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I remember reading from Herbert’s other son that Frank was really homophobic and kicked his son out for being gay. I think Herbert’s homophobia is pretty well know in the ScFi community.

Didn’t Mr Herbert also write a short story with a Gay Terrorist Group in it? Or am I remembering another writer there?

Haven't read it if so, but it would definitely be interesting to hold one's nose and read
 
Blairpunk
1997-2004: Tony Blair (Labour)

1997 (Majority) def: John Major (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrats)
1997 Scottish Devolution Referendum: Yes 85%, No 15%
1997 Welsh Devolution Referendum: Yes 60%, No 40%
1998 Greater London Authority Referendum: Yes 75%, No 25%
1998 Northern Ireland Good Friday Agreement Referendum: Yes 82%, No 18%
2001 (Majority, Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def: William Hague (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrats)
2002 Euro Adoption Referendum: Reject 66%, Adopt 34%

2004-2006: Tony Blair (Progressive)
2004 North-Eastern Devolution Referendum: Yes 56%, No 44%
2004 Yorkshire Devolution Referendum: Yes 59%, No 41%
2004 North-Western Devolution Referendum: Yes 50.6%, No 49.4%
2005 (Majority) def: Iain Duncan Smith ("Real" Conservative), Robin Cook (Labour), Kenneth Clarke ("European" Conservative), George Galloway (RESPECT), Caroline Lucas (Green)
2005: The Cabinet Bomb

2006-2009: Charles Clarke (Progressive, leading Emergency National Government)
2008 AV+ Referendum: No 53%, Yes 47%
2009-: David Miliband (Progressive)
2009 (Majority) def: Nigel Farage (Conservative), Ed Miliband (Labour), Kenneth Clarke (C4E), George Galloway-Caroline Lucas (RESPECT-Green), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrats)
2011 South-Western Devolution Referendum: Yes 50.2%, No 49.8%
2011 South-Eastern Devolution Referendum: No 88%, Yes 12%
2011 East Anglian Devolution Referendum: No 77%, Yes 23%
2011 West Midlands Devolution Referendum: Yes 52%, No 48%
2011 East Midlands Devolution Referendum: No 86%, Yes 14%
2013 (Coalition With Labour) def. Boris Johnson (Conservative), Ed Miliband (Labour), George Galloway-Tony Clarke (RESPECT-Green), David Gauke (C4E)
2018 (Majority) def. Boris Johnson (Conservative), George Galloway-Sian Berry (Enviroment And Equality), Ed Miliband (Labour), Justine Greening (C4E)
 
You don't really need to look outside the text for Herbert's homophobia, there's a great long spiel about it in I want to say God Emperor of Dune.

Giving myself away as having not read the sequels yet.

It's funny, tried reading Dune as a kid and I just couldn't get into it, but now it's an absolute banger. I guess there's less savory stuff to look forward to in the later books though!
 
Giving myself away as having not read the sequels yet.

It's funny, tried reading Dune as a kid and I just couldn't get into it, but now it's an absolute banger. I guess there's less savory stuff to look forward to in the later books though!

All up to Children of Dune are straightforwardly fun, after that irony begins to take to the fore in terms of enjoyment.
 
2011 South-Western Devolution Referendum: Yes 50.2%, No 49.8%
2011 South-Eastern Devolution Referendum: No 88%, Yes 12%
2011 East Anglian Devolution Referendum: No 77%, Yes 23%
2011 West Midlands Devolution Referendum: Yes 52%, No 48%
2011 East Midlands Devolution Referendum: No 86%, Yes 14%

Love how there's kind of a rump England going on there that I suspect will get offered devo in its own right if no English parliament is created
 
The Mayfair Set, Maxwell and One Nation under Silk:
1964-1972: Tony Greenwood (Labour)
1964 (Majority) def: Rab Butler (Conservative), Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1968 (Majority) def: Reginald Maudling (Conservative), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)

