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Marijn’s Map Mporium

Nice to see you here XO, your graphic excellence is always appreciated anywhere you go, and that new piece is already showing off your eye for presentation. :)
 
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A map of speakers of Pomeranian (hooray conlangs) and neighbouring languages.

Some of the less transparent terms:

sancansio /san'kançɔ/ duchy, from sanćpa "duke" and cansio "country"

cescansio /kɛs'kançɔ/ kingdom, from ces "monarch" and cansio "country"

czlocsamia /tʃɫɔc'samʲa/ lagoon, from czloc "beach" and samia "lake" (diminutive of sam "sea")
 
I haven't really found any time to do AH work as of late, but I've still kept myself a little busy mapmaking-wise...

The EqualA is, for once, a base map with an actual projection, that being Equal Earth. (with thanks to Ksituan for kicking the whole EqualX basemap project off!)
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(You can find alternative versions with boxier islands and samier colours at the link above.)


Toaster is an extremely exstensive colour scheme for allo- and just plain historical maps, perferably nice pixelly ones like, erm, the one above. It's currently on version 1.4 ("Earth"), which should *hopefully* be the last major revision for a while!

(The image is too large to post in its entirety; go and visit the link for the full thing!)

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I suspect I’ve gotten myself a little in over my head here, but, tired of filling everything out by hand and aware that Toast3r needs a bit of a polishing (especially in Africa and the Americas), I’ve managed to cajole the computer into accepting a text file and spitting out a table of colours for me:

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Progress on… whatever this will be called (Toast3r 1.5? Toast4r?) is moving at a glacial pace — that is to say, due to external pressures it’ll probably disappear before anyone will ever be able to see it in its full form — but I’m hopeful.
 
Paint.net? Inkscape? ArcGIS? No thanks — i prefer to make my maps in Google Sheets.

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The "??%" doesn’t actually represent an unknown vote total, it just means that i was not willing to count up hundreds of district fifty times over just to get the exact right shade. :p

(This style, i suspect, works well with the United States and exclusively the United States — other federal countries don’t have enough states and unitary countries’ internal borders are too fluid for me to be able to plan something like this out properly.)
 
This list doesn’t make a lot of sense, but, hey, that’s the sort of thing that happens when you adapt a Discord server into an ostensibly-realistic political history :p

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

2007–2010: Gordon Brown (Labour)
2010–2011:
David Cameron (Conservative minority)
2011–2013: Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats)
2011 (Coalition with Labour w/ Scottish National confidence and supply) def: Ed Miliband (Labour), David Cameron (Conservatives), Alex Salmond (Scottish National), George Galloway (RESPECT), Nigel Farage (UK Independence), Caroline Lucas (Green)
* In fact, Labour had slightly more seats in the aftermath of the election, but the two parties were nearly tied, and the SNP preferred to install the pro-devolution Liberal Democrats to the premiership
2013 Scottish independence referendum: YES 44.5% NO 55.5%
* The Scottish National party withdrew its confidence and supply following the referendum

2013–2015: David Miliband (Labour)
(Coalition with
Liberal Democrats)

2013 AMS referendum: YES 56.2% NO 43.8%
* To appease rising support for Ukip in the polls as well as growing pro-Brexit voices in his own party, the Miliband government announced that a referendum on EU membership would be held
2015 Brexit referendum: LEAVE 49.5% REMAIN 50.5%


2015–2016: Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats)
(Coalition with
Conservatives)

* Disgruntled with Miliband’s handling of the Brexit referendum — with a result closer than it had any right to be — and irritated by his conduct in office, the Liberal Democrats did a reverse ferret and went into coalition with the Conservative party, an outcome which the party had previously rejected in 2010

2016–2020: Theresa May (Conservatives)
2016 (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def: Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats), Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish National), Jonathan Bartley (Green)
* May’s time in office was a return to relative peace from the years of Chaos with Clegg/Miliband. Coalition drama and referenda took a back seat to legislation on issues such as housing and microtransactions, although there were occasional flare-ups with the Chinese government after the passage of a private member’s bill placing sanctions on the Hong Kong Police. Seeing positive polling for the coalition, a snap election was called for January of 2020.

2020: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrats)
2020 (Coalition with Conservatives) def: Keir Starmer (Labour), Theresa May (Conservatives), Angus Robertson (Scottish National)
* Moran, a relative newcomer to Parliament, was a great campaigner, but by her own admission unprepared for the task of being prime minister. Her progressive policies clashed with the wishes of the Conservatives, and she did too little, too late to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. She resigned only a few months after her election as prime minister.
* Unusually, it was agreed that the next prime minister would be elected by the entire Parliamentary caucus, independently of any leadership elections, to avoid the drama that plagued the Clegg–Miliband government.


