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Recent content by TheCoolCucumber

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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    Without Poilievre as the King across the water I wonder what happens to O'Toole after 2021? I could see a nightmare scenario for the Tories where O'Toole manages to cling on for a few years despite being mortally wounded, which could mean that the polls continue to look like eternal 2019 and...
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    AH Run-downs, summaries and general gubbins

    Seems more likely that it would have been done away with far earlier in a Catholic England scenario rather than kept longer.
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    This forum may be closing down in March 2025

    I'm going to be honest with you, I don't think the British government is going to devote the resources of a small counter-terror investigation to determine who Mr.BigDuck does their banking with.
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    This forum may be closing down in March 2025

    The UK government is free to insist this is the case, but practically speaking if a site is based outside the UK and it's owners don't live there what are the authorities going to do? Track down every microforum and block it?
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    Lesser-Known Near-Deaths and Near-Misses

    There's the infamous break in at 24 Sussex while Chretien was PM, but I think that was just as likely to end with Chretien caving in a schizophrenic man's head with an Inuit statue as was it was in his death.
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    Funny to think that in this TL my great-grandfather would have lived in a self-governing British colony, then a British dominion, then a British colony under direct rule, then a Canadian province, and finally a US state.
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    Callan's Graphics and Things

    Yessssss! Oh... oh fuck
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    What if the NDP won the 2015 general election?

    This was really unfair, Rosie was totally ignoring the section of the NDP platform that committed them to building a time machine during their first mandate.
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    What if the NDP won the 2015 general election?

    I doubt it. I don't think there was ever any real interest among the rank and file for a merger. They'd both have to be in pretty desperate positions for it to even become a serious possibility.
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    WI: 'Straits Settlements' penal colonies relocated elsewhere?

    I imagine moving the penal colonies to Australia would have quite the effect on that country's future.
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    Cherry as a Canadian Berlusconi is inspired, but the more I think of it the more sense it makes.
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    Nonpartisan Large Democracy

    You shouldn't assume they would exist. As already mentioned you might have a two round system similar to jungle primaries in the US, but you could just as easily have normal FPTP (that's what Nunavut and NWT do).
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    Before I saw that the party predated his presidential run I was imagining John McCain founding a party called "An American" because people were questioning if he was a natural-born citizen.
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    Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

    1920-1922: Arthur Meighen (Conservative) 1921 (Conservative Minority) Def: Thomas Crerar (Progressive), William S. Fielding (Liberal) 1922-1929: Thomas Crerar (Progressive) 1922 (Progressive Minority) Def: Arthur Meighen (Conservative), William S. Fielding (Liberal) 1923 (Progressive Majority)...
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    AHC: Unitary Canada

    I have in fact found a good article describing the evolution of the JCPC's judgements on the POGG powers. Ignoring for a moment broader trends within Canada, I think a good start to keeping POGG powerful would be to avoid Lord Watson's judgement in the Local Prohibition Reference of 1896...
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