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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

A fun idea! I note the strange leadership of Jeremy Corbyn as part of Blue Labour

*removes mask to reveal Jon Cruddas*
ITS ME, MCDONNELL! IT WAS ME, ALL ALONG, MCDONNELL!

Your list and your notes seem a little skewiff, Bolt.

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Formidable mais nécessaire

1983 - 1993: Thomas Sankara (Military leading National Council for the Revolution)
1993 - present: Thomas Sankara (Union for Preservation of the Democratic and Popular Revolution)
1993 (Popular Front) def: Clément Oumarou Ouedraogo (Union of Burkinabé Communists)
1998 (Popular Front) def: Clément Oumarou Ouedraogo (Union of Burkinabé Communists)
2003 (Popular Front) def: Thomas Sanon (LIPAD)
2008 (Popular Front) def: Abdoulkader Cissé (LIPAD)
2013 (Popular Front) def: Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (LIPAD)
2018 (Popular Front) def: Kassoum Ouédraogo (Burkinabé Party of the Masses)
 
Formidable mais nécessaire

1983 - 1993: Thomas Sankara (Military leading National Council for the Revolution)
1993 - present: Thomas Sankara (Union for Preservation of the Democratic and Popular Revolution)
1993 (Popular Front) def: Clément Oumarou Ouedraogo (Union of Burkinabé Communists)
1998 (Popular Front) def: Clément Oumarou Ouedraogo (Union of Burkinabé Communists)
2003 (Popular Front) def: Thomas Sanon (LIPAD)
2008 (Popular Front) def: Abdoulkader Cissé (LIPAD)
2013 (Popular Front) def: Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (LIPAD)
2018 (Popular Front) def: Kassoum Ouédraogo (Burkinabé Party of the Masses)
i really like these african lists

it's really really good
 
A not very good German Shuffling the Deck or "Kanzellorufen"

Chancellor of West Germany

1949-61: Konrad Adenauer
1961-72: Willy Brandt
1972-77: Ludwig Erhardt
1977: Walter Scheel
1977-87: Kurt Georg Kiesinger
1987-98: Helmut Kohl
1998-2005: Helmut Schmidt
2005-2011: Gerard Schroder


Chancellor of Germany (re-united)

2011- : Angela Merkel
 
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A not very good German Shuffling the Deck or "Kanzellorufen"

Chancellor of West Germany

1949-61: Konrad Adenauer
1961-72: Willy Brandt
1972-77: Ludwig Erhardt
1977: Walter Scheel
1977-87: Kurt Georg Kiesinger
1987-98: Helmut Kohl
1998-2005: Helmut Schmidt
2005-2011: Gerard Schroder


Chancellor of Germany (re-united)

2011- : Angela Merkel

i think i require explanation

is that sed merkel
 
@AlfieJ

#FBPE

2016-2019: Theresa May (Conservative)
2017 (Minority, with DUP confidence and supply) def. Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish National), Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat), Arlene Foster (Democratic Unionist), Gerry Adams (Sinn Fein)
2019-2019: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)
2019 (Majority) def. Theresa May (Conservative), Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish National), Vince Cable (Liberal Democrat), Arlene Foster (Democratic Unionist), Mary Lou McDonald (Sinn Fein)
2019-2021: Nick Houghton, Baron Houghton of Richmond (Crossbencher leading Progressive Directorate, with Back Together and Military backing)
2021-2025: Philip Lee (Back Together)
2021 (Progressive Unity List) def. scattered independents
2025-2029: James Chapman (National Progressive Union)
2025 (Sole Legal Party) def. unopposed

Nobody paid much attention to the steady radicalisation of a certain section of Remain voters. Anna Soubry and Chuka Umunna flounced off with a few hangers on to create Back Together but barely held on to the three seats in 2019 when Labour won the most paper thin of majorities over Theresa May who was still leader mostly because no one else wanted to bear the responsibility. But in the first few months of the Corbyn premiership, a few more Labour MPs defected to Back Together, and his proposals for radically reforming the military was the last straw. A military coup, backed by Back Together, formed a so-called Progressive Directorate. A bare handful of people from other parties agreed to participate, in a government which made its objectives military preparedness against Russia, rejoining the European Union and forming a sensible, centrist economic policy.

