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Ohhh,very good.

Hard to see Hungary remain Communist though,the Romanian government wouldn't allow that.
True, I have a handwave in the form of ‘German and Austrian troops head over the border to support there Hungarian Comrades’ and probably after a length border conflict Romania gets the Transylvania region fully and is forced to concede when other neighbours start staring at Romania hungrily.

Or something, any justified hand-waves you have are greatly appreciated.

Additionally I was going to include the Kingdom of Romania into one of the alliances, but I realised quickly that it probably wouldn’t join any of them and stake there own claims for themselves.
 
True, I have a handwave in the form of ‘German and Austrian troops head over the border to support there Hungarian Comrades’ and probably after a length border conflict Romania gets the Transylvania region fully and is forced to concede when other neighbours start staring at Romania hungrily.

Or something, any justified hand-waves you have are greatly appreciated.

Additionally I was going to include the Kingdom of Romania into one of the alliances, but I realised quickly that it probably wouldn’t join any of them and stake there own claims for themselves.
Nah,it’s a good idea,it works.

It would be interesting seeing Carol’s National Rebirth Front going on and on and on til Carol dies in ‘51 in a No WW2 world,
especially since before 1940 Carol invested a lot in making stadiums and trying to get Romania be the host of the 1944 Olympics,
which honestly? Not that hard per se.
 
Nah,it’s a good idea,it works.

It would be interesting seeing Carol’s National Rebirth Front going on and on and on til Carol dies in ‘51 in a No WW2 world,
especially since before 1940 Carol invested a lot in making stadiums and trying to get Romania be the host of the 1944 Olympics,
which honestly? Not that hard per se.
I’ll keep a note of that because that could be an amusing piece of world building (the story whilst set in the Mediterranean will discuss stuff outside of it) and kind of the thing of this world is that despite there being No-Fascism as we know it, the Right Wing Corporatist structures that came about in the 20s and 30s are still very much there (indeed doing research for the various world leaders made me realise how commonplace the
Authnotrian Corporatist Government would be even without Fascism).
 
Five Phrases To: Understand British Politics With!

This is such a clever way to do a write up of a list! I often privately bemoan the lack of detail with lists and generally default to quite long descriptions of each leadership. But what I really want is to see what the world is like for people in it and imagine it for a little while. This does that really well.

u r good imo - but hopefully you knew that already
 
This is such a clever way to do a write up of a list! I often privately bemoan the lack of detail with lists and generally default to quite long descriptions of each leadership. But what I really want is to see what the world is like for people in it and imagine it for a little while. This does that really well.

Thanks, you're too kind.

I do like doing formats like this, mostly because I tend to think about what forces, big issues, and vibes are shaping the list and just sort of backfill in most of the people involved, but I do very much stand by this style. If you wanted to describe current British politics to someone, you wouldn't rattle off what May did and what Boris did like an Anglo-Saxon chronicler, you'd talk about Brexit and Momentum and COVID.

I'm glad it worked out so well in terms of verisimilitude, but also you had to imagine Ken Clarke slashfic, so maybe I should be apologising.
 


1997-2007 Tony Blair (Labour Majority)

2007-2010 John Reid (Labour Majority)

2010-2015 David Cameron (Conservative Majority)

2010: David Cameron-Conservative [341],John Reid-Labour [204],Nick Clegg-Liberal Democrat [81]
2014 Scottish Independence Referendum: 52,39% No

2015-2021 Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat-Labour Coalition,Liberal Democrat-Labour Progressive Pact-Green-Alliance Minority Coalition with SNP support and confidence)
2015: Nick Clegg-Liberal Democrat [200],David Cameron-Conservative [190],Alan Johnson-Labour [181],Nicola Sturgeon-SNP [47],Nigel Farage-UKIP [7],Nathalie Bennett-Green [1],George Galloway-RESPECT [1]
2016 AV+ Referendum: 51,60% Yes
2020: Nick Clegg/Alan Johnson-Labour/Liberal Democrat Progressive Pact [294],Michael Gove-Conservative [230],Nigel Farage-UKIP [66],Nicola Sturgeon-SNP [30],
Jonathan Bartley/Siân Berry-Green [14],Arlene Foster-DUP [6],Mary Lou McDonald-Sinn Féin [4],Adam Price-Plaid Cymru [4],Naomi Long-Alliance [3],Colum Eastwood-SDLP [3],Steve Aiken-UUP [2]


2021-present day Lynne Featherstone (Liberal Democrat-Labour Progressive Pact-Green-Alliance Minority Coalition with SNP support and confidence)
 
This is such a clever way to do a write up of a list! I often privately bemoan the lack of detail with lists and generally default to quite long descriptions of each leadership. But what I really want is to see what the world is like for people in it and imagine it for a little while. This does that really well.
Thanks, you're too kind.