1972-1975: Ted Heath (Conservative)
1972 (Liberal Confidence & Supply) def: Anthony Greenwood (Labour), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1975-1976: Michael Foot (Labour)
1975 (Majority) def: Ted Heath (Conservative), Eric Lubbock (Liberal)
1976-1977: Colonel David Stirling (GB75-Unison Movement)
1977 (Majority) def: Various Independents, Desmond Donnelly (Reform)
1977-1983: James Goldsmith (Unison Movement)
1981 (Majority) def: Various Independents, Reg Prentice (Reform), Kate Losinska (Workers Party)
1983-1988: Peter Walker (Unison)
1985 (Majority) def: Various Independents, Reg Prentice (Reform), Bob Mellish (Workers Party)
1988-1991: Jim Slater (Unison)
1988 (Coalition with Reform) def: Various Independents, Reg Prentice (Reform), Robert Kilroy-Silk (Workers Party)
1991-1992: Robert Maxwell (Unison-Workers Alliance for Democracy)
1992-1993: Ken Coates (Independent leading Popular Front)

1992 (‘Popular Front’) def: Robert Maxwell (Unison), Reg Prentice (Reform), Robert Kilroy-Silk (Workers Party)
1993-1998: Ken Coates (Left Alliance)
1993 (Majority) def: Robert Maxwell (Unison), Vince Cable-Chris Patten (Centre), Nina Temple-Peter Hain (The Radicals), Robert Kilroy-Silk (Workers Party)
1998-2004: Ron Davies (Left Alliance)
1998 (Majority) def: Ian Maxwell (Unison-Workers Alliance), Anna Soubury (Centre), Mark Ashton-Nina Temple (The Radicals), David Icke (The Ecos)
2002 (Coalition with Radicals) def: Robert Kilroy-Silk (One Nation), John Thurso (Centre), Mark Ashton-Lynne Jones (The Radicals), John Balance (The Ecos)

2004-2006: Liz Davies (Left Alliance)
2006-: Robert Kilroy-Silk (One Nation)

2006 (Coalition with Centre) def: Liz Davies (Left Alliance), Lembit Öpik (Centre), Lynne Jones-Adam Curtis (The Radicals), John Balance (Eco-Merican Alliance)

Robert Kilroy-Silk’s journey is a long and odd one, the one time Radical Tribune supporter now the Leader of a rather Syncretic Party that combines Third Way Social Democracy, Technocratic ideals and Nationalistic Protectionism into a rather odd coalition of the Populist Centre as Silk’s prances around declaring himself the ‘21st Century Peter Shore’.

Of course we have to look back at his beginnings, back when he was a fresh faced Foot supporter in the Mid 70s. Kilroy-Silk would find himself on the wrong end of the stick though when his support for Foot and electoral deposing of Harold Soref would mean he would be arrested during the midsts of the GB-75 coup. Unlike many though Kilroy-Silk would rapidly renounce his support for the ‘Crypto-Communist’ Foot regime and be freed from the Dartmoor work camp after four years in captivity. His ability to dodgy trouble is what caused him to avoid being placed in a shallow grave (like much of the 1975 Labour cabinet) or being permanently disabled (like People’s Martyr Neil Kinnock).

Not long after Kilroy-Silk would find himself in the employee of Robert Maxwell, who despite being a Labour supporter held enough connections and had enough money to avoid being blacklisted from high society. By now the open brutality of Stirling had been replaced with the incompetent bumbling of Goldsmith who spent most of his time going to country clubs and enjoying the high life than actually administrating the country, which was left much in the hands of asset stripper extraordinaries Walker & Slater who proceeded to dismantle the Nationalised industries of the Greenwood years and let Monetarist take hold.

This environment was perfect for the hungry Maxwell who used Kilroy-Silk as his personal fence to buy up the dying industries and strip them for profit. The pair would proceed to become some of the richest men in Europe and the bond between them grew further. By now Goldsmith had been replaced, riots had occurred in Britain’s major cities as recession creeped in, terrorist groups would assassinate a variety of important Unison individuals and Goldsmith’s ruthless business exterior didn’t calm things down at all.

