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CLPD endorsed Trickett in the immediate aftermath of 2015 so it would have been him I expect.

1987 General Election if an Anti-Thatcher electoral pact had been formed.

big Ralph's favourite.

Thank you, it’s a good point. What I hope the list captures (from a relatively speculative PoD) is how even when it experiences shocks, the Westminster system tends to be relatively robust and usually the more boring outcome wins out. In this instance the Liberal takeover of the alliance and the...

1979-1987: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative) 1979 (Majority): James Callaghan (Labour), David Steel (Liberal) 1983 (Majority): Michael Foot (Labour), Roy Jenkins and David Steel (SDP-Liberal Alliance)* 1987-1990: David Steel (Liberal) 1987 (Liberal-SDP Alliance-Labour, later Liberal-Labour...

Really be enjoying these. The Hattersley pic is so good.

He gave a very similar answer to Clinton. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/26/barack-obama-third-term-president I think he probably would have won but I bet he would have done worse than in 2012 so it would be a bit awkward. You could imagine a lot of write-ups like 'Hilary wouldn't...

The Britain the Huhnes Built 2007-2010: Gordon Brown (Labour majority) 2007 Labour Party leadership election: unopposed 2010-2013: David Cameron (Conservative) 2010 (Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition): Gordon Brown (Labour), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat) 2013-2014: George Osborne...

A more recent PoD would be to just have the pressure group Charter 88 be more successful, probably influencing a 1997 John Smith ministry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_88

Ivan Cooper 😍

t thanks for this absolutely nightmarish

Have Blair, Mandelson and co go "fuck it" and fully pursue state funding of parties and you probably can get something like this happening.

Best way for the SSP to survive is to further discredit the SLP - perhaps by having no Lib Dem coalition and therefore no check on an orthodox Blairite programme on things like tuititon fees. Finding anyway for the Scottish unions to detach further another key idea. Also keep Sheridan's personal...

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The American Tendency "The very idea that domestic British politics might in some way be influenced from outside is anathema: Italy, under the Christian Democrats, well of course; and, yes, probably Japan under the Liberal Democrats. But Britain, the home of the mother of parliaments? Never." -...

Imo British Trump is Dale Winton

Certainly. Perhaps the best bet is obviously popular front taking off (which you know a lot more about) or the consequences of an invaded and eventually liberated UK. But that's so many other big butterflies to worry about that it kind of detracts from the original question.

Echoing this. It really is a case of getting the CP to affiliate, as Lenin suggested. Could be not totally politically toxic if achieved in the interwar years and is basically forgotten about by 45 and you just have a few Labour-Communist MPs or something whcih carries on to this day. How the...

That’s phresh

don't really think that means we should be bringing that culture over here.