I do like doing formats like this, mostly because I tend to think about what forces, big issues, and vibes are shaping the list and just sort of backfill in most of the people involved, but I do very much stand by this style. If you wanted to describe current British politics to someone, you wouldn't rattle off what May did and what Boris did like an Anglo-Saxon chronicler, you'd talk about Brexit and Momentum and COVID.

Back when the cooperative lists thread was a thing, they were always most interesting when people were collaborating on vaguely clickbait formats like 'Seven Myths About Nazi Occupied Britain.'

So much more life gets breathed in to the piece than a bland list of names.
 
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1997-2007 Tony Blair (Labour Majority)

2007-2010 John Reid (Labour Majority)

2010-2015 David Cameron (Conservative Majority)

2010: David Cameron-Conservative [341],John Reid-Labour [204],Nick Clegg-Liberal Democrat [81]
2014 Scottish Independence Referendum: 52,39% No

2015-2021 Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat-Labour Coalition,Liberal Democrat-Labour Progressive Pact-Green-Alliance Minority Coalition with SNP support and confidence)
2015: Nick Clegg-Liberal Democrat [200],David Cameron-Conservative [190],Alan Johnson-Labour [181],Nicola Sturgeon-SNP [47],Nigel Farage-UKIP [7],Nathalie Bennett-Green [1],George Galloway-RESPECT [1]
2016 AV+ Referendum: 51,60% Yes
2020: Nick Clegg/Alan Johnson-Labour/Liberal Democrat Progressive Pact [294],Michael Gove-Conservative [230],Nigel Farage-UKIP [66],Nicola Sturgeon-SNP [30],
Jonathan Bartley/Siân Berry-Green [14],Arlene Foster-DUP [6],Mary Lou McDonald-Sinn Féin [4],Adam Price-Plaid Cymru [4],Naomi Long-Alliance [3],Colum Eastwood-SDLP [3],Steve Aiken-UUP [2]


2021-present day Lynne Featherstone (Liberal Democrat-Labour Progressive Pact-Green-Alliance Minority Coalition with SNP support and confidence)


*clears throat *

Nut
 
*clears throat *

Nut

In my defense I wasn’t trying to rip your work off,just some thing I thought of for a possible thing.

The main PoD is Gordon and Ed Balls dying in a plane crash like they nearly did in 2002 and Reid becoming the only heir to Blair’s throne after Milburn clearly isn’t fit and also doesn’t want the job. Blair incidentally resigns slightly earlier than OTL as he‘s dealing with depression and grief and just doesn’t want to be in change anymore.

Reid deals with the 2008 recession badly (to the point where the Bank of Scotland declares bankruptcy and a state of emergency and lockdowns are put in place til mid February 2009 to deal with the unrest) and Cameron gets a majority,which is unfortunate to him and the Tories since now they get to be unrestrained and take all the damage of their actions. David wins instead of Ed and it leads to a situation sorta similar theorized by @Gregg,with the final straw being the Heywood and Middleton by-election being won by UKIP and Alan Johnson takes charge-too late however for any needed major changes.

Clegg meanwhile gets to be the face of the Opposition to the Tories,narrowly wins the most seats,forms an alliance with an embarrassed and resentful Labour,narrowly wins the AV Referendum and has to deal with all sorts of things,least of which the pandemic. Due to the Lib Dems not forming a coalition with the Conservatives they are still the darlings of parts of the left/the anti establishment for a while longer. Maajid Nawad is an MP and a controversial Minister of State for Culture,Bastani is a Under Secretary of State for Tech that is really bad at his job and Darren Grimes gets to be a staffer before he joins UKIP.

It is a divided Britain but one where,for better or worse,everyone is represented equally in Parliament.
 
Silent Running:

1961-1965: John F.Kennedy (Democratic)†
1960 (With Lyndon B. Johnson) def. Richard Nixon (Republican), Harry F. Byrd (‘Dixiecrat’ Faithless Electors)
1965 (With George Smathers) def. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Republican), George Wallace (State’s Rights)

1965-1969: George Smathers (Democratic)
1969-1977: Robert Taft Jr. (Republican)
1968 (With Winthrop Rockefeller) def. George Smathers (Democratic), Eugene McCarthy (Independent)
1972 (With Winthrop Rockefeller) def. Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)

1977-1981: Fred Harris (Democratic)
1976 (With John Glenn) def. Bob Dole (Republican)
1981-1983: Richard M.Nixon (Independent)
1980 (With Daniel Patrick Moynihan) def. Fred Harris (Democratic), Phil Crane (Republican)
1983-: Richard M. Nixon (Unity)
 
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Silent Running:

