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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

This is set in the same universe as my last two lists, and will probably require the most thought and reworking - hence why I'm only posting the early years thus far.

List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
1935-1937: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative leading National Government)
1937-1940: Neville Chamberlain (Conservative leading National Government)
1940-1940: Winston Churchill (Conservative leading War Government)
1940: Office abolished

Liste des Présidents du Conseil de la Troisième République Française
1936-1936: Albert Sarraut (Parti radical, à la tête du coalition de centre-droit)
1936-1937: Léon Blum (Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière, à la tête du Front populaire)
1937-1938: Camille Chautemps (Parti radical, à la tête du Front populaire)
1938-1938: Léon Blum (Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière, à la tête du Front populaire)
1938-1940: Édouard Daladier (Parti radical, à la tête du coalition du centre)
1940-1940: Paul Reynaud (Alliance démocratique, à la tête du Union nationale)
1940: Ministère démantelé

List of Co-Premiers of the Union of Great Britain and France
1940-1942: Winston Churchill / Paul Reynaud (Unionist leading War Government)*
1942-1944: Leo Amery / Paul Reynaud (Unionist leading War Government)
1944-1945: Anthony Eden / Georges Mandel (Unionist)
1945: Ernest Bevin / Léon Blum (Socialist-Labour) def: Anthony Eden / Georges Mandel (Unionist), Archibald Sinclair / Édouard Herriot (Radical-Liberal), Harry Politt / Jacques Duclos (Communist)
1945-1947: Ernest Bevin / Léon Blum (Socialist-Labour, supported by Radical-Liberal)
1947-1950: Ernest Bevin / Guy Mollet (Socialist-Labour, supported by Radical-Liberal)
1950-1954: Arthur Creech Jones / Guy Mollet (Socialist-Labour, supported by Radical-Liberal)
1950: Arthur Creech Jones / Guy Mollet (Socialist-Labour) def: Anthony Eden / Georges Bidault (Unionist) , Clement Davies / Pierre Mendès France (Radical-Liberal), Harry Politt / Jacques Duclos (Communist)
1954-19??: Anthony Eden / Robert Schuman (Unionist, supported by Radical-Liberal)
1954: Anthony Eden / Robert Schuman (Unionist) def: Arthur Creech Jones / Guy Mollet (Socialist-Labour), Clement Davies / Pierre Mendès France (Radical-Liberal), Harry Politt / Jacques Duclos (Communist)

That's as far as I'll go for now.

Répetez en français:

Liste des co-premier ministres de l'Union France-Grand-Bretagne
1940-1942: Paul Reynaud / Winston Churchill (Parti unioniste, à la tête de l'Union nationale)*
1942-1944: Paul Reynaud / Leo Amery (Parti unioniste, à la tête de l'Union nationale)
1944-1945: Georges Mandel / Anthony Eden (Parti unioniste)
1945: Léon Blum / Ernest Bevin (Parti socialiste-travailliste) vnc: Georges Mandel /Anthony Eden (Parti unionist), Édouard Herriot / Archibald Sinclair (Les radicaux de la liberté), Jacques Duclos / Harry Politt (Parti communiste)
1945-1947: Léon Blum / Ernest Bevin (Parti socialiste-travailliste, soutien par Les radicaux de la liberté)
1947-1950: Guy Mollet / Ernest Bevin (Parti socialiste-travailliste, soutien par Les radicaux de la liberté)
1950-1954: Guy Mollet / Arthur Creech Jones (Parti socialiste-travailliste, soutien par Les radicaux de la liberté)
1950: Guy Mollet / Arthur Creech Jones (Parti socialiste-travailliste), vnc: Georges Bidault / Anthony Eden (Unionist) , Pierre Mendès France / Clement Davies (Les radicaux de la liberté), Jacques Duclos / Harry Politt (Parti communiste)
1954-19??: Robert Schuman / Anthony Eden (Parti unioniste, soutien par Les radicaux de la liberté)
1954: Robert Schuman / Anthony Eden (Unionist) vnc: Guy Mollet / Arthur Creech Jones (Parti socialiste-travailliste), Pierre Mendès France / Clement Davies (Les radicaux de la liberté), Jacques Duclos / Harry Politt (Parti communiste)


* Party labels are applied retrospectively, as the situation was chaotic at the time. The inclusive name Unionist was eventually settled on due to 'conservative' having negative connotations in French politics, which is also why the Radical-Liberals' French name avoids translating 'liberal' directly. Only the largest political groupings are shown here, there are many more.

Wasn't sure whether to use 'à la tête du' or 'dirigeante' to equate to 'leading X coalition' in English, I'm sure there is an actual French term for it (more so than in English given French political history, probably!) Not sure how to translate 'supported by' either, especially as I've not decided myself yet whether this is confidence and supply or something more akin to a full coalition government.
 
