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Down The Clynes (Reboot):
1923-1927: J.R.Clynes (Labour)
1923 (Liberal Confidence & Supply) def: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), H.H.Asquith (Liberal)
1927-1932: Austen Chamberlain (Conservative)
1927 (Majority) def: J.R.Clynes (Labour), Donald Maclean (‘Official’ Liberal), David Lloyd-George (‘Reform’ Liberal)
1932-1934: J.R.Clynes (Labour)
1932 (Majority) def: Austen Chamberlain (Conservative), Herbert Samuel (Liberal), David Lloyd-George (Reform)
1934-1939: Herbert Morrison (Labour)
1935 (Majority) def: Leo Amery (Conservative), Isaac Foot (Liberal), Edgar Lansbury (ILP-CPGB), Jack Jones (Reform)
1939 Elections Cancelled Due To Outbreak of War
1939-1944: Herbert Morrison (Labour leading ‘Martian’ Government)
1944-1946: Malcolm MacDonald (Labour)
1944 (Majority) def: Euan Wallace (Conservative), Oliver Baldwin (Reform), Isaac Foot (Liberal)
1946-1952: Euan Wallace (Conservative)
1946 (Majority) def: Malcolm MacDonald (Labour), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Oliver Baldwin (Reform)
1950 (Majority) def: John Strachey (Labour), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Jennie Lee (Reform)
1952-1955: Derick Heathcoat-Amory (Conservative)
1955-1962: John Strachey (Labour)
1955 (Majority) def: Derick Heathcoat-Amory (Conservative), Donald Johnson (Liberal)
1959 (Majority) def: Brendan Bracken (Conservative), Donald Johnson (Liberal)
1962-1964: Douglas Jay (Labour)
1964-: Ronald Cartland (Conservative)
1964 (Majority) def: Douglas Jay (Labour), Donald Johnson (Liberal), Peggy Duff (Action!)
One of my first ever lists was called ‘Down The Clynes’ and it’s...alright. Quite messy. But now that I’ve been around the block a few times I’ve decided to redo it but make it all nice and aesthetically pleasing with a few different ideas mixed in.
J.R.Clynes: Hero of the Moderates
The man who brought Labour firmly into the Centre Left, would eventually bring about it’s first Majority and would ensure that the Liberals were muscles out completely during his time as leader. Criticised for his slow taking up of Keneysian economics (though he didn’t push for Austerity measures like a few in his cabinet), he would be seen as the man who brought about the beginnings of the Fabian Revolution in Britain.
Austen Chamberlain: The End of An Era
Chamberlain would have a chaotic five years, his attempts to bring about a form of Municipal Red Toryism were beset by a stagnant economy, high unemployment and radical trade unions. As the Great Depression let rip he would see his control crumble and would just barely survive a leadership coup by members of the Conservative Right. Often see as a leader very much of out his depth, his inability to deal with Britain’s woes
Herbert Morrison: The Malignant Municipalist Moderniser
After beating A.V.Alexander and Johnston in a bloody leadership election, it seemed that the hero of the Modernising Municipalist Left would be the man to take Britian out of Depression and hardship. Whilst he would partially do that, Morrison’s period as Prime Minister would be one of increasingly autocratic control over his party and nation and the solidifying of the Fabian Doctrine on the Labour Party. He would see about bringing so called ‘National Municipalism’ to the nation and his pet love for Rail Nationalisation would be part of his push for a Modern, Fabian Britain.
Whilst he would embrace Keneysian Economics and lead the fight against Hitler after his invasion of Czechoslovakia in Early 1939, his inability to help out the Jewish diaspora to flee Nazi Europe out of fears of losing popularity and his racist attitudes towards problems in the Empire would leave a dark mark on his legacy. Even his half hearted attempt at giving India, Dominion-ship was clouded worries over a rebellious India population as War in Europe raged. He would be pushed out of office as the war wound down due to the Labour Party bleeding support to the Left Wing Populist Reform party and be quickly kicked up to the Lords.
Malcolm MacDonald: The Failed Last Gasp of the Left
MacDonald after brief foreign office service helped along by his father, Malcom would take his father’s seat and position as the leader of the ‘respectable’ Left unlike the perceived Bolsheviks and Radicals in the ILP and Reform party. When Morrison decided to call an election as the war ended, the Left would pull off one last gasp of relevance and push Morrison out and place there man in the driving seat.
MacDonald would turn out to be too young and too inexperienced as a Prime Minister and whilst he would attempt to install some kind of Syndicalist, Industrial Democracy in Britain, his reliance on poor advisors and the fact that the nation was riddled with debt due to the War meant most of his plans were Non-Starters. Following a Cold Winter in 45’, MacDonald’s weak majority would collapse and he would go to the nation, having made very little impact after the promise he initially seemed to bring.
Euan Wallace: The Winner of the Peace
A longtime supporter of the Chamberlain’s, Wallace’s time would be one of bringing about the peace and security that the British people wanted. Helped along by a big loan from President Kaiser and Morrison’s technocratic Municipalism being an easy fit for the Chamberlain underling, Wallace would additionally brush off ideas from Noel Skelton which would be push by his Home Secretary Macmillan.
The creation of the Mutualist State would begin in 1948 with the formation of the Coal and Steel boards in which both workers and managers sat and decided policy and goals.
Additionally Wallace would see the beginning of decolonisation efforts though he would still try and cling onto Africa and the Malaysia Federation despite efforts elsewhere to ensure speedy withdrawal. Additionally he would be a firm ally of President Stassen in battling the perceived threat presented by Bulganin as the 50s began. Wallace would retire a popular and well liked Prime Minister.
Derick Heathcoat-Amory: The Competent Technocrat
The Amory years are considered fairly dull, with a substantial majority inherited from Wallace, the Amory years were about ensuring the Wallace State was secured and functioning. The Amory period would see Britain entering a trade alliance with the Franco-German Coal Community and Britian would detonate it’s first atom bomb but very little would happen until a slight recession in 1954 hit.
Attempts to balance the books and avoid total deficit spending would see Chancellor Lyttelton cutting Public Services, which lead to anger which Labour and the Liberal’s abused to there own end’s. Amory would be voted out of office and be seen as a fairly boringly mediocre Prime Minister compared to his transformative predecessor and eccentric successor.
John Strachey: The Shapeshifting Socialist
Strachey’s time in office was an odd. Much like the party swapping man himself, his initial attempts at Left Wing Populism would be rapidly replaced by bland Fabian Social Democracy. He would build him Britain's presence abroad by supporting Stassen’s and Driscoll’s Anti-Communist crusade whilst overseeing a rapidly withdrawal from the Colonies, often leaving the U.S. to foot the bill.
Strachey would oversee the increase in nuclear arms, the establishment of the National Health Insurance scheme (replacing the more Council based scheme established by Morrison) and would bring the Trade Unions into the Mutualist Market Socialist State with eager support from his Chancellor Durbin. Strachey whilst not particularly flashy, was a competent Prime Minister and for much of his was seen as being rather popular by people who appreciated his no thrill leadership Post War and Empire.
But series of controversies would appear from corruption scandals to British Arms being used by Yugoslav Troops in Albania would lead to Strachey gracefully bowing out after seven years.
Douglas Jay: Who?
The Former Foreign Secretary Jay won after chaotic leadership election, in which he battled Alf Robens and Frank Cousins for the top spot. Then immediately as Jay got into office, the economy overheated, bubbling scandal’s arose and the Malaysia stand off lead to outcries across the West. Jay oversaw the collapse in Labour support as Peggy Duff launched the Action! party to capitalise on Labor mismanagement and Jay would find himself turfed out not long after.
Ronald Cartland: The Matinee Idol of Westminster
Ronald (often know as Ronnie to the adoring public) was everything that Strachey and Jay weren’t; charismatic, flashy and almost starlike in his presentation he combined this with a sincere belief in Red Toryism. Ronnie Cartland seemed determined to deal with economic woes of Britain and was prepared to scale back it’s foreign policy to do it. He was friendly with Williams and Kosygin and looked ready to keep Britain’s standing as a minor major power...
Shame that his friend Boothby seemed to want to integrate Cartland with some very interesting ‘gentlemen’ indeed...
1923-1927: J.R.Clynes (Labour)
1923 (Liberal Confidence & Supply) def: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), H.H.Asquith (Liberal)
1927-1932: Austen Chamberlain (Conservative)
1927 (Majority) def: J.R.Clynes (Labour), Donald Maclean (‘Official’ Liberal), David Lloyd-George (‘Reform’ Liberal)
1932-1934: J.R.Clynes (Labour)
1932 (Majority) def: Austen Chamberlain (Conservative), Herbert Samuel (Liberal), David Lloyd-George (Reform)
1934-1939: Herbert Morrison (Labour)
1935 (Majority) def: Leo Amery (Conservative), Isaac Foot (Liberal), Edgar Lansbury (ILP-CPGB), Jack Jones (Reform)
1939 Elections Cancelled Due To Outbreak of War
1939-1944: Herbert Morrison (Labour leading ‘Martian’ Government)
1944-1946: Malcolm MacDonald (Labour)
1944 (Majority) def: Euan Wallace (Conservative), Oliver Baldwin (Reform), Isaac Foot (Liberal)
1946-1952: Euan Wallace (Conservative)
1946 (Majority) def: Malcolm MacDonald (Labour), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Oliver Baldwin (Reform)
1950 (Majority) def: John Strachey (Labour), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Jennie Lee (Reform)
1952-1955: Derick Heathcoat-Amory (Conservative)
1955-1962: John Strachey (Labour)
1955 (Majority) def: Derick Heathcoat-Amory (Conservative), Donald Johnson (Liberal)
1959 (Majority) def: Brendan Bracken (Conservative), Donald Johnson (Liberal)
1962-1964: Douglas Jay (Labour)
1964-: Ronald Cartland (Conservative)
1964 (Majority) def: Douglas Jay (Labour), Donald Johnson (Liberal), Peggy Duff (Action!)
