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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

2016-2017 Theresa May (Conservative Majority,Conservative Minority)
June 2017: Theresa May-Conservative [307],Jeremy Corbyn-Labour [266],Nicola Sturgeon-SNP [37],Tim Farron-Liberal Democrats [14],Jason Zadrozny-Ashfield Independents [1],Tim Aker-Thurrock Independents [1]
October 2017: Theresa May-Conservative [307],Jeremy Corbyn-Labour [261],Nicola Sturgeon-SNP [42],Tim Farron-Liberal Democrats [14],Jason Zadrozny-Ashfield Independents [2],Tim Aker-Thurrock Independents [1]


2017-2020 Boris Johnson (Conservative Minority,Conservative Majority)
2018: Boris Johnson-Conservative [381],Jeremy Corbyn-Labour [186],Nicola Sturgeon-SNP [52],Vince Cable-Liberal Democrats [14],Jason Zadrozny-Ashfield Independents [2]

2020-2020 James Cleverly (Conservative Majority)

2020-present day Liz Truss (Conservative Majority)
 
Smoking GNU's

2019 - December 2021: Boris Johnson (Conservative)

December 2021 - May 2022: Boris Johnson (Unity Conservative, leading GNU)

2022 - 2026: Keir Starmer (Labour, leading GNU)

2026 - 2029: Angela Rayner (Labour, leading GNU)

2028 - summer 2029: Angela Rayner (Labour, leading Wartime Coalition)

2029 - 2034:
Lord Blair of Sedgefield (leading Wartime Coalition)
 
Smoking GNU's

2019 - December 2021: Boris Johnson (Conservative)

December 2021 - May 2022: Boris Johnson (Unity Conservative, leading GNU)

2022 - 2026: Keir Starmer (Labour, leading GNU)

2026 - 2029: Angela Rayner (Labour, leading GNU)

2028 - summer 2029: Angela Rayner (Labour, leading Wartime Coalition)

2029 - 2034:
Lord Blair of Sedgefield (leading Wartime Coalition)
Whats all this?
 
Since it's, y'know, that time of year, I thought it would be fun to make a list based on a Christmas classic...
Political Career of George Bailey:
1928-1948: President of the Bailey Building & Loan
• Replaced Peter Bailey (1928)
• Construction of Bailey Park (1934)
• 4-F Draft classification (1941)
1948-1955: Mayor (Democratic) of Bedford Falls
1948 (cross-nominated by Socialist) def. Henry F. Potter (Republican) [de-facto]
• Investigation of Mr. Potter, eventual conviction (1951)
1950: unopposed
1952: unopposed
1955-1963: Governor (Democratic) of New York
1954 (cross-endorsed by American Labor & Liberal) def. Irving Ives (Republican)
• Investigation by HUAC, charges dropped (1955)
• Implementation of the Statewide Bailey Plan (1956)
1958 def. Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
• Introduction of the Land Value Tax (1960)
1963-1966: Private citizen; political & religious activist
• Participated in the March on Washington (1963)
1966-1969: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
• Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson (1966)
• Implementation of the National Bailey Plan (1968)
1969-1977: President (Democratic) of United States
1968 (with Harold Hughes) def. Richard M. Nixon (Republican)
• Proposed Christian Amendment struck down by Congress (1969)
1972 (with Harold Hughes) def. Howard Baker (Republican)
• Withdrawal from Vietnam (1972)
1977-1985: Private citizen; political & religious activist
• Wrote and published autobiography, “A Wonderful Life” (1978)
• Editor & writer for Sojourners Magazine (1979-1985)
1985-1989: Advisor to the President
• Appointed by John B. Anderson (1985)
1989-1997: Private citizen; political & religious activist
• Bailey Presidential Foundation established (1990)
• Died on December 24th of a stroke (1997)
• Buried in Bedford Falls (1997)
 
