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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

With apologies to Marilyn Manson:
The Beautiful People
"And I don't want you, and I don't need you./Don't bother to resist or I'll beat you."
38. George Wallace/Sam Yorty 1973-1977

1972: Def. Edmund Muskie/Alan Cranston, Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew
It's not your fault that you're always wrong
39. George McGovern/Jimmy Carter 1977-1981

1976: Def. Ronald Reagan/Gerald Ford, George Wallace/Sam Yorty
The weak are there to justify the strong.
40. Alexander Haig/Jack Kemp 1981-1989

1980: Def. George McGovern/Jimmy Carter, Sam Yorty/Jesse Helms
1984: Def. Ted Kennedy/Paul Tsongas, Jesse Helms/Larry MacDonald
The beautiful people, the beautiful people/It's all relative to the size of your steeple.
41. Pat Robertson/Trent Lott 1989-1993

1988: Def. Mario Cuomo/Jerry Brown, Jack Kemp/Newt Gingrich
You can't see the forest for the trees/You can't smell your own shit on your knees.
42. Gary Hart/Jesse Jackson 1993-1995

1992: Def. Pat Robertson/Trent Lott, Colin Powell/Jim Jeffords
There's no time to discriminate/Hate every motherfucker/That's in your way
43. Jesse Jackson/Jerry Brown 1995-1997
Hey you, what do you see?/Something beautiful or something free?
44. Ron Paul/Gary Johnson 1997-2001

1996: Def. Trent Lott/Alan Keyes, Jesse Jackson/Jerry Brown
Hey, you, are you trying to be mean?/If you live with the apes man it's hard to be clean
45. Rick Santorum/Mike Huckabee 2001-2005

2000: Def. Bill Bradley/Sam Nunn, Ron Paul/Gary Johnson
The worms will live in every host/It's hard to pick which one they eat the most
46. Joe Lieberman/Joe Biden 2005-2017

2004: Def. Rick Santorum/Mike Huckabee, Jon Huntsman/Connie Mack IV
2008: Def. Mitch Daniels/Kay Bailey Hutchison, Tom Tancredo/Jerry Falwell, Jr.
The horrible people, the horrible people/It's as anatomic as the size of your steeple.
47. Mark Sanford/Bill Weld 2013-2017

2012: Def. Joe Biden/Deval Patrick, Mike Huckabee/Sarah Palin
Capitalism has made it this way/Old-fashioned fascism will take it away!
48. David Duke/Steve King 2017-

2016: Def. Russ Feingold/Greg Orman, Rand Paul/Austin Petersen
2020: Def. Lincoln Chafee/Jim Webb

38. This is meant to be by Wallace/Yorty at their rivals in the election and at counterculture/civil rights protestors respectively
39. McGovern and Carter are two good men who try to do the right thing, but end up reckoning with a lot of bad luck.
40. McGovern's failures allowed Haig to triumph
41. Robertson is kinda your stereotypical televangelist megachurch pastor-the 'steeple' here is meant to be like a church steeple
42. Hart was apparently a bit haughty and full of himself.
43. Jackson has a rather abrasive reputation.
44. Paul has a bold vision for the future.
45. Santorum prides himself on being holier-than-thou, but as a president is somewhat corrupt and thoroughly hypocritical
46. Lieberman embodies a stale establishment that nobody really likes
47. Joke about sex scandals ('anatomic as the size of your steeple')
48. Duke is a fascist.
 
To steal @Uhura's Mazda's brand for a moment...

A Little Country
1970-72: Arnold Nordmeyer (Labour-Social Credit coalition)
1970: Labour (37), Reform (18), United (16), Democratic Labour (5), Social Credit (5), People's Movement (3)
1972-74: Norman Kirk (Labour-Social Credit coalition)
1974-78: Norman Kirk (Labour minority)
1974: Labour (38), Reform (19), United (18), Democratic Labour (5), Social Credit (5), People's Movement (2)
1976: Labour (36), Reform (18), United (18), Democratic Labour (10), Social Credit (7), Liberal (3)

1978-81: Bruce Beetham (United-Reform-Social Credit coalition)
1978: Labour (33), United (19), Reform (18), Social Credit (14), Democratic Labour (6), Left Socialist (4)
1981-82: Norman Kirk (Labour minority)
1981: Labour (37), United (16), Reform (16), Social Credit (14), Democratic Labour (9)
1982-83: David Lange (Labour minority)
1983-85: Jack Marshall (Reform minority)
1983: Labour (25), NZ Party (15), Reform (12), Social Credit (11), United (9), Centre (7), Democratic Labour (6), Christian Heritage (4), Communist (3), Land League (3)
1985-87: David Lange (Labour minority)
1985: Labour (29), Reform (23), NZ Party (13), Social Credit (7), United (5), Christian Heritage (6), Democratic Labour (5), Communist (4), Centre (2), Left Socialist (2)
1987-89: David Lange (Labour-Reform "Worker-Peasant" coalition)
1987: Labour (36), NZ Party (15), Reform (12), United (8), Christian Heritage (6), Democratic Labour (4), Communist (4), Social Credit (3), Centre (3), Land League (3), Left Socialist (3)
1989-92: David Lange (Labour minority)
1989: Labour (38), Reform (12), United (12), NZ Party (11), Democratic Labour (6), Social Credit (6), Left Socialist (3), Centre (3), Land League (3), Christian Heritage (3)
1991: Labour (33), United (15), Democratic Labour (12), Reform (11), NZ Party (9), Centre (9), Social Credit (5), Christian Heritage (3), Left Socialist (2)

