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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

What a great framing device @Time Enough
Thank @iupius for doing the original version which was the inspiration here. The hardest part was finding actors who would work for the characters in question, I think my favourite choices were Tim McInnerny as Thorneycroft and Paul Ritter as Peter Shore.

Also Adrian Rawlins is perfect for playing a depressed slightly pathetic Prime Minister Macmillan.
 
I love the bit aside of "this bit with Prince Charles is horseshit, why's it here?"
Having read and noticed that Peter Morgan will just, make shit up, if he thinks it makes a story ‘more exciting’ it seemed like a perfect little thing to add to indicate that even his alternate history counterpart is doing the same.

Additionally I was thinking that the author was mildly annoyed at Tim McInnerny not getting the time to shine as Peter Thorneycroft, much how his role in the TV show Utopia is to spend 2 minutes being really good as Airey Neave and then being killed off screen.
 
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The Career of Fred Hampton

1966-1968: Leader, NAACP Youth Council (West Suburban Branch)
1968-1969: Member, Illinois Black Panther Party
1969-1970: Co-Director of the Rainbow Coalition

(with William "Preacherman" Fesperman and José Cha Cha Jiménez) representing the Young Patriots Organization, the Lincoln Park Poor People's Coalition, the Students for a Democratic Society, the Brown Berets, Rising Up Angry, the American Indian Movement, the Red Guard Party, the Mothers, the Young Lords
1969-1970: Chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party & Deputy Chairman of the Black Panther Party
1970-1971: Black Panther Party Central Committee Chief of Staff
1970: Co-Convener of the National Committees to Combat Fascism

(with Angela Davis) representing the Communist Party USA, the Peace and Freedom Party, the Progressive Labor Party, the Red Guard Party, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Black Panther Party, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Weather Underground Organization, the Third World Liberation Front, the Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell (W.I.T.C.H), the Young Lords, the Young Patriots Organization, the Young Socialist Alliance, the Brown Berets, the White Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, the Congolian Maulers, the Lincoln Park Poor People's Coalition, El Comité, I Wor Kuen, Rising Up Angry, Venceremos.
1972-1973: Chairman of the Council for Metropolitan Open Communities for the Free Chicago Autonomous Zone
1972: Minister of the Black Panther Party Midwest Front
1973: Member of the Acting Directive Council of the People's Will

(with Tom Hayden, Angela Davis, Rennie Davis, Jeff Jones, Susan Stern, Bill Ayers)
1974-1976: Speaker & First Secretary of the American Central Committee
(acting, elected unopposed)
1976-19??: Private citizen, author
1981: Elder Statesman of the Nation

(honorary title)
 

The Career of Fred Hampton

1966-1968: Leader, NAACP Youth Council (West Suburban Branch)
1968-1969: Member, Illinois Black Panther Party
1969-1970: Co-Director of the Rainbow Coalition

(with William "Preacherman" Fesperman and José Cha Cha Jiménez) representing the Young Patriots Organization, the Lincoln Park Poor People's Coalition, the Students for a Democratic Society, the Brown Berets, Rising Up Angry, the American Indian Movement, the Red Guard Party, the Mothers, the Young Lords
1969-1970: Chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party & Deputy Chairman of the Black Panther Party
1970-1971: Black Panther Party Central Committee Chief of Staff
1970: Co-Convener of the National Committees to Combat Fascism

(with Angela Davis) representing the Communist Party USA, the Peace and Freedom Party, the Progressive Labor Party, the Red Guard Party, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Black Panther Party, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the Weather Underground Organization, the Third World Liberation Front, the Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell (W.I.T.C.H), the Young Lords, the Young Patriots Organization, the Young Socialist Alliance, the Brown Berets, the White Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, the Congolian Maulers, the Lincoln Park Poor People's Coalition, El Comité, I Wor Kuen, Rising Up Angry, Venceremos.
1972-1973: Chairman of the Council for Metropolitan Open Communities for the Free Chicago Autonomous Zone
1972: Minister of the Black Panther Party Midwest Front
1973: Member of the Acting Directive Council of the People's Will

(with Tom Hayden, Angela Davis, Rennie Davis, Jeff Jones, Susan Stern, Bill Ayers)
1974-1976: Speaker & First Secretary of the American Central Committee
(acting, elected unopposed)
1976-19??: Private citizen, author
1981: Elder Statesman of the Nation

(honorary title)

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The Clone Wars were a series of interplanetary armed conflicts and labor crises marked by the use of cloning technology in the late Galactic Republic.

1st Clone War (210 BBY - 199 BBY): With the advent of economically-feasible mass-cloning technology, corporations begin to use cheaply-produced clone labor, leading to many individual systems declaring the practice illegal. War breaks out across several systems, the Republic intervenes in a limited capacity to maintain peace. Cloning is declared legal by the Galactic Republic, mainly for its industrial benefits.

2nd Clone War (156 BBY-130 BBY): Also known as the Lesser Mandalorian War, Mandalorian raiders replenished their forces using stolen cloning technology and began to attack key trade routes. Several systems began to grow their own cloned militias to supplement their existing singular-lifeform forces in combatting the threat. The Mandalorian population was further reduced, remainders either exist as zealots, clan-like hermit states, or mercenaries. Due to the somewhat-localized nature of these conflicts, these battles occurred across a relatively-long time frame and only began to be referred to as one of the Clone Wars decades later.