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Thande said:
This is set in the same universe as my last two lists, and will probably require the most thought and reworking - hence why I'm only posting the early years thus far.
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Interesting stuff, I do suspect that Harry Pollitt would probably be replaced fairly quickly Post 45, due to the CPGB wanting to have someone a bit more hard hitting when dealing with Jacques Duclos.
 
Ares96 said:
"Coalition de centre-droit", "coalition du centre", "de l'Union nationale" (you did get that right in the heading).
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Thanks, will edit.

Yokai Man said:
Nine year terms for MPs feels…odd.
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Accidentally missed out an election, will edit.

Time Enough said:
Interesting stuff, I do suspect that Harry Pollitt would probably be replaced fairly quickly Post 45, due to the CPGB wanting to have someone a bit more hard hitting when dealing with Jacques Duclos.
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My thinking here is that there's a split in the Communists of both countries over whether they accept the Union or not, with Zhdanov telling them not to, but the electoral system is set up to punish parties that don't operate as a single unit across both countries. So the 'Communists' we see here are the result of a split.
 
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"Only Nixon Hammond could Go to China Implement UBI"

37. 1969-1975: George Romney (Republican-MI)
1968 (with Jim Rhodes) def.: Hubert Humphrey / Ralph Yarborough (Democratic); George Wallace / Curtis LeMay (American Independent)
1972 (with Jim Rhodes) def.: Hubert Humphrey / Carl Sanders (Democratic)
38. 1975-1977: Jim Rhodes (Republican-OH)
39. 1977-1983: Henry M. Jackson (Democratic-WA)
1976 (with Birch Bayh) def.: Jim Rhodes / George Bush (Republican)
1980 (with John Lindsay) def.: Ronald Reagan / Charles Percy (Republican)
40. 1983-1985: John Lindsay (Democratic-NY)
41. 1985-1993: Jay Hammond (Republican-AK)
1984 (with Howard Baker) def.: John Lindsay / Reubin Askew (Democratic)
1988 (with Howard Baker) def.: Joe Biden / Nick Galifianakis (Democratic)
42. 1993-1997: Howard Baker (Republican-TN)
1992 (with Ed Clark) def.: Al Gore / Douglas Wilder (Democratic); Ralph Nader / Wilma Mankiller (Citizen's)
43. 1997-2005: Larry Agran (Democratic-CA)
1996 (with Dick Gephardt) def.: Howard Baker / Ed Clark (Republican)
2000 (with Dick Gephardt) def.: Barry Goldwater, Jr. / Rudy Giuliani (Republican)
44. 2005-2013: George Voinovich (Republican-OH)
2004 (with Elizabeth Herring) def.: Dick Gephardt / Jim Hightower (Democratic)
2008 (with Elizabeth Herring) def.: Jay Rockefeller / Carrie Meek (Democratic)
45. 2013-2021: William Barber (Democratic-NC)
2012 (with Jay Inslee) def.: Elizabeth Herring / Rick Lazio (Republican)
2016 (with Jay Inslee) def.: Rick Santorum / Matt Fong (Republican)

American Permanent Fund: political positions

Far-Right: Decrease the APF dividend

Right: Maintain APF, but don't support moochers (basically welfare chauvinism)

Center-Right: Maintain and means test APF, but mildly decrease other social programs to make up for it (Friedman's GMI plan/Nixon FAP)

Center: Maintain and means test APF, maintain and means test other social welfare programs

Center-Left: Keep the APF and other social welfare programs as is

Left: Increase the APF dividend and/or increase other social welfare programs

Far-Left: Expand the APF by transitioning it into a sovereign wealth fund/weaning the APF off of fossil fuel revenues
 
i was going to do a writeup for this but i realised: i couldn't be bothered

Shuffling The Dicks: A Chicago Switcheroo

Mayors of Chicago
0000-1979: Richard J. Daley† (Democratic)
1979-1983: Edward Vrdolyak (Democratic)
1979 def. Dennis H. Block (Republican)
1983-1984: Richard M. Daley† (Democratic)
1983 def. Wallace D. Johnson (Republican)
1984-1984: Michael A. Bilandic (Democratic)
1984-1991: Harold Washington (Independent)
1984 def. Michael A. Bilandic(Democratic)
1987 def. Terry Gabinski (Democratic)
1991-1995: Jane Byrne (Democratic)
1991 def. Harold Washington (Independent)
1995-1997: Eugene Sawyer (Independent)
1995 def. Jane Byrne (Democratic), Edward Vrdolyak (Republican)
1997-1998: Eugene Sawyer† (Chicago Party)
1998-2006: David Orr (Chicago Party)
1999 def. Ed Burke (Republican), Jane Byrne (Democratic)
2003 def. Aloysius Majerczyk (Republican)
2006-2010: Rahm Emanuel (Direct Federal Administration)
2010-0000: Lori Lightfoot (Chicago Democratic)
2010 def. Danny Davis (New Chicago), Daniel Solis (Republican)
 
