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Rowland is one of those guys who doesn't show up often enough, imo.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *clears throat* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAThe Impeachment of Tony Blair
1997-2005: Tony Blair (Labour)
1997 (Majority) def. John Major (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrat), David Trimble (Ulster Unionist), Alex Salmond (Scottish National)
2001 (Majority) def. William Hague (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat), David Trimble (Ulster Unionist), John Swinney (Scottish National), Ian Paisley (Democratic Unionist)
2005-2005: John Prescott (Labour majority)
2005-2005: Robin Cook (Labour majority)
2005-2005: Glenda Jackson (Labour majority)
2005-2009: Ken Clarke (Conservative)
2005 (Coalition with LibDems) def. Glenda Jackson (Labour), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat), Alex Salmond (Scottish National), Ian Paisley (Democratic Unionist), Gerry Adams (Sinn Fein)
2009-2010: Ken Clarke (Conservative minority, with Democratic Unionist confidence and supply)
2010-2016: Glenda Jackson (Labour)
2010 (Majority) def. Ken Clarke (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat), Peter Robinson (Democratic Unionist), Alex Salmond (Scottish National), Gerry Adams (Sinn Fein)
2015 (Coalition with LibDems) def. Edward Leigh (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat), Alex Salmond (Scottish National), Peter Robinson (Democratic Unionist), Gerry Adams (Sinn Fein)
2016 STV referendum; YES 54%, NO 46%
2016-0000: Katy Clark (Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition)
2020 postponed due to coronavirus pandemic
Ken Clarke wins the Tory leadership in 2001 - and whips the Conservative Party to oppose Parliamentary approval for the War in Iraq. This comes to nothing in the short term - most of the British public approves of the war, the vote was purely symbolic and Blair uses the Royal Prerogative to invade Iraq anyway. However, he does end up falling harder and faster when the realities of the war come to light, and ignoring the purely symbolic vote becomes editoralised after the fact as an act of executive tyranny.
Impeachment is raised up in the winter of 2004 - before spring begins in 2005, Blair is out on his ear. A brief Acting Premiership by Prescott is in place so a leadership election can take place, a singularly chaotic state of affairs as the New Labour order implodes amidst the crisis. And out of the ashes emerges Robin Cook, promising a snap election as his Cabinet completely changes shape from the one under Blair.
However, the hard work of campaigning accelerates Cooks underlying health conditions and he dies before the election can take place. Glenda Jackson, who won the Deputy Leadership election, becomes Acting PM, and sees the party into the most three-cornered election results since the 1920s. Clarke forms a coalition with the Lib Dems, and governs as you might expect a Europhile One Nation Tory paired with the progressive wing of the Lib Dems might - in a manner deeply frustrating to the Eurosceptic right. Things spiral out after the economic crisis of 2008 however - Clarke is rather slower to move than Gordon Brown IOTL, and the crisis deepens. The bitter austerity measures he proposes lead to the LibDems walking out, and Clarke totters on with a minority before being crushed by Glenda Jackson, reconfirmed as leader in the aftermath of 2005.
Jackson makes a good pairing with the new Obama Administration across the water - and while the Tories spiral into hard-right demagoguery, the LibDems keep their position as a strong third arm of the party system. They finally get their PR referendum as Labour loses its majority in 2015. Jackson, now pushing 80, stands aside, allowing a new leadership to take control - once again forming a natural partnership with the Sanders Administration as it struggles through the bitter latter years of the 2010s, against his own party, mirrored by Clark's own issues with the coalition and the rise of the far-right governments in Europe exemplified by the success of Marine Le Pen.
No you haven’t but thank you, have to say what started off as a palate cleanser went rather well. I have to ask what your favourite bit is? Because I know what mine is.Time Enough have I told you lately that I love you?
The coups were caused by power struggles and sidelining of certain folks in factions. The Centre Grouping Coup was caused by Kaganovich believing that Kamenev was being too appeasing to the Right and Left oppositions over the Centre (mainly him and Molotov). At first his success is due to him soothing some representatives from Left and Right factions but his prickly nature and attempt to purge his enemies causes Right and Left to join together in ousting Kagnanovich with help from Molotov (who’s annoyed that Kagnanovich would consolidate all the power for himself).All the 1920s stuff is great, love to hear more about the series of coups. As an unreconstructed Bukharin-stan I'm particularly taken with his Great Reformer moniker.
Why thank you, if you ever want to start on something like that again I would be happy with helping.I'd started on something like this myself a few months ago with the early death of Stalin leading to a more democratic USSR but couldn't make it work to my satisfaction, this is far better.
The Inquirer?”Liberalism Today” is just way too gauche (no pun intended) of a name. For the liberal pillar you really want something that implies a general-interest paper, something for everyone who’s not an ideologically-blinkered sheep. Well, not blinkered by any ideology but liberalism, that is.
”Liberalism Today” is just way too gauche (no pun intended) of a name.