3rd and 4th Clone War (112 BBY-33 BBY): Some scholars prefer to describe this as a singular war effort, but common schools of thought break the conflict into two distinct periods: before the Republic intervened, and after the Republic intervened. Military Cloning proliferated following the Second Clone War, leading to many guilds, corporations, and cartels forming private armies. Armed conflict became common between systems, private organizations, and private organizations fighting planetary systems. While the conflict was confined to individual systems or small clusters of systems settling disputes through deadly, seemingly-unending armed conflict, the Jedi Order became relied upon as mediators and, in some situations, warriors.

As the number of conflicts increased and the webs of alliances grew increasingly large and complex over the course of decades, the Republic military was forced to intervene, using its own clone armada. The end of the war led to the Republic reflecting on how the practice of military cloning contributed to the conflict's longevity, and as a result, they retired their own clone forces and placed harsh regulations on the practice of cloning as a whole.

5th Clone War (33 BBY-27 BBY): In response to the increased cloning regulations, a group of rogue systems, corporations, guilds, and crime syndicates form the Shadow Collective and use their private clone armies to wage war against the Republic, which at the time was militarily depleted due to the retiring of its clone battalions and full reliance upon voluntary enlistment. The Republic manages to convince several major clone populations to turn against their masters with an implied promise of suffrage. The clone uprisings and intervention of the Jedi (now acting as both monk-like advisors and warrior-protectors for several systems) and Republic forces eventually defeats the Collective, which is also plagued by infighting. The rogue systems and corporations are brought under the heel of the Republic and administrative duties are given to allies of the incoming Valorum Chancellery. Clone laborers who revolted against the Collective are not given the freedom that had been led to believe they'd acquire as newly Republic-owned companies require labor.

A revolutionary tactic that causes this war to stand out from others is the use of highly-advanced infiltrator clones, who were implanted with long-term memory patterns (as opposed to flash-learned combat and/or functional techniques) in order to impersonate key officials within the Republic's political and security hierarchies. These infiltrators were able to fool the vast majority of biometric security systems. The only people who were able to detect the impostors were Force-wielders such as the Jedi Order, a fact which further cemented the Republic's reliance upon the Order.

6th Clone War (25 BBY-20 BBY): Clone warlord Atha Prime, a revolutionary from the spice mines of Kessel, leads an uprising against his new masters. This inspires several other clone populations to do the same, and soon, these rogue clones form the Clone Brotherhood. Believing that diplomacy will be ineffective, Atha Prime and the Brotherhood have resorted to brutal, terroristic tactics, often using their superior numbers and savagery to overwhelm Outer- and Mid-Rim planetary militias. As the conflict has continued, the Republic has become further mired in bureaucracy as system represntatives clash over which planets to save first- typically corresponding to which suffering industry is connected to which Senator. With the galaxy's main supply of labor now in revolt, the economy has collapsed, highlighting the deep disparities between the elites and the common folk.

Alderaan, a pacifist Core World and the scientific hub of the Galaxy, becomes occupied by clone invaders seeking to use the planet's geneticists to fuel the Brotherhood's war machine. While resistance forces oppose the occupiers on the ground, a small task force convinces the Republic Navy to intervene, eventually decimating the clone hordes on the planet. The galaxy becomes embroiled in a conflict between the now-expanded Republic forces, headed by the Jedi and the new Stormtrooper legions, and the Clone Brotherhood, eventually culminating in the Battle of Utapau and the destruction of the Clone Brotherhood's major bacta reserves, which would soon lead to their surrender. The actions taken by Republic forces during the Battle of Utapau causes the Jedi Order to sever ties with the Republic military and begin aiding dissidents. This would be cited as one of the reasons why the Jedi were labelled traitors following the end of the Clone Wars.

Over the next year, the Republic's forces eliminated the remaining clone holdouts. Now aware of the existential threats that bureaucratic inefficiency, corporate patronage, and rampant decadence posed to the galaxy (by virtue of creating the socioeconomic conditions that sparked the last few conflicts), the Republic reformed itself as the Galactic Empire. With bacta and cloning technology in short supply and the traitorous Jedi order purged, the Empire achieved what had eluded the Republic for centuries: a state monopoly on violent force.
 
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Inspired by Steve Richards's latest book: 'The Prime Ministers We Never Had: Success and Failure from Butler to Corbyn'

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

1951-1955: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1951 (Majority) def. Clement Attlee (Labour), Clement Davies (Liberal)

1955-1957: Anthony Eden (Conservative)

1957-1964: R.A. Butler (Conservative)
1959 (Majority) def. Hugh Gaitskell (Labour), Jo Grimond (Liberal)

1964-1968: Harold Wilson (Labour)
1964 (Majority) def. R.A. Butler (Conservative), Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1966 (Majority) def. Edward Heath (Conservative), Jo Grimond (Liberal)


1968-1971: Roy Jenkins (Labour)
1970 (Coalition, with Liberal) def. Edward Heath (Conservative), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)

1971-1975: Barbara Castle (Labour)