"Claim everything. Explain nothing. Deny everything."
the Career of Prescott Bush

1917-1919: Field Artillery Captain with the American Expeditionary Forces
1919-1923: Private citizen, hardware salesman
1923-1924: President of sales for Stedman Products [South Braintree, MA]
1924-1925: Vice president of A. Harriman & Co. and founder of the Union Banking Corporation
with William Averell Harriman
1925-1931: Foreign division manager for the United States Rubber Company
1931-1933: Partner at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
1933-1934: Ranking Member of the American Liberty League
1935-1937: Private citizen, International Representative for Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG [United Steelworks]
1937-1940: Head of the Ford Motor Company Service Department
appointed by Secretary of Commerce Henry Ford
1941-1943: United States Ambassador to Germany
appointed by Secretary of General Affairs Hugh Samuel Johnson
1943-1944: Private citizen, Treasurer for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America
1944-1946: National Policy Advisor to the General Secretary of the United States
appointed by Secretary of General Affairs Gerald L. K. Smith
1947-1950: United States Ambassador to the Congress of Central Nations
appointed by Secretary of General Affairs Gerald L. K. Smith
1950-1952: Private citizen, Chairman of the Consolidated Silesian Steel Company
1952: Liberty League candidate for Connecticut Senator
defeated scattered opposition
1952-1961: United States Senator from Connecticut
'56: defeated Jasper McLevy (Social Democratic League)
1955-1961: Member of the Subversive Activities Control Board
with Ralph Flanders, Arthur Watkins, Francis Cherry, Howard Smoot, Edwin C. Johnson, John Stennis, Sam Ervin
1961-1967: Director of the Office of Strategic Services
appointed by Secretary of General affairs Lyndon B. Johnson
1963-1964: Member of the Commission on the Assassination of President Joe Kennedy
1967-1970: Private citizen, member of the Council of Economic Advisors
1970-1971†: Political prisoner
executed for treason (charges disputed)
 
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The Future is Crypto

Donald Trump / Mike Pence (Republican) 2017-2021
2016: def. Hillary Clinton / Tim Kaine (Democratic)

Joe Biden / Kamala Harris (Democratic) 2021-2025
2020: def. Donald Trump / Mike Pence (Republican)

Donald Trump / Ivanka Trump (Republican) 2025-2027*
2024: def. Joe Biden / Kamala Harris (Democratic) and Andrew Yang / Brock Pierce (Forward)

Ivanka Trump / Tom Emmer (Republican) 2027-2029

Eric Adams / Jared Polis (Democratic) 2029-2033
2028: def. Ivanka Trump / Tom Emmer (Republican)

Francis X. Suarez / Cynthia Lummis (Republican) 2033-
2032: def. Eric Adams / Jared Polis (Democratic)

As the NFT boom continues unabated into its 12th year, the crypto lobby holds great sway over both parties, seemingly never to end.

Sure, there's some whispers of shakes in the stock market, but look, it'll be fine.

Britain has announced it's withdrawing its pound reserves? Well, look, Starmer always disliked Bitcoin anyway, and Britain will regret it.

Nayib Bukele has fled El Salvador for asylum in America after a coup? Well, obviously this is China's doing, and we should re-establish him back in charge, send some troops, what do you mean, the war has been going on for two years and it's a second Vietnam? Nothing the blockchain can't fix.

What do you mean, the EU banned cryptocurrency? Slam down tariffs until they reconsider. What the fuck do you mean, they're trading more with China?

Why can't the Africans just accept their foreign aid in NFTs and Bitcoin, we even made Bitcoin the legal currency of America on par with the dollar! They'll all see we're right one day, and they're wrong, wrong, wrong! America's always right!

What do you mean, the US dollar has collapsed totally what the fuck is wrong with yo-
 
Blackentheborg said:
"Claim everything. Explain nothing. Deny everything."
the Career of Prescott Bush