1992-98: Bill Birch (United-Reform-Centre-Christian Heritage coalition)
1994: Labour (32), United (24), Reform (12), Democratic Labour (12), Social Credit (6), Centre (4), NZ Party (3), Christian Heritage (3), Left Socialist (3)
1997: Labour (30), United (21), Democratic Labour (15), Reform (11), Social Credit (6), Centre (5), NZ Party (5), Christian Heritage (2), Common Course (2)

1998-2000: Bill Birch (United-Reform-Social Credit coalition)
1998: Labour (31), United (20), Democratic Labour (14), Reform (12), NZ Party (9), Social Credit (6), Centre (5), Christian Heritage (2)
2000-03: Bill Birch (United-Reform coalition)
2000: Labour (39), United (17), Reform (16), Democratic Labour (9), NZ Party (7), Centre (5), Social Credit (4), Christian Heritage (2)
2003-04: Michael Cullen (Labour-Centre-Social Credit-Christian Heritage coalition)
2004-06: Michael Cullen (Labour-Social Credit-Centre coalition)
2004: Labour (35), Reform (24), United (15), Democratic Labour (7), NZ Party (6), Left Unity (5), Social Credit (4), Centre (3)
2006-11: Michael Cullen (Labour-Social Credit coalition)
2008: Labour (35), Reform (24), United (9), People's Party (7), Democratic Labour (7), Centre (5), Social Credit (4), Left Unity (3), Christian Heritage (2), NZ Party (2)
2011-: Bill English (Reform-United coalition with People's Party support)
2011: Reform (32), Labour (29), People's Party (13), United (9), Democratic Labour (7), Social Credit (5), Left Unity (2), Christian Heritage (2)
 
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1961-1965: John F. Kennedy/Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
1960 def. Richard Nixon/Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Republican), various unpledged southern electors
1965-1969: John F. Kennedy/Terry Sanford (Democratic)
1964 def. Jim Rhodes/Gerald Ford (Republican), Ross Barnett/George Wallace (Dixiecrat)
1969-1977: George Romney/George Bush (Republican)
1968 def. Terry Sanford/Robert F. Kennedy (Democratic), George Wallace/Lester Maddox (Dixiecrat)
1972 def. Robert F. Kennedy/James E. Carter (Democratic), Lester Maddox/John Rarick (Dixiecrat)

1977-1977: Lyndon B. Johnson/Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)
1976 def. Ronald Reagan/Otto Passman (Ecology), Nelson Rockefeller/Howard Baker (Republican), Eugene McCarthy/various (Independent)
1977-1978: Hubert Humphrey/vacant (Democratic)
1978-1981: Mo Udall/vacant (Democratic)
1981-1981: Ronald Reagan/Jesse Helms (Ecology)
1980 def. Ed Muskie/John Glenn (Democratic), Charles Mathias/John B. Anderson (Republican), Barry Commoner/Ralph Nader (Citizens)
1981-1981: Jesse Helms/vacant (Ecology)
1981-1989: Jesse Helms/James G. Watt (Ecology)
1984 def. Alan Cranston/George McGovern (Democratic), John B. Anderson/Larry Pressler (Republican)
1989-1997: Joe Biden/Bill Clinton (Democratic)
1988 def. James G. Watt/Pat Robertson (Ecology), Lee Iaccoca/Alan K. Simpson (Republican), Ron Paul/David Koch (Geolibertarian)
1992 def. Pat Buchanan/Howard Phillips (Ecology), Ross Perot/various (Republican)

1997-2005: George Wallace Jr./Bob Dornan (Ecology)
1996 def. Jay Rockefeller/Harris Wofford (Democratic)
2000 def. Donald Trump/Nancy Pelosi (Democratic), Ron Paul/David Nolan (Geolibertarian)

2005-2009: Wesley Clark/Peter Navarro (Democratic)
2004 def. Dennis Prager/Trent Lott (Ecology), Pat Buchanan/James P. Hoffa (American)
2009-2013: George Allen/Rick Santorum (Ecology)
2008 def. Wesley Clark/Peter Navarro (Democratic)
2013-2021: Peter Navarro/Rod Blagojevich (Democratic)
2012 def. George Allen/Rick Santorum (Ecology)
2016 def. Mike Huckabee/John Bolton (Ecology), Rand Paul/Kevin Zeese (Geolibertarian)

2021-0000: David Duke/Michael Flynn (Ecology)
2020 def. Rod Blagojevich/Jim Webb (Democratic), Rand Paul/John McAfee (Geolibertarian), Roseanne Barr/Cynthia McKinney (Citizens)

Kennedy - Given a strong mandate following his re-election, he became a foreign policy oriented president, much to the chagrin of friends and foes alike. With Fulbright at State and Bobby at Defense, JFK felt comfortable enough pursuing UN reform, foreign aid missions, and the US-Soviet Lunar Landing (1968). But all of that would be derailed by the revelation of Kennedy's infidelity and drug use in late 1967. In the end, even the lunar landing would not be enough to prevent the election of Kennedy's successor.