1975-1983: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)
1975 (Majority) def. Barbara Castle (Labour), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal), Roy Jenkins (SDP), William Wolfe (SNP)
1976 EEC Membership Referendum: 69% YES, 31% NO
1979 (Majority) def. Denis Healey (Labour), David Steel (Liberal), Roy Jenkins (SDP), William Wolfe (SNP)


1983-1984: Michael Heseltine (Conservative)

1984-1991: Denis Healey (Labour)
1984 (Majority) def. Michael Heseltine (Conservative), Shirley Williams/Bill Pitt (Liberal-SDP Alliance), Willie McRae (SNP), Dafydd Wigley (Plaid Cymru)
1989 (Majority) def. Norman Tebbit (Conservative), Bill Pitt (Liberal Democrats), Dafydd Wigley (Plaid Cymru), Willie McRae (SNP)


1991-1997: Neil Kinnock (Labour)
1992 (Majority) def. Norman Tebbit (Conservative), Bill Pitt (Liberal Democrats), Alex Salmond (SNP)

1997-2008: Kenneth Clarke (Conservative)
1997 (Majority) def. Neil Kinnock (Labour), Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrats)
2002 (Majority) def. Margaret Beckett (Labour), Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrats)
2006 (Majority) def. John Prescott (Labour), Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrats), Robert Kilroy-Silk (UKIP), Roseanna Cunningham (SNP), Dafydd Elis-Thomas (Plaid Cymru


2008-2009: Michael Portillo (Conservative)
Mar. 2009 (Minority) def. David Milliband (Labour), Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrats), Dafydd Elis-Thomas (Plaid Cymru), Robert Kilroy-Silk (UKIP)

2009-2015: David Milliband (Labour)
Dec. 2009 (Coalition, with Lib Dems) def. Michael Portillo (Conservative), Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrats), Robert Kilroy-Silk (UKIP), Dafydd Elis-Thomas (Plaid Cymru), Roseanna Cunningham (SNP)
2012 Welsh Independence Referendum: 77% NO, 22% YES, 1% Other
2012 Scottish Independence Referendum: 69% NO, 30% YES, 0.5% Other
2012 Electoral Reform Referendum: 49% NO, 26% YES - PR, 23% YES - AV
2014 (Majority) def. Michael Gove (Conservative), Robert Kilroy-Silk (UKIP), Mark Oaten (Liberal Democrats), Elin Jones (Plaid Cymru), Stewart Hosie (SNP)
2015 European Union Membership Referendum: 52% Leave, 47% Reamian, 0.9% Other


2015-2018: Ed Milliband (Labour)
2016 (Minority, with Lib Dems, Plaid Cymru and SNP supply & confidence) def. Peter Hitchens (Conservative), David Campbell Bannerman (UKIP), Lembit Öpik (Liberal Democrats), Elin Jones (Plaid Cymru), Stewart Hosie (SNP)

2018-Present: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)
2018 (Majority) def. Peter Hitchens (Conservative), Lembit Öpik (Liberal Democrats), David Cameron (Change UK), Elin Jones (Plaid Cymru), Stewart Hosie (SNP), Robert Kilroy-Silk (Brexit Party), Nigel Farage (UKIP)
2019 Exiting the European Union Deal Referendum: 51% DEAL, 31% REMAIN, 18% NO DEAL
 
A list I was inspired to make thanks to reading a wiki article saying that some expect Ribicoff to be picked went way off the rails, enjoy this insanity.

1963-1965 Lyndon Johnson/VACANT (Democratic)
1965-1969 Lyndon Johnson/Abraham Ribicoff (Democratic)

1964 def. Barry Goldwater/William E. Miller (Republican)

1969-1977 Abraham Ribicoff/George Smathers (Democratic)
1968 def. Richard Nixon/Robert Finch (Republican), George Wallace/John Wayne (AIP)
1972 def. Ronald Reagan/Spiro Agnew (Republican),
George Wallace/John G. Schmitz (AIP)

1977-1985 John Connally/James Buckley (Republican)
1976 def. George Smathers/Edmund Muskie (Democratic)
1980 def.
Frank Church/John Glenn (Democratic)

1985-1993 Edwin Edwards/J. James Exon (Democratic)
1984 def. James Buckley/Howard Baker (Republican)
1988 def. Lee Iacocca/Gary Hart (Independent), Pat Robertson/Pete Domenici (Republican)


1993-1997 Vincent "Buddy" Cianci/John McCain (Republican)
1992 def. Jerry Brown/Paul Tsongas (Reform), J. James Exon/Al Gore (Democratic)

1997-2001 Dick Lamm/Ralph Nader (Reform)
1996 def. Vincent "Buddy" Cianci/John McCain (Republican), Mel Reynolds/Bob Graham (Democratic)

2001-2009 J.C. Watts/Joe Biden (Republican)
2000 def. Jerry Litton/Bill Bradley (Democratic), Dick Lamm/Ralph Nader (Reform)
2004 def. Dean Barkley/Benjamin Nighthorse Campbell (Reform), Joe Lieberman/John Edwards (Democratic)


2009-2017 Dick Gephardt/Tom Strickland (Democratic)
2008 def. Ralph Nader/Charlie Crist (Reform), Joe Biden/Matt Blunt (Republican)
2012 def. Jon Huntsman Jr./Bob McDonnell (Republican), Charlie Crist/Carole Keeton Strayhorn (Reform)