Peter Walker ideas were of One Nation Toryism, Social Market ideas and reducing the policing of the Stirling and Goldsmith years. But by now a series of oligarchs has appeared and there reactions to Walker’s limp reforms were to punish him. Maxwell, now the leader of a vast media empire would attack Walker constantly and whilst this wouldn’t impact the 1985 election much it would cause a toll on Walker’s health and ability to govern.

Maxwell by now had grand schemes beyond just being largest media owner in Britain, he wanted more power and to help in his aims he would buy out the moribund Workers Party and have Kilroy-Silk becomes it’s head. The party would become a force of Left Wing Populism, railing against the elites and the establishment which Maxwell and Kilroy-Silk had helped establish.

Peter Walker resign due to ill health and his former business partner and so called ‘entrepreneur spelt S.P.I.V.’ Jim Slater would take over. Slater was not a great Prime Minister, a man who enjoyed playing games and ruthlessly stripping businesses was not a man best suited to politics. In 1988 the Workers Party would bulldoze Unison and Slater would be forced into a coalition with the Arch-Monetarist Reform party.

By now the world had begun to see Britain has an awkward reminder of times gone by, the Republican Presidency’s of Nixon and Haig had been replaced by the Democrats Biden who saw Britain as an embarrassment, meanwhile the Soviet Union crumbled and suddenly the threat of Britain becoming an island of Socialism seemed antiquated.

Once again Maxwell would step in, discussing possible ways to save his own neck and also be seen as a hero. With support of the CIA and a big trunk of money, Maxwell would buyout the Unison party and enter into a coalition with Kilroy-Silk to bring about a return to a functioning democracy.

The ‘free’ elections would lead to the unlikely figure of Ken Coates (who had survived due to support from Brian Clough, who’s connections with Maxwell would ensure the survival of several Nottinghamshire Socialists) managing to win the election as an independent leading a Popular Front.

The eventual success of the Left Alliance In the years to come would see Maxwell and Kilroy-Silk step away from politics to manage there’s business interests as they enjoyed the protection garnered by there’s creation of a ‘free’ democracy. Robert Maxwell would leave Britain in the Mid 90s to spend his final days whiling away on his yacht near Spain. His son Ian, would takeover over the remains of the Unison party but never as bold as his dad he would quickly leave it to Kilroy-Silk.

By now the businesses Kilroy-Silk had owned had been sold back to the state for a tidy profit and rather than twiddling his thumbs in the background, came back as a force in British politics. One Nation was to be the vehicle in which he did it with, as the new electoral system allowed for a grand alliance of the Centre-Right to emerge.

Kilroy-Silk would attack the antics of the Davies’s Governments, as both proceed to crash on the shores of public opinion (as Ron Davies would have a mental breakdown and Liz Davies being unable to pick up the pieces) as the nearly fifteen year old Left Wing Government began to strain. As he did this Silk would secretly fund the Centre (as it proceeded to enter Radical Centrist phase under Öpik) and Eco parties (which went to from the deranged ramblings of Icke to becoming force of Green Neo-Merican Nationalism under Former Musician John Balance) to undermine the Left Alliance and Radicals.

This strategy would lead to success in 06’ as Kilroy-Silk’s Populist Centrist Nationalist rhetoric cut through with the voters who only saw Socialist bloat when the looked at the incumbent Government. Now Kilroy-Silk is Prime Minister many questions what he’ll do next, whilst a return to the bad old days of Unison and the Mayfair Set seem unlikely, his vision of Britain is one that seems to hue more to the past than the future...
 
