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1974-1979: Claude Wanger (Liberal)
1974 (Minority): John Harney (New Democratic), John Diefenbaker (Progressive Conservative), Réal Caouette (Ralliement créditiste)
1975: John Harney (New Democratic), John Diefenbaker (Progressive Conservative), Réal Caouette (Ralliement créditiste)
1979-: John Harney (New Democratic)
1979: Claude Wagner (Liberal), Jack Horner (Progressive Conservative), Gilles Caouette (Ralliement)
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Oooh, very late 70s energy from this.

I’m guessing related to your musings on Claude Wagner becoming Quebec Liberal leader in 1970?

Additionally, John Paul Harney as New Democratic leader is always fun.
 
1974-1977: Gerald Ford / Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
1977-1978: Hubert Humphrey / Fred Harris (Democratic)
1976: Gerald Ford / Howard Baker (Republican)
1978: Fred Harris / vacant (Democratic)
1978-1979: Fred Harris / Edmund Muskie (Democratic)
1979: vacant / Edmund Muskie (Democratic)
1979-1998: Alexander Haig (Military) [de-facto]
1998-1999: Leon Panetta (Military) [de-facto]
2000-: Frank Borman (Salvation)
1999: No Significant Opposition; elections only held in Secure Territories
 
2010-2018: George Smitherman
2010: Rob Ford, Joe Pantalone
2014: Karen Stintz, Sue-Ann Levy
2018-2022: Mike Layton
2018: Denzil Minnan-Wong
2022-: Doug Ford
2022: Mike Layton, Annamie Paul

2003-2013: Dalton McGuinty (Liberal)
2003: Ernie Eves (Progressive Conservative), Howard Hampton (New Democratic)
2007: John Tory (Progressive Conservative), Howard Hampton (New Democratic)
2011 (Minority): Tim Hudak (Progressive Conservative), Andrea Horwath (New Democratic)
2013-2016: Sandra Paupatello (Liberal)
2013 (Minority): Tim Hudak (Progressive Conservative), Andrea Horwath (New Democratic)
2016-2020: Christine Elliott (Progressive Conservative)
2016: Sandra Paupatello (Liberal), Andrea Horwath (New Democratic)
2020-: Jagmeet Singh (New Democratic)
2020: Christine Elliott (Progressive Conservative), Charles Sousa (Liberal)

2006-2013: Stephen Harper (Conservative)
2006 (Minority): Paul Martin (Liberal), Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Québécois), Jack Layton (New Democratic)
2008 (Minority): Stéphane Dion (Liberal), Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Québécois), Jack Layton (New Democratic)
2011 (Minority): Michael Ignatieff (Liberal), Jack Layton (New Democratic), Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Québécois), Elizabeth May (Green)
2013-2019: Thomas Mulcair (New Democratic)
2013 (Minority): Stephen Harper (Conservative), Denis Coderre (Liberal), Daniel Turp (Bloc Québécois), Elizabeth May (Green)
2015: Jason Kenney (Conservative), Denis Coderre (Liberal), Elizabeth May (Green), Daniel Turp (Bloc Québécois)
2019-: Maxime Bernier (Conservative)
2019: Thomas Mulcair (New Democratic), Ted Hsu (Liberal), Elizabeth May (Green), Mario Beaulieu (Bloc Québécois)
 
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Britain's byzantine, disparate collection of railway companies and networks, damaged, dilapidated and insolvent in the aftermath of the Great Western War, were nationalised by the Lloyd George government under the Transport Act of 1935. Dozens of railway companies which made up the majority of Great Britain and Ireland's railway network were merged into the government-owned British Railways Corporation.

The Belisha Report into the status of Britain's railways, which recommended nationalisation, also recommended electrification of Britain's main intercity and suburban trunk routes using the 1500-volt overhead system that was being rolled out in the Netherlands, standardising the many experimental electrification projects of different voltages and infrastructure built by pre-war railway companies.

This thirty-year project of electrifircation was heavily supported by American and German loans, which in turn necessitated much American and German equipment. While the E122 units, familiar to commuters from the South Coast, East Anglia and the Great North mainline were built by Vickers, much of the equipment and technology came from German manufacturers. Likewise the E12s, the workhorses of intercity transport in Britain for forty years, were a joint venture between the government-owned British Rail Locomotive and America's General Electric.

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The North Eastern Railway had, after experiments with shorter lines around Shildon and Newcastle, electrified their section of the East Coast Mainline between York and Newcastle in stages between 1923 and 1925, and built thirty electric locomotives for passenger and freight traffic.

Classed as number 13-43 by the North Eastern Railway, the locomotives were largely considered a success, matching contemporary steam locomotives in speed and outclassing them in acceleration. However, the cutting-edge technology proved unreliable and the capital investment involved in electrification brought the railway close to insolvency. Plans to expand electrification to the rest of the East Coast Main Line were shelved due to the outbreak of the Western War, which saw electricity supplies for the North Eastern Railway become unreliable.

