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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

Bill Clinton sex scandal first term.

1996:Bob Dole Republican Jack Kemp
Def:
Bill Clinton Democrat Albert Gore J.R.

Bob Dole chooses not to run in 2000
2000: Bill Bradley Democrat Joe Leiberman

Def: George W. Bush Republican Richard Cheney
Formatting will probably help you get more comments as well as doing lengthier pieces.

Bill Bradley was a wet noodle of a candidate. I imagine if Gore is out of the running it's more likely that there will be someone running who just didn't in actual 2000. Probably would see John Kerry or someone be the nominee that year.
 
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Bro, how is this utopian? I wouldn’t even call the scenario I made last week, where socialism becomes the new norm in America, as utopian, let alone one where Trump comes back in 24 with a trifecta.
 
Thanks to @Sideways and @Meadow for help on this. Please note I resisted going FULL National government and electoral reform.

2016-2017: Theresa May (Conservative)

Theresa May is generally regarded as the worst Prime Minister of all time or at least the worst Conservative Party leader. She took over as PM following David Cameron’s resignation which in turn followed a victory for the leave vote in the 2016 European Union membership referendum. Having triggered article 50 in March 2017 Theresa May took the surprising decision to call a general election to, as she put it “Strengthen her hand” in negotiations with Europe. She had a 20% lead in a lot of polls over Labour

This lead started to slowly erode in some polls but these were often considered to be outliers given the scale of the lead The Conservatives had

Then Grenfell happened.

A fire broke out in the 24 story Grenfell Tower block in North Kensington on the 17th May 2017 leading to 74 deaths and several hundred injuries. Theresa May’s response was seen as lacklustre and insincere, meeting with members of the Emergency Services but not residents directly effected. Labour doubled down on their criticism of the Government over Grenfell, saying how this was indicative of the Conservatives lack of empathy and care for the working class.

In the weeks leading from Grenfell to the election saw various polls predict both a rallying effect for May and a swing against the Tories towards Labour and the Liberal Democrats at alternating times and the country was left baffled as to what would actually happen.

On the night the results for the top four would be as follows
Labour: 321
Conservatives: 281
SNP: 20
Liberal Democrats: 9


2017-2020: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour Minority with Liberal Democrat S&C)

Several days would pass before a Supply & Confidence deal was passed between Labour and the Liberal Democrats, with less in depth agreements between Labour and both the SNP & Plaid Cymru with Labour refusing to back a second Independence referendum. None the less Corbyn would go to the palace and form a minority government.

The first Corbyn government was a creature of two halves. Domestically the government had the slimmest of majorities, not far from just enacting Lib Dem politics that were palatable to Labour. An extra one percent on income tax was introduced and NHS funding was increased (particularly mental health funding). Childcare provisions were expanded. Grants for poorest students were reintroduced but fees were not removed. Carer’s allowance was increased and the public sector pay freeze and cap was removed. Conservative tax cuts for the wealthy were reversed. Many in the media dubbed this government the “Not the Conservatives” government as all they could agree on was simply “not being the Conservatives” with very little beyond that. Many journalists commented that this was to Labour’s advantage as this “watered down” platform was much more palatable to Labour backbenchers who were much more towards the center than the Prime Minister.

While proposals for another referendum on electoral reform came to nothing. The one other thing that they managed to conclusively pass was reforming the House of Lords. The coalition-era proposals to introduce an elected house of lords was revised and more or less enacted with the first of the new mostly elected, much smaller Lords to be voted on at the next general election alongside a phase out of the least active members of the house of Lords. The main point of contention between the two parties being the allowances and pensions for Lords removed from their active roles.


2018: EU Deal Referendum 51% Deal 49% Remain

On Brexit there was a much more united front with the Lib Dems, Plaid, the SNP and even some Conservatives backing first the transitional deal and then the final deal in which Britain would stay in the Common Market, guarantee freedom of movement for EU citizens and protect workers rights. When put to a second referendum this deal passed with a fairly low turn out with many pro-leave voters less than enthusiastic about the deal. Conservatives under Jeremy Hunt were torn. They were in the position of backing leave but not really supporting the “Starmer Deal” as it was dubbed. Many Tories who backed leave in the second referendum pointing out the deal could be negotiated at a later date. When this later date was would continue to be a point of contention for the Tories throughout the government with the new Nigel Farage-led Brexit Party taking some votes from the Conservatives in the polls over Hunt’s reluctance to commit to overturning the EU-Britain Free trade Agreement at the next election.

2020-present: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour with Liberal Democrat and (some) Conservative S&C... Sort of)

When it came to dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic the parties more or less came together. Despite calls for a full National Emergency government (something the Conservative back benches immediately screamed about) the Labour minority government reached out to the Conservatives to push through some basic legislation over lockdowns Furlough pay, fines for non compliance of lockdown and supporting businesses, isolation of people arriving in Britain and more radical proposals such as a temporary universal basic income floundered. Despite this, the “Covid Compact” would hold and the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition would hold regular meetings throughout 2020 and key matters would be supported across the aisle even if Tory backbenchers were much less compliant.

