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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

The Electoral History of John Major (1968-1995)

1968-1971: Conservative, Councillor for Ferndale Ward of Lambeth Council
1968 serving alongside: J.E. Langley & G.R.I. Allnut (Conservative
1971-1974: Conservative, Councillor for Streatham Wells Ward of Lambeth Council
1971 serving alongside: Hugh Chambers & Robert Greenwood (Conservative)
1973-1986: Conservative, Member of the Greater London Council for Streatham
1973 def: H.H. Walker (Labour), A. Mitchell (Liberal), 2 others
1977 def: D.J. Dahl (Labour), A.J. Mould (Liberal), V.F. Lillington (National Front), 1 other
1981 def: Michael Drake (Labour), Christine Headley (Liberal), 3 others

1986-1994: Conservative, Councillor for Streatham Wells Ward of Lambeth Council
1986 serving alongside: Hugh Chambers & James Hutchings (Conservative)
1990 serving alongside: Hugh Chambers & Edward Castle (Conservative)

1987: Conservative, Candidate for Norwood (Westminster)
1987 defeated by: John Fraser (Labour)
1989: Conservative, Candidate for Vauxhall Constituency by-election
1989 defeated by: Martha Osamor (Labour)
1990: Conservative, Candidate for Norwood (Westminster)
1990 defeated by: John Fraser (Labour)
1994: Conservative, Candidate for Streatham Wells Ward of Lambeth Council
1994 defeated by: Julian Heather & Valarie Collins & Michael Young (Liberal Democrats)
1995: Conservative Candidate for Streatham Constituency of the London Assembly
1995 defeated by: Roger O'Brien (Liberal Democrats)
 
The Electoral History of John Major (1968-1995)

1968-1971: Conservative, Councillor for Ferndale Ward of Lambeth Council
1968 serving alongside: J.E. Langley & G.R.I. Allnut (Conservative
1971-1974: Conservative, Councillor for Streatham Wells Ward of Lambeth Council
1971 serving alongside: Hugh Chambers & Robert Greenwood (Conservative)
1973-1986: Conservative, Member of the Greater London Council for Streatham
1973 def: H.H. Walker (Labour), A. Mitchell (Liberal), 2 others
1977 def: D.J. Dahl (Labour), A.J. Mould (Liberal), V.F. Lillington (National Front), 1 other
1981 def: Michael Drake (Labour), Christine Headley (Liberal), 3 others

1986-1994: Conservative, Councillor for Streatham Wells Ward of Lambeth Council
1986 serving alongside: Hugh Chambers & James Hutchings (Conservative)
1990 serving alongside: Hugh Chambers & Edward Castle (Conservative)

1987: Conservative, Candidate for Norwood (Westminster)
1987 defeated by: John Fraser (Labour)
1989: Conservative, Candidate for Vauxhall Constituency by-election
1989 defeated by: Martha Osamor (Labour)
1990: Conservative, Candidate for Norwood (Westminster)
1990 defeated by: John Fraser (Labour)
1994: Conservative, Candidate for Streatham Wells Ward of Lambeth Council
1994 defeated by: Julian Heather & Valarie Collins & Michael Young (Liberal Democrats)
1995: Conservative Candidate for Streatham Constituency of the London Assembly
1995 defeated by: Roger O'Brien (Liberal Democrats)

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The Flag, The Cross, The Hood: Klan Fascism in America

Presidents of the United States
1921-1925: Warren G. Harding / J. Calvin Coolidge, Jr. (Republican)

1920: James M. Cox / Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic), Eugene V. Debs / Seymour Steadman (Socialist)
1925-1933: William G. McAdoo / Samuel M. Ralston (Democratic)
1924: Hiram W. Johnson / Carmi A. Thompson (Republican), Robert M. LaFollette, Sr. / Jacob S. Coxey, Sr. ("Progressive" --- Populist, Non-Partisan, Independent), Daniel W. Hoan / Devere Allen (Socialist)
1928: Herbert C. Hoover / George W. Pepper (Republican)

1933-1937: Charles W. Bryan / Robert L. Bullard (Democratic)
1932: Joseph I. France / Robert R. McCormick (Republican)
1937-1941: Charles W. Bryan / Hiram W. Evans (Democratic)

1936: George W. Norris / Herman L. Ekern (Republican)
1941-1949: Edward L. Jackson / J. Lister Hill (Democratic)
1940: Amos R. E. Pinchot / William F. Lemke (Republican)
1944: Suspended

1949: J. Strom Thurmond / Frank Hague (Democratic) [Disputed]
1949-1950: Richard M. Nixon / Jacqueline Cochran (Servicemen’s Union)

1948: J. Strom Thurmond / Frank Hague (Democratic), Robert A. Taft / Federick G. Payne (Republican)

National Managers of the United States

1926-1928: John W. Davis (Non-Partisan Democratic Consensus)
1928-1939: David C. Stephenson (Non-Partisan Democratic Consensus)
1939-1941: Arthur H. Bell (Non-Partisan Bullardite-Longist Democratic)
1944-1948: David C. Stephenson (Non-Partisan Democratic Consensus)
1948-1949: Herman E. Talmadge (Non-Partisan Democratic Consensus)


Warren G. Harding's heart attack was treated by later historians as a turning point in his administration, a demarcation line that was not exactly true. Even before his brush with death the embattled President was turning away from the Ohio Gang that had put him in the White House and towards the Progressives and Reformers of the Republican Party to try and clean up the mess his friends had put him in. And while he was unable to secure the popular support he needed, he was able to limp forward to the point where his announcement to not seek a second term was treated with a begrudging degree of respect. Calvin Coolidge, his VP attempted to put together a Run, but found himself wedged between Charles Hughes and Frank Lowden on the more conservative wing of the Party while Hiram Johnson was able to secure the Progressives and then the nomination itself. Johnson was weakened though when Robert LaFollette denounced him and ran a populist "Progressive" ticket and the Socialists nominated one of the Sewer Faction, aiming to pick up less radical votes rather then follow LaFollette on his crusade or attempt to win back support from the Communists. In the end, in spite of the damage he initially took in the Teapot Dome scandal, it was William McAdoo, the Democratic nominee who was able to win. McAdoo was an odd sort, much like his father in law, able to command the support of Progressives, Populists, and a certain Men's Social Organization.

