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We Now Return To Our Regularly Scheduled Programming
2010-2019: David Cameron (Conservative)
2010 (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def: Gordon Brown (Labour), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats), Alex Salmond (SNP), Ieuan Wyn Jones (Plaid Cymru), Caroline Lucas (Green)
2014 Scottish independence referendum: Yes 45%, No 55%
2015 (Majority) def: Ed Miliband (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats), Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru), Nigel Farage (UKIP), Natalie Bennett (Green)
2015 Labour leadership election: Andy Burnham 66%, Yvette Cooper 21%, Mary Creagh 8%, Liz Kendall 4%
2016 European Union referendum: Remain 52%, Leave 48%
2017 (Majority) def: Andy Burnham (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Tim Farron (Liberal Democrats), Nigel Farage (UKIP), Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru), Caroline Lucas (Green)
2018 Labour leadership election: Dan Jarvis 44%, Lisa Nandy 38%, Laura Pidcock 11%, Rachel Reeves 7%
2019 Conservative leadership election: George Osborne 59%, Michael Gove 27%, Liam Fox 14%
2019-2021: George Osborne (Conservative)
2021-pres: Dan Jarvis (Labour)
2021 (Minority, SNP support) def: George Osborne (Conservative), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrats), Nigel Farage (UKIP), Siân Berry (Green), Adam Price (Plaid Cymru)
2019 Conservative leadership election: Priti Patel 39%, Theresa May 24%, David Gauke 20%, Chris Grayling 17%
2010-2019: David Cameron (Conservative)
2010 (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def: Gordon Brown (Labour), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats), Alex Salmond (SNP), Ieuan Wyn Jones (Plaid Cymru), Caroline Lucas (Green)
2014 Scottish independence referendum: Yes 45%, No 55%
2015 (Majority) def: Ed Miliband (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats), Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru), Nigel Farage (UKIP), Natalie Bennett (Green)
2015 Labour leadership election: Andy Burnham 66%, Yvette Cooper 21%, Mary Creagh 8%, Liz Kendall 4%
2016 European Union referendum: Remain 52%, Leave 48%
2017 (Majority) def: Andy Burnham (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Tim Farron (Liberal Democrats), Nigel Farage (UKIP), Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru), Caroline Lucas (Green)
2018 Labour leadership election: Dan Jarvis 44%, Lisa Nandy 38%, Laura Pidcock 11%, Rachel Reeves 7%
2019 Conservative leadership election: George Osborne 59%, Michael Gove 27%, Liam Fox 14%
2019-2021: George Osborne (Conservative)
2021-pres: Dan Jarvis (Labour)
2021 (Minority, SNP support) def: George Osborne (Conservative), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrats), Nigel Farage (UKIP), Siân Berry (Green), Adam Price (Plaid Cymru)
2019 Conservative leadership election: Priti Patel 39%, Theresa May 24%, David Gauke 20%, Chris Grayling 17%
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And a couple of maps (2017 election left, 2021 election right) to accompany this exercise in unadulterated sanity.
Who are the pink and orange parties? And what happened to Scotland?
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So! This all is quite ASB, taking place after a civil war over the prorogation. Pink is a Corbynite outfit, led by Burgon & Pidcock, known as the Socialist Party; the Labour Party is purely the realm of the soft left & Blairite; the Liberal Democrats remain as they are; the blue is the Moderate Party led by Rory Stewart, the Conservative brand having been tainted by the war; the brown is Suella Braverman's National Party, a new outfit for right-of-Moderate voters led by one of the few Tory bigwigs to leave the war with their reputation in-tact.
Scotland went it's own way; despite the wishes of Alistair Jack's Scotland Office and the Labour-led Scottish Parliament. Scotland's UDI was successful, and after the civil war it managed to negotiate continued independence from Britain.
As said, it's all a very ASB tongue-in-cheek situation; such is a British civil war.
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Labour: The Natural Party of Government
Though he did not know it at the time, Churchill's decision directly undermine prime minister Baldwin in the May of 1926 would come to define British political history. His clandestine arming of the soldiery aiming to break the picket line surrounding the London Docks, we now know, directly culminated in what was quickly christened the "Passchendock" massacre. As Baldwin had perhaps feared, the situation only deteriorated from there; even with state control over media, it was hard for the government to prevent the story from spreading like wildfire throughout the isles. Public opinion swiftly turned against the government, with even swathes of the largely conservative middle class coming to sympathise with the strikers who had, by all accounts been treated not as Englishmen, but as Jerry.
Churchill's decision, and it's aftermath, cause the government to lose the initiative in the general strike. Special constables resigned in droves, and the Organisation for the Maintenance of Supplies was forced to invite Rotha's gang into its ranks to avoid being entirely unmanned, while strikers who days earlier had considered returning to work instead had their resolve strengthened. It was no longer than a month before the government effectively capitulated; the TUC leadership were called to Number 10, and Baldwin agreed to revisit the Samuel Commission. There would be no redundancies, no drops in pay, and a further commission considering full nationalisation of the industry.
