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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

Here's an analogy list, with Gordon Brown (of all people) as our Churchill (1951-55).
A lot of the people post-2045 are fictional.

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Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom
1997-2007: Tony Blair (Labour, MP for Sedgefield)
1997, 2001, 2005: As OTL
2005 Conservative leadership election: David Davis def. David Cameron, Liam Fox, others
2007-2013: Gordon Brown (Labour, MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath)
2007 (Majority): def. David Davis (Conservative), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats)
2007 Conservative leadership election: Liam Fox def. David Cameron, Theresa May, others
2012 (Minority, coalition with Liberal Democrats): def. Liam Fox (Conservative), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats), Nigel Farage (UKIP), Alex Salmond (SNP)
2012 Conservative leadership election: George Osborne def. Boris Johnson, others
2013 Labour leadership election: Hilary Benn def. John McDonnell, David Miliband, others
2013-2013: Hilary Benn (Labour, MP for Leeds Central)
2013-2019: Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats, MP for Sheffield Hallam)
2014 (Minority, coalition with Conservative): def. George Osborne (Conservative), Hilary Benn (Labour), Alex Salmond (SNP), Nigel Farage (UKIP)
2014 Labour leadership election: Tom Watson def. Jeremy Corbyn, Jess Phillips, others
2017 Conservative leadership challenge: Boris Johnson def. George Osborne
2018 (Majority): def. Tom Watson (Labour), Boris Johnson (Conservative), Nigel Farage (UKIP)
2019 Conservative leadership election: Rishi Sunak def. Nadine Dorries, Damian Green, others
2019 Labour leadership election: Yvette Cooper def. Clive Lewis, Andy Burnham, others
2019 Liberal Democrats leadership election: Tom Brake def. Chuka Umunna, others
2019-2020: Tom Brake (Liberal Democrats, MP for Carshalton and Wallington)
2020-2026: Rishi Sunak (Conservative, MP for Richmond and Northallerton)
2020 (Majority): def. Tom Brake (Liberal Democrats), Yvette Cooper (Labour), John McDonnell (Red Vengeance), Anne Marie Waters (UKIP)
2020 Labour leadership election: Jess Phillips def. Clive Lewis, Andy Burnham, others
2021 Red Vengeance leadership election: Rebecca Long-Bailey def. Richard Burgon
2022 Liberal Democrats leadership election: Chuka Umunna def. Jo Swinson, Daisy Cooper, others
2022 Labour-Red Vengeance leadership election: Clive Lewis def. Rebecca Long-Bailey, Andy Burnham, others
2024 (Majority): def. Clive Lewis (Labour), Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrats), Anne Marie Waters (UKIP)
2026-2029: Clive Lewis (Labour, MP for Norwich and Bowthorpe)
2026 (Majority): def. Rishi Sunak (Conservative), Chuka Umunna (Liberal Democrats), Anne Marie Waters (UKIP)
2026 Liberal Democrats leadership election: Jo Swinson def. Layla Moran, others
2029-2031: Rishi Sunak (Conservative, MP for Richmond and Northallerton)
Apr. 2029 (Minority): def. Clive Lewis (Labour), Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrats), Carla Denyer (Green), Anne Marie Waters (UKIP)
2029 Liberal Democrats leadership election: Layla Moran def. Jo Swinson, others
Jan. 2030 (Majority): def. Clive Lewis (Labour), Layla Moran (Liberal Democrats), Carla Denyer (Green)
2030 Labour leadership election: Zarah Sultana def. Clive Lewis, Lisa Nandy, others
2031-2033: Luke Evans (Conservative, MP for Hinckley and Bosworth)
2033-2044: Zarah Sultana (Labour, MP for Coventry South and Earlsdon)
2033 (Majority): def. Luke Evans (Conservative), Carla Denyer (Green), Layla Moran (Liberal Democrats)
2034 Conservative leadership election: Dehenna Davidson def. Tom Tugendhat, Kemi Badenoch, others
2038 (Majority): def. Dehenna Davidson (Conservative), Carla Denyer & Elizabeth Barnard (Green-LibDem Alliance)
2038 Conservative leadership election: Saqib Bhatti def. Lewis Brackpool, James Cleverly, others
2039 Left Alliance leadership election: Lucas North def. Jane Baston, Tara Copeland, others
2040 Labour leadership challenge: Zarah Sultana def. Wes Streeting [NO CHANGE]
2043 (Minority, coalition with Left Alliance): def. Saqib Bhatti (Conservative), Lucas North & Jane Baston (Left Alliance)
2044 Labour leadership election: Dan Carden def. Nadia Whittome, Wes Streeting, others
2044-2049: Dan Carden (Labour, MP for Liverpool Walton and Anfield)
2045 (Majority): def. Saqib Bhatti (Conservative), Lucas North (Left Alliance)
2045 Conservative leadership election: Lewis Brackpool def. Fay Jones, Jack Rydeheard, Elena Bunbury others
2047 Labour leadership challenge: Dan Carden def. Lara McNeill [NO CHANGE]
2047 Conservative leadership challenge: Jonathan Cheng-Willis def. Lewis Brackpool
Jun. 2049 (Minority): def. Jonathan Cheng-Willis (Conservative), Lucas North (Left Alliance), Lewis Brackpool (For Britannia)
2049 Conservative leadership challenge: Jonathan Cheng-Willis def. Andrew Bowie [NO CHANGE]
2050-pres.: Jonathan Cheng-Willis (Conservative, MP for Chelsea and Fulham)
Dec. 2049 (Majority): def. Dan Carden (Labour), Lucas North (Left Alliance), Lewis Brackpool (For Britannia)
2050 Labour leadership election: Miriam Mirwitch def. Samuel Miliband, Lara McNeill, others
2052 For Britannia leadership election: Paul Joseph Watson def. Tom McIntosh & Mason Stuart (fusion ticket), David Menzies, others
2054 (Majority): def. Miriam Mirwitch (Labour), Lucas North (Left Alliance), Paul Joseph Watson (For Britannia)

