The coalition narrowly edged out the Tories (wounded by the Home Rule squabbling, economic doldrums, and party infighting) and was born out of the promise that Macdonald would finally deliver the long-delayed Home Rule - other than this issue and on increased house building (because Parliamentary could get some built at home), Labour and Parliamentary were at odds and Dublin was allowed to have autonomy on whether new British law would come in. This working arrangement was harmed by the Campbell Case, where Parliamentary were split on backing Labour and felt this showed the party was too radical - even as Macdonald was criticised by Labour for not being radical enough!
Housing, state pension, disarmament, foreign works, and the beginning of state healthcare were all brought in but the weakness of the government proved more of an issue for voters than its alleged radicalism, and it was clear the Parliamentary's weren't going to back Labour any more. Tory revival seemed assured...
Well, good enough. At least Chamberlain could say he was back in power and also PM, eat it Stanley.
And both parties agreed on the economy to get reforms through, with a brief boom nicknamed "the Mewing Twenties" after the more glamorous, longer American period it was aping. The collapse of the Parliamentary party as the more radical Sinn Fein grabbed seats was to their benefit as well, turning a once-big powerblock of Irish seats into smaller rivals. Chamberlain also continued the general trend towards peace between 'civilised' nations and achieved the Bonn Treaties that was meant to finally secure peace between France and Germany.
All was going well until the Great Depression. The Tory-Liberal harmony was ripped asunder (as well as inter-Tory harmony) and the government fell hard.
1930 - 1934: Arthur Henderson (Labour)
Panicked British workers turned to Labour - and panicked Irish workers turned to Irish Labour, a sister party that had achieved meagre gains in the Dublin parliament. Even the British middle classes had people thinking Labour had been far more stable than the last year & maybe it'd keep the unions in line - and the Irish middle class thought that too. (Sinn Fein lost ground, independence seeming risky in the current climate)
Henderson threw money around on big projects and welfare and bribing unions, which ballooned the country's debt but nudged the country into recovery. He also grew concerned over the growing tensions in Europe and after Hitler became chancellor, Henderson flew to Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Paris, and anywhere he needed to try and get Germany talking about its territorial interests rather than building up an arsenal. The stress of this may have contributed to "Uncle Arthur's" death in 1934. 1934 - 36:Arthur Greenwood (Labour)
The popular Secretary of State for Health won a party election and inherited a country just doing okay, and a European situation just on a knife-edge. "Arthur Junior" won Labour's third election on promise of Recovery, of Calm, of Jobs. What he got was Mussolini invading Abyssinia. Britain used its clout and contacts to get peace - at the cost of half the African country. This crisis made Greenwood's alcoholism worse as he realised Mussolini could try something again and so could Hitler, or Japan, or...
A cautious rearming plan went through parliament thanks to Tory votes, which didn't help Greenwood's mood much either. The Rhineland Crisis then finished him off: Hitler's bellicose demands and sabre-rattling was, in retrospect, more mouth than trousers, but it had Greenwood panicked and he got the French panicked and all ended in British troops fighting German ones. The humiliation threw Germany into chaos and saw Greenwood forced to resign.
1936: Herbert Morrison (Labour)
Greenwood's great rival, he shoved his way through and declared a snap election. He had big plans.
What he got was a massive Sinn Fein surge - "Irish Troops In Britain's Wars" ran the posters (four Irish soldiers had died in a battle in the Rhineland), and independence was back on. That combined with British losses knocked Labour out and brought back...
1936-8: Anthony Eden (Conservative minority)
Eden was looking set to get away from all that rotten socialism and to continue the slow buildup due to distrust of Mussolini & Japan. He had his cabinet bring in a period of social and economic conservatism as he focused on foreign affairs, hoping to isolate Italy and Japan with alliances overseas. And he was in China doing just this when Hitler tried to regain control with a wave of state terror against Jews and caused Germany to explode into violence.
With Eden absent, Britain was headless as the streetfighting ran rampant - Mussolini and Austrian allies moved in to "restore order". Emboldened, Mussolini did the very same when Spain's military attempted their coup, sending Italian forces to back up the nationalists; Eden told him to back off, seeing a threat to British control of the Med and access to Suez.
Britain won the war after a year of intense fighting. In the aftermath, the Dublin government - now majority Sinn Fein - condemned the loss of more Irish lives due to British foreign policy screwups. A general strike, Commons filibustering, protests, riots: Ireland was demanding out, and Britain didn't have the ability or will to force them to stay, and so a referendum was held in the hope Westminster could sway just enough people.
They could not. Eden became the Prime Minister of Great Britain by Easter 1938, the government was knocked off its axis, and everyone is left wondering what happens next...
Alright, I have decided to bring over my Prime Ministers of Japan post-World War II from my crossover timeline The Worlds We Weave. Japanese Prime Ministers (1945-)
In the aftermath of the Second World War, US General Henry Howell was placed in charge of the postwar occupation government on behalf of the US. Howell sought to enforce the terms of the peace on Japan. To that end, Howell carried out trials of the prewar leadership (though Emperor Yoshiro was spared) and sought to hunt down holdout Japanese rebels such as the Golden Bat and Momotaro II. To provide a Japanese face to his government, the prewar politician Aritsune Hanakoji was placed in charge. Hanakoji had opposed the war with the US to begin with, making him a good candidate for postwar government. His government aligned with Saizo Ato to rebuild postwar Japan and sent the android known as Kurumi after the rebel holdouts at Howell’s request. However, Hanakoji’s time as head of Japan ended relatively quickly. Howell’s right-wing leanings led to him quickly denouncing the excesses of communist president Mike Thingmaker and endorsing John Galt’s strike in 1946. Following Thingmaker’s impeachment, President Arthur Hockstader ordered Howell to return to the US and Hanakoji was compelled to hold Japan’s first postwar elections.
Akiro Mitamura (Liberal) 1947-1955
Mitamura had been a commander in the Second World War, but was one who had behaved with more decency than many of his compatriots. Mitamura was in power during the Hun Chiu War, where his government allowed US troops access to Hun Chiu to support the South. Mitamura began building up a Japanese intelligence apparatus headed by Taku ‘Tiger’ Tanaka and used the apparatus to crack down on communist and criminal unrest. Mitamura’s government had to contend with various yakuza families aligning with the likes of THRUSH, KAOS and SPECTRE. However, the biggest crises of his ministry would come later in his term. While Japan was not the first nation faced with attack by a kaiju (that would go to the US who was attacked by a Rhedosaurus in 1953), Japan would be attacked by the first Gojira entity following US nuclear tests in the Pacific. Gojira would devastate Tokyo in its ensuing rampage before being destroyed by Daisuke Serizawa’s Oxygen Destroyer. While Mitamura would survive, this would be merely the first in a long line of kaiju attacks. Japan would be attacked by the second Gojira entity, Anguirus and Rodan before the end of Mitamura’s government. Japan would also be terrorized by Yajima’s ‘Invisible Gang’ during Mitamura’s government. Ultimately, Mitamura would lose election following a schism with the ascension of the splinter United Nation Party and Japan decided to select a leader who was more prepared to deal with kaiju.
Kyohei Yamane (Socialist) 1955-1960
A paleontologist by trade, Yamane’s experiences during the first Gojira crisis allowed him to take the leadership of Japan’s Socialist Party and become Prime Minister. Yamane’s government presided over the implementation of the welfare state in Japan. A vampiric species of moth attacked several people during Yamane’s tenure and Japan was attacked by Varan during his tenure. Yamane’s government developed the plan that would form the basis for the establishment of ‘Monsterland’ in the 1970’s, but lacked the means to implement it during his term. The first Japanese superhero to emerge postwar made his debut during Yamane’s government in the form of Moonlight Mask. Japan was invaded by the Mysterians during Yamane’s government and he was criticized for refusing to concede to their limited demands amidst the devastation they caused. Japan was also raided by mercenaries working for the Galtist city-state of Rapture along with the rest of the world. The biggest crisis of Yamane’s term was the return of the lost empire of Mu. This reemergence was defeated by the submarine known as the Atragon, a World War II-era Japanese submarine formerly known as the Gotengo. However, this did not prevent Yamane from being defeated in his bid for reelection.
Kanzuki was the strict patriarch of a wealthy, influential family and closely allied to business interests such as Misfune Motors and the Hanshin Bank. Kanzuki’s government saw the formation of the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan that would go on to dominate the country’s politics for the next fifty years. Kanzuki additionally contended with a number of kaiju threats, including rampages by Ghidorah, the Gargantuas, Baragon, Kong II, and Ebirah. The emergence of the more benevolent kaiju Mothra and Gamera helped stymie kaiju rampages. Additionally, Kanzuki’s government helped support the creation of a large number of ‘mechs’ to defend Japan. Among the most notable of these were the Getter Robos, Manzinger Z and Tetsunijin Nijuhachi-go. Alien incursions would also occur during his government—Japan was targeted by the Triffids, the Natal, the Neptune Men and the Xillians. Kanzuki’s government also made contact with the more benevolent Pairans, who helped destroy the dangerous rogue Planet R. These developments caused the government to increase Japan’s space program, which had the unfortunate side effect of causing the Guilala attack and the Murai fungal plague. Both incidents provoked Kanzuki to stand aside in 1965.
Shunzo Mamiya (LDP) 1966-1973
Mamiya sought to build up Japan’s power both economically and beyond. His government encouraged the activities of a rising number of superheroes, including the Ultra Crusaders, Inazuman, Megaloman, Astro Boy, Mirrorman and the Metal Heroes. His Science Minister Umataro Tenma helped bolster these individuals and extant mechas in order to finally fulfill the Monsterland project, which was successfully implemented in the early 1970’s. However, Mamiya’s government also had a darker side with the launch of the Athena Project. Modeled after the contemporary US’s MKUltra and Project Firestarter and the USSR’s Project Libitina, Athena engaged in human experimentation to create psychics to serve as tools of the government. Mamiya was in charge when contact was made with the secret micronation located at the intersection of the Equator and International Date Line and he worked with the US to destabilize the country. The Japanese Home Islands nearly sank into the Japanese Trench during Mamiya’s ministry, though this thankfully was averted. The Helios 7 catastrophe also occurred under Mamiya. A spate of vampire attacks also occurred during Mamiya’s term in office. Mamiya would retire in 1973, but remain tied to the Athena Project enough that he would be arrested by the Japanese government when it was exposed.
Takeshi Kido (LDP) 1973-1980
Kido had served in the IJA during the Second World War and had a reputation as a strict individual. Kido’s government had to contend with an increase in crime in Japan during his term, ranging from the thefts of Arsene Lupin III to the Edomae Group, Hanada Clan, Jugondou Group and other Yakuza families and even the resurgent Foot Clan and similarly evil ninja clans. A hardline advocate of law and order, Kido worked tirelessly to crackdown on these individuals and groups. A Plesiosaurs and Rhamphoryncus attacked the area surrounding Saiko Lake, but were killed when Mount Fuji erupted. Kido was forced to order temporary evacuations of the surrounding region as a result of the eruptions. Kido was also in power when the first Sentai began emerging, an event he encouraged due to his support for their efforts to promote law and order. Kido was very supportive of General Gonpachi Edogawa and his EAGLE organization. However, Kido was disappointed by the failure to take down the Tojo Clan, the fact the Skull Man killer Tatsuo Kagura was killed instead of captured and the reliance Japan had on the US to deal with the Dinosaur Empire and Gaizok. These frustrations led to Kido’s ultimate decision to retire in 1980.