Under McAdoo racial violence and Progressive reform came hand in hand with each other. In 1924 the former Secretary of the Treasury was not yet a Klan member --- only joining the organization after he left the White House after eight years in office --- but under him it did become a Federally Chartered organization and began to be given special authority by the Attorney General as the National Security League had during the Wilson Administration. Child Labor Laws, Wall Street Oversight, Efforts to promote Homesteading in the West, Nationalization of the Railroads, came with pogroms against Racial, Ethnic and Religious minorities and more and more, the images of White Shirts --- the pointed hoods being replaced by more conventional uniforms and often, simply White Armbands with the Klan's crest --- marching, brawling and saluting were beamed across the nation on newsreels and on the radio. Socialist, Communist and other radical political parties were proscribed in 1926 the same year that the National Manager amendment passed: creating a "Non-Partisan" office, appointed by Congress to oversee much of the day-to-day administration of the US Government, taking a progressive program that had been popular in many cities and putting it on a level never before seen. President McAdoo was able to create a work balance he supported for his administration but in the years to follow the office would become the personal perveiw of one man who with his massive influence over the ever-triumphant Democratic party was able to become a dicatator in all but name.

For the decade and a half after the Democratic triumph of 1924 America slipped into what was effectively a single party state. Opportunists flocked to the Democratic banner and to join the Klan, Self-Defense Klaverns, later re-designated Klompanies, marched though the streets with Thompson Anti-Bandit guns and operated re-education camps, klamps. The Socialists were pushed underground, the Republicans were hobbled with many party members harassed by the government and party splits that argued how to respond to the tightening noose, in the end, no decision was made and the party was transformed into a weak patsy, the Klan Democrats claimed that they were defending American Democracy and thus let an opposition party survive, exerting enough influence that it was never able to actually be opposition. Many in WASP America didn't mind, the Democrats and the Klan offered far more opportunities, and fighting the system could easily see one arrested and possibly executed as a Communist sympathizer. And anyway, why worry about the nature of the Democracy when everything was clearly fine? For many American minorities mass slaughter was always just one false accusation of a wink away, and often came with even less rational. For many refuge could only be found in the big cities, and often not even there.

In 1932 Charlie Bryan took the White House brushing aside weaker and weaker Republican opposition with each of this two votes but Robert Bullard his first Vice President would rise to become one of the two great threats to the Democratic-Klan system that D.C. Stephenson, the National Manager for 11 straight years was able to create. Bullard tapped into military veterans organizations and seemed more focused on Anti-Communism then Anti-Catholic or Anti-Black politics. Huey P. Long, the other great rival of the system would take the economic slump and growing corruption of the 1930s to exert his own influence while Stephenson became quietly notorious for his corruption and for his 'moral' issues as he roamed Washington City or the Summer Capital of Denver at nights with his personal driver. Eventually, briefly at the end of the Bryan years Stephenson would go too far, though things were kept as an inner-party affair, removed from office Bullard and Long were able to secure the post of National Manager for the State Manager of New Jersey, a Bullard Ally. They did not have long to celebrate though.

Freed from his managerial position but not charged or publicly denounced, Stephenson was able to go full bore to work on securing the Democratic nomination for Edward Jackson, a close personal ally who had been running Indiana for years now. Jackson was one of many Pro-Klan Republicans who had long ago crossed over to join the winning party, and with great economic and 'Social' Credentials, as well as Stephenson's influence on the white shirts, Jackson was able to beat out the opposition. (William Pelley, Gerald L. K. Smith, and Henry Breckinridge) Stephenson then went to work, using Arthur Bell's support for the Third Reich as a blunt interments to suggest that the Grand Wizard was disloyal and sought to abolish American Democracy.

Jackson and Stephenson were odd figures for the coalition of nations that sought to save the world for Democracy in the Second World War, but the farce of American Democracy was enough for the likes of British Prime Minister Leo Amery. It wasn't enough for Joseph Stalin but then, after his death in the battle of Moscow in 1942 that didn't really matter anymore. Jackson, and his Secretary of State Richard Russell were able to secure Mussolini's neutrality a decisive turn in a war which had been going against the Triple-Union since the war began with Hitler's Invasion of The Netherlands. But it was still a long and costly war. In 1942 US Army and Klan Divisions attempted to land on the French Coast at Normandy with Five Divisions, nearly all of them were obliterated, the courtmarshals that followed would see George Patton and Walter Waters, the commanding Generals of the Army and KKK troops executed for Cowardice as well as nearly 100 other officers. In the Pacific things were worse, the US Navy would go though a half dozen Commanding Admirals in the Pacific as they tried to fight with a shoestring force: For all the power that the United States could bring to the war its One Ocean Navy was spread to thin, and tactical innovation had been sacrificed for years in the name of political loyalty. The marines who tumbled off of Guadalcanal into horrifying captivity could only look on for years as the Navy struggled to build the forces it needed to fight, and this after watching what seemed to be a generation of pilots killed as their late-stage biplanes proved no match to the Zeroes flown by "Racial Inferiors" who could never stand up to the White Man. Eventually though numbers caught up. The Russians after the collapse of the Soviet Government were able to keep on fighting thanks to the British forwarding quite a bit of the Bonded and Leased supplies they were getting from the US. The Chinese weren't so lucky but in both cases the massive swaths of country that the Axis took became black holes for men and material as well as charnel houses of mass slaughter. 1944 would see the US and it's allies land troops on the Calais coast. The summer of 1945 would see them discovering the horrors of the Gas Chambers, the Slaughter of the Battle of Berlin and the Suicide of Hitler. Jackson was interested in seeing if Goering could take over and secure a peace with the Western Allies but when that proved impractical US forces, with growing horror at what they were seeing pushed on and the War in Europe would send when Speer became the last man standing after a series of Assassinations and gave up at Konigsburg in October. The War in the Pacific would in turn drag on another year, with the US government giddy at the idea of mass civilian casualties and equally shocked at the Slaughter of GIs as trey landed on the Home Islands under a downpour of suicide rockets, banzai charges and more conventional styles of fighting to the death. But in January of 1947 it was all over as well. The Emperor would hang from the Cherry Blossom Trees and what was left of the Japanese people would be thin on the ground for years to come, but victory was at hand.