1961-1965: John F.Kennedy (Democratic)†
1960 (With Lyndon B. Johnson) def. Richard Nixon (Republican), Harry F. Byrd (‘Dixiecrat’ Faithless Electors)
1965 (With George Smathers) def. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Republican), George Wallace (State’s Rights)

1965-1969: George Smathers (Democratic)
1969-1977: Robert Taft Jr. (Republican)
1968 (With Winthrop Rockefeller) def. George Smathers (Democratic), Eugene McCarthy (Independent)
1972 (With Winthrop Rockefeller) def. Hubert Humphrey (Democratic)

1977-1981: Fred Harris (Democratic)
1976 (With John Glenn) def. Bob Dole (Republican)
1981-1983: Richard M.Nixon (Independent)
1980 (With Daniel Patrick Moynihan) def. Fred Harris (Democratic), Phil Crane (Republican)
1983-: Richard M. Nixon (Unity)
A list for my Silent Running Vignette about Ind. Nixon, amusingly the list came first. Anyway the gist of this world.

On April 10th of 1963, Edwin Walker is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald leading to Oswald’s arrest and causing the Kennedy Assassination to butterfly away. With Walker’s death by a Communist leading a even more segregationist backlash, Kennedy doubles down and makes Smather’s his running mate. LBJ tries to fight back in the 64’ Primaries but the strain leads to a reemergence of his heart conditions so he’s forced to step aside. Meanwhile Nixon ponders a return as the Republican Presidential Candidate but his former running mate manages to outmanoeuvre him, indeed Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. low expenses grassroots campaign manages to overtake Rockerfellar and Scranton and in the showdown between Goldwater and Cabot Lodge Jr. the latter is able to use connections and a vast gamut of support to narrowly beat Goldwater.

Seeing weakness with Kennedy and segregation, George Wallace pursues a Segregationist Campaign with the State’s Rights party. What initially starts out as a definite Kennedy re-election becomes a slog that causes the President to be experiencing more health issues and popping more pills to cope. Whilst Kennedy manages to win, it’s by a whisker and a few electoral votes with Cabot Lodge running an aggressive campaign against Kennedy. The effect of this means that Kennedy after a couple months of his second term, collapses into a coma and a few weeks later passes away.

Smathers becomes President and isn’t terribly good, not budging on Vietnam, not expanding the New Deal beyond Kennedy’s technocratic Liberalism, not dealing with an inflating economy fast enough and not expanding Civil Rights and trying to appease the Southern Segregationists angers the Left and Liberals within the Democratic Party who are frustrated at the lack of progress the Smathers Presidency entails. During the 1968 primaries these frustrations coalesce behind Eugene McCarthy who does surprisingly well against the incumbent, leading to a chaotic and bloody 1968 Democratic Convention. With McCarthy pursuing an independent run with Mark Lane, supported by a variety of New Left groups and Smathers coming off as tried and old fashioned, alongside a host of revelations coming out about the Kennedy administration that paint him a poor light, attention turns to the Republicans.

Having lost twice under Moderates and sensing blood in the water, the Right of the party tries to find a champion. Initially Ronald Reagan is the initial champion of the Right, but some off colour remarks about Vietnam and announcing Richard Schwieker as his potential running mate offends some of his core audience who look around elsewhere. It would be a cabal centred around the likes of Gerry Ford who proposes Robert Taft Jr. as a suitable Conservative Candidate, Right Wing enough to gain the Goldwater/Buckley support but not so Right Wing that he would cause the Rockerfellar types to be nervous.

Robert Taft Jr. message of Small Government, Anti-Communism and adopting a more Conservative approach to economics allows him to coast through the primaries against Reagan, Romney and Rockerfellar and not long after against Smathers.

Taft Jr. tenure would see Alan Greenspan deal with inflation through austerity tactics which also just so happened to more often than not effect those who were deemed prime targets for policing. Increases penalties for drug dealing and procession leads to a crackdown on numerous movements associated with a free wheeling nature to drugs. Vietnam is still a slog, discussions about invasions of Laos Andy Cambodia are shot down and by 1972 an armistice is arranged which ensures South Vietnam’s existence through American AirPower.

The various Left Wing movements are cracked down upon, shootouts between police and Black Panthers or AIM are fairly consistent through out the Taft Jr. years as well as Weathermen Attacks are as well. This does make Taft Jr. more popular with the general (white) public who see him being tough and see it as leading to a more stable America.

The 1972 election is fairly dull for the most part, Hubert Humphrey having easily pushed George McGovern aside tries to attack Taft Jr. over his crackdowns and authoritarian tendencies as well as his economic doctrine. This almost works, but Taft Jr. is nearly assassinated by Arthur Bremer on the campaign trail and the image of the President campaigning across America with his damaged arm in a sling causes most people to ignore Humphrey.