2020–2021: David Steel, Baron Steel of Aikewood (Liberal Democrats)
(Coalition with
Conservatives)
* Steel was a deeply unpopular man both within the Liberal Democrats and the public at large, but due to the quirks of the IRV system used to determine the new coalition leader, he ended up in office nonetheless.
* HM Government immediately instated a harsh lockdown, forbidding all but essential travel outside of one’s home. This lockdown remained in place almost the entirety of the Steel premiership, barring a few short weeks in August. There were widespread protests against both these measures and the scandal which caused his 2019 suspension, which were directed to be, in his own words, “swiftly and ruthlessly quashed”.
* After a vote of no confidence involving every single party represented in Parliament led to a snap election to be held on the 10th of July, Steel claimed electoral fraud and stated that due to restrictions he would refuse to accept the results as valid. He kept to his word, and after the election of 2021, he attempted to prorogue parliament to stop the incoming coalition from being sworn in, resulting in a weeks-long Supreme Court battle which, in the end, nullified the prorogation.


2021–2026: Andy Burnham† (Labour)
2021 (Coalition with National Alliance for Progress and Democratic Party) def: Tracy Babin/Angus Robertson (National Alliance for Progress), Vince Cable
(Democratic)
, Theresa May (Conservatives), David Steel (Liberal Democrats)
* The chaos of July 10 deeply fractured the political landscape, with breakaways from all sides. The National Alliance for Progress, a rag-tag group of Labour splitters and devolutionists, claimed the unitary structure of Britain and too much centralisation in power was at the root of the problem. Members of the Liberal Democrats left in droves to the new Democratic Party, hoping to leave the associations of the coup behind. And the Conservatives, long having tensions between the pro-European centre and the Eurosceptic right, were about to crack, as the Scottish Conservatives and Unionists, in conjunction with more liberal members in Westminster, were mulling over a split…



2026–2030: Lisa Nandy (National Alliance for Progress, later Labour-Progress)
2026 (NAP coalition with Labour) election: Lisa Nandy/Angus Robertson (NAP), [No leader] (Labour), Ed Davey (Democratic), Dominic Raab (Conservatives), Jackson Carlaw (Progressive Democrats), Magid Magid (Extinction)
* Burnham suffered a fatal heart attack just as campaigning began, leaving Labour leaderless and directionless. But even before the death of their leader, Labour’s loss was considered only a matter of time — the NAP had been sapping away progressive Labour members and disgruntled voters in Scotland, Wales, and the North for years.
2028 (Labour and Progress Party)


2030–present: Rory Stewart (Progressive Democrats)
2030 (Coalition with Democratic Party and Conservatives) def: Matt Hancock (Conservatives), Lisa Nandy (Labour-Progress), Ed Davey (Democratic), Magid Magid (Extinction), Alex Salmond (Real Scottish Independence Now)

Things have been shuffled around a bit in the above to be more historically coherent, but it’s still the same(ish) prime ministers in the same order.

Prime Ministers of XO’s Model British Parliament

March–April 2019: Nicky Clack (Liberal Democrats)
Election #1: Huw Cholmondley (Labour) [6], John Major (Conservative and Unionist) [4], Marcail Connolly (National Autonomist) [4], Liberal Democrats (Nicky Clack) [3], Raoul Janeigem (Constitutional Reform) [1], A. K. Fletcher (UK Independence) [1], Chairman Miaow (Monster Raving Looney) [1], R. Beringer (Green) [0]
Government I: Liberal Democrats, Labour Party, National Autonomist Party

April–June 2019: James K. (Forward to the Future, later Our Future)
Government II: Forward to the Future, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats
Government III: Forward to the Future, Labour Party, Constitutional Reform Party Our Future, Constitutional Reform Party Our Future

June 2019: Sir Nicholas Clack (Liberal Democrats)
Government IV: Liberal Democrats, Conservative and Unionist Party, Progressive Democrats
Second Brexit referendum: LEAVE 49.5%, REMAIN 50.5%

August 2019–June 2020: Dafydd Llwyd (Conservatives)
Election #2: Dafydd Llwyd (Conservative and Unionist) [7], A. K. Fletcher (Liberal Democrats) [7], Peter Nordquist (Labour) [6], Progressive Democrats [3], Green [1]
Government V: Conservative and Unionist Party, Liberal Democrats

June 2020: Zach Henderson (Liberal Democrats)
Election #3: Zach Henderson (Liberal Democrats) [7], Ser L. Duŵr (Labour) [4], Sir Dafydd Llwyd (Conservative and Unionist) [3], Antonio J. Linares [1]
Government VI: Liberal Democrats, Conservative and Unionist Party, Workers’ Liberal Party Liberal Democrats, Conservative and Unionist Party, Social Democratic Party

June–July 2020: Stephen Percy (Liberal Democrats)
Government VII: Conservative and Unionist Party, Liberal Democrats

July–December 2020: Arthur Haigh (Labour)
“Election #3½” (it’s complicated): Sir Dafydd Llwyd (Conservative and Unionist) [5], Arthur Haigh (Labour) [4], Stephen Percy (Liberal Democrats) [4], Iacof ap Antoni (Plaid Cymru) [2], Antonio J. Linares (Scottish and Northumbrian Independence Union) [2], Charles Gladstone (Social Democratic) [2]
Stephen Percy initially refused to concede defeat after the election, but relented and resigned on July 10th
Government VIII: Labour Party, Scottish and Northumbrian Independence Union, Social Democratic Party, Plaid Cymru Labour Party, Coalition for Self-Determination, Social Democratic Party Labour Party, Liberal and Social Democrats, Coalition for Self-Determination

December 2020: Alexander Helios? (Liberal and Social Democrats)
The validity of the Helios premiership is disputed. Haigh was banned in office shortly before Election #4, and Helios’ entire term was served in an acting capacity during purdah. Some count it, some don’t.