But trouble was brewing for the White Shirts. Millions of Americans had served under arms in WWII. Many in the segregated units that after the disastrous Normandy Landings had become unavoidable. They and the WASPs hadn't served side by side but they had come out knowing they'd chewed the same mud, and seen the same madness. Many were fine going home, joining the party and joining the Klan. But others weren't. They'd been told they were fighting for Democracy and damn it they wanted it.

The young guns in the regime took advantage too, seeing Stephenson removed again with one of their own in charge. They had one of their own nominated for President, but this time there would be a real opponent: A one armed navy vet with a small baby blue, star studded tab on his uniform. Dick Nixon had kept his Destroyer afloat off Honshu in 1946 after the Commander and XO and the rest of the Bridge crew had been killed by a suicide attack. Supported by other young men like George Bush and George McGovern, Al Gore and Lyn Johnson the Democratic defectors and Gerald Ford the ex Republican, as well as Catholic Jack Kennedy who'd served as a supply officer for a segregated construction Battalion and millions of other young veterans who had seen what the road the Klan was heading down ended at, he went to work. The Servicemen were so dynamic that even the GOP nominee would go on to endorse them in an act of revolt that would see him dragged off in the night by White Shirts even before election day.

In the end of course, the Klan and the Democrats simply declared themselves the winners and decided that in a few days they'd arrest these new opponents and everything would go back to normal. What they didn't expect was that after two decades and a campaign that had offered a real chance of hope, that the American People weren't interested in the same old rotten government and hate.

Within a day of the election, those White Shirts with their Thompsons were taking fire in the cities, the suburbs and even the rural regions where they'd previously drawn the most support, and the regime found that its foundations were as rotten as its leadership.
 
It's not quite Fascism of course but I figure that an American homebrew of the ideology would always be different then the European model if only because at least the idea of Democracy is too essential to the Civic Nationalism of the US. So make Democracy a farce.

The Manager role is a great (terrible) idea that both encapsulates the nasty side of the Progressive Era and gives the reader an unpleasant sense of recognition - I immediately thought of the unelected Emergency Managers foisted upon bankrupt cities
 
The Manager role is a great (terrible) idea that both encapsulates the nasty side of the Progressive Era and gives the reader an unpleasant sense of recognition - I immediately thought of the unelected Emergency Managers foisted upon bankrupt cities
I hadn't even thought of Emergency Managers but it's the other side of the more traditional city manager coin.


Edit: One day I should post my notes on what I think American Fascism might look like while also being original. But I'm also afraid to put that out in the world less it become a political tulpa.
 
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I hadn't even thought of Emergency Managers but it's the other side of the more traditional city manager coin.

Edit: One day I should post my notes on what I think American Fascism might look like while also being original. But I'm also afraid to put that out in the world less it become a political tulpa.

I understand the worry, but I would love to see that and I think chances are slim that your outline will inspire anybody to bad ends - I don't think Reds!, for instance, has become an actual manifesto even for its legions of fans, and that one's explicitly demi-utopian.
 
It's not quite Fascism of course but I figure that an American homebrew of the ideology would always be different then the European model if only because at least the idea of Democracy is too essential to the Civic Nationalism of the US. So make Democracy a farce.
If you're going for a more 'American' take on this, I've always thought the "List of Presidents of the United States ... break ... List of Something Elses of the United States" model doesn't feel quite right (not a criticism of your list specifically, to be clear, which is very interesting). To be fair this is probably because I am too influenced by a view of modern America which is more constitutionally calcified, and in the Progressive era it would be much more within the Overton window (Nebraska, etc.).

With that caveat, though, I thought it would be interesting to see a take on the USA if it's been taken over by (say) Communists, but it's still called the United States with the same flag and President and Congress, and the only difference is that the directly elected offices are either 'effectively unopposed' like in the old South or else the electorate is restricted, and that the electoral college that elects the President consists of Politburo members formally nominated by the state legislatures. Something like that, where at first glance it looks the same, rather than splashing hammers and sickles everywhere - that feels more like something that could happen in OTL.
 
The Manager role is a great (terrible) idea that both encapsulates the nasty side of the Progressive Era and gives the reader an unpleasant sense of recognition - I immediately thought of the unelected Emergency Managers foisted upon bankrupt cities
It’s an interesting concept. Hunter S. Thompson spoke about his support for it in F&L 1972.

Yeah, I’d do almost anything after that, even run for President – although I wouldn’t really want to be President. As a matter of fact, early on in the ’72 campaign, I remember telling John Lindsay that the time had come to abolish the whole concept of the presidency as it exists now, and get a sort of city manager-type President…. We’ve come to the point where every four years this national fever rises up – this hunger for the Saviour, the White Knight, the Man on Horseback – and whoever wins becomes so immensely powerful, like Nixon is now, that when you vote for President today you’re talking about giving a man dictatorial power for four years. I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England – or the Queen – and have the real business of the presidency conducted by … a city manager-type, a Prime Minister, somebody who’s directly answerable to Congress, rather than a person who moves all his friends into the White House and does whatever he wants for four years. The whole framework of the presidency is getting out of hand. It’s come to the point where you almost can’t run unless you can cause people to salivate and whip on each other with big sticks. You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.
 
