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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

Chief Executives of Hong Kong:
1996-2005: Anson Chan (Independent-Democracy Camp)

1996 def: Peter Woo (Independent-Pro Beijing), Simon Li (Independent-Pro Beijing)
2002 def: Donald Tsung (Independent-Pro Beijing)

2005-2012: Emily Lau (Frontier/Democratic Party-Democracy Camp)
2005 def: Chim Pui-chung (Independent-Pro Beijing)
2012-2016: Regina Ip (New People's Party-Pro Beijing)
2012 def: Emily Lau (Democratic Party-Democracy Camp), James Tien (Liberal Party-Pro Beijing), Leung Kwok-hung (League of Social Democrats-Democracy Camp)
2016-: Anthony Wong (Independent-Democracy Camp)
2016 def: Regina Ip (NPP-Pro Beijing), James Tien (Liberal Party-Pro Beijing), Erica Yuen (People Power/LSD-Democracy Camp)

A short list depicting a world where Britain decided to increase democratic reforms in Hong Kong, China is harder hit by the 1997 Financial Crisis so it can't put pressure on Hong Kong as much until later and Anson Chan winning in 1996 allows her to implement some more democratic reforms to elect the chief executive. After a series of Democracy marches against Regina Ip who tries to turn back various reforms and laws for Beijing's favour, a new Chief Executive election occurs and actor and Pro-Democracy activist Anthony Wong wins the impromptu election.
 
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Presidents of the United States:
1921-1923: Warren G. Harding (Republican) [404]

(with Robert M. LaFollette) def. 1920 James M. Cox (Democratic) [127]
1923-1925: Robert M. LaFollette (Republican) [273]
(with Frank T. Hines) def. 1924 Burton K. Wheeler (Democratic) [166], Frank C. Lowden (National) [92]
1925-1929: Frank T. Hines (Republican)

Basically just an idea I had of an inverted 1924, two Progressive main party candidates and a Conservative Splinter, presumably it wouldn't suddenly lurch the parties leftward, but I might continue this idea with inverting other elections.
 
Presidents of the United States:
1921-1923: Warren G. Harding (Republican) [404]

(with Robert M. LaFollette) def. 1920 James M. Cox (Democratic) [127]
1923-1925: Robert M. LaFollette (Republican) [273]
(with Frank T. Hines) def. 1924 Burton K. Wheeler (Democratic) [166], Frank C. Lowden (National) [92]
1925-1929: Frank T. Hines (Republican)

Basically just an idea I had of an inverted 1924, two Progressive main party candidates and a Conservative Splinter, presumably it wouldn't suddenly lurch the parties leftward, but I might continue this idea with inverting other elections.

This is actually an amazing idea and I'm kind of surprised no one has thought of it yet.
 
Presidents of the United States:
1921-1923: Warren G. Harding (Republican) [404]

(with Robert M. LaFollette) def. 1920 James M. Cox (Democratic) [127]
1923-1925: Robert M. LaFollette (Republican) [273]
(with Frank T. Hines) def. 1924 Burton K. Wheeler (Democratic) [166], Frank C. Lowden (National) [92]
1925-1929: Frank T. Hines (Republican)

Basically just an idea I had of an inverted 1924, two Progressive main party candidates and a Conservative Splinter, presumably it wouldn't suddenly lurch the parties leftward, but I might continue this idea with inverting other elections.
Quite fun.
 
Prime Ministers of Irish Free State/Republic:

1923-1924: W.T. Cosgrave (Cumann na nGaedheal)
1923 (Majority) def: Éamon de Valera (Republican), Denis Gorey (Farmers Party), Thomas Johnson (Labour Party)
1924-1936: Liam Tobin (Slánú Náisiúnta)
1924 (Majority) def: Eoin O'Duffy (National Party), Denis Gorey (Farmers Party)
1927 (Majority) def: Various Independents
1931 (Majority) def: Patrick Belton (Farmers League)
1935 (Majority) def: Patrick Belton (Farmers League), Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin (Ailtirí na hAiséirghe)

1936-1940: Joseph McGrath (Slánú Náisiúnta)†
1939 (Majority) def: Patrick Belton (Farmers League), Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin (Ailtirí na hAiséirghe)
1940-1944: Ernest Blythe (Slánú Náisiúnta)
1943: Elections Cancelled Due to War Effort
1944-1946: John Anderson-Gavin Arthur-Seán MacBride (Irish Democratic Committee)
1946-1950: James Dillon (Renua)†