January–May 2021: Sir George Herbert Vere (Coalition for Self-Determination, later Labour)
Election #4: Sir George Vere (Coalition for Self-Determination) [5], Sir Charles Gladstone (Liberal) [4], Sir Elliot Bouchard (Conservative and Unionist) [3], Gorban Smiljić (Labour) [3], Xanthe Orpheus Florence (Gaia Movement) [0]
Government IX: Coalition for Self-Determination, Labour Party Labour and Self-Determination Party
Government X: Labour and Self-Determination Party, Liberal Democrats, Progressive Democrats

May 2021–present: Sir Dustin Crowe (Progressive Democrats)
Government XI: Progressive Democrats, Conservative and Unionist Party, Liberal Democrats

Party leaders going into the next general election, with latest polling:
Marijn Hoyle (Conservative and Unionist) [32%]
George Vere (Labour and Self-Determination) [31%]
Charles Gladstone (Liberal Democrats) [25%]
Dustin Crowe (Progressive Democrats) [6%]
Oswald Philadelphus (Coalition for Self-Determination (Continuity)) [3%]
Lachlan Wyn Trevithick (Saor Celtia) [2%]
Phoenix Goldenwing (No Third Runway at Heathrow Airport) [1%]
 
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This list doesn’t make a lot of sense, but, hey, that’s the sort of thing that happens when you adapt a Discord server into an ostensibly-realistic political history :p

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

2007–2010: Gordon Brown (Labour)
2010–2011:
David Cameron (Conservative minority)
2011–2013: Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats)
2011 (Coalition with Labour w/ Scottish National confidence and supply) def: Ed Miliband (Labour), David Cameron (Conservatives), Alex Salmond (Scottish National), George Galloway (RESPECT), Nigel Farage (UK Independence), Caroline Lucas (Green)
* In fact, Labour had slightly more seats in the aftermath of the election, but the two parties were nearly tied, and the SNP preferred to install the pro-devolution Liberal Democrats to the premiership
2013 Scottish independence referendum: YES 44.5% NO 55.5%
* The Scottish National party withdrew its confidence and supply following the referendum

2013–2015: David Miliband (Labour)
(Coalition with
Liberal Democrats)

2013 AMS referendum: YES 56.2% NO 43.8%
* To appease rising support for Ukip in the polls as well as growing pro-Brexit voices in his own party, the Miliband government announced that a referendum on EU membership would be held
2015 Brexit referendum: LEAVE 49.5% REMAIN 50.5%


2015–2016: Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats)
(Coalition with
Conservatives)

* Disgruntled with Miliband’s handling of the Brexit referendum — with a result closer than it had any right to be — and irritated by his conduct in office, the Liberal Democrats did a reverse ferret and went into coalition with the Conservative party, an outcome which the party had previously rejected in 2010

2016–2020: Theresa May (Conservatives)
2016 (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def: Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats), Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish National), Jonathan Bartley (Green)
* May’s time in office was a return to relative peace from the years of Chaos with Clegg/Miliband. Coalition drama and referenda took a back seat to legislation on issues such as housing and microtransactions, although there were occasional flare-ups with the Chinese government after the passage of a private member’s bill placing sanctions on the Hong Kong Police. Seeing positive polling for the coalition, a snap election was called for January of 2020.

2020: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrats)
2020 (Coalition with Conservatives) def: Keir Starmer (Labour), Theresa May (Conservatives), Angus Robertson (Scottish National)
* Moran, a relative newcomer to Parliament, was a great campaigner, but by her own admission unprepared for the task of being prime minister. Her progressive policies clashed with the wishes of the Conservatives, and she did too little, too late to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. She resigned only a few months after her election as prime minister.
* Unusually, it was agreed that the next prime minister would be elected by the entire Parliamentary caucus, independently of any leadership elections, to avoid the drama that plagued the Clegg–Miliband government.


2020–2021: David Steel, Baron Steel of Aikewood (Liberal Democrats)
(Coalition with
Conservatives)
* Steel was a deeply unpopular man both within the Liberal Democrats and the public at large, but due to the quirks of the IRV system used to determine the new coalition leader, he ended up in office nonetheless.
* HM Government immediately instated a harsh lockdown, forbidding all but essential travel outside of one’s home. This lockdown remained in place almost the entirety of the Steel premiership, barring a few short weeks in August. There were widespread protests against both these measures and the scandal which caused his 2019 suspension. These protests were directed to be, in his own words, “swiftly and ruthlessly quashed”.
* After a vote of no confidence involving every single party represented in Parliament led to a snap election to be held on the 10th of July, Steel claimed electoral fraud and stated that due to restrictions he would refuse to accept the results as valid. He kept to his word, and after the election of 2021, he attempted to prorogue parliament to stop the incoming coalition from being sworn in, resulting in a weeks-long Supreme Court battle which, in the end, nullified the prorogation.