Colours
Labour: #f15555
Conservative: #6699FF
Left Alliance: #66CC99
Green: #339933
Liberal Democrats: #FFA500
UKIP: #9966FF
SNP: #F7DA64

For Britannia: #660099
Red Vengeance: #B8312F
 
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2044-2049: Dan Carden (Labour, MP for Liverpool Walton and Anfield)
Carden and I went to the same school, and I can only imagine how obnoxious they’d be about counting a Prime Minister among the Old Edwardians. They haven’t shut up about Michael Edwards, and he’s been dead twenty years!
 
Four For Gore!

Partially based on @CanadianTory’s old TL on the other place (forgot what the POD was - the assassination of Jean Chretien?) which included such a twist. This is kind of what I envisioned how his TL's list of American presidents would look like. Well, if John Edwards hadn't been a pervert.

Presidents of the United States of America
2001-2005: Al Gore (Democratic)
2000 (with Barbara Boxer) def. George W. Bush / John Danforth (Republican), Donald Trump / John Silber (Reform)
2005-2009: Rudy Giuliani (Republican)
2004 (with Fred Thompson) def. Al Gore / Barbara Boxer (Democratic)
2009-2017: John Edwards (Democratic)
2008 (with Judi Dutcher) def. Rudy Giuliani / Mark Sanford (Republican)
2012 (with Judi Dutcher) def. Charlie Crist / Mitt Romney (Republican), Jerry Falwell Jr. / Richard Mourdock (Constitution)

2017-2021: Barack Obama (Democratic)
2016 (with Martha Coakley) def. Jeff Coyler / Richard Burr (Republican), Rudy Giuliani / Bari Weiss (Independent)
2021-pres.: Sarah Steelman (Republican)
2020 (with Michael McCaul) def. Barack Obama / Martha Coakley (Democratic), Rudy Giuliani / Gary Johnson (Libertarian—American Delta), Jerry Falwell Jr. / Enrique Tarrio (Constitution)

In summation: Gore wins in 2000 but loses in 2004 to America's (Ex-)Mayor as the U.S. becomes mired in Afghanistan. The economy goes down in flames and takes Giuliani with it, giving Edwards his time in the sun for 8 years. He hands off to Illinois Governor Barack Obama, but Obama loses in 2020 as the Middle East disintegrates following the death of Saddam Hussein in the first four-way election since 1860, featuring hyper-centrist libertarian Rudy, a far-right pastor and a far-right militia member / FBI informant, and the soon-to-be first woman President.
 
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This is my entry for last month's List Challenge! This month's List Challenge is linked to in my sig, and there's still plenty of time to get your entry in! Please get it in. Please. We've got literally nobody else.

