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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

"Comrade Secretary Bernie Sanders Will Make Vaporwave Real!!!" I Shout To Myself As My Last Brains Cells Fade From This Earth and I With Them or How Bernie Sanders Accidentally Made Liz Bruenig The Leader Of A Christian Socialist Cyberpunk Society
Lee/Talib is a dynamite political ticket. How'd they lose to a no-name Oregonite?
 
New Times, Or Men In Rumpled Suits:
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: James Callaghan (Labour)
1974-1979: William Whitelaw (Conservative)
1974 (Majority) def: James Callaghan (Labour), Jeremy Thorpe-Roy Jenkins (Liberal-Democratic Alliance)
1979-1989: Peter Shore (Labour)
1979 (Majority) def: William Whitelaw (Conservative), David Steel (Liberal Democrat)
1983 (Majority) def: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative), Will Rodgers (Liberal Democrat)
1987 (Majority) def: Michael Heseltine (Conservative), Will Rodgers (Liberal Democrat)

1989-1992: Neil Kinnock (Labour)
1992-2000: Chris Patten (Conservative)

1992 (Majority) def: Neil Kinnock (Labour), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrat), Nina Temple (The Alternative), David Owen (New Labour)
1996 (Majority) def: Margaret Beckett (Labour), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrat), Mark Ashton-Nina Temple (The Alternative), Robert Kilroy-Silk (Reform)

2000-: Margaret Beckett (Labour)
2000 (Coalition with The Alternative) def: Chris Patten (Conservative), Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrat), Mark Ashton-Caroline Lucas (The Alternative)

"Change Is In The Air"
24th of May 2000

Yesterday, Britain elected the most socially radical government since the brief Kinnock Government with the Social Democratic Labour Party entering a coalition with Eco-Socialist Populists The Alternative after tense talks. Margaret Beckett who has been seen as a member of Labour's Left has said that Labour has moved away from being just 'the part of men in rumpled suits' which has been seen as comment on the Peter Shore years in which Labour was seen as being Left Wing on economic matters but rather lacking when it came to social reform. Neil Kinnock and Bryan Gould, members of Shore's cabinet and supporters of the 'New Times' movement which encompasses members of both Labour and The Alternative have congratulated the victory of Beckett and have hoped it would usher in a new age for Britain.




Inspired by a really old discussion between @AlfieJ & @Comisario about a more successful New Times movement with a bit of a twist.
 
Here, have a mini-list, based on the premise of the Democratic party being banned post-ACW
Lmfao I forgot to post the fuckin list

1865 - 1869: Vice President Andrew Johnson (Non-Partisan)

1869 - 1877: Ret. General Ulysses S. Grant (Republican)
1868 (with Reuben E. Fenton) def. Fmr. Governor Thomas A. Hendricks (Non-Partisan), President Andrew Johnson (Non-Partisan)
1872 (with Henry Wilson) def. Fmr. Governor Horatio Seymour (Liberal), Fmr. Senator Benjamin Wade (Radical), State Attorney Charles O'Conor (Bourbon)
 
New Times, Or Men In Rumpled Suits:
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: James Callaghan (Labour)
1974-1979: William Whitelaw (Conservative)
1974 (Majority) def: James Callaghan (Labour), Jeremy Thorpe-Roy Jenkins (Liberal-Democratic Alliance)
1979-1989: Peter Shore (Labour)
1979 (Majority) def: William Whitelaw (Conservative), David Steel (Liberal Democrat)
1983 (Majority) def: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative), Will Rodgers (Liberal Democrat)
1987 (Majority) def: Michael Heseltine (Conservative), Will Rodgers (Liberal Democrat)

1989-1992: Neil Kinnock (Labour)
1992-2000: Chris Patten (Conservative)

1992 (Majority) def: Neil Kinnock (Labour), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrat), Nina Temple (The Alternative), David Owen (New Labour)
1996 (Majority) def: Margaret Beckett (Labour), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrat), Mark Ashton-Nina Temple (The Alternative), Robert Kilroy-Silk (Reform)

2000-: Margaret Beckett (Labour)
2000 (Coalition with The Alternative) def: Chris Patten (Conservative), Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrat), Mark Ashton-Caroline Lucas (The Alternative)

"Change Is In The Air"
24th of May 2000

Yesterday, Britain elected the most socially radical government since the brief Kinnock Government with the Social Democratic Labour Party entering a coalition with Eco-Socialist Populists The Alternative after tense talks. Margaret Beckett who has been seen as a member of Labour's Left has said that Labour has moved away from being just 'the part of men in rumpled suits' which has been seen as comment on the Peter Shore years in which Labour was seen as being Left Wing on economic matters but rather lacking when it came to social reform. Neil Kinnock and Bryan Gould, members of Shore's cabinet and supporters of the 'New Times' movement which encompasses members of both Labour and The Alternative have congratulated the victory of Beckett and have hoped it would usher in a new age for Britain.