I have to say, Hunter S. Thompson makes the concept sound a lot more palatable the way he describes it there, and there's a sentence I never thought I would write about anything.

I mean, he also makes it sound like a Prime Minister with a slightly different title.
 
It’s an interesting concept. Hunter S. Thompson spoke about his support for it in F&L 1972.
I don't know if he's remembering something from a college class or nor but it is interesting that he's putting that out there, I'd actually forgot he had advocated for it but he certainly wasn't the first.

It was a solution in search of a problem, much like Woodrow Wilson's idea of a PM style figure like we see being enacted in Reds.
 
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1966-1970: Gerry Fitt (Republican Labour, Belfast West)
Elected in the 1966 snap election, the prominent Nationalist and Civil Rights campaigner became the first member of a Fourth Party elected to the House of Commons since both his predecessor in Belfast West and former Party comrade, Jack Beattie of Irish Labour, in 1951. The lone Irish Nationalist in the Commons until the election of Bernadette Devlin in 1969, Fitt used his unique position to rally for the Civil Rights of the Catholic Community at a time when the rest of the country began to notice the strife in the province, even taking a policeman's baton to the skull in 1968 to draw the worlds attention to Unionist abuse. A socialist at his core, Fitt's main goal was to break with the traditionally conservative tendencies of the Nationalist movement, and to build a broad cross-community movement to tackle the Unionists and gain Catholics the same rights as their Protestant neighbours. While the former would prove to be ultimately out of reach, the latter would come to fruition following the 1970 General Election with the formation of the SDLP.

1970-1972: Bernadette Devlin/Frank McManus (Unity, Mid Ulster/Fermanagh & South Tyrone)
Although technically lacking a Leader, it was clear that the two-person outfit of the Unity Alliance would form the fourth largest party in the Commons following the Conservative & Unionist upset victory in the 1970 election. Despite a surge of support for the Tories rinsing into Labour's socialist strongholds, in Northern Ireland, Socialists such as Devlin and McManus were able to wrangle seats from the Unionist Party. Devlin, elected in 1969, was largely the face of the coalition of socialists, nationalists, and republicans, while her partner in Parliament, McManus, would form the Northern Resistance Movement in late 1971 following the introduction of internment in the Province. Both were, like Fitt, firm advocates for the Civil Rights movement, and sought to introduce a socialist voice to a debate dominated by small c-conservatives, but their time as the fourth largest party in the House was cut short by events in early 1972.

1972-1973: Roy Jenkins (Democrats, Birmingham Stechford)
The sudden formation of the Democrats in early 1972 was one of the bigger shockwaves in recent British politics. Formed by the former Home Secretary and Chancellor, Roy Jenkins, following the election of Jim Callaghan to the Leadership of the Labour Party, the outfit was initially consistent of 6 pro-European Labour MPs, although their ranks quickly swelled following the decision to enter an electoral pact with the Liberal Party. Although not a Coalition or Alliance- the Liberals would still contest in some seats against Democrats- the Lib-Dem Pact was largely viewed with excitement among the electorate, an excitement pumped by The Sun newspaper. Although the endorsement by the tawdry rag may not have been what Jenkins was particularly looking for in terms of endorsement, he grabbed the opportunity with both hands. However many in the Labour Movement eyed Jenkins with suspicion; others called him a traitor. In The Sun he was Jesus, while the Mirror he was Judas. The voters would decide, and in the Autumn election of 1973, Jenkins would lose his seat, despite the Democrats doing well in the country and winning in seats the Liberals had stepped aside in.

1973-1974: Dick Taverne (Democrats, City of Lincoln)
Following Jenkins defeat, Taverne took the reigns of the Democrats. With the Conservative Party holding its majority thanks to the split in Labour, opposition was a fragmented kaleidoscope, with a mess of Labour, the Liberals, the Democrats, the SNP, Plaid Cymru, anti-Common Market Tories, Protestant Unionists, Vanguard Unionists, SDLP, Sinn Féin, and Independents. The Lincoln MPs job was mainly to keep a hold of the party, now 12 strong, as Jenkins found his way back into the Commons. However, Taverne had other plans. A close friend of Jeremy Thorpe and a co-conspirator in other matters with the same man, both recognised that Jenkins' belief in the Democrats as an independent fourth force was, however noble, misguided. Under Taverne what began simply a Pact had to become something more, but with many activists and backers happy to keep the Democrats afloat, a general merger couldn't happen. With the Liberals 22 seats, the Lib-Dem Pact had 34 bodies (and counting) on the Green benches of Opposition. Together they could form the largest third force in Parliament since 1931. However these plans were put onto hold when Roy Jenkins returned to the Commons.

1974-1974: Roy Jenkins (Democrats, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Central)
Following the resignation of his former colleague Edward Short from Parliament, Jenkins launched a feverish campaign for Short's seat. He won, barely, and returned in the Spring to a Party that had grown used to living without him. 12 MPs were at his command, but most of them weren't happy with the return of the old management. Believing in the need to prove his legitimacy, Jenkins declared a Leadership contest- a mistake if anything. Immediately Taverne jumped onto this, and his pitch was clear: if he won, the Democrats would form a joint-whip with the Liberal Party and contest the next election as an alliance. Jenkins was not opposed to this, however Taverne had put him into a dire position, as he was forced to articulate support for the Democrats continued independence, an independence he had grown unsure of during his time searching for a seat. Ultimately, Jenkins was unable to make the case for his continued Leadership- his heart just wasn't in it. Taverne won, and in his first official act as leader, merged the whips office and sat alongside the Liberals.
 
The Greens Are Coming - A Country of Conspiracies & Fearmongering

2016-2019: Theresa May (Conservative & Unionist)
2017 (Minority with DUP support) def. Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Tim Farron (Liberal Democrats), Arlene Foster (DUP), Gerry Adams (Sinn Féin)

Brexit negotiations soldiered on, but the issue of the Irish border was one that could not be overcome. David Davis and Michael Barnier could not come to an agreement, leaving the UK quickly isolated. Those who worked in the North were unable to get to work the South, and vice versa. Ports were also unable to supply goods from EU countries. This, coupled with the fallout of President Trump’s protectionist agenda, resulted in the late 2010s recession. Quickly, Davis and Barnier scrambled, and were left with the realities of a hard border. The effects of the “No Deal” were not quite as dramatic as many Remainers speculated, but there were still significant ramifications.