Umataro Tenma (LDP) 1980-1986
Tenma had been a longtime Science Minister in the Japanese government before becoming Prime Minister. He benefitted from the beginning of a global economic boom that saw Japanese companies like Hosaka Computers, Bitsimushi and Assan Motors grow in power and prestige. Tenma also assisted in creating the Gohten as part of an effort to combat an ongoing alien invasion by Venusians—a project bolstered by the Visitor incursion of 1983. This laid the groundwork for Tenma to provide UNIT with the Good Thunder fortress to defend against invasions. Relations between the US and Japan briefly soured after the Japanese assassin Golgo 13 attempted to murder an American oil baron. A time loop impacted Tomobiki during Tenma’s tenure—something the Prime Minister tolerated to carry out further study. His experiments also created a small, but destructive population of cats that were capable of gaining human intelligence—dubbed ‘Bagi cats’ by later generations. After years of inaction, Gojira would rampage through Japan again under Tenma, but he was contained within a volcano before being taken back to Monsterland. Tenma’s government briefly saw strained relations with West Germany due to his brain surgeon nephew Dr. Kenzo Tenma’s opposition to the government-sanctioned political bias in the country’s hospitals. Ultimately, Tenma’s government would be undone following the Rokkenjima mass murders and Great Hinamizawa disaster that destroyed an entire village. Due to this coupled with Soviet meddling, Tenma become the first Liberal Democratic Party Prime Minister to be defeated in 1986.
Toru Fukushima (United Nation Party) 1986-1988
Fukushima was a left-wing political figure who demanded the US remove its military presence from Japan. Despite reluctance from President Johnathan Cyclops to do so, the US ultimately complied with Fukushima’s demands. Due to increasing supernatural concerns relating to the Cold War occult warfare, Fukushima appointed Tatsuo Kusakabe to oversea supernatural research. It was Kusakabe (along with Japanese Minister of Magic Kiki Takayama) who would endorse the SCP Foundation planned contingency for the activation of the Soviet Project Koschei involving the kaiju contained on Japanese soil—namely Gojira and Gamera—to combat the awakened Cthulhu. Towards the end of Fukushima’s time in office, this operation would have to be carried out—Fukushima’s approval of it helping save humanity. Japan was attacked by the Fangire race during this time as well and the Gorgom cult. Fukushima also temporarily shut down the Athena Project, refusing to allow them to experiment on the child espers Mami Sakura or Yumi Hanazono, though later leaders would bring it back. Demons overtook the Shinjuku district of Tokyo during Fukushima’s government, increasing his unpopularity, especially as they would not be dislodged for nearly a decade. The superhuman Son Goku would arrive in Japan during the Fukushima government and on occasion clash with various supernatural and alien threats, becoming an icon almost on par with Superman in the eyes of Japan’s public. However, none of these things would prevent Fukushima from being removed from power in an ultranationalist coup that was justified due to his government’s failure to handle demonic attacks from the parallel realm of Makai. Fukushima was allowed to live, but lost power.
Ryoichi Yoshi (Rising Sun) 1988-1992
Yoshi was a JSDF general who had helped command the country’s armed forces against kaiju and alien invaders. However, Yoshi also had a revanchist political outlook and disdained both the United States and Fukushima’s leftism equally, favoring an imperial restoration. Thus, Yoshi in 1988 would mount a coup against Fukushima while the world was distracted by the Third World War (thanks to both Soshkin’s USSR and Sam Baker’s USA were both fixated on the Soviet invasions of Europe and America). Yoshi’s coup was condemned by both the US and USSR and his government was only able to gain recognition from Khan Noonien Singh’s India. While Yoshi was a baseline human, Khan admired his ideals and believed that he could make Japan ready to become Augmented if he was able to form an empire. Khan thus provided financial and military aid to Yoshi’s Japan. Yoshi quickly cracked down on dissent in the country and began attempting to promote militaristic Japanese culture. He began by creating the tournament known as the Battle Royale between Japanese high school students, which he claimed was an outlet for violence in schools that caused the Akademi High School murders among other disasters. His government scrapped laws against Japan having a standing army that had existed since World War II, seeking to build a new Imperial Japanese Army. The popularity of this was increased following the rampage of the so-called ‘Iron Man’ in Tokyo in 1989, making the Japanese public fearful. Yoshi also sought to boost Japan’s economic output, with the rise of technology enabling the rise of the government-owned Amie Workbench technology. Yoshi also aligned with the Tojo Clan Yakuza family to maintain a stranglehold on power. Tokyo was attacked by an army from the Netherworld headed by Talpa early during Yoshi’s regime. The Heaven Smiles also began terrorizing the world, including Japan, during his rule, but Yoshi proved reluctant to align with the worldwide efforts to combat Kun Lun. While tolerant of metahumans due to his alliance with Khan, Yoshi was hostile towards aliens, preventing Tectonese refugees from settling in Japan and seeking to hunt down the released space pirate Ryoko and other generally benign alien visitors that showed up in Japan. Ultimately, Yoshi would start an economic war with the United States under James Marshall that would escalate into a shooting conflict. However, the American advantage was great enough Yoshi was ousted from power by members of the government seeking peace. Yoshi was arrested, but managed to get an acolyte of his to destroy the US Capitol Building.
Koichi Zenigata (LDP) 1992
Zenigata, a former inspector, sought to rebuild US-Japanese relations, placing Yoshi in prison along with his key allies and helping aid in the US efforts to combat the Great Khanate in the Eugenics Wars. He also demilitarized the country, resurrecting the JSDF. Fears among the Japanese public of being left vulnerable to alien invasions were alleviated by the appearance of the Sailor Senshi Corps, who defended Japan against many threats during the 1990’s. Zenigata supported the US efforts to shut a gateway to a realm of demons, but sabotage by the Yoshi-aligned General Gotou led to demonic attacks and devastation being unleashed on Tokyo, though the city would be rebuilt quickly. Zenigata’s government was only a transitional one, however, and he soon handed power off to an elected successor.
Chiaki Asami (LDP) 1992-1996
Asami, at the time he was appointed, was the youngest Japanese Prime Minister elected to the office and had a reputation for clashing with older Liberal Democratic Party politicians—something that proved advantageous as many of the older generation had accepted Yoshi’s regime unquestioningly. He authorized the creation of MechaGojira to combat the third Gojira (the second having been destroyed defeating Cthulhu), though the machine failed to beat it in combat. The Gojira that destroyed its doppleganger would ultimately die fighting Destroyah, but would be replaced by its offspring. The Crisis Empire and the Fog Mother attacked Japan as part of their efforts to achieve world domination, but were beaten by Kamen Riders. An American archaeologist accidentally awakened 3 Japanese immortals in Nakano, prompting them to clash to maintain their immortality. The murders committed by Kunihiko Mamiya would prove to be a terror for Asami’s Japan and Mamiya’s actions would provoke copycat murders by some of his victims. Culturally, Asami’s Japan saw the emergence of ‘J-pop’ and idol singers (often backed by the Namuko Production group) and Saotome Academy). Asami would also lead Japan against the two biggest invasions of the decade: the Fithp invasion of 1995 and the Harvester invasion of 1996. Asami had the JSDF participate in the worldwide counteroffensive launched on the 4th of July that defeated the latter invasion. Shortly afterwards, Asami announced he would be stepping down as Prime Minister. He would die a year later from a previously undisclosed terminal illness while visiting Vietmahl.
Hayato Igarashi (LDP) 1996-2003
Igarashi was a career politician who had to handle a number of major issues. Kaiju attacks were a big part of his tenure—first the attacks were caused by the Kilaaks and later by more mundane events that nevertheless devastated the country. Japan was also threatened by the entities dubbed Giygas and Lavos along with the rest of the world, though Igarashi’s government did not combat either threat directly. His government placed increased scrutiny on the idol industry in Japan following the murder of Mima Kirigoe. Tokyo was briefly sealed off from the rest of the world by the forces of Myotismon, a being from a parallel plane known as the Digital World. Igarashi was among the millions held captive by Myotismon’s forces before they were defeated and had to contain panic in the aftermath due to the boundaries between worlds temporarily fluctuating. Igarashi was also in charge when an alien spacecraft crashed in the Bonin Islands, which helped push the Prime Minister to join the Council of Nations in planning for anti-alien invasion contingencies. The Council of Nations helped manage the Global Defense Initiative’s war with the Brotherhood of Nod and combat the Yeerk invasion. On New Year’s Eve in 2000, the Cult of Yujin unleashed a bioweapon and giant robot that caused enough instability to foster their growth, despite Igarashi’s efforts to resist its rise. Other Y2K disasters were prevented in Japan due to contingencies recommended by Dr. Ryogen Nishiyama being implemented by the Igarashi government. The Morioh murders also occurred during Igarashi’s term in office. The first Ener-D reactor was activated by Dr. Fudo as part of a project the Prime Minister had ordered, though Igarashi agreed with Fudo’s attempt to scrap the program due to unstable reactions. Towards the end of his term, the National Defense Family’s terrorist activities threatened to spark a civil war in Japan between elements of the government, though this was ultimately averted. Tokyo and Okinawa were attacked by a genetically modified species of legged fish during this time as well, though they were fortunately ultimately repelled. A series of deaths occurred in Tokyo thanks to the activities of a ghost known as Kayako during Igarashi’s term in office and several similar deaths occurred due to the spread of a cursed videotape. These events would culminate in the Tokyo Terror of 2001, where ghosts almost overtook Tokyo altogether and forced large-scale evacuations of the city. Igarashi would deal with the threat by bringing the Ghostbusters over from the United States and purchasing a large amount of materials from Fenton Works, which allowed for a return to normalcy. Igarashi would leave office with high approval ratings and be remembered as one of the greatest Prime Ministers in Japanese history.
Yonetarou Migimori (LDP) 2003-2005
Migimori was Trade Minister to Igarashi before ascending to become Prime Minister. In Migimori’s term as Prime Minister, the Fuyuki Grail War would threaten the boundaries between the supernatural and normal worlds, including the ‘magical reserve’ of Gensokyo. Metahumans in Japan were targeted by the Lords during Migimori’s government, but these beings were ultimately repelled. Ikebukuro would fall under the domination of the gang known as ‘the Dollars’ during this time as well. Migimori was also Prime Minister during the 6-12 incident where the entities known as ‘the Giant’ and ‘the Dragon’ clashed and was in charge of briefing other world leaders on the situation. A subsequent disease outbreak in Shinjuku (dubbed ‘White Chlorination Syndrome’) forced the district to be quarantined. This marked the beginning of Migimori’s decline in popularity, which was furthered by the beginning of the Kira murders, the crash-landing of EI-01, an attack on Tokyo by the resurrected spirit of the original malevolent Gojira entity and the Tokyo Twilight Disaster, which killed 30,000 residents of Tokyo. The latter event, while covered up as an earthquake by the government, enraged Migimori greatly and provoked heavy friction between the Japanese Ministry of Magic and the main government. Migimori’s hostility to the Ministry ultimately enabled the entity known as X to kill and replace him for a time. X as Migimori had the government investigate his rival Neuro before revealing his true nature and exiting office.