2021–2026: Andy Burnham† (Labour)
2021 (Coalition with National Alliance for Progress and Democratic Party) def: Tracy Babin/Angus Robertson (National Alliance for Progress), Vince Cable
(Democratic)
, Theresa May (Conservatives), David Steel (Liberal Democrats)
* The chaos of July 10 deeply fractured the political landscape, with breakaways from all sides. The National Alliance for Progress, a rag-tag group of Labour splitters and devolutionists, claimed the unitary structure of Britain and too much centralisation in power was at the root of the problem. Members of the Liberal Democrats left in droves to the new Democratic Party, hoping to leave the associations of the coup behind. And the Conservatives, long having tensions between the pro-European centre and the Eurosceptic right, were about to crack, as the Scottish Conservatives and Unionists, in conjunction with more liberal members in Westminster, were mulling over a split…



2026–2030: Lisa Nandy (National Alliance for Progress, later Labour-Progress)
2026 (NAP coalition with Labour) election: Lisa Nandy/Angus Robertson (NAP), [No leader] (Labour), Ed Davey (Democratic), Dominic Raab (Conservatives), Jackson Carlaw (Progressive Democrats), Magid Magid (Extinction)
* Burnham suffered a fatal heart attack just as campaigning began, leaving Labour leaderless and directionless. But even before the death of their leader, Labour’s loss was considered only a matter of time — the NAP had been sapping away progressive Labour members and disgruntled voters in Scotland, Wales, and the North for years.
2028 (Labour and Progress Party)


2030–present: Rory Stewart (Progressive Democrats)
2030 (Coalition with Democratic Party and Conservatives) def: Matt Hancock (Conservatives), Lisa Nandy (Labour-Progress), Ed Davey (Democratic), Magid Magid (Extinction), Alex Salmond (Real Scottish Independence Now)

Things have been shuffled around a bit in the above to be more historically coherent, but it’s still the same(ish) prime ministers in the same order.

Prime Ministers of XO’s Model British Parliament

March–April 2019: Nicky Clack (Liberal Democrats)
Election #1: Huw Cholmondley (Labour) [6], John Major (Conservative and Unionist) [4], Marcail Connolly (National Autonomist) [4], Liberal Democrats (Nicky Clack) [3], Raoul Janeigem (Constitutional Reform) [1], A. K. Fletcher (UK Independence) [1], Chairman Miaow (Monster Raving Looney) [1], R. Beringer (Green) [0]
Government I: Liberal Democrats, Labour Party, National Autonomist Party

April–June 2019: James K. (Forward to the Future, later Our Future)
Government II: Forward to the Future, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats
Government III: Forward to the Future, Labour Party, Constitutional Reform Party Our Future, Constitutional Reform Party Our Future

June 2019: Sir Nicholas Clack (Liberal Democrats)
Government IV: Liberal Democrats, Conservative and Unionist Party, Progressive Democrats
Second Brexit referendum: LEAVE 49.5%, REMAIN 50.5%

August 2019–June 2020: Dafydd Llwyd (Conservatives)
Election #2: Dafydd Llwyd (Conservative and Unionist) [7], A. K. Fletcher (Liberal Democrats) [7], Peter Nordquist (Labour) [6], Progressive Democrats [3], Green [1]
Government V: Conservative and Unionist Party, Liberal Democrats

June 2020: Zach Henderson (Liberal Democrats)
Election #3: Zach Henderson (Liberal Democrats) [7], Ser L. Duŵr (Labour) [4], Sir Dafydd Llwyd (Conservative and Unionist) [3], Antonio J. Linares [1]
Government VI: Liberal Democrats, Conservative and Unionist Party, Workers’ Liberal Party Liberal Democrats, Conservative and Unionist Party, Social Democratic Party

June–July 2020: Stephen Percy (Liberal Democrats)
Government VII: Conservative and Unionist Party, Liberal Democrats

July–December 2020: Arthur Haigh (Labour)
“Election #3½” (it’s complicated): Sir Dafydd Llwyd (Conservative and Unionist) [5], Arthur Haigh (Labour) [4], Stephen Percy (Liberal Democrats) [4], Iacof ap Antoni (Plaid Cymru) [2], Antonio J. Linares (Scottish and Northumbrian Independence Union) [2], Charles Gladstone (Social Democratic) [2]
Stephen Percy initially refused to concede defeat after the election, but relented and resigned on July 10th
Government VIII: Labour Party, Scottish and Northumbrian Independence Union, Social Democratic Party, Plaid Cymru Labour Party, Coalition for Self-Determination, Social Democratic Party Labour Party, Liberal and Social Democrats, Coalition for Self-Determination

December 2020: Alexander Helios? (Liberal and Social Democrats)
The validity of the Helios premiership is disputed. Haigh was banned in office shortly before Election #4, and Helios’ entire term was served in an acting capacity during purdah. Some count it, some don’t.