2017-2021 Rick Snyder/David Beasley (Republican)
2016 def. Jesse Ventura/William Weld (Reform), Tom Strickland/Rick Perry (Democratic)

2021-present Norm Coleman/Matt Gonzalez (Reform)
2020 def. Rick Snyder/David Beasley (Republican), Steve Bullock/Tim Ryan (Democratic)
 
New Zealand as Uruguay

1940-1950:
Peter Fraser (Labour)
1943 def: Sidney Hamilton (National), Gordon Coates (Country), John A. Lee (Democratic Labour)
1946 def: Sidney Hamilton (National), Keith Holyoake (Country), John A. Lee (Democratic Labour)
1949 def: Sidney Hamilton (National), Keith Holyoake (Country), John A. Lee (Democratic Labour)

1950-1958: Walter Nash (Labour)
1952 def: Sidney Holland (National), Keith Holyoake (Country), John A. Lee (Democratic Labour)
1955 def: Sidney Holland (National), Tom Shand (Country), John A. Lee (Democratic Labour)

1958-1961: Sidney Holland (National-Reform coalition)
1958 def: Walter Nash (Labour), Horace Herring (Reform)
1961-1967: Keith Holyoake (National)
1961 def: Arnold Nordmeyer (Labour)
1964 def: Arnold Nordmeyer (Labour)

1967-1968: Mick Moohan (Labour)
1967 def: Keith Holyoake (National), Bruce Jesson (Democratic Labour)
1968-1972: Robert Muldoon (Labour)
1970 def: Jack Marshall (National), Bernard Fergusson (Democratic Alliance)
1972-1976: Roger Douglas (Labour)

The Labour Party entered the post-war period freed from associations with the militaristic government of the Second World War, but retaining many of the protectionist policies that had been deemed necessary for the country's survival. For most, it was a time of affluence and political liberalism, in which Labour governed as of right - National seemed unable to shake off the leadership of a man who had espoused far-right policies in the 1930s and brought down the War Coalition (and was in any case split), while the only left-wing opposition was from the relatively benign, if personalist, DLP.

During the 1950s, though, the warning signs began to flash red: the dissident anti-Hollandists returned to the National fold, the DLP became downright revolutionary against the wishes of its leader, and a balance of payments crisis struck in 1957, leading to the defeat of Labour by an alliance of National and a ruralist conservative group coming out of the Labour Party. Sid Holland simultaneously liberalised the economy and imposed different, more complex, state controls which made everything stay pretty much the same, so it was to some extent a relief when he died without fiddling too much with the political liberties which Kiwis held dear, and left the consensus-minded Holyoake in his stead. Holyoake, in his turn, fell victim to an economic crisis in 1966, this time driven by the permanent collapse of the international wool price. As two thirds of NZ's earnings grew on the backs of sheep, this was a fundamental problem.

For a decade, the radical left - excluded from Parliament by its lack of traction with the general public - had been developing a conception of New Zealand as a tributary state of the colonial powers; a country which had only escaped the brush of the 'Third World' by an accident of race; a nation which by any measure ought to be counted as part of the Global South. Now that the economy had succumbed to the rigours of gravity, a larger number of people began to agree with the group around the new DLP - and loosely connected groups began an armed struggle to create a truly socialist state in the mould of the Cuban Revolution.

The indecisive, kleptocratic government of Mick Moohan failed to resolve the situation, and his successor, General Muldoon, only exacerbated the situation by closing newspapers and sending the Army in to quash guerrilla activity, while the cost of living simply skyrocketed as Muldoon fiddled ineffectively in the margins, unable to figure out a way of keeping everybody happy except by freezing wages and prices to try and stop History from happening. The liberals of both left and right strove to topple him in 1970, but the vote was too deeply split, and only ill-health made him step down.

The new Prime Minister was a relative unknown, but quickly imposed a military coup on New Zealand, following naturally from the one which had removed Evatt in Australia. The military simply wanted stability and free market economics; they did not want Douglas' madcap scheme to replace the (prorogued) Parliament with an 'Association of Consumers and Taxpayers', so ultimately they got rid of him as well - remove the middleman. A decade would pass before democracy was restored - although many of those guilty of torture or 'disappearances' remained unpunished for the rest of their lives.
 
SDP MPs in elected in the United Kingdom General Election of 2000:

Oxford West and Abingdon (Chris Huhne)

Exeter (Norman Lamb)
Colchester (Stephen Haseler)
Greenwich and Woolwich (Adair Turner)
Richmond, Yorks (Stephen Milligan)
Twickenham (Vince Cable)
Plymouth Devonport (Andrew Cooper)
Plymouth Drake (Roland Rudd)
Portsmouth South (Mike Hancock)

Wirral South (Sue Slipman)

Taking an old POD: the continuing SDP win the Richmond, Yorkshire by-election of 1989, which with relatively dismal results in that year's Euro elections and the dogged but mediocre leadership of Alan Beith for the new Social and Liberal Democrats, kicks off an Alliance 2.0. Less co-operative than its predecessor, it amounts to standing down in certain constituencies but campaigning with separate parties and manifestos. David Owen's sudden transformation from national joke to comeback player saw the party attract new support and membership.