Takanojou Migitsuma (LDP) 2005-2008
Migitsuma was able to fare better that Migimori despite worsening circumstances. The Pluto’s Kiss computer virus and the subsequent shutdown of the Internet pending the implementation of countermeasures sparked a recession in Japan years before it began overseas. An increase in the Makamou population led to the rise in activity for the secret organization known as Takeshi. Crime additionally continued to rise under Migitsuma—Kira’s killings continued despite heavy investigation, two murders occurred at Haramihama High School, a serial killer terrorized Kisaragi City, and the first Slasher incidents in Ikebukuro occurred. Migitsuma also would have to contend with the emergence of a portal to another world in Tokyo’s Ginza district unleashing soldiers and monsters on the city. The Japanese Self-Defense Force was easily able to repel the attacks due to superior technology and Migitsuma set up a forward base on the other side of the portal to prevent any further incidents. He ramped up military presence within Tokyo in general both due to this and continued attacks by White Chlorination Syndrome infectees, which breached quarantine to a significant extent halfway through his term. To help alleviate the economic problems Japan was facing, Migitsuma joined with South Hun Chiu, Zheng Fa, Sarkhan and Thailand in the Bangkok Economic Alliance. A clash over possession of the Jewel Seeds occurred within Japan during Migitsuma’s tenure, though his government had little involvement in the matter. Earth would be attacked by the Dark Fall, the Light of Destruction, Masters of Sol and Zentraedi under Migitsuma as well. The Hell’s Gate opened in Tokyo during Migitsuma’s term, sparking a brief push to relocate the capital due to the damage caused to the region by this and White Chlorination Syndrome. However, Migitsuma simply stepped up the use of metahumans to ensure citywide security and vowed that Tokyo would be the forever capital of Japan. In 2008, the Japanese elections looked to be close between Migitsuma and former journalist Takashi Jo. However, a freak accident and corresponding reality warp lead to the deaths of both Migitsuma and Takashi and the rise of an unexpected candidate.
Yukino Ohama (UNP) 2008-2011
Ohama bears the distinction of undeniably the youngest figure to hold the position of Prime Minister of Japan, being only a teenager upon ascending to the office. Ohama was also the first woman to serve as Prime Minister of Japan. During Ohama’s presidency (as she insisted on referring to it), the country experienced a growth in attacks by dark witches in Mitakihara and the rise of the superhero Saitama, whose power level was greater than much of the other heroes to emerge in the decade that followed. Ten missiles struck Ohama’s Japan in 2010, but thanks to the lack of any casualties the event was dubbed ‘Careless Monday’ by Ohama. Ohama would have to contend with the rise of the Greeed and their Yummy servitors, which was resisted by the Kogami Foundation. Kun Lun launched a series of missile attacks on Japan during Ohama’s government. She would also have to contend with the HAL 18 crash near Mount Akakura, the brief inability of any humans to die, the FlashForward and the emergence of vampires. During her government, a cabal of neo-imperialists within Hope’s Peak Academy began kidnapping students to revive Yoshi’s Battle Royale on a smaller scale—something that would continue for much of the next decade. Japan was also damaged by the Great Legend War between a group of 193 warriors and the Zangyack Empire. The Shibuya district of Tokyo was terrorized by the murders dubbed the New Generation Madness before large swathes of it were destroyed in a major earthquake. Ultimately, Ohama’s true anomalous nature would be revealed in 2011 and she would subsequently step down.
Yuzo Asada (UNP) 2011-2012
Asada had been the Vice President to Ohama and resumed office as Prime Minister as part of a broader return to normalcy. An 8.0 earthquake would strike Tokyo during Asada’s government and he would preside over the subsequent reconstruction efforts. During Asada’s term, a large amount of the moon was destroyed by an octopus-like ‘god of death’ and Asada’s government was forced to take the leading role in ensuring the entity’s termination when it offered terms to do so in order to avoid the same fate befalling Earth. Asada was able to use the music of pop star Lynn Minmei to end the war with the Zentraedi during his term. The Inaba murders occurred during Asada’s government, making his government’s reputation suffer. Asada would preside over the Awakening of Magic which led to a rise in the population of supernatural beings in Japan. In addition to the elves, orcs, dwarves and the like to emerge elsewhere, Japan saw a number of people become oni, ‘monster girls,’ kumikos and other local human offshoots. Asada encouraged the efforts of Tetsuo Takahashi to foster wider acceptance of nonhumans (dubbed ‘Demis’ in Japan), but his defeat in 2012 led to the end of that initiative.
Kabe Seizou (LDP) 2012-2017
Seizou was a more traditional figure than his predecessors, being a longtime Liberal Democratic Party member. Seizou’s government would have to contend with numerous alien incursions-the Space Shocker and the Furons being the most notable. Seizou would temporarily be forced to surrender power to the Galactic Federation following their occupation of Earth, but regain power when they collapsed. Seizou launched the translight starship known as the Luxion during his term in office to counter further alien threats. Seizou’s Japan experienced an economic boom thanks to the rise of the seven ‘Kings’ following the Awakening of Magic, which led to a major technology boom but came at a cost of rising violence between the Kings’ clans. Some Japanese tech, such as the SQUIP, was unreliable and spread before it could be contained. However, Seizou’s government engaged in budget cuts that were controversial, causing some schools to face closure. Some only avoided this fate due to students forming idol groups to earn money to keep their schools open. Japan also was attacked via EMP weapons by survivors of the Athena Project and Seizou was forced to arrest surviving perpetrators of the program (including the by now over 100-year-old Mamiya). This coupled with Fsociety hacks in the US harmed the overall economic progress of Seizou. Seizou also nearly lost Japan’s mining rights in a bet on a deathmatch. King Selfish attacked the Earth during Seizou’s government but was thwarted. Eclipse incidents in Morimiya city began to skyrocket under Seizou’s government. A swarm of aggressive bats attacked a passenger plane and caused it to crash during his government, beginning a worldwide spate of unusually high animal aggression. Seizou also authorized the creation of the anti-terrorist regiment Riot Force 6 during his term as a result in the rise of Ushi Party-sponsored terrorism around the globe, including the ones carried out by Jail Scaglietti. The worldwide sterility epidemic began during Seizou’s government and he responded by attempting to encourage a natalist mindset within Japan. The Greater Hun Chiu Republic attempted to assassinate the Japanese Emperor during his government, sparking national riots. Seizou ultimately would step down due to stress.
Kozo Inuzuka (LDP) 2017-2020
Inuzuka ascended to the Prime Minister’s office following Seizou’s resignation. Inuzuka would have to contend with the Russo-American War of 2017 and ascending Hun Chiu aggression in the region. For this reason, he encouraged research into anisotropic by his government which led to the Kado incident over Tokyo. While the technology was lost, Inuzuka continued to encourage research into the matter. Inuzuka provided Japanese assistance to the war effort against the Lunar Nazi invasion of 2018. The video game Elder Tale ended up transporting all players logged in into another world following the release of an expansion in the Japanese servers, prompting a major crisis. Inuzuka also presided over the creation of the Advanced Brain Investigation Squad, which created AIs capable of combatting crime. The Wreck-It-Ralph and MONIKA AI computer viruses would be blamed on Japan despite having originated in America, as they were assumed to be rooted in Japanese video games’ codes. Japanese whaling vessels would be terrorized by the self-declared ‘Second Aquaman’ from Atlantis. The alien warlord Thanos wiped out half of Japan’s population along with half of all life in the universe in 2018 during the Inuzuka government, though it would ultimately be undone five years later. In the 2020 election, Inuzuka was challenged from the right by the Renewal Party headed by Masayoshi Shido, who ultimately would emerge victorious.
Masayoshi Shido (Renewal) 2020-2023
Shido was running as a Japanese ultranationalist and was hostile towards the United States and alien races. However, he had the covert backing of a cabal of supernatural beings as well as Greater Hun Chiu and in essence served as a puppet of the Greater Hun Chiu Republic. Shido’s government would have to contend with the Combine occupation of Earth and provide some assistance to Hun Chiu during the Lingshan Islands incident. A series of murderous mummifications occurred in Japan during Shido’s term in office. The World Seed, thanks to the efforts of the creator Akihiko Kayaba, trapped players within a video game world on Shido’s orders as part of a broader effort to maintain control and he likewise used Japanese megacorporations like Arasaka to cause problems for the US. Ashizava Kazuko discovered the principle behind creating jumpgates at the University of Tokyo during Shido’s rule, though the Prime Minister himself did little with it. Shido also contained the B-M incident of 2022 following a containment breach on the synthetic food source. Shido’s supernatural benefactors, due to their demonic nature, made Japan suffer a large amount of accidents and crimes, which led to the rise of a resistance group known as the Phantom Thieves. There actions ultimately revealed Shido’s corruption and paved the way for his removal from power. Shido would ultimately be arrested by alien police officer Birdy Cephon Altera for his actions and forcibly was imprisoned by the Abstainers.
Mutou Kunimitsu (Renewal/Independent) 2023-2028
Kunimitsu was ambitious, but ultimately idealistic politician who was considerably less tyrannical than his predecessor. The half of the population Thanos killed returned to life during Kunimitsu’s government. Kunimitsu sought to break from the influence of Hun Chiu, though he remained cold towards the US given the erratic tendencies of President David Jefferson Adams, who infamously destroyed the Chinese-built artificial island of Hong Sha Dao in 2024. However, Kunimitsu’s efforts to forge a more independent path for Japan were thwarted by the actions of Shido’s former allies in Hun Chiu, among the supernatural community and in megacorporations. They convinced the Randall Corporation (a front for the infamous Umbrella Corporation created to get around bans in most of the developed world) to unleash a strain of Solanum on Japan. This occurred almost immediately after the Inauguration Day bombings of 2025 and the subsequent Hun Chiu invasion of America. The outbreak (the virus of which was subsequently called the Apocalypse Virus) overwhelmed most of Japan rather quickly, reducing major metropolitan areas to dead cities with only scattered teenagers and warlords clinging to life. Kunimitsu was able to evacuate to a secure location and attempt to organize a response, but faced issues pertaining to Hun Chiu sabotage and the simultaneous invasion of the ZQN seeking to assimilate humanity stymied the response, even with Kumitsu sending the immune Saitama and a group of revenant undead who had formed a band in Saga to combat the outbreak. Ultimately, Kumitsu’s compound in Hokkaido would be breached by an undead horde and the Prime Minister himself would be infected.