Taft Jr. wins again and continues his policies, telling New York to drop dead and bombs North Vietnam when they try invading the South in 1975. Indeed Taft Jr. see’s the Republican Party shifting away from the Eisenhower party to something closer to his Dad and Goldwater’s image of Republicanism. This makes a fair few Eisenhower Republicans like Richard Nixon, who as Senate Majority Leader has been shepherding Taft’s bills through, rather disgruntled and feeling increasingly lost.

Meanwhile the Democrats ponder where next, the two establishments picks had failed and for many there was a general consensus that they should try and get someone more Left Wing to be there Presidential Candidate. As the primaries season starts, a former Senator by the name of Fred R.Harris appears in a Winnebago, asks to stay in supporters houses and runs a low budget Left Wing populist campaign against the establishment, fighting on his brand of New Populism. To an alliance of voters who are feeling hurt and poor under the policies of Taft, they agree with this message. Harris would manage to push aside Birch Bayh and Henry Jackson to gain the Presidential nomination.

Initially Harris is seen as an eccentric Leftist who will easily lose to Bob Dole’s Moderate Conservative Campaign, but by now the White Working Class and Middle Class voters that would ferry Taft into office were feeling the pinch of austerity. With Harris campaigning on better schools, more employment and ‘economic democracy’ his Left Wing Populist Campaign cuts through and he would become President.

Harris’s time as President was a tough one, with many of his policies alienating establishment Republicans and Democrats alike, Harris spends more his time trying to get Congress to yield. The economy whilst okay, doesn’t improve much during Harris’s tenure, Harris letting South Vietnam wither away angers Conservatives and Harris’s doing stuff like trying to dismantle the CIA, uprooting Labour Union Corruption and bringing about an improved Civil Rights Act baffles and horrifies some of the voters that got Harris in. Indeed, Harris pardoning arrested Black Panthers and AIM activists and discussing about the issues of the day with them disturbs certain sections of the public who had been told for the last eight years that they were the enemy.

This feeling of resentment and horror bubbles away, uncertainty about the future and a sense that Harris is a secret Communist abounds, especially after his nationalises several oil companies leads many people to find a saviour.

Richard Nixon, by now having retired from the Senate and doing the tour circuit, TV Show circuit and University circuit as an Elder Statesman starts to resonate with certain demographics. Indeed he criticises the economics policies of Taft Jr. and says he was too harsh on Labour Unions, says Harris should support aspiration over ‘Socialistic fear-mongering’ and talks about issues that effect ‘ordinary Americans’. In Gallup poll conducted in the Spring 1979, Nixon comes out on top as the person the public want as President.

Despite it all, a draft Nixon campaign in the Republican Primaries fails to launch and Nixon’s support John Connally comes up short behind Phil Crane. Nixon is seen as another’s wannabe, until Phil Crane’s alcoholism and inability to cope with stress is quickly revealed and his numbers dip drastically. Suddenly four more years of Harris seem imminent and Nixon see’s another shot.

Supported by an unholy coalition of big business, labour unions, Centrist technocratic wonks, politicians from across the aisles and the Secret Services, Nixon with his running mate Daniel Patrick Moynihan barnstorm the nation. Nixon and his campaign pull out every trick including many dirty ones to ensure victory. Nixon wins, not by a landslide but with enough to call victory on the night. Nixon becomes the first Third Party President in America’s history.

It’s now 1983 and Nixon is pondering another run, with his own party this time. And the interests that got Nixon into office the first time are hoping to get him in again, four more years to fatten there bellies and consolidate more power is the hope...
 
British Leaders after a Nuclear War

1979 - 26th Sept 1983: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)

26th Sept to 2nd October: Keith Joseph (Conservative, later Emergency Survival Government)

2nd October to 5th October: Paddy Ashdown (Emergency Survival Government)

5th October to 19th October: 'General' Travis Hobbs (bunker security force)

19th October: 'King Arthur Reborn, Chosen of God' (Dennis Walker)† ("Join the Rapture" faction)

19/10/83 - 4000AD - position vacant
 
Inspired by @Blackentheborg
Political Career of Richard Nixon
1946: Republican Candidate for California's 12th Congressional District
1947-1950: Republican Representative for California's 12th Congressional District

1946 def. Jerry Voorhis (Democratic)
1948 def. Una Rice (Independent)
1950-1953: Republican Senator from California
1950 def. Helen Gahagan Douglas (Democratic)
1953-1957: Vice President of the United States
1952 def.
Adlai Stevenson (Democratic)
1957-1960: Secretary of Defense
1960:
Republican Party primary candidate for President
1960: Robert Anderson def. Richard Nixon
1960-1964: Private Citizen
1964:
Republican Candidate for Senator from California
1965-1981:
Republican Senator from California

1964 def. Pierre Salinger (Democratic)
1970 def. George Brown Jr. (Democratic)
1976 def. Tom Hayden (Democratic)
1977-1979: Senate Minority Leader
1979-1981: Senate Majority Leader
1979-1981: Republican Party primary candidate for President

1980: Richard Nixon def. Howard Baker, Bob Dole, John Anderson
1981-????: President of the United States
1980 def. Daniel Inouye (Democratic)

Finally.