The South Has Standards
Leaders of the Southern National Party
1974-1983: Alexander Thynn
1983-1985: Colin Bex
1985-1992: Alexander Thynn
1992-1994: Tony Linsell

Leaders of the League for Wessex

1994-1996: Tony Linsell
1996-2000: Andrew Perloff
2000-2004: James Michie
2004-2004: Steve Uncles
2004-2006: David Campbell-Bannerman
2006-2018: Kelvin MacKenzie
2018-XXxx: Mary Truss

Where Now For A Free South?
Kelvin MacKenzie has brought the League for Wessex higher than ever before--but the contradictions he embraced could break his movement.
By: Ena Vrbanec

The colours of Britain are, allegedly, red, white, and blue. Here in Winchester, one would be forgiven for thinking it was red, white, and gold. With the exception of the Winchester Public Employment Board office, still flying a lonely Union Jack, the whole town is draped in a banner unrecognisable to most foreigners--a red cross on a white field, with a red shield backing a golden dragon in the top-left corner. This flag was first flown here, in 1989, as the symbol of a fringe nationalist movement clinging to the edge of political relevancy. Now, it's a flag widely embraced across the region it represents, and its advocates dictate terms in Westminster. As the delegates for the League for Wessex assemble in Winchester for the party's annual conference, however, the mood is dampened by an elegaic concern. The man more responsible than anyone else for this status is not with them.

While there's been some supposition, even outright accusations, that Kelvin MacKenzie intends to continue running the party from his palatial villa in Ryde, MacKenzie has made it quite clear that his retirement is permanent, and his conspicuous physical absence from the conference--having even sent a proxy to flog his own autobiography--has made clear the truth of these claims. This will be the first conference without his presence, in some form, for decades. After being sent to cover the inaugural conference in 1974, MacKenzie quickly developed an affection for the party's policies and strain of nationalism, and built a rapport with the eccentric leader and largest donor, Alexander Thynn. When he was fired in 1986 from the Daily Sketch after his claims of Lawrence Daly being an NKVD agent were found to be libel, he took a "temporary" job editing the party's newspaper, The Wyvern. This would turn into a decades-long tenure, and one of the most important jobs in the party.

While the claims of member-voter suppression and threatening of party officials, alleged by many former members, are uncomfirmed, it's indisputable that MacKenzie adeptly used the role to promote the party's right-wing within the League, and promote himself within the right-wing. More than that, his relentless courting of publicity made him a household name well before his leadership. While some might deplore the effect midget Parliamentary by-election candidates, claiming David Cairns's death was due to HRID, and "Tits Out For Wessex Day" have had on British public discourse, their effect has been undeniable. MacKenzie has made himself the party's permanent face--arguably even outshining his nominal superior, Liam Fox, during his tenure as Deputy Prime Minister. Many still refer to the man as "The Guv", and claim they only joined the party because of him. For these die-hards, the League is no longer itself without Kelvin.

"It's a crying shame he's gone, a crying shame." Mark, 34, an Essex carpenter, has been campaigning for the party since university. "I met him once, you know? We were in a pub, y'know, after [A.A.] Johnson quit the Cabinet, celebrating, and some bloke by my mate Mike's elbow went 'Next round's on me, lads.' and I turned around and--I still get chills thinking about it." His mood turned contemplative. "I kept the glass, I'm thinking about getting a plaque for it. He deserves a rest, but still...a great man. A great man. A real lad. There's no-one like The Guv. I'm not...well, I won't leave, but without him..." He paused for a moment. "Well, what's the point? I got into politics because of him, and now he's out..."

The loss of MacKenzie's personal charisma isn't the only struggle the League now face. With the new leadership, cracks are starting to show in the party's coalition. While Truss initially pledged "to keep the party united in the interim, and step down as soon as a new vote can be held", that was nearly six months ago, and in that time, her leadership has solidified firmly. Her Shadow Cabinet has drawn heavily from her allies in the party's centre-right "Wessex Unchained" faction, and her rhetoric has echoed that. Prioritising the South's economy, and stoking resentment politics over having to subsidise an "unproductive" North, the party has slammed the recent British Shipyard strikes as "classic workshy Scots trying to hold back progress", and implied an independent Wessex would be able to relegalise private liquor sales. Yet for many members, the true downside of Truss isn't what she does, it's who she is, and who her allies are.

"I'm not racist, but that Fred Kwarteng--he's a bit off, isn't he?" David, 65, a car salesman from Devon, is a long-time voter, but is this is his first time attending the party conference. "Funny type. You couldn't imagine getting a pint with him, could you? Bit of an intellectual, too urban, too polished. Not your ordinary man in the street, and that's the problem. Look at what Truss was doing in university--she was a Young Communist, for chrissakes! The party's been taken over by a bunch of big city technocrats who'll sell Wessex down the river! Don't know how they talked The Guv into resigning, that is, if they didn't off him like they did to Kennedy Young, eh?" At this point, I was forced to step back, to avoid a wagging finger. "Mappin's a proper bloke, and if he doesn't get in in this vote, the party is doomed. Truss and Kwarteng just don't represent the party!"