YumiNagumo (I/GHQ) 2028-2036
Nagumo had been in the United States Marine Corps and become a general in the JSDF amidst the ongoing zombie outbreak. Nagumo continued to desperately attempt to contain the outbreak in Japan. What Nagumo ultimately was able to do to solve the problem would be controversial for generations to come. A conglomerate of multinational megacorporations, including some owned by British Prime Minister Vivienne Rook, offered to bankroll the liberation of Japan in return for concessions. Facing major losses, Nagumo reluctantly agreed. The various megacorps formed the Global Headquarters and sent in private military forces belonging to MannCo who were incapable of being infected or permanently killed. The GHQ’s efforts liberated Japan from the undead and allowed for the spread of the anti-sterility vaccine, provoking a major baby boom. The population shortage led to many teenagers directly entering the workforce. GHQ experiments during the early years of Nagumo’s term ended up activating the mutant gene in half the population, leading to the growth of a large class of metahumans. Nagumo’s government would support some of the resultant superheroes such as All-Might and set up U.A. Academy to help train younger metahumans. This development made Japan a new center of metahuman society and drew in many mutant refugees from elsewhere following the rise of the fundamentalist Purifiers in the US just before the beginning of the Gilead regime. Additionally, a new round of kaiju attacks began in the Pacific and Nagumo provided Japanese support to the Pan-Pacific Defense Corps—their Jaeger units being modeled on early Japanese mechs. Nagumo’s new collaboration with megacorporations was not without controversy and the Noh organization was contracted by the GHQ to kill dissidents. The Invid invaded Earth during Nagumo’s government, but were successfully repelled. A similar invasion of the insectoid Blue temporarily occupied Japan, but were ultimately defeated relatively quickly. Nagumo’s government attempted to undermine the GHQ by creating the Zero III AI program, but the AI went rogue and murdered dozens of people. When this was revealed, Nagumo was forced to resign. She would end up leaving Japan to join forces with anti-Gilead resistance movements in the US afterwards and would end up helping overthrow the regime following the death of Nehemiah Scudder.
Kuroda Kousaku (GHQ) 2036-2042
Kousaku had been a diplomat in southeast Asia prior to the Apocalypse Virus outbreak and the Global Headquarters takeover. He was selected as the GHQ’s new puppet due to being one of the few surviving elder statesmen left in Japan and it was hoped him being in charge would stymie unrest. During Kousaku’s term, the Global Headquarters was subverted by SERN as part of their efforts to use time travel to set up a global dictatorship. Kousaku remained a puppet of this cabal nonetheless. Kousaku would also have to deal with the Ganymedan occupation of Earth, the Evoluder invasion and the Roxolani invasion. Thanks to the proliferation of advanced technology globally, Kousaku’s Japan lost most of its economic edge, further heightening the Global Headquarters’ exploitative nature. This led to the growth of the Funeral Parlor terrorist organization, seeking to liberate Japan from the GHQ’s control, as well as the similar Knight Sabers group aimed specifically at the GENOM Corporation that formed a key part of the GHQ. Ultimately, these groups’ efforts coupled with widespread forms of more peaceful resistance forced Kousaku to yield and the GHQ to dissolve.
Shizune Hakamichi (Liberty & Progress) 2042-2059
Hackamichi’s political involvement technically began in her youth when she led her school’s student council. However, she had not been involved since up until the aftermath of the zombie outbreak and the rise of the GHQ, where she had helped shelter refugees during the former and been an ardent opponent of the latter. While mute, Hakamichi attracted a sizeable, dedicated following among anti-GHQ Japanese citizens and her focus on peaceful resistance over violent uprisings allowed her to become the first leader of a truly free Japan in nearly twenty years. During her term, Japan was briefly conquered by the warlord known as Grandmaster Meio, though Hakamichi refused to surrender and quickly returned to power following his defeat. Japan’s Dairangers would wage a war against the Gorma during Hakamichi’s term and the country would make contact with the Protodevlin. Hakamichi’s Japan, like much of the world, was rather prosperous amidst the ‘Second Renaissance’, but like the rest of the world had its dark side. Some machines in Japan became ‘Snatchers’ who killed and replaced people during her term and this led to Japanese support for the clash with the city-state of Zero One. The Resource Wars took their toll on Japan as well as the rest of the world. The Sun nearly went out during Hakamichi’s government, which supported the Icarus mission to restore it. Japan suffered some damage from the Turtle Island earthquake towards the end of Hakamichi’s tenure, but was mostly able to assist in the resettling of Zheng Fa refugees fleeing the country in the earthquake’s aftermath due to a nuclear meltdown. Hakamichi retired in 2059.
Tadase Hotori (Democratic) 2059-2068
Hotori took power amidst a highly unstable situation for Japan. Tensions were rising between the United States and China as well as their allies. The technocratic Optimum ideology of China was being exported abroad via propaganda and trade in the Pacific was becoming less profitable as China attempted to extort Japan into joining the Optimum bloc and Australia collapsed amidst a civil war between pro-Chinese and pro-American forces. The rest of the non-Chinese aligned Pacific states formed the Oceania Cooperative Union and clashed with the US over Huffman Island once during his government. For this reason, Hodori made sure many Japanese citizens were a part of the Federated Nations’ Unity mission to Alpha Centauri. Japan would be attacked by the alien Phantoms during Hodori’s term, but this failed to reconcile the two power blocs. Ultimately, following the destruction of the Freedom Star in 2066, the Great War would break out. Hodori remained steadfastly neutral and focused his government’s efforts on brokering a peace treaty and later trying to deal with the Sumatra influenza outbreak. Hodori also supported the Tri-Optimum Corporation’s efforts to contain the SHODAN artificial intelligence prior to losing the next election.
Manami Amamiya (L&P) 2068-2077
Despite being a part of the opposition party, Amamiya pursued largely the same foreign policy as her predecessor, supporting reaching a ceasefire between the two sides. Fearing the conflict would end in an apocalyptic fashion, Amamiya fabricated an accident involving a hyperspace gateway to encourage Japanese citizens to emigrate to various other planets and asteroids in the solar system, hoping to preserve some portion of Japanese culture should the worst happen. Amamiya’s government also thus set up the Inter Solar System Police to maintain order beyond Earth should the worst happen. Japan’s efforts to promote colonization drew the ire of what remained of the Martian population, who invaded Earth in 2076 and caused widespread damage before being defeated by music. Ultimately, this event plus the Lunar Revolution paved the way for peace talks between the sides of the Great War, with Amamiya intending to host the talks. However, she was stymied by the rise of the hardline Robert L. Booth to power. Subsequently, the godlike being known as Akira landed in Tokyo, destroying the city and killing Amamiya and her whole government.
Gendo Ikari (National Salvation) 2077-2082
Ikari, as an intelligence director based in Nagoya at the time, survived the impact of Akira. Subsequently, more disasters would occur in rapid succession. The US supercomputer SkyNet provoked President Booth into launching a full nuclear war with China, causing a global apocalyptic war. An extradimensional entity dubbed ‘Adam’ by Ikari crashed in Antarctica at this time, melting the region’s ice and causing worldwide disastrous climate change. Even with Ikari’s survival and most of Japan not being devastated, warlords, micronations and bandits cropped up in Japan. The likes of God Emperor Raoh, Tokyo Millennium, Japari Park, the city-state of Olympus and the self-declared State of Industria all challenged Ikari’s rule. Some areas of Japan were depopulated enough humans were outnumbered by sentient birds and Ikari would be forced to leave these areas to these beings. Ikari was not deterred by this, however, using the advice of the ancient vampiric samurai Kurou to restore control over Japan. By 2082, Ikari had reunified and restabilized Japan and made it into the center of remaining multinational political organizations such as NERV, SEELE, the World Space Patrol and the World Aquanaut Security Patrol.
Haruhi Suzumiya (D) 2082-2085
In the first post-apocalyptic elections, Haruhi Suzumiya emerged seemingly out of nowhere to take on the leadership of Japan. Suzumiya, seemingly a teenage girl, was in fact nearly a century old by this point, not aging due to being a highly powerful reality bender. Suzumiya would preside over the creation of the Japanese Miracle, a form of nanotechnology capable of eliminating the fallout from nuclear weapons. Japan shared this revolutionary invention with the world and used to make places like the Capitol Wastelands and post-Norsefire Britain habitable again. Suzumiya was in charge during the Laplace Incident, which saw terrorists destroy the Laplace Space Station during the beginning of the Universal Century calendar. Suzumiya would revive XCOM to deal with an extradimensional alien threat and used her reality warping capabilities to undue a malfunction of Mega-City One’s NASDA deterrent system which threatened to launch another atomic war. Suzumiya would reform the ISSP into the Bureau of Extraterrestrial Affairs and recognize the establishment of the Mars Congressional Republic after they overthrew the previous one. Eventually, Suzumiya would grow tired of running the country and call an election she would not contest.
Yoko Kayabuki (L&P) 2085-2097
Kayabuki would become the second-longest serving Japanese Prime Minister in history, just behind Hakamichi. Kayabuki would have to contend with jockeying for influence by the governments of Mega-City One (officially the Second United States) and PanAm, a feud which would involve Japan. Kayabuki would send Japanese space-based forces to clash with the Marduk when they invaded the solar system and fought back against the invasion by the self-described Giganos Empire that had overtaken the Lunar Free State post-revolution. The Giganos Empire attempted to take over Earth, but was ultimately beaten and collapsed. Her government also provided assistance to the Venusian nation of Aphrodia following the invasion by their rival country of Ishtar. She additionally had to deal with scandals surrounding the PMO Sakata Industries, who was accused of using human test subjects in the Huffman Conflict between the Oceania Cooperative Union and the New California Republic. Kayabuki’s government also was controversial due to admitting Hun Chiu refugees after the Trioxin outbreak, which reduced the country to a safe zone surrounding the city of Busan. Many in Japan retained racist attitudes towards Hun Chiu, but Kayabuki refused to bow to pressure to leave Hun Chiu’s people to their fate and saved at least 2 million in the process. Kayabuki’s government also created the genetically modified creatures dubbed ‘Pokemon’ by later generations as part of an effort to maintain worldwide biodiversity in the now ecologically-unstable world. Kayabuki was in power during a spree of ‘Angel’ attacks that were combatted by NERV and the Instrumentality incident of 2091, which saw humanity briefly removed from their physical forms and unified in a shared immaterial consciousness, though this ultimately was undone thanks to an ‘exit’ created by Shinji Ikari. In 2097, however, Kayabuki would be overthrown in 2097.
Taro Shikishima (I) 2097-2099
Shikishima was a colonel within the Japanese Self-Defense Forces who had been in charge of a project dedicated to researching psychic phenomena. Shikishima launched his coup against Kayabuki to take out a powerful psychic known as Tetsuo, who he feared was a second coming of Akira. Ultimately, Shikishima’s actions caused Tetsuo to awaken in power, forcing the region’s espers to awaken Akira, triggering a singularity that destroyed Neo-Tokyo. Shikishima, however, survived thanks to the espers teleporting him away from the city. Shikishima remained in charge to order a repeated reconstruction of Neo-Tokyo, but faced new challenges. Earth was being attacked by the Formics (alternatively called ‘Buggers’) and criminal organizations such as the Arfoire Syndicate of International Crime and Team Rocket rose in influence following the loss of much of the government. Ultimately, these factors led to Shikishima agreeing to make Japan one of the first member states in the new Terran Federation and Japan’s status as an independent nation was brought to an end.