Order was restored on the streets, but it was clear that Baldwin's career was over. Churchill had stood by his decision, and a sizable contingent of the Conservative Party stood by him in turn. The party - humilated in government - turned inward, and a great bloodletting began. Alongside the personal strife between Baldwin and Churchill over the latter's insubordination, the ever-present issue of free trade or Imperial preference also returned to the fore. Churchill's leadership challenge was widely expected; his victory was not. When Ramsay MacDonald tabled a motion of no confidence in the "Butcher of Passchendock" in the September of 1926, he surely did not expect that the backlash-induced betrayal of Baldwin and the backbenchers.
Though he did not know it at the time, Churchill's decision directly undermine prime minister Baldwin in the May of 1926 would come to define British political history. His clandestine arming of the soldiery aiming to break the picket line surrounding the London Docks, we now know, directly culminated in what was quickly christened the "Passchendock" massacre. As Baldwin had perhaps feared, the situation only deteriorated from there; even with state control over media, it was hard for the government to prevent the story from spreading like wildfire throughout the isles. Public opinion swiftly turned against the government, with even swathes of the largely conservative middle class coming to sympathise with the strikers who had, by all accounts been treated not as Englishmen, but as Jerry.
Churchill's decision, and it's aftermath, cause the government to lose the initiative in the general strike. Special constables resigned in droves, and the Organisation for the Maintenance of Supplies was forced to invite Rotha's gang into its ranks to avoid being entirely unmanned, while strikers who days earlier had considered returning to work instead had their resolve strengthened. It was no longer than a month before the government effectively capitulated; the TUC leadership were called to Number 10, and Baldwin agreed to revisit the Samuel Commission. There would be no redundancies, no drops in pay, and a further commission considering full nationalisation of the industry.
Order was restored on the streets, but it was clear that Baldwin's career was over. Churchill had stood by his decision, and a sizable contingent of the Conservative Party stood by him in turn. The party - humilated in government - turned inward, and a great bloodletting began. Alongside the personal strife between Baldwin and Churchill over the latter's insubordination, the ever-present issue of free trade or Imperial preference also returned to the fore. Churchill's leadership challenge was widely expected; his victory was not. When Ramsay MacDonald tabled a motion of no confidence in the "Butcher of Passchendock" in the September of 1926, he surely did not expect that the backlash-induced betrayal of Baldwin and the backbenchers.
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Alexander Boris Fawcett (born Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, June 19, 1964), popularly known as Al Fawcett, is an American politician, lawyer and writer serving as the 71st United States secretary of state since January 26, 2021. He is a Democrat.
Fawcett was born in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. His parents separated after his birth, and he was raised solely by his mother. He subsequently took her maiden name. Fawcett studied law at Harvard University, earning a Juris Doctor in 1990. He was admitted to the bar in 1991 and practiced law from then until 1999. During this time he also wrote a number of books. Fawcett first came to political prominence in 1999 when he was elected to the House of Representatives representing New York's 9th congressional district. His success in the primary came as a surprise.
In 2009, Fawcett was selected by Governor Paterson to succeed Clinton as senator for New York while she became United States secretary of state. He won a special election in 2010, and was subsequently reelected to full terms in 2012 and 2018. Fawcett was initially seen as a friendly to President Donald Trump, supporting his replacement of NAFTA, voting in favour of his immigration policies and confirming most of his appointments alongside fellow moderate Joe Manchin. Eventually, however, Fawcett distanced himself from Manchin and began opposing the President Trump administration, pushing for a stronger federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. He supported Biden during the 2020 Democratic primaries. Fawcett was chosen by President Biden to become his secretary of state. In this capacity, he has overseen the American withdrawal from Afghanistan and America's rejoining of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Fawcett has pushed for a renewal of the Special Relationship.
Fawcett is considered a centrist, and has been described as a libertarian or a liberal conservative. He has caucused with the Blue Dog and New Democrat coalitions, while continually opposing the Congressional Progressive Caucus. His positions are varied; he has expressed support for Medicare for All and same-sex marriage, while opposing raising the federal minimum wage and restrictive laws on gun ownership.
Fawcett was born in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. His parents separated after his birth, and he was raised solely by his mother. He subsequently took her maiden name. Fawcett studied law at Harvard University, earning a Juris Doctor in 1990. He was admitted to the bar in 1991 and practiced law from then until 1999. During this time he also wrote a number of books. Fawcett first came to political prominence in 1999 when he was elected to the House of Representatives representing New York's 9th congressional district. His success in the primary came as a surprise.
In 2009, Fawcett was selected by Governor Paterson to succeed Clinton as senator for New York while she became United States secretary of state. He won a special election in 2010, and was subsequently reelected to full terms in 2012 and 2018. Fawcett was initially seen as a friendly to President Donald Trump, supporting his replacement of NAFTA, voting in favour of his immigration policies and confirming most of his appointments alongside fellow moderate Joe Manchin. Eventually, however, Fawcett distanced himself from Manchin and began opposing the President Trump administration, pushing for a stronger federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. He supported Biden during the 2020 Democratic primaries. Fawcett was chosen by President Biden to become his secretary of state. In this capacity, he has overseen the American withdrawal from Afghanistan and America's rejoining of the Paris Agreement on climate change. Fawcett has pushed for a renewal of the Special Relationship.