Going in to 1992 the SDP held Greenwich, Woolwich, Plymouth Devonport, Richmond, and the seat of defector David Alton in Liverpool Mossley Hill, achieving a few good second places (Exeter, Colchester). It was probably the election of Chris Huhne in Oxford, however, that stopped the Party from becoming simply more than an Owenite holdout. Electing a leader by OMOV even when the majority of MPs supported him, Huhne faced immense difficulty in bridging the divide over Maastricht, even as the Social Liberals (later to drop that first part under Menzies Campbell) came out passionately for its implementation.

Huhne was helped, ironically, by the Liberals' own problems - Paddy Ashdown's nervous breakdown and Charles Kennedy's personal difficulties conspired to prevent either of them taking the Liberals in a radical new direction, allowing the SDP to project a professional, radical appearance, demonstrated in the 1996 intake - Vince Cable, Roland Rudd, and Norman Lamb were among that year's intake, even as Tony Blair cautiously guided Labour back into power after Smith's heart attack and Prescott's meltdowns.

Battles between the increasingly Eurosceptic Owenite tendency and the more social market orientated "Club of '96" bedevilled the SDP in the late 1990s, particularly when Tony Blair came out in favour of Britain joining the Ecu. With Menzies Campbell content to remain a latter-day Jo Grimond, however, keeping the Liberals to their Celtic and West Country strongholds, the SDP could build from their pockets of strength, staking out their independent path in the Alliance, but still, perenially, the second player.
 
1945-1950: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1945 (Majority) def: Winston Churchill (Conservative), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Ernest Brown (National Liberal)
1950-1954: Anthony Eden (Conservative)†
1950 (Majority) def: Clement Attlee (Labour), Clement Davis (Liberal)
1954-1959: Oliver Lyttelton (Conservative)
1955 (Majority) def: Clement Attlee (Labour), Frank Byers replacing Clement Davis (Liberal)
1959-1968: Alfred Robens (Labour)
1959 (Majority) def: Oliver Lyttelton (Conservative), Frank Byers (Liberal)
1963 (Majority) def: John Profumo (Conservative), Frank Byers (Liberal)

1968-1973: Anthony Nutting (Conservative)
1968 (Majority) def: Alfred Robens (Labour), Eric Lubbock (Liberal), Stan Newans (ILP)
1972 (Majority) def: James Callaghan (Labour), Eric Lubbock (Liberal aligned with New Agenda)

1973-1976: Airey Neave (Conservative)
1976-1977: Peter Tapsell (Conservative)

1977-1985: Peter Shore (Labour)

1977 (Majority) def: Peter Tapsell (Conservative), Eric Lubbock (Liberal aligned with New Agenda), Jeremy Thorpe (Centre)
1981 (Majority) def: Geoffrey Rippon (Conservative), Hilary Wainwright (Liberal-New Agenda), Jeremy Thorpe (Centre)

1985-: Peter Walker (Conservative)
1985 (Majority) def: Peter Shore (Labour), Hilary Wainwright (New Democrats), John Stonehouse (Centre)


Eden was the man who would bring the Tories out of the Wilderness, a disciple of Skeltonism and a believer in the possibility of state intervention and a fairly Liberal idea for the Tory ideals, Eden would find himself well suited to take the leadership after Churchill had another stroke that put him out commission permanently. Eden would beat Attlee in 1950 and ushered in another Conservative Majority on a message of essentially being better than Labour at providing the power of the state.

Of course, Eden had to drive a devils bargain with the Magic Circle to get to the position he wanted. Oliver Lyttelton was a fairly business minded individual, connected to the City of London and banking in general, Lyttelton would be Eden’s Chancellor, the Old Tory Guard’s way of keeping Eden from being too Radical.

Eden’s time would be mildly transformative and see the continuation with much of the Attlee policies and ideas, though this would be combined with a slow withdrawal from the Empire and the denationalisation of some assets here and there. But then he would die, a simple surgery would end up giving Eden two weeks of immense pain before he would die of his injuries, causing a nation to mourn.

Lyttelton who had quietly been running the Treasury in the background, found himself thrust into the position of Prime Minister and initially would continue the policies that Eden had pushed for, easily winning him the 1955 election as Labour failed to impress and the Liberal’s had to rapidly change leader when Davis’s Alcoholism became too much for him, saved by Byers (who just managed to hold on to his Dorset seat thanks to Labour deciding to avoid putting up a candidate).

Lyttelton seeing his fresh new mandate decided that now he could pursue a more business friendly government. Taxes Cuts, harsher treatment against Trade Unions and Public Spending cuts would be the order of the day, and whilst Britain definitely didn’t see the return to the 1930s as some thought, it definitely left a bad taste in the countries mouth. This combined with continued conflict in Kenya, Cyprus and Malay lead to people erring against Lyttelton. Talks of a potential leadership coup being mounted by Harold Macmillan or Rab Butler would lead to both being flung out of the cabinet and Lyttelton would surround himself with yes men.

In early 1959 a miners and coalers strike over pay disputes and colliery closures would nearly cause the whole of Britain to blackout, as regions were plunged into darkness. Lyttelton decided that he should pursue an election as an Anti-Socialist Crusade against Communist subversion and Labour Radicalism. Hopes this would inspire Britain to reject the remains of Attlee would lead to the opposite happening.