1946 (Coalition with Sinn Féin) def: Seán MacBride (Daonlathaigh Shóisialta), Linda Mary MacWhinney (Sinn Féin), Nora Connolly (Irish Workers), Michael Donnellan (Clann na Talmhan), Oliver J. Flanagan (Monetary Reform Party), Sean Murray (Communist Party of Ireland), Peadar O'Donnell (Saor Éire)
1950 (Coalition with Sinn Féin) def: Seán MacBride (Daonlathaigh Shóisialta), Margaret Buckley (Sinn Féin), Nora Connolly-Rory Connolly (Irish Workers), Patrick Finucane (Clann na Talmhan), Oliver J. Flanagan (Poblacht Chríostúil), Sean Murray-Peadar O'Donnell (Saor Éire)

1950-1953: James Everett (Renua)
1953-1959: Seán MacBride (Daonlathaigh Shóisialta)
1953 (Coalition with Clann na Talmhan) def: James Everett (Renua), Margaret Buckley (Sinn Féin), Nora Connolly-Rory Connolly (Irish Workers), Patrick Finucane (Clann na Talmhan), Oliver J. Flanagan (Poblacht Chríostúil), Frank Ryan (Saor Éire)
1956 (Coalition with Clann na Talmhan) def: Mary Reynolds (Renua), Seán Lemass (Sinn Féin), Nora Connolly-Rory Connolly (Irish Workers), Patrick Finucane (Clann na Talmhan), Oliver J. Flanagan (Poblacht Chríostúil), Frank Ryan (Saor Éire)

1959-:Brendan Corish (Daonlathaigh Shóisialta)
1959 (Coalition with Irish Workers) def: Liam Cosgrave (Renua), Seán Lemass (Sinn Féin), Nora Connolly-Rory Connolly (Irish Workers), Patrick Finucane (Clann na Talmhan), Oliver J. Flanagan (Poblacht Chríostúil), Frank Ryan (Saor Éire)
1963 (Coalition with Irish Workers) def: Liam Cosgrave (Renua), Seán Lemass (Sinn Féin), Con Lehane (Irish Workers), Patrick Finucane (Clann na Talmhan), Oliver J. Flanagan (Poblacht Chríostúil), Michael O'Riordan (Saor Éire)


1924 and Liam Tobin coups W.T.Cosgrave as a reaction to Cosgrave's attempts to decrease the size of the army and creates a 'National Salvation' Government of various Nationalists, Republicans and Pro-Catholics which bans all Left Wing parties and imposes authoritarian measures across the nascent Irish Free State. The 1924 election is a sham, though popular support for Eoin O'Duffy and his National Party leads to O'Duffy being essentially disappeared by Tobin. The next 12 years essentially are Military imposed rule, with elections consisting of Government approved Candidates or Parties, the nation being reformed to something similar to a Corporatist model and Tobin even becomes friendly with the Mussolini regime whilst planning for the eventual time he can take Northern Ireland from the British. 1936 Tobin goes back to Military matters and imposes his puppet Joseph McGarth, Director of Intelligence (and head of Tobin's Secret Police) to run the nation as Prime Minister. However in the background, a conspiracy formed by Minster for the Interior Ernest Blythe, Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin of the Ailtirí na hAiséirghe and Minister for Communication James Walsh who viewed McGarth as not pushing forward Irish values properly (evidence being McGarth not joining Italy in supplying troops to the Spanish Civil War and generally being more of a Nationalist Conservative than a Fascist for there liking). McGarth's suspicious death from a car crash in 1940 allows Ernest Blythe to take over and purge all those deemed insufficient in ideological loyalty to the Irish State and an increase in arrests of Protestants, Jews and other 'undesirables' occurs.

