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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

"Right. Gavin. This is simple. All you have to do is take the form, go up to the Electoral Commission counter, and say you are registering a new party called Great Society. There is no way we can possibly screw this up."
"Damn it Gavin now people think we're Fascists!"
"Well Chris, the instructions were complicated"
"Shut up, now what do I tell David..."

*David Owen enters*

"Tell me what?"
"Errr nothing boss"
"Good, hope you two idiots haven't ruined my comeback"
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God this would be an odd timeline
 
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Electoral History of Robert Lindsay

Born Ilkeston, Derbyshire, 1949

1967-Present: Labour Party Member
1973-1992: Private Citizen (Actor)

1992-2010:Member of Parliament for Erewash, Labour
1992: Def Angela Knight (Con), Philp Tuck (Lib Dem), Laurence Johnson (BNP)
1997: Def Angela Knight (Con), Martin Garnett (Lib Dem), Stephen Stagg (Ref), Matthew Simmons (Soc Lab)
2001: Def Gregor MacGregor (Con), Martin Garentt (Lib Dem), Louise Smith (UKIP), Peter Waldock (Soc Lab)
2005: Def David Simmonds (Con), Martin Garentt (Lib Dem), Robert Kilroy Silk (Veritas), Sadie Graham (BNP)

2010-Present: Member of Parliament for Chesterfield, Labour
2010: Def Paul Holmes (Lib Dem), Carolyn Abbott (Con), David Philips (UKIP)
2015: Def Mark Yvis (Con), Stuart Yeowart (UKIP), Julia Cambridge (Lib Dem)
2017: Def Suzanne Evans (UKIP), Spencer Pitfield (Con), Tom Snowdon (Lib Dem), Kate Hoey (Socialists for Leave)
2019: Def Leigh Higgins (Con), Diana James (UKIP), Emily Coy (Lib Dem), Chris Williamson (Workers Party)

Positions Held
1992-2001: Backbencher
2001-2003: Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
2003-2007: Backbencher
2007-2008: Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
2007: Deputy Leadership Candidate, (Won 20% of Vote)
2008-2013: Backbencher
2013-2015: Shadow Minister for Mental Health and Social Care
2015-Present: Leader of the Labour Party
2015 def: Liz Kendall, Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper
2016 def: Kate Hoey, Kelvin Hopkins
2015-Present: Leader of the Opposition
2017: Jeremy Hunt [317], Robert Lindsay [262], Nicola Sturgeon [35], Tim Farron [12], Arlene Foster [10]- (Con-DUP Coalition)
2019: Jeremy Hunt [306], Robert Lindsay [284], Nicola Sturgeon [30], Ed Davey [14], Arlene Foster [8]- (Hung Parliament-2nd Election scheduled for June 2020)

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Help me, I keep on making actors into MP's and leaders of the Labour Party. It's an addiction it seems. Still Robert Lindsay ain't that bad a choice for a Leftie Leader of the Labour Party.
 
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Electoral History of Robert Lindsay

Born Ilkeston, Derbyshire, 1949

1967-Present: Labour Party Member
1973-1992: Private Citizen (Actor)

1992-2010:Member of Parliament for Erewash, Labour
1992: Def Angela Knight (Con), Philp Tuck (Lib Dem), Laurence Johnson (BNP)
1997: Def Angela Knight (Con), Martin Garnett (Lib Dem), Stephen Stagg (Ref), Matthew Simmons (Soc Lab)
2001: Def Gregor MacGregor (Con), Martin Garentt (Lib Dem), Louise Smith (UKIP), Peter Waldock (Soc Lab)
2005: Def David Simmonds (Con), Martin Garentt (Lib Dem), Robert Kilroy Silk (Veritas), Sadie Graham (BNP)

2010-Present: Member of Parliament for Chesterfield, Labour
2010: Def Paul Holmes (Lib Dem), Carolyn Abbott (Con), David Philips (UKIP)
2015: Def Mark Yvis (Con), Stuart Yeowart (UKIP), Julia Cambridge (Lib Dem)
2017: Def Suzanne Evans (UKIP), Spencer Pitfield (Con), Tom Snowdon (Lib Dem), Kate Hoey (Socialists for Leave)
2019: Def Leigh Higgins (Con), Diana James (UKIP), Emily Coy (Lib Dem), Chris Williamson (Workers Party)