1917-1919: Field Artillery Captain with the American Expeditionary Forces
1919-1923: Private citizen, hardware salesman
1923-1924: President of sales for Stedman Products [South Braintree, MA]
1924-1925: Vice president of A. Harriman & Co. and founder of the Union Banking Corporation
with William Averell Harriman
1925-1931: Foreign division manager for the United States Rubber Company
1931-1933: Partner at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.
1933-1934: Ranking Member of the American Liberty League
1935-1937: Private citizen, International Representative for Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG [United Steelworks]
1937-1940: Head of the Ford Motor Company Service Department
appointed by Secretary of Commerce Henry Ford
1941-1943: United States Ambassador to Germany
appointed by Secretary of General Affairs Hugh Samuel Johnson
1943-1944: Private citizen, Treasurer for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America
1944-1946: National Policy Advisor to the General Secretary of the United States
appointed by Secretary of General Affairs Gerald L. K. Smith
1947-1950: United States Ambassador to the Congress of Central Nations
appointed by Secretary of General Affairs Gerald L. K. Smith
1950-1952: Private citizen, Chairman of the Consolidated Silesian Steel Company
1952: Liberty League candidate for Connecticut Senator
defeated scattered opposition
1952-1961: United States Senator from Connecticut
'56: defeated Jasper McLevy (Social Democratic League)
1955-1961: Member of the Subversive Activities Control Board
with Ralph Flanders, Arthur Watkins, Francis Cherry, Howard Smoot, Edwin C. Johnson, John Stennis, Sam Ervin
1961-1967: Director of the Office of Strategic Services
appointed by Secretary of General affairs Lyndon B. Johnson
1963-1964: Member of the Commission on the Assassination of President Joe Kennedy
1967-1970: Private citizen, member of the Council of Economic Advisors
1970-1971†: Political prisoner
executed for treason (charges disputed)
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"I stand for anti-bigotry, anti-Semitism, and anti-racism."
the Career of George Herbert Walker Bush

1943-1945: Naval aviator, United States Navy
1946-1951: Private citizen, clerk for the State Department
1951-1953: Cofounder of the Bush-Overbey Oil Development Company
1953: Cofounder of the Zapata Petroleum Corporation
1954-1958: President of the Zapata Offshore Company
1958-1965: Private citizen, Office of Strategic Services agent (alleged)
1965: Liberty League candidate for Borough President of Manhattan
1966-1969: Borough President of Manhattan
defeated Fred Trump (write-in)
1969-1970: United States Secretary of State
appointed by Secretary of General Affairs Ted Walker
1970: Political exile (France)
1971-1985: INTERPOL asset
1972-1974: Political prisoner
- "reeducated" in private prison, pardoned following televised penitential speech
1974-1976: Private citizen, author
1976-1978: Adviser, New York Military Academy
1977-1981: Clerk for the United States Department of History and International Relations
appointed by Secretary of General Affairs Donald Rumsfeld
1981-1983: Member of the Board of Trustees for The President and Fellows of Yale College
1983-1985: Vice President of the United States
appointed by Secretary of General Affairs Donald Rumsfeld following the assassination of Vice President Rafael Cruz, serving with President Lee Oswald
- elected as "proof the American spirit can lead anyone to true salvation", mostly ceremonial position
1985: Political prisoner
- tried for treason, collusion, and murder of the President of the United States, sentenced to death. Also charged with participating in the assassination of President Joe Kennedy (disputed)
1985: Fugitive
- broken out during prison raid and smuggled out of the country
1986-1996: Political exile and prisoner (Mexico, then the Netherlands)
- tried at the International Military Tribunal for the United States of America for involvement with the Liberty League government, acquitted on most charges following revelations of INTERPOL involvement, expressed repentance, sentenced to ten years.
1996-????: Private citizen, author
 
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Leaders of the British Socialist Party:
1910-1916: Alfred Orage
1916-1925: Victor Grayson
1925-1931: A.J.Cook
1931-1939: Victor Grayson
1939-1943: G. D. H. Cole
1943: Victor Grayson
1943-1953: Oliver Baldwin
1943 def: Willie Gallacher
1949 def: R. Palme Dutt
1953-: Thora Silverthorne
1953 def: Victor Grayson