One of my first ever lists was called ‘Down The Clynes’ and it’s...alright. Quite messy. But now that I’ve been around the block a few times I’ve decided to redo it but make it all nice and aesthetically pleasing with a few different ideas mixed in.
J.R.Clynes: Hero of the Moderates
The man who brought Labour firmly into the Centre Left, would eventually bring about it’s first Majority and would ensure that the Liberals were muscles out completely during his time as leader. Criticised for his slow taking up of Keneysian economics (though he didn’t push for Austerity measures like a few in his cabinet), he would be seen as the man who brought about the beginnings of the Fabian Revolution in Britain.
Austen Chamberlain: The End of An Era
Chamberlain would have a chaotic five years, his attempts to bring about a form of Municipal Red Toryism were beset by a stagnant economy, high unemployment and radical trade unions. As the Great Depression let rip he would see his control crumble and would just barely survive a leadership coup by members of the Conservative Right. Often see as a leader very much of out his depth, his inability to deal with Britain’s woes
Herbert Morrison: The Malignant Municipalist Moderniser
After beating A.V.Alexander and Johnston in a bloody leadership election, it seemed that the hero of the Modernising Municipalist Left would be the man to take Britian out of Depression and hardship. Whilst he would partially do that, Morrison’s period as Prime Minister would be one of increasingly autocratic control over his party and nation and the solidifying of the Fabian Doctrine on the Labour Party. He would see about bringing so called ‘National Municipalism’ to the nation and his pet love for Rail Nationalisation would be part of his push for a Modern, Fabian Britain.
Whilst he would embrace Keneysian Economics and lead the fight against Hitler after his invasion of Czechoslovakia in Early 1939, his inability to help out the Jewish diaspora to flee Nazi Europe out of fears of losing popularity and his racist attitudes towards problems in the Empire would leave a dark mark on his legacy. Even his half hearted attempt at giving India, Dominion-ship was clouded worries over a rebellious India population as War in Europe raged. He would be pushed out of office as the war wound down due to the Labour Party bleeding support to the Left Wing Populist Reform party and be quickly kicked up to the Lords.
Malcolm MacDonald: The Failed Last Gasp of the Left
MacDonald after brief foreign office service helped along by his father, Malcom would take his father’s seat and position as the leader of the ‘respectable’ Left unlike the perceived Bolsheviks and Radicals in the ILP and Reform party. When Morrison decided to call an election as the war ended, the Left would pull off one last gasp of relevance and push Morrison out and place there man in the driving seat.
MacDonald would turn out to be too young and too inexperienced as a Prime Minister and whilst he would attempt to install some kind of Syndicalist, Industrial Democracy in Britain, his reliance on poor advisors and the fact that the nation was riddled with debt due to the War meant most of his plans were Non-Starters. Following a Cold Winter in 45’, MacDonald’s weak majority would collapse and he would go to the nation, having made very little impact after the promise he initially seemed to bring.
Euan Wallace: The Winner of the Peace
A longtime supporter of the Chamberlain’s, Wallace’s time would be one of bringing about the peace and security that the British people wanted. Helped along by a big loan from President Kaiser and Morrison’s technocratic Municipalism being an easy fit for the Chamberlain underling, Wallace would additionally brush off ideas from Noel Skelton which would be push by his Home Secretary Macmillan.
The creation of the Mutualist State would begin in 1948 with the formation of the Coal and Steel boards in which both workers and managers sat and decided policy and goals.
Additionally Wallace would see the beginning of decolonisation efforts though he would still try and cling onto Africa and the Malaysia Federation despite efforts elsewhere to ensure speedy withdrawal. Additionally he would be a firm ally of President Stassen in battling the perceived threat presented by Bulganin as the 50s began. Wallace would retire a popular and well liked Prime Minister.
Derick Heathcoat-Amory: The Competent Technocrat
The Amory years are considered fairly dull, with a substantial majority inherited from Wallace, the Amory years were about ensuring the Wallace State was secured and functioning. The Amory period would see Britain entering a trade alliance with the Franco-German Coal Community and Britian would detonate it’s first atom bomb but very little would happen until a slight recession in 1954 hit.
Attempts to balance the books and avoid total deficit spending would see Chancellor Lyttelton cutting Public Services, which lead to anger which Labour and the Liberal’s abused to there own end’s. Amory would be voted out of office and be seen as a fairly boringly mediocre Prime Minister compared to his transformative predecessor and eccentric successor.
John Strachey: The Shapeshifting Socialist
Strachey’s time in office was an odd. Much like the party swapping man himself, his initial attempts at Left Wing Populism would be rapidly replaced by bland Fabian Social Democracy. He would build him Britain's presence abroad by supporting Stassen’s and Driscoll’s Anti-Communist crusade whilst overseeing a rapidly withdrawal from the Colonies, often leaving the U.S. to foot the bill.
Strachey would oversee the increase in nuclear arms, the establishment of the National Health Insurance scheme (replacing the more Council based scheme established by Morrison) and would bring the Trade Unions into the Mutualist Market Socialist State with eager support from his Chancellor Durbin. Strachey whilst not particularly flashy, was a competent Prime Minister and for much of his was seen as being rather popular by people who appreciated his no thrill leadership Post War and Empire.
But series of controversies would appear from corruption scandals to British Arms being used by Yugoslav Troops in Albania would lead to Strachey gracefully bowing out after seven years.
Douglas Jay: Who?
The Former Foreign Secretary Jay won after chaotic leadership election, in which he battled Alf Robens and Frank Cousins for the top spot. Then immediately as Jay got into office, the economy overheated, bubbling scandal’s arose and the Malaysia stand off lead to outcries across the West. Jay oversaw the collapse in Labour support as Peggy Duff launched the Action! party to capitalise on Labor mismanagement and Jay would find himself turfed out not long after.
Ronald Cartland: The Matinee Idol of Westminster
Ronald (often know as Ronnie to the adoring public) was everything that Strachey and Jay weren’t; charismatic, flashy and almost starlike in his presentation he combined this with a sincere belief in Red Toryism. Ronnie Cartland seemed determined to deal with economic woes of Britain and was prepared to scale back it’s foreign policy to do it. He was friendly with Williams and Kosygin and looked ready to keep Britain’s standing as a minor major power...
Shame that his friend Boothby seemed to want to integrate Cartland with some very interesting ‘gentlemen’ indeed...
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1970-1976: Edward Heath (Conservative)
1970: Harold Wilson (Labour), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1974: Harold Wilson (Labour), William Wolfe (SNP), Emyln Hooson (Liberal)
1976-1978: Edward Heath (Conservative leading National Government)
1978-1983: John Silkin (Labour)
1978: Edward Heath (Conservative-Liberal-Independent Labour-National Coalition), William Wolfe (SNP), Enoch Powell (Unionist Coupon)
1983-1992: Geoffrey Rippon (Conservative)
1983: John Silkin (Labour), William Wolfe (SNP)
1987: Shirley Williams (Labour), Enoch Powell (Democratic Unionist - Unionist Alliance)
1991: Jack Straw (Labour), Ian Paisley (Democratic Unionist - Unionist Alliance)
1992-1997: Ian Lang (Conservative)
1995: Jack Straw (Labour), Ian Paisley (Democratic Unionist - Unionist Alliance), Sara Parkin (Green)
1997-1999: Lynda Chalker (Conservative)
1999-2011: Paddy Ashdown (Labour)
1999: Lynda Chalker (Conservative), Neil Hamilton (New Unionist), Sara Parkin (Green)
2003: Norman Lamont (Conservative), Jonathan Bowden (New Unionist), Jenny Jones (Green)
2007: Tony Blair (Conservative), Jenny Jones (Green), Peter Davies (New Unionist)
2011-2015: Shahid Malik (Labour)
2012 (Coalition with Greens): Tim Collins (Conservative), Rupert Read (Green), Peter Davies (New Unionist)
2015-: Tom Newton Dunn (Conservative)
2015: Shahid Malik (Labour), Kate Hoey (New Unionist), Rupert Read (Green)
2019: Sarah Smith (Labour), Kate Hoey (New Unionist), Aaron Bastani (Green)
When Jeremy Thorpe’s political career was ended up a lurid and barely believable homosexual scandal in 1972, Emlyn Hooson stepped into the gap to save and doom the Liberal Party. When Heath’s tiny majority whittled down into nothing in 1976, in the face of strikes, a far-left infiltrated Labour Party, National Front marches and Scottish nationalists; the Liberals joined the government benches and the cabinet and were able to pass some truly consequential legislation, with regional assemblies reaching the statute books before the 1978 election. While the Unity Coalition came up short, the Liberal-Conservative alliance persists to this day. Even as the smaller party became a near-explicit appendage of its ally, its influence can still be felt on the Conservative Party.
Silkin’s government, with a similarly narrow majority, struggled with constant internal dissent, race riots and a mounting debt crisis as the economy slipped into recession. Chancellor Edmund Dell’s notorious 1981 budget (“short term pain for long term gain”) did not quite break the Labour Party but it broke their coalition and laid the foundations for the radical Conservative governments that followed.
“The Rippon Revolution” of tax cuts and denationalisations was by no means Rippon’s own idea, borrowing policy from America’s Brown Administration and France’s d'Estaing. That former Chancellor Dell endorsed the Conservatives in 1987 was of little surprise. As well as legislating to defang the unions the Rippon Ministry passed a great deal of anti-immigration and “traditionalist” legislation, fearing an electoral threat from the Unionist coupon established by Enoch Powell that picked up a few too many former National Front voters. But with the long boom of the 1980s, Rippon won three landslides in a row and was only forced out by ill health.