Positions Held
1992-2001: Backbencher
2001-2003: Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
2003-2007: Backbencher
2007-2008: Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
2007: Deputy Leadership Candidate, (Won 20% of Vote)
2008-2010: Backbencher
2010-2013: Shadow Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
2013-2015: Shadow Minister for Mental Health and Social Care
2015-Present: Leader of the Labour Party
2015 def: Liz Kendall, Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper
2016 def: Kate Hoey, Kelvin Hopkins
2015-Present: Leader of the Opposition
2017: Jeremy Hunt [317], Robert Lindsay [262], Nicola Sturgeon [35], Tim Farron [12], Arlene Foster [10]- (Con-DUP Coalition)
2019: Jeremy Hunt [306], Robert Lindsay [284], Nicola Sturgeon [30], Ed Davey [14], Arlene Foster [8]- (Hung Parliament-2nd Election scheduled for June 2020)

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Help me, I keep on making actors into MP's and leaders of the Labour Party. It's an addiction it seems. Still Robert Lindsay ain't that bad a choice for a Leftie Leader of the Labour Party.
Will Ross Kemp follow him as leader?
 
Electoral History of Robert Lindsay

Born Ilkeston, Derbyshire, 1949

1967-Present: Labour Party Member
1973-1992: Private Citizen (Actor)

My only real objection here being that the 2010 seat switch feels rather like a chicken run which should hinder the career a bit.
 
My only real objection here being that the 2010 seat switch feels rather like a chicken run which should hinder the career a bit.
True, may change that slightly.

Right changed it so he's a backbencher for longer. Though the Labour Party want him still around because hey he's a semi-famous actor who's Left Wing, even if he keeps on butting heads with the Leadership over various things.
 
Shame, The Bad Fairy Also Made Him a Shit! 21st Century Editon:

2007-2010: Gordon Brown (Labour)
2010-2021: David Cameron (Conservative)
2010: Def (Majority) Gordon Brown (Labour), Chris Huhne (Liberal Democrat), Alex Salmond (SNP), Ieuan Wyn Jones (Plaid Cymru), Nigel Farage (UKIP)
2014: Def (Majority) John McDonnell (Labour), Tessa Jowell-David Laws (Progress-Lib Dem Alliance), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru), Patrick Mercer (UKIP)
2018: Def (Majority) Ed Miliband (Labour), David Miliband-David Laws (Progress-Lib Dem Alliance), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru), Patrick Mercer (New Britain)

2021-2028: Amber Rudd (Conservative)
2023: Def (Majority) Ed Miliband (Labour), Jenny Willott (Progressive Democrats), David Miliband ('Continuity' Progress), Huzma Yousaf (SNP), Ieuan Wyn Jones (Plaid Cymru), Nick Griffin (New Britain)
2028-Present: Holly Lynch (Labour)
2028: Def (Majority) Amber Rudd (Conservative), Jenny Willott (Progressive Democrats), Ian Lavery (Real Labour), Huzuma Yousaf (SNP), Ieuan Wyn Jones (Plaid Cymru), Nick Griffin (New Britain)

In 2010 following a stiff campaign, John McDonnell manages to shift the Labour party Leftwards but as a result the 'Gang of Five' (Tessa Jowell, Hazel Blears, David Miliband, Tristam Hunt and Oona King) create the Progress Party, a New Labour/Blairite style of Social Liberalism which joins up with Liberal Democrat’s who are dealing with the aftermath of Chris Huhne controversy. John McDonnell is attacked for allowing infiltration by Socialist Workers lead by Annie Chen and the revival of the so called Loony Left lead by Ken Livingstone (who attempts to take over as Deputy Leader in 2011 deputy leadership election which is retaken by Harriet Harman again). The party loses the 2014 election badly, being reduced to 224 seats and McDonnell is ousted for the Centre Left Tribunest Ed Miliband. Ed’s bid is about retaking the Centre ground whilst not losing the Leftie vote. Meanwhile the Alliance retakes seats and see’s fortunes grow, but Tessa Jowell is replaced by David Miliband who turns out to not be a team player, which sinks the Alliances chances against the increasing popularity of Ed Miliband. Meanwhile Cameronmics and rally around the flag moments like the Bristol Bombings and the Scottish Troubles lead to David Cameron managing to crush UKIP and New Britain Parties of the Right (who crumble due to there habits of letting Far Right/Rascist folks like Patrick Mercer and Nick Griffin in).