1910-1915: H.H.Asquith (Liberal)
1910 (Minority) def: Arthur Balfour (Conservative), John Redmond (Irish Parliamentary Party), George Nicoll Barnes (Labour)
1915-1918: Herbert Kitchener (Independent leading War Government)
1918-1926: Austen Chamberlain (Unionist)
1918 (Coalition with Reform) def: David Lloyd-George (Reform), Arthur Griffith (Sinn Fèin), William Adamson (Labour), Reginald McKenna (Liberal), Henry Page-Croft (National)
1922 (Majority) def: David Shackleton (Labour), Michael Collins (Sinn Fèin), David Lloyd-George (Reform), Reginald McKenna (Liberal), Victor Grayson (British Socialist Party), Reginald Applin (National)
1926-1929: David Shackleton (Labour)
1926 (Reform Confidence & Supply) def: Austen Chamberlain (Unionist), David Lloyd-George (Reform), Herbert Samuel (Liberal), A.J.Cook (BSP)
1929-1937: Leo Amery (Unionist)
1929 (Majority) def: David Shackleton (Labour), William Wedgwood-Benn (Reform), Herbert Samuel (Liberal), David Lloyd-George (Action!)
1933 (Majority) def: William Wedgwood-Benn (Alliance For Social Democracy), Percy Harris (Liberal), Victor Grayson (BSP)
1937-1941: Walter Elliot (Unionist)
1937 (Majority) def: William Wedgwood-Benn (Social Democratic), Percy Harris (Liberal), Victor Grayson (BSP), Winston Churchill (Constitutional)
1941-1951: Herbert Morrison (Social Democratic)
1941 (Majority) def: Walter Elliott (Unionist), Reginald Berkeley (Liberal), Winston Churchill (Constitutional), G.D.H Cole (BSP)
1945 (Majority) def: Euan Wallace (Unionist), Reginald Berkeley (Liberal), Oliver Baldwin (BSP)
1949 (Majority) def: Euan Wallace (Unionist), Lance Milleau (Alliance for Democracy), Reginald Berkeley (Liberal), Oliver Baldwin (BSP)
1951-1954: Malcolm MacDonald (Social Democratic)
1954-: Ronnie Cartland (Unionist)
1954 (Majority) def: Malcolm MacDonald (Social Democratic), Robert McIntyre (Alliance for Democracy), Andrew McFadyean (Liberal), Thora Silverthorne (BSP)

People of a Special Mould: A History of the British Socialist Party by Kevin Morgan;

Extract from Chapter 20: Last Stand of the Graysonites

“As seen elsewhere in this book, the British Socialist Party was unable to ever truly quit Victor Grayson, the party’s main architect, politician and demagogue. In many respects the British Socialist Party resembled the man himself’s relationship with alcohol; as soon as it seemed he and the party had quit the stuff within few years the man and the party would be back on there inherent vice.

But 1953 was a very different year to 1916 or 1931 or the chaotic 1943 which many within the party would have rather have forgotten. Many within the party wanted to keep the change which Cole and Baldwin had brought about; strong links with trade unions, a more concrete economic plan and a more Democratic Party structure from the Democratic Centralist period of the Grayson years.

Grayson and his accolades thought this was all foolish. Obviously the British Socialist Party needed a Marxist Centrist structure and any deviation had been the fault of Syndicalists, Social Democrats and much worse, Browderists. Of course the 73 year old Grayson saw this as his chance to be a political figure of note again, ignoring the myriad of health issues that had plagued him since he had to abruptly step down due to heart in 1943. To his supporters particularly the ever passionate R.Palme Dutt he was there messiah who would correct the wrongs brought about by the deviationists.

Baldwinite camp panicked when Grayson put his hat into the ring for the leadership. Baldwin had left the leadership without much of a plan beyond his own retirement and an idea of how the party could fight the next election with the Alliance for Democracy stealing the spotlight for many. Scrounging the party for a candidate they found one in the shape of Thora Silverthorne, a Socialist nurse who had taken part as party representative during the Spanish and then French Civil Wars.

Victor Grayson would get back to his old tricks, big open speeches, meeting trade unionists and spectacle were the name of the game with him. But they didn’t particularly have the effect he wanted, his Liverpool speech took nearly an hour to complete as he had to pause for breath constantly and spend the remaining third of it sat in chair. Despite it all, Grayson friendly newspapers ran stories about the exuberant health and vitality of there dear leader, supposedly he would complete a mile sprint everyday and took part in the Kinder Pass trek every year.

Meanwhile Thora ignored her advisors attempts to get her to attack Grayson’s health and instead did a tour of the country meeting those left behind, instead of making the campaign about herself, she made it about the health of the party. She would meet Trade Unionists and discuss the problems that the Morrison leadership had caused for them, she talked to house wives and the unemployed about what the BSP could do for them. It was campaigning for the upcoming election within a leadership election and her quiet charm and persona would shine through for many.

The final blow for a Grayson victory would happen at Industrial Workers of the World mediated debate. Whilst going on a tirade about the perils of Social Democracy, Grayson would collapse causing an incredibly ruckus. Silverthorne would manage to keep Grayson stable as an ambulance was called, saving his life it would turn out as he had suffered a heart attack on stage.

Grayson was in a hospital bed when the results came in. Grayson had been beaten by Silverthorne, who had won with a 78% of the combined party, mp, affiliated trade union vote. Grayson would be depressed by the vote, standing down from being Colne Valley MP before the 1954 election and retiring from politics entirely. He would spend his next two years dictating his memoirs and bizarrely praising the Cartland Government’s Unemployment Welfare Scheme (some believe that Grayson's relationship with it’s architect Bob Boothby may have something to do it) before he succumb to liver failure at the age of 75. The Graysonites would soon diminish in standing, being a small part of the BSP overtaken as it were in the 60s by the raise of the Anarcho-Syndicalist faction of Fermin Rocker who would be the main anti-establishment candidate for many over the crusty centralists of the Graysonites...”