Alfred Robens came into No10 as the future of the Left and left it as it’s greatest betrayer. Having been the Left ‘Anti-Morrison’ candidate in the 1955 Leadership Election after Gaitskell and Bevan declined to bring about a coronation, Robens was dealt a great hand by Lyttelton’s aggressive austerity policies and just as aggressive deals with Trade Unions. Robens presented himself as the man who could not only finish what Attlee has started but also would ensure a healthy balance between Trade Unions, Market and Government.

A combination of Robens youthful energy, a Liberal surge under Byers and the Conservative’s just being incredibly exhausted is what lead to Robens win. His first several years of office were mainly continuations of what had been proposed in the Attlee Government, the Industrial Democracy Bill was a watered down attempt to administrate the various vying Trade Unions under an all encompassing Bill, Welfare Spending was increased and assets that hadn’t previously been Nationalised were Nationalised.

Robens would also pursue a foreign policy that would ensure Britian still had a front seat in Global Affairs. The Yugoslavian-Britain Trade Pact was one of the first serious attempts to include Yugoslavia into the Global Economy, Robens would get on well with the bullish Texan LBJ and it was decided to finish withdrawing from the Empire...with American help. This would be one of Robens first big mistakes, as the price for ensuring American support for decolonisation was Britain had to help America in there own affairs.

It was thought that Britain's relative success in Malaya could work out for America in Vietnam. This rapidly turned out to not be the case, as dealing with the Vietcong and NVRA would turn out to be bloody slog for all countries involved. Robens would rapidly become unpopular with the youths being conscripted to fight the war as part of Robens revival in national service.

Another mistake was Robens and much of his Cabinet had little clue on how to deal with the economy. Early on they had been saved by Lyttelton ruthlessly austerity causing a pot of money and a cooled down economy to be there when Robens was in office. But Robens would ignore NEDY as the economy began to heat up again as the 60s rolled on. Additionally Robens would refuse to join the burgeoning EEC as he viewed the Commonwealth and other friends overseas and Britain’s main trading partners.

Whilst Robens would win a substantial majority in the 1963 election against a scandal filled John Profumo, it became apparent that 1968 would be more difficult affair. The Liberals having regained stability under Byers, had now looked for a new leader to pushing them through into the new decade. Eric Lubbock was a fairly radical Liberal and seen as not likely to win, until the front runner Thorpe had to step down for personal reasons. Seeing a potential gain to be had, Lubbock would appeal to the Radical students and youth movements popping in the wake of the Vietnam War and National Service.

Whilst this was happening Robens would see a split caused by Stan Newans over Britain’s continued involvement in Vietnam. Whilst not enough to cause a collapse in his Majority, the whole affair and it’s impact would be embarrassing for Robens.

Seeing the writing on the wall, Robens decided to lean further Rightwards, with electoral campaign loaded with so many racial dogwhistles it would have made Morrison and Churchill blush. This would prove to have an opposite effect than anticipated, as numerous individuals found the racism involved making them vote either the moderate Conservative’s or the Liberals. Robens would voted out of office and rapidly find himself sulking on the benches of the Lords.

Anthony Nutting wasn’t like Lyttelton or Profumo and campaigned on a return to the type of politics that Eden had proposed. Friendly with Trade Unions, the EEC and the increasingly Liberalising Britain, Nutting wasn’t going back to the aggressiveness of Lyttelton any time soon. Nutting would oversee the withdrawal from Vietnam, helped by President Rockerfellar and Britain would join the EEC in 1971 helped by President Alain Poher.

But the economy which had became to inflate and overheat during the Robens years would begin to rear it’s ugly head again. Whilst it wasn’t an issue in 1972, as Labour battled a revive Liberals who had united with the Radical Libertarian Left Party accidentally started by Richard Acland and Tom Driberg in 1968 as a Christian Socialist Machine to find themselves doing well in the cities of Britain.

But things would go badly for Nutting in 1973 when investors noticed that Britain’s economy was beginning to slump. A run on the pound would lead to the near collapse of the British economy as it drove headlong into recession. Unemployment exploded and government expenditure shrivelled up. Nutting would resign, as it the damage became apparent.

Airey Neave represented the revival of the Conservative Right under a new face, Populist and Nationalistic, Neave was a person who spoke to Middle England and told them that ‘Yes, we will crush the scary Communist Unions, the Marxist IRA, Michael X and the criminal elements in Britain’. But things would turn out to be more complicated than that, and sending riot police to beat up students or pictures of bloodied soldiers in Northern Ireland left many feeling gloomy. The economy didn’t recover, crime was rampant and Michael X would remain a semi-prominent figure in British politics.

This feeling of getting nowhere would lead Neave down some dark paths. A investigative journalist would reveal all this in 1976, that Neave had plans prepared to deal with a ‘Trade Union insurrection’ and a ‘Northern Irish Rebellion’ which essentially amounted to assassinations, bribery and coup plans. Neave would resign, disgraced before fleeing to Mexico to escape prosecution.

His successor, Peter Tapsell was a bullish Keneysian Right Wing Populist but his beliefs didn’t little when faced with the actual realities of Britain. Tapsell tried to essentially out Shore, Peter Shore in the incoming election but appeared fruitless as he went about on offensive tirades and weird speeches on English Nationalism. In the end most Conservative voters fled to the new Centre party, a loose coalition of Tory Moderates, Liberal Localist Populists, Labour Rightwingers and John Stonehouse lead by the eccentric but charismatic Jeremy Thorpe, who hoped he could become the next Prime Minister.