Inspired by a really old discussion between @AlfieJ & @Comisario about a more successful New Times movement with a bit of a twist.

Literally writing a thing about Ecosocialists being a thing unto themselves, complete with Nina Temple in there too.
 
Literally writing a thing about Ecosocialists being a thing unto themselves, complete with Nina Temple in there too.
Me and @Oppo are also doing something which is a bit similar though Communalists/Municipal EcoSocialists instead of just plain EcoSocialists.

But I always love a good EcoSocialist Party scenario, so I’ll be happy to discuss.
 
Lee/Talib is a dynamite political ticket. How'd they lose to a no-name Oregonite?

overall Fagan just fits the political moment way better than any of her competitors in 2028; Talib herself doesn't run and the only higher office Lee Carter ever achieves in this TL beyond State Sen. is Chair of the Virginia Democratic Party, so Fagan's two main rivals are AG Ellison and a much more well known, often very drunk Matt Christman.

(this list is actually just a variation of a base TL i've been personally working on for about two months, so ive got most of the TL figured out, i just didn't want to waste my best ideas for a Sanders Admin. on this particular list)
 
Guess who has heard about the Summerhill school today...

Premier of the Cooperative Commonwealth of Great Britain
1926-1932: A.J.Cook (Syndicalist)

1926 def: Ramsay MacDonald (Progressive)
1932-1940: A.S.Neill (Cooperative)
1932 def: A.J.Cook (Syndicalist), Sidney Webb (Progressive)
1936 def: Arthur Horner (Syndicalist), Julian Huxley (Progressive), G.D.H Cole (CommonWealth)

1940-1944: Tom Wintringham leading War Goverment
1944-1952: A.S.Neill (Cooperative)

1944 def: Willie Gallacher (Syndicalist), Julian Huxley (Progressive), Konni Zilliacus (CommonWealth)
1948 def: Jack Jones (Syndicalist), Evan Durabin (Progressive), Ernst Millington (CommonWealth), Julian Huxley (Health & Wellbeing)

1952-1960: Henry Solomons (Syndicalist-Progressive)
1952 def: A.S.Neill (Cooperative), Julian Huxley (Health & Wellbeing)
1956 def: Michael Duane (Cooperative), Julian Huxley (Health & Wellbeing)

1960-1967: A.S.Neill (Cooperative)
1960 def: Bill Alexander (Syndicalist), Tony Benn (Progressive), Julian Huxley (Health & Wellbeing)
1964 def: Hugh Scanlon (Syndicalist), Jim Wilson (Progressive), Robert Winston (Health & Wellbeing), John Peck (Ind. Socialist)

1967-1969: Arthur Scragill (Syndicalist)
1968 Election Cancelled
*1969 Student Protests at Syndicalist Coup, ousting of Syndicalist Government and creation of the British Union*


Coordinators of the British Union*
1969-1973: A.S.Neill (Peace and Freedom)

1973-1984: Michael Duane (Peace and Freedom)
1984-: Zoe Neill Readhead (Peace and Freedom)


*A largely ceremonial role, much activity is done on a commune by commune basis though Roger Protz of the Union of British Publicans has been said to be the most powerful man in Britain.
 
Wait... the Lord and doctor?
Yes, ATL him joins Julian Huxley’s ‘Progressive Eugenics’ crowd or essentially ‘Let’s ensure that everyone has food, water and contraception and the working class will sort themselves out’, he’s a pioneer in possible future of this idea but is sidelined after the Syndicalist coup.

Instead of OTL Winston of course, who is that nice chap who’s a Doctor and Labour Lord.
 
was going to make a timeline out of this but decided to rework it as a list instead

The British Labour Party is and has forever been a most cruel institution. Take Stafford Cripps as an example. I still have the portrait of him from my childhood years, looking over us as a guardian angel during the bombing raids. The greatest Briton and the man who established our modern socialist democracy never served as a Labour PM (unless you count the 1950-1952 period where Harold Laski was propping up Cripps’ decaying body). They kicked him out back in ‘39, and for what? Standing up to fascism, daring to put together a popular front. Every leader of this country since then has tried to put up a popular front, but few understand just how big-tent the Crippsites were. Thus was the magic of that 1942-1956 period we all long for; bookended by the two disastrous resigns of our supreme war commander Gloucester. When Singapore fell, one by one, the aristocratic Tories, the press barons, and the military staff all called for the coronation of Our Man in Moscow. I may have only been in primary school, but I most certainly wanted to fight. My eyes never ceased to gaze at the men in Home Guard uniforms marching as I imagined grabbing a stone and throwing it at any Nazi who dared to enter Albion.