Romney - The Last Republican President would oversee the unwinding of Kennedy's international reform projects. Secretary General Waldheim organized the International Parliament to take seriously the dual threats of climate change and overpopulation as the Sino-Soviet Nuclear War (1970), disorder on the Indian sub-continent, and Africa's First World War (1975-1982) flung a carefully created international order into the chaos of the modern world. President Romney's inability to manage these problems would end the electoral hopes of his hand-picked successor.

Johnson - Choosing to elevate the conservative-splinter Ecology Party as his main electoral opposition due to their being perceived as easier to defeat, Johnson would go on to win a strong mandate. He would then lead a strong 100 days and die just months into his presidency.

Humphrey - A largely forgotten President, Humphrey spent much of his administration fighting serious illness (although he attempted to cover-up that fact).

Udall - Speaker Udall ascended to the Presidency under grim circumstances. He found his agenda blocked by a hostile congress that was far more insistent on investigating the cover-up of his predecessor's illness. Unfortunately, in early 1980 Udall himself would be forced out of the Presidential race due to a severe illness of his own.

Reagan - The Founder of the Ecology Party, Reagan would also become that group's martyr when he was assassinated in March, 1981 by followers of Reverend Jim Jones. Reagan's killers cited his polarizing political stances as the reason for their assassination.

Helms - The archetype of the modern Ecologist President, Helms changed the nation. His War on Drugs irreversibly changed the criminal justice system as he took a hardline stance. On the foreign policy stage, Helms was equally hardline. Recently, it was revealed that President Helms and his national security team led by Alexander Haig at State and John Kirk Singlaub at Defense deliberately provoked nuclear conflicts in the Indo-Pakistani War (1987), the Collapse of South Africa (1984-1990), and Africa's Second World War (1985-1989). It has been speculated that this may have been tied to the administration's efforts to "combat overpopulation" which it had admittedly prioritized.

Biden - Took America off the ledge that Helms had taken it too but couldn't walk much further away that that. Biden's success was largely a product of the ineptitude of his varied opponents. One of his most lasting impacts was on his own party as stood powerless as more moderate Democrats took control of the party's apparatus.

Wallace Jr. - Oversaw the Era of Plenty as America's status as the world's sole superpower cemented it at the top of a brutal international ladder.

Clark - Oversaw the beginning of the Second Depression (2006-2014) which derailed many of his administration's planned efforts.

Allen - Although he was elected on a platform based around economic recovery, President Allen was far more interested in furthering American involvement in Africa and the Indian sub-continent.

Navarro - The most left-wing President since Udall, Navarro set about solving the Second Depression immediately as he entered office. Additionally, his positions on climate change and overpopulation stood out from those of nearly all his modern predecessors. He dismissed both as "hoaxes."

Duke - An avowed white supremacist (as opposed to Reagan, Helms, Wallace Jr., and Allen who were only suspected to varying degrees) Duke won an incredibly close and controversial election. The former Ambassador to the Cape Republic (Wallace Jr.) and the UN (Allen) has already gone about re-introducing more widespread measures similar to Helms-era sterilization laws.

The future of the nation is grim as it lurches closer and closer to the edge in an already chaotic world...
 
The Hand Of History

1961-1969: John F. Kennedy (D-MA) / Lyndon B. Johnson (D-TX) [1]
1960: Richard M. Nixon (R-CA) / Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R-MA)
1964: Bob Dole (R-KS) / William G. Stratton (R-IL) [2]

1969-1973: Lyndon B. Johnson (D-TX) / Hubert H. Humphrey (D-MN) [3]
1968: Charles A. Halleck (R-IN) / Spiro Agnew (R-MD)
1973-1978: John V. Lindsay (R-NY) / H. John Heinz III (R-PA)*
1972: Lyndon B. Johnson (D-TX) / Hubert H. Humphrey (D-MN), Tom McCall (T-OR) / Jacob Javits (T-NY) [4]
1976: Ralph Yarborough (D-TX) / Ed Muskie (D-ME), Paul Weyrich (AIP-WI) / Howard Phillips (AIP-VA) [5]

1978-1978: John V. Lindsay (R-NY)* / Vacant
1978-1979: Margaret Heckler (R-MA) / Vacant
1979-1981: Margaret Heckler (R-MA) / George H. W. Bush (R-TX) [6]
1978: George McGovern (D-SD) / Eugene McCarthy (D-MN), Norma Burgos (PNP-PR) / Various
1981-1982: Barry Farber (R-NY) / Manuel Lujan, Jr. (R-NM)* [7]
1980: George McGovern (D-SD) / Eugene McCarthy (D-MN)
1982-1982: Barry Farber (R-NY) / Vacant
1982-: Barry Farber (R-NY) / Robert "Bob Martinez (R-FL)

[1] JFK casts a what one might call a very long shadow over the modern Democratic Party. In the plus column - a soaring landslide in 1964, making Democracy cool again, and the March 24th, 1967 referendum that lead to state #51, sunny Puerto Rico. In the negative column - a frequently dysfunctional relationship with his #2 and Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam.