2019-2019: Boris Johnson (Conservative & Unionist minority)

Theresa May announced her resignation as Prime Minister shortly after (as expected since the 2017 disaster). The subsequent leadership contest was less competitive than expected, with many not wishing to run, fearing that they would lose to Corbyn’s Labour. David Davis’ failed negotiations ruled him out, and a deal between Michael Gove and Ruth Davidson was never achieved. Johnson was a figure known by the general public, and that allowed him to defeat Health Minister Jeremy Hunt in the members’ vote. Johnson chose to call an election, believing that his charisma and popular appeal would pull off an upset win, but Corbyn also had those skills. Johnson ended up looking like a fool in the debates, with all of the opposition parties going after him (including a few mocking comparisons to the American President).

2019-2024: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)
2019 (Coalition) def. Boris Johnson (Conservative & Unionist), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Sir Vincent Cable (Liberal Democrats), Mary Lou McDonald (Sinn Féin), Arlene Foster (DUP), Jonathan Bartley & Siân Berry (GPEW)
2021 (Majority) def. Sajid David (Conservative & Unionist), Sir Vincent Cable (Liberal Democrats), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Nigel Farage [de-facto] (Constitutional Unionist), Jonathan Bartley & Siân Berry (GPEW)


Corbyn secured a positive result, but yet not a majority. Preferring Vince Cable’s Liberal Democrats to the wounded SNP, he and Cable announced a 2-year coalition agreement. Issues between Corbyn’s cabinet ministers and their LibDems counterparts were tense, especially on economic issues - but there was some leeway. Ironically, one of the first things that was achieved were the abolition of college tuition fees. The budget was not as radical as many had expected, but Chancellor McDonnell was hard to push. Regardless of how Vince Cable felt, tax hikes were introduced to pay for Corbyn’s expanded social programs.

In the long run, Corbyn’s first term was largely unremarkable, except for one major event. With Sinn Féin holding the most Northern Irish seats in Parliament and Irish unity polls at a toss-up, Corbyn decided that the conditions of the GFA to hold a referendum. In a fierce battle for the future of Northern Ireland, the election was expected to go either way. While the hard border had awful ramifications for the economy, many were still uncomfortable with the idea of Irish rule. Many believe that the tipping factor was Naomi Long and the Alliance agreeing to campaign for Irish unity. Regardless, Northern Ireland agreed to join Ireland in a 53-47 vote.

Leo Varadkar, the Taoiseach of Ireland, agreed to call for a snap election directly before the handover to allow Northern Ireland a chance for representation. The Alliance and SDLP joined forces with Fianna Fáil, the UUP joined Fine Gael, and the DUP stayed the course. Sinn Féin, PBP, and the Greens joined their respective parties in the Republic. Varadkar was able to ride a patriotic wave and cement his campaign strategy to be the “Irish Trudeau.” Martin and Fianna Fáil was simply too out of touch with modern Ireland, and Sinn Féin still had image problems in the south. While Fine Gael had a lead in seats, Ireland had a proper tricornered Dáli. A fragmented coalition agreement was drafted between Fine Gael and Sinn Féin, as the two parties had been warming to each other in recent years. Taking over Fianna Fáil was former SDLP leader Colum Eastwood, which represented a switch away from the three-time loser Martin. Eastwood would go on to win a shock election in 2025 that took Fianna Fáil in power for the first time in fourteen years.

With the two-year Lib-Lab agreement ending, Corbyn called a snap election. With high personal popularity, Jezza was far ahead in the polls of Sajid David’s Tories, who had to deal with the Constitutional Unionist Party. The CUP was formed between former DUP members, hard right Tories, and the DVP. Nigel Farage, who became a DUP MP in the 2019 election, was the main public figure of the party. The LibDems were stuck in the middle, but were in much better shape than they had been following 2015. Voters had no good reason to reject Corbyn, in fact, many viewed them much better than they had before 2019.

Corbyn’s second term allowed a truer implementation of his policies, with McDonnell’s new budget clearly showing that. Upon the death of the Queen, “the establishment” began plotting.

2024-2026: John McDonnell (Labour majority)

this is where the weird shit starts

As the UK had began moving away from the establishment and removed one of the last pieces of their empire, King George VIII began plotting to save the environment and the monarchy. McDonnell’s history with the miners and republicans meant that he could not be trusted, while the Tories had sold themselves out to the evil polluters. The King organized a meeting with Michael Gove, the nation’s top environmentalist (having taken over from David Attenborough for the BBC) and a former cabinet minister. Despite him making earlier comments comparing the then-prince to Adolf Hitler, the two banded together. Gove already had a good reputation among Conservatives, and his new King’s Party was boosted by several defecting Tories like William Rees-Mogg, Elizabeth Truss, and Anna Soubry. Labour MPs also joined, with Chuka Umunna being the biggest name. Numerous other politicians were brought out of retirement and the Lords. Along with the members of the King’s Party, the Liberal Democrats and Greens also expressed interest in joining in a common coalition.

2026-20??: Michael Gove (King’s Party - Ecological Coalition)
2026 (Coalition) def. John McDonnell (Labour), Ben Bradley (Conservative & Unionist), Ruth Davidson (Progressive Unionist - Ecological Coalition), Layla Moran (Liberal Democrats- Ecological Coalition), Derek Mackay (SNP), Jonathan Bartley & Siân Berry (GPEW - Ecological Coalition), John Rees-Evans (Constitutional Unionist)

2026 will always be remembered as the year of Gove. The United Kingdom worked to become the greenest state in the world, and pave the way for a sustainable future.
 