January–May 2021: Sir George Herbert Vere (Coalition for Self-Determination, later Labour)
Election #4: Sir George Vere (Coalition for Self-Determination) [5], Sir Charles Gladstone (Liberal) [4], Sir Elliot Bouchard (Conservative and Unionist) [3], Gorban Smiljić (Labour) [3], Xanthe Orpheus Florence (Gaia Movement) [0]
Government IX: Coalition for Self-Determination, Labour Party Labour and Self-Determination Party
Government X: Labour and Self-Determination Party, Liberal Democrats, Progressive Democrats

May 2021–present: Sir Dustin Crowe (Progressive Democrats)
Government XI: Progressive Democrats, Conservative and Unionist Party, Liberal Democrats

Party leaders going into the next general election, with latest polling:
Marijn Hoyle (Conservative and Unionist) [32%]
George Vere (Labour and Self-Determination) [31%]
Charles Gladstone (Liberal Democrats) [25%]
Dustin Crowe (Progressive Democrats) [6%]
Oswald Philadelphus (Coalition for Self-Determination (Continuity)) [3%]
Lachlan Wyn Trevithick (Saor Celtia) [2%]
Phoenix Goldenwing (No Third Runway at Heathrow Airport) [1%]
Tim Stamper seeing what happened from America
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This list doesn’t make a lot of sense, but, hey, that’s the sort of thing that happens when you adapt a Discord server into an ostensibly-realistic political history :p

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

2007–2010: Gordon Brown (Labour)
2010–2011:
David Cameron (Conservative minority)
2011–2013: Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats)
2011 (Coalition with Labour w/ Scottish National confidence and supply) def: Ed Miliband (Labour), David Cameron (Conservatives), Alex Salmond (Scottish National), George Galloway (RESPECT), Nigel Farage (UK Independence), Caroline Lucas (Green)
* In fact, Labour had slightly more seats in the aftermath of the election, but the two parties were nearly tied, and the SNP preferred to install the pro-devolution Liberal Democrats to the premiership
2013 Scottish independence referendum: YES 44.5% NO 55.5%
* The Scottish National party withdrew its confidence and supply following the referendum

2013–2015: David Miliband (Labour)
(Coalition with
Liberal Democrats)

2013 AMS referendum: YES 56.2% NO 43.8%
* To appease rising support for Ukip in the polls as well as growing pro-Brexit voices in his own party, the Miliband government announced that a referendum on EU membership would be held
2015 Brexit referendum: LEAVE 49.5% REMAIN 50.5%


2015–2016: Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats)
(Coalition with
Conservatives)

* Disgruntled with Miliband’s handling of the Brexit referendum — with a result closer than it had any right to be — and irritated by his conduct in office, the Liberal Democrats did a reverse ferret and went into coalition with the Conservative party, an outcome which the party had previously rejected in 2010

2016–2020: Theresa May (Conservatives)
2016 (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def: Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats), Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish National), Jonathan Bartley (Green)
* May’s time in office was a return to relative peace from the years of Chaos with Clegg/Miliband. Coalition drama and referenda took a back seat to legislation on issues such as housing and microtransactions, although there were occasional flare-ups with the Chinese government after the passage of a private member’s bill placing sanctions on the Hong Kong Police. Seeing positive polling for the coalition, a snap election was called for January of 2020.

2020: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrats)
2020 (Coalition with Conservatives) def: Keir Starmer (Labour), Theresa May (Conservatives), Angus Robertson (Scottish National)
* Moran, a relative newcomer to Parliament, was a great campaigner, but by her own admission unprepared for the task of being prime minister. Her progressive policies clashed with the wishes of the Conservatives, and she did too little, too late to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. She resigned only a few months after her election as prime minister.
* Unusually, it was agreed that the next prime minister would be elected by the entire Parliamentary caucus, independently of any leadership elections, to avoid the drama that plagued the Clegg–Miliband government.


2020–2021: David Steel, Baron Steel of Aikewood (Liberal Democrats)
(Coalition with
Conservatives)
* Steel was a deeply unpopular man both within the Liberal Democrats and the public at large, but due to the quirks of the IRV system used to determine the new coalition leader, he ended up in office nonetheless.
* HM Government immediately instated a harsh lockdown, forbidding all but essential travel outside of one’s home. This lockdown remained in place almost the entirety of the Steel premiership, barring a few short weeks in August. There were widespread protests against both these measures and the scandal which caused his 2019 suspension. These protests were directed to be, in his own words, “swiftly and ruthlessly quashed”.
* After a vote of no confidence involving every single party represented in Parliament led to a snap election to be held on the 10th of July, Steel claimed electoral fraud and stated that due to restrictions he would refuse to accept the results as valid. He kept to his word, and after the election of 2021, he attempted to prorogue parliament to stop the incoming coalition from being sworn in, resulting in a weeks-long Supreme Court battle which, in the end, nullified the prorogation.


2021–2026: Andy Burnham† (Labour)
2021 (Coalition with National Alliance for Progress and Democratic Party) def: Tracy Babin/Angus Robertson (National Alliance for Progress), Vince Cable
(Democratic)
, Theresa May (Conservatives), David Steel (Liberal Democrats)
* The chaos of July 10 deeply fractured the political landscape, with breakaways from all sides. The National Alliance for Progress, a rag-tag group of Labour splitters and devolutionists, claimed the unitary structure of Britain and too much centralisation in power was at the root of the problem. Members of the Liberal Democrats left in droves to the new Democratic Party, hoping to leave the associations of the coup behind. And the Conservatives, long having tensions between the pro-European centre and the Eurosceptic right, were about to crack, as the Scottish Conservatives and Unionists, in conjunction with more liberal members in Westminster, were mulling over a split…