Fawcett is considered a centrist, and has been described as a libertarian or a liberal conservative. He has caucused with the Blue Dog and New Democrat coalitions, while continually opposing the Congressional Progressive Caucus. His positions are varied; he has expressed support for Medicare for All and same-sex marriage, while opposing raising the federal minimum wage and restrictive laws on gun ownership.
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Harwooding the Deck
2019-2023: Boris Johnson (Conservatives)
2019 (Majority) def: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrats), Adam Price (Plaid Cymru), Jonathan Bartley & Siân Berry (Greens)
2023-2024: Rishi Sunak (Conservatives)
2024-2030: Keir Starmer (Labour)
2024 (Majority) def: Rishi Sunak (Conservatives), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Ed Davey (Liberal Democrats), Adam Price (Plaid Cymru), Alex Salmond (Alba), Carla Denyer & Adrian Ramsay (Greens)
2028 (Minority) def: Liz Truss (Conservatives), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Daisy Cooper (Liberal Democrats), Adam Price (Plaid Cymru), Carla Denyer & Adrian Ramsay (Greens), Alex Salmond (Alba)
2030-2032: Rachel Reeves (Labour)
2032-0000: Tom Harwood (Conservatives)
2032 (Majority) def: Rachel Reeves (Labour), Daisy Cooper (Liberal Democrats), Kate Forbes (SNP), Amelia Womack & Zac Larkham (Greens), Joanna Cherry (Alba), Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru)
2037 (Majority) def: Kira Lewis (Labour), Eleanor Kelly (Liberal Democrats), Amelia Womack & Zac Larkham (Greens), Kate Forbes (SNP), Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru), Chris McEleny (Alba)
2019-2023: Boris Johnson (Conservatives)
2019 (Majority) def: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrats), Adam Price (Plaid Cymru), Jonathan Bartley & Siân Berry (Greens)
2023-2024: Rishi Sunak (Conservatives)
2024-2030: Keir Starmer (Labour)
2024 (Majority) def: Rishi Sunak (Conservatives), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Ed Davey (Liberal Democrats), Adam Price (Plaid Cymru), Alex Salmond (Alba), Carla Denyer & Adrian Ramsay (Greens)
2028 (Minority) def: Liz Truss (Conservatives), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Daisy Cooper (Liberal Democrats), Adam Price (Plaid Cymru), Carla Denyer & Adrian Ramsay (Greens), Alex Salmond (Alba)
2030-2032: Rachel Reeves (Labour)
2032-0000: Tom Harwood (Conservatives)
2032 (Majority) def: Rachel Reeves (Labour), Daisy Cooper (Liberal Democrats), Kate Forbes (SNP), Amelia Womack & Zac Larkham (Greens), Joanna Cherry (Alba), Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru)
2037 (Majority) def: Kira Lewis (Labour), Eleanor Kelly (Liberal Democrats), Amelia Womack & Zac Larkham (Greens), Kate Forbes (SNP), Liz Saville Roberts (Plaid Cymru), Chris McEleny (Alba)
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My Fellow Americans
The Career of Al Fawcett
1991-1994: Solicitor at Dewey & LeBoeuf
1994-1999: Partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf
1996: Democratic Candidate for the New York State Senate's 24th District
defeated by John J. Marchi (Republican)
1997: Candidate in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary
defeated by Ruth Messinger (Democratic)
1999-2009: Democratic Member of the House of Representatives for New York's 9th District
1998 def: Louis Telano (Republican), Melinda Katz (Liberal), Arthur J. Smith (Conservative)
2000 def: Noach Dear (Republican)
2002 def: Alfred F. Donohue (Republican)
2004 def: Gerard J. Cronin (Republican)
2006 def: Alfred F. Donohue (Republican), Patricia Eddington (Working Families)
2008 def: Bob Turner (Republican), Patricia Eddington (Working Families), Alfred F. Donohue (Conservative)
2003-2005: Co-chair of the Blue Dog Coalition
2009-2021: Democratic Senator from New York
2010 (special) def: Joe DioGuardi (Republican/Conservative), Letitia James (Working Families), Cecile A. Lawrence (Green), John Clifton (Libertarian)
2012 def: Wendy Long (Republican/Conservative), Kirsten Gillibrand (Working Families), Colia Clark (Green), Chris Edes (Libertarian)
2018 def: Chele Chiavacci Farley (Republican/Conservative/Reform), Kirsten Gillibrand (Working Families/Green/Women's Equality)
2021-present: 71st Secretary of State of the United States
The heir to intelligentsia, and the great grandson of a Turkish reformer, many say that Alexander "Al" Boris Fawcett was destined to embrace liberalism. An American by circumstance, not birthright; raised by an immigrated single mother, under the watchful eye of Lady Liberty herself; born in the capital of the Free World. Fawcett certainly ticks all the boxes of a bona fide liberal Democrat.