I got my chance to fight in 1956 and 1957; years most men from my generation try to forget. We had nearly caused a nuclear war and could only walk away with the end of an empire. Those Egyptian kids had the same mindset as I did in the 1940s; except we were the ones actually in their country. I stood for parliament in the first election in my lifetime where I was old enough to actually know what a prime minister was. I campaigned in my uniform, with the outcome of my constituency a stab in the dark. Arriving in Westminster, I waited for that next Cripps to come, my patience being tested by the mediocre tenures of three men from the Victorian Era. After we saw Labour get dragged around by Andrew Fountaine for a year, even the old guard was sick of power-sharing.

I’ve gotten into arguments with many of the young Marxists of today over whether Alfred Robens ever was the socialist champion that he initially appeared. If they had read the entry about my career in Who’s Who, they would have been very confused about my defense of Uncle Alf. Maybe it’s a sense of insecurity over those restless hours of lobbying my party comrades to pick him for Number Ten. Maybe staying on team Robens filled the void of my lost friendships in Radical Democracy after they were kicked out of government. Perhaps I just fell for the man’s charm; though those younglings could have never seen it through the television.

By the beginning of this decade, I was a politician that could be predicted to become prime minister on account of more than my youth. Labour was riding high, consolidating its power. Something must have panicked me when the Keep Left ministers were shuffled out in 1970, or when Robens declared that he’d run the government “as a corporation” in his Queen’s Speech that year. When Clause IV was repealed, I resigned from the cabinet; my teenage pride in holding a Labour membership card meant I couldn’t accept the words on the back of it being changed as an adult. After the secret ballot over Roy Jenkins’ leadership challenge turned out to be not-so-secret, my constituency party deselected me. Seeing how most MPs who ran as independents were lucky to keep their deposit, I stood down, hoping that one day the Labour Party would be in the mood to take me back.

Robens and I shared a tendency for erratic resignations. After ten years as prime minister, Robens faced his first real scandal over the Hartlepool meltdown. He could have just fired Anthony Benn for pushing his Atoms for Peace program, but Robens’ strange concept of loyalty meant that the man at the top had to go. In his absence, few men have been able to walk in his shoes, the now-former prime minister included. Under this strange new system, name recognition is key. Perhaps the only man with more of it than a prime minister is someone whose name is on every portable telephone in the British Isles. Perhaps the logic goes that if he can make a deal for the Soviet Union's technology, he can make a deal for our empire back.

1940 - 1941: Winston Churchill (Conservative leading War Coalition)
1941 - 1942: Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (Supreme War Commander leading War Coalition)
1942 - 1945: Stafford Cripps (Independent leading War Coalition)
1945 - 1952: Stafford Cripps (Independent leading Christian Democratic Alliance)
1945 Continuity of Government Referendum: Yes: 71% def. No: 29%
1949 Continuity of Government Referendum: Yes: 57% def. No: 43%

1952 - 1953: Aneurin Bevan (Labour leading Christian Democratic Alliance)
1953 Continuity of Government Referendum: No: 54% def. Yes: 46% [disputed]
1953 - 1956: Max Aitken (Imperial People's Party leading Christian Democratic Alliance)
1956 - 1957: Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (Supreme War Commander leading War Coalition)
1957 - 1961: Herbert Morrison (Labour)
1957 (Coalition) def. George Strauss (Popular Front Labour), Henry Channon (Imperial People's Party), Harold Macmillan (New Democratic), J.B. Priestley (1941 Committee), John Wardlaw-Milne (United Patriots)
1961 - 1962: Harold Nicolson (Labour)
1961 (Minority with non-no-confidence) def. Andrew Fountaine (United Patriots), Daniel Johnson (Radical Democracy), Gwilym Lloyd George (Imperial People's Party)
1962 - 1962: Lord Boothby (Independent Christian Democrat leading War Coalition with Labour, IPP & United Patriots)
1962 - 1965: Lord Boothby (Independent Christian Democrat leading Peace Coalition)
1965 - 1975: Alfred Robens (Labour)
1965 (Popular Front with Radical Democracy & CPGB) def. Lord Boothby (Christian Democratic Alliance with United Patriots & IPP)
1969 (Majority) def. Hugh Jenkins (Radical Democracy), Andrew Fountaine (United Patriots)
1973 WM Election (Majority) def. Eric Lubbock (Radical Democracy), Andrew Fountaine (United Patriots)
1973 PM Election def. Roy Jenkins

1975 - 1977: Woodrow Wyatt (Labour majority)
1977 - 0000: Robert Maxwell (Labour)
1977 WM Election (Majority) def. Tariq Ali (International Marxist), James Goldsmith (Democratic Alliance), John Bird (Radical Democracy), Jimmy Reid (Scottish Syndicalist Party)
1977 PM Election def. Edmund Dell, Alfred Robens, Richard Marsh, Woodrow Wyatt
 
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