The problem is, they do. The unique thing about the League for Wessex has always been the case it made for independence. Most of the prominent nationalist-seperatist movements in Europe--the Meridione, Wallonia, or our own Macedonians--represent economically-deprived peripheral areas, and make their cases based on emotional sentiment more than economic logic. Wessex, on the other hand, is largely defined by economic logic. When it was refounded in the late Nineties, the League defined itself in contrast to the romantic nationalists of the remnant Southern National Party by focusing on the wealthy south-east, as opposed to the more historic and agrarian south-west. Despite a recent turn to being more of a "national" party, much of their rhetoric still centres around the alleged vast sum the financial industries and small businesses of the South spend propping up the deindustrialised workers and rampant unions of the North. It's certainly not an unpopular platform--and more to the point, popular among donors.

"I was sympathetic to the party before, but, well...the stunts put me off. Beyond the pale, some of them." Rishi, 38, is a financial analysist based in Southampton, here representing his firm. "Still, I could always understand the appeal. I had a job up in Richmond for a few years, during the big break-up of British Steel, and the working culture there was grotesque. Feet on desks, lunchbreaks for half the day, offices that stank of beer--the cleaners wouldn't come in unless they were featherbedded three to a shift! That was the state of things up North. We can't go on like this! My mum and dad studied hard to give me opportunities they could only dream of, and it was the South that gave them those opportunities. I think Truss and her team are the right people for the job, and we need them--not comforting fairytales from the lunatic fringe."

Still, it wouldn't do to discount the harder edge of the party. A growing faction since the League's formation, the far-right "Wessex for the Wessexers" grouping have a major ace up their sleeve. The sudden propulsion of the party into the spotlight was done by expanding their coalition not ideologically, but geographically. Thanks to Campbell-Bannerman's "National Turn", a solid handful of seats held by the League are now well outside the boundaries of their definition of Wessex--most bizarrely, a defection from the Unionist Party has given them a seat on Doncaster City Council. These voters, peeled off from the other right-of-centre parties, aren't interested in Southern vs Northern. To them, the League is a party that offers independence for the whole UK, an independence from international law, modern liberalism, and foreigners taking jobs. The right's challenger to Truss, John Mappin's keynote policies reflect this vision, with far more interest in ritual slaughter in Islington, troops in Cyprus, and kirk schools in Scotland, than in the region he supposedly represents.

"It's utterly ludicrous, what's happened to the party." Jeff Kent, 66, was involved in the old Southern National Party, but currently belongs to the Campaign for Real Politics (part of the Radical Democratic Alliance). "Mappin's a great symbol of that. A millionaire hotel owner with no connection to the soil, focused on stirring up division instead of bringing unity, and elected representing occupied Kernow. This is the man half the members want at the helm of the Aenglisch cause!" He took a long sip from his pint at this point, before continuing. "At this point, the League is no more about Wessex than the Archers is about farming. It's just another aristocrat-run right-wing greviance party, taking old Orange Order talking points and slapping a big Wessex dragon on them. Still, at least the beer here's still good. Got that right at least."

Despite having gone from strength to strength, the League might be facing the biggest crisis in its history. The niche it's found for itself and the niche it was originally built to live in are too far apart. On the one hand, upwardly-mobile immigrants and young professionals in the commuter towns, but on the other, downwardly-mobile Anglos and embitterred pensioners north of Watford. These cracks were papered over by belligerent charisma and a skill at reading the national political mood, but now the League is being forced to choose between them. Truss's vows to seek Wessex's membership in EFTZ, and Mappin's attempts to court the Liverpool-based Protestant Conservative Party for an alliance, clearly mark an awareness of this. Either choice will still mean cutting off a significant source of votes. While the League still believe Wessex can survive independent from the United Kingdom, it remains to be seen if the party can survive independent from The Guv.

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Ena Vrbanec is an investigative journalist whose work has appeared in Sažetak, Sarajevski Dnevni, and many other magazines. She is currently the Western Europe correspondant for Novi List. Her book Sewers, Grass, and Eccentrics: Political Notes from a Small Island is due to be published in September.
 