Well somebody in the Pub was talking about May=Wilson and Corbyn=Thatcher, and I did have an evening free, so...

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom 2016-2058 or Agent Weetabix

2016-2018 Theresa May (Conservative)
2017 (Minority with DUP confidence and supply) def. Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Tim Farron (Liberal Democrat), Arlene Foster (DUP), Gerry Adams (Sinn Fein)

2018-2022 Philip Hammond (Conservative)

2022-2033 Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)
2022 (Majority) def. Philip Hammond (Conservative), Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrat), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP)
2026 (Majority) def. David Davis (Conservative), Jo Swinson and Anna Soubry (Start Again-Liberal Democrat Alliance)
2030 (Majority) def. Michael Gove (Conservative), Jo Swinson and Nicky Morgan (Start Again-Liberal Democrat Alliance)


2034-2039 Emily Thornberry (Labour)
2034 (Majority, then minority with Plaid Cymru & Green confidence and supply) def. Michael Gove (Conservative), Kelly-Marie Blundell (Democratic)

2039-2049 Tom Dowse (Conservative)
2039 (Majority) def. Emily Thornberry (Labour), Kelly-Marie Blundell (Democratic)
2043 (Majority) def. Lauren Stocks (Labour), Thomas Gravatt (Democratic)
2047 (Majority) def. Laura Pidcock (Labour), Thomas Gravatt (Democratic)


2049-2052 Kirstene Hair (Conservative)

2052-2058 Eli Aldridge (Labour)
2052 (Coalition with Democrats) def. Kristine Hair (Conservative), James Dart (Democratic)
2057 (Majority) def. William Lloyd (Conservative), William Jones (For Britain),
James Dart (Democratic)

2057-???? Hamza Touzzale (Labour)
2058 (Minority with Sinn Fein confidence and supply) def. Ben Bradley (Conservative), William Jones (For Britain), Dominic Buxton (Democratic), Orla Nic Biorna (Sinn Fein), Emma Little-Pengelly (DUP)
 
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Chancellors of the United Celtic Kingdom
Iain MacCaimbeulaich, 2nd Duke of Earra-Ghàidheal (Parliamentarian-Alba) 1723-1730

Anraí Ó Baoighill, 1st Earl of Sionainn (Parliamentarian-Eire) 1730-1743
Tavish de la Haye, Viscount Duplin (Parliamentarian-Alba) 1743-1749
Roparzh fil Pierrick (Royalist-Braize) 1749-1752
Tavish de la Haye, 9th Earl of Kinnoull (Parliamentarian-Alba) 1752-1756
Sir Uilleam MacMoireabh (Parliamentarian-Alba) 1756-1763

Iain Cùram, 3rd Earl of Bute (Royalist-Alba) 1763-1769
Artúr Mac Guiness (Parliamentarian-Eire) 1769-1775
Sir Ffransis ap Morgan (Parliamentarian-Kemray) 1775

Eanraig Dùndeas (Royalist-Alba) 1775-1794
Raibert Cùram, Viscount Caisleán Riabhach (Royalist-Alba) 1794-1803

Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Caernarfon (Parliamentarian-Kemray) 1803-1805

Raibert Cùram, Viscount Caisleán Riabhach (Royalist-Alba) 1805
Roparzh fil Charlez, 3rd Duke of Sant-Maloù (Royalist-Braize) 1805

Sir Tomos ap Tomos (Independent/Military-Kemray) 1805-1807

Stewards of the Crown of the United Celtic Kingdom
Sir Tomos ap Tomos (Independent/Military-Kemray) 1807-1821

Artúr Wesley, 4th Duke of Baile Uí Mhornáin (Independent/Military-Eire) 1821-1834
Tamhas Ó Ceannéidigh (Independent, later Reform-Alba) 1834-1837

First Secretaries of State of the United Celtic Kingdom
Tamhas Ó Ceannéidigh (Reform-Alba) 1837-1840
Baltair Dùghlas, 5th Earl of Dail Cheith (Legalist-Alba) 1840-1841
Tamhas Ó Ceannéidigh (Reform-Alba) 1841-1846
Anraí Seán Tempall, 3rd Viscount Bhaile Phámar (Reform-Eire) 1846-1851

Seòras Gòrdan, 4th Earl of Inverdeen ("Maverick"-Alba) 1851-1854
Anraí Seán Tempall, 3rd Viscount Bhaile Phámar (Reform-Eire) 1854-1863
Risteárd Bourke, 6th Earl of Mhaigh Eo (National-Eire) 1863-1868
Sir Robart Kermode (National-Mannin) 1868-1870

Sir Raibert Duff (Reform-Alba) 1870-1877
Harri Herbert, 4th Earl of Caernarfon (National-Kemray) 1877-1885
Sir Juluan Verne (Reform-Braize) 1885-1891
Sir Oscar Bhílde (Reform Unionist-Eire) 1891-1895
Juluan Verne, 1st Marquess of Nantes (Reform-Braize) 1895-1899
Sir Artair Balfour (National-Alba) 1899-1907
Sir Dafydd ap Gwilym (Reform-Kemray) 1907-1911
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (Reform-Kemray (Kernow)) 1911-1917

Sir Eideard Carson (National-Alba) 1917-1924
Dafydd ap Gwilym, 1st Earl of Dwyfor (Reform-Kemray) 1924-1927

Prime Ministers of the United Celtic Kingdom
Dafydd ap Gwilym, 1st Earl of Dwyfor (Reform-Kemray) 1927-1931
Seumas Greum, 6th Duke of Monadh Rois (National-Alba) 1931-1937
Maol-Chaluim MacDhòmhnaill (Socialist-Alba) 1937-1946
Sir Risteárd Ó Maolchatha (National-Eire) 1946-1954
Megan ferch Dafydd (Socialist-Kemray) 1954-1963
Loeiz Ar Rouz (National-Braize) 1963-1967
Eoin Ó Loingsigh (National-Eire) 1967-1972

Tòmas Boid (Socialist-Eire) 1972-1977
Uilleam Ros (Socialist-Alba) 1977-1979

Meical Heseltine (National-Kemray) 1979-1991
Maol-Chaluim Rifkind (National-Alba) 1991-1993

Proinsias De Rossa (Socialist-Eire) 1993-2000
Yannick Ar Drian (Socialist-Braize) 2000-2006

Enda Ó Coinnigh (National-Eire) 2006-2016
Leo Varadkar (National-Eire) 2016-2018

Vaughan Gething (Socialist-Kemray) 2018-present

Every single one of them are real and tied to one of the "Celtic Nations" in some way or another.