Of course, the EU was a little bit worried about reopening negotiations with Britain at all, let alone with a military dictatorship which had dressed itself in garments of progress. But in the face of an increasingly unstable Vladimir Putin sabre-rattling in the Baltic, they agreed to allow Britain to have a 'Special Arrangement' that was supposed to encourage a transition back to proper democracy.

This path back to democracy would prove difficult, as it became clear that the Progressive Directorate's policies had simply forced more of the population into identifying as Leavers. Scotland and Northern Ireland were returned to semi-civilian rule fairly rapidly, given that the SNP and the new government in Stormont were willing collaborators. But in England and Wales, the grip only tightened. Finally, it became clear that the EU would no longer tolerate continued military rule, and an election was held in which only parties on the Progressive Unity List were allowed to stand and the ballot paper simply asked Yes or No.

What the new 'Guided Parliament' did not expect was that Back Together's partners on the ballot would prove troublesome. The SNP wanted independence, the Fianna Fail majority in Northern Ireland wanted reunification of their island, the New Social Democrats wanted more left wing economic policy, the Christian Democrats wanted to re-examine social policy. Four years of infighting ensued, encouraged by the scattering of Independents who had managed to win seats. The nail in the coffin for British democracy was the European Emergency that occurred as the EU had to deal with its Special Arrangement with Britain. The somewhat authoritarian states of Eastern Europe saw this as cart blanche for them to formalise their de facto domestic arrangements, while populist Eurosceptic parties of both right and left flavours got a shot in the arm as the reality of trying to argue with Brussels or implement anti-austerity economic policies sank in. As the established order crumbled in Italy, France and even Germany, Russia was able to move into the Baltics with nary a shot fired. The petty squabbles that dominated the Unity List could not be allowed when the real issue of the day was the Russians interfering in other countries. The Progressive Unity List was merged into a single party and opposition parties were banned. The more troublesome MPs from the List parties were purged.

It was a new day in Great Britain.
 
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Yes, First Minister?

1999-2000: Alun Michael (Labour)
def. 1999 (Liberal Democrats Coalition): Dafydd Wigley (Plaid Cymru), Nick Bourne (Conservative), Michael German (Liberal Democrats)
2000-2007: Rhodi Morgan (Labour)
def. 2003 (Minority): Nick Bourne (Conservative), Ieuan Wyn Jones (Plaid Cymru), Michael German (Liberal Democrats), John Marek (John Marek Independent)
2007-2009: Nick Bourne (Conservative)
def. 2007 (Plaid Cymru Minority Coalition with Liberal Democrats s/c): Rhodi Morgan (Labour), Elin Jones (Plaid Cymru), Jenny Randerson (Liberal Democrats)
2009-2015: Andrew Davies (Labour)
def. 2009 (Liberal Democrats Coalition): Nick Bourne (Conservative), Jenny Randerson (Liberal Democrats), Elin Jones (Plaid Cymru)
WelshDevoRef 2012: Yes (68%), def. No (32%)
def. 2013
(Majority): David Melding (Conservative), Rodney Berman (Liberal Democrats), Adam Price (Plaid Cymru), Anthony Slaughter (Green)
2015-2018: Eluned Morgan (Labour)
2017-2000: David Melding (Conservative)

def. 2017 (Minority): Eluned Morgan (Labour), Adam Price (Plaid Cymru), Rodney Berman (Liberal Democrats)
 