The career of Richard Nixon is one of a phoenix, burning down in spectacular fashion and rising from the ashes. He was selected as Vice President for the famous war hero and rode with him all the way to the presidency. However, this proved to be a double-edged sword as he was "convinced" to become Secretary of Defense to bolster his profile, but his commander in chief backstabbed him, or so Nixon says, during the final stretch. The person who replaced him, a no-name Texas Democrat known as Robert Anderson stole Ike's heart and became the nominee with his full backing. The next four years would become the darkest of Nixon's political career as the GOP lost in a landslide to Landslide Lyndon who reshaped America. However by 1964, Nixon was itching to throw himself back into the fray, riding off the discontent from having Anderson being the nominee, Barry Goldwater became the presidential nominee and Nixon also rode this discontent to being the Republican nominee for the Senate seat in California. He sat in that chamber for 14 years climbing the ranks until he became the leader of the Republicans and finally the face of the GOP, and an easy shoo-in for the nomination and with it the presidency. People were really growing tired of the Democrats, especially as they only won in 1976 due to Agnew falling at the worst possible time. Nixon was a proven elder statesman and ready to face anything, and finally, after 20 years of Dem dominance, he reached the top of the political mountain with substantial majorities, the only question is how much of an imprint Nixon will have on the American populace.
 
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1997-1999: John Smith (Labour)†
1997 (Majority) def. John Major (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrats)
1999-2007: Gordon Brown (Labour)
2002 (Majority) def. Ian Lang (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrats)
2007-2012: William Hague (Conservative)
2007 (Majority) def. Gordon Brown (Labour), Vince Cable (Liberal Democrats)
2012-2015: Peter Hain (Labour)
2012 (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def. William Hague (Conservative), Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrats), Roseanna Cunningham (Scottish National)
2013 Alternative Voting Referendum: Yes 54%, No 46%

2015: John Reid (Labour leading Coalition Government)
2015-: Tom Watson (Labour leading
Coalition Government)


“Pride Comes, is a New Miniseries by award winning playwright and screenwriter James Graham in collaboration with Danny Boyle for Channel 4. A darkly comedic political thriller following the rise and fall of Peter Hain as he goes from back bench rebel to Prime Minister and his subsequent scandals that would lead to his eventual resignation.

Starting in 1997, Peter Hain (Dominic West) finds himself Secretary of the Environment, Transport and the Regions in the John Smith Cabinet but his constant arguments for more regional power alongside pushing for Industrial Democracy ideas manages to make him enemies with Labour Right stalwart Peter Mandelson (Mark Gatiss) who oversees his ousting under Gordon Brown (Ian Grieve).

From there a rival between the two emerges which persists after Hain’s election as leader and Prime Minister. Following his administration and his difficulties with his Chancellor Hilary Benn (Adam Godley), Unite Leader and main Trade Union backers Len McCluskey (David Morrissey) and coalition partner Simon Hughes (Richard Teverson) who cause the Prime Minister to take drastic action at times and implement controversial ideas.

Meanwhile journalist and freedom of information campaigner Heather Brooke (Brit Marling) discovers odd details about Hain’s leadership election campaign which allows an odd coalition of allies to form, planning to use Brooke as a possible weapon against the Prime Minister. Rounding off the main cast is Lisa Palfrey as Elizabeth Haywood, Rory Kinnear as William Hague and Rob Brydon as Neil Kinnock.

Praised for his dry humour and stellar performances, criticism from Right Wing Journalists over the seemingly overly sympathetic portrayal of Peter Hain and from Labour Party officials who say it ‘brings down the perception of Labour’ within the eyes of the public. Current Labour Leader Yvette Cooper has refused to comment on the miniseries.