[2] Dole's meteoric rise was simply a case of too far, too fast - as his party lurched rightward, the second-term congressman's fresh face and debating chops were not enough to shed a reputation as, well, a bit of a hatchet man. Giving the lie to the idea that there are no second acts in politics, Dole's tenure as Sec. of State for Lindsay was...eventful, to say the least.

[3] Spare a tear for LBJ. Heir apparent for so long under a man he eventually despised, getting the top job finally only to face a seemingly unending war and the near-catastrophic collapse of the Bretton Woods system. LBJ's actions saved the world economy from collapse but did little to earn the love of voters - and the man who had wanted the Presidency for so long was thrown out after four years for the Republican golden boy.

[4] Tom McCall talked about this "Third Force" thing a lot as a happy middle ground, and voters thought "seems legit" and then he directed his electors to vote for Lindsay to prevent it going to the House and in exchange Lindsay was kind enough to gut most of McCall's core policy ideas. The Third Force is not doing too hot.

[5] Weyrich, in contrast, won no states for the AIP but indirectly persuaded Lindsay (tired of fending off attacks from his right) to direct congressional Republicans to vote for the Human Life Amendment so that, per Lindsay's reasoning, the core issue could be voted upon in the state legislature's rather than decided in the courts. This was...a miscalculation, and the passage of a constitutional amendment that went against the most central priorities of the Lindsay administration led to a typically cold decision by Lindsay to direct VP Heinz to fall on the sword, followed promptly by himself.

[6] With no provision to appoint a VP (why would there be?), the role would have fallen to Speaker O'Neill, who was, however, aware he was a member of the wrong party. O'Neill directed the Republican caucus in the House to select one of their number to be elected Speaker. They ended up choosing - if not a dominant presence, certainly not a sacrificial lamb. Margaret Heckler simply seemed best placed to thread the needle, having been long-tipped for a cabinet position, an opponent of the Human Life Amendment who was personally anti-abortion, and - considering the population most engaged by the issue - a woman. The safe wisdom was that Heckler would beat McGovern in the subsequent special election like a rug - but it was wrong: Heckler proved an invisible, unpopular presence, McGovern walked the line of abortion more tactfully than most of his pet causes, and for the second time in a decade, no one got a majority, this time due to the typically fractious politics of Puerto Rico. The PNP electors defected to Heckler before it could go the House, unsurprisingly, but her Presidency had emerged from the gate crippled - and a large portion of NASA was about to be moving to San Juan. Heckler did little to prevent the (by no means certain) decision that the next election would still be in 1980 instead of 1982, and her decision to run again proved (sigh) abortive in the face of the new Republican champion.

[7] Farber's political odyssey had been - odd, to say the least. A long-time reporter, amateur linguist, and all around talk show star, the one-time moderate morphed into something else entirely in his stint as congressman, iconic time as Mayor of NYC, and tenure in the Senate - and he trampled McGovern's second try in 1980 with a laser-tight focus on the abortion ban matched to a wacky persona and McGovern ill-fated decision to challenge the HLA outright. Farber's determination to corral his own party has already led to the unprecedented resignation of Vice President Lujan, just a year in. But with the last Democratic victory in 1968, all the way back in the Kennedy presidency, and four losses in a row, the question isn't what "Barry" has going for him - it's what even stands in his way.
 
The Hand Of History

1961-1969: John F. Kennedy (D-MA) / Lyndon B. Johnson (D-TX) [1]
1960: Richard M. Nixon (R-CA) / Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (R-MA)
1964: Bob Dole (R-KS) / William G. Stratton (R-IL) [2]

1969-1973: Lyndon B. Johnson (D-TX) / Hubert H. Humphrey (D-MN) [3]
1968: Charles A. Halleck (R-IN) / Spiro Agnew (R-MD)
1973-1978: John V. Lindsay (R-NY) / H. John Heinz III (R-PA)*
1972: Lyndon B. Johnson (D-TX) / Hubert H. Humphrey (D-MN), Tom McCall (T-OR) / Jacob Javits (T-NY) [4]
1976: Ralph Yarborough (D-TX) / Ed Muskie (D-ME), Paul Weyrich (AIP-WI) / Howard Phillips (AIP-VA) [5]

1978-1978: John V. Lindsay (R-NY)* / Vacant
1978-1979: Margaret Heckler (R-MA) / Vacant
1979-1981: Margaret Heckler (R-MA) / George H. W. Bush (R-TX) [6]
1978: George McGovern (D-SD) / Eugene McCarthy (D-MN), Norma Burgos (PNP-PR) / Various
1981-1982: Barry Farber (R-NY) / Manuel Lujan, Jr. (R-NM)* [7]
1980: George McGovern (D-SD) / Eugene McCarthy (D-MN)
1982-1982: Barry Farber (R-NY) / Vacant
1982-: Barry Farber (R-NY) / Robert "Bob Martinez (R-FL)

[1] JFK casts a what one might call a very long shadow over the modern Democratic Party. In the plus column - a soaring landslide in 1964, making Democracy cool again, and the March 24th, 1967 referendum that lead to state #51, sunny Puerto Rico. In the negative column - a frequently dysfunctional relationship with his #2 and Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam.