2021-2025: Joe Biden (Democratic)
(With Kamala Harris)
2020 def. OTL
2022: Former President Trump's Mara-Lago residence in Florida raided by the FBI on accusations that Trump illegally removed classified documents from the White House following his Administration; The raid brings attention to a report made during the Trump Administration that alleged that Trump and members of the Administration had sold nuclear secrets to Saudi Arabia
2023: A massacre of both Palestinian and Israeli activists by a far-right nationalist group later discovered to have extensive ties to Israeli Intelligence and the IDF again puts Israel in the international spotlight for Human Rights abuses; The Massacre becomes a flash point for political development in the region over the course of the decade as a serious reformist movement among the Israeli middle classes begins to develop; Pro-Two State Solution faction secures leadership of the Israeli Labor Party
2024: With accusations that he had sold nuclear secrets to Saudi monarchs largely having been forgotten amidst stalled legal proceedings, former President Trump wins the Republican nomination in his efforts to seek a second non-consecutive term
2024: The Russian War in Ukraine ends as a tenuous peace settlement is successfully negotiated by the European Union; LNR/DNR become Independent States in exchange for Russian acceptance of Ukraine into NATO, the EU; Privately, Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to suffer from the advanced stages of colon cancer

2025-2025: Donald J. Trump Sr. (Republican) 💀
(With Daniel Cameron)

2024 def. Kamala Harris/Jared Polis (Democratic), Justin Amash/S.E Cupp (Independent, endorsed by "Rebellion" Libertarian, Forward), Others
2025: A terrorist cell linked to Saudi Intelligence detonates a poorly made nuclear dirty bomb in the Iranian capitol of Tehran, killing over seven million people and irradiating a large portion of the country in the worst act of terrorism in human history; Although much of the higher echelons of the Iranian Government are killed, President Ebrahim Raisi, away on a diplomatic visit to Afghanistan, survives, issuing a declaration of "Holy War" against Saudi Arabia, beginning of the Great Middle Eastern War
2025: As Iranian air forces begin a concentrated campaign against Saudi oil production and distribution facilities, gas prices skyrocket nation wide, shattering an already fragile market in the aftermath of the Tehran Horror; Beginning of the Second Great Depression
2025: Threatened by potential prosecution for his role in the Tehran Horror, American President Trump suffers from a fatal heart attack, dying before a crowd of supporters

2025-2029: Daniel Cameron (Republican)
(With Ken Paxton)

Replaced Donald J. Trump Sr.
2026: Following a failed uprising in the more populated parts of the Kingdom, secular and broadly left-leaning Arabian rebels begin a campaign against the House of Saud from the Southern Deserts
2026: Despite attempts to prolong his life further, Russian President Vladimir Putin dies following a years long battle with colon cancer, creating a vacuum in the Federation; While succeeded by Dimitri Mironov, power is actually held by a constantly shifting cabal of wealthy oligarchs and Putin-era bureaucrats
2026: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, recently re-elected with Likud after a close election against the increasingly left-leaning and post-zionist Mapai, orders a series of Israeli airstrikes on Saudi and Iranian positions on the Arabian Peninsula; Israeli involvement in the Great Middle Eastern War would intensify over the course of 2026
2026: Extremely controversial with the public, U.S forces begin engaging Iranian and Arabian rebel targets in and along the Persian Gulf, claiming that it is a "strictly Independent" offensive from the Saudi war meant to target "Iranian forces and Iranian funded Islamic terrorist groups"
2027: As various nations seek new sources of energy amid the Great Middle Eastern War, Venezuela, Chile and Bolivia see a thawing of relations with the West as an economic boom hits South America despite the global Depression
2027: Russian President Dimitri Mironov assassinated by unknown assailant as the Russian Federation descends into a multi-sided civil war between Government Loyalists, Vague Liberal Democrats, Monarchists, and Communists
2028: Iranian forces successfully carry out a large scale naval landing on the Arabian Coast; Mohammed Bin Salman disappears, suspected to have gone into hiding
2028: Numerous accusations of religiously motivated massacres by Iranian forces in Arabia causes international uproar
2028: Running on a platform of withdrawing U.S forces and support from the Great Middle Eastern War, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wins the Democratic nomination for President

2029-2029: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Democratic)
(With Nikki Freid)
2028 def. Daniel Cameron/Ken Paxton (Republican), Andrew Yang/Bari Weiss (Forward), Others
2029: President Ocasio-Cortez reveals that Mohammed Bin Salman has been in exile in the United States since the previous year, the Administration announces intent to deliver the Saudi royal to the Hague to face trial for war crimes
2029: Former YPG fighter and labor activist Brace Belden leads international brigade of Jewish and Arab fighters in insurgency against the Israeli Government, declared persona non grata by the Israeli Defense Forces
2029: Congress passes numerous sections of the Green New Deal, Ocasio-Cortez Administration begins egalitarian overhaul of the American political and economic system
2029: Communist forces in Russia, under the banner of the New October Front, capture Moscow from loyalist and monarchist elements in August
2029: President Ocasio-Cortez overthrown by reactionary factions of the United States military opposed to the "Peace Reforms" enacted by the Ocasio-Cortez Administration


