn / Adlai E. Stevenson (National Democratic)
1897-1899: John P. Altgeld / Charles E. Bentley (Populist)
1896: Levi P. Morton / Frederick D. Grant (Republican), William F. Vilas / David B. Hill (National Democratic)
1899-1901: Charles E. Bentley / vacant (Populist)
1901-1905: Theodore Roosevelt / William O’C. Bradley (Republican)
1900: William J. Bryan / John S. Williams (Populist), Nelson A. Miles / William A. Harris (National Democratic)
1905-1909: John St. John / Thomas E. Watson (Populist)
1904: Theodore Roosevelt / William O’C. Bradley (Republican), C. Joseph A. Labadie / Clarence Darrow (Libertarian), George B. McClellan, Jr. / John A. Johnson (National Democratic)
1909-1917: Theodore Roosevelt / Henri Bourassa (Democratic-Republican)
1908: John St. John / Thomas E. Watson (Populist), C. Joseph A. Labadie / Eugene V. Debs (Libertarian)
1912: William E. Sulzer / Emil Seidel (Populist), John G. Chaney / James Connolly (Libertarian)
1917-1921: Theodore Roosevelt / Joseph D. Arango (National Union---Democratic-Republican-State "Patriotic" Populist)
1916: William J. Bryan / Andrew B. Law (Washington and Jefferson Populist), C. Joseph A. Labadie / Voltairine de Cleyre (Libertarian)
1921-1925: Carter Glass / Moorfield Storey (Populist)
1920: Leonard Wood / Richard A. Cooper (Republican), C. Joseph A. Labadie / Louise C. McKinney (Libertarian)

Footnotes tomorrow.
 
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