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The coalition narrowly edged out the Tories (wounded by the Home Rule squabbling, economic doldrums, and party infighting) and was born out of the promise that Macdonald would finally deliver the long-delayed Home Rule - other than this issue and on increased house building (because Parliamentary could get some built at home), Labour and Parliamentary were at odds and Dublin was allowed to have autonomy on whether new British law would come in. This working arrangement was harmed by the Campbell Case, where Parliamentary were split on backing Labour and felt this showed the party was too radical - even as Macdonald was criticised by Labour for not being radical enough!
Housing, state pension, disarmament, foreign works, and the beginning of state healthcare were all brought in but the weakness of the government proved more of an issue for voters than its alleged radicalism, and it was clear the Parliamentary's weren't going to back Labour any more. Tory revival seemed assured...
Well, good enough. At least Chamberlain could say he was back in power and also PM, eat it Stanley.
And both parties agreed on the economy to get reforms through, with a brief boom nicknamed "the Mewing Twenties" after the more glamorous, longer American period it was aping. The collapse of the Parliamentary party as the more radical Sinn Fein grabbed seats was to their benefit as well, turning a once-big powerblock of Irish seats into smaller rivals. Chamberlain also continued the general trend towards peace between 'civilised' nations and achieved the Bonn Treaties that was meant to finally secure peace between France and Germany.
All was going well until the Great Depression. The Tory-Liberal harmony was ripped asunder (as well as inter-Tory harmony) and the government fell hard.
1930 - 1934: Arthur Henderson (Labour)
Panicked British workers turned to Labour - and panicked Irish workers turned to Irish Labour, a sister party that had achieved meagre gains in the Dublin parliament. Even the British middle classes had people thinking Labour had been far more stable than the last year & maybe it'd keep the unions in line - and the Irish middle class thought that too. (Sinn Fein lost ground, independence seeming risky in the current climate)
Henderson threw money around on big projects and welfare and bribing unions, which ballooned the country's debt but nudged the country into recovery. He also grew concerned over the growing tensions in Europe and after Hitler became chancellor, Henderson flew to Berlin, Warsaw, Prague, Paris, and anywhere he needed to try and get Germany talking about its territorial interests rather than building up an arsenal. The stress of this may have contributed to "Uncle Arthur's" death in 1934.
1934 - 36:Arthur Greenwood (Labour)
The popular Secretary of State for Health won a party election and inherited a country just doing okay, and a European situation just on a knife-edge. "Arthur Junior" won Labour's third election on promise of Recovery, of Calm, of Jobs. What he got was Mussolini invading Abyssinia. Britain used its clout and contacts to get peace - at the cost of half the African country. This crisis made Greenwood's alcoholism worse as he realised Mussolini could try something again and so could Hitler, or Japan, or...
A cautious rearming plan went through parliament thanks to Tory votes, which didn't help Greenwood's mood much either. The Rhineland Crisis then finished him off: Hitler's bellicose demands and sabre-rattling was, in retrospect, more mouth than trousers, but it had Greenwood panicked and he got the French panicked and all ended in British troops fighting German ones. The humiliation threw Germany into chaos and saw Greenwood forced to resign.
1936: Herbert Morrison (Labour)
Greenwood's great rival, he shoved his way through and declared a snap election. He had big plans.
What he got was a massive Sinn Fein surge - "Irish Troops In Britain's Wars" ran the posters (four Irish soldiers had died in a battle in the Rhineland), and independence was back on. That combined with British losses knocked Labour out and brought back...
1936-8: Anthony Eden (Conservative minority)
Eden was looking set to get away from all that rotten socialism and to continue the slow buildup due to distrust of Mussolini & Japan. He had his cabinet bring in a period of social and economic conservatism as he focused on foreign affairs, hoping to isolate Italy and Japan with alliances overseas. And he was in China doing just this when Hitler tried to regain control with a wave of state terror against Jews and caused Germany to explode into violence.
With Eden absent, Britain was headless as the streetfighting ran rampant - Mussolini and Austrian allies moved in to "restore order". Emboldened, Mussolini did the very same when Spain's military attempted their coup, sending Italian forces to back up the nationalists; Eden told him to back off, seeing a threat to British control of the Med and access to Suez.
Britain won the war after a year of intense fighting. In the aftermath, the Dublin government - now majority Sinn Fein - condemned the loss of more Irish lives due to British foreign policy screwups. A general strike, Commons filibustering, protests, riots: Ireland was demanding out, and Britain didn't have the ability or will to force them to stay, and so a referendum was held in the hope Westminster could sway just enough people.
They could not. Eden became the Prime Minister of Great Britain by Easter 1938, the government was knocked off its axis, and everyone is left wondering what happens next...
Def. Nelson Rockefeller Republican Thurston Morton
1964: Hubert Horatio Himphrey Democratic John Connelly Def: william Scranton Republican Henry Cabot Lodge
1968 : George Wallace Independent Curtis Lemay
Def: Ronald Reagan Republican Charles Percy
1972:Richard Nixon Republican Spiro Agnew
Def: Robert Kennedy Democratic Wilbur Wilbur miles
1976: Richard Nixon Republican Gerald Ford
Def: Henry Jackson Democratic Edmund Muskie
1980: Edmund Muskie Democratic Reubin Askew
Def: Charles Percy Republican John Anderson
Robert Taft is elected president of the United States.
Nixon remains in the Senate.Taft's successor remains president of the u.s. through out the 1950s.
In 1960 Stevensen gets a third try and wins but dies of heart attack.Humphrey gets civil rights legislation passed but loses to Wallace who decides to use tactical nukes in veitnam.
He is assainated and senator Nixon defeats both lemay and the democratic opponent.
Nixon spends his
two terms fixing the mess the late Wallace made in veitnam and easing tensions with the se Soviets.
Muskie succeeds
Nixon in the 1980s.
Muskie continues detente with soviets and trying to get a man on the moon by the end if the decade.
Despite the seemingly unlikely event of a Portuguese outpost in India breaking away from Portuguese rule, this was an event long in brewing. Many Catholic Goans resented Portuguese rule, to the extent that in 1787, Catholic Brahmin priests attempted to form an independent republic in the failed Conspiracy of the Pintos. Despite its failure, the issues behind this rebellion were not resolved, and they continued to brew. When, in 1827, the British government was overthrown and replaced by a reformist parliament, the liberal waves were felt in British India. An attempt by British generals in India to declare their loyalty to the deposed king was defied by a mutiny of their (white) soldiers, who elected committees to represent and lead them; this forced British India to accede to the new British regime, but not before sparking a new wave of rebellions from among many princes. This seismic activity was felt in Goa, too, where exasperation of the continued exclusion of native Goans from administration, as well as the filtration of radical ideals, led to a conspiracy of liberals overthrowing the ruling administration with the help of the army. The Portuguese government, fearing what the new British regime would do to them for attacking what looked like a “sister republic”, fled
Following a long period of discussion from among the constitutional convention, the new constitution was based on the notes of the British utilitarian Jeremy Bentham, and his draft Constitutional Code. This very long constitution consisted of a virtually omnipotent legislature, with the power to appoint a Prime Minister to lead the executive branch to be removed at its pleasure. After yet more discussion, Portuguese and solely Portuguese was to be Goa’s official language, with Konkani and Marathi excluded from official recognition. Furthermore, Hindus were to be fully excluded from suffrage; only Christians (in practice meaning Catholics) had the privilege to vote (with restrictions). This was affected by a rebellion of the (Hindu) Rane clans of Sankhali; they had rebelled for decades against the Portuguese government, and they viewed the Goan government as little different. The much weaker Goan forces were unable to stop them, and so all of the New Conquests were turned into an independent state which looked to Maratha protection; as the Marathas themselves were British-aligned, this inevitably meant that they were indirectly under British influence. This no doubt strengthened the view that Hindus were inevitably predisposed to despotism and, if they knew what to do with the ballot, would always vote for absolutism. There were those who disagreed, but they were outvoted. Thus, the Goan Republic now had a constitution, one which codified Hindu civil disabilities.
The new administration was led by the popular Catholic Brahmin reformer Bernardo Peres da Silva. He faced immediate difficulties in administration; he was perceived as favouring Catholic Brahmins at the extent at the landowning Catholic Kshatriyas as well as whites and mestiços. The military, inherited in part by the Portuguese, was dominated by whites and mestiços, and those indios who did enlist tended to be Kshatriyas. As a result, the army swiftly overthrew him
His successor, the former commandante Jose da Gunha, suspended representative government. This caused a string of rebellions, but they were swiftly crushed. Prime Minister Jose da Gunha established a regular but despotic administration; furthermore, he established a school system oriented towards the wealthy in order to establish a firm and stable base of support. Furthermore, he invested in ports in an effort to ensure that Goa’s status as a trade entrepôt would be furthered. This resulted in the expansion of Bombay trader influence in the nation, which itself meant that Goa was even more of a British client state than it already was considered. But over time, discontent with Jose da Gunha’s administration grew. The students trained at the school system he established resented authoritarian rule, and a thirst for representative government grew. In 1842, he was assassinated, and an uprising in Goa City secured the restoration of representative government. But it continued to be a government which excluded Hindus from the benefits of citizenship.
The subsequent elections were won by the reformers, organized in the Rejuvenation Party, under Luis Gomes, who advocated full suffrage to every Christian male who could speak Portuguese (a relatively small proportion of the population). He spearheaded the development of rail to connect Goa’s small interior to the ports of Vasco and the City of Goa, as well as other public works. Despite being a Catholic Kshatriya landowner, he pursued land reform which gave (Catholic) peasants tenant security and the ability to buy their land at cheap costs. Poor relief was expanded to a cautious degree to Catholics in the cities. Gomes died in his sleep, viewed positively at the time. He was succeeded by his brother, who gutted a lot of poor relief in favour of lining his own pockets. This sparked rioting, causing an army coup.
The provisional prime minister, Francisco Simoes, did not in truth like the business of administration very much. As such, he fobbed it off to a civilian government at the first opportunity. The so-called “Old Radicals” under Orlando da Costa took ahold of Goa’s administration, in the hopes of running it well. However, the nation was immediately faced with a major issue, that of Hindu political activity. The Hindus in the nation had long been divided on how to fight for their own rights without causing a counterreaction; some attempts at political mobilization faced fatal caste divides. But this started to change in 1872 when, under Pratáp Seng, the Liberty Association was formed to fight for Hindu emancipation. With vast numbers of low donations, mobilization became vast, and at the same time Pratáp Seng proclaimed his firm belief in pacifism. For his firm and unwavering belief in peaceful protest, he came to be nicknamed the “Goan Daniel O’Connell”. And so, over the 1870s and 1880s, protests for Hindu emancipation continued to expand dramatically, and all the while the Goan government could find no excuse to suppress them. But censuses showed that Hindus made up an increasingly sizeable fraction of the population, and many felt that they surely needed a place in the politics of the nation. When, in 1886, the army massacred peaceful protestors, the result was widespread criticism and even talk of revolution (though this Pratáp Seng refused, even as he visibly wept upon hearing of the massacre). Some feared idol-smashing, and many temples smuggled their idols across the border with Maharashtra to prevent it. The government planned to suppress the Hindu emancipationist movement further, and even briefly arrested Pratáp Seng, but ultimately the Legislature lost confidence in Prime Minister Simoes, removing him from power. Instead, in 1889, the constitution was amended to finally give the vote to Hindus. In one more dramatic reform, the language of Konkani, in Roman script, was given official status; while many Hindus were in disagreement as to whether Konkani was a language in its own right or a mere Marathi dialect, the government sought to differentiate Goa as much as possible from surrounding Maharashtra, and promoting Konkani was one way to do it. Universal male suffrage was finally achieved.