Ed Miliband manages to drag the party back to the centre, particularly after the dismissal of New Socialists Richard Burgon and Laura Pidcock but his message of ‘Radical Milibandism’ doesn’t manage to the sway the public towards him in either election. The Tories dump Cameron after his handling of 2020 Coronavirus outbreak lead to chaos and is replaced by Rudd. David Miliband reisists joining the merged Progressive Democrats and creates his ‘Continuity’ Progress Party, it fails (but David becomes a Lord so...success?). Rudd’s failure to deal with the European Market Crash of 2024 causes a recession and numerous attempts against her. Ed is replaced by Ed...Balls that is but he’s forced to resign after a series of health complications. In his wake he’s replaced by Holly Lynch (who gets in after making a deal with the ‘Left’ candidate Lisa Nandy) who’s positive campaign and ability to point out the failings of the Rudd government leads to a landslide victory.

Now it’s 2030, Anne Turley is the new leader of Progressive Democrats and her Social Democratic/Co-Op ways is inspiring many to reconsider Labour, A Eurosceptic called Simon Clarke is leading the Tories and the Lynch Government is dealing with the Scottish Fuel Crisis and rise in Foot and Mouth. The more things change it seems, the more it stays the same.
 
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Hang your Hat on the Wind.


1956: Dwight D. Eisenhower Republican Richard M. Nixon
Def: Adali Stevenson Democratic john f. Kennedy




1960: Richard M. Nixon Republican John Williams
Def: Hubert Horatio Humphrey Democratic Lyndon B. Johnson


1964: Richard M. Nixon Republican John Williams
Def: Lyndon B. Johnson Democratic Eugene McCarthy



1968 :Fred Harris Democratic Terry Sanford
Def: Nelson Rockefeller Republican Gerald Ford

1972: Charles percy Republican Ronald Reagan


Def: Fred Harris Democratic Terry Sanford

1976: John Glen Democratic James Earl Carter
Def: Charles Percy Republican Ronald Reagan



1980: James Earl Carter Democratic Walter Mondale

Def: Ronald Reagan Republican George H. Bush
Def: John Anderson Independent Patrick Lucey
1984:" Edmund Brown Junior Democratic
Lloyd Bentsen.


Def: Bob Dole Republican Paul Laxalt

1988:" Edmund Brown Junior Democratic
Lloyd Bentsen.



Def: Paul Laxalt Republican Howard Baker

1992: Pete Dupont Republican Dan Quayle

Def: William Jefferson Clinton Democratic Jay Rockefeller
Def: Ross Perot Independent Dan Choate
1.Russia has a paramentry sytem and china is a fascist state.
in 1956 John Kennedy senator from Massachusetts was picked as Adali Stevenson's running mate.

2. first televised debate between Humphrey and vice president Nixon. president Eisenhower vouches for Nixon/ he can think of a thousand things Nixon has done in his admiration.

3.After 16 years Republican admiration in the white house. Liberal Oakholma senator Fred Harris is elected in 1968 hippi culture taking over America.

4. Governor Reagan did not want to be running mate but saw Nixon and Percy too liberal.

5. American hero former astronaut elected president tragedy shot and killed.

Jerry Brown did the unthinkable and unseated a sitting president got elected 2 terms.

6. A more conservative Republican president is elected after 3 straight Democrats.
 
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Leader of the Labour Party

1994-2007: Tony Blair
1994: John Prescott, Margaret Beckett
2007-2008: Gordon Brown
2007: Unopposed
2008-2009: Alan Johnson
2008: David Miliband
2009-2014: Jon Cruddas
2009: James Purnell*

*withdrew before ballots counted

After the heady days of Gordon Brown's honeymoon period and the great election that wasn't of autumn 2007, 2008 would prove his annus horriblis. Despite suitable experienced to handle the growing banking crisis that began with the fall of Northern Rock, Brown suffered an immense drop in personality, while ten years dominating domestic policy had left the new Brown government with little in the way of new ideas. By the time Crewe was lost to the Conservatives and Glasgow East to the SNP by the Summer of 2008 Brown appeared in real, serious trouble. Members of the Trade Union and Labour Liaison Organisation (TULO) who had already clawed back significant party influence since the Warwick Agreements of 2004, quickly began scouting around for candidates to fill the Brown-shaped void should a Blairite coup emerge.