When the bubble burst with a dramatic stock market crash in the mid-1990s, Ian Lang initially appeared to be doomed, but was able to pull of a narrow electoral win. He was helped more than a little by the Green Party splitting the anti-Tory vote; Green politics had come to the fore especially after a series of deadly nuclear accidents in the former Soviet Union. In Lang’s second term the economic recovery became sluggish and the Conservatives as a whole were badly damaged by a series of scandals involving illegal arms sales to the Apartheid Government during the South African Civil War. Facing losing a leadership challenge to Ian Gow, Lang resigned to be replaced by a party loyalist who was not enough of a change of pace. While Chalker’s brief term was largely undistinguished it was marked by two hugely consequential events, Britain’s accession to the DucatZone and the passing of the notorious Prevention of Terrorism Act. While the Ulster Unionist retaking the Tory whip was part of a relative period of calm in Northern Ireland, Islamist and far-right terrorist attacks in the late 1990s were more deadly than the IRA mainland campaigns of the 1970s and 80s.
Ashdown’s charisma and commitment to financial responsibility won him his first landslide, his handling of the SARS pandemic won him his second. Leading a UN-sanctioned intervention in the Pakistani civil war in the aftermath of their conflict with India was much less favoured, especially as the economy was still recovering from the pandemic. Domestically the Ashdown government pushed through wide-ranging social reforms long put off by the Tories and renationalised some key industries. The threat of the Green Party was strongly felt by the Ashdown Ministry, both in terms of ambitious environmental policy (with the exception of nuclear energy) and electoral reform. A change to the Alternative Vote system was initially decried as a Labour stitch-up but came to work against them as well. By the end of the 2000s Ashdown had become an electoral liability in the face of scandals and economic volatility, but was still intent on winning a fourth term. Despite his autocratic management of the Labour Party and government, the cabinet revolted anyway and PLP ended his tenure with a no-confidence motion. He had to be happy with being the longest-serving Prime Minister since Lord Salisbury.
His successor, perhaps unfairly, was seen from the start as a product and puppet of factional power-brokers within the party and struggled to defend Labour’s long record in government. After an election campaign in which the prime minister received far more personal attacks and abuse than the average incumbent, Malik came up ten votes short and formed a coalition with the Greens, who had made a historic breakthrough at Labour’s expense. While having to break a pledge not to introduce Green taxes the Red-Green coalition was largely productive, passing even more ambitious reforms like a Gender Recognition Act and a National Care Service, the coalition was ultimately broken by both foreign and domestic policy, with the Green membership unable to support the renewal of the nuclear deterrent or the expansion of Maplin Sands Airport.
The rise of Malik and his bringing the Greens to government had convinced many “traditional” voters, along with much of the right-wing press, that Labour post-Ashdown had become culturally alien left wing extremists. The New Unionists, the successor to Enoch Powell’s outfit, surged and the Conservatives’ own anti-immigration promises made clear whose second preference votes they were after. So far, Newton Dunn has successfully balanced his highly ideologically diverse party. While he has not abandoned the ambitious emissions targets of his Labour predecessors there is now a much greater emphasis on “Green Capitalism”, and much of the housing and infrastructure the Ashdown Ministry built is now in private hands. While the Immigration Act of 2017 was highly controversial, Newton Dunn’s rhetoric of “safer, harder borders” has gained support from his European counterparts as a refugee crisis brews in Libya and what was until recently Yugoslavia…
1970: Harold Wilson (Labour), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1974: Harold Wilson (Labour), William Wolfe (SNP), Emyln Hooson (Liberal)
1976-1978: Edward Heath (Conservative leading National Government)
1978-1983: John Silkin (Labour)
1978: Edward Heath (Conservative-Liberal-Independent Labour-National Coalition), William Wolfe (SNP), Enoch Powell (Unionist Coupon)
1983-1992: Geoffrey Rippon (Conservative)
1983: John Silkin (Labour), William Wolfe (SNP)
1987: Shirley Williams (Labour), Enoch Powell (Democratic Unionist - Unionist Alliance)
1991: Jack Straw (Labour), Ian Paisley (Democratic Unionist - Unionist Alliance)
1992-1997: Ian Lang (Conservative)
1995: Jack Straw (Labour), Ian Paisley (Democratic Unionist - Unionist Alliance), Sara Parkin (Green)
1997-1999: Lynda Chalker (Conservative)
1999-2011: Paddy Ashdown (Labour)
1999: Lynda Chalker (Conservative), Neil Hamilton (New Unionist), Sara Parkin (Green)
2003: Norman Lamont (Conservative), Jonathan Bowden (New Unionist), Jenny Jones (Green)
2007: Tony Blair (Conservative), Jenny Jones (Green), Peter Davies (New Unionist)
2011-2015: Shahid Malik (Labour)
2012 (Coalition with Greens): Tim Collins (Conservative), Rupert Read (Green), Peter Davies (New Unionist)
2015-: Tom Newton Dunn (Conservative)
2015: Shahid Malik (Labour), Kate Hoey (New Unionist), Rupert Read (Green)
2019: Sarah Smith (Labour), Kate Hoey (New Unionist), Aaron Bastani (Green)
When Jeremy Thorpe’s political career was ended up a lurid and barely believable homosexual scandal in 1972, Emlyn Hooson stepped into the gap to save and doom the Liberal Party. When Heath’s tiny majority whittled down into nothing in 1976, in the face of strikes, a far-left infiltrated Labour Party, National Front marches and Scottish nationalists; the Liberals joined the government benches and the cabinet and were able to pass some truly consequential legislation, with regional assemblies reaching the statute books before the 1978 election. While the Unity Coalition came up short, the Liberal-Conservative alliance persists to this day. Even as the smaller party became a near-explicit appendage of its ally, its influence can still be felt on the Conservative Party.
Silkin’s government, with a similarly narrow majority, struggled with constant internal dissent, race riots and a mounting debt crisis as the economy slipped into recession. Chancellor Edmund Dell’s notorious 1981 budget (“short term pain for long term gain”) did not quite break the Labour Party but it broke their coalition and laid the foundations for the radical Conservative governments that followed.
“The Rippon Revolution” of tax cuts and denationalisations was by no means Rippon’s own idea, borrowing policy from America’s Brown Administration and France’s d'Estaing. That former Chancellor Dell endorsed the Conservatives in 1987 was of little surprise. As well as legislating to defang the unions the Rippon Ministry passed a great deal of anti-immigration and “traditionalist” legislation, fearing an electoral threat from the Unionist coupon established by Enoch Powell that picked up a few too many former National Front voters. But with the long boom of the 1980s, Rippon won three landslides in a row and was only forced out by ill health.
When the bubble burst with a dramatic stock market crash in the mid-1990s, Ian Lang initially appeared to be doomed, but was able to pull of a narrow electoral win. He was helped more than a little by the Green Party splitting the anti-Tory vote; Green politics had come to the fore especially after a series of deadly nuclear accidents in the former Soviet Union. In Lang’s second term the economic recovery became sluggish and the Conservatives as a whole were badly damaged by a series of scandals involving illegal arms sales to the Apartheid Government during the South African Civil War. Facing losing a leadership challenge to Ian Gow, Lang resigned to be replaced by a party loyalist who was not enough of a change of pace. While Chalker’s brief term was largely undistinguished it was marked by two hugely consequential events, Britain’s accession to the DucatZone and the passing of the notorious Prevention of Terrorism Act. While the Ulster Unionist retaking the Tory whip was part of a relative period of calm in Northern Ireland, Islamist and far-right terrorist attacks in the late 1990s were more deadly than the IRA mainland campaigns of the 1970s and 80s.
Ashdown’s charisma and commitment to financial responsibility won him his first landslide, his handling of the SARS pandemic won him his second. Leading a UN-sanctioned intervention in the Pakistani civil war in the aftermath of their conflict with India was much less favoured, especially as the economy was still recovering from the pandemic. Domestically the Ashdown government pushed through wide-ranging social reforms long put off by the Tories and renationalised some key industries. The threat of the Green Party was strongly felt by the Ashdown Ministry, both in terms of ambitious environmental policy (with the exception of nuclear energy) and electoral reform. A change to the Alternative Vote system was initially decried as a Labour stitch-up but came to work against them as well. By the end of the 2000s Ashdown had become an electoral liability in the face of scandals and economic volatility, but was still intent on winning a fourth term. Despite his autocratic management of the Labour Party and government, the cabinet revolted anyway and PLP ended his tenure with a no-confidence motion. He had to be happy with being the longest-serving Prime Minister since Lord Salisbury.
His successor, perhaps unfairly, was seen from the start as a product and puppet of factional power-brokers within the party and struggled to defend Labour’s long record in government. After an election campaign in which the prime minister received far more personal attacks and abuse than the average incumbent, Malik came up ten votes short and formed a coalition with the Greens, who had made a historic breakthrough at Labour’s expense. While having to break a pledge not to introduce Green taxes the Red-Green coalition was largely productive, passing even more ambitious reforms like a Gender Recognition Act and a National Care Service, the coalition was ultimately broken by both foreign and domestic policy, with the Green membership unable to support the renewal of the nuclear deterrent or the expansion of Maplin Sands Airport.