A spin off series about the battle for 2017 election between Tom Watson and Oliver Letwin starring Nick Frost and Hugh Laurie is currently in the works”

An Intro to Pride Comes, 4th of November 2020
 
1997-1999: John Smith (Labour)†
1997 (Majority) def. John Major (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrats)
1999-2007: Gordon Brown (Labour)
2002 (Majority) def. Ian Lang (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrats)
2007-2012: William Hague (Conservative)
2007 (Majority) def. Gordon Brown (Labour), Vince Cable (Liberal Democrats)
2012-2015: Peter Hain (Labour)
2012 (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def. William Hague (Conservative), Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrats), Roseanna Cunningham (Scottish National)
2013 Alternative Voting Referendum: Yes 54%, No 46%

2015: John Reid (Labour leading Coalition Government)
2015-: Tom Watson (Labour leading
Coalition Government)


“Pride Comes, is a New Miniseries by award winning playwright and screenwriter James Graham in collaboration with Danny Boyle for Channel 4. A darkly comedic political thriller following the rise and fall of Peter Hain as he goes from back bench rebel to Prime Minister and his subsequent scandals that would lead to his eventual resignation.

Starting in 1997, Peter Hain (Dominic West) finds himself Secretary of the Environment, Transport and the Regions in the John Smith Cabinet but his constant arguments for more regional power alongside pushing for Industrial Democracy ideas manages to make him enemies with Labour Right stalwart Peter Mandelson (Mark Gatiss) who oversees his ousting under Gordon Brown (Ian Grieve).

From there a rival between the two emerges which persists after Hain’s election as leader and Prime Minister. Following his administration and his difficulties with his Chancellor Hilary Benn (Adam Godley), Unite Leader and main Trade Union backers Len McCluskey (David Morrissey) and coalition partner Simon Hughes (Richard Teverson) who cause the Prime Minister to take drastic action at times and implement controversial ideas.

Meanwhile journalist and freedom of information campaigner Heather Brooke (Brit Marling) discovers odd details about Hain’s leadership election campaign which allows an odd coalition of allies to form, planning to use Brooke as a possible weapon against the Prime Minister. Rounding off the main cast is Lisa Palfrey as Elizabeth Haywood, Rory Kinnear as William Hague and Rob Brydon as Neil Kinnock.

Praised for his dry humour and stellar performances, criticism from Right Wing Journalists over the seemingly overly sympathetic portrayal of Peter Hain and from Labour Party officials who say it ‘brings down the perception of Labour’ within the eyes of the public. Current Labour Leader Yvette Cooper has refused to comment on the miniseries.

A spin off series about the battle for 2017 election between Tom Watson and Oliver Letwin starring Nick Frost and Hugh Laurie is currently in the works”

An Intro to Pride Comes, 4th of November 2020

This is super work
 
1997-1999: John Smith (Labour)†
1997 (Majority) def. John Major (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrats)
1999-2007: Gordon Brown (Labour)
2002 (Majority) def. Ian Lang (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrats)
2007-2012: William Hague (Conservative)
2007 (Majority) def. Gordon Brown (Labour), Vince Cable (Liberal Democrats)
2012-2015: Peter Hain (Labour)
2012 (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def. William Hague (Conservative), Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrats), Roseanna Cunningham (Scottish National)
2013 Alternative Voting Referendum: Yes 54%, No 46%

2015: John Reid (Labour leading Coalition Government)
2015-: Tom Watson (Labour leading
Coalition Government)


“Pride Comes, is a New Miniseries by award winning playwright and screenwriter James Graham in collaboration with Danny Boyle for Channel 4. A darkly comedic political thriller following the rise and fall of Peter Hain as he goes from back bench rebel to Prime Minister and his subsequent scandals that would lead to his eventual resignation.

Starting in 1997, Peter Hain (Dominic West) finds himself Secretary of the Environment, Transport and the Regions in the John Smith Cabinet but his constant arguments for more regional power alongside pushing for Industrial Democracy ideas manages to make him enemies with Labour Right stalwart Peter Mandelson (Mark Gatiss) who oversees his ousting under Gordon Brown (Ian Grieve).

From there a rival between the two emerges which persists after Hain’s election as leader and Prime Minister. Following his administration and his difficulties with his Chancellor Hilary Benn (Adam Godley), Unite Leader and main Trade Union backers Len McCluskey (David Morrissey) and coalition partner Simon Hughes (Richard Teverson) who cause the Prime Minister to take drastic action at times and implement controversial ideas.

Meanwhile journalist and freedom of information campaigner Heather Brooke (Brit Marling) discovers odd details about Hain’s leadership election campaign which allows an odd coalition of allies to form, planning to use Brooke as a possible weapon against the Prime Minister. Rounding off the main cast is Lisa Palfrey as Elizabeth Haywood, Rory Kinnear as William Hague and Rob Brydon as Neil Kinnock.

Praised for his dry humour and stellar performances, criticism from Right Wing Journalists over the seemingly overly sympathetic portrayal of Peter Hain and from Labour Party officials who say it ‘brings down the perception of Labour’ within the eyes of the public. Current Labour Leader Yvette Cooper has refused to comment on the miniseries.

