An Introduction to the Lectern series

[AndyC]

Discuss @AndyC 's introduction to the Lectern series here

 

[Gary Oswald]

Excellent article, Andy. Always nice to see some behind the scenes stuff and it had me going to reread the lectern series and reminded me how much I enjoyed it.

 

[Alex Richards]

Who was going to be the Sixth Lectern? the BNP? A regionalist alliance?

 

[AndyC]

Who was going to be the Sixth Lectern? the BNP? A regionalist alliance?

You know, I can’t remember.
I think someone was going to take advantage of the new electoral system to set up a new party (there was a YouGov analysis showing a socially conservative economically left wing gap in the political “market”), but it was a bit of a stretch and the new electoral system was a swine to model.

 

[Alex Richards]

You know, I can’t remember.
I think someone was going to take advantage of the new electoral system to set up a new party (there was a YouGov analysis showing a socially conservative economically left wing gap in the political “market”), but it was a bit of a stretch and the new electoral system was a swine to model.

So some sort of Redkip style party? I can imagine that the new system would have added exponentially to the spreadsheets.

 

[Walpurgisnacht]

I think someone was going to take advantage of the new electoral system to set up a new party (there was a YouGov analysis showing a socially conservative economically left wing gap in the political “market”), but it was a bit of a stretch and the new electoral system was a swine to model.

"Surely there must be a better way to nationalise steel production", though Secretary of State for Leaving the EU Paul Nuttall, walking past the Ministry of Banning Halal on his way to speak with Prime Minister Literally Just Kilroy-Silk.

 

[Charles EP M.]

There were plausibility issues, of course, but as it turned out, OTL proved more implausible.

The eternal conflict!

 

[Thande]

Nice work Andy - I've done a couple of reviews of the books on Goodreads the other day as it happens where I mention 'the hard part is remembering this was written in 2011'. And thanks for the nods to my chains of consequences articles!