2026–2030: Lisa Nandy (National Alliance for Progress, later Labour-Progress)
2026 (NAP coalition with Labour) election: Lisa Nandy/Angus Robertson (NAP), [No leader] (Labour), Ed Davey (Democratic), Dominic Raab (Conservatives), Jackson Carlaw (Progressive Democrats), Magid Magid (Extinction)
* Burnham suffered a fatal heart attack just as campaigning began, leaving Labour leaderless and directionless. But even before the death of their leader, Labour’s loss was considered only a matter of time — the NAP had been sapping away progressive Labour members and disgruntled voters in Scotland, Wales, and the North for years.
2028 (Labour and Progress Party)


2030–present: Rory Stewart (Progressive Democrats)
2030 (Coalition with Democratic Party and Conservatives) def: Matt Hancock (Conservatives), Lisa Nandy (Labour-Progress), Ed Davey (Democratic), Magid Magid (Extinction), Alex Salmond (Real Scottish Independence Now)

Things have been shuffled around a bit in the above to be more historically coherent, but it’s still the same(ish) prime ministers in the same order.

Prime Ministers of XO’s Model British Parliament

March–April 2019: Nicky Clack (Liberal Democrats)
Election #1: Huw Cholmondley (Labour) [6], John Major (Conservative and Unionist) [4], Marcail Connolly (National Autonomist) [4], Liberal Democrats (Nicky Clack) [3], Raoul Janeigem (Constitutional Reform) [1], A. K. Fletcher (UK Independence) [1], Chairman Miaow (Monster Raving Looney) [1], R. Beringer (Green) [0]
Government I: Liberal Democrats, Labour Party, National Autonomist Party

April–June 2019: James K. (Forward to the Future, later Our Future)
Government II: Forward to the Future, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats
Government III: Forward to the Future, Labour Party, Constitutional Reform Party Our Future, Constitutional Reform Party Our Future

June 2019: Sir Nicholas Clack (Liberal Democrats)
Government IV: Liberal Democrats, Conservative and Unionist Party, Progressive Democrats
Second Brexit referendum: LEAVE 49.5%, REMAIN 50.5%

August 2019–June 2020: Dafydd Llwyd (Conservatives)
Election #2: Dafydd Llwyd (Conservative and Unionist) [7], A. K. Fletcher (Liberal Democrats) [7], Peter Nordquist (Labour) [6], Progressive Democrats [3], Green [1]
Government V: Conservative and Unionist Party, Liberal Democrats

June 2020: Zach Henderson (Liberal Democrats)
Election #3: Zach Henderson (Liberal Democrats) [7], Ser L. Duŵr (Labour) [4], Sir Dafydd Llwyd (Conservative and Unionist) [3], Antonio J. Linares [1]
Government VI: Liberal Democrats, Conservative and Unionist Party, Workers’ Liberal Party Liberal Democrats, Conservative and Unionist Party, Social Democratic Party

June–July 2020: Stephen Percy (Liberal Democrats)
Government VII: Conservative and Unionist Party, Liberal Democrats

July–December 2020: Arthur Haigh (Labour)
“Election #3½” (it’s complicated): Sir Dafydd Llwyd (Conservative and Unionist) [5], Arthur Haigh (Labour) [4], Stephen Percy (Liberal Democrats) [4], Iacof ap Antoni (Plaid Cymru) [2], Antonio J. Linares (Scottish and Northumbrian Independence Union) [2], Charles Gladstone (Social Democratic) [2]
Stephen Percy initially refused to concede defeat after the election, but relented and resigned on July 10th
Government VIII: Labour Party, Scottish and Northumbrian Independence Union, Social Democratic Party, Plaid Cymru Labour Party, Coalition for Self-Determination, Social Democratic Party Labour Party, Liberal and Social Democrats, Coalition for Self-Determination

December 2020: Alexander Helios? (Liberal and Social Democrats)
The validity of the Helios premiership is disputed. Haigh was banned in office shortly before Election #4, and Helios’ entire term was served in an acting capacity during purdah. Some count it, some don’t.

January–May 2021: Sir George Herbert Vere (Coalition for Self-Determination, later Labour)
Election #4: Sir George Vere (Coalition for Self-Determination) [5], Sir Charles Gladstone (Liberal) [4], Sir Elliot Bouchard (Conservative and Unionist) [3], Gorban Smiljić (Labour) [3], Xanthe Orpheus Florence (Gaia Movement) [0]
Government IX: Coalition for Self-Determination, Labour Party Labour and Self-Determination Party
Government X: Labour and Self-Determination Party, Liberal Democrats, Progressive Democrats

May 2021–present: Sir Dustin Crowe (Progressive Democrats)
Government XI: Progressive Democrats, Conservative and Unionist Party, Liberal Democrats

Party leaders going into the next general election, with latest polling:
Marijn Hoyle (Conservative and Unionist) [32%]
George Vere (Labour and Self-Determination) [31%]
Charles Gladstone (Liberal Democrats) [25%]
Dustin Crowe (Progressive Democrats) [6%]
Oswald Philadelphus (Coalition for Self-Determination (Continuity)) [3%]
Lachlan Wyn Trevithick (Saor Celtia) [2%]
Phoenix Goldenwing (No Third Runway at Heathrow Airport) [1%]

I played Sir Nicholas Clack. Interestingly enough, if the current Nicky Clack were around for this "realistic" timeline, he'd be solidly opposed to Steel on the basis of Steel being too weak-willed on the coronavirus.