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Since it's, y'know, that time of year, I thought it would be fun to make a list based on a Christmas classic...
Political Career of George Bailey:
1928-1948: President of the Bailey Building & Loan
• Replaced Peter Bailey (1928)
• Construction of Bailey Park (1934)
• 4-F Draft classification (1941)
1948-1955: Mayor (Socialist) of Bedford Falls
1948 (cross-nominated by Democratic) def. Henry F. Potter (Republican) [de-facto]
• Investigation of Mr. Potter, eventual conviction (1951)
1950: unopposed
1952: unopposed
1955-1963: Governor (Democratic) of New York
1954 (cross-endorsed by American Labor & Liberal) def. Irving Ives (Republican)
• Investigation by HUAC, charges dropped (1955)
• Implementation of the Statewide Bailey Plan (1956)
1958 def. Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
• Introduction of the Land Value Tax (1960)
1963-1966: Private citizen; political & religious activist
• Participated in the March on Washington (1963)
• Member of Billy Graham's crusades (1964-1966)
1966-1969: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
• Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson (1966)
• Implementation of the National Bailey Plan (1968)
1969-1977: President (Democratic) of United States
1968 (with Billy Graham) def. Richard M. Nixon (Republican)
• Proposed Christian Amendment struck down by Congress (1969)
1972 (with Billy Graham) def. Howard Baker (Republican)
• Withdrawal from Vietnam (1972)
1977-1985: Private citizen; political & religious activist
• Member of Billy Graham's crusades (1978-1984)
• Wrote and published autobiography, “A Wonderful Life” (1982)
1985-1989: Advisor to the President
• Appointed by John B. Anderson (1985)
1989-1997: Private citizen; political & religious activist
• Died on December 24 of a stroke (1997)
• Buried in Bedford Falls (1997)

I showed this to my girlfriend and she thought it was lovely.
 
Since it's, y'know, that time of year, I thought it would be fun to make a list based on a Christmas classic...
Political Career of George Bailey:
1928-1948: President of the Bailey Building & Loan
• Replaced Peter Bailey (1928)
• Construction of Bailey Park (1934)
• 4-F Draft classification (1941)
1948-1955: Mayor (Socialist) of Bedford Falls
1948 (cross-nominated by Democratic) def. Henry F. Potter (Republican) [de-facto]
• Investigation of Mr. Potter, eventual conviction (1951)
1950: unopposed
1952: unopposed
1955-1963: Governor (Democratic) of New York
1954 (cross-endorsed by American Labor & Liberal) def. Irving Ives (Republican)
• Investigation by HUAC, charges dropped (1955)
• Implementation of the Statewide Bailey Plan (1956)
1958 def. Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
• Introduction of the Land Value Tax (1960)
1963-1966: Private citizen; political & religious activist
• Participated in the March on Washington (1963)
• Member of Billy Graham's crusades (1964-1966)
1966-1969: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
• Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson (1966)
• Implementation of the National Bailey Plan (1968)
1969-1977: President (Democratic) of United States
1968 (with Billy Graham) def. Richard M. Nixon (Republican)
• Proposed Christian Amendment struck down by Congress (1969)
1972 (with Billy Graham) def. Howard Baker (Republican)
• Withdrawal from Vietnam (1972)
1977-1985: Private citizen; political & religious activist
• Member of Billy Graham's crusades (1978-1984)
• Wrote and published autobiography, “A Wonderful Life” (1982)
1985-1989: Advisor to the President
• Appointed by John B. Anderson (1985)
1989-1997: Private citizen; political & religious activist
• Died on December 24 of a stroke (1997)
• Buried in Bedford Falls (1997)
Lovely! Although I must ask why he is Socialist. He seems to me more like exactly the kind of person who'd embrace the New Deal's expansion of the middle class but still someone who believes in the traditional American way of life so to speak.
 
George probably thought Henry Wallace was great.

And tbh considering Graham's views it's hard to see one of his supporters marching with Dr. King. I think George would have, but I think that means the Segregationist minister is out.
 
Lovely! Although I must ask why he is Socialist. He seems to me more like exactly the kind of person who'd embrace the New Deal's expansion of the middle class but still someone who believes in the traditional American way of life so to speak.
That honestly works better, I’ll change that.
George probably thought Henry Wallace was great.
YES
And tbh considering Graham's views it's hard to see one of his supporters marching with Dr. King. I think George would have, but I think that means the Segregationist minister is out.
IIRC While Graham never took a strong stance on the issue of civil rights, I certainly wouldn’t call him a segregationist. He was also known to preach to whites and blacks. I could be misremembering though.
 