Late 1970s/Early 1980s Punk:
Richard Nixon (R-NY)/Robert Finch (R-CA) 1969-1974
Robert Finch (R-CA)/VACANT 1974
Robert Finch (R-CA)/Howard Baker (R-TN) 1974-1977

Henry M. Jackson (D-WA)/Peter W. Rodino (D-NJ) 1977-1983
Peter W. Rodino (D-NJ)/VACANT 1983
Peter W. Rodino (D-NJ)/John Glenn (D-OH) 1983-1989

Lewis Lehrman (R-NY)/Wally Hickel (R-AK) 1989-1997
Harry Reid (D-NV)/John Van de Kamp (D-CA) 1997-2005
Harrison Schmitt (R-NM)/Kit Bond (R-MO) 2005-2013
Elizabeth Holtzman (D-NY)/James Blanchard (D-MI) 2013-2021
 
Always wondered what would happen if he accepted this role. Would be interesting to see how one of Nixon’s closest allies is treated in a post-Watergate world.
Oh yeah, I imagine we would see some sort of horrific liberal wing/Nixonian wing Frankenstein monster. That would be probably force against the New Right. It would also be interesting to have a more Keynesian response to stagflation instead of the tax cuts Ford did IOTL. I see the Republicans ITTL being more all over the place, but being more libertarian-esque, I mean they have New York Ron Paul in office for 8 years that should tell you what direction the wind is going.
 
Gene's Vision

1961-1965: John F. Kennedy (Democratic)
1960 (with Walter Reuther) def. Richard Nixon (Republican), Harry F. Byrd Sr. (unpledged Democratic electors)
1964 (with George Smathers) def. Barry Goldwater (Republican), Roy Reuther (Labor)

1965-1970: George Smathers (Democratic)
1968 (with Jimmy Hoffa) def. George W. Romney (Republican), Eugene McCarthy (Progressive)
1970-1971: Jimmy Hoffa (Democratic)
1971-1971: Jimmy Hoffa (Independent "Solidarity")
1971-1972: Carl Albert (Democratic)
1972-1973: James Eastland (Democratic)
1972 voided; incomplete counts indicated a hung electoral college between George McGovern (Progressive), George Wallace (Democratic) and Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
1973-1973: William Westmoreland (Democratic, leading Military Junta)
1973-1974: George McGovern / Gene Roddenberry / Huey Newton / Bernardine Dohrn (Revolutionary Committees of Correspondence)
1974-0000: Gene Roddenberry (New World Liberation Front)
1974 ('Phase 1' coalition with Progressives) def. numerous Independents, Lyndon LaRouche (New Labor)
1979 ('Phase 2' majority) def. numerous Independents, Tom McCall (Progressive), Lyndon LaRouche (New Labor)
Post the maps, coward
 
Title for Hastily Thought Up Allegory Here
1984-1993: Brian Mulroney (Progressive Conservative)

1984 (Majority): def. John Turner (Liberal), Ed Broadbent (New Democratic)
1988 (Majority): def. John Turner (Liberal), Ed Broadbent (New Democratic)

1993-1994: Jean Chretien (Liberal)
1993 (Majority): def. Lucien Bouchard (Bloc Quebecois), Preston Manning (Reform), Jean Charest (Progressive Conservative), Audrey McLaughlin (New Democratic)
1994-1995: Don Cherry (Conservative Freedom Alliance)
1994 (Minority): def. Jean Chretien (Liberal), Lucien Bouchard (Bloc Quebecois), Audrey McLaughlin (New Democratic)
1995-1996: John Crow (Government of Experts)
1996-1998: Stephane Dion (Liberal)

1996 (Majority): def. Don Cherry (Conservative Freedom Alliance), Lucien Bouchard (Bloc Quebecois), Alexa McDonough (New Democratic)
1998-2000: Sheila Copps (Liberal)
2000-2001: John Turner (Liberal)

2001-2006: Don Cherry (Canadians for Freedom)

2001 (Majority): def. Sheila Copps and Jim Watson (Liberal Alliance), Lucien Bouchard (Bloc Quebecois), Alexa McDonough (New Democratic)
2006-2008: Stephane Dion (Liberal Alliance)
2006 (Majority): def. Don Cherry (Canadians for Freedom)
2008-2011: Don Cherry (Canadians of Freedom)
2008 (Majority): def. Gerald Tremblay (Canadian Democrats)
2011-2013: Michael Ignatieff (Government of Experts)
2013-2014: Bill Casey (Canadian Democrats)

