Recent content by AgentRudda

I was genuinely surprised that it took until 2019 for Labour MPs to en masse quit the party. It seemed inevitable that there was going to be some kind of split in 2018, perhaps the peak of the anti-Semitism crisis. I guess that for this you don't only need political will, but also funding and...

Theresa May stalling and postponing an election call is thoroughly within her character. Corbyn just going like that simply isn't. He viewed his leadership as a fundamental duty to repay the faith the membership had placed in him and he'd stay out till the bitter end. See OTL.

the dream it's the july 2019 general election. corbyn and may successfully negotiated a soft brexit deal and forced it through parliament. w leave the eu as scheduled. there might have been a few deselections but it's okay because theresa may is still tory leader and "proud" by heather small...

I'm not the Harold Wilson expert around here, but the consensus is that he would've stepped down by 1973 at the latest. I think he'd have likely tried to get EEC accession through and have that as a legacy, before going. By the 1970s, Wilson was an exhausted man. He's definitely someone who...

I wonder which Tory MPs, if any, would've defected to UKIP after a Remain victory in 2016.

So the Republican ticket will be Rockefeller/Tower? Nice.

Also, Rudda

I like this idea, I've suggested it in the PMQs thread. My idea was that it's a merger of International Trade and International Development.

What is your best way of preventing Gordon Brown from succeeding Tony Blair in 2007? Try to avoid a petrol bomb over his flat or something. One possible suggestion I have is Brown making a move against Blair, perhaps in the lead-up to the 2005 general election. The two apparently had a deal...

I think Khan and the Miliband brothers have pretty big sway. Others, like Cooper and Hilary Benn, are popular big names within the Labour soft left so could help bring more of them along - ie people who are in the camp so not normies, but not necessarily the political obsessives. I wonder...

As for AHC TIG, I don't think it'd have ever succeeded without Ed Miliband, Yvette Cooper, and maybe someone from the current shadow cabinet, perhaps Ashworth. Also bonus points if you manage to get Sadiq Khan to quit Labour as well, and try to Ken Livingstone his way to re-election in 2020. I...

Indeed, I can see Gordon Brown insisting on staying on at least until the coalition is secure, so 2011/12 at the earliest. From what I've read he never intended to stay on until 2015. He was going to say that he wouldn't serve a full Parliament but was persuaded against this by Peter Mandelson...

Not strictly an actor, but Katie Price stood in the 2001 general election as an independent.

Democrats in Ohio tried getting Martin Sheen to run for the Senate in 2006ish. His 9/11 Truther views and Kennedy assassination theories would've made that slightly more awkward.