Thus, when in 1890 Pratáp Seng was elected as a deputy to sit in the very same legislature which once oppressed him, Goa was now entering a new era. One in which Hindus and Christians could proudly call themselves Goan; one in which Goa was no longer chauvinistically Lusophile. Many were hopeful that the new decade, and the new century, would be ones of peace....
Leaders of the Labour Party 1963-1973: Harold Wilson 1963 def: George Brown, James Callaghan 1973-1975: Denis Healey 1973 def: Roy Jenkins, Michael Foot 1975-1980: Eric Varley 1975 def: Peter Shore 1980-1982: John Silkin 1980 def: Denzil Davis, James Callaghan 1982-1992: Michael Meacher 1982 def: Roy Hattersley, Tony Benn 1992-1998: Robin Cook 1992 def: John Smith, Bryan Gould, Dick Douglas 1998-2000: Joyce Gould 1998 def: Gordon Brown 2000-2005: Paddy Tipping 2000 def: Geoff Hoon, Austin Mitchell 2005-2012: Mark Seddon 2005 def: Geoff Hoon, Paul Boateng
2006 def: Geoff Hoon 2012-2016: Sadiq Khan 2012 def: Ed Balls, Chris Williamson 2016-: Ann Black 2016 def: Stephen Kinnock, Mike Gapes
1964-1973: Harold Wilson (Labour) 1964(Majority) def: Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative), Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1966 (Majority) def: Ted Heath (Conservative), Eric Lubbock (Liberal)
1970 (Majority) def: Ted Heath (Conservative), Eric Lubbock (Liberal) 1973-1975: Denis Healey (Labour) 1975-1980: William Whitlaw (Conservative) 1975 (Majority) def: Denis Healey (Labour), Eric Lubbock (Liberal), Dick Taverene (Democratic Labour)
1979 (Coalition with the Liberals) def: Eric Varley (Labour), John Pardoe (Liberal), Dick Taverne (Democratic), William Wolfe (SNP) 1980-1984: Geoffery Howe (Conservative) 1984-1992: Michael Meacher (Labour) 1984 (Majority) def: Geoffery Howe (Conservative), John Pardoe-Dick Taverne (Alliance)
1988 (Majority) def: Leon Brittan (Conservative), Alan Beith-Shirley Williams (Alliance) 1992-1996: Nicolas Scott (Conservative) 1992 (Majority) def: Michael Meacher (Labour), Alan Beith (Liberal Democrats), Stephen Milligan (Reform) 1996-1998: Robin Cook (Labour) 1996 (Majority) def: Nicolas Scott (Conservative), Alan Beith (Liberal Democrats), Stephen Milligan (Reform) 1998-2000: Joyce Gould (Labour) 2000-2003: Malcolm Rifkind (Conservative) 2000 (Majority) def: Joyce Gould (Labour), Matthew Taylor (Liberal Democrats), Stephen Milligan (Reform) 2003-2007: Michael Portillo (Conservative) 2003 (Coalition with Reform) def: Paddy Tipping (Labour), Matthew Taylor (Liberal Democrats), Shaun Woodward (Reform) 2007-2012: Mark Seddon (Labour) 2007 (Majority) def: Michael Portillo (Conservative), Susan Kramer (Liberal Democrats) 2012-2016: Sadiq Khan (Labour) 2012 (Majority) def: William Hague (Conservative), Steve Webb (Liberal Democrats), Natalie Bennett-Adam Curtis(Red &Greens) 2016-: Amber Rudd (Conservative) 2016 (Majority) def: Sadiq Khan (Labour), Steve Webb (Liberal Democrats), Rosi Sexton-Gary Younge(Red &Greens)
Back In Black; Can Ann Black Lead Labour Back to Government?
December 19th 2020
When Sadiq Khan lost in 2016 it wasn’t surprising to many. The Euro Referendum had gone badly, the British economy was in a slump and after the dynamic and forward thinking leadership of Mark Seddon, Khan’s seemed dully managerial in comparison. But under Ann Black, things seem to be much different.
Unlike Seddon or Khan who seemed to ignore the gaggle of Green Left Wingers that the Red & Green Alliance represented, Black has been openly courting them and there voters. Whilst traditionalists in the organisation like filmmaker and former leader Adam Curtis have called it ‘False Platitudes’, the radicals like MP Keir Starmer have been more cordial ‘Ms Black shows that the Labour is no longer one of Cook, Seddon and Khan and is willing to embrace the future’.
Black may also be helped by the Red & Greens recent problems with Anti-Semitism and Transphobia which compared to Khan and Black’s handling of similar issues has been rather poor. Another more secret strategy also seems to forming with Reform.
Far removed from the Woodward heights, Reform seems to gaining steam again. Whilst the group claims loyalty to the ideals of Social Democracy, it’s base is a bizarre mix of Conservative Social Democrats, Neoliberals and Libertarians. Reform has been gaining cut through on Trans Rights and Rudd’s awkwardness around the issue (seemingly doing too little and too much). With the addition of Rosie Duffield in the aftermath of the Kensington By-Election, strategy’s are beginning to form around using Reform to try and absorb Conservative votes where possible.
Despite claiming herself to the being the heir to Micheal Meacher, Ann Black’s ability to both bring fire and fury and cunning planning has made some commentators compare her to the late Robin Cook, who’s stunning victory was squandered by Labour’s last female leader. But Ann Black is certainly of a different stock to Joyce Gould and seems ready to lead Labour to a bright future in the coming election.
1981-1989: Jack Kemp/George H.W. Bush 1989-1997: Michael Dukakis/Bill Clinton 1997-2005: John Kerry/Al Gore 2005-2013: Mike Huckabee/W. Mitt Romney 2013-: Al Gore/John Edwards/VACANT/Barack Obama
Leaders of the Labour Party: 1992-1994: John Smith 1992 def: Bryan Gould 1994-2002: Jack Cunningham 1994 def: Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, Margaret Beckett 2002-2007: John Prescott 2002 def: Jack Cunningham, Robin Cook, Gordon Brown 2007-2016: Caroline Flint 2007 def: David Miliband, Diane Abbott 2016-: Katy Clark 2016 def: Liz Kendall, Hilary Benn, Andy Burnham
2020 def: Keir Starmer
1997-2002: Jack Cunningham (Labour) 1997 (Majority) def: John Major (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrats)
2001 (Majority) def: Micheal Portillo (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrats) 2002-2007: John Prescott (Labour) 2003 (Majority) def: Ian Duncan Smith (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrats) 2007-2012: Oliver Letwin (Conservative) 2007 (Majority) def: John Prescott (Labour), Menzies Campbell replacing Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrats) 2012-2016: Caroline Flint (Labour) 2012 (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def: Oliver Letwin (Conservative), Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrats), Nigel Farage (UKIP), Caroline Lucas (Green) 2016-2022: Andrew Lansley (Conservative) 2016 (Majority) def: Caroline Flint (Labour), Vince Cable (Liberal Democrats), Nigel Farage (UKIP), Natalie Bennett (Green)
2020 (Coalition with UKIP) def: Katy Clark (Labour), Ed Davey (Liberal Democrats), Douglas Carswell (UKIP), Peter Tatchell-Sîan Berry (Green) 2022-: Katy Clark (Labour) 2022 (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def: Andrew Lansley (Conservative), John Leech (Liberal Democrats), Douglas Carswell (UKIP), Sîan Berry-Molly Scott Cato (Green)
“Wait, Jack won...what the fuck”
-Mandelson to Blair, 1994
“What Britain is need a Labour that is modern and ready for the 21st Century”
-Jack Cunningham at Labour Conference, 1994
“Damn, The Tories have collapsed to 230 seats”
“I’m sure we would have done better under Tony”
“Shut the fuck up Pete”
-Deputy John Prescott to Peter Mandelson, 1997
“So then Prime Minister what’s this about expenses?”
-Jeremy Paxman and his infamous grilling of Cunningham, 2000
“Sorry Jack, but you nearly fucked us over in that last election. Jesus, your a liability.”
-Prescott upon telling Cunningham his run for leader, 2002
“Well Prescott is now leader”
“Let me get my revolver ready”
-Tony Blair to Peter Mandelson, 2002
“Dr Jack Cunningham, former Prime Minister has been arrested for expenses fraud”
-Independent Headline, 2006
“Let’s Win With Letwin!”
-Tory Slogan, 2007
“David Should Have Won!”
“Which one?”
-Twitter Post and Reply, 2012
“Andrew Lansley in a coalition with Douglas Carswell is the political equivalent of remarrying your abusive ex”
-2020 Election Commentator
“Look I’m not saying Jack Cunningham was good, but...”
@Tirgun on Sealion Press Forum, 2024 before sparking an argument on the Cunningham Government vs. Katy Clark
Capturing An Extremely Specific Moment In My Political Development And Rolling With It
2010-2013: Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat) 2010 (Minority, with confidence and supply from 'Queen's Men'*) def. David Cameron (Conservative)*, Gordon Brown (Labour)*, Peter Robinson (Democratic Unionist), Alex Salmond (Scottish National), Gerry Adams (Sinn Fein)
2011 STV referendum; YES 51%, NO 49%
2012-0000: Nick Clegg (Democratic) 2012 (Majority) def. John McDonnell (Labour), David Cameron (Conservative), Alex Salmond (Scottish National), Peter Robinson (Democratic Unionist), Charles Kennedy (Alliance GB), Gerry Adams (Sinn Fein), Nigel Farage (United Kingdom Independence)
1799-1799: Napoleon Bonaparte / Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès / Roger Ducos (Nonpartisan / The Plain / The Plain)
1799-1800: Napoleon Bonaparte / Jean-Jacques Cambacérès / Charles-François Lebrun (Nonpartisan / Nonpartisan / Nonpartisan)
What historians have come to call the Coup of Brumaire was one of the most significant events in the life of the young French Republic, yet today it is almost entirely forgotten, overshadowed by the broader revolution all across Europe which followed. After the coup, and secure in his place at the head of the new authoritarian French government, Napoleon Bonaparte would undergo a peculiar and world-altering transformation. Why or when precisely this occurred remains contentious, but many contemporaries believed a version of a story which historians have so far failed to disprove: that on the night of the 25th December 1799, the largely irreligious First Consul was visited by an angel. In this telling, this was the pivotal moment in Napoleon's life - the angel, in many versions the angel Gabriel, promised the general and statesman God's aid if he dedicated his life to spreading the word of Christ, and uniting Europe, and then the world, behind his banner. Whatever the offer, Napoleon is said to have accepted it, and began to lay the groundwork to undermine the atheist French Republic and create a theocratic state centred around a crusading vision of Christian evangelism.