If you want anyone to blame for this, then it’s @Walpurgisnacht
 
Hine Ma Tov:

1948-1952: David Ben-Gurion (Mapai)†
1949 (Majority Coalition) def: Yehuda Leib Maimon (United Religious Front), Meir Ya'ari (Mapam), Menachem Begin (Herut), Israel Rokach (General Zionists)
1951 (Majority Coalition) def: Israel Rokach (General Zionists), Meir Ya’ari (Mapam), Haim-Moshe Shapira (Hapoel HaMizrachi), Menachem Begin (Herut), Shmuel Mikunis (Maki)
1952-1957: Moshe Sharett (Mapai)
1955 (Majority Coalition) def: Menachem Begin (Herut), Nathan Yellin-Mor (Reshimat HaLohmim), Haim-Moshe Shapira (Hapoel HaMizrachi), Meir Ya’ari (Mapam), Israel Rokach (General Zionists), Shmuel Mikunis (Maki)
1957: Vote of No Confidence, Nathan Yellin-Mor forms Syncretic ‘Fighters Coalition’
1957-1959: Nathan Yellin-Mor (Reshimat HaLohmim leading ‘Fighters Coalition’)
1959 (Minority) def: Menachem Begin (Herut), Moshe Sharett (Mapai), Haim-Moshe Shapira (Hapoel HaMizrachi), Ya'akov Hazan (Mapam), Pinchas Rosen (Progressive), Shmuel Mikunis (Maki)
1959: Menachem Begin (Herut leading Minority ‘Right’ Coalition)
1959-: Moshe Dayan (Mapai)
1960 (Majority Coalition) def: Haim-Moshe Shapira (Hapoel HaMizrachi), Ya'akov Hazan (Mapam), Yitzhak Shamir-Geulah Cohen (HaIhud HaLeumi), Pinchas Rosen (Liberal), Menachem Begin (Herut), Esther Vilenska (Maki)

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1945-1947: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1945 (Majority) def: Herbert Morrison (Labour), Ernest Brown (Liberal National), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), C.A.Smith (CommonWealth)
1947-1951: Ernest Bevin (Labour)†
1947 (Majority) def: Winston Churchill (Conservative), Wilfrid Roberts (Liberal)
1951-1957: John Strachey (Labour)
1952 (Majority) def: Anthony Eden (Anti-Socialist Coupon; Conservative, Liberal National, National), Wilfrid Roberts (Liberal)
1956 (Majority) def: Gwylim Lloyd-George (Conservative), Frank Byers (Liberal), Konni Zilliacus (Keep Left!)
1957-1961: Kenneth Younger (Labour)
1961-: Selwyn Lloyd (Conservative)
1961 (Majority) def: Kenneth Younger (Labour), Frank Byers (Liberal), John E. Dayton (Reform)

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1933-1943: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)†
1933 to 1940: Same As OTL
1943-1944: Henry A. Wallace (Democratic)
1944-1945: Henry A. Wallace (Progressive)
1945-1947: Thomas Dewey (Republican)†
1945 (With Arthur Vandenberg) def: James Byrnes/Paul V. McNutt (Democratic), Henry A. Wallace/Claude D. Pepper (Progressive)
1947-1953: Arthur Vandenberg (Republican)
1948 (With Harold Stassen) def: Henry J. Kaiser/James Roosevelt (Democratic), Strom Thurmond/Various (Southern Democratic)
1953-1961: G. Mennen Williams (Democratic)
1952 (With Mike Monroney) def: Arthur Vandenberg/Harold Stassen (Republican)
1956 (With Mike Monroney) def: Harold Stassen/William Knowland (Republican), Joseph McCarthy/Archibald Roosevelt (Anti-Communist)
1961-: Joseph H. Ball (Republican)
1960 (With Robert B. Anderson) def: Mike Monroney/Ed Muskie (Democratic)
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1922-1944: Joseph Stalin (CPSU)
1944-1949: Andrei Zhdanov (CPSU)†
1949-1950: Lavrentiy Beria (CPSU)†
1950-1954: The ‘Leningrad Troika’ (Consisting of Kuznetsov, Zhukov and Bulganin) (CPSU)
1954-1961: Nikolai Bulganin (CPSU)
1961-: Alexei Kosygin (CPSU)

To promote my story Hine Ma Tov (sequestered within the first drafts section) I’ve decided to have a list of the main players in terms of World Powers for the Universe in question.

The main POD is Avraham Stern is able to flee into exile to the Lebanon in 1942 as Lehi heads underground and whilst still a threat with it’s leader in exile, the group is slightly less dynamic with Lord Moyne for example escaping his assassination.