In late 1940, the Irish Republic joins the Axis and declares war on Britain. Despite German support, the war effort doesn't go to plan and by late 1943 British and American forces alongside the IRA manage to push the combined Irish/German force out of Northern Ireland and within a year Ernest Blythe is up against a wall and the Irish Republic has collapsed. A combined British,American and IRA committee is awkwardly created to oversee the tasks of rebuilding the country and reviving Democracy in Ireland. In 1946, with the war now over and Ireland beginning to return back to normalcy an election is called with James Dillon, a fierce critic of the Tobin/McGarth/Blythe regime becoming Prime Minister with his Renua party (a coalition of Conservatives, Liberals and Conservative Irish Labour Party members) as he enters into a coalition with the revived Sinn Féin (representing the Conservative wing of the IRA) being a coalition partner. Dillon's Paternalistic Conservative rule is about rebuilding more than anything and he handily wins the 1950 election on a 'Steady as she goes' manifesto (though the Daonlathaigh Shóisialta now having secured a footing becomes the main force of opposition to Renua with it's brand of Irish Social Democracy).

However it isn't long into his new leadership that he's assassinated by Gearóid Ó Cuinneagáin's Far Right Terrorist organisation Bráithreachas and into the breach steps James Everett, Minister for Labour. Everett's run as leader is more of the same (alongside a crackdown on the Irish Right) but delivered without the same enthusiasm and fire that Dillon had and it's unsurprising when Seán MacBride became Prime Minister in 1953. Stronger trade unions, Land Reform and implementation of a welfare state similar to the one implemented by the Attlee Government in Britain though much of MacBride's two governments is more concerned with supporting farmers and the creation of the Irish Environmental Trust and the Irish Farmer Grant scheme alongside Irish Welfare State reforms due to his coalition partner being the Populist Agrarian Left Wing party Clann na Talmhan. MacBride leaves his Prime Ministership a popular man (which would allow him to successfully become President the following year thanks to Margaret Mary Pearse stepping down) and is replaced by the more radical Brendan Corish who enters into a coalition with the Democratic Socialist/'De Leonist' Irish Workers Party and focuses on reforming the New Welfare State into a more radical Democratic Socialist angle (giving Trade Unions more power and implementing elements of Industrial Democracy) similar to his reforms of the National Health Corporation into the National Health Service (inspired by Britain's National Health Service) which allows him to reduce the attraction of the Pro-Soviet Saor Éire party.

Winning the 1963 election Brendan Corish promises to implement more change, though he's dealing with a revived Renua under Liam Cosgrave who many guess may win the next election if he plays it smart.
 
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You had me worried for a second that your were going to gazump me when I saw the end of the Blythe regime!

Great list
Thanks, yeah seeing your stuff inspired me a bit to do an Irish list though with the jumping point being the 1924 Army Mutiny turning into a Coup leading to eventually a Social Democratic Ireland.
 
1944-1946: John Anderson-Gavin Arthur-Seán MacBride (Irish Democratic Committee)
Just a quick note on this bit because I didn’t particularly discuss it much but the figures in this are John Anderson, the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Churchill’s wartime cabinet but also was know a bit for his work as Home Secretary as well. Much of his work in the committee was signing of changes and helping overseeing the rebuilding of Ireland’s economy and housing. He’s there to represent the British occupation forces.

Gavin Arthur or Chester A.Arthur III is an interesting man, reading up on him is an experience and a half. He was also a passionate Progressive/Utopian and had supported the IRA in the early 20s and in this universe probably continued that support against Tobin’s and other’s dictatorship. He’s chosen as the American representative and his thing his helping rebuild Ireland’s democracy and help the reformation of the nation from it’s bombed out state.

Seán MacBride is the IRA representative who helped take power in the last months of the war. Mainly there to give the IRA and his comrades legitimacy in any new government.
 
@Time Enough liked the old version of this that ended with "the Greens will likely be in power for a long time" so... an updated version of my political journey in list form

A World Turned Upside Sideways

1997-2003: Tony Blair (Labour)
The last Labour government was elected on a small majority, with the Liberal Democrats close to second place. Devolution for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland was implemented. The government's handling of the Milennium Bug Crisis caused a massive split in the party and Blair limped on, even managing to push the elections back a year to deal with the crisis.

2003-2008: Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat)
Propelled into government as the party most strongly associated with opposition to Blair's handling of Y2K and international terrorism, the Liberal Democrats avoided the wars in the Middle East, implemented STV, brought in the Euro, created an elected Senate and bought in regional devolution, but did little to deal with left wing agitation that broke out in the next election. Particularly during the Credit Crisis.

2008-2011: Caroline Lucas (Green Party England & Wales)
Caroline Lucas had never served in Parliament, but found herself suddenly at the front of a Red-Green Alliance. The new government worked towards implementing LVT, legalised Cannabis, and brought in gay marriage but came to be seen as revisionist by the more left wing elements, who were brought into power following a general strike.