Things could have, perhaps, been different; his birth father, British politician and author Stanley Johnson, was after all a member of the Conservative Party. If his parents had not seperated soon after his birth, Fawcett may instead have been a cabinet minister in the Gove government. Instead, he relinquished his father's legacy by taking his mother's maiden name. As a bright, though work-shy, student at a New York private school, it was only natural that he should go on to study law at the prestigious Harvard University, graduating with a BA and then earning Juris Doctor in 1990. He was swiftly admitted to the bar in 1991, and was employed as a solicitor at New York law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, speciailising in corporate law. He later made partner, in 1994, and alongside practicing law found the time to begin his prolific writing career, publishing On Law (1998). His later works - My Fellow Americans (2002), Ode to the Anglosphere (2004), Founding Fathers (2006), The Roosevelt Miracle (2014) - became best-sellers.
It was in 1996 that Fawcett launched his political career, securing the Democratic nomination for the 24th district of the New York State Senate ahead of the 1996 state elections. Fawcett's campaign against Marchi was well-fought, but ultimately unsuccessful, and despite a noticeable swing toward Fawcett, Staten Island did not elect a Democrat. Springboarding off this, however, Fawcett went on to contest the 1997 Democratic primary for the New York City mayorality, which was coming up for election in 1998; in the end, he lost the nomination to Messinger, in a close third. His campaign did succeed in putting him on the political map, however, and in 1998 he managed to get himself selected as the Democratic candidate for New York's 9th congressional district, to replace the outgoing-member Chuck Schumer. He was elected - it was a fairly safe seat for the Democrats - and made some local headlines for his meteoric rise to national politics.
In the House of Representatives, Fawcett aligned himself with the Blue Dog Coalition, eventually rising to chair that caucus from 2003 to 2005, and made a name for himself as a relatively conservative Democrat. In 2006, however, he also joined the New Democrat Coalition, and moved to a more centrist, liberal conservative and libertarian position. He became known for his varied policy positions. In 2010, he called on President Obama to go further with Obamacare and became known as an advocate for Medicare for All, and then in 2015 he celebrated the outcome of Obergefell v. Hodges that enshrined same-sex marriage in all 50 states. Conversely, however, he has maintained a high rating with the National Rifle Association for his continued opposition to gun control, has opposed calls to raise the minimum wage, and has been skeptical of many Democratic positions on immigration. When Hillary Clinton was made Secretary of State in 2009, Governor Paterson chose Fawcett to succeed her as New York Senator. He resigned his seat in the House of Representatives, won a special election in 2010 to confirm his new position as Senator, and was reelected twice.
Fawcett was seen as a moderate Senator during the Obama period, but was broadly supportive of the presidency and its agenda. He supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, but when Donald Trump was sworn in as president he was seen as friendly to the president and his parts of his agenda. Fawcett was noted to have formed a small bloc with fellow moderate Senator Joe Manchin which offerred the president conditional support in the Senate. He supported Trump's repeal of NAFTA, his reform of United States immigration law, and confirmed the majority of his presidential appointments. By the midterms, however, Fawcett distanced himself from both Manchin and Trump, opposing the presidential administration on the grounds that its behaviour had become unconstitutional. His criticism reached a fever pitch in early 2020, during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, with Fawcett publically shaming the president's handling of the crisis and pushing for a stronger federal response.
In the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, Fawcett was initially tipped to be pursuing his own candidacy, but his campaign never seemed to materialise, and he instead came out in support of the candidacy of Joe Biden, believing that he was the only "credible candidate" to beat Bernie Sanders. After Biden's election, Fawcett was one of many congressional figures caught up in the January 6th attack on the US Capitol. Following this, he was appointed as Secretary of State by Biden. As Secretary of State, Fawcett has been seen as overseeing a new era in American foreign policy; organising the withdrawal from Afghanistan, America's rejoining of the Paris Agreement, and a "renewal" of the Special Relationship with Britain.
The Career of Al Fawcett
1991-1994: Solicitor at Dewey & LeBoeuf
1994-1999: Partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf
1996: Democratic Candidate for the New York State Senate's 24th District
defeated by John J. Marchi (Republican)
1997: Candidate in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary
defeated by Ruth Messinger (Democratic)
1999-2009: Democratic Member of the House of Representatives for New York's 9th District
1998 def: Louis Telano (Republican), Melinda Katz (Liberal), Arthur J. Smith (Conservative)
2000 def: Noach Dear (Republican)
2002 def: Alfred F. Donohue (Republican)
2004 def: Gerard J. Cronin (Republican)
2006 def: Alfred F. Donohue (Republican), Patricia Eddington (Working Families)
2008 def: Bob Turner (Republican), Patricia Eddington (Working Families), Alfred F. Donohue (Conservative)
2003-2005: Co-chair of the Blue Dog Coalition
2009-2021: Democratic Senator from New York
2010 (special) def: Joe DioGuardi (Republican/Conservative), Letitia James (Working Families), Cecile A. Lawrence (Green), John Clifton (Libertarian)
2012 def: Wendy Long (Republican/Conservative), Kirsten Gillibrand (Working Families), Colia Clark (Green), Chris Edes (Libertarian)
2018 def: Chele Chiavacci Farley (Republican/Conservative/Reform), Kirsten Gillibrand (Working Families/Green/Women's Equality)
2021-present: 71st Secretary of State of the United States
"Fawcett? That insufferably affable liberal prima donna?" - Prime Minister Michael Gove
The heir to intelligentsia, and the great grandson of a Turkish reformer, many say that Alexander "Al" Boris Fawcett was destined to embrace liberalism. An American by circumstance, not birthright; raised by an immigrated single mother, under the watchful eye of Lady Liberty herself; born in the capital of the Free World. Fawcett certainly ticks all the boxes of a bona fide liberal Democrat.