It was this canny foresightedness, coupled in with a recognition of how crisis could often be an opportunity, that led TULO to swiftly tap deputy leader Alan Johnson, just a year into the job having pipped Harman in the final ballot, and his former left-wing challenger Jon Cruddas, as the perfect dream ticket for a post-Blair/Brown future. When Miliband's Guardian attack on Brown finally dropped, the Blairites were soon overtaken by the slick organisation of the Trade Union's awkward squad. While previously hoping for a coronation, Miliband would ultimately take on the role of a fringe stalking horse, able to overthrow Brown through a series of well choreographed resignations, but unable to match the power of the unions and the growing mood of all but a hardcore of MPs and members who simply wanted to move on from the psychodrama of New Labour. Ironically, for a political tendency that rose to prominence out of rejection for the ideological infighting of the 1980s, it was its own factional divisions that sealed its demise in August 2008.

A special conference saw Alan Johnson, a man who by his own admission never wanted the job, elected leader, and Jon Cruddas his deputy, seeing off a chaotic reheated campaign from Patricia Hewitt with relative ease. Johnson captured perfectly the safe pair of hands the PLP and grassroots wanted, while ideologically ambiguous enough to lead figures of the left and right to see him as one of their own. Fundamentally, however, he remained a competent administrator and little else, a calming force for a party that had been in a state of constant internal convulsion for over two years. He picked up the party, dusted it down and allowed it to be in the best possible position to face the almighty crash of September 2008. In the immediate response, Johnson's own lightweight grasp of economic policy left his largely deferential to the model left behind by Brown, and even the quiet advice of the former Prime Minister from afar. While largely following Brown's lead, Johnson's sunny optimism undoubtedly became the face of Britain's response, while his image in the public as a relative newcomer (despite having been an MP for over a decade) earned him popular praise that eluded Brown. Nevertheless, there was only so much a deferential moderate could do in such an unprecedented crisis, and with his own desire to head for the hills as quickly as possible a poorly kept secret within the Westminster bubble, by the time of Labour's drubbing in the 2009 Euros became apparent, with the rise of the BNP and UKIP becoming a particular worry for the party's heartlands, Johnson took a series of convenient personal developments to bid farewell to the office he never wanted.

The immediate aftermath was to see him praised as a selfless servant, who guided the party through the initial crisis, and took his leave once the immediate job appeared done. The longer term work of rebuilding the nation's economy and civil society was destined for someone more imaginative and more radical, with a keen eye for progressive reform and battling the rise of fascistic populism. Enter the heir apparent, the man TULO had always wanted, Jon Cruddas.
 
A project I've worked on far too long

A statistical analysis of lists of British Prime Minister and Head of State (not counting monarchs) posted on this thread

So far this thread has imagined 8,992 years of British history and 774 prime ministers, giving each PM an average rule of 11.618 years

I think it gives an interesting look at the psychology of this community - who looms large, what eras we focus on. Here is the leader board for PMs

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And the parties

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Labour has formed more governments, but the Conservatives frequently get renamed the Nationals or Unionist, which evens things up a little. It helps here that I count "National" governments as National PMs as there's often not a clear dividing like where the national government forms into a National Party.

The SDP does well because the name is often used for random non-Labour left wing party, and New Democratic is a surprisingly common choice for a new party.
 
Some other rules I've worked from

1. Incumbents have one year only, unless an end date or a more recent election date is specified
2. Job shares count each member unless a senior partner is implied
3. Informal party splits count as part of the same party still - so If Theresa May was couped by Amber Russ as "remain Conservative" that's still a conservative government, but when they form a "Remain Conservative Party" that's a new party and counted separately
 
Did anyone actually use Progressive?

The last party in the graph is the progressive unionists - who had 1 year in office.

In total there were 38 parties who had just 1 year in office - a total of 0.42% of imagined history

The Progressive Party had 8 years in office - the most popular of the 4 parties with progressive in their names
 
A project I've worked on far too long

A statistical analysis of lists of British Prime Minister and Head of State (not counting monarchs) posted on this thread

So far this thread has imagined 8,992 years of British history and 774 prime ministers, giving each PM an average rule of 11.618 years

I think it gives an interesting look at the psychology of this community - who looms large, what eras we focus on. Here is the leader board for PMs

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And the parties

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Labour has formed more governments, but the Conservatives frequently get renamed the Nationals or Unionist, which evens things up a little. It helps here that I count "National" governments as National PMs as there's often not a clear dividing like where the national government forms into a National Party.