2011-2014: Ian Bone (Anarchist)
Britain's revolutionary government spent three years operating on a narrow majority, having to make deals with the Liberals, Greens, and even the Conservative-Labour Alliance to pass laws. Those laws included full drug decriminalisation and massive defunding for police, along with incentives to help people establish communes and worker's co-ops. Three years in, they finally failed to cobble together enough support to keep the government running and an election was called.

2014-2018: Natalie Bennett (Green Party)
The first Green majority government was elected on a landslide and has overseen a period of relative prosperity where Britain has lead moves towards disarmament, nuclear decommissioning and environmental policies. The Greens were riding high, but their policy of offering an EU referendum and campaigning to remain in the EU backfired with a vote to leave which split the government, leading to collapse.

2018-2020: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)
Labour returned to power with a minority government but held power for two years, pushing the country towards nationalisation, and further towards pacifism. The Green New Deal was supplemented by what came to be known as The Red New Deal - an attempt to help workers buy out their companies. Labour's biggest problem was the rise of Normalism - a political ideology that was anti-Brexit, anti-Green, pro-capitalist, and coalesced over opposition to trans rights as conversations about gender self-ID began in 2019. In late 2019 Normalist terrorists overreached, using a dirty nuclear bomb on London Pride. A major clampdown was planned on Normalism, however it had supporters in all parties. When J.K Rowling was bought into custody, there was rioting and a brief attempt at a parliamentary coup. While order was restored, the traditional party system collapsed utterly.

2020: Munroe Bergdorf (Trans Rights Independent)
The new anti-normalist coalition is headed up by an MP who was forced out of Labour after accusations of racism against white people. Where Labour promised gender self-ID binary trans people over 18 the new government has implemented self-ID without a declaration for all with explicit protections for non-binary people. Brexit has been delayed due to the pandemic but Bergdorf plans to hold a second referendum in 2021, before resigning and hopefully allowing normal party politics to return. Provided the mainstream parties are in a state where one of them can win an election.
 
@Time Enough liked the old version of this that ended with "the Greens will likely be in power for a long time" so... an updated version of my political journey in list form
Well this ended...umm, alright I guess. Like a Dirty Bomb being detonated ain't the best thing in the world but hey Munroe Bergdorf is Prime Minister so eh
 
I’m going to use Sideways’ post as an excuse to do my own political journey list as I hadn’t joined back when that was a thing. It’s fairly standard stuff for a lefty British millennial, bereft of any p h r e s h takes TM.

Looking back over past personal lists, the amount of people who were Jon Cruddas supporters is incredible given that I now have to google him to make sure he’s still an MP.

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
2010–2014: Gordon Brown (Schools and Hospitals)

2010 GE: Def. Nick Clegg (Seems Nice Enough)

Leaders of the Scottish Socialist Republic
2014: Alex Salmond/Nicola Sturgeon/Colin Fox (Moderate/Progressive/Socialist Triumvirate)

Co-conveners of the Devolved Commonwealth
2014–2015: Ed Miliband (Progressive Democrat) & Caroline Lucas (Green)

(With support from Owen Jones, John Harris)
2015–2017: Jeremy Corbyn (Radical Socialist) & John MacDonnell (Marxism for the 21st Century)
(With support from Owen Jones, Various Others)
2017–2019: Emily Thornberry (United Left) & John MacDonnell (Marxism for the 21st Century)
(With support from Owen Jones, replaced by Nathan J. Robinson)
2019–20??: Angela Rayner (United Left) & Mhairi Black (Scottish Progressive)
(With support from Nathan J. Robinson)
 
get on board - it's a fun thing to do
My own quite dull version:
2011-2015: Ed Miliband (Labour)
2011 (Majority) def: David Cameron (Conservative), Nick Clegg (Lib Dem)
2015-2016: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)
2015 (Majority) def: David Cameron (Conservative), Nick Clegg (Lib Dem)
2016-2017: Lillian Greenwood (Labour)
2017-2019: Karen Lee (Labour)

2017 (Majority) def: Theresa May (Conservative), Tim Farron (Lib Dem)
2019-: Lisa Nandy (Labour)
2019 (In coalition with Lib Dem) def: Theresa May (Conservative), Layla Moran (Lib Dems)
 
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