...yeah.
 
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A map of the rail lines on a private Minecraft server of mine. This is not entirely comprehensive: lords and ladies know there are innumerable tramways and boatways not shown here!

Feel free to compare with these earlier versions:
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Also—
This list doesn’t make a lot of sense, but, hey, that’s the sort of thing that happens when you adapt a Discord server into an ostensibly-realistic political history :p

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

2007–2010: Gordon Brown (Labour)
2010–2011:
David Cameron (Conservative minority)
2011–2013: Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats)
2011 (Coalition with Labour w/ Scottish National confidence and supply) def: Ed Miliband (Labour), David Cameron (Conservatives), Alex Salmond (Scottish National), George Galloway (RESPECT), Nigel Farage (UK Independence), Caroline Lucas (Green)
* In fact, Labour had slightly more seats in the aftermath of the election, but the two parties were nearly tied, and the SNP preferred to install the pro-devolution Liberal Democrats to the premiership
2013 Scottish independence referendum: YES 44.5% NO 55.5%
* The Scottish National party withdrew its confidence and supply following the referendum

2013–2015: David Miliband (Labour)
(Coalition with
Liberal Democrats)

2013 AMS referendum: YES 56.2% NO 43.8%
* To appease rising support for Ukip in the polls as well as growing pro-Brexit voices in his own party, the Miliband government announced that a referendum on EU membership would be held
2015 Brexit referendum: LEAVE 49.5% REMAIN 50.5%


2015–2016: Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats)
(Coalition with
Conservatives)

* Disgruntled with Miliband’s handling of the Brexit referendum — with a result closer than it had any right to be — and irritated by his conduct in office, the Liberal Democrats did a reverse ferret and went into coalition with the Conservative party, an outcome which the party had previously rejected in 2010

2016–2020: Theresa May (Conservatives)
2016 (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def: Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats), Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish National), Jonathan Bartley (Green)
* May’s time in office was a return to relative peace from the years of Chaos with Clegg/Miliband. Coalition drama and referenda took a back seat to legislation on issues such as housing and microtransactions, although there were occasional flare-ups with the Chinese government after the passage of a private member’s bill placing sanctions on the Hong Kong Police. Seeing positive polling for the coalition, a snap election was called for January of 2020.

2020: Layla Moran (Liberal Democrats)
2020 (Coalition with Conservatives) def: Keir Starmer (Labour), Theresa May (Conservatives), Angus Robertson (Scottish National)
* Moran, a relative newcomer to Parliament, was a great campaigner, but by her own admission unprepared for the task of being prime minister. Her progressive policies clashed with the wishes of the Conservatives, and she did too little, too late to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus. She resigned only a few months after her election as prime minister.
* Unusually, it was agreed that the next prime minister would be elected by the entire Parliamentary caucus, independently of any leadership elections, to avoid the drama that plagued the Clegg–Miliband government.


2020–2021: David Steel, Baron Steel of Aikewood (Liberal Democrats)
(Coalition with
Conservatives)
* Steel was a deeply unpopular man both within the Liberal Democrats and the public at large, but due to the quirks of the IRV system used to determine the new coalition leader, he ended up in office nonetheless.
* HM Government immediately instated a harsh lockdown, forbidding all but essential travel outside of one’s home. This lockdown remained in place almost the entirety of the Steel premiership, barring a few short weeks in August. There were widespread protests against both these measures and the scandal which caused his 2019 suspension, which were directed to be, in his own words, “swiftly and ruthlessly quashed”.
* After a vote of no confidence involving every single party represented in Parliament led to a snap election to be held on the 10th of July, Steel claimed electoral fraud and stated that due to restrictions he would refuse to accept the results as valid. He kept to his word, and after the election of 2021, he attempted to prorogue parliament to stop the incoming coalition from being sworn in, resulting in a weeks-long Supreme Court battle which, in the end, nullified the prorogation.


2021–2026: Andy Burnham† (Labour)
2021 (Coalition with National Alliance for Progress and Democratic Party) def: Tracy Babin/Angus Robertson (National Alliance for Progress), Vince Cable
(Democratic)
, Theresa May (Conservatives), David Steel (Liberal Democrats)
* The chaos of July 10 deeply fractured the political landscape, with breakaways from all sides. The National Alliance for Progress, a rag-tag group of Labour splitters and devolutionists, claimed the unitary structure of Britain and too much centralisation in power was at the root of the problem. Members of the Liberal Democrats left in droves to the new Democratic Party, hoping to leave the associations of the coup behind. And the Conservatives, long having tensions between the pro-European centre and the Eurosceptic right, were about to crack, as the Scottish Conservatives and Unionists, in conjunction with more liberal members in Westminster, were mulling over a split…