Things could have, perhaps, been different; his birth father, British politician and author Stanley Johnson, was after all a member of the Conservative Party. If his parents had not seperated soon after his birth, Fawcett may instead have been a cabinet minister in the Gove government. Instead, he relinquished his father's legacy by taking his mother's maiden name. As a bright, though work-shy, student at a New York private school, it was only natural that he should go on to study law at the prestigious Harvard University, graduating with a BA and then earning Juris Doctor in 1990. He was swiftly admitted to the bar in 1991, and was employed as a solicitor at New York law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf, speciailising in corporate law. He later made partner, in 1994, and alongside practicing law found the time to begin his prolific writing career, publishing On Law (1998). His later works - My Fellow Americans (2002), Ode to the Anglosphere (2004), Founding Fathers (2006), The Roosevelt Miracle (2014) - became best-sellers.
It was in 1996 that Fawcett launched his political career, securing the Democratic nomination for the 24th district of the New York State Senate ahead of the 1996 state elections. Fawcett's campaign against Marchi was well-fought, but ultimately unsuccessful, and despite a noticeable swing toward Fawcett, Staten Island did not elect a Democrat. Springboarding off this, however, Fawcett went on to contest the 1997 Democratic primary for the New York City mayorality, which was coming up for election in 1998; in the end, he lost the nomination to Messinger, in a close third. His campaign did succeed in putting him on the political map, however, and in 1998 he managed to get himself selected as the Democratic candidate for New York's 9th congressional district, to replace the outgoing-member Chuck Schumer. He was elected - it was a fairly safe seat for the Democrats - and made some local headlines for his meteoric rise to national politics.
In the House of Representatives, Fawcett aligned himself with the Blue Dog Coalition, eventually rising to chair that caucus from 2003 to 2005, and made a name for himself as a relatively conservative Democrat. In 2006, however, he also joined the New Democrat Coalition, and moved to a more centrist, liberal conservative and libertarian position. He became known for his varied policy positions. In 2010, he called on President Obama to go further with Obamacare and became known as an advocate for Medicare for All, and then in 2015 he celebrated the outcome of Obergefell v. Hodges that enshrined same-sex marriage in all 50 states. Conversely, however, he has maintained a high rating with the National Rifle Association for his continued opposition to gun control, has opposed calls to raise the minimum wage, and has been skeptical of many Democratic positions on immigration. When Hillary Clinton was made Secretary of State in 2009, Governor Paterson chose Fawcett to succeed her as New York Senator. He resigned his seat in the House of Representatives, won a special election in 2010 to confirm his new position as Senator, and was reelected twice.
Fawcett was seen as a moderate Senator during the Obama period, but was broadly supportive of the presidency and its agenda. He supported Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, but when Donald Trump was sworn in as president he was seen as friendly to the president and his parts of his agenda. Fawcett was noted to have formed a small bloc with fellow moderate Senator Joe Manchin which offerred the president conditional support in the Senate. He supported Trump's repeal of NAFTA, his reform of United States immigration law, and confirmed the majority of his presidential appointments. By the midterms, however, Fawcett distanced himself from both Manchin and Trump, opposing the presidential administration on the grounds that its behaviour had become unconstitutional. His criticism reached a fever pitch in early 2020, during the height of the coronavirus pandemic, with Fawcett publically shaming the president's handling of the crisis and pushing for a stronger federal response.
In the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries, Fawcett was initially tipped to be pursuing his own candidacy, but his campaign never seemed to materialise, and he instead came out in support of the candidacy of Joe Biden, believing that he was the only "credible candidate" to beat Bernie Sanders. After Biden's election, Fawcett was one of many congressional figures caught up in the January 6th attack on the US Capitol. Following this, he was appointed as Secretary of State by Biden. As Secretary of State, Fawcett has been seen as overseeing a new era in American foreign policy; organising the withdrawal from Afghanistan, America's rejoining of the Paris Agreement, and a "renewal" of the Special Relationship with Britain.