After nationalisation, the locomotives were re-classes as British Railways E3s. The Belisha Report's proposal for nationwide electrification, and the specifications for new electric equipment, was based off of the experience of the pre-war partial electrification of the East Coast Main Line, which was fully electrified by 1946. For a couple of years, the E3s fulfilled their original intention of pulling high-speed expresses from London to Scotland. However, the E3s were quickly superseded by BR E12s, which drastically outclassed the E3s in speed, acceleration and reliability.

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The North Eastern Railway had, after experiments with shorter lines around Shildon and Newcastle, electrified their section of the East Coast Mainline between York and Newcastle in stages between 1923 and 1925, and built thirty electric locomotives for passenger and freight traffic.

Classed as number 13-43 by the North Eastern Railway, the locomotives were largely considered a success, matching contemporary steam locomotives in speed and outclassing them in acceleration. However, the cutting-edge technology proved unreliable and the capital investment involved in electrification brought the railway close to insolvency. Plans to expand electrification to the rest of the East Coast Main Line were shelved due to the outbreak of the Western War, which saw electricity supplies for the North Eastern Railway become unreliable.

After nationalisation, the locomotives were re-classes as British Railways E3s. The Belisha Report's proposal for nationwide electrification, and the specifications for new electric equipment, was based off of the experience of the pre-war partial electrification of the East Coast Main Line, which was fully electrified by 1946. For a couple of years, the E3s fulfilled their original intention of pulling high-speed expresses from London to Scotland. However, the E3s were quickly superseded by BR E12s, which drastically outclassed the E3s in speed, acceleration and reliability.

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This is VERY
 
2014-2020: Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish National)
2016: Ruth Davidson (Conservative), Kezia Dugdale (Labour), Patrick Harvie & Maggie Chapman (Green), Willie Rennie (Liberal Democrat)
2020-2023: Shona Robson (Scottish National)
2021: Ruth Davidson (Conservative), Richard Leonard (Labour), Patrick Harvie & Maggie Chapman (Green), Willie Rennie (Liberal Democrat)
2023-: Neil Gray (Scottish National)
 
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2014-2020: Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish National)
2016: Ruth Davidson (Conservative), Kezia Dugdale (Labour), Patrick Harvie & Maggie Chapman (Green), Willie Rennie (Liberal Democrat)
2020-2023: Shona Robson (Scottish National)
2021: Ruth Davidson (Conservative), Richard Leonard (Labour), Patrick Harvie & Maggie Chapman (Green), Willie Rennie (Liberal Democrat)
2023-: Neil Gray (Scottish National)
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No COVID?
 
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Something like that. Was thinking maybe the Brexit referendum went the other way, no COVID, all the scandals come out at once... worst of all worlds for Nicola.

Probably going to redraft this.
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Personally I'm sort of struggling to imagine Leonard becoming leader without a 2017 GE that 'proves' Corbynism works in Scotland.
 
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2014-2020: Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish National)
2016: Ruth Davidson (Conservative), Kezia Dugdale (Labour), Patrick Harvie & Maggie Chapman (Green), Willie Rennie (Liberal Democrat)
2020-2023: Shona Robson (Scottish National)
2021: Ruth Davidson (Conservative), Richard Leonard (Labour), Patrick Harvie & Maggie Chapman (Green), Willie Rennie (Liberal Democrat)
2023-: Neil Gray (Scottish National)
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"And is that bad?" Nicola Sturgeon asked the lady with the tarot cards.

"Mmm." She made a mysterious face. "So, how will you be paying today?"

"Funny story!" said Nicola Sturgeon.
 
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The 2000 Commonwealth Tube Stock is a type of rolling stock used on the Manchester Subway, the Birmingham Metro's Line 1 and the London Underground's Charing Cross, Olympic and Great Northern Lines. A total of 216 6-car trains were built, entering service between 2000 and 2005. As part of efforts to comprehensively refurbish the Charing Cross Line and the Manchester Subway, the wholesale replacement of their respective 1950s and 1960s-era coaching stock was required. An order to replace the Birmingham Metro's Line 1 stock was added to the order to reduce costs via standardization and economies of scale.

The 2000 stock was controversial, due to the Caro Ministry centralisation of rolling stock orders and use of Public Private Initiatives involving Cammell-Leyland's contract to build and maintain the rolling stock over the course of thirty years, over the heads of municipal and regional operators.
 
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The 2000 Commonwealth Tube Stock is a type of rolling stock used on the Manchester Subway, the Birmingham Metro's Line 1 and the London Underground's Charing Cross, Olympic and Great Northern Lines. A total of 216 6-car trains were built, entering service between 2000 and 2005. As part of efforts to comprehensively refurbish the Charing Cross Line and the Manchester Subway, the wholesale replacement of their respective 1950s and 1960s-era coaching stock was required. An order to replace the Birmingham Metro's Line 1 stock was added to the order to reduce costs via standardization and economies of scale.