• Investigation by HUAC, charges dropped (1955)

Fun easter-egg here:

"With regard to the picture It's a Wonderful Life,[REDACTED] stated in substance that the film represented a rather obvious attempt to discredit bankers by casting Lionel Barrymore as a 'scrooge-type' so that he would be the most hated man in the picture. This, according to these sources, is a common trick used by Communists."
--FBI Memorandum on Communist Infiltration of the Movie Industry
 
IIRC While Graham never took a strong stance on the issue of civil rights, I certainly wouldn’t call him a segregationist. He was also known to preach to whites and blacks. I could be misremembering though.

Nah that's just his PR. He denounced King a lot at the time. Just like he denounced Catholics and Jews. He was just slightly smarter then the the rest of the movement and dropped attacks on them when it started impacting his bottom line or his image. In specific regards to the Civil Rights movement he insisted that Equality would only come in Heaven or with the return of Christ.
 
Nah that's just his PR. He denounced King a lot at the time. Just like he denounced Catholics and Jews. He was just slightly smarter then the the rest of the movement and dropped attacks on them when it started impacting his bottom line or his image. In specific regards to the Civil Rights movement he insisted that Equality would only come in Heaven or with the return of Christ.
Huh, well the more you know I guess.
 
He tried to organize a Stop Kennedy movement in 1960 for the Democratic Convention because America needed a Christian President. So like he's an interesting political option but he also isn't a good option.

I think it works as a slightly cynical take (George with faith-based blind spots after his supernatural religious experience), but not as an option for a pure hero.
 
I think it works as a slightly cynical take (George with faith-based blind spots after his supernatural religious experience), but not as an option for a pure hero.
That's a good point too, I'll change it to somebody that fits more in line with Bailey's morality.

EDIT: Done.
 
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Since it's, y'know, that time of year, I thought it would be fun to make a list based on a Christmas classic...
Political Career of George Bailey:
1928-1948: President of the Bailey Building & Loan
• Replaced Peter Bailey (1928)
• Construction of Bailey Park (1934)
• 4-F Draft classification (1941)
1948-1955: Mayor (Democratic) of Bedford Falls
1948 (cross-nominated by Socialist) def. Henry F. Potter (Republican) [de-facto]
• Investigation of Mr. Potter, eventual conviction (1951)
1950: unopposed
1952: unopposed
1955-1963: Governor (Democratic) of New York
1954 (cross-endorsed by American Labor & Liberal) def. Irving Ives (Republican)
• Investigation by HUAC, charges dropped (1955)
• Implementation of the Statewide Bailey Plan (1956)
1958 def. Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
• Introduction of the Land Value Tax (1960)
1963-1966: Private citizen; political & religious activist
• Participated in the March on Washington (1963)
1966-1969: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
• Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson (1966)
• Implementation of the National Bailey Plan (1968)
1969-1977: President (Democratic) of United States
1968 (with Harold Hughes) def. Richard M. Nixon (Republican)
• Proposed Christian Amendment struck down by Congress (1969)
1972 (with Harold Hughes) def. Howard Baker (Republican)
• Withdrawal from Vietnam (1972)
1977-1985: Private citizen; political & religious activist
• Wrote and published autobiography, “A Wonderful Life” (1978)
• Editor & writer for Sojourners Magazine (1979-1985)
1985-1989: Advisor to the President
• Appointed by John B. Anderson (1985)
1989-1997: Private citizen; political & religious activist
• Bailey Presidential Foundation established (1990)
• Died on December 24th of a stroke (1997)
• Buried in Bedford Falls (1997)
Great list but my god it’s bleak to imagine George Bailey spending at least 3 years overseeing the Vietnam War.
 