Meanwhile in the aftermath of the Tehran Conference, Roosevelt would catch pneumonia and die becoming the first of the big three to leave office in a dramatic fashion. In his stead is Henry A. Wallace who almost immediately manages to annoy and anger the Democratic leadership. After a messy 1944 election in which the Democrats and Wallace’s Progressive Party gut each other, the Republicans win under Dewey who runs on a message of stability and international cooperation (with Vanderberg begrudgingly excepted as his running mate). Meanwhile Attlee falls ill in 1944 and is finally pushed aside by Morrison who manages to capture discontent within the Labour Party in couping Attlee.

Following Stalin being shuffled aside in 1945 due to a stroke and the defeat of Hitler and then the Japanese, hopes of a new international consensus will bring about peace and prosperity doesn’t exactly occur in the state of Palestine. Stern returns and finds himself in better position than he was in 1942 and Irgun have been weakened due to a failed Anti-British revolt in the Winter of 1944 and subsequent arrests. Stern makes an alliance with Begin who uses the lack of a political outlook that Lehi has to help gain more Leftist fighters who would have been more likely to join Haganah over the Irgun.

With Stern and Begin on one side and Churchill (having survived with a slight majority due to Morrison bullish nature leading to a split of the Left vote) on the other, the policing of the Mandate of Palestine becomes extremely bloody. The Irgun-Lehi resort to car bombings, assassinations and lynchings of perceived collaborators to get there point across, the British forces respond with a general bluntness against Zionist and Arab alike (which leads to escalation even more).

In early 1947 Stern pushes for a series of bombings in Britain and America. This would lead to the collapse of Churchill’s Government, already suffering from the effects of the Winter Crisis, the bombings whilst not causing serious casualties lead to chaos and general feeing that Churchill is to blame. Following the Sergeants affair and the ensuing Anti-Semitic riots that occur in major British Cities, Churchill is forced out in a vote of no confidence as Pro-Zionist and Pro-Arab MPs unite to let there disdain show. The ensuing election is a bitter affair that has Ernest Bevin become Prime Minister in a Labour landslide and he enforces an Anti-Zionist line when dealing with the potential of a Jewish Home State.

As it seems that the conflict will continue to spiral, Dewey decides to try and gain a ceasefire from the opposing and pushes the United Nations to secure a Jewish State. The partition plan is drawn up in the Summer of that year and Bevin’s begrudging acceptance of transferring control of Palestine to the U.N. leads to Dewey being seen as the man who created Israel to many. A visit to Jerusalem to talk to community leaders is essentially a victory lap for the President which ends in tragedy when he’s killed in a bombing.

All eyes turn to Lehi who seem like the most credible candidates for the bombing, given there hatred towards the U.N. Plan. Stern disappeared before police would find him, being spotted occasionally in various spots in South America. David Ben-Gurion uses it as a good opportunity to purge the Zionist Paramilitaries of the Irgun and Lehi and to centralise the leadership under the Haganah.

The next few years would be tough for the nascent state of Israel, as the U.N. rapidly tried to secure Jerusalem as British troops left in late 1948 and Israel found itself dealing with a America and Britain who do the bare minimum to ensure the new states survival. David Ben-Gurion tries build the new Israeli state but his plans are cut short by a bullet from Right Wing Nationalist.

Moshe Sharett inherits a toxic environment and whilst he’s able to secure a semblance of peace to the battered Israel and reaches out to Bulganin’s Soviet Union for support and aid. But Sharett’s treaty of non-confrontation with the new Arab Socialist government of Jordon (made purely to ensure another war doesn’t hit the still precarious nation) causes chaos as his coalition gets it through by the skin of there teeth. Realising that’s Sharett is in a awkward position, Begin talks to the leader of the Former Lehi fighter and Fighters List Politician Nathan Yellin-Mors and they manage to no-confidence Sharett and form a syncretic coalition united by Israeli Revanchism first and foremost.

This goes poorly, Begin is a National Liberal type, Nathan Yellin-Mor is a Pro-Soviet Israeli Nationalist and the two get along poorly. After two years of government Yellin-Mor hopes to form his own government without Begin’s support but gains a minority again and this time no one wants to be in a coalition with Mor. Begin’s two month minority Right Coalition would equally go poorly, kept alive by internal struggles within the Mapai.

Moshe Dayan would become Prime Minister because some members of Sharett’s Former Cabinet realised that he could unite and harness the forces that Yellin-Mor unleashed. Dayan isn’t a committed Labour Zionist but he’s happy to leave the job of administration to the Socialists within his coalition as he jets sets to the Soviet Union to gain more firm support for the nascent nation. As Dayan manages to begin creating a web of alliances that would allow Israel to take one the twin forces of Jordon and Egypt he finds a world which is ambivalent to a possible outcome.