2013 (Grand Coalition): Joe Volpe (Canadian Democrats), Don Cherry (Canadians of Freedom), Rick Mercer (Movement for Canada)
2014-2016: Naheed Nenshi (Canadian Democrats)
2016-2018: Bob Rae (Canadian Democrats)

2018-2021: Don Sommerfeldt (Technocrat leading Coalition)

2018 (Grand Coalition): Baljit Bawa (Movement for Canada), Yves-Francois Blanchet (Bloc Quebecois/Blanchet for Canada), Naheed Nenshi (Canadian Democrats), Don Cherry (For Canada)
2021-present: Mark Carney (Technocrat leading Coalition)
 
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1953 - 1957: Adlai Stevenson (Democratic)
1952 (with John Sparkman): Robert A. Taft (Republican)
1957 - 1957: Joe McCarthy (Anti-Communist)
1956 (with William E. Jenner): Adlai Stevenson (Democratic), Harold Stassen (Republican), unpledged South Carolinian electors
1957 - 1965: William E. Jenner (Anti-Communist)
1960 (with Ted Walker): John F. Kennedy (Democratic), Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
1965 - 1973: Ted Walker (Anti-Communist)
1964 (with Barry Goldwater): Hubert Humphrey (Democratic), George Romney (Republican)
1968 (with Barry Goldwater): Nelson Rockefeller (National Union), Martin Luther King Jr. (Independent)

1973 - 1981: Ronald Reagan (Anti-Communist)
1972 (with Evan Mecham): John Lindsay (National Union)
1976 (with Evan Mecham): Barry Goldwater (National Union)

1981 - 1989: Evan Mecham (Anti-Communist)
1980 (with John K. Singlaub): John B. Anderson (National Union)
1984 (with John K. Singlaub): John B. Anderson (National Union)

1989 - 1997: Larry McDonald (Anti-Communist)
1988 (with Pat Buchanan): various Independents
1992 (with Pat Buchanan): various Independents

1997 - 2001: Pat Buchanan (Anti-Communist)
1996 (with Hillary Rodham): various Independents
2000 (with Hillary Rodham): various Independents

2001 - 2002: Oliver North (Anti-Communist)
2002 - 0000: John O. Brennan (Communist)

Kind of bouncing off the idea that TNO plays with through the DSR where they speculate what a communist group might be like in the vacuum of a fascist nation that only portrays communism as basically murder.

Stevenson ekes out a victory over Taft but faces difficulties over the 7-2 Brown v Board decision and a continually escalating Red Scare. When Red China attacks Formosa in late 1954 however, Stevenson balks and the nation's right-wing watch in horror as the Republic of China is extinguished. McCarthy uses that as an impetus to go after the army like OTL but many in the GOP still see McCarthy's actions as a step too far (it's in vogue to blame Stevenson but not the Army dammit) and make motions against him. McCarthy responds by making his own political party in early 1955. Several GOP Senators and scores of congressmen join him as he goes after the Army without See It Now or Joseph Welch to stop him.

McCarthy narrowly wins the presidency in 1956, seizing the upper South off of residual Brown v Board anger against Stevenson and devastating Stevenson and Stassen in the country's west. Lucky for McCarthy, he dies months into his presidency - just before he would have inevitably tainted his own political brand. Jenner provides a much more subtle and steady hand - blacklisting academics and really going after left-wing opposition figures. John Lewis and Walter Reuther are ostracized amid a spate of sever anti-union legislation.

Jenner wins re-election by sweeping the South as Kennedy and Rockefeller cut into each other's support up North. Ted Walker repeats this feat four years later as agitation over the civil rights movement provides a decent cover for sweeping homeland security legislation. Perhaps 1968 was the last shot to overthrow the ACP regime but the National Union ticket of Nelson Rockefeller and Lyndon Johnson left much to be desired and the rebels in the streets were shot long before they could cast their protest votes for America's most famous political prisoner.