[2] Dole's meteoric rise was simply a case of too far, too fast - as his party lurched rightward, the second-term congressman's fresh face and debating chops were not enough to shed a reputation as, well, a bit of a hatchet man. Giving the lie to the idea that there are no second acts in politics, Dole's tenure as Sec. of State for Lindsay was...eventful, to say the least.

[3] Spare a tear for LBJ. Heir apparent for so long under a man he eventually despised, getting the top job finally only to face a seemingly unending war and the near-catastrophic collapse of the Bretton Woods system. LBJ's actions saved the world economy from collapse but did little to earn the love of voters - and the man who had wanted the Presidency for so long was thrown out after four years for the Republican golden boy.

[4] Tom McCall talked about this "Third Force" thing a lot as a happy middle ground, and voters thought "seems legit" and then he directed his electors to vote for Lindsay to prevent it going to the House and in exchange Lindsay was kind enough to gut most of McCall's core policy ideas. The Third Force is not doing too hot.

[5] Weyrich, in contrast, won no states for the AIP but indirectly persuaded Lindsay (tired of fending off attacks from his right) to direct congressional Republicans to vote for the Human Life Amendment so that, per Lindsay's reasoning, the core issue could be voted upon in the state legislature's rather than decided in the courts. This was...a miscalculation, and the passage of a constitutional amendment that went against the most central priorities of the Lindsay administration led to a typically cold decision by Lindsay to direct VP Heinz to fall on the sword, followed promptly by himself.

[6] With no provision to appoint a VP (why would there be?), the role would have fallen to Speaker O'Neill, who was, however, aware he was a member of the wrong party. O'Neill directed the Republican caucus in the House to select one of their number to be elected Speaker. They ended up choosing - if not a dominant presence, certainly not a sacrificial lamb. Margaret Heckler simply seemed best placed to thread the needle, having been long-tipped for a cabinet position, an opponent of the Human Life Amendment who was personally anti-abortion, and - considering the population most engaged by the issue - a woman. The safe wisdom was that Heckler would beat McGovern in the subsequent special election like a rug - but it was wrong: Heckler proved an invisible, unpopular presence, McGovern walked the line of abortion more tactfully than most of his pet causes, and for the second time in a decade, no one got a majority, this time due to the typically fractious politics of Puerto Rico. The PNP electors defected to Heckler before it could go the House, unsurprisingly, but her Presidency had emerged from the gate crippled - and a large portion of NASA was about to be moving to San Juan. Heckler did little to prevent the (by no means certain) decision that the next election would still be in 1980 instead of 1982, and her decision to run again proved (sigh) abortive in the face of the new Republican champion.

[7] Farber's political odyssey had been - odd, to say the least. A long-time reporter, amateur linguist, and all around talk show star, the one-time moderate morphed into something else entirely in his stint as congressman, iconic time as Mayor of NYC, and tenure in the Senate - and he trampled McGovern's second try in 1980 with a laser-tight focus on the abortion ban matched to a wacky persona and McGovern ill-fated decision to challenge the HLA outright. Farber's determination to corral his own party has already led to the unprecedented resignation of Vice President Lujan, just a year in. But with the last Democratic victory in 1968, all the way back in the Kennedy presidency, and four losses in a row, the question isn't what "Barry" has going for him - it's what even stands in his way.
Ah, stole my line.

Farber is *chefs kiss* though.
 
List of Prime Ministers of New Zealand
1940-1943: Peter Fraser (Labour)
1943: Peter Fraser (Labour-Patriotic coalition)
1943 def: Sidney Holland (National), Adam Hamilton (Patriotic), John A. Lee (Democratic Labour), John H. Hogan (Real Democracy)
1943-1945: Peter Fraser (Labour-Reform coalition)
1945-1949:
Peter Fraser (Labour)
1946 def: Sidney Holland (National), John A. Lee (Reform)
1949-1950: Peter Fraser (Labour minority)
1949 def: Frank Langstone (Reform), Sidney Holland (National)
1950-1952: Jerry Skinner (Labour minority)
1952-1957: Frank Langstone (Reform)
1952 def: Jerry Skinner (Labour), William Polson (National)
1955 def: Arnold Nordmeyer (Labour), Jack Marshall (Constitutional), William Polson (National)

1957-1958: Roly Marks (Reform)

In 1943, Sid Holland pulled out of the War Administration, judging it a better of his time to oppose striking miners than to oppose Hitler. He did not, however, have the unanimous support of his Party: two elder statesmen, Gordon Coates and Adam Hamilton, immediately rejoined and were supported by a small number of backbenchers. They were expelled from National for their trouble and formed instead the Patriotic Party, which was sufficiently embarrassing to National that Fraser invited them into full Coalition rather than only being part of the war effort side of things.