2026–2030: Lisa Nandy (National Alliance for Progress, later Labour-Progress)
2026 (NAP coalition with Labour) election: Lisa Nandy/Angus Robertson (NAP), [No leader] (Labour), Ed Davey (Democratic), Dominic Raab (Conservatives), Jackson Carlaw (Progressive Democrats), Magid Magid (Extinction)
* Burnham suffered a fatal heart attack just as campaigning began, leaving Labour leaderless and directionless. But even before the death of their leader, Labour’s loss was considered only a matter of time — the NAP had been sapping away progressive Labour members and disgruntled voters in Scotland, Wales, and the North for years.
2028 (Labour and Progress Party)


2030–present: Rory Stewart (Progressive Democrats)
2030 (Coalition with Democratic Party and Conservatives) def: Matt Hancock (Conservatives), Lisa Nandy (Labour-Progress), Ed Davey (Democratic), Magid Magid (Extinction), Alex Salmond (Real Scottish Independence Now)

Things have been shuffled around a bit in the above to be more historically coherent, but it’s still the same(ish) prime ministers in the same order.

Prime Ministers of XO’s Model British Parliament

March–April 2019: Nicky Clack (Liberal Democrats)
Election #1: Huw Cholmondley (Labour) [6], John Major (Conservative and Unionist) [4], Marcail Connolly (National Autonomist) [4], Liberal Democrats (Nicky Clack) [3], Raoul Janeigem (Constitutional Reform) [1], A. K. Fletcher (UK Independence) [1], Chairman Miaow (Monster Raving Looney) [1], R. Beringer (Green) [0]
Government I: Liberal Democrats, Labour Party, National Autonomist Party

April–June 2019: James K. (Forward to the Future, later Our Future)
Government II: Forward to the Future, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats
Government III: Forward to the Future, Labour Party, Constitutional Reform Party Our Future, Constitutional Reform Party Our Future

June 2019: Sir Nicholas Clack (Liberal Democrats)
Government IV: Liberal Democrats, Conservative and Unionist Party, Progressive Democrats
Second Brexit referendum: LEAVE 49.5%, REMAIN 50.5%

August 2019–June 2020: Dafydd Llwyd (Conservatives)
Election #2: Dafydd Llwyd (Conservative and Unionist) [7], A. K. Fletcher (Liberal Democrats) [7], Peter Nordquist (Labour) [6], Progressive Democrats [3], Green [1]
Government V: Conservative and Unionist Party, Liberal Democrats

June 2020: Zach Henderson (Liberal Democrats)
Election #3: Zach Henderson (Liberal Democrats) [7], Ser L. Duŵr (Labour) [4], Sir Dafydd Llwyd (Conservative and Unionist) [3], Antonio J. Linares [1]
Government VI: Liberal Democrats, Conservative and Unionist Party, Workers’ Liberal Party Liberal Democrats, Conservative and Unionist Party, Social Democratic Party

June–July 2020: Stephen Percy (Liberal Democrats)
Government VII: Conservative and Unionist Party, Liberal Democrats

July–December 2020: Arthur Haigh (Labour)
“Election #3½” (it’s complicated): Sir Dafydd Llwyd (Conservative and Unionist) [5], Arthur Haigh (Labour) [4], Stephen Percy (Liberal Democrats) [4], Iacof ap Antoni (Plaid Cymru) [2], Antonio J. Linares (Scottish and Northumbrian Independence Union) [2], Charles Gladstone (Social Democratic) [2]
Stephen Percy initially refused to concede defeat after the election, but relented and resigned on July 10th
Government VIII: Labour Party, Scottish and Northumbrian Independence Union, Social Democratic Party, Plaid Cymru Labour Party, Coalition for Self-Determination, Social Democratic Party Labour Party, Liberal and Social Democrats, Coalition for Self-Determination

December 2020: Alexander Helios? (Liberal and Social Democrats)
The validity of the Helios premiership is disputed. Haigh was banned in office shortly before Election #4, and Helios’ entire term was served in an acting capacity during purdah. Some count it, some don’t.

January–May 2021: Sir George Herbert Vere (Coalition for Self-Determination, later Labour)
Election #4: Sir George Vere (Coalition for Self-Determination) [5], Sir Charles Gladstone (Liberal) [4], Sir Elliot Bouchard (Conservative and Unionist) [3], Gorban Smiljić (Labour) [3], Xanthe Orpheus Florence (Gaia Movement) [0]
Government IX: Coalition for Self-Determination, Labour Party Labour and Self-Determination Party
Government X: Labour and Self-Determination Party, Liberal Democrats, Progressive Democrats

May 2021–present: Sir Dustin Crowe (Progressive Democrats)
Government XI: Progressive Democrats, Conservative and Unionist Party, Liberal Democrats

Party leaders going into the next general election, with latest polling:
Marijn Hoyle (Conservative and Unionist) [32%]
George Vere (Labour and Self-Determination) [31%]
Charles Gladstone (Liberal Democrats) [25%]
Dustin Crowe (Progressive Democrats) [6%]
Oswald Philadelphus (Coalition for Self-Determination (Continuity)) [3%]
Lachlan Wyn Trevithick (Saor Celtia) [2%]
Phoenix Goldenwing (No Third Runway at Heathrow Airport) [1%]

Anyone whose interest was piqued by the Discord server from the above post is very welcome to join it if they so wish. We recently started a new term, so now’s your chance to get involved.
 
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