The 2000 stock was controversial, due to the Caro Ministry centralisation of rolling stock orders and use of Public Private Initiatives involving Cammell-Leyland's contract to build and maintain the rolling stock over the course of thirty years, over the heads of municipal and regional operators.
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Love this. It's a testament to how timeless the 1986 Tube stock prototype's designs were that I can see that being from the year 2000.
 
(The Cabinet, as composed under the Ministry of The Rt. Hon. Sarah Smith, MP, October 2022)

Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Labour Party - The Rt. Hon. Sarah Smith, MP
Deputy Prime Minister, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council - The Rt. Hon. Angela Eagle, MP
Chancellor of the Exchequer and Second Lord of the Treasury - The Rt. Hon. Oona King, MP
Secretary of State for the Home Department - The Rt. Hon. John Healey, MP
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs - The Rt. Hon. Mark Seddon, MP
Secretary of State for Defence - The Rt. Hon. Pamjit Dhanda, MP
Secretary of State for Justice and Secretary of State for Wales - The Rt. Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds, QC, MP
Secretary of State for Transport - The Rt. Hon. Rehman Chishti, MP
Secretary of State for Education - The Rt. Hon. Seema Malhotra, MP
Secretary of State for Health - The Rt. Hon. Gemma Tumelty, MP
Secretary of State for Business and Industry and President of the Board of Trade - The Rt. Hon. Matt Carter, MP
Secretary of State for the Environment, Energy and Climate Change - The Rt. Hon. Seb Dance, MP
Secretary of State for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries: The Rt. Hon. Arlene McCarthy, MP
Secretary of State for Social Security - The Rt. Hon. Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, MP
Secretary of State for Employment - The Rt. Hon. Luciana Berger, MP
Secretary of State for Housing, Local Government and the Regions - The Rt. Hon. James Murray, MP
Secretary of State for International Development and Co-operation - The Rt. Hon. Kat Fletcher, MP
Secretary of State for Human Rights and Equalities and Secretary of State for Scotland - The Rt. Hon. Danielle Rowley, MP
Secretary of State for Culture and Communications and Minister for the Olympics: The Rt. Hon. David Prescott, MP
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland - The Rt. Hon. Ian Austin, MP
Chief Secretary to the Treasury - The Rt. Hon. Will Straw, MP
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Labour Chief Whip - The Rt. Hon. Barbara Keeley, MP
Leader of the House of Peers and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - The Rt. Hon. Val Shawcross, MHP
 
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(The Cabinet, as composed under the Ministry of The Rt. Hon. Sarah Smith, MP, October 2022)

Prime Minister, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Labour Party - The Rt. Hon. Sarah Smith, MP
Deputy Prime Minister, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council - The Rt. Hon. Angela Eagle, MP
Chancellor of the Exchequer and Second Lord of the Treasury - The Rt. Hon. Oona King, MP
Secretary of State for the Home Department - The Rt. Hon. John Healey, MP
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs - The Rt. Hon. Mark Seddon, MP
Secretary of State for Defence - The Rt. Hon. Pamjit Dhanda, MP
Secretary of State for Justice and Secretary of State for Wales - The Rt. Hon. Nick Thomas-Symonds, QC, MP
Secretary of State for Transport - The Rt. Hon. Azfal Khan, MP
Secretary of State for Education - The Rt. Hon. Seema Malhotra, MP
Secretary of State for Health - The Rt. Hon. Gemma Tumelty, MP
Secretary of State for Business and Industry and President of the Board of Trade - The Rt. Hon. Matt Carter, MP
Secretary of State for the Environment, Energy and Climate Change - The Rt. Hon. Seb Dance, MP
Secretary of State for Agriculture, Food and Fisheries: The Rt. Hon. Arlene McCarthy, MP
Secretary of State for Social Security - The Rt. Hon. Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, MP
Secretary of State for Employment - The Rt. Hon. Luciana Berger, MP
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change - The Rt. Hon. Arlene McCarthy, MP
Secretary of State for International Development and Co-operation - The Rt. Hon. Kat Fletcher, MP
Secretary of State for Human Rights and Equalities and Secretary of State for Scotland - The Rt. Hon. Danielle Rowley, MP
Secretary of State for Culture and Communications and Minister for the Olympics: The Rt. Hon. David Prescott, MP
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland - The Rt. Hon. Ian Austin, MP
Chief Secretary to the Treasury - The Rt. Hon. Will Straw, MP
Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury and Labour Chief Whip - The Rt. Hon. Barbara Keeley, MP
Leader of the House of Peers and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster - The Rt. Hon. Alan Milburn, MHP
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A deeply weird cabinet. I both hate it and love it.
 
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