1945-1952: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1945 (Majority) def: Winston Churchill (Conservative), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Ernest Brown (Liberal National)
1950 (Majority) def: Winston Churchill (Conservative & National), Clement Davies (Liberal)

1952-1955: Hugh Gaitskell (Labour)
1955-1962: Harold Macmillan (Conservative)
1955 (Majority) def: Hugh Gaitskell (Labour), Frank Byers (Liberal), Emrys Hughes (Democratic Labour)
1959 (Majority) def: Kenneth Younger (Labour), Frank Byers (Liberal)

1962-1965: Selwyn Lloyd (Conservative)
1964 (Minority) def: John Freeman (Labour), Frank Byers (Liberal)
1965-: John Freeman (Labour)
1965 (Majority) def: Selwyn Lloyd (Conservative), Frank Byers (Liberal)
1969 (Majority) def: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative), Ludovic Kennedy (Liberal), Stan Newens (Democratic Labour)


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1945-1953: Harry S. Truman (Democratic)
1948 (With Wilson W. Wyatt) def: Thomas E. Dewey/Charles A. Halleck (Republican), Strom Thurmond/Fielding L.Wright (States Rights)
1953-1961: Harold Stassen (Republican)
1952 (With Everett Dirksen) def: Wilson W. Wyatt/W. Averell Harriman (Democratic)
1956 (With Everett Dirksen) def: Estes Kefauver/Robert F. Wagner (Democratic)

1961-1969: Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
1960 (With G. Mennen Williams) def: Nelson Rockerfeller/Prescott S. Bush (Republican)
1964 (With G. Mennen Williams) def: William Knowland/Thomas S. Gates Jr. (Republican), Edwin Walker/Harry F. Byrd Jr. (States Rights)

1969-: Vance Hartke (Democratic)
1968 (With Fred R. Harris) def: Ronald Reagan/John G. Tower (Republican), Harry F. Byrd Jr./Lester Maddox (States Rights), John Hulett/Benjamin Spock (New)

“Across the Land The People Speak As One and Say; I Want To Be Free, To Be Healthy, To Be Happy and To See All Around That My Countrymen Are The Same.

We Will Always Fight for the Underdog over the Upperdog”
-James Peck at the New Party Presidential Convention, 1968.

“I’m Done, With A Government that Cares More About Supporting Wars In Asia Than Supporting There Fellow Man”
-Stan Newans defection speech, 1967

“Lyndon B.Johnson was elected on a mandate to fix the economy but very little else. His populist appeal and bullish personality made him a popular if controversial figure. But for the Left, Johnson was there archenemy. Johnson had happily supported Stassen’s destruction of the organised Left and Communists within the Electoral Politics and Labour Unions, Johnson has been a flag waving support of increasing America’s Nuclear supply, taking part in pushing for Stassen’s Asian Interventions and for being incredibly aloof over the issue of Civil Rights.

But LBJ would prove to be popular with the Right Kind of Voters, the Hard Hats, the Suburbs, the Average Joe, all were accounted for when it came to his harnessing of the New Deal coalition. But still LBJ managed to rankle the hardcore Conservative’s with stuff like the incredibly diluted Civil Rights Act of 1964 which offered voting rights for Black Southerners and a very mild rolling back of Jim Crow leading to the States Rights split of 1964 which would do very little to dampen LBJ’s popularity. Still it spooked him and so the next four years would see his attention focused elsewhere.

The New Party had it’s roots in a combination of New Left academics, Left Wing Activists and members of the groups like the SNCC and the LCFP and it’s formation would occur during a meeting between John Hulett, Benjamin Spock and James Peck about the future of the Civil Rights. The trio decided the formation of a Left Wing, Civil Rights Party would force the Democrats to notice them and take heed of there message. For much of the late years of Johnson’s Presidency, Democrats would find themselves being outflanked on the Left by New Party Candidates and the combination of Vote Splitting in more marginal races would cause Republican candidates to get in. Democratic strategists began to worry about another political party taking votes away from them in the 1968 election.