The rise of Malik and his bringing the Greens to government had convinced many “traditional” voters, along with much of the right-wing press, that Labour post-Ashdown had become culturally alien left wing extremists. The New Unionists, the successor to Enoch Powell’s outfit, surged and the Conservatives’ own anti-immigration promises made clear whose second preference votes they were after. So far, Newton Dunn has successfully balanced his highly ideologically diverse party. While he has not abandoned the ambitious emissions targets of his Labour predecessors there is now a much greater emphasis on “Green Capitalism”, and much of the housing and infrastructure the Ashdown Ministry built is now in private hands. While the Immigration Act of 2017 was highly controversial, Newton Dunn’s rhetoric of “safer, harder borders” has gained support from his European counterparts as a refugee crisis brews in Libya and what was until recently Yugoslavia…
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1945-1953: Harry S. Truman (Democratic-MO)
1948 (with Alben Barkley) def.: Thomas Dewey / Earl Warren (Republican)
1953-1953: Robert A. Taft (Republican-OH)
1952 (with William Knowland) def.: Adlai Stevenson II / John Sparkman (Democratic)
1953-1961: William Knowland (Republican-CA)
1956 (with Leverett Saltonstall) def.: Lyndon B. Johnson / Averell Harriman (Democratic)
1961-1965: Jerry Voorhis (Democratic-CA)
1960 (with Staurt Symington) def.: Charles Halleck / Prescott Bush (Republican); Harry F. Byrd / Strom Thurmond (States' Rights Democratic)
1965-1969: Jerry Voorhis (Cooperative Democratic-CA)
1964 (with William O. Douglas) def.: Bourke B. Hickenlooper / Thurston Morton (Republican); Herman Talmadge / Ezra Taft Benson (Conservative Democratic)
1969-1975: Gerald Ford (Republican-MI)
1968 (with John Tower) def.: Claude Pepper / William Proxmire (Cooperative Democratic); George Wallace / Louise Day Hicks (Conservative Democratic)
1972 (with John Tower) def.: G. Mennen Williams / Fred Harris (Cooperative); George Wallace / Larry McDonald (Conservative)
1975-1981: John Tower (National Republican-TX)
1976 (with James Buckley) def.: Dutch Reagan / Andrew Young (Cooperative)
1981-1989: Walter Mondale (Cooperative-MN)
1980 (with Tom Hayden) def.: John Tower / James Buckley (National)
The 1952 election went as pretty much everyone had expected it to. The nation had tired of the strikes, recessions, and continued bloodshed abroad under the Truman administration, and Robert Taft offered some respite from that. That's not to say that he was a beloved figure- Americans who had grown accustomed to the country's role as prime upholder of the liberal international order in those post-war years despised him, and moderates and conservatives who didn't like the idealist mushy global government concept but wanted the US to be a bulwark against the spread of communism thought his non-interventionist approach too radical. However, Taft moderated during the primary campaign, taking the wind out of Governor Warren's sails. Taft handily beat the egg-headed Adlai Stevenson, and on a cold January morning, became President of the United States.
And then, he died.
Knowland was more of an internationalist than Taft, but out of respect to his fallen predecessor and the mandate the American people gave him, he opted to stay the course. Communist takeovers in Poland and Lithuania made sure that that wouldn't be viable. The 1954 elections were a representation of this fact, as Democrats campaigned on the legacy of FDR- well-funded social services, high wages, and pushing the spectre of oppression back across Europe once more. Even Knowland's own Senate seat would flip to the Democratic Party: Former Congressman Jerry Voorhis won the seat over some paranoid little also-ran named Dick Nixon. Knowland took the cue from the midterm results and eschewed the isolationist perspective of the Taft wing of the party for the more interventionist lean of the center-right.
Voorhis himself would end up succeeding Knowland- recessions caused by tight money policy had the American people clamoring for a Renewed Deal, and the Californian Comeback Kid was poised to deliver it. However, the rising power of the conservative democrats- released from the popular mandate of FDR's government spending decades before- constrained him. Sure, he managed to pass some broadly popular proposals such as Medicare, and his successful prosecution of the Cuban War gave him the political capital to get it done. But there was still more to do.
Fed up with his colleagues and their attempt to field Robert C. Byrd against him in the 1964 primaries, Voorhis declared his faction of the Democratic party to be the "Cooperative Democrats", a group more committed to realizing the "democracy" implied in the name "Democratic Party". Southern Democrats broke off in retaliation, as Voorhis planned. Hickenlooper, a Taftite isolationist, had a lock on the GOP's nomination following the waning popularity of Knowland. He grew complacent in his campaign, expecting the Democrats to have split themselves apart thus delivering the country to the Republicans.
This key assumption was wrong. In reality, Voorhis' boldness incensed the southern conservatives into creating their own party, thereby splitting the vote share of the Right. With the selection of William O. Douglas to maintain support from New Dealers and pick up liberal Republicans turned off by Hickenlooper's campaign, Voorhis won re-election.
However, his second term would be even less productive than his first. The right-wing Democrats hated his administration with a passion, and inflationary pressure caused by government spending negatively impacted Americans' quality of life.
Thus came Gerald Ford, the young (relatively speaking), handsome, ex-football star whose fiscal conservatism proved capable of alleviating the nation's financial ills, and whose level-headedness continued the battle against communism without major casualties. Of course, this promising presidency too was cut short by a murderer from the Manson Family. His arch-conservative successor, John Tower took office mere minutes later.
While the moderates of the party were fond of Ford, they despised Tower. Infighting between the two minority parties had given him the ability to govern- as did a run by the Cooperative's gaffe machine-in-residence, Dutch Reagan. However, as the Conservative party chairs aged out of their seats and younger members lost their institutional heft, Tower saw an opportunity. He could make up for his projected loss in moderate voters by making a pact with the Conservatives to endorse him. Thus began the National Party's existence and the death of the old party system in earnest.
Of course, this far-right system of governance buckled as social services ran dry and American boys died abroad in Persia. The nation turned again to the Cooperatives, and under Walter Mondale, this motley crew of union men, urban denizens, and northern liberals would attempt to realize the legacy of Roosevelt, Truman, and Voorhis.
1948 (with Alben Barkley) def.: Thomas Dewey / Earl Warren (Republican)
1953-1953: Robert A. Taft (Republican-OH)
1952 (with William Knowland) def.: Adlai Stevenson II / John Sparkman (Democratic)
1953-1961: William Knowland (Republican-CA)
1956 (with Leverett Saltonstall) def.: Lyndon B. Johnson / Averell Harriman (Democratic)
1961-1965: Jerry Voorhis (Democratic-CA)
1960 (with Staurt Symington) def.: Charles Halleck / Prescott Bush (Republican); Harry F. Byrd / Strom Thurmond (States' Rights Democratic)
1965-1969: Jerry Voorhis (Cooperative Democratic-CA)
1964 (with William O. Douglas) def.: Bourke B. Hickenlooper / Thurston Morton (Republican); Herman Talmadge / Ezra Taft Benson (Conservative Democratic)
1969-1975: Gerald Ford (Republican-MI)
1968 (with John Tower) def.: Claude Pepper / William Proxmire (Cooperative Democratic); George Wallace / Louise Day Hicks (Conservative Democratic)
1972 (with John Tower) def.: G. Mennen Williams / Fred Harris (Cooperative); George Wallace / Larry McDonald (Conservative)
1975-1981: John Tower (National Republican-TX)
1976 (with James Buckley) def.: Dutch Reagan / Andrew Young (Cooperative)
1981-1989: Walter Mondale (Cooperative-MN)
1980 (with Tom Hayden) def.: John Tower / James Buckley (National)
The 1952 election went as pretty much everyone had expected it to. The nation had tired of the strikes, recessions, and continued bloodshed abroad under the Truman administration, and Robert Taft offered some respite from that. That's not to say that he was a beloved figure- Americans who had grown accustomed to the country's role as prime upholder of the liberal international order in those post-war years despised him, and moderates and conservatives who didn't like the idealist mushy global government concept but wanted the US to be a bulwark against the spread of communism thought his non-interventionist approach too radical. However, Taft moderated during the primary campaign, taking the wind out of Governor Warren's sails. Taft handily beat the egg-headed Adlai Stevenson, and on a cold January morning, became President of the United States.
And then, he died.
Knowland was more of an internationalist than Taft, but out of respect to his fallen predecessor and the mandate the American people gave him, he opted to stay the course. Communist takeovers in Poland and Lithuania made sure that that wouldn't be viable. The 1954 elections were a representation of this fact, as Democrats campaigned on the legacy of FDR- well-funded social services, high wages, and pushing the spectre of oppression back across Europe once more. Even Knowland's own Senate seat would flip to the Democratic Party: Former Congressman Jerry Voorhis won the seat over some paranoid little also-ran named Dick Nixon. Knowland took the cue from the midterm results and eschewed the isolationist perspective of the Taft wing of the party for the more interventionist lean of the center-right.
Voorhis himself would end up succeeding Knowland- recessions caused by tight money policy had the American people clamoring for a Renewed Deal, and the Californian Comeback Kid was poised to deliver it. However, the rising power of the conservative democrats- released from the popular mandate of FDR's government spending decades before- constrained him. Sure, he managed to pass some broadly popular proposals such as Medicare, and his successful prosecution of the Cuban War gave him the political capital to get it done. But there was still more to do.
Fed up with his colleagues and their attempt to field Robert C. Byrd against him in the 1964 primaries, Voorhis declared his faction of the Democratic party to be the "Cooperative Democrats", a group more committed to realizing the "democracy" implied in the name "Democratic Party". Southern Democrats broke off in retaliation, as Voorhis planned. Hickenlooper, a Taftite isolationist, had a lock on the GOP's nomination following the waning popularity of Knowland. He grew complacent in his campaign, expecting the Democrats to have split themselves apart thus delivering the country to the Republicans.
This key assumption was wrong. In reality, Voorhis' boldness incensed the southern conservatives into creating their own party, thereby splitting the vote share of the Right. With the selection of William O. Douglas to maintain support from New Dealers and pick up liberal Republicans turned off by Hickenlooper's campaign, Voorhis won re-election.
However, his second term would be even less productive than his first. The right-wing Democrats hated his administration with a passion, and inflationary pressure caused by government spending negatively impacted Americans' quality of life.
Thus came Gerald Ford, the young (relatively speaking), handsome, ex-football star whose fiscal conservatism proved capable of alleviating the nation's financial ills, and whose level-headedness continued the battle against communism without major casualties. Of course, this promising presidency too was cut short by a murderer from the Manson Family. His arch-conservative successor, John Tower took office mere minutes later.