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The Queen's Queens
or, Her Majesty's Fruity First Ministers
1951-1956 Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1951 (Majority) def: Clement Attlee (Labour), Clement Davies (Liberal)
1955 (Majority) def: Clement Attlee (Labour), Clement Davies (Liberal)
1956-1963 Hugh Gaitskell (Labour)
1956 (Majority) def: Bob Boothby (Conservative), Clement Davies (Liberal)
1960 (Majority) def: Selwyn Lloyd (Conservative), Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1963-1965 Anthony Crosland (Labour)
1965-1971 Selwyn Lloyd (Conservative)
1965 (Majority) def: Anthony Crosland (Labour), Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1969 (Minority) def: Richard Crossman (Labour), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1971-1981 Roy Jenkins (Labour)
1971 (Majority) def: Selwyn Lloyd (Conservative), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1975 (Coalition with Liberal) def: Norman St John-Stevas (Conservative), David Steel (Liberal)
1979 (Coalition with Liberal) def: Edward Heath (Conservative), David Steel (Liberal), Tony Benn (Socialist Labour)
1981-1984 Maureen Colquhoun (Labour)
1984-1993 Edward Heath (Conservative)
1984 (Minority with Liberal confidence) def: Maureen Colquhoun (Labour), Alan Beith (Liberal, Tony Benn (Socialist Labour)
1988 (Coalition with Liberal) def: Peter Mandelson (Labour), Alan Beith (Liberal), Reg Race (Socialist Labour), Jonathon Porritt (Green)
1993-2003 Peter Mandelson (Labour)
1993 (Coalition with Green) def: Edward Heath (Conservative), Simon Hughes (Liberal), Peter Tatchell (Green), Reg Race (Socialist Labour)
1998 (Coalition with Liberal and Green) def: Matthew Parris (Conservative), Simon Hughes (Liberal), Tommy Sheridan (Socialist Labour), Peter Tatchell (Green), Nigel Farage (People's)
2003-2003 Michael Portillo (Conservative)
2003 (Minority with People's confidence) def: Peter Mandelson (Labour), Simon Hughes (Liberal), Nigel Farage (People's), Peter Tatchell (Green), Tommy Sheridan (Socialist Labour)
The Queen's Queens
or, Her Majesty's Fruity First Ministers
1951-1956 Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1951 (Majority) def: Clement Attlee (Labour), Clement Davies (Liberal)
1955 (Majority) def: Clement Attlee (Labour), Clement Davies (Liberal)
1956-1963 Hugh Gaitskell (Labour)
1956 (Majority) def: Bob Boothby (Conservative), Clement Davies (Liberal)
1960 (Majority) def: Selwyn Lloyd (Conservative), Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1963-1965 Anthony Crosland (Labour)
1965-1971 Selwyn Lloyd (Conservative)
1965 (Majority) def: Anthony Crosland (Labour), Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1969 (Minority) def: Richard Crossman (Labour), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1971-1981 Roy Jenkins (Labour)
1971 (Majority) def: Selwyn Lloyd (Conservative), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1975 (Coalition with Liberal) def: Norman St John-Stevas (Conservative), David Steel (Liberal)
1979 (Coalition with Liberal) def: Edward Heath (Conservative), David Steel (Liberal), Tony Benn (Socialist Labour)
1981-1984 Maureen Colquhoun (Labour)
1984-1993 Edward Heath (Conservative)
1984 (Minority with Liberal confidence) def: Maureen Colquhoun (Labour), Alan Beith (Liberal, Tony Benn (Socialist Labour)
1988 (Coalition with Liberal) def: Peter Mandelson (Labour), Alan Beith (Liberal), Reg Race (Socialist Labour), Jonathon Porritt (Green)
1993-2003 Peter Mandelson (Labour)
1993 (Coalition with Green) def: Edward Heath (Conservative), Simon Hughes (Liberal), Peter Tatchell (Green), Reg Race (Socialist Labour)
1998 (Coalition with Liberal and Green) def: Matthew Parris (Conservative), Simon Hughes (Liberal), Tommy Sheridan (Socialist Labour), Peter Tatchell (Green), Nigel Farage (People's)
2003-2003 Michael Portillo (Conservative)
2003 (Minority with People's confidence) def: Peter Mandelson (Labour), Simon Hughes (Liberal), Nigel Farage (People's), Peter Tatchell (Green), Tommy Sheridan (Socialist Labour)
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I always love a bit of late Heath.
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This list did, earnestly, start as a very silly lil "how many LGBT+/non-straight people can I make PM" but it has brought some great deck shuffling, too. Early Gaitskell, late Heath, early Farage.
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Surprised there wasn’t any ‘Ron Davies allies with the Greens stuff’ here but fun all the same.
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Been working on mine and @cikka's submission for the HoS Challenge; will be posting it over there along with rundown shortly!