After over a decade of a Labour Government ensuring Social Democracy at home and the semblance of Empire abroad, Britain has elected a leader who approves of this idea but also is looking beyond Empire and to the rapidly developing nations in the Middle East for economic opportunities and support that could occur. America after a Democratic Leader who retained the New Deal ideals whilst overseeing Internationalist ideals abroad has been replaced by a Conservative who thinks that America should support the U.N. even more in it’s actions in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and the Soviet Union has a man who is less bothered by potential rivalry’s with the West and more bothered about modernising and cultivating a new Soviet Union as it continues it’s thaw even more...

It’s in this world that some figures from the past will try and make a surprising and horrifying reappearance in the U.N. run Jerusalem.
 
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Grayson was in a hospital bed when the results came in. Grayson had been beaten by Silverthorne, who had won with a 78% of the combined party, mp, affiliated trade union vote. Grayson would be depressed by the vote, standing down from being Colne Valley MP before the 1954 election and retiring from politics entirely. He would spend his next two years dictating his memoirs and bizarrely praising the Cartland Government’s Unemployment Welfare Scheme (some believe that Grayson's relationship with it’s architect Bob Boothby may have something to do it) before he succumb to liver failure at the age of 75. The Graysonites would soon diminish in standing, being a small part of the BSP overtaken as it were in the 60s by the raise of the Anarcho-Syndicalist faction of Fermin Rocker who would be the main anti-establishment candidate for many over the crusty centralists of the Graysonites...”
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I love a long lived Victor Grayson. Fancy bit of work here
 
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I love a long lived Victor Grayson. Fancy bit of work here
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And he’s supported by R.Palme Dutt as well. But yeah, @Walpurgisnacht introduced me to the idea of a Fabian Socialist party with Victor Grayson as it’s spokesman and I was like “He would just consume that party wouldn’t he?”

And so the list was born.
 
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And he’s supported by R.Palme Dutt as well. But yeah, @Walpurgisnacht introduced me to the idea of a Fabian Socialist party with Victor Grayson as it’s spokesman and I was like “He would just consume that party wouldn’t he?”
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Grayson is very underused--this is probably an awful conclusion to come to, but I think his combination of lefty populism, disdain for institutions, extremely dodgy financial dealings, and egoism makes him the closest British political equivalent to Huey Long.
 
Walpurgisnacht said:
Grayson is very underused--this is probably an awful conclusion to come to, but I think his combination of lefty populism, disdain for institutions, extremely dodgy financial dealings, and egoism makes him the closest British political equivalent to Huey Long.
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Oh boy, can’t wait for a chaotic HoI 4 mod and a well written @Mumby to include him.

Joking aside, I should probably do a list where Victor Grayson doesn’t win Colne Valley in 1910, is let back into the Labour Party in time and proceeds to win another election in the 1910s and becomes a bug bear for the Labour Right in the 1920s etc.
 
"Former Treasury Secretary Connally nominated to replace Agnew as V.P."

"Jackson defeats Reagan in nail-biting finish, Ohio decides election"

"Carter breaks rank with party, tired of "slow-walk" federal spending for recovery"

"Haig to Soviets at Afghan Occupation Summit: "I'm in Control Here""

"Robb re-election chances in danger amid Cocaine Allegations"

"Family Business: Eisenhower and Jong-Il poised to restart Korean War"

"Nixonism,[1] named after President Richard Nixon [2] refers to a political ideology involving somewhat-Keynesian economic policies and authoritarian views on social issues promoted during the 1970s and beyond."


1969-1977: Richard M. Nixon (Republican)
1968 (with Spiro Agnew) def.: Hubert Humphrey / Ed Muskie (Democratic); George Wallace / Curtis LeMay (American Independent)
1972 (with Spiro Agnew) def.: George McGovern / Sargent Shriver (Democratic)
1977-1981: John Connally (Republican)
1976 (with Elliot Richardson) def.: Adlai Stevenson III / Fred Harris (Democratic)
1981-1983: Henry M. Jackson (Democratic)
1980 (with Jimmy Carter) def.: John Connally / Elliot Richardson (Republican)
1983-1985: Jimmy Carter (Democratic)
1985-1993: Al Haig (Republican)
1984 (with Bill Clements) def.: Jimmy Carter / Donald Fraser (Democratic)
1988 (with Bill Clements) def.: Birch Bayh / Pete Rodino (Democratic)
1993-2001: Chuck Robb (Democratic)
1992 (with Paul M. Simon) def.: Bill Clements / Al D'Amato (Republican)
1996 (with Paul M. Simon) def.: Pete Wilson / Dick Cheney (Republican); Ralph Nader / Ron Dellums (Alternative for America)
2001-0000: David Eisenhower (Republican)
2000 (with Richard DeVos) def.: Jerry Brown / Sam Nunn (Democratic)
 
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