While the moderates of the party were fond of Ford, they despised Tower. Infighting between the two minority parties had given him the ability to govern- as did a run by the Cooperative's gaffe machine-in-residence, Dutch Reagan. However, as the Conservative party chairs aged out of their seats and younger members lost their institutional heft, Tower saw an opportunity. He could make up for his projected loss in moderate voters by making a pact with the Conservatives to endorse him. Thus began the National Party's existence and the death of the old party system in earnest.
Of course, this far-right system of governance buckled as social services ran dry and American boys died abroad in Persia. The nation turned again to the Cooperatives, and under Walter Mondale, this motley crew of union men, urban denizens, and northern liberals would attempt to realize the legacy of Roosevelt, Truman, and Voorhis.
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Inspired by rereading Fight and Be Right and @Charles EP M. own ATLF for the Workers Federation I present my own version of what happened to the BWR after Red Friday;
Secretary-General of the Workers Federation:
1938-1960: Earnald Mosley (EngSynd) [1]
1939 def. Oliver Baldwin (EngSynd-Midland Caucus), Richard Acland (EngSynd-Christian Caucus), Leslie Paul (Kibbo Krift)
1945 def.Oliver Baldwin (United Opposition) [2]
1951 def. Mohammed Akbar Khan replacing Subhas Chandra Bose (United Opposition-Indian Workers Federation) [3]
1957 def. Unopposed
1960-1971: Tom Driberg (EngSynd)† [4]
1963 def. Unopposed
1969 def. Sid Coates-Oswald Powe-Dipak Nandy (Left Opposition-Student Committees) [5]
1969: Workers Federation Rupture, Foundation of Air Strip One and Union of Workers States
Coordinators of ‘Airstrip One’:
1971-1980: The Kray ‘Firm’ (BritSynd) [6]
1975 def. Unopposed
1980-1984: Reggie Kray (BritSynd) [7]
1981 def.Paddy Arthur (Solidarity) [8]
1984-1985: Collapse of ‘Airstrip One’, League of Nations Occupation and defeat of remaining Kray and BritSynd Forces.
The ‘British Demilitarised Region’:
1984-1989: Nicholas Eden-Alex Macmillan (The Blues), Ernst Karl Frahm (The Deutsch), Bryan C. Gould (The Commonwealth), Sid Coates (The Reds) (League of Nations: Committee for Democracy) [9]
Prime Minister of the British Commonwealth:
1989-: Nicholas Eden (Social Democratic) [10]
1989 (Majority) def: Sid Coates-Paddy Arthur-Katy Swinton (Solidarity) [11], Alex Macmillan (Reform), Frederick Attenborough (The Soil), Neil Greatrex-Ivo Mosley (Workers), Fraser Kilmister (NOSTATE) [12]
1). Mosley presided over a time of consolidation for the Workers Federation, as opposition was for the most part crushed. He would see expansion too, managing to claim parts of Arabia and the entirety of Yemen during the Arabia Conflict as Europe was more focused over the Russian Empire border conflicts. But it became clear that Mosley the man and Mosley the image were very different as Ernald’s ego started to get the better of him over the 1950s. After an assassination attempt by a Indian Dissident in 1953 lead to the Asian Purge of 54-58 it seemed that any remaining opposition was culled. Until he threatened to sent Driberg to Dartmoor for his ‘bourgeois decadence’ and Driberg rapidly turned the tables on the ailing and despotic leader. Mosley would be kept in a safe house for the rest of his life, force fed a cocktail of drugs and brought out on special occasions as the Beloved Chairman before he finally died in the background of the chaos of 1984 from liver failure.
2). Oliver Baldwin had initially been one of the Syndicalist supporters within the Action Party who used his Duchy of Lancaster position in the 1938 New Democrat-Action coalition cabinet to help oversee there overthrow during Red Friday.
Initially a fairly high ranking member of Workers Congress and made Commissioner for The Midlands it seemed he would become a high ranking and possible successor to Mosley in time. However, Baldwin’s views of Democratic Socialism clashed with Mosley’s and an argument over the Red Baronet’s overt racism lead to Baldwin being demoted to Commissioner of Birmingham. Baldwin would oversee the raise of Birmingham as the Second City of the BWR and rapidly become a target for the jealous Driberg. Baldwin’s partner Johnnie Boyle would be arrested for ‘bourgeois decadence’ in 1944 and a number of Baldwin’s acting friends would be purged. Baldwin tried to unite the disparate opposition forces to Mosley, but they would come to nought due intense suppression and support from Colleague Bose allowed Mosley to apply the weight of India to his cause.
Baldwin and Boyle (released to Baldwin after intense torture) would defect to Germany in the Winter of 1946 and spend the rest of his life writing in Berlin, looking after the traumatised Boyle and leading the Exiled British Section of the Socialist International until his death in 1960.
3). An attempt by the remaining forces of the United Opposition and the Indian Workers Federation to topple the increasingly despotic Mosley would see Subhas Chandra Bose briefly considered as the future Secretary General before he suddenly died in suspicious car crash. Bose’s successor Mohammed Akbar Khan was unable to be as much of a unifying figure and in the elections would narrowly lose to Mosley. Khan would subsequently flee to China and the beginnings of the Indian Unrest and the subsequent Purges would ensue soon after.
4). Driberg realised that the Workers Federation was falling behind when he organised the overthrow of Mosley. Driberg would oversee the beginnings of the ‘Consumer Spring’ as luxury goods would flood the homes of proles across the Federation. This would also occur alongside attempts to inspire some form of diplomatic relations with the wider world particularly his 1965 ‘World Tour’ and his famous handshake with Premier Enlai. But Driberg despite his cheery and cheeky demeanour would be just as brutal as Mosley, ensuring the continued destruction of Nationalist and perceived Capitalist forces within the Workers Federation. This would probably be why he couldn’t foresee an attempted ousting from the Left. His initial failures to put down the Left Opposition ensured the ensuing breaking up of the rest of the Workers Federation away from BWR and the formation of what many would call Airstrip One in 1969. Driberg’s remaining years saw him engaging in increasing reckless and egotistical behaviour, from drug taking to all day parties as his power was rapidly shuffled aside towards his former right hand men The Kray’s.
Driberg’s heart would give out after one of his parties in the Autumn of 1971, though some theorise that he was killed by the Kray’s finally done with his shenanigans and wanting the top jobs for themselves.
5). The Left Opposition sprang up in the densely packed and increasingly diverse Midlands region. Sparked by a reaction to the Consumer Spring and the continuation of oppressive policies under Driberg caused a little known teacher and community organiser to thrust into the limelight. Sid Coates had been a teacher of Marxist Economics and was a proud Syndicalist but he would fall into despair during the 60s as he saw the racism and poverty that ran rampant in the bustling city of Nottingham. Sid would start working with a disparate group of Marxist Scholars, Anarchist Students and Disaffected Trade Unionists in the Nottinghamshire in challenging the power of the ruling EngSynd regime.
In 1969 would become know as Red Summer as various disparate organisations ranging from Reactionary Nationalists to Anarchists rebelled against the Driberg regime. Whilst the rest of them FWR would use it as an excuse to unlatch themselves from London rule, for Coates it raised the possibility of revolution.
But the Kray’s would have tanks rolled into Nottinghamshire and the scene of the Neo-Gothic Nottingham Congress being blown apart by tanks and George Peck’s limb body hanging from a lamppost would signal the end of the Libertarian Socialist uprising. Sid Coates and Oswald Powe would manage to flee to France and eventually South Africa where they would help organise the growing Anti-Racism and Imperialism movement there as they waited to return.
6). For 9 years the Kray ‘Firm’ would rule the remains of the British Isles as there own personal fiefdom. Gone was the Consumer Spring and the Globe Hopping Antics Driberg, instead came a pair of twins who wanted to ensure that they would continue to rule the roost. As ‘Airstrip One’ as Reggie coined the insular nation, became more and more autkratic and tyrannical, the people of Britain would become increasingly desperate. Ranging from an increase in refugees to Car Bombings, the crumbling facade that the Kray’s ruled was a delicate one. The ‘League of Nations’ looked over the nation and pondered when to strike.
Then in 1980, Ronnie would be assassinated by a car bombing as he came out of the apartment of a lover and Reggie found himself alone and more isolated than ever.
7). Reggie’s final four years of complete control was an illusion, as he proclaimed about the new Screamer Bombers and how he had a collection of Weapons of Mass Destruction at his disposal, in reality he was holding on by a thread, his rule only kept in place through bloodthirsty and compliant yes men. As Irish rebels would be brutally put down with Poison Gas to the Solidarity Strike being put down through tanks and a massacre of workers, it was just a matter of time before Reggie lost his grip on the nation.
It would come when he decided to let loose how he wanted to purge the popular and charismatic General Paderic Ashdown and to let loose with an Anti-Irish purge in general. Ashdown’s response was the drive tanks into Dublin and declare the Republic of Eíre. This would be followed by Solidarity renewing there strikes in Scotland and the Midlands, the Welsh National Army seizing Cardiff and Cornwall being seized by Arthur Penhaligon as French Troops landed to support them. Then Kray’s rule would be toppled when Sid Coates flew to Nottingham with Nicholas Eden and Alex Macmillan and one the steps of the Nottingham Congress House proclaimed ‘That Now Is The Time For The End of False Syndicalist System Once And For All’ and proclaimed a General Strike.
Kray would manage to secure his rule in London and the surrounding regions but apart from that his rule was tenuous. League of Nation troops landed in Scotland and Wales to ‘secure the peace’ and a coalition of Blues, Reds and Strikers would seize the entirety of the Midlands in short order.
In 1985 Reggie Kray would be caught trying to flee to the Military Base of Porton Down as London was on the brink of collapsing. Kray would be taken to Salisbury and after a hasty trial be sentenced to death by hanging. The subsequent lynching of Kray by the people of Salisbury would be projected around the world and signal the end of the last remains of Workers Federation once and for all.