Chairs of the North of England Metropolitan Assembly
2001-2005: John Prescott (Labour)
2004 North of England Metropolitan Area mayoral referendum: Yes 57%, No 43%
2005 Labour North of England Metropolitan Area mayoral candidate selection: Hazel Blears 44%, Richard Lesse 41%, Keith Wakefield 15%
Mayors of the North of England Metropolitan Area
2005-2007: Hazel Blears (Labour)
2005 def: John Ford (Conservative), Paul Scriven (Liberal Democrats), Keith Wakefield (Independent Yorkshire Labour), Celia Foote (Green Left)
2007 Labour North of England Metropolitan Area mayoral candidate selection: Andy Burnham 40%, Haras Rafiq 34%, Richard Lesse 17%, Jan Wilson 9%
2007-2011: Andy Burnham (Labour)
2007 def: Andrew Carter (Conservative), Mike Storey (Liberal Democrats), Celia Foote (Green Left), Keith Wakefield (Putting Yorkshire First)
2010 North of England Metropolitan Area devolution referendum: Yes 51%, No 49%
2011-2015: John Leech (Liberal Democrats)
2011 def: Andy Burnham (Labour), Andrew Carter (Conservative), Derek Hatton (Green Left), Keith Wakefield (Yorkshire First), Chris Packham (Save Our Green Belt Independent)
2012 Labour North of England Metropolitan Area mayoral candidate selection: Joe Anderson 52%, Richard Lesse 36%, Richard Corbett 12%
2015-2021: Joe Anderson (Labour)
2015 def: Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative), Shaffaq Mohammed (Liberal Democrats), Andy Budden (Yorkshire First), Derek Hatton (Green Left), Stephen Yip (Save Our Green Belt Independent)
2019 def: Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats), Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative), Derek Hatton (Green Left), Andy Budden (Yorkshire First)
2021-2021: Julie Dore (Labour)
2021-prsnt: Jeremy Clarkson (Conservative)
2021 def: Julie Dore (Labour), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats), Stephen Yip (Anti-Corruption Independent), Keith Wakefield (Yorkshire First), Magid Magid (Green Left)
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Chairs of the North of England Metropolitan Assembly
2001-2005: John Prescott (Labour)
2004 North of England Metropolitan Area mayoral referendum: Yes 57%, No 43%
2005 Labour North of England Metropolitan Area mayoral candidate selection: Hazel Blears 44%, Richard Lesse 41%, Keith Wakefield 15%
Mayors of the North of England Metropolitan Area
2005-2007: Hazel Blears (Labour)
2005 def: John Ford (Conservative), Paul Scriven (Liberal Democrats), Keith Wakefield (Independent Yorkshire Labour), Celia Foote (Green Left)
2007 Labour North of England Metropolitan Area mayoral candidate selection: Andy Burnham 40%, Haras Rafiq 34%, Richard Lesse 17%, Jan Wilson 9%
2007-2011: Andy Burnham (Labour)
2007 def: Andrew Carter (Conservative), Mike Storey (Liberal Democrats), Celia Foote (Green Left), Keith Wakefield (Putting Yorkshire First)
2010 North of England Metropolitan Area devolution referendum: Yes 51%, No 49%
2011-2015: John Leech (Liberal Democrats)
2011 def: Andy Burnham (Labour), Andrew Carter (Conservative), Derek Hatton (Green Left), Keith Wakefield (Yorkshire First), Chris Packham (Save Our Green Belt Independent)
2012 Labour North of England Metropolitan Area mayoral candidate selection: Joe Anderson 52%, Richard Lesse 36%, Richard Corbett 12%
2015-2021: Joe Anderson (Labour)
2015 def: Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative), Shaffaq Mohammed (Liberal Democrats), Andy Budden (Yorkshire First), Derek Hatton (Green Left), Stephen Yip (Save Our Green Belt Independent)
2019 def: Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats), Andrea Jenkyns (Conservative), Derek Hatton (Green Left), Andy Budden (Yorkshire First)
2021-2021: Julie Dore (Labour)
2021-prsnt: Jeremy Clarkson (Conservative)
2021 def: Julie Dore (Labour), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats), Stephen Yip (Anti-Corruption Independent), Keith Wakefield (Yorkshire First), Magid Magid (Green Left)
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Danubian Federation Party Run-Down (01/11/2018)
Alright! You can stop pestering me, @HerzogTruthteller!
Here's that party run-down you asked your humble token Danubian to make for you, based on the vibes from the election last month! Fair warning, I'm a member of the Vienna metropolitan elite, and I only speak Hungarian and German alongside my native Yiddish, so my takes on some of the national autonomies are will be biased by my federalist-tinted lenses!! For the monarchaboos, the current Kaiser is Karl Thomas I; this will be His Imperial and Royal Majesty's fifth government! Anyway, without further ado, here's the state of Danubian politics right now!
Government
Christian Union: The union comprises the sort-of-national Christian Social Party and the strictly-Hungarian Catholic People's Party, and is the main force of the political right. It is holding strong, well, as strong as it ever holds; name a more iconic duo than the KNPM and threatening to rupture the CU. Fiala is holding it together, mostly by pork barrelling the hell out of Hungary. So, nothing new there.