A spin off series about the battle for 2017 election between Tom Watson and Oliver Letwin starring Nick Frost and Hugh Laurie is currently in the works”

An Intro to Pride Comes, 4th of November 2020
Love this, especially casting of Mandelson
 
2017 - 2027: Emmanuel Macron (La République En Marche! / Reinaissance)
2017 (first round) def: Marine Le Pen (Rassemblement National), Francois Fillon (Les Républicains), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (La France Insoumise)
2017 (second round) def: Marine Le Pen (Rassemblement National)
2022 (first round) def: Marine Le Pen (Rassemblement National), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (La France Insoumise)
2022 (second round) def: Marine Le Pen (Rassemblement National)

2027 - 2032: Jean-Luc Mélenchon (NUPES)
2027 (first round) def: Marine Le Pen (Rassemblement National), Bruno Le Maire (Renaissance), Éric Zemmour (Reconquête)
2027 (second round) def: Marine Le Pen (Rassemblement National)

2032 - 2037: Marion Maréchal (Reconquête)
2032 (first round) def: Jean-Luc Mélenchon (NUPES), Marine Le Pen (Rassemblent National), Carole Delga (Parti Socialiste)
2032 (second round) def: Jean-Luc Mélenchon (NUPES)

2037 - 20__: Kylian Mbappé (Démocratique)
2037 (first round) def: Marion Maréchal (Reconquête)



The 2022 parliamentary election where a near catastrophe for the newly re-elected Macron, his newly rebranded Reinassance party barely managed to scrape a majority, as the LFI led NUPES gained nearly 200 seats, and Le Pen’s Rassemblent National also made some noteworthy gains. Due to their reduced majorities President Macron and PM Borne came to rely more on the centre-right Republicans. This only further angered the French left, who under the leadership of Mélenchon had somewhat restrengthened again. As the years passed on Macron found himself increasingly less popular among the French public, which led him to focus most of his energy on foreign policy, and his failed attempts at a united European army.

By 2027 the battle lined had already been largely drawn between Le Pen on the far-right, running for the fourth time now, Jean-Luc Mélenchon on the left, running on the NUPES platform (the coalition being united into a single party in 2026), and unpopular Minister of the Economy leading the incumbent president’s centre-right movement. For some time it looked like Éric Zemmour might finally make his breakthrough, but his polling numbers declined when it became clear that he would likely not make the second round. Instead, it would be Le Pen and Mélenchon, two populists from opposite sides of the political spectrum, who would make the second round.

This result was received with both intrigue and shock by the international community. While some compared it to the recent victories of the European centre-left in countries like the UK, Belgium, and Slovakia, these comparisons slowly fell in the water as Mélenchon had some fundamental differences with the greens and social democrats of other countries. One of the most important was his opposition to Atlanticism, and his critical words towards American president Harris. Fundamentally, the results of the first round showed the death of Western neoliberalism.

While political scientist theorized about what the election would mean for the future of Europe, the French people had a choice to make. Most had already made up their minds, but the Le Maire voters were now up for grabs. Despite the fact that multiple recognizable Reinaissance members had already told their supporters to hold their nose and vote for the socialist, the man himself remained mostly quite, though he did claim the choice was between bad and worse (never clarifying who was which). The elections would ultimately be decided by the unpopular incumbent Macron. In a televised speech three days before the election, the president called for the people to “listen to the consciousness of our shared ecology”, and vote for the candidate of NUPES. Even if Mélenchon and his allies were unsure how to deal with this endorsement, it cannot be doubted that it pushed him over the top in a close 52-48 victory, with the pro-Macron suburbs voting in surprisingly high amounts for the new president. In his victory speech Mélenchon called for a sixth republic, which never came to pass, as his party failed to gain a majority in the parliamentary election, instead a sort of semi-cohabitation had to be agreed upon with Reinaissance, which led to green centrist Delphine Batho becoming Prime Minister.

Over the next five years president Mélenchon would book little success. While the minimum wage was increased at a much higher percentage, and the retirement age was lowered to 63 (far from his promise of 60), Mélenchon’s presidency booked little else on the domestic front. It didn’t help that his somewhat anti-immigrant stances finally came to bite him, as his more socially progressive allies started opposing him more and more. When warfare nearly broke out between China and Taiwan, the president finally though he had found his mojo as he tried placing himself as a balancing actor between President Xi and Harris. Instead, a majority of the French public opposed his neutral-to-somehwat-pro-Chinese stance, with the parti Socialiste finally breaking off from NUPES. It was little surprise to anyone that the former Mitterandist los re-election, though a surprising amount of French people were comfortable with the radicalism of his replacement.