And so the preparation for his second coup within a coup began, and Bonaparte chose his moment well. On the 6th January, as France's Catholics were observing Epiphany, their First Consul presented himself to the people of Paris, and declared the end of the Republic, and the beginning of the reign of Christ on Earth. Perhaps his message would not have been accepted, save for a miraculous coincidence. Though now thought to be a passing meteor in the sky, a great flash of light pierce the clouds as Bonaparte spoke, adding to the appearance of his divine calling, and for the terrified people of France, faced with a heroic young saviour after years of terror and anarchy, that was good enough. As the atheistic republicans like Sieyès, Roederer, and Cabanis rolled their eyes and protested in private, and the Montagnards screeched about the return of clericalism, the French peasantry, bourgeoisie, and a cynical middle class quickly fell in line.
Combining the heroism of a virtuous republican legislator and the divine mandate of the Old Regime, the new Bonapartist monarchy which emerged after the 'Joyeux Noel' of 1799-1800 was distinctly theocratic in nature. Although met with some suspicion from the Pope, and continued hostility from the crowned heads of Europe, Napoleon's regime was embraced by Catholics and counterrevolutionaries in France. Even the irascible Savoyard counterrevolutionary Joseph de Maistre, on hearing of Bonaparte's transformation, returned to his homeland Savoy from exile with the royal court, and then in Paris pledged his loyalty to Bonaparte. And on April 13th 1800, Easter Sunday, Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of the French, Elector of Christ and the 'Temporal Vicar of Christ on Earth'. France's providential mission to win back the world for Christ had begun.
Temporal Vicar of Christ on Earth
1800-1806:Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor of France, Elect of Christ)
Although some in Paris had hoped that Napoleon’s miraculous conversion and his dedication to the cause of Christ might have won France a detente with the Catholic powers of Europe, in fact it only made them more suspicious. Under the pretext that the new French Emperor was a heretic and false prophet, they now intensified their campaign against France. As Talleyrand scornfully - and perhaps hypocritically - noted at the time, “The Kings of Europe recognise but one god: their own advantage”. War between the Second Coalition and France had already raged since 1798, but now formerly Francophone Prussia had joined the anti-Napoleonic cause, whilst Papal resistance to Napoleon’s claims to divine sanction had renewed Austrian military zeal. Although the first Austrian sortie to ‘liberate’ Rome was easily parried in June 1800, it had become clear that even a literal miracle realigning France with Europe would now be enough to reconcile her to it. Just as previously only the total republicanisation of the continent could deliver peace for France, now the same could be achieved only by her complete conquest in the name of Christ.
This was far from a universally popular mission at home, and already after Bonaparte had seized power, cooler heads began to prevail. A conspiracy around Pierre Cabanis to remove the ‘mad’ new Emperor and restore the secular republic had grown rapidly in momentum in the wake of the coronation, and Cabanis had performed his own minor miracle by uniting the factions of the old Jacobin Club against the clerical pretences of France’s mad theocratic ruler. In the summer with the conspiracy picking up speed in the aftermath of Bonaparte’s faltering performance at the battle of Marengo, however, divine intersection would once again seemingly favour of the Emperor. When a Jacobin assassin attempted to shoot and kill Bonaparte on his return to Paris in July 1800 the bullet, it is said, which had flown true up until the final moment, curved in the wind and dropped harmlessly to the road. Again, whether true or not, such stories added quickly to the Napoleonic myth, and just as the miraculous spread of fervour for the new regime had spread, now too it seemed that an enthusiasm which only the mysterious hand of god could affect was setting in over France and her client states.
Bolstered, Bonaparte would take the war back to the Holy Roman Empire and Italy, and over a period of six years beat back the combined Austro-Prussian forces. And the more that Bonaparte was victorious, the more converts he won. Although peace was possible by 1802, Napoleon continued, and in 1805, Napoleon won his two greatest victories at Trafalgar and Austerlitz. The latter is known best as a conventional military victory, the former for its undeniably miraculous outcome. In October of 1805, the French navy, facing down Britain's fleet found itself victorious despite the superior training and preparation of the British forces. Genius that Nelson was, even he could not stand against the gale force winds whic seemed to batter only the Royal Navy's vessels, or the rain which witnesses swore broke around the Franco-Spanish fleet. At the end of the day, the bulk of the Royal Navy was at the bottom of the English Channel, and France had opened the path to invade Britain. When, two months later, the Austrians were routed at Austerlitz, Napoleon's mastery of Europe became indisputable.
1806-1808: Napoleon Bonaparte (Holy Roman Emperor, Emperor of France, Elect of Christ)
The iconography of the Napoleonic regime had always drawn heavily from the reign of Charlemagne, but with the defeat of the Austrians at Austerlitz in November 1805, the Holy Roman Empire itself fell into French hands. Emperor Francis had considered dissolving the empire following Austerlitz, but with the French invasion of Britain set to begin apace in the Spring, and with Catholics and now Protestants alike flocking to the French Emperor's banner, and even the Pope beginning to toy with acknowledging the emperor's divine mission, such an action was untenable. In order to win peace for his people and save his throne, Francis abdicated the Imperial title, and at his instruction Napoleon was elected Holy Roman Emperor. Once again France's monarch was a Emperor in the West, and with the Treaty of Pressburg, the states of Germany, Italy, and Central Europe had all fallen into France's orbit.
Yet despite Britain's catastrophe at sea the previous year, the invasion of the British Isles could not commence until March, and when landings finally began even the great Napoleon could not simply waltz across the channel and capture the kingdom. Pitt's government had fallen after Trafalgar, and Charles James Fox had been summoned to lead a government opposed to 'Universal Empire and Papist Supremacy' on the continent. That government had drifted further and further towards Protestant religious extremism as anti-Catholic sentiment gripped the country, and a Methodist revival led by Charles Welsley Jr. was at the forefront of an increasingly radical campaign against potential supporters of Bonaparte. In practice this amounted to a popular campaign of violence against Catholics and High Church Anglicans which did more harm than good. Although the government attempted to stem the worst excesses, by the time that French forces landed, they were met with open arms by some.
It was probably this which created the illusion of the 'Great Conversion' which has played so central a role in Bonapartist mythology. Unless we are to accept the notion that Bonaparte himself was somehow miraculous, we must consider such social factors to explain why in every country he invaded, many were converted quickly to his cause. Although fighting would continue for years, particularly in Scotland where supporters of a Bonaparte backed Jacobite insurgency fought against a Presbyterian resistance, the United Kingdom was ultimately not long for the world. With its great defeats at the battles of Guildford and Oxford, the army was routed, and the King abdicated in 1807 as his forces collapsed. An Irish Catholic insurgency had already drained Britain's manpower, and Bonapartist invasion was simply too much. And with Britain failed, the last great Protestant power of Europe had been brought to heel.
Although the mopping up of resistance in Europe would continue for over a decade after this, Britain's defeat marked the end of the war in Western Europe, and Napoleon's triumph. And it coincided with another fortuitous turn of events in the Emperor's favour: the death of Prius VII (the former Cardinal Carlo Bellisomi, elected eight years previously) in 1808. Immediately Bonaparte's acolytes took the death as a sign - how could they not? The Cardinalate remained ill-disposed to Bonaparte, composed principally of Habsburg cronies as it was, and many still held out hope that an alliance of Austria, Russia, and Prussia might still bring about Napoleon's demise. But with the tacit approval of the Emperor, temporal forces moved quickly to secure their compliance, by both persuasion and force, for the next great step in Bonaparte's ascendancy as leader of the faith - his election as Pope.
1808-1815: Napoleon Bonaparte (Ponitfex Maximus of the Church in the West and Holy Roman Emperor)
The conquest of Russia is often portrayed as yet another Napoleonic miracle, but in truth it owed far more to the tyrannous conditions of Czarism and the powers of a United spiritual and temporal Western Christendom than to the supernatural powers of the Pope-Emperor. With Britain still standing, perhaps Russia could have held out long enough to allow Austria and Prussia to turn against Napoleon, but alone she stood little chance. Likewise, it was no divine magnetism which drew much of the Russian population to Bonaparte, but the mere fact of the majority of Russians' conditions. Not only did Baltic Catholics and Protestants alike join his ranks for fear of persecution as a Western fifth column, but so too did thousands of Orthodox peasants who had heard tell of the brotherhood of all men under Bonapartist Christianity. Faced with an insurmountable enemy sweeping across Eastern Europe, and a population in revolt, it wasn't no true surprise that Russian opposition melted away.
After battles at Smolensk and Borodino the Russian army collapsed. The Czar could hold on no longer, and with European Russia falling before the might of the Grand Army, the rest of the empire fell into total disarray with it: Peter the Great's empire had fallen before Napoleon's. In late 1814, Petersburg and then Moscow fell to the French army, and at last the secular authorities of Christendom were reunited. Finally, on Christmas Day 1815, the Pope-Emperor Napoleon declared the reunion of the Western and Eastern Churches after three quarters of a millennium. Under his own authority as Pope, Bonaparte bestowed upon himself the title of Supreme Vicar of the res publica Christiana and the honorific Rex et Imperator Mundi, dividing Russia into a series of supplicant Grand Duchies under the stewardship of his marshalls. The peoples of Christendom were reunited in one great patchwork commonwealth: the greatest empire the world had ever seen, stretching from Lisbon to Kazan, united under Christ as Napoleon had declared it his mission to achieve.
1815-1821: Napoleon Bonaparte (Supreme Vicar of the Res Publica Christiana, Holy Roman Emperor, Rex et Imperator Mundi)
1821-00: Napoleon II (Rex et Imperator Mundi)
But the same stories which speak of Napoleon's angelic visitation speak also of a bargain: that Bonaparte could defy fate conquer all the Christian world, but only in the destined span of his life. At the time, few who subscribed to the Bonaparte legend had reason to believe that the young First Consul should die just two decades later, yet in 1821 the Emperor died under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind only one heir. That young man, his sole son, was seen by many as more than just a Prince - and, now, as the Christian Empire sets out to spread its Lord's message to the world, there are whisperings of another divine mission, and that the new Emperor is not merely the son of an Emperor, but of something far higher. That he is the conquering messiah of Christian legend. The stuff of European superstition only, for which we American patriots must not fall, but ought to remain steadfast in our enmity to.
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Rather late, and very silly, but Merry Christmas all!
David Cameron (Conservative) 2010-2016; Theresa May (Conservative) 2016-2019; Boris Johnson (Conservative) 2019-2021; Rishi Sunak (Conservative) 2021-2023
Larry had a long tenure in Number 10 as Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office - although he was noted to be a bad mouser he achieved a level of renown around the nation and was recognised as a civil servant and therefore would remain with the property when the Prime Minister vacated Downing Street. He saw out four Prime Ministers and one monarch, and was the first Downing Street pet to build up a social media brand.