Not supposed to be plausible, just a fun thing I did for that weird "Celtic Kingdom" map I found.
 
Shuffling the Deck in the Country Manor's Drawing Room

Admittedly I ran out of ideas around the Jacobites.

Robert Walpole: 1721-27 (Whig)
Thomas Pelham-Holles: 1727-39 (Whig/Patriot Whig)
Spencer Compton: 1739-43 (Patriot)
Henry Pelham: 1743-45 (Patriot)

John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute: 1745-46 (Tory)
William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire: 1745-46 (Military caretaker)
William Pitt the Elder: 1746-1751 (Patriot)
George Grenville: 1751-62 (Patriot)

Augustus Fitzroy: 1762-69 (Graftonite Patriot)
Frederick North: 1769-76 (Northite Patriot/Boreas Party)
William Petty, Earl of Shelburne: 1776-83 (Boreas)
Charles Watson-Wentworth : 1783-1788 (Boreas)
William Petty, Earl of Shelburne: 1788-90 (Boreas)

Augustus Fitzroy: 1790-96 (Patriot)

William Pitt the Younger: 1796-98 (Patriot)
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland: 1798- (Patriot)
 
Without Macdonald

1922-1926: J. R. Clynes (Labour-Liberal Coalition)
1926-1931: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative Majority)
1931-1938: Clement Attlee (Labour Majority)
1938-1939: Clement Attlee (Labour leading National Government with Liberals and ‘War Conservatives’)
1939-1941: Stafford Cripps (Labour leading National Government with Liberals and ‘War Conservatives’
)

1922

A better performance for Labour in the 1922 denies a majority to Bonar and allows J. R. Clynes to defeat a leadership challenge from MacDonald. The second election of 1922 sees Labour breakthrough and become the largest party, leading to Asquith to form a coalition with Labour, if only to thumb his nose at Lloyd-George.

1922-1926

The Labour-Liberal Government would be hamstringed from the start. While Labour would be able to wield the threat of the TUC like a blade, it cut both ways. Without radical redistribution (Impossible with the makeup of the Government and Parliament) it was a quite a clear fact that the British was broke, and so Labour was not always able to satisfy the TUC. The Coalition Government’s major achievement was the extension of the National Insurance scheme introduced by the Liberals, paying for somewhat liveable pensions and unemployment benefit for all.

1926-1931

The Government went into the 1926 elections looking deeply divided and weak, and would be swept aside by the Tories. A program of increased naval spending and reversing the tax rises of the previous Government proved popular and successful, right up until the January 1929 stock market crash. Wedded to classical economics and a balanced budget the Conservative Government was unable to find any solution to the global crisis, their deflatory policies only exacerbating the crisis. The unemployment benefit cuts in the 1930 budget would be the end of the Government, going to the country after the TUC brought the country to a standstill in a two week general strike.

1931-1935

The British public found themselves rather more convinced by Labour’s statement that it was either them or a British Lenin, rather than the Tories cry’s that it was either them or the New Lenin, Atlee. Atlee would immediately start debt spending and institute a large public works program. The fact that this spending would extend to the military, and maintaining the Conservative Royal Navy program, would cause deep divides in the Labour Party. But the peace faction would find itself it weakening in the face of an increasingly aggressive Italy and a fascist inspired takeover in Germany.

1935-1938

Carrying Britain out of the great depression would be more than enough to ensure a Labour win 1935, after which Labour’s Anti-Fascist and Pro-Soviet Foreign policy, engineered by Stafford Cripps, was solidified.

The Anglo-Soviet Friendship Treaty would end the economic and political isolation of the Soviet Union, and allow Britain to trade with the fastest growing economy in the world. The two nations would also make clear their commitment to stopping Fascist expansion, funnelling weapons and training to China, Ethiopia, Czechoslovakia and Poland. These efforts would grind Italian efforts in Ethiopia to a halt, but would do little to impede the Japanese.

After a botched Fascist coup in Spain led to the outbreak of civil war, the divisions between Britain, and its traditional ally France became clear. The Left never managed to win convincingly like they had in Britain, and combined with the end of German reparations and access to the Rhineland, alongside the cost of rearmaments; France was in dire economic straits.

The Soviets and British made clear they would do whatever to defend the legitimate Spanish Government from the Fascists, as part of their ‘Domino Theory/Containment’ strategy, right up to sending regular army units. While understanding that reactionary elements in the French army would not allow Blum to do the same, Britain and the USRR expected to at least base and supply their forces from France, but Blum did not think he could even do this.

Despite the desperate efforts of the French Communist parties to maintain a ‘Popular Front Government’, (Encouraging united Reformist-Communist Governments was a key plank of the Anglo-Soviet Pact) the President would dissolve the assembly, and new elections held. A right wing ‘National salvation’ alliance would sweep to power, declaring that it would stop France from being a puppet of ‘Anglo-Bolshevist perfidy’ and ‘cleanse the country of traitors’, starting with the Communists.

While Spain would be secured, losing France was a massive blow to the Anglo-Soviet strategy of encirclement. After a Sudeten German uprising (Which included attempts to seize border fortifications) was brutally put down by Czech-Soviet Forces, Atlee would call up the reserves and invite the Liberals and Tories into a national government.