8). Paddy Arthur was a little known Trade Unionist and Social Activist who managed to find himself thrust into becoming the head of the Irish Section of the BWR through a coalition of Left Opposition types, fellow Trade Unionists and Nationalists who were tired of direct rule from London. Arthur would travel to the U.K. and through his brother’s connections to the Midland Region’s Unions and Congress would form Solidarity as an attempt to create an independent organisation outside of BritSynd control. Whilst the organisation would be rapidly proscribed, Kray was unable to crackdown on the group within Ireland and lead to his increased paranoia over the Irish ‘threat’.
9). The League of Nations agreed that the newly constructed Commonwealth of Britain would be a democracy and to ensure that no foundation of centralised power could occur again, it would be a Federalised and Devolved administration. Apart from that, discussion over how to build Britian back was mixed. Eden and Macmillan’s wishes to usher in a more Economically Liberal Britain were shot down by the Left Wing members of organisation and attempts by Sid Coates and Ernst Karl Frahm to bring Britain into the European Concord of Trade would be shot down by Gould and Eden-Macmillan who felt that Britain should retain a connection to the Commonwealth and the Former Empire.
With compromises a plenty the new Commonwealth of Britain would be ushered into existence of May 1989, as elderly King James III was proclaimed President of the new Commonwealth and elections called to usher in the new age of Democracy.
10). It hadn’t taken long for the Blues to split apart. Over ever united by the common enemy of Reds, it quickly became apparent that both Macmillan and Eden had different ideas on running the country. Eden’s Social Democratic Party was committed to Social Market, Social Liberalism and integrating further with the Commonwealth whilst Macmillan’s Reform party was obsessed with Social Credit economics, restoration of the Empire and Christian Values. In the end Eden’s message and tacit support from the French and Germans would push him over the line, whilst Macmillan floundered and would fall to Third behind the Democratic Socialist Solidarity party.
11). Solidarity was party of the Unions, the downtrodden and had strong Libertarian Socialist ideals. Despite this, it had a schizophrenic leadership down to the belief in the troika system of democracy which lead to folks like Democratic Socialists like Coates and Arthur sitting alongside the radical Marxist Communalist Katy Swinton who often seemed more passionate than the two awkward hero’s of the revolution. Whilst the party would come second, some were annoyed they hadn’t done better. Despite it though, Arthur would become First Minister of Ireland after Ashdown resigned in 1995 and the party would finally find it’s place during the late 1990s as it started to outmanoeuvre the Social Democrats.
12). The 1989 election would see several parties that wouldn’t be around for the next election for various reasons (ranging from connections to the Kray regime to in one case turning out to be an elaborate Ponzi scheme). The prominent Electrobeat musician and Anarchist Revolutionary, Fraser Kilmister, NOSTATE Party would be one of them, proclaiming the belief that the Nation State and the Syndicalist State had both lead to pain and suffering and that only Anarchist Collectives could lead to a safe and prosperous Britain. Whilst he wouldn’t gain power, Kilmister’s passionate and slightly chaotic performance would endear him to many in Britain leading to his concurrent Album ‘NOSTATE’ shooting to No 1. Kilmister would eventually set up a series of Anarchist communes across Britain and teach Anarchist beliefs to the general public up to his death from a drug overdose in the 2010s. He would go down as the man who would single handily bring Anarhcism back from the brink of irrelevance and usher in the ‘New Anarchism’ of 00s and 10s.
Secretary-General of the Workers Federation:
1938-1960: Earnald Mosley (EngSynd) [1]
1939 def. Oliver Baldwin (EngSynd-Midland Caucus), Richard Acland (EngSynd-Christian Caucus), Leslie Paul (Kibbo Krift)
1945 def.
1951 def. Mohammed Akbar Khan replacing Subhas Chandra Bose (United Opposition-Indian Workers Federation) [3]
1957 def. Unopposed
1960-1971: Tom Driberg (EngSynd)† [4]
1963 def. Unopposed
1969 def. Sid Coates-Oswald Powe-Dipak Nandy (Left Opposition-Student Committees) [5]
1969: Workers Federation Rupture, Foundation of Air Strip One and Union of Workers States
Coordinators of ‘Airstrip One’:
1971-1980: The Kray ‘Firm’ (BritSynd) [6]
1975 def. Unopposed
1980-1984: Reggie Kray (BritSynd) [7]
1981 def.
1984-1985: Collapse of ‘Airstrip One’, League of Nations Occupation and defeat of remaining Kray and BritSynd Forces.
The ‘British Demilitarised Region’:
1984-1989: Nicholas Eden-Alex Macmillan (The Blues), Ernst Karl Frahm (The Deutsch), Bryan C. Gould (The Commonwealth), Sid Coates (The Reds) (League of Nations: Committee for Democracy) [9]
Prime Minister of the British Commonwealth:
1989-: Nicholas Eden (Social Democratic) [10]
1989 (Majority) def: Sid Coates-Paddy Arthur-Katy Swinton (Solidarity) [11], Alex Macmillan (Reform), Frederick Attenborough (The Soil), Neil Greatrex-Ivo Mosley (Workers), Fraser Kilmister (NOSTATE) [12]
1). Mosley presided over a time of consolidation for the Workers Federation, as opposition was for the most part crushed. He would see expansion too, managing to claim parts of Arabia and the entirety of Yemen during the Arabia Conflict as Europe was more focused over the Russian Empire border conflicts. But it became clear that Mosley the man and Mosley the image were very different as Ernald’s ego started to get the better of him over the 1950s. After an assassination attempt by a Indian Dissident in 1953 lead to the Asian Purge of 54-58 it seemed that any remaining opposition was culled. Until he threatened to sent Driberg to Dartmoor for his ‘bourgeois decadence’ and Driberg rapidly turned the tables on the ailing and despotic leader. Mosley would be kept in a safe house for the rest of his life, force fed a cocktail of drugs and brought out on special occasions as the Beloved Chairman before he finally died in the background of the chaos of 1984 from liver failure.
2). Oliver Baldwin had initially been one of the Syndicalist supporters within the Action Party who used his Duchy of Lancaster position in the 1938 New Democrat-Action coalition cabinet to help oversee there overthrow during Red Friday.
Initially a fairly high ranking member of Workers Congress and made Commissioner for The Midlands it seemed he would become a high ranking and possible successor to Mosley in time. However, Baldwin’s views of Democratic Socialism clashed with Mosley’s and an argument over the Red Baronet’s overt racism lead to Baldwin being demoted to Commissioner of Birmingham. Baldwin would oversee the raise of Birmingham as the Second City of the BWR and rapidly become a target for the jealous Driberg. Baldwin’s partner Johnnie Boyle would be arrested for ‘bourgeois decadence’ in 1944 and a number of Baldwin’s acting friends would be purged. Baldwin tried to unite the disparate opposition forces to Mosley, but they would come to nought due intense suppression and support from Colleague Bose allowed Mosley to apply the weight of India to his cause.
Baldwin and Boyle (released to Baldwin after intense torture) would defect to Germany in the Winter of 1946 and spend the rest of his life writing in Berlin, looking after the traumatised Boyle and leading the Exiled British Section of the Socialist International until his death in 1960.
3). An attempt by the remaining forces of the United Opposition and the Indian Workers Federation to topple the increasingly despotic Mosley would see Subhas Chandra Bose briefly considered as the future Secretary General before he suddenly died in suspicious car crash. Bose’s successor Mohammed Akbar Khan was unable to be as much of a unifying figure and in the elections would narrowly lose to Mosley. Khan would subsequently flee to China and the beginnings of the Indian Unrest and the subsequent Purges would ensue soon after.
4). Driberg realised that the Workers Federation was falling behind when he organised the overthrow of Mosley. Driberg would oversee the beginnings of the ‘Consumer Spring’ as luxury goods would flood the homes of proles across the Federation. This would also occur alongside attempts to inspire some form of diplomatic relations with the wider world particularly his 1965 ‘World Tour’ and his famous handshake with Premier Enlai. But Driberg despite his cheery and cheeky demeanour would be just as brutal as Mosley, ensuring the continued destruction of Nationalist and perceived Capitalist forces within the Workers Federation. This would probably be why he couldn’t foresee an attempted ousting from the Left. His initial failures to put down the Left Opposition ensured the ensuing breaking up of the rest of the Workers Federation away from BWR and the formation of what many would call Airstrip One in 1969. Driberg’s remaining years saw him engaging in increasing reckless and egotistical behaviour, from drug taking to all day parties as his power was rapidly shuffled aside towards his former right hand men The Kray’s.
Driberg’s heart would give out after one of his parties in the Autumn of 1971, though some theorise that he was killed by the Kray’s finally done with his shenanigans and wanting the top jobs for themselves.
5). The Left Opposition sprang up in the densely packed and increasingly diverse Midlands region. Sparked by a reaction to the Consumer Spring and the continuation of oppressive policies under Driberg caused a little known teacher and community organiser to thrust into the limelight. Sid Coates had been a teacher of Marxist Economics and was a proud Syndicalist but he would fall into despair during the 60s as he saw the racism and poverty that ran rampant in the bustling city of Nottingham. Sid would start working with a disparate group of Marxist Scholars, Anarchist Students and Disaffected Trade Unionists in the Nottinghamshire in challenging the power of the ruling EngSynd regime.
In 1969 would become know as Red Summer as various disparate organisations ranging from Reactionary Nationalists to Anarchists rebelled against the Driberg regime. Whilst the rest of them FWR would use it as an excuse to unlatch themselves from London rule, for Coates it raised the possibility of revolution.
But the Kray’s would have tanks rolled into Nottinghamshire and the scene of the Neo-Gothic Nottingham Congress being blown apart by tanks and George Peck’s limb body hanging from a lamppost would signal the end of the Libertarian Socialist uprising. Sid Coates and Oswald Powe would manage to flee to France and eventually South Africa where they would help organise the growing Anti-Racism and Imperialism movement there as they waited to return.