Christian Social Party: Defined by Political Catholicism and Danubian unionism, the Christian Social Party is the main centre-right force outside of Hungary. It heads the government, with their leader Petr Fiala installed as Minister-President. The Christian Union bloc along with the KNPM is the largest political group in the House of Deputies, but CS are not the largest party. In spite of this, Fiala has managed to put together a majority by calling on the radicals and the agrarians. He's been trying really hard to push his national curriculum idea, but, well, he's failing like every centraliser has before him. It does really help you realise how far the CS have come, though; the antisemitic founders would be horrified to learn that it is now led by not just a Moravian, but a Moravian of Jewish heritage!
Catholic People's Party in Hungary: The other half of the Union, which runs exclusively in Hungary. It is politically Catholic and conservative - more so than the CS - and has wings which range from softly unionist to autonomist to softly pro-independence. Zsolt Semjén has been made Deputy Minister-President, Minister of the Economy and Minister for the Autonomies, building up quite the fiefdom for himself. He's signed off on the national curriculum on the basis that the Hungarian Autonomy gets an opt-out. As soon as he supported the motion, there was an announcement that his constituency would be getting a new hospital, too. How curious.
Radical Constitutionalists: Your generic liberals. They're broadly unionist - but also have a strong autonomist streak - and are in a perpetual state of struggle between classical liberals who tend to support the Union, and social liberals who tend to support The Other One. Beate Meinl-Reisinger was elected to lead as a social liberal, so she surprised her party by signing up to Fiala's coalition. Her price was Minister of Finance. She seems to be the only other coalition leader to be fully behind the curriculum reform, but the party is much more split.Agrarian Peasants' Party: They should really rebrand as the Romanian Autonomist Party, as that's the niche they fill in national politics. Officially, they're agrarian and unionist. Mihail Neamțu has led them pretty much since he graduated from the University of Vienna. He made sure his party got the agriculture and environment briefs. He's literally admitted to only signing on to the curriculum in exchange for more investment in Transylvania.
Opposition
Social Democratic Workers' Party: My boy! Look how they massacred my boy! I kid, but the SD really have seen better days. They're still the predominant force of the centre-left, but for how much longer is anyone's guess. These guys still officially claim to be Austromarxists, you know. Nowadays that mostly means they're milquetoast social democrats who won't shut up about how they instituted the national personal autonomy system. They're also pretty authentically unionist for the same reason. They came out of the election with the most seats, but on their lowest voteshare in history; it feels like Michael Ludwig is presiding over a dying party. Bring back Otto Bauer!!! I don't know where the SD stand on the national curriculum, and frankly I'm not sure they do either.
Party of Independence and '48: This is the biggest openly separatist party in the federation, and the only one with federal representation. It is, of course, Hungarian. It tends to be the only opposition to the KNPM in the Hungarian regions, though, so it gets quite a few soft unionist votes as well. It's a very big tent; Hungarian nationalism is the main unifying force. Gábor Vona is the leader, and he's not actually in the House of Deputies; he was recently elected simultaneously as Chair of the Hungarian Autonomy and State-President of the Great Plain Region. They are fiercely opposed to the national curriculum reform, and see this as the first step to destroying Hungarian culture, alongside allowing people to speak Croatian.
The Greens/Civic Union: Alright guys, please don't hornypost about Čaputová. Especially not since her co-leader, Peter Pilz, is probably going to be pushed out for being a creep. Part of me thinks he might have been replaced by the Kaiser's dad, were he still alive and not a royal. The Greens are, well, greens. Y'know; pro-renewables, anti-coal, pro-peace, anti-war. They officially merged with the more progressive Civic Union way back when, but it's just a progressive green party for all intents and purposes. They're not really on board with the national curriculum.
National Association: So do you guys remember Herr Hitler? That officer who got himself dishonourably discharged for trying to overthrow Kaiser Karl Franz way back in the 1930s? The Nationalverband is the descendent to his little movement. It's antisemitic, anti-Magyar, anti-Slav, anti-Roma, anti-federalist and pretty much anti-everything-you-like. It sells itself as being the autonomist party for German-speakers, but it's blatantly just a racist outfit. Thankfully, it's remained on the sidelines despite Heinz-Christian Strache's oratory skill. He's come out in favour of a national curriculum in principle; he's opposed to Fiala's due to it's "Moravian influence". Yikes.
Independent Socialist Workers' Party: USAP traces itself back to a split from the SD back when the distinctions between Orthodox Marxism and Austromarxism actually mattered. Now, it's just a vaguely left-wing democratic socialist party, which every now and then reminds the world about the anti-Marxist purges of the 20s and 30s, particularly those in Russia. Has a reputation for being more of a social club for union barons and college students than a real party; so, you know, it's a left-wing party in Europe. Vojtěch Filip has led it for a while now, and he's basically the "politician you can get a pint with" archetype. He doesn't like the national curriculum, but like Strache this is because he thinks Fiala will do it wrong.
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I just saw @Turquoise Blue's "British USSR flag", and I raise them my "Union of Socialist Yorkshire Council Republics" flag that I've for some reason kept on my PC since it's unholy creation in 2015 despite rebuilds and hard drive changes!
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Learnt about the Bundestagspolizei today and immediately decided I had to make a British emulation to help #AbolishTheMet.