1938-1939

The war started disastrously for the ‘Anti-Fascist Front’. A German armored punch through the less well fortified Slovakia and Western Poland would cut the Czech’s off from the Soviet Union, and they would collapse in just a few months. German forces would be parried away from Warsaw, but it seemed like the city would soon be encircled. In the east the Japanese would make no real attempts at a Manchurian offensive, but would easily seize Hong Kong and inflict a series of humbling defeats on the Royal Navy. In addition it became increasingly clear the degree to which the French were assisting Germany in their ‘Anti- Bolshevist Crusade’ and many British forces had to be redirected to the Pyrenes.

Apart from driving back the stripped down Italian forces in Ethiopia the only bright spot would be Cripps return from India, where he had managed to reach an agreement for the complete support of the Indian National Congress in the war efforts, in exchange for Post-War Dominion status. After private talks with the Liberals and the ‘War Tories’ led by Churchill, Atlee would resign in favour of Cripps.

1939-1941

The German ‘blitzkrieg’ would exhaust itself on the Vistula, Hitler’s focus on Warsaw and the Anti-Fascists focus on defense in depth would slow the German advance to a crawl. At some points Warsaw would be cut off entirely, as small Germans beachheads on the Vistula were achieved, but the massive Anglo-Soviet air force (With many planes now coming direct from American factories, as the Atlee-admiring Roosevelt did his best to assist the Front) were easily able to keep the encircled forces in supply.

To be surprise of few the Italian forces who found themselves unable to beat the Ethiopians fare no better against the British, and with no German aid forthcoming the Italians were driven off the continent by 1940. In the east Chinese front lines were slowly stiffened by Indian Army forces, and Japan began to drown in the Chinese quagmire. With their only real trade partner being the French, and not willing or really able to extend the war any further the Japanese begin to suffer a real fuel crisis, severely weakening the ability of the Imperial Japanese to function.

As the Germans and Japanese forces were slowly forced onto the defensive, Hitler’s last hope was convincing France to join the war outright. Unfortunately for him the French were no more united than in 1937, while the right wing had control of Government the US joining the British sanctions scheme in the summer of 1940 would plunge France back into economic crisis, and the Anti-Fascist Front were increasingly open about their support for the Leftist Insurgency.

As the Germans were pushed back to their prewar frontlines, the desire of the French Government to join the war on the German side became clear. A coup would be led by a strange alliance of Communists, Socialists, Liberals, Anti-German Conservatives, and reactionary opportunists who simply didn’t want to join the losing side, and barring scattered hardliners, the French Military would accept it. Seeing their diplomatic efforts fail, and mistrusting the Italians will to stay in the war, German ‘Traditionalists’ would oust Hitler from power, and sue for peace. With America making increasingly noisy threats Japan would soon follow.

Not wishing to make the mistakes of Versailles the Germans would only lose East Prussia, with the plan to create a Jewish State there, but would have to accept the clearance of the German minorities from Eastern Europe, resume their reparation payments, allow free and fair elections, and enter into a customs union with their neighbors.
 
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The Quadfecta [sic] of Fuck

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

2016-2018: 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)
2018-2018: Theresa May (Conservative leading Unity Government with Labour In The National Interest and Democratic Unionists)
2018-0000: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)
2018 (Majority) def. Theresa May ('Unity' Conservative-LITNI Alliance), Vince Cable (Liberal Democrat), Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish National), Nigel Farage ('Real Deal' Conservative-DUP-UKIP Alliance), Mary Lou MacDonald (Sinn Fein)
2019 (Majority) def. Anna Soubry (Centre), Jacob Rees-Mogg (Patriotic Unionist), Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrat), Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish National), Mary Lou MacDonald (Sinn Fein), Chuka Umuna (Parliamentary Progress)
2020 Monarchy Referendum: Reform 51%, Maintain 35%, Abolish 14%


Monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

1953-2018: Queen Elizabeth II (Nonpartisan - House of Windsor)
2018-2021: King Charles III (Centre-Aligned - House of Windsor)
2021-0000: Lord Protector Gareth I (Independent - Bringing Democracy Home)
2021 def. Charles Windsor (Centre), Stephen Fry (Independent - Back Together)

Presidents of the United States of America

2017-2018: Donald Trump (Republican)
2016 (with Mike Pence) def. Hilary Clinton (Democratic)
2018-2021: Mike Pence (Republican)
2021-0000: Boris Johnson (Independent)
2020 (with John Bel Edwards) def. Alec Baldwin (Democratic), Mike Pence (Republican), Steve Bannon (National Alternative)

1 - The crisis beginning on 08.07.18 only worsens and a near irreversible split opens in the Tories. While the nascent Patriotic Alliance of Kippers and Brexiteers emerges, May clings on with the help of Remainer Labour MPs who help her form a Unity Government. This doesn't last long as the DUP soon takes their toys home and a general election ensues in the early autumn of 2018.

2 - Football comes home. The wave of patriotism does actually help the Tories slightly at first, but as the Government crumbles, it benefits another prominent figure who is already associated with a football chant...

3 - The Queen dies. This slightly reduces the patriotic wave of Bringing It Home, but in a way this leads to patriotism being manifested differently and with dissatisfaction with Charles III rising, republicanism becomes patriotic for the first time. Charles' partisanship when faced with Prime Minister Corbyn leads to the Monarchy Referendum of 2020 and ultimately to the Crown Election of 2021 in which England's Favourite Son triumphs.

4 - Huge protests on Trump's visit, along with the giant baby balloon has the surprising effect of actually visibly humiliating the man. He cuts his visit short after a tirade against Britain, and he actually resigns the Presidency later in the year, though thats likely because of the closing net of the Mueller Investigation. Pence steadies the ship and tries to pretend like Actually It Is 2005 but all this does is repulse the most radical MAGA-ites who rally to Bannon's National Alternative. The Democrats nominate a popular(ish) celebrity, and another longshot Independent enters the race, his political prospects elsewhere having seemingly shrivelled up...
 
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