6). For 9 years the Kray ‘Firm’ would rule the remains of the British Isles as there own personal fiefdom. Gone was the Consumer Spring and the Globe Hopping Antics Driberg, instead came a pair of twins who wanted to ensure that they would continue to rule the roost. As ‘Airstrip One’ as Reggie coined the insular nation, became more and more autkratic and tyrannical, the people of Britain would become increasingly desperate. Ranging from an increase in refugees to Car Bombings, the crumbling facade that the Kray’s ruled was a delicate one. The ‘League of Nations’ looked over the nation and pondered when to strike.
Then in 1980, Ronnie would be assassinated by a car bombing as he came out of the apartment of a lover and Reggie found himself alone and more isolated than ever.
7). Reggie’s final four years of complete control was an illusion, as he proclaimed about the new Screamer Bombers and how he had a collection of Weapons of Mass Destruction at his disposal, in reality he was holding on by a thread, his rule only kept in place through bloodthirsty and compliant yes men. As Irish rebels would be brutally put down with Poison Gas to the Solidarity Strike being put down through tanks and a massacre of workers, it was just a matter of time before Reggie lost his grip on the nation.
It would come when he decided to let loose how he wanted to purge the popular and charismatic General Paderic Ashdown and to let loose with an Anti-Irish purge in general. Ashdown’s response was the drive tanks into Dublin and declare the Republic of Eíre. This would be followed by Solidarity renewing there strikes in Scotland and the Midlands, the Welsh National Army seizing Cardiff and Cornwall being seized by Arthur Penhaligon as French Troops landed to support them. Then Kray’s rule would be toppled when Sid Coates flew to Nottingham with Nicholas Eden and Alex Macmillan and one the steps of the Nottingham Congress House proclaimed ‘That Now Is The Time For The End of False Syndicalist System Once And For All’ and proclaimed a General Strike.
Kray would manage to secure his rule in London and the surrounding regions but apart from that his rule was tenuous. League of Nation troops landed in Scotland and Wales to ‘secure the peace’ and a coalition of Blues, Reds and Strikers would seize the entirety of the Midlands in short order.
In 1985 Reggie Kray would be caught trying to flee to the Military Base of Porton Down as London was on the brink of collapsing. Kray would be taken to Salisbury and after a hasty trial be sentenced to death by hanging. The subsequent lynching of Kray by the people of Salisbury would be projected around the world and signal the end of the last remains of Workers Federation once and for all.
8). Paddy Arthur was a little known Trade Unionist and Social Activist who managed to find himself thrust into becoming the head of the Irish Section of the BWR through a coalition of Left Opposition types, fellow Trade Unionists and Nationalists who were tired of direct rule from London. Arthur would travel to the U.K. and through his brother’s connections to the Midland Region’s Unions and Congress would form Solidarity as an attempt to create an independent organisation outside of BritSynd control. Whilst the organisation would be rapidly proscribed, Kray was unable to crackdown on the group within Ireland and lead to his increased paranoia over the Irish ‘threat’.
9). The League of Nations agreed that the newly constructed Commonwealth of Britain would be a democracy and to ensure that no foundation of centralised power could occur again, it would be a Federalised and Devolved administration. Apart from that, discussion over how to build Britian back was mixed. Eden and Macmillan’s wishes to usher in a more Economically Liberal Britain were shot down by the Left Wing members of organisation and attempts by Sid Coates and Ernst Karl Frahm to bring Britain into the European Concord of Trade would be shot down by Gould and Eden-Macmillan who felt that Britain should retain a connection to the Commonwealth and the Former Empire.
With compromises a plenty the new Commonwealth of Britain would be ushered into existence of May 1989, as elderly King James III was proclaimed President of the new Commonwealth and elections called to usher in the new age of Democracy.
10). It hadn’t taken long for the Blues to split apart. Over ever united by the common enemy of Reds, it quickly became apparent that both Macmillan and Eden had different ideas on running the country. Eden’s Social Democratic Party was committed to Social Market, Social Liberalism and integrating further with the Commonwealth whilst Macmillan’s Reform party was obsessed with Social Credit economics, restoration of the Empire and Christian Values. In the end Eden’s message and tacit support from the French and Germans would push him over the line, whilst Macmillan floundered and would fall to Third behind the Democratic Socialist Solidarity party.
11). Solidarity was party of the Unions, the downtrodden and had strong Libertarian Socialist ideals. Despite this, it had a schizophrenic leadership down to the belief in the troika system of democracy which lead to folks like Democratic Socialists like Coates and Arthur sitting alongside the radical Marxist Communalist Katy Swinton who often seemed more passionate than the two awkward hero’s of the revolution. Whilst the party would come second, some were annoyed they hadn’t done better. Despite it though, Arthur would become First Minister of Ireland after Ashdown resigned in 1995 and the party would finally find it’s place during the late 1990s as it started to outmanoeuvre the Social Democrats.
12). The 1989 election would see several parties that wouldn’t be around for the next election for various reasons (ranging from connections to the Kray regime to in one case turning out to be an elaborate Ponzi scheme). The prominent Electrobeat musician and Anarchist Revolutionary, Fraser Kilmister, NOSTATE Party would be one of them, proclaiming the belief that the Nation State and the Syndicalist State had both lead to pain and suffering and that only Anarchist Collectives could lead to a safe and prosperous Britain. Whilst he wouldn’t gain power, Kilmister’s passionate and slightly chaotic performance would endear him to many in Britain leading to his concurrent Album ‘NOSTATE’ shooting to No 1. Kilmister would eventually set up a series of Anarchist communes across Britain and teach Anarchist beliefs to the general public up to his death from a drug overdose in the 2010s. He would go down as the man who would single handily bring Anarhcism back from the brink of irrelevance and usher in the ‘New Anarchism’ of 00s and 10s.
I love the detail of the crossed out opposition leaders.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
It’s all very Soviet, with informal factions and all that with leaders of said factions quickly being purged. It was part of a realisation that realistically it would be incredibly hard to have a Syndicalist system without factions and opposition emerging given how Trade Unions are famous for being battle grounds for various different factions etc.
Additionally I should mention that Paddy Arthur is meant to be an Alt version of my Grandad’s Brother who in OTL would be a member of the People's Democracy in Northern Ireland before eventually becoming a Professor of Politics in Belfast.
- Location
- Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region
- Pronouns
- she/they
Fuck off.
- Location
- Toronto, ON, CA
I aim to please and create new varieties of hipster PMs.
- Location
- Op een dag, Nederland.
- Pronouns
- she/her & ne/nem
Random "Federal Europe" list I did. Guess the gimmicks I did. One obvious, one not-so.
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (Conservative-Socialist-Liberal Democratic "Grand Coalition") 1952-1957
1952: def. Paul-Henri Spaak (Socialist), Eelco van Kleffens (Liberal Democratic)
Paul-Henri Spaak (Socialist-Conservative-Liberal Democratic "Grand Coalition") 1957-1961
1957: def. Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (Conservative), Dirk Stikker (Liberal Democratic)
Dirk Stikker (Conservative-Socialist-Liberal Democratic "Grand Coalition") 1961-1964
1961: def. John Lyng (Conservative), Paul-Henri Spaak (Socialist)
Manlio Brosio (Conservative-Socialist-Liberal Democratic "Grand Coalition") 1964-1971
1966: def. John Lyng (Conservative), Pietro Nenni (Socialist)
Joseph Luns (Conservative-Socialist-Green-Liberal Democratic "Grand Coalition") 1971-1984
1971: def. Max van der Stoel (Socialist), Dagfinn Vårvik (Green), Gaston Thorn (Liberal Democratic)
1976: def. Roy Jenkins (Socialist), Dagfinn Vårvik (Green), Gaston Thorn (Liberal Democratic)
1981: def. Roy Jenkins (Socialist), Dagfinn Vårvik (Green), Chris van der Klaauw (Liberal Democratic)
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (Conservative-Socialist-Green-Liberal Democratic "Grand Coalition") 1984-1988
1984: def. Claude Cheysson (Socialist), Brian Lenihan Snr. (Green), Chris van der Klaauw (Liberal Democratic)
Manfred Wörner (Conservative-Socialist-Liberal Democratic-Green "Grand Coalition) 1988-1994*
1989: def. Jaime Gama (Socialist), Roy Jenkins (Liberal Democratic), Halldór Ásgrímsson (Green)
Sergio Balanzino (Independent caretaker government) 1994
Willy Claes (Socialist-Conservative-Liberal Democratic-Green "Grand Coalition") 1994-1995
1994: def. Javier Solana (Socialist), Jaap de Hoop Scheffer [acting] (Conservative), Halldór Ásgrímsson (Green)
Sergio Balanzino (Independent caretaker government) 1995
Javier Solana (Socialist-Conservative-Liberal Democratic-Green "Grand Coalition") 1995-1999
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen (Socialist-Conservative-Liberal Democratic-Green "Grand Coalition") 1999-2003
1999: def. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (Conservative), Lamberto Dini (Liberal Democratic), Halldór Ásgrímsson (Green)
Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo (Independent caretaker government) 2003-2004
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (Conservative-Socialist-Liberal Democratic-Green "Grand Coalition") 2004-2009
2003: def. Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Socialist), Lamberto Dini (Liberal Democratic), Halldór Ásgrímsson (Green)
Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Conservative-Socialist-Liberal Democratic-Green-Ecology "Grand Coalition") 2009-2014
2009: def. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (Conservative), Jack Straw (Socialist), Halldór Ásgrímsson (Green), Joschka Fischer (Ecology)
Jens Stoltenberg (Socialist-Conservative-Liberal Democratic-Ecology-Green "Grand Coalition") 2014-present
2014: def. Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Liberal Democratic), Charles Flanagan (Conservative), Joschka Fischer (Ecology), Brian Cowen (Green)
2019: def. Paulo Portas (Conservative), Emma Bonino (Liberal Democratic), Eva-Maria Liimets (Green), Joschka Fischer (Ecology)
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (Conservative-Socialist-Liberal Democratic "Grand Coalition") 1952-1957
1952: def. Paul-Henri Spaak (Socialist), Eelco van Kleffens (Liberal Democratic)
Paul-Henri Spaak (Socialist-Conservative-Liberal Democratic "Grand Coalition") 1957-1961
1957: def. Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay (Conservative), Dirk Stikker (Liberal Democratic)
Dirk Stikker (Conservative-Socialist-Liberal Democratic "Grand Coalition") 1961-1964
1961: def. John Lyng (Conservative), Paul-Henri Spaak (Socialist)
Manlio Brosio (Conservative-Socialist-Liberal Democratic "Grand Coalition") 1964-1971
1966: def. John Lyng (Conservative), Pietro Nenni (Socialist)
Joseph Luns (Conservative-Socialist-Green-Liberal Democratic "Grand Coalition") 1971-1984
1971: def. Max van der Stoel (Socialist), Dagfinn Vårvik (Green), Gaston Thorn (Liberal Democratic)
1976: def. Roy Jenkins (Socialist), Dagfinn Vårvik (Green), Gaston Thorn (Liberal Democratic)
1981: def. Roy Jenkins (Socialist), Dagfinn Vårvik (Green), Chris van der Klaauw (Liberal Democratic)
Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington (Conservative-Socialist-Green-Liberal Democratic "Grand Coalition") 1984-1988
1984: def. Claude Cheysson (Socialist), Brian Lenihan Snr. (Green), Chris van der Klaauw (Liberal Democratic)
Manfred Wörner (Conservative-Socialist-Liberal Democratic-Green "Grand Coalition) 1988-1994*
1989: def. Jaime Gama (Socialist), Roy Jenkins (Liberal Democratic), Halldór Ásgrímsson (Green)
Sergio Balanzino (Independent caretaker government) 1994
Willy Claes (Socialist-Conservative-Liberal Democratic-Green "Grand Coalition") 1994-1995
1994: def. Javier Solana (Socialist), Jaap de Hoop Scheffer [acting] (Conservative), Halldór Ásgrímsson (Green)
Sergio Balanzino (Independent caretaker government) 1995
Javier Solana (Socialist-Conservative-Liberal Democratic-Green "Grand Coalition") 1995-1999
George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen (Socialist-Conservative-Liberal Democratic-Green "Grand Coalition") 1999-2003
1999: def. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (Conservative), Lamberto Dini (Liberal Democratic), Halldór Ásgrímsson (Green)
Alessandro Minuto-Rizzo (Independent caretaker government) 2003-2004
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (Conservative-Socialist-Liberal Democratic-Green "Grand Coalition") 2004-2009
2003: def. Frank-Walter Steinmeier (Socialist), Lamberto Dini (Liberal Democratic), Halldór Ásgrímsson (Green)
Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Conservative-Socialist-Liberal Democratic-Green-Ecology "Grand Coalition") 2009-2014
2009: def. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer (Conservative), Jack Straw (Socialist), Halldór Ásgrímsson (Green), Joschka Fischer (Ecology)
Jens Stoltenberg (Socialist-Conservative-Liberal Democratic-Ecology-Green "Grand Coalition") 2014-present
2014: def. Anders Fogh Rasmussen (Liberal Democratic), Charles Flanagan (Conservative), Joschka Fischer (Ecology), Brian Cowen (Green)
2019: def. Paulo Portas (Conservative), Emma Bonino (Liberal Democratic), Eva-Maria Liimets (Green), Joschka Fischer (Ecology)
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I swear I wrote this before @Callan recent list, just took awhile to get it right. Also the American President List is pretty @Oppo ideas, with me adding Running Mates and Third Parties, anyway enjoy;
The Luxury Gap:
1952-1956: Anthony Eden (Conservative)†
1952 (Majority) def: Clement Attlee (Labour), Clement Davis (Liberal)
1956-1962: Selwyn Lloyd (Conservative)
1956 (Majority) def: John Strachey (Labour), Roderic Bowen (Liberal)
1960 (Majority) def: John Strachey (Labour), Roderic Bowen (Liberal), John E. Dayton (Ind. League)
1962-1965: Quintin Hogg (Conservative)
1965-1972: Evan Durbin (Labour)
1965 (Majority) def: Quintin Hogg (Conservative), Richard Wainwright (Liberal)
1969 (Majority) def: Reginald Maudling (Conservative), Richard Wainwright (Liberal), Ray Gunter (ILP)
1972-1977: Peter Shore (Labour)
1972 (Majority) def: Reginald Maudling (Conservative), Richard Wainwright (Liberal)
1977-1983: Geoffrey Rippon (Conservative)
1977 (Majority) def: Peter Shore (Labour), John Pardoe (Liberal), Jimmy Reid (ILP)
1979 (Majority) def: Alf Morris (Labour), John Pardoe (Liberal), Jim Sillars (ILP)
1983-1988: Timothy Riason (Conservative)
1983 (Majority) def: Alf Morris (Labour), John Pardoe (Liberal), Douglas Henderson (SNP)
1988-: Maria Fyfe (Labour)
1988 (Majority) def: Timothy Riason (Conservative), Gwynoro Jones (Liberal), Mike Thomas (Reform), Douglas Henderson (SNP)
1952 (With Richard Nixon) def. Adlai Stevenson/John Sparkman (Democratic)
1956 (With Richard Nixon) def. Adlai Stevenson/Estes Kefauver (Democratic)
1961-1969: Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
1960 (With Robert B. Anderson) def. Lyndon B. Johnson/Robert B. Meyner (Democratic)
1964 (With Robert B. Anderson) def. Henry Jackson/Frank G.Clement (Democratic), Harry Byrd Jr./Various (States Rights)
1969-1977: Edmund Muskie (Democratic)
1968 (With Abraham Ribicoff) def. George E. Murphy/Jim A. Rhodes (Republican)
1972 (With Abraham Ribicoff) def. Clifford Hansen/John J. Marchi (Republican)
1977-1985: John Tunney (Democratic)
1976 (With Birch Bayh) def. Tom McCall/Al Quie (Republican), John Connolly/John G. Schmitz (Courage)
1980 (With Birch Bayh) def. A. Linwood Holton/William E. Simon (Republican)
1985-19XX: Guy Vander Jagt (Republican)
1984 (With Jack Kemp) def. Birch Bayh/Stan Lundine (Democratic), Ed Clark/Dick Lamm (Libertarian)
1988 (With Jack Kemp) def. Wayne Cryts/Basil Paterson (Democratic)
“Obviously the previous ideals of there being a broad and untouched consensus has changed on both sides of the Atlantic in recent years. The wobbly Keynesian consensus would probably be first truly challenged by the Rippon administration. A series of denationalisations, austerity measures and various other policies influence by the emerging Economic Liberal strain of thinking. This was helped by a fairly sclerotic opposition as Shore’s Economic Nationalist Populism had managed to hollow the party out of ideas and Alfie Morris wasn’t particularly able to work well with a divided party.
In America the Rockefeller-Muskie consensus wheezed it’s last in the late Tunney years, New York was burning, you had that Jonestown stand off, Fred Hampton took a bullet to the heart and Ed Clark’s surprise win in California indicated that the public wanted change. Guy Vander Jagt wasn’t considered to be the fellow who would usher rolling back of the American state having campaigned on a Moderate Platform, but his message of a ‘Small, but Strong State’ resonated with voters. The 84’ election would see the Democrats doing incredibly poorly and the Libertarian’s gaining about 10% indicating the time was right for a shift away from the Big Federal State that had been the bug bear for many over the previous decade...”
-The Introduction to ‘Keynes is Dead. Long Live Keynes.’ by Peter Jay, 1985
“Saying, things would have been better if Eden or if your an American Nixon had lived is not a valid platform for Red Conservative’s to campaign on. I for one think Riason is doing a stand up job bring Red Toryism into the 21st Century. I sincerely do...
What about Walker and Slater?!
Who said that?!”
-Transcript of Peter Ainsworth, Policy Advisor to Tim Riason at Conservative Party Conference, 1988
“An analysis of Successful Third Parties in Britain often indicates that the parties often gravitate towards gaining the votes from the angry discontent and stay there. You see the Liberals, having learned from there near drubbing from the Independent League in 1960 adopting a policy of successful shapeshifting leaning towards Left or Right depending on how the political breeze was blowing. It ensured there successful survival compared to the dramatic highs and lows experienced by the aft for mentioned Independent League, to the SNP to the recent debacle of Reform.
What about the Independent Labour Party?
Oh they joined Labour again when Maria Fyfe was made Leader, there now behind the driving seat”.
-A Discussion On Politics with Peter Mandelson and Sarah Hogg, 1988
“The winning strategy for the Left is to lean into a Populist message whilst also providing a realistic and bold economic platform, look at the success of Fyfe compared to the almost win of Cryts. Fyfe’s program was whilst incredibly Left Wing, rooted in a deep need for reform and Industrial Democracy in our society and was inspired greatly by the recent successes seen in the Nordic Countries and Germany. Cryts on the other hand, apart from a good policy platform on welfare and farmers subsidies was scatter shot and Populism for the sake of Populism. The fact that it near brought down Vander Jagt does showcase the tenuous grip that the Republican Party has now that it too has decided to hope upon the Dash for Growth train that has been so disastrous in recent years...”
-Bryan Gould, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Why We Won, 1989.
The Luxury Gap:
1952-1956: Anthony Eden (Conservative)†
1952 (Majority) def: Clement Attlee (Labour), Clement Davis (Liberal)
1956-1962: Selwyn Lloyd (Conservative)
1956 (Majority) def: John Strachey (Labour), Roderic Bowen (Liberal)
1960 (Majority) def: John Strachey (Labour), Roderic Bowen (Liberal), John E. Dayton (Ind. League)
1962-1965: Quintin Hogg (Conservative)
1965-1972: Evan Durbin (Labour)
1965 (Majority) def: Quintin Hogg (Conservative), Richard Wainwright (