2029-20??: Paul G. Nakasone (Military Administration)
2029: Beginning of The Strife
 
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2027: Russian President Dimitri Mironov assassinated by unknown assailant as the Russian Federation descends into a multi-sided civil war between Government Loyalists, Vague Liberal Democrats, Monarchists, and Communists

I choose to believe that it was a smoking accident

2027: As various nations seek new sources of energy amid the Great Middle Eastern War, Venezuela, Chile and Bolivia see a thawing of relations with the West as an economic boom hits South America despite the global Depression

I assume that a dozen nuclear stations are built in Europe every year
 
Peace, Love And Granola - the Career of Tom Hayden

1960-1962: Member of Students for Democratic Society (SDS)

- recruited by Alan Haber
1962-1963: President of the SDS
1964-1968: Private citizen, activist

- organiser for the Newark Community Union Project
1968: Member of the National Mobilisation Committee to End the War in Vietnam ("the Mobe")
1969-1972: Private citizen, activist

- tried and convicted as part of the "Chicago Eight" group, charges later reversed following appeal
1972-1974: Founder and director of the Indochina Peace Campaign (IPC)
- visited Hanoi with his wife, Jane Fonda, in 1972
1974: Democratic Party Primary candidate for California's 34th district
defeated Mark Hannaford
1975-1979: Representative for California's 34th congressional district
defeated Bill Bond (Republican/American Independent), John Donohue (Peace and Freedom)
1978: Nonpartisan Primary candidate for Mayor of San Francisco
lost to Dianne Feinstein, David Scott
1979-1981: Director of the Peace Corps
appointed by ACTION Director Sam Brown, replacing Carolyn Payton
1981-1983: Co-founder and Director of Campaign for Economic Democracy (CED)
1983-1986: Private citizen, author
1986: Democratic Party candidate for Governor of California

lost to George Deukmejian (Republican), Joseph Fuhrig (Libertarian), Maria Elizabeth Muñoz (Peace and Freedom), Gary V. Miller (American Independent)
1989-1992: Private citizen, activist
- protested to institute Chapter 1238 of the California Statutes allowing the establishment of "student representation fees"
1992: Democratic Party candidate for Senate Special Election for California
defeated Dianne Feinstein, Joseph Alioto, David Kearns
1993-2007: Senator for California
'92: defeated John Seymour (Republican)
'94: defeated Michael Huffington (Republican)
'00: defeated Tom Campbell (Republican), Medea Benjamin (Green)

2000: Democratic Party Primary candidate for President of the United States
lost to Al Gore
Taking another run at this, more streamlined and fancy-free

Career of Tom Hayden

1962-1963: President of the Students for Democratic Society (SDS)
1964-1968: Private citizen, activist,
organiser for the Newark Community Union Project
1968: Member of the National Mobilisation Committee to End the War in Vietnam ("the Mobe")
1969-1972: Private citizen, activist

- tried and convicted as part of the "Chicago Eight" group, (charges later reversed following appeal)
1972-1975: Founder and director of the Indochina Peace Campaign (IPC)
- visited Hanoi with his wife, Jane Fonda, in 1972
1975-1976: Senior Advisor on Social Innovation for the Office of Governor Jerry Brown
1976:
Democratic Party Primary candidate for California Senator
defeated John V. Tunney (incumbent)
1977-1992: Senator for California

'76: defeated S. I. Hayakawa
'82: defeated Barry Goldwater Jr., Pete McCloskey
'88: defeated Bob Dornan
1990: Democratic Party candidate for Governor of California

lost to Pete Wilson
1992: Democratic Party Primary candidate for President of the United States

defeated Dianne Feinstein, Paul Tsongas, Joe Biden, Dick Gephardt
1993-2001: President of the United States
(with John Kerry) 92: defeated George H.W. Bush/Jack Kemp, Ross Perot/James Stockdale
'96: defeated Arlen Specter/Thomas Kean, Ross Perot/Pete McCloskey

2001-present: Private citizen, author
 
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Dumb Gimmicky List

1979-1992: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)
1992-2006: Margaret Beckett (Labour)

Def 1992: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative) Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrat)
Def 1997: John Major (Conservative) Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrat)
Def 2001: Anne Widdecombe (Conservative) Jackie Ballard (Liberal Democrats)
Def 2006: Theresa May (Conservative) Jackie Ballard (Liberal Democrats)
2008-2011: Jacqui Smith (Labour)
2011-2014: Jacqui Smith (Labour-
Liberal Democrat Coalition)