This didn’t happen, instead Peter Shore would become Prime Minister. Charismatic, Radical but also a mild Conservative, Shore would be a man of numerous contradictions, a man who would decentralise power across Britain through his ‘Council Boards’ and ‘A Democratic Industry’ schemes But was firmly against Regional Assemblies and attempts to enforce stronger trade union regulation. A firm British Nationalist, he would try and drag Britain out of the EEC (and would eventually gain the ‘Shore Solution’ of a separate trading pact) and the man who would bring Britain back into the forefront of Anti-Communist activities (helped by President Scoop Jackson).

Ushering in essentially a very English form of Social Democracy, one that was incredibly autarkic in nature, in an increasingly globe world, but seemed to get the job done. Shore’s Left Wing Populism would run it’s course when the Conservative’s finally found a leader who could easily combat it.

Peter Walker was the Moderate Peter Shore, a State Interventionist, nonplussed on the EEC and a man liberal enough to reform the economy but not liberal enough to implode the welfare state, Walker would oversee the ‘Second British Boom’ as it’s called. As Labour pondered on who next (with choice being narrowed down between the Welsh Shoreite or the New Zealand Shoreite or that weird Ashdown fella), the New Democrats began to increasingly lean into further Left Libertarianism and Ecologically ideas (with the party more frequently turning to the works of Murray Bookchin over Ralph Miliband) and the Centre Party having died a very natural death under John Stonehouse, it seems that forty years since Churchill’s stroke, Britain may finally get a Conservative Prime Minister with two full terms under his belt...

Well if that ‘Slater Bust Scandal’ that seems to coming up to the surface doesn’t bite Walker in the arse.
 
I will mention, Jim Slater and Peter Walker would be a fascinating addition to any timeline, I do think Walker is under-utilised as a Conservative Prime Minister, which is odd given how Young and Charismatic he was.

But his relationship with Slater opens a can of worms of dodgy deals, corruption and all that jazz which would be fun to see play out.
 
What if Lyndon B. Johnson picked Eugene McCarthy as his running mate in 1964?

36) 1963-1969: Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
1964 (with Eugene McCarthy) def.: Barry Goldwater / William E. Miller (Republican)

37) 1969-1975: Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
1968 (with Ronald Reagan) def.: Henry M. Jackson / Fred Harris (Democratic); George Wallace / Happy Chandler (American Independent); Eugene McCarthy / Ernest Greuning ("Alternative" Democratic)
1972 (with Ronald Reagan) def.: Ed Muskie / Stuart Symington (Democratic); Eugene McCarthy / Ron Dellums (Alternative for America)

38) 1975-1981: Ronald Reagan (Republican)
1976 (with Larry Hogan) def.: John Lindsay / Birch Bayh (Democratic)

39) 1981-1984: Frank Church (Democratic)
1980 (with Dale Bumpers) def.: Ronald Reagan / Larry Hogan (Republican)

40) 1984-1989: Dale Bumpers (Democratic)
1984 (with Daniel Patrick Moynihan) def.: Bob Dole / Howard Baker (Republican)

41) 1989-1997: John Warner (Republican)
1988 (with George Deukmejian) def.: Gary Hart / Bob Graham (Democratic)
1992 (with George Deukmejian) def.: Sam Nunn / John Kerry (Democratic)

42) 1997-2005: Elizabeth Holtzman (Democratic)
1996 (with Ray Mabus) def.: Bob Martinez / Jack Kemp (Republican)
2000 (with Ray Mabus) def.: John McCain / William L. Armstrong (Republican)

The key point of inflection is that with LBJ dragging his feet on running again in 1968, Vice President McCarthy starts his campaign in earnest and becomes a vocal critic of the administration's foreign policy. LBJ is pissed, but seeing the writing on the wall, he sends Scoop Jackson into the primary as a pro-war proxy candidate. Jackson narrowly beats McCarthy at the 1968 convention, which causes Clean Gene to lead a walkout of his supporters. Sore loser laws are underdeveloped at this point in time, so McCarthy runs as a third party fourth party independent candidate against the legitimate Democratic ticket. His running mate is Ernest Greuning, U.S. Senator from Alaska and the lone dissenting voice against the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, who had just lost his own primary to Mike Gravel.

On the Republican side, the convention's Southern delegations- led by arch-racist Strom Thurmond- slip through Nixon's fingers into the hands of Ronald Reagan. Rockefeller, smelling blood in the water, writes up the boilerplate to give to the RNC's own Dr. Faustus, Ronald Reagan. Hours later, Rockefeller appears onstage and announces that he's named Ronald Reagan as his running mate. The perceived solidity of the now-unified campaign (even if it is a little bipolar on some policy issues) over the Nixon one causes other delegates to flock to them, and soon enough, the Rockefeller/Reagan ticket is nominated as the foil to the Jackson/Harris one (and the Wallace/Chandler one, and the McCarthy/Greuning one).