Since 1988, every presidential election saw a member of the Le Pen family run for the presidency. Where both Jean-Marie and Marine Le Pen failed, Marion Maréchal succeeded as she became the first far-right president of France in more than a century. One of the main catalyst for her election would ironically be her aunt Marine, who she was barely on speaking terms with, as it was she who made the far-right acceptable to large swaths of the French public, though it was also her moderation which saw the establishment of the Reconquête party on her right. After two failed attempts by party founder Zemmour, it would be the third generation politician who brought the party into the highest office, though again the president would have no majority in parliament.

Maréchal’s tenure proved in many ways to be disastrous for France’s most vulnerable. Labor laws were rolled back, ecological protections as well, and institutional Islamophobia reached a new peak as the president openly declared war against the religion. Trade unions, who had stayed mostly quiet during Mélenchon’s presidency, started a summer of protesting and striking, which in many cases led to rioting as different groups had different grievances with both the government and each other. The opposition, now more disunited than ever, all had different solutions to these problems, whether it be a popular revolution or cooperation with the president. There were many attempts at unifying the opposition, though nobody had the pulling power to really be successful to do it, and in the winter of 2037 the president seemed to be well on her way to re-election, until a certain superstar announced his candidacy.

Kylian Mbappé was more than just one of the best football players in the world. Three world cups, two European championships, and five champions leagues were no easy feat, but what set him apart from any other sports figure in the world was his involvement with state leaders. Paris Saint-Germain, Mbappé’s club from 2017 to his retirement in 2036, was taken over by the Qatari state’s Qatari Sports Investment in 2011, and through the years he developed close relations with Qatar’s governing family, similarly his involvement in French peacekeeping efforts in Africa saw him form a lifelong friendship with Liberia’s football president Weah.

More importantly than all of this though was his image as one of the few likable Frenchmen globally. Mbappé routinely refused sponsorships from brands which he argued negatively affected human rights, his close relationship with Qatar obviously causing a lot of accusations of hypocrisy, but in an era where the French flag shined less than it ever had before, Kylian Mbappé was one of the few people that still made the French public proud to be French, as he shot Paris Saint-German and the French national team to one championship after the other. In 2037 he, along with his ragtag coalition of conservative liberals, environmentalists, and socialists, saved France from perhaps its biggest embarrassment.
 
I wanted to do this as a wikibox but I've never really got the skills for doing them properly, so I'll do it as a list and just bear in mind that it's more of a wikibox level of thought put into it (i.e. not as much).

List of Presidents of the United States of America
1933-1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt† (Democratic)
1932 def: Herbert Hoover (Republican, inc.)
1936 def: Alf Landon (Republican)
1940 def: Wendell Willkie (Republican)
1944 def: Thomas Dewey (Republican)

1944-1953: James F. Byrnes (Democratic)
1948 def: Thomas Dewey (Republican)
1953-1961: Harry F. Byrd (Democratic)
1952 def: Robert Taft (Republican)
1956 def: Joseph McCarthy (Republican)

1961-1969: Stuart Symington (Democratic)
1960 def: Barry Goldwater (Republican)
1964 def: Barry Goldwater (Republican), Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (National)

1969-1985: Richard Nixon† (Democratic)
1968 def: William F. Buckley (Republican), Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (National)
1972 def: Paul N. "Pete" McCloskey (National), Robert W. Welch Jr. (Republican)
1976 def: Granville Knight (Republican), Paul N. "Pete" McCloskey (National) (withdrew and disappeared under suspicious circumstances)
1980 unopposed

1984 unopposed
1985-1991: James E. Carter (Democratic)
1988 def: Edward M. Kennedy (Independent)
1991: office abolished


List of Presidents of the American Federation
1991-1999: Edward M. Kennedy (Independent)
1991 def: Walter Mondale (Democratic), Ronald E. Paul (Libertarian), Joseph Biden (Independent)
1996 def: Howard Dean (Democratic), Wesley Clark (Congress of American Neighbourhoods), Steve Jobs (Apple.US), Ronald E. Paul (Libertarian)

1999-2008: J. Cofer Black (Independent)
2000 def: Howard Dean (Democratic), Steve Jobs (Apple.US)
2004 def: Tom Vilsack (Democratic)

2008-2012: Hiram Monserrate (Independent, then Americans United)
2008 def: Howard Dean (Democratic), Ronald E. Paul (Libertarian)
2012-????: J. Cofer Black (Americans United, then Independent)
2012 def: Howard Dean (Democratic), Donald Trump (Independent), Ronald E. Paul (Libertarian)
2018 def: Michael Bloomberg (Democratic), Ronald E. Paul (Libertarian)


Annoyed that the whole point of this was to use Evan McMullin and then I realised the age disparity was too great.
 
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