Britain would go into Lockdown on 16th March with the Prime Minister and his Health Secretary Jon Ashworth giving regular press conferences about the virus. The Prime Minister would fall ill with the virus in November 2020, requiring hospitalisation.

It was generally accepted that the Minority government would end in 2020 once the final EU deal had been passed but this was postponed due to COVID-19. The election is scheduled for May 2021, as is the Welsh Assembly election, the Scottish Parliament election and the first election for the House of Lords.

Polls currently put Labour slightly in the lead with Conservative success hinging on how well the Brexit Party do. Meanwhile Layla Moran's Lib Dems seek to make gains at the Conservative's expense in pro-remain seats. Corbyn and Hunt face off in a mostly virtual House of Commons with every one of Britain's 75,000 deaths being laid at the PM's feet while Corbyn looks across to the opposition benches repeating the two mantras "You voted for this too" and "What would you have done differently?"

There's a high chance that Britain will get 5 more years of socialist and centrist meeting together in the middle, somewhere in the soft left, just outside the EU.
 
Corbyn as an unity PM doing bog standard not-the-Tory things is kinda hilarious, if also quite sad.

Shame about no pandemic UBI, that would have helped a lot I think.

I really like how you went in details about the policies, makes this feel more real than just election lists with no talk of the consequences.
 
Corbyn as an unity PM doing bog standard not-the-Tory things is kinda hilarious, if also quite sad.

Shame about no pandemic UBI, that would have helped a lot I think.

I really like how you went in details about the policies, makes this feel more real than just election lists with no talk of the consequences.

Not sure how people would react to Corbyns govt in the Pandemic. He's got Hunt being partly complicit in his actions but also would be less good at avoiding criticism than Johnson. I'd. Imagine the main differences are longer and quicker lockdowns and no shit like eat out to help out.

Also not sure on how to Tories would react to us going for the Norway option and how Farage would react to them. I do think you could see anti lockdown folks flock to a much more visible Brexit/reform party
 
The Trap:
1964-1972: Harold Wilson (Labour)
1964 (Majority) def: Sir Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative), Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1966 (Majority) def: Ted Heath (Conservative), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1970 (Majority) def: Ted Heath (Conservative), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)

1972-1974: Roy Jenkins (Labour)
1974-197: William Whitelaw (Conservative)
1974 (Majority) def: Roy Jenkins (Labour), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal), William Wolfe (SNP)
1978-1982: Keith Joseph (Conservative)
1979 (Majority) def: Peter Shore (Labour), Roy Jenkins-John Pardoe (Democratic Labour-Liberal Alliance), William Wolfe (SNP)
1982-1990: Peter Shore (Labour)
1982 (Majority) def: Keith Joseph (Conservative), David Steel (Centre)
1986 (Majority) def: Michael Heseltine (Conservative), Will Rodgers (Centre)

1990-1995: Jack Straw (Labour)
1990 (Majority) def: Michael Heseltine (Conservative), Will Rodgers (Centre), Ken Coates-Nina Temple (Left Alliance)
1995-1999: John Major (Conservative)
1995 (Coalition with Centre) def: Jack Straw (Labour), Malcolm Bruce (Centre), Ken Coates (Left Alliance)
1999-: Robert Kilroy-Silk (Labour)
1999 (Majority) def: John Major (Conservative), Vince Cable (Centre), Lynne Jones (Left Alliance)

Robert Maxwell during his time as an MP in 1964 to 1974 would allow himself to build a media empire, buying up the Sun, the Daily Mirror and News of the World. During the period Harold Wilson would leave in 1972 and be replaced by Roy Jenkins who's wonky European Social Democratic beliefs don't inspire in time of crisis. Jenkins is unable to appeal to the public in any real way and is quickly ousted as Thorpe and Wolfe prove more charismatic than Jenkins, allowing Whitelaw to win a sustainable 30 seat majority. Robert Maxwell would seek a potential replacement to Roy Jenkins, someone who was similar to Maxwell in some ways, someone on the Left who would be less media conscious as Foot and therefore be willing to work with the raising Maxwell media market as a potential ally.

This would turn out to be Peter Shore. Persuaded by his close political confidant Bryan Gould, Peter Shore apprehensively agreed to be the Maxwell candidate. With the choice between Denis Healey, David Owen and Peter Shore, the party bit there lip and persuaded by Maxwell voted for Shore. Roy Jenkins would have a fit, joining Dick Taverne and some fellow travellers like Will Rodgers in Democratic Labour which would join into an Alliance with the Liberals.