@AlfieJ

#FBPE

2016-2019: Theresa May (Conservative)
2017 (Minority, with DUP confidence and supply) def. Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish National), Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat), Arlene Foster (Democratic Unionist), Gerry Adams (Sinn Fein)
2019-2019: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)
2019 (Majority) def. Theresa May (Conservative), Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish National), Vince Cable (Liberal Democrat), Arlene Foster (Democratic Unionist), Mary Lou McDonald (Sinn Fein)
2019-2021: Nick Houghton, Baron Houghton of Richmond (Crossbencher leading Progressive Directorate, with Back Together and Military backing)
2021-2025: Philip Lee (Back Together)
2021 (Progressive Unity List) def. scattered independents
2025-2029: James Chapman (National Progressive Union)
2025 (Sole Legal Party) def. unopposed

oh god why
 
Formidable mais nécessaire

1983 - 1993: Thomas Sankara (Military leading National Council for the Revolution)
1993 - present: Thomas Sankara (Union for Preservation of the Democratic and Popular Revolution)
1993 (Popular Front) def: Clément Oumarou Ouedraogo (Union of Burkinabé Communists)
1998 (Popular Front) def: Clément Oumarou Ouedraogo (Union of Burkinabé Communists)
2003 (Popular Front) def: Thomas Sanon (LIPAD)
2008 (Popular Front) def: Abdoulkader Cissé (LIPAD)
2013 (Popular Front) def: Roch Marc Christian Kaboré (LIPAD)
2018 (Popular Front) def: Kassoum Ouédraogo (Burkinabé Party of the Masses)

@Youngmarshall
 
@AlfieJ

#FBPE

2016-2019: Theresa May (Conservative)
2017 (Minority, with DUP confidence and supply) def. Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish National), Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat), Arlene Foster (Democratic Unionist), Gerry Adams (Sinn Fein)
2019-2019: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)
2019 (Majority) def. Theresa May (Conservative), Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish National), Vince Cable (Liberal Democrat), Arlene Foster (Democratic Unionist), Mary Lou McDonald (Sinn Fein)
2019-2021: Nick Houghton, Baron Houghton of Richmond (Crossbencher leading Progressive Directorate, with Back Together and Military backing)
2021-2025: Philip Lee (Back Together)
2021 (Progressive Unity List) def. scattered independents
2025-2029: James Chapman (National Progressive Union)
2025 (Sole Legal Party) def. unopposed
I just thought up a great American-confusing false friend statement.

"This is the future liberals want."
 
Kapteins of Rooidoringland

1839 - 1852: Joseph II (Goliath)
1852 - 1881: Paul I (Goliath)
1881 - 1895: Paul II (Lange)
1895 - 1916: Paul III (Lange)
1916 - 1957: Matthew I (Lange)
1957 - 1983: Abigail (Lange)

Following their trek inland in the early 19th century, nomadic Afrikaners established several proto-states in southern Africa, ruled by patriarchal leaders known as kapteins. In 1819, one group led by the Goliath clan founded a settlement near Hoachanas, reaching an accord and intermarrying with the local Nama tribe. By the mid-1800s, the Goliath Afrikaners were largely sedentary and had formed the state of Rooidoringland. Joseph Goliath and his successors encouraged the presence of Dutch and German missionaries, laying the foundation for what would become a deeply religious nation. In the 1880s the entirety of Rooidoringland fell under British suzerainty, though it remained separate from the emerging South African Federation. The Charter of 1891 established Rooidoringland as a de facto constitutional monarchy, with the Kaptein as head of state and an appointed Prime Minister as head of government, both officially swearing allegiance to the Monarch of the United Kingdom.

For most of the 20th century, Rooidoringland's political culture remained stagnant, with the Volksraad dominated by conservative Calvinists and personality triumphing over ideology. Religious affiliation largely divided along ethnic lines, the black Nama being overwhelmingly Lutheran and the coloured Goliaths being overwhelmingly Calvinist. The racial hierarchy of Rooidoring society had three tiers: Goliaths and whites at the top, Nama in the middle, and San and Tswana at the bottom. Besides churches, agricultural and ranching associations were the primary vehicles for political organization. A nascent trade union movement was ruthlessly crushed in the 1920s; government-approved unions reemerged over thirty years later. The longest-serving Kaptein was Matthew I, who presided over a mining boom, fostered close ties with his counterpart in Windhoek, and fought successive attempts to extend suffrage to non-propertyholders. His daughter Abigail was more progressive, showing lukewarm support for female suffrage (which passed in 1978), but still resisted most democratic reforms.