Def 2011: Sayeeda Warsi (Conservative) Lynne Featherstone (Liberal Democrat) Caroline Lucas (Green)
2012 electoral reform referendum: AV 55% AV 45%
2014-2022: Justine Greening (Conservative)
Def 2014: Jacqui Smith (Labour) Lynne Featherstone (Liberal Democrat) Dianne James (UKIP) Natalie Bennett (Green)
Def 2019: Dianne Abbot (Labour) Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrat) Anne Marie Waters (UKIP) Sian Berry (Green)
2022-Present: Eddie Izzard (Labour Minority with Lib Dem, Plaid Cymru, Green and Scottish Green S&C)
Def Justine Greening (Labour) Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat) Anne Widdecombe (Great British Party) Carla Denyer and Sian Berry (Green)



Party leaders as of 2022:
Labour: Eddie Izzard
Conservative: Priti Patel
Liberal Democrat: Layla Moran
SNP: Jo Cherry
Great British Party: Anne Widdecombe
Plaid Cymru: Liz Saville-Roberts
Green: Carla Denyer
Scottish Green: Mhairi Black
DUP: Arlene Foster
Sinn Fein: Michelle O’neill
Alliance: Naomi Long
UUP: Rosemary Barton
SDLP Nichola Mallon
 
"For God, People, Nature and Constitution"
Robert Walpole (Whig, then Constitutionalist Whig) 1721-1741
Henry Fox the Elder (Country) 1741-1747
Jeffrey Amherst (Christian Whig) 1747-1753
John Shebbeare (Society for the People) 1753-1755
Charles Cornwallis, the Earl Cornwallis (Christian Whig) 1755-1764
Henry Fox the Younger (True Whig) 1764-1770
William Petty, the Earl of Shelburne (Country) 1770-1776
Horace Walpole (Reform Whig) 1776-

A shitpost. You probably can work out how exactly it's a shitpost. The title is a spoiler.
 
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Dumb Gimmicky List

1979-1992: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)
1992-2006: Margaret Beckett (Labour)

Def 1992: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative) Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrat)
Def 1997: John Major (Conservative) Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrat)
Def 2001: Anne Widdecombe (Conservative) Jackie Ballard (Liberal Democrats)
Def 2006: Theresa May (Conservative) Jackie Ballard (Liberal Democrats)
2008-2011: Jacqui Smith (Labour)
2011-2014: Jacqui Smith (Labour-
Liberal Democrat Coalition)

Def 2011: Sayeeda Warsi (Conservative) Lynne Featherstone (Liberal Democrat) Caroline Lucas (Green)
2012 electoral reform referendum: AV 55% AV 45%
2014-2022: Justine Greening (Conservative)
Def 2014: Jacqui Smith (Labour) Lynne Featherstone (Liberal Democrat) Dianne James (UKIP) Natalie Bennett (Green)
Def 2019: Dianne Abbot (Labour) Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrat) Anne Marie Waters (UKIP) Sian Berry (Green)
2022-Present: Eddie Izzard (Labour Minority with Lib Dem, Plaid Cymru, Green and Scottish Green S&C)
Def Justine Greening (Labour) Layla Moran (Liberal Democrat) Anne Widdecombe (Great British Party) Carla Denyer and Sian Berry (Green)



Party leaders as of 2022:
Labour: Eddie Izzard
Conservative: Priti Patel
Liberal Democrat: Layla Moran
SNP: Jo Cherry
Great British Party: Anne Widdecombe
Plaid Cymru: Liz Saville-Roberts
Green: Carla Denyer
Scottish Green: Mhairi Black
DUP: Arlene Foster
Sinn Fein: Michelle O’neill
Alliance: Naomi Long
UUP: Rosemary Barton
SDLP Nichola Mallon

Already not happy with this . 22 years of Labour is a bit much
 
Just a heads-up that I posted this in the HoS Challenge thread, so this is essentially self-promotion.

With that out of the way, I present:

"It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs."
Or: How Margaret Thatcher Ended Up Bringing In An Era of Women Prime Ministers Despite Getting The Boot In '82 Somehow


"In all of British political history, there has arguably been no fall from grace more dramatic than that of Margaret Thatcher. Her landslide loss in 1983 to Tony Benn triggered many claims that her premiership had poisoned the well for all future women PM-aspirants. And yet, every subsequent PM to have won a general election after her landslide loss in 1983 (with the exception of the aforementioned Benn) has been a woman - whether they be steadfast conservatives like Bottomley, moderates like Kirkbride and Kelly, or leftists like Truss.