Peter Shore and Maxwell would attack the ineffectual Conservative Government of Whitelaw and for many it seemed that Whitelaw would lose easily in the ensuing 1978 election that many guessed would occur. In 1978, Keith Joseph would launch a leadership coup against Whitelaw. Joseph managed to salvage enough to gain a small majority in 1979, as much of the Labour campaign was spent stopping the Alliance and SNP. Both parties efforts would be routed and Shore was able to stay on as leader. Keith Joseph would peruse a hard monetarist policy, thousands would find themselves without jobs and Joseph’s apocalyptic visions of Keynesianism is replaced by apocalyptic visions of monetarism by Shore amplified by Robert Maxwell. A series of By election defeats eventually cause Joseph to go to the polls.

Shore with the help from Maxwell wins, his vision of Democratic Socialism working in a depressed age. Investments on a more self contained economy, advancing technology and seeking opportunities outside of the EEC are some of the big tasks. Shore would replace his Chancellor of John Silken with Bryan Gould in 1984 and his partial Market Socialist economy would work in the late 80s quite considerably. All the while, Maxwell shores up his influence, he starts influencing the trade unions and new Coops that spring up, he spends much money to influence various media personalities and he buys large stakes in the emerging satellite television industry. This would end up being Gould’s downfall when Shore retires in 1990. Gould tries to run for leader but he’s ripped to shreds by Maxwell, not fond of his press freedom ideas. The pro-Maxwell candidate of Jack Straw becomes leader. Gould resigns from cabinet citing the increasing centralisation of power joining Neil Kinnock on the back benches.

The new Chancellor of Gordon Brown does a way with a lot Gould’s regulations, which turns out to be a bad idea. A property bubble would rapidly emerge but for now would lay dormant. Straw’s less firey energy doesn’t last him the 90s as he finds himself dealing with a revived Left Wing lead by Ken Coates who become the protest vote for many on the Left who dislike the increasing Conservative nature of Staw and his Government and lack of Radical Change with Gould and the ‘awkward squad’ gone. John Major, the Working Class lad made good becomes Prime Minister in 1995 through a coalition with the Centre party.

His ideas of integrating with the new vibrant EU and a form of One Nation Libertarianism comes to nought as the property bubble implodes in 1996. Maxwell uses his empire to destroy the first Conservative Government in a decade for there perceived economic mismanagement. Kilroy Silk gains another majority for Labour on a policy of ‘Socialism in One Country’ which really seems to be similar to the Workerist Neoliberalism of David Owen with hints of racism. But there are rumours that if Silk goes overboard and the Left Alliance gains MPs next election, Ken Livingstone will be there to remove him.

And what about Maxwell, he’s sitting back on his yacht and wondering what next as his influence in America and the Soviet Union increases and he starts making headway into Europe. Though some irregularities in the pension account may bring that to nought...
 
so its the anniversary of Charles I's execution today, which ties in with this bizarre Neo-Jacobite political movement i found out about recently.

Monarchs of the Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland (according to His Majesty's Emergency Governments)

1625-1649: Charles I 'The Martyr' (Stuart)
1649-1685: Charles II (Stuart)
1685-1701: James II & VII (Stuart)
1701-1766: James III & VIII (Stuart)
1766-1788: Charles III (Stuart)
1788-1807: Henry IX & I (Stuart)
1807-1819: Charles IV Emmanuel (Savoy)
1819-1824: Victor I Emmanuel (Savoy)
1824-1840: Mary II Beatrice (Savoy)
1840-1875: Francis I (Hapsburg-Este)
1875-1919: Mary III Theresa (Hapsburg-Este)
1919-0000: Robert I & IV (Wittelsbach)

The Restoration of the Stuarts to the thrones of the British Archipelago was a long one - and while the Hanoverian Pretenders may have defended their ill-gotten throne in centuries past, it fell to a far removed generation from the original exiles to restore their position. And instead of a French benefactor, they had a German one.

The victory of the Kaiserreich in the Second Weltkrieg has restored an order long since lacking in Europe. The threats of democracy, republicanism and syndicalism have been summarily crushed. The Hanoverians, now languishing in an exile all their own in Australia, could not be trusted with a return once the Trade Unionist Regime was removed at panzer-point. After all, while their Edward VIII talks a good talk, he could not even defend Canada from invasion by the Perpetually Revolutionary Americans. It is a appropriate, now that a new order reigns in Britain, that brings her into the very bosom of the continent that she should have a monarch appopriate to these times.
 
In all seriousness this just seems like bog standard accelerationist bullshit where a Republican victory in 2024 radicalizes all the liberals rather than ending with the end of democracy and internment camps

I mean realistically speaking it's either that or we get a Democratic President who actually wants to do something major to improve people's lives (which I see as extremely unrealistic) or we get a Democratic President that is almost entirely unwilling to address any problems or do anything to overcome political gridlock, in which case we end up in either internment camps just four years later or in some kind of climate change ravaged hellish wasteland. With the exception of the Patriot Party shit, which I feel is frankly kind of stupid, those are the only three paths I see forward. But Idk. Maybe I'm wrong. I'm not God, it's just a very very loose scenario.
 
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