Monarchs of the Kingdom of Rooidoringland

1983 - 1987: Abigail (Lange)
1987 - 2004: Paul IV (Lange)
2004 - 2005: Matthew II (Lange)

By the second half of the 20th century the epoch of the British imperialism was largely over, despite several attempts to retain Britain's colonies in Africa and Asia. The loss of its remaining clients on the Indian subcontinent, the souring of relations with Japan, and the reemergence of the Brotherhood in Ireland all contributed to British decision to grant Rooidoringland independence. Although initially supportive of a plebiscite on whether to become a republic, Abigail reversed this position and crowned herself Queen. For a time, it seemed as if business would continue as it always had. It was not to be. First came a junior officers' coup in neighboring Diyeyi-Zambezia. Several scandals in the 1980s revealed the corrupt and hollow nature of the Queen's government; a sixteen-month inquiry into a dam rupture in Miané resulted in the total replacement of her cabinet. Increasingly paranoid and fearing a coup herself, the Queen dissolved the Volksraad in 1986 and attempted to rule by decree. She was forced to abdicate the following year by her son Paul, a charismatic reformer who abandoned all pretense of reform once he ascended the throne.

Paul IV died in 2004. He was succeeded by his brother Matthew, who recognized both the fragility of his position and the scale of popular resentment towards his family. When the general command gently suggested that he abdicate, he didn't put up much of a fight. In the end, there was no revolution, or violent coup; the monarchy simply... ceased to be. Matthew went into exile and no one stepped in to lead the mess he left behind. The government went into a sort of limbo, with the long-powerless Prime Minister assuming both the duties of the head of state and the representative of the Volksraad. A new charter was drawn up declaring the "State of Rooidoringland", as it was, and elections were promised for the next year. A new era had begun.

Presidents of the State of Rooidoringland

2005 - 2006: Seabe Lazarus (Christian Reformed Congress)
2006 - 2009: Walter Tjiroze (Association of Farmers' Associations)
2006 def: Gideon Isaack (Rooidoring People's Convention), Seabe Lazarus (Christian Reformed Congress)

Presidents of the Republic of Orlam-Namaqualand

2009 - 2016: Walter Tjiroze (Concord and Providence Party)
2011 def: Gideon Isaack (Good People's Convention)
2016 - present: Noah Tsai-Tsaib (Concord and Providence Party)
2016 def: Adam Odeman (Good People's Convention), Laetitiana Monnye (Reform Party), Kehumile Gaolathe (Social Democratic Party - The Sunbird)

Politics in modern Orlam-Namaqualand is characterized by many of the ethnic, religious divisions that defined old Rooidoringland. With universal suffrage passed in 2008, the Goliaths no longer enjoy a total monopoly on public office. The Lutheran Nama farmers have coalesced into a single organization, the Concord and Providence Party founded by Walter Tjiroze. A wealthy cattle rancher, Tjiroze became leader of the National Association of Farmers' Associations in the late 1990s and was a prominent opposition figure to King Paul's rule. Many expected him to stay in office indefinitely, but he declined to run in 2016, citing his age and health; his protégé Noah Tsai-Tsaib won the presidency and he remains active in the CVP leadership. As the first Nama leader of the nation Tjiroze set a number of precedents, including directly campaigning for office and speaking Khoekhoe in public speeches. Last year he received the honorary title of Architect of the Republic.

If the CVP is the natural party of government, then the Good People's Convention is its natural opposition. Formerly the Rooidoring People's Convention, the GVK aims to champion all Oorlam peoples and their traditional values. They take a stand against sloth, debauchery, alcoholism, corruption, tribal favoritism, gambling, usury, and the traffic of illegal persons between nations. Currently led by Pastoor Adam Odeman, they are most popular among urban workers and members of the Reformed faith. Other opposition parties include the Reform Party, what remains of the Lange-era bourgeois Christian Reformed Congress, and the Social Democratic Party - The Sunbird, which represents the interests of the Tswana minority and is gaining traction among Tswana and San miners in the south.
 
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