Using your own knowledge and the above prompt, evaluate the view that Margaret Thatcher paved the way for subsequent female Prime Ministers."
- British A-Level Politics 30-mark question, 2023

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
1979-1982: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)
1979 (Majority): def. James Callaghan (Labour), David Steel (Liberal)
1982-1983: Geoffrey Howe (Conservative)
1983-1993: Tony Benn (Labour)
1983 (Majority): def. Geoffrey Howe (Conservative), David Steel & Roy Jenkins (Liberal - SDP Alliance)
1987 (Majority): def. Michael Heseltine (Conservative), David Steel & David Owen (Liberal - SDP Alliance)
1992 (Minority): def. Chris Patten (Conservative), David Owen (Democratic)

1993-1998: Margaret Beckett (Labour)
1994 (Minority, coalition with Democratic): def. Chris Patten (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Democratic)
1998-2009: Virginia Bottomley (Conservative)
1998 (Majority): Margaret Beckett (Labour), Paddy Ashdown (Democratic)
2002 (Majority): Jack Straw (Labour), Menzies Campbell (Democratic), Jeremy Corbyn (Independent Labour - Socialist Campaign Group)
2006 (Majority): Alan Johnson (Labour), Vince Cable (Democratic)

2009-2010: Dominic Grieve (Conservative)
2010-Apr. 2017: Ruth Kelly (Labour)
2010 (Minority, coalition with Democratic): def. Dominic Grieve (Conservative), Simon Hughes (Democratic)
2012 (Majority): def. John Bercow (Conservative), Simon Hughes (Democratic)
Mar. 2017 (Minority): def. Oliver Letwin (Conservative), Nick Clegg (Democratic), Alex Salmond (SNP)

Apr.-Jul. 2017: Tony Blair (Labour)
2017-2022: Julie Kirkbride (Conservative)
Jul. 2017 (Majority): def. Tony Blair (Labour), Alex Salmond (SNP), Nick Clegg (Democratic), John McDonnell (Independent Labour - Socialist Campaign Group), Nigel Farage (Sovereignty)
2022-0000: Elizabeth Truss (Labour)
2022 (Majority): def. Julie Kirkbride (Conservative), Rishi Sunak (Democratic), John Swinney & Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Nigel Farage (Sovereignty), Alex Salmond (Alba)

Colours:
Labour: E04646
Conservative: 3494FA
Liberal: FAC51C
SDP: 9365B8
Democratic: 9900FF
SNP: FBA026
Sovereignty: 475577
Independent Labour - Socialist Campaign Group: B8312F
Alba: 3366CC

And yes, I did enjoy screwing Blair by making him the shortest-serving PM of all time (three months, Tonbridge Briar! THREE MONTHS! Shouldn't have knifed Kelly now should ya, you [expletive]?)
 
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This was a dumb idea, but I needed to write this, shoutouts to @Blackentheborg and @Oppo
Career of Ted Gunderson

1951-1973 FBI Agent
1973-1975 Head of the Memphis FBI Office
1975-1977 Head of the Dallas FBI Office
1977-1979 Head of the Los Angeles FBI Office
1979-1991 Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1991-? Fugitive

The shocking life and misdeeds of Ted Gunderson are well known to everyone in America. He is the villain of both the right and the left, being hated by all and loved by none. His career started as an FBI Agent with a conspiratorial mindset. He was picked by Jimmy Carter to head the FBI after rising up the ranks in the 70s, but this decision would haunt Carter and his legacy for the rest of his life. Gunderson was more than happy to see Reagan nominated and on the road to victory, but when reports surfaced of illegal meetings between the Reagan campaign and the Iranian government, Gunderson felt enraged by the betrayal and sought to destroy Reagan's campaign, even forging more evidence than just the circumstantial ones that were already there. Gunderson revealed Reagan's treachery, and Carter was re-elected in a landslide. In response, the GOP helped elect an up-and-comer with much more youth, Buddy Cianci in 1984 over Walter Mondale.

Cianci and Gunderson worked well together, too well, as Cianci unleashed Gunderson that would culminate with the 1988-1989 FBI Raids that tried to put down "satanists" and "pedophiles" that had taken over multiple schools across the country. When Cianci was finally tried in 1990, as the walls closed in, Gunderson tried to make it out, but he was also caught helping Cianci with multiple crimes and helping the FBI turn a blind eye towards his criminal activities. The revelations about his destruction of Reagan destroyed any hope of the right rallying around his cause, and with jail time the only thing to look forward to, he ran away with boxes of FBI information. They found his car, but none of the boxes, on the side of a road in West Virginia. The body was never found with some speculating suicide or another party involved. Most in the US think it was suicide, popularized by the film Gunderson directed by Oliver Stone, which helped create the myth of the monster that so many people paint him as today.
 
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