The "Rocky and Ronnie" ticket easily wins the election since the Democratic electorate is splintered into three separate pieces. Reagan seems content in his role as heir apparent and starts building a campaign team for 1976. Then, he's thrust into the top job, and his first order of businesses is pretending that President Rockefeller didn't die with his pants around his ankles.
 
The Career of Ricky Dale Harrington Jr.

2013: Missionary, Sunset International Bible Institute
2016-2019: Chaplin, Arkansas Department of Corrections (Cummins Unit)
2020: Libertarian Party candidate for Senator for Arkansas

lost to Tom Cotton
2022: Libertarian Party candidate for Governor of Arkansas

lost to Charles Blake, Sarah Huckabee Sanders
2022-2025: Chairman of the Arkansas Libertarian Party

defeated Chris Lutterloh, Chris Olson, Elvis D. Presley
2024: Republican Party primary candidate for Mayor of Pine Bluff

defeated Leon Jones Jr., Eddie Arnold, various perennial candidates
2024: Independent candidate for Mayor of Pine Bluff
defeated Bruce Lockett, Dwight McKissic [write in]
2025-2029: Mayor of Pine Bluff, Arkansas

lost reelection to Vivian Flowers
2028: Republican Party primary candidate for Senator for Arkansas

lost to Scott Flippo, Mathew Pitsch
2028: Libertarian Party candidate for Senator for Arkansas

lost to Blanca Estevez, Scott Flippo
2030: Libertarian Party candidate for Governor of Arkansas
lost to Irvin Camacho, Matthew Shepherd, Dan Whitfield
2032: Independent candidate for President of the United States (Libertarian Party-endorsed)
(with Elinor Swanson) lost to Mauree Turner/Ugo Okere, Francis X. Suarez/Torren Ecker
2033-2034: Private citizen, political activist
2034-present: Public speaker, The 700 Club
 
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Fuck it, let's keep this ball rolling -

The Career of Francis X. Suarez

2009-2017: Member of the Miami City Commission from the 4th district

appointed to replace Tomás Regalado
defeated Manolo Reyes, Denis Rod,
Oscar Rodriguez-Fonts
2017-2025: Mayor of Miami, Florida

'17: defeated William Armbrister Sr. (Independent)
'21: defeated Maxwell Manuel Martinez,
Anthony Melvin Dutrow (Socialist Workers)
2024: Republican Party Primary candidate for President of the United States

lost to Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Kim Reynolds, Chris Christie, Mike Pompeo, Matt Gaetz
2025-2028: Private citizen, consultant for Greenspoon Marder LLP
2028:
Republican Party candidate for Senator for Florida
defeated Jeff Kottkamp, Virginia Fuller, Augustus Sol Invictus
lost to
Richie Floyd, David Jolly (Serve America Movement)
2029-2032: Senator for Florida
appointed by Governor Alan Grayson to replace Pam Bondi
'30: defeated Barbara Sharief

2032: Republican Party nominee for President of the United States
defeated Sara Rasmussen, G.T. Bynum, Rick Becker, Tyler August
(with Torren Ecker)
lost to Mauree Turner/Ugo Okere,
Ricky Dale Harrington Jr./Elinor Swanson
2033-2039: Private citizen, lobbyist
2038: Republican Party candidate for Governor of Florida

defeated Willie Montague, Louis E. Sola
2039-present: Governor for Florida
defeated Anika Tene Omphroy
 
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I think the format’s great for weaving a contextless narrative around a person, but a couple of things.

Florida doesnt hold off-year special elections for vacancies in the Senate, the governor taps someone to serve until a special election at the next statewide cycle (i.e., a midterm or presidential year). On a similar level, the governor doesn’t get to pick anybody to fill a vacancy in the House - the seat stays empty until the special election.

Also, Florida elects it’s governor in the midterm cycle so the only statewide thing Suarez could run for in 2028 is Rubio’s Senate seat.
 
I think the format’s great for weaving a contextless narrative around a person, but a couple of things.

Florida doesnt hold off-year special elections for vacancies in the Senate, the governor taps someone to serve until a special election at the next statewide cycle (i.e., a midterm or presidential year). On a similar level, the governor doesn’t get to pick anybody to fill a vacancy in the House - the seat stays empty until the special election.

Also, Florida elects it’s governor in the midterm cycle so the only statewide thing Suarez could run for in 2028 is Rubio’s Senate seat.
Cleaned it up a bit following your advice, any better?
 
One more to round 'em out, short and sweet;

The Career of Mauree Turner

2021: Member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives

'20: defeated Kelly Barlean
'22: defeated Chris Kannady
'24: defeated
Meghan Blood
2026: Democratic Party Primary nominee for Representative for Oklahoma

defeated Nana Dankwa, J.J. Dossett
2026: Independent candidate for Representative for Oklahoma
defeated Cindy Byrd
2027: Representative for Oklahoma

'30: defeated Brian Hill, Todd Hagopian (Libertarian)
2027-2032: Member of "The Squad" [congressional faction]
with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, Jamaal Bowman, Cori Bush, Sara Innamorato, Danica Roem, others
2032: Democratic Party candidate for President of the United States
defeated Pete Buttegieg, Sarah McBride, Billie Sutton
2033-present: President of the Unites States

(with Ugo Okere) defeated Francis X. Suarez/Torren Ecker, Ricky Dale Harrington Jr./Elinor Swanson
 
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