This was originally meant to be a British list of
@Nanwe 4.1 Republic idea (which is great), but it kind of mutated into something else.
After The Lights Go Out:
1945 - 1953: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1945 (Majority) def. Winston Churchill (Conservative), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Ernest Brown (Liberal National)
1950 (Majority) def. Winston Churchill (Conservative), Clement Davies (Liberal)
1953 - 1959: Anthony Eden (Conservative)
1953 (Majority) def. Clement Attlee (Labour), Clement Davies (Liberal)
1957 (Majority) def. Hugh Gaitskell (Labour), Donald Wade (Liberal)
1959 - 1961: David Eccles (Conservative Majority)
1961 - 1962: Hugh Gaitskell (Labour)
1961 (Majority) def. David Eccles (Conservative), Donald Wade (Liberal)
1962 - 1966: Alfred Robens (Labour Majority)
1966 - : Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1966 (Majority) def. Alfred Robens (Labour), Frank Byers (Liberal)
You are a speck. A minuscule element of the great machine of the decaying remains of the British Empire.
Oh you think your life is fine, Gaitskell and Robens in their brief tenure have ensured that much. Whilst certainly Eccles and Thorneycroft are part of a generation who want to bend the mechanics of the welfare state away from the grand clutches of Nationalised Industries and Labour, that focused paternalistic thinking is still there.
You listen to the Walker Brothers, go and work in the Steel Industry or something and buy the latest consumer product of choice.
But we can’t have that now can we.
Look at Japan, look at Korea, look at France, look at Italy, look at Czechoslovakia, beyond them as well. The people there are breaking off the shackles of those wannabes dictators, those wannabe elites, those figures of cold calculating power and those diseased minds of authoritarian bastards who think that they can rule unchecked and unchallenged.
Now of course, you say, Britain is not like that.
I am allowed to vote, my voice is heard, my words can carry weight.
But you know this is false.
You’ve seen the footage from Aden, from Borneo, from Malaysia, from Cyprus and closer to home from Northern Ireland, despite what Ivan Neill, Aled Douglas Home and Reggie Maudling say. You’re a smart person, we’ve just spread out our shackles, our jackboot, our Fascist instincts have been shipped abroad it seems.
But now it’s coming back home, you’ve heard of blacklists, you’ve heard of people being investigated for being political undesirable. You’re not foolish.
So what are you going to do?
I’ll let you answer that question yourself, but I’m sure you’ll have the right answer…