The SDP does well because the name is often used for random non-Labour left wing party, and New Democratic is a surprisingly common choice for a new party.
New Democratic is probably so popular because that was the actual rebranding that Macmillan wanted to use for the Tories. We have a bias towards the 20th century, of course - if there were more 19th century lists, 'Moderate' (as Lord Derby's preferred rebrand of the Tories over 'Conservative') might be more common. We also probably under-use Unionist considering how it was used in preference to Conservative for much of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
 
A project I've worked on far too long

A statistical analysis of lists of British Prime Minister and Head of State (not counting monarchs) posted on this thread

So far this thread has imagined 8,992 years of British history and 774 prime ministers, giving each PM an average rule of 11.618 years

I think it gives an interesting look at the psychology of this community - who looms large, what eras we focus on. Here is the leader board for PMs

View attachment 21032

And the parties

View attachment 21034
Labour has formed more governments, but the Conservatives frequently get renamed the Nationals or Unionist, which evens things up a little. It helps here that I count "National" governments as National PMs as there's often not a clear dividing like where the national government forms into a National Party.

The SDP does well because the name is often used for random non-Labour left wing party, and New Democratic is a surprisingly common choice for a new party.
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A project I've worked on far too long

A statistical analysis of lists of British Prime Minister and Head of State (not counting monarchs) posted on this thread

So far this thread has imagined 8,992 years of British history and 774 prime ministers, giving each PM an average rule of 11.618 years

I think it gives an interesting look at the psychology of this community - who looms large, what eras we focus on. Here is the leader board for PMs

View attachment 21032

And the parties

View attachment 21034
Labour has formed more governments, but the Conservatives frequently get renamed the Nationals or Unionist, which evens things up a little. It helps here that I count "National" governments as National PMs as there's often not a clear dividing like where the national government forms into a National Party.

The SDP does well because the name is often used for random non-Labour left wing party, and New Democratic is a surprisingly common choice for a new party.

Outstanding work!
 
The Long Good Friday - SF and the DUP fail to become dominant within NI politics


1998 - David Trimble (Ulster Unionist - 30)
def. John Hume (SDLP - 25), Ian Paisley (DUP - 19), Gerry Adams (SF - 17), John Alderdice (Alliance - 8), Robert McCartney (UK Unionist - 3), Hugh Smyth (PUP - 3), Monica McWilliams (NI Women's Coalition - 2), Gary McMichael (UDP - 1)

2003 - David Trimble (Ulster Unionist - 27)
def: Mark Durkan (SDLP - 23), Ian Paisley (DUP - 23), Gerry Adams (SF - 19), Seán Neeson (Alliance - 5), David Ervine (PUP - 4), Robert McCartney (UK Unionist - 2), Monica McWilliams (NI Women's Coalition - 2) [1], Gary McMichael (UDP - 2), John Barry (Green - 1)

2008 - Alan McFarland (Ulster Unionist - 29)
def:Peter Robinson (DUP - 25), Mark Durkan (SDLP - 21), Gerry Adams (SF - 20), Eileen Bell (Alliance - 6), David Ervine/Dawn Purvis (PUP - 5)[2], John Barry (Green - 2)

2013 - Alan McFarland (Ulster Unionist - 30)
def: Alasdair McDonnell (SDLP - 23), Edwin Poots (DUP - 21)[3], Martin McGuinness (SF - 18), Eileen Bell (Alliance - 8), Dawn Purvis (PUP - 6), Brian Wilson (Green - 2)

2018 - Simon Hamilton (Ulster Unionist - 28)
def: Alasdair McDonnell (SDLP - 23), Conor Murphy (SF - 19), Jim Allister (DUP - 17), Stephen Farry (Alliance - 10), Dawn Purvis (PUP - 7), Clare Bailey (Green - 4)

2023 - Simon Hamilton (Ulster Unionist - 28)
def: Clare Hanna (SDLP - 25), Conor Murphy (SF - 16), Jim Allister (DUP - 12), Ian Paisley Jr. (PPP - 4 )[4], Stephen Farry (Alliance - 12), David Rose (PUP - 6), Clare Bailey (Green - 5)


[1] The Women's Coalition would be wound up in 2005 with the a Moriarty of members voting to join with the Alliance Party after extremely poor local elections results.
[2] David Ervine suffered a major heart attack at the start of the year and while he recovered well the decision was made to make the leadership a joint role with a view to Dawn Purvis taking sole leadership within the next year.
[3] Robinson was made to resign after his wifes affair and financial dealings were made public but not before an ugly inter-party spat was made public.
[4] Ian Jr's attempt to seize power from Jim Allister was a disaster and he and his closest associates were expelled from the party. Paisley set up the Protestant Peoples Party as a personal vehicle though it had some success in the North East, further eroding the DUP vote.
 
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