Reagan's hardliner would rout Goldwater's moderates at the 1972 ACPNC setting the tone for increasingly far-right government driven by figures like Billy James Hargis and the Koch family. Goldwater's flip to the opposition would eventually land him exiled in London and John B. Anderson's eventual odyssey to the activist left would earn him a prison cell alongside much of the rump National Union apparatus during the Mecham impeachment attempt in 1987.

McDonald, despite being a favorite of party hardliners and rump grassroots efforts, could not keep the regime steady. The economy was tanking and by the mid-90s America's European allies would sign a separate peace with the Soviet Union, virtually ending the Cold War. It would be the regime of Pat Buchanan and the Crash of 1999 that would finally bring the American Anti-Communist regime to a sputtering halt. With the economy no longer working for hundreds of millions of Americans, the ACP's grip on power slipped in a matter of months. A dirty bomb attack on DC would serve to decapitate much of the government and leave Secretary of Defense Oliver North with the job of shooting protesters. Until they shot him.

Marxist literature had been banned in the United States since the late 1960s and so the Communists of the early 21st century were far different than the leftist rebels that populated the American political fringe in the first half of the 20th century, let alone the centralist state capitalists that ran the free market from Leningrad and Shanghai. Men like John Brennan and John Allen Williams were raised in a society that treated communism as synonymous to murder. A society that feared communists and saw them as more dangerous than the most hardened criminals. Even once communist literature began to filter into culture during the Soviet End of History in the 1990s, many could not shake the sentiment from their youth that what made a communist was their willingness to kill those who opposed them and sympathized with the American government.

Months after the dirty bomb attack in DC, Oliver North's government had lost control of the country to various rebel groups but the most powerful of these were the communists. The lynching of Billy James Hargis, possibly the most powerful man in North America, was reminiscent of a frightful scene from one of his pamphlets and the execution of Oliver North and the American military command was deliberately modelled after portrayals of such events in Anti-Communist propaganda. By the end of the summer, General Secretary John Brennan was in control of a majority of the country and had plans to punish those who were loyal or sympathetic to the Anti-Communist regime - just as Anti-Communist propaganda feared.
 
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1969-73: Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew (Republican)
1969: Hubert Humphrey/Ed Muskie (Democrat), George Wallace/Curtis LeMay (AIP)
1972: George McGovern/Sargent Shriver (Democrat)

1973-77: Richard Nixon/John Connally (Republican)
1977-81: John Connally/Houston Flournoy (Republican)

1976: Henry Jackson/Jimmy Carter (Democrat)

1981-89: Mo Udall/Reubin Askew (Democrat)
1980: John Connally/Houston Flournoy (Republican)
1984: Bob Dole/Lamar Alexander (Republican)

1989-93: Alexander Haig/Newt Gingrich (Republican)
1988: Reubin Askew/Roland Burris (Democrat)
1993-97: Paul Tsongas/Mark Dayton (Democrat)
1992: Alexander Haig/Newt Gingrich (Republican)
1997-2001: Mark Dayton/Jill Long Thompson (Democrat)
1996: Jack Kemp/James Stockdale (Republican)
2001-09: John Ashcroft/John McCain (Republican)
2000: Mark Dayton/Jill Long Thompson (Democrat)
2004: Jill Long Thompson/John Kerry (Democrat)

2009-17: Tom Udall/Steve Beshear (Democrat)
2008: Rick Santorum/Rick Perry (Republican), William Weld/Lincoln Chaffee (Ind. Rep./Libertarian)
2012: Paul LePage/John Kasich (Republican), Gary Johnson/Jim Gray (Libertarian)
2017- : Michelle Williams/Bobby Jindal (Republican)
2016: Steve Beshear/Deval Patrick (Democrat)
2020: Stacy Abrams/Jim Webb (Democrat)
 
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