Rishi Sunak was the first prime minister of the UK in may years to be undeniably a dog person, and he introduced the position of Downing Street dog to help raise awareness of the plight of rescue dogs following COVID. This was a standard Sunak policy - softer than previous leaders, superficially nice, and also a cause of extreme strife, as Larry and Rex never got on and Rex's presence caused Larry to have a nervous breakdown. He eventually retired to the countryside and left active service. Meanwhile, Rex would outlast Rishi, and would serve alongside Gavin Williamson.
2021-2029: Cronus (Tarantula)
Gavin Williamson (Conservative) 2023-2029
Gavin, however, would be mostly remembered for his other pet - the first Downing Street Tarantula. While Cronus never met world leaders he built up a curious following on the internet and helped define Williamson's brand - many characteurists, and, in time, the 2029 Labour billboards, characterised Gavin Williamson as a spider. Where Rishi had been soft and playful, Williamson was seen as predatory and harsh. The mood served him well in 2024, during his brief honeymoon, but by 2029 the country was sick of hardmen and their arachnids.
2029-2038: Benji (Dog)
Lisa Nandy (Labour) 2029-2038
Benji the dog ousted Rex, despite Rex technically being a non-partisan civil servant. This was somewhat controversial because Benji was a political appointee. During the 2029 General Election he had been leader of the Labour Party Pets Group - a group that Labour Party members could sign their pets up to in exchange for a small fee. He remained at Downing Street for two years and cemented the position of the Downing Street dog in the public imagination.
2038-2043: Victoria (Cat)
Dehenna Davison (Conservative) 2038-2043
Victoria the cat was a typical Davison appointment: a call back to constitutional settlement and a cultural landscape that had changed utterly. That said, Downing Street having a cat again was one of the less problematic changes that Davison attempted. Victoria was mostly not noteworthy, although debate about her presence went far beyond the recent preference for dogs. In 2040 she was seen catching a bird and this raised issues with whether cats were a socially responsible pet in the era of climate crisis. The Davison government remained staunchly pro-cat through a time when public opinion was shifting.
2043-20XX: Gwen (Otter)
Charlie Caine (Labour) 2043-20XX
Caine made an unusual political appointment for Downing Street pet - Gwen the Otter never saw Downing Street. She lived in a sanctuary for endangered animals. Caine was keen to raise the environmental problems with pet ownership and the importance of conservation in the post-crash era. All of which is worthy, but it's also somewhat tedious - Victoria the cat, now the head of the Conservative Party pets group, remains one of that party's most popular politicians.
1960-1963: Student, University of Chicago - member of the Young People's Socialist League and Student Peace Union, Chairman of the regional branches of both the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and organiser for the United Packinghouse Workers of America 1963: Campaign worker for Leon Despres (Chicago Alderman)
1964-1965: Private citizen, activist
1965-1968: Preschool teacher, Head Start programme
1968-1972: Private citizen, activist - semiregular writer for The Vermont Freeman newspaper 1972: Liberty Union candidate for Governor of Vermont - lost to Thomas P. Salmon (Democratic), Luther F. Hackett (Republican) 1972: Liberty Union candidate for Senator of Vermont (special election) - lost to Robert Stafford (Republican), Randolph T. Major (Democratic) 1974: Liberty Union candidate for Senator of Vermont - lost to Patrick Leahy (Democratic), Richard Mallary (Republican) 1976:Liberty Union candidate for Governor of Vermont - lost to Richard Snelling (Republican), Stella B. Hackel (Democratic) 1977-1980: Private citizen, activist - writer and director of the nonprofit American People's Historical Society (APHS) 1980-1986: Adjunct Professor, Columbia University - lectured on Political science, acted as coordinator for the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) and New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) 1986: New Alliance Party candidate for New York Attorney General - lost to Robert Abrams (Democratic), Peter T. King (Republican) 1989-1991: Democratic Party District Leader for Borough Park - appointed by and succeeding Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden 1991-2001: Secretary-Treasurer for the New York City Central Labor Council (NYCCLC)
1997: Democratic-Liberal Party candidate for Mayor of New York City - out-primaried Ruth Messinger, Jimmy McMillan
- lost to Rudy Giuliani (Republican), George J. Marlin (Conservative) 2000: Democratic-Working Families-Liberal Party candidate for Senator of New York - out-primariedMark McMahon, Nita Lowey, Carl McCall 2001-2013: Democratic Senator for New York - '00: defeated Rick Lazio (Republican-Conservative), Mark Dunau (Green), John Adefope (Right to Life), others - '06: defeated John Spencer (Republican-Conservative), Howie Hawkins (Green), others
- '10: defeated Peter T. King (Republican-Conservative-Right to Life), Mortimer Zuckerman (Independent), others 2007-2013: Chair of the Senate Budget Committee - succeeding Senator Judd Gregg of New Hampshire 2013: Nominee for United States Secretary of Labor - nominated by President-elect Barack Obama of Illinois 2013-2021: United States Secretary of Labor - confirmed by Senate majority 2021-present: Private citizen, activist - prospective candidate for Governor of New York in 2022
Representatives of the National Unity Coalition, November 11th 1987
“The National Unity Coalition was a rather odd beast of contradictory opinions and ideas held together by a distrust of the Conservative Government who had nearly brought Britain under Authoritarian rule in the aftermath of Thatcher’s death in Brighton and subsequent Red Summer in 1985. With the squabbles leading to Ian Gilmour making his own party and Ann Widdecombe being couped by John Moore the National Unity Coalition was made to ensure some form of Government was able to guide Britain away from the edge. Despite all the squabbling and more (from Owen’s eventual defection to the Nationals to the Gould premiership), the National Unity coalition managed to guide Britain from the brink” -A Brief History of Britain in the 80s, 2017
1984-1985: Norman Tebbit (Conservativeleading Emergency Government) 1985-1987: Ann Widdecombe (Conservative leading Emergency Government) 1987-: Neil Kinnock (Labour) 1987 (‘National Unity Coalition’) def: David Steel (Liberal), David Owen (SDP), John Moore replacingAnn Widdecombe (Conservative), Ian Gilmour (Nationals), Robert Kilroy-Silk (Workers)
List of MPs for Uxbridge and South Ruislip: 2010-2015: John Randall (Conservative) 2010-2013: Treasurer of the Household 2015-2019: Boris Johnson (Conservative) 2016-2018: Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
2019: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, Minister for the Union, Leader of the Conservative Party 2019-present: Ali Milani (Labour) 2020-present: Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Apprenticeships and Skills
List of MPs for Bromsgrove: 1983-1992: Hal Miller (Conservative)
1992-1997: Roy Thomason (Conservative)
1997-2010: Julie Kirkbride (Conservative) 2003-2004: Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport 2010-present: Sajid Javid (Conservative) 2012-2013: Economic Secretary to the Treasury 2013-2014: Financial Secretary to the Treasury
2014-2015: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
2015-2016: Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, President of the Board of Trade
2016-2018: Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
2018-2019: Secretary of State for the Home Department
2019: Chancellor of the Exchequer
2019-2020: Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
2020-present: Leader of the Opposition, Leader of the Conservative Party
List of MPs for Witham: 2010-present: Priti Patel (Conservative) 2014-2015: Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury 2015-2016: Minister of State for Employment
2016-2017: Secretary of State for International Development
2019: Secretary of State for the Home Department
2019-2020: Shadow Secretary of State for the Home Department
2020-present: Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
List of MPs for Esher and Walton: 1997-2010:Ian Taylor (Conservative)
2010-2019:Dominic Raab (Conservative) 2015-2016: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Civil Liberties 2017-2018: Minister of State for Courts and Justice
2018: Minister of State for Housing and Planning
2018: Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union 2019: Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, First Secretary of State 2019-present:Monica Harding (Liberal Democrat) 2020-present: Liberal Democrat Spokesman for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
2020-present: Liberal Democrat Spokesman for Education
List of MPs for Richmond (Yorks): 1983-1989:Leon Brittan (Conservative) 1983-1985: Secretary of State for the Home Department
1985-1986: Secretary of State for Trade and Industry 1989-2015: William Hague (Conservative) 1993-1994: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Social Security 1994-1995: Minister of State for Social Security
1995-1997: Secretary of State for Wales
1997: Shadow Secretary of State for Wales, Shadow Constitutional Affairs Spokesman
1997-2001: Leader of the Opposition, Leader of the Conservative Party
2005-2010: Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
2010-2014: Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
2010-2015: First Secretary of State 2014-2015: Leader of the House of Commons 2015-present: Rishi Sunak (Conservative) 2018-2019: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government 2019: Chief Secretary to the Treasury
2019-2020: Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury 2020-present: Shadow Secretary of State for the Home Department
List of MPs for Maidenhead: 1997-present: Theresa May (Conservative) 1999-2001: Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Employment, Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities 2001-2002: Shadow Secretary of State for Transport
2002-2003: Chairman of the Conservative Party
2003-2004: Shadow Secretary of State for Transport, Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
2004-2005: Shadow Secretary of State for the Family
2005: Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
2005-2009: Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
2007-2010: Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities
2009-2010: Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
2010-2016: Secretary of State for the Home Department
2010-2012: Minister for Women and Equalities
2016-2019: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Leader of the Conservative Party
2019-2020: Leader of the Opposition, Acting Leader of the Conservative Party
Can anyone see the link between this and the previous one?
Political career of Barack Obama
1979-1981: Student, Occidental College
1981-1983: Student, Columbia University
1983-1988: Private citizen, activist - Director of the Developing Communities Project, Chicago, Coordinator of the Metropolitan Tenants Organisation for Altgeld Gardens, Chicago 1988-1991: Student, Northwestern University School of Law
1991: Harold Washington Party nominee for Mayor of Chicago - out-primaried James R. Hutchinson
- lost to Richard M. Daley (Democratic), George S. Gottlieb (Republican), James Warren (Socialist Workers) 1991-1993: Visiting Law and Government Fellow, University of Chicago Law School
1993-2002: Democratic Alderman of the Chicago City Council for the 23rd ward - succeeding William Krystyniak (Democratic) - continued as a senior lecturer at University of Chicago Law School 2002: Democratic Party candidate for Governor of Illinois - out-primariedPaul Vallas, Rod Blagojevich 2002-2010: Democratic Governor of Illinois (serving with Edwin Eisendrath) - '02: defeated Jim Ryan (Republican), Cal Skinner (Libertarian), others
- '06: defeated Ronald Gidwitz (Republican), Rich Whitney (Green), others 2010-2012: Private citizen
2012: Democratic Party candidate for President of the United States - out-primaried Howard Dean, Anthony Weiner, Joe Lieberman, others 2012-2021: President of the United States (serving with Mike Beebe of Arkansas)
- '12: defeated Ron Paul (Republican) - '16: defeated Sarah Palin (Republican),Lloyd Blankfein (Independent) 2021-present: Private Citizen