The crisis forced a fresh election, but the Patriots' first leader did not live to see it. Gordon Coates, who had been Prime Minister in the 1920s, died unexpectedly on the eve of the poll. Instead, Hamilton led the new Party into the election and won a couple of seats. This was part of a general surge of minor parties: the Australian Social Creditor John Hogan unseated the Finance Minister, Walter Nash, in Hutt, while Jack Lee's splinter party took 4% of the national vote and held Grey Lynn. After the election, all of these parties joined forces in support of state support for farmers, monetary reform, and more active prosecution of the War. The new party was led by Lee, a more forceful and experienced speaker than Hamilton, and he demanded the post of Minister of Defence from his old enemy Fraser. Much to his chagrin, Fraser couldn't choose to govern alone after fighting an election on a platform of criticising National for pulling out of the co-operative effort.

The Reform Party, a collection of cranks united by monetary and institutional reform and distaste for the other parties, acquired the support of the Farmers' Union, but one senior FU member, Bill Polson, worked to destroy the tumescent growth of Kiwi radicalism. Polson published a newspaper, even in the depths of rationing, which reproduced entire articles from the Reform Party's mouthpiece (edited by Robin Hyde) and demolished them point-by-point. At least, that was the idea. Polson privately admitted that many of his writers were substantially less persuasive than those who had written the originals, and the overall effect was to convince the buyers of the paper that Reform was worth looking into.

The Second World War came to an end as the NZEF prepared to land on the Japanese mainland. Reform left - or was ejected from - the Government, and Fraser governed alone for the next four years. Now, though, the Cold War was mounting and Fraser, hungry for the respect of the NZ Establishment, supported peacetime conscription in a referendum in 1949. He won the day, but lost the Minister Frank Langstone, who defected along with his anti-conscription supporters to Reform, and was rewarded with the leadership by his friend Lee. Langstone and Reform campaigned hard for the lifting of rationing and restrictions in the general election later that year, in contrast to Labour; and they had a more convincing means of reducing taxes than National did, viz. monetary reform. As such, they leapfrogged the discredited Holland into second place and denied Labour a majority. Even now, though, Fraser was unwilling to work with the traitors Langstone and Lee, and was happier to work with Holland on a case-by-case basis.

Fraser died a few months later in any case, at a point when both of his presumed successors - Nash and Arnold Nordmeyer - had lost their seats. Jerry Skinner was the best option for the rapidly aging Labour caucus, but he still wasn't a patch on the leaders who had gone before. A waterfront dispute in 1951, promoted by the Communists, flushed a million working days down the drain. Skinner was doomed electorally from this point on, and only beat National in the 1952 election because the latter had passed their own leadership on to the aging an ineffective anti-Reformer Bill Polson.

Langstone pulled off a majority in 1952 and repeated the feat two years later, but the Second Reform Government proved more cautious and moderate than had been expected, limiting their experimentation to the creation of new Reserve Bank-funded, producer board-controlled, guaranteed price schemes for agricultural exports. Taxes were reduced and import restrictions replaced with tariffs, liberalising the economy somewhat and inciting a period of healthy, if inflation-heavy, growth - which concluded in 1957-8 with a balance of payments crisis. Wanganui's MP, Roly Marks, challenged his chief in caucus and came away with the support of the Farmers' Union side of the Reform Party. Marks is energetic and charismatic, but struggles on the front of convincing the electorate to take him seriously. He introduced the long-time Reform promise to abolish the whipping system on their side of the house for everything but core principles, and has been castigated in the press for appointing the naturopath Ulric Williams to a senior position in the Ministry of Health.

In the meantime, while Labour suffers under the unadventurous and unlovable leadership of Arnold Nordmeyer, with the memories of 1951 still fresh in the minds of the electorate, National tears itself apart in the doldrums of third-party politics, with the urban businessmen who bankroll the party splitting off to support Jack Marshall's Constitutional Party, which schismed in horror at Bill Polson blithely accepting Langstone's abolition of the Upper House. Marshall leapfrogged ahead of National in 1955, and still seems to be the only leader with momentum behind him. Who knows what 1958 might bring?
 
headcanon of a collaborative list from that thread

Directors of the United States National Salvation Government

1934-1935: Hugh S. Johnson (Nonpartisan), as Secretary of General Affairs
1935-1936: Hugh S. Johnson (National Legion)
1936-1943: Douglas MacArthur (National Legion)
1936 Party List Approval Referendum; 93% APPROVED
1940 Party List Approval Referendum;
98% APPROVED
1943-1950: Hoyt S. Vandenberg (National Legion)
1944 Party List Approval Referendum; 94% APPROVED
1948 cancelled; internal Party coup, removal of Hitlerist ideologues