The 1968 Democratic Primaries would see individuals from all sides of the political spectrum running, and a spirited campaign from George Wallace on essentially ‘LBJ’s Great Society Coalition but even more Racist’ platform scared a number of the Democrats on the Liberal Wing. John Hulett and Benjamin Spock prepared a gruelling Campaign against Wallace only for everyone to be outmanoeuvred by Vance Hartke at the last second. The candidate endorsed by the soon to be Supreme Court judge G.Mennen Williams would additionally gain the support from his campaign manager and soon to be Running Mate, Fred Harris who took inspiration from the Grassroots Activism of the New Party and combined it with a form of Left Wing Populism that would allow Hartke to unite the LBJ’s Coalition and gain additional support from individuals like Martin Luther King Jr.

Still the New Party didn’t trust Hartke and Harris, seeing there at times spotty records on Civil Rights and appeasement of the apathetic Moderate Wing and would run a campaign decrying there inadequacies. Harris realising that support could slip away in some vital states decided to perform a devils gambit and would met the New Party heads and the grassroots activists at a conference in the late Summer of 1968 in Oklahoma.

Harris’s Gambit and his seemingly sudden Road to Damascus moment at the conference when he went on a speech about the flaws of Johnson’s administration would turn the once Senator from a untrustworthy stooge to a sudden crusader of the New Left. The New Party would not long after would shift to supporting the Hartke/Harris ticket though Hulett and Spock were still on the ballot in a couple of states. The Reagan campaign would blame the taking of Indiana, Oklahoma and New York by a slim margin by the Democrats as being the reason for his defeat.

Still it seemed for many that Hartke would be a sensible choice unlike his seemingly radical running mate who would continue LBJ’s Great Society and ensure a prosperous future, but Hartke’s time in office would come to an abrupt and horrifying end whilst he was Quebec in 1971...”

The Underdogs; The Strange Rebirth of the American Left, 1997

“For many Democratic Labour had been an amusing side adventure in there political journey, as much of the grouping rejoined Labour soon enough as the controversial Hugh Gaitskell and his Pro-Nuclear views were shifted for the more appealing vestige of Kenneth Younger.

But for the unlikely pairing of Emrys Hughes and Sir Richard Acland, the Democratic Labour Party represented a chance for a New Left Wing Party to have a centre stage in British politics. This would prove to be a difficult slog, with Emrys Hughes and S.O.Davies being the only Democratic Labour MPs to retain any seats in the 1959 election, the possibility of the party seeing a future beyond the late 60s seemed grim.

But the party was luck, the splintering of the CPGB in the aftermath of Bulganin and Kosygin reforms lead to a surge of support and popular intellectuals like Ralph Miliband would support the party in his output. Additionally Nationalist party’s would enter strategic alliances with Democratic Labour candidates due to many sharing similar values, which would allow Gwilym Prys Davies to win the 1963 Swansea East By-Election.

But the spectre of John Freeman spelt misfortune, the seemingly committed Bevanite would overcome Democratic Labour’s Left Ground causing S.O.Davies to defect back to Labour and drive the party down to just Hughes. Seemingly Democratic Labour was done for.

And then John Freeman would support Lyndon B. Johnson’s Vietnam intervention and committed the old adage of the East of the Suez as much as previous Labour Prime Ministers. For the many Bevanites and Leftists who had supported him, Freeman’s dash towards the Centre with colleagues like Wilson and Castle in tow would leave a sour taste in there mouth.

In 1967 the Peace and Anti-Intervention Movement would find there Electoral leader in Stan Newans, as he defected to the Democratic Labour Party over a combination of there Vietnam Intervention and the beginnings of the Asset Stripping policies of Anthony Benn. Meanwhile the coalition of CND, Democratic Labour, Disaffected Trade Unionists and Leftists would find there mouthpieces in the form of the writer of the Angry Young Man novels that had showcased the malaise of the Britain and a rough and tumble documentary presenter who seemed to be fascinated by the grassroots activism of his found city.

Alan Sillietoe and Ray Gosling were to become an unlikely figurehead for the upcoming revolution.”
-A Potted History of the British New Left, Voice of the People, 2020

“A Freeman and a Voice that won’t keep silent!”
-Ray Gosling’s Slogan for his campaign as the Independent Candidate for Nottingham City Council in 1967, would then become his slogan for his Nottingham Central Campaign as the Democratic Labour Candidate which he won over Jack Dunnett.
 
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