1950-1962: Vannevar Bush (National Legion)
1950 internal Party coup, removal of Bonapartist stratocrats
1952 Party List Approval Referendum; 83% APPROVED
1956 Party List Approval Referendum; 92% APPROVED
1960 (National Salvation Government with National Republicans and National Democrats) def. unaffiliated Independents

1962-1971: Elmo Zumwalt (National Legion)
1962 internal Government coup, purge of technocrats and suspected Bolsheviks
1964 Party List Approval Referendum; 79% APPROVED
1968 Party List Approval Referendum; 91% APPROVED
1970 (National Salvation Government with National Democrats and National Republicans) def. unaffiliated Independents

1971-1974: Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (National Democrat)
1972 (National Salvation Government with National Legion and National Republicans) def. unaffiliated Independents
1974-1982: Armand Hammer (National Republican)
1976 (National Salvation Government with National Legion and National Democrats) def. unaffiliated Independents
1980 (National Salvation Government with National Democrats and National Legion) def. unaffiliated Independents

1982-1989: Robin Olds (National Legion)
1982 internal Government coup, purge of suspected Bolsheviks and anti-soldier elements
1984 Party List Approval Referendum;
88% APPROVED
1989-1992: Tom Ridge (National Legion)
1988 Party List Approval Referendum; 84% APPROVED
1992-1993: Tom Ridge (National Republican)
1993-1993: Donald Rumsfeld (National Legion)
1992 cancelled; anti-civilian coup, attempted restoration of military authority
1993 mutiny resulting in collapse of National Salvation Government
 
2007-2013: Gordon Brown (Labour)
2007 (Majority) def. David Cameron (Conservative), Ming Campbell (Liberal Democrat), Ian Paisley (Democratic Unionist), Alex Salmond (Scottish National), Gerry Adams (Sinn Fein)
2012 (Majority) def. David Cameron (Conservative), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat), Peter Robinson (Democratic Unionist), Alex Salmond (Scottish National), Gerry Adams (Sinn Fein)

2013-2015: Gordon Brown (Independent)
2015-2023: David Davis (Conservative)
2015 (Coalition with UKIP) def. Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat), Nigel Farage (United Kingdom Independence), Alex Salmond (Scottish National), John McDonnell (Socialist Campaign Group), Peter Robinson (Democratic Unionist), Chuka Umunna (Independents4Change), Gerry Adams (Sinn Fein)
2016 EU membership referendum; 56% LEAVE
2018 (Majority) def. Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat), John McDonnell (Democratic Socialist), Arlene Foster (Democratic Unionist), disputed (Scottish National), Mary Lou McDonald (Sinn Fein)

2023-2028: Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrat)
2023 (Coalition with DSGB) def. David Davis (Conservative), Rebecca Long-Bailey (Democratic Socialist), Mary Lou McDonald (Sinn Fein), Arlene Foster (Democratic Unionist), Fergus Ewing (Scottish National)
 
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the idea is that gordo does a snappy when he becomes leader, and then wins 2012 as the post-2008 economy improves and the afterglow of the olympics is all to his benefit

but then the labour party goes bankrupt and has to fold
Oh,I see.

How does the government,uh,not get no confidenced though?

Like,I like the list a lot,don’t get me wrong,I’m just wondering if Gordon can survive that and also remain in office til 2015

Still,a great list.
 
"We are on our knees, let us rise"

Heads of Government of the 32 County Irish Free State/32 County Irish Republic

1919 - 1925: William Redmond (Irish Parliamentary Party)
1919 def: Cathal Bruga (Sinn Fein), Edward Carson (Irish Unionist Party)
1925 - 1929: Eoin MacNeill (Sinn Fein)
1925 def: Thomas O'Connell (Irish Labour Party), Hugh MacDowell Pollock (Irish Unionist Party), William Redmond (Irish National League), James Connolly (Irish Communist Party), Independents
1929-1942: Thomas O'Connell (Irish Labour Party)
1929 def: Eoin MacNeill (Sinn Fein), Hugh MacDowell Pollock (Irish Unionist Party), James Connolly (Irish Communist Party), Seán T. O'Kelly (Poblacht Chríostúil), Eoin O'Duffy (National Corporate Party ), Independents
1935 def: Eoin MacNeill (Sinn Fein), John Miller Andrews
(Irish Unionist Party), James Larkin Jnr (Irish Communist Party), Seán T. O'Kelly (Poblacht Chríostúil), Eoin O'Duffy (National Corporate Party), Jack Beattie (Unionist Labour Front), Independents
1940 def: Eoin MacNeill (Sinn Fein), John Miller Andrews (Irish Unionist Party), James Larkin Jnr (Irish Communist Party), Seán T. O'Kelly (Poblacht Chríostúil), Eoin O'Duffy (National Corporate Party), Jack Beattie (Unionist Labour Front), Ernest Blythe (Cumann na nGaedheal), Independents
1942-1947: James Larkin Jr (Popular Front Government) - ( Irish Labour Party, Irish Communist Party, Unionist Labour Front Coalition)
1942 def: Brian O'Higgins (Sinn Fein), John Miller Andrews (Irish Unionist Party), Seán T. O'Kelly (Poblacht Chríostúil), Eoin O'Duffy (National Corporate Party), Ernest Blythe (Cumann na nGaedheal), Independents
1947-1951: Tom Derrig (Caomhnú Náisiúnta) - (Sinn Fein, Poblacht Chríostúil, National Corporate Party, Cumann na nGaedheal Coaltion)
1947 def: James Larkin Jr (Popular Front Government) - ( Irish Labour Party, Irish Communist Party, Unionist Labour Front Coalition), George Boyle Hanna (Irish Unionist Party), Independent
1951-1958: Sean McBride (Clann na Poblachta) - (Amalgamation of Irish Labour Party, Unionist Labour Front and Official Sinn Fein)
1951 def: Tom Derrig (Caomhnú Náisiúnta) - (Amalgamtion of Republican Sinn Fein, Poblacht Chríostúil, National Corporate Party and Cumann na nGaedheal), George Boyle Hanna (Irish Unionist Party), Bill Gannon (Irish Communist Party), Independents
1956 def: Richard Mulcahy (Caomhnú Náisiúnta), George Boyle Hanna (Irish Unionist Party), Bill Gannon (Irish Communist Party), Independents
1958-1965: Noel Browne (Clann na Poblachta)
1958 def: Richard Mulcahy (Caomhnú Náisiúnta), Terrence O'Neill (Irish Unionist Party), Bill Gannon (Irish Communist Party), Independents
1963 def: Declan Costello (Caomhnú Náisiúnta), Terrence O'Neill (Irish Unionist Party), Andy Barr (Irish Communist Party), Paddy Devlin (All-Ireland Syndicalist Union ), Independents
1965-1978: Declan Costello (Caomhnú Náisiúnta)
1965 def: Noel Browne (Clann na Poblachta), Terrence O'Neill (Irish Unionist Party), Andy Barr (Irish Communist Party), Paddy Devlin (All-Ireland Syndicalist Union ), Independents
1970 def: Noel Browne (Clann na Poblachta), Terrence O'Neill (Irish Unionist Party), Andy Barr (Irish Communist Party), Paddy Devlin (All-Ireland Syndicalist Union ), Independents
1975 def: Frank Cluskey (Clann na Poblachta), Jack Andrews (Irish Unionist Party), Andy Barr (
Irish Communist Party), Paddy Devlin (All-Ireland Syndicalist Union ), Independents
1978-1980: Frank Cluskey (Clann na Poblachta)
1978 def: Declan Costello (Caomhnú Náisiúnta), Jack Andrews (Irish Unionist Party), Andy Barr (Irish Communist Party), Paddy Devlin (All-Ireland Syndicalist Union ), Independents
1980-1980: John Hume (Clann na Poblachta)
1980-1985: Pádraig Faulkner (Caomhnú Náisiúnta)
1980 def: John Hume (Clann na Poblachta), William Long (Irish Unionist Party), Michael Higgins (Irish Communist Party), Independent
1985-1997: Gerry Fitt (Sóisialta Daonlathach) - (Amalgamation of Clann na Poblachta and Left Wing Irish Unionist)
1985 def: Pádraig Faulkner (Caomhnú Náisiúnta), William Long (Offical Unionist), Michael Higgins (Irish Communist Party), Independent
1991 def: Brian Lenihan (Caomhnú Náisiúnta), William Long (Offical Unionist), Michael Higgins (Irish Communist Party)
1996 def: C.J. Haughey (Caomhnú Náisiúnta), Edgar Graham (Offical Unionist), Michael Higgins (Irish Communist Party)
1997-2006: Jan Sullivan (Sóisialta Daonlathach)
1998 def: C.J. Haughey (Caomhnú Náisiúnta), Edgar Graham (Offical Unionist), Michael Higgins (Irish Communist Party)
2002 def: Gay Byrne (Caomhnú Náisiúnta), Edgar Graham (Offical Unionist), Brian Campfieid (Irish Communist Party)
2006-2014: Brian Campfieid (Irish Communist Party)
2006 def: Jan Sullivan (Sóisialta Daonlathach), Gay Byrne (Caomhnú Náisiúnta), Edgar Graham (Offical Unionist)
2011 def: Jan Sullivan (Sóisialta Daonlathach), John Bruton (Caomhnú Náisiúnta), John Jeffries (Syndicalist Labour Party)
2014-XXXX: Mary McAleese (Sóisialta Daonlathach and Caomhnú Náisiúnta "Derry" Social Credit faction Coalition)
2014 def: Brian Campfieid (Irish Communist Party), John Bruton (Oifigeach Caomhnú Náisiúnta "Christian Democrat" faction), Gemma Weir (Syndicalist Labour Party)
 
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Oh,I see.

How does the government,uh,not get no confidenced though?

Like,I like the list a lot,don’t get me wrong,I’m just wondering if Gordon can survive that and also remain in office til 2015

Still,a great list.

The party folding doesnt mean all the MPs lose their jobs - he'd still have the confidence of Parliament at least at first but as backbenchers once constrained by all being in one party with the discipline that entails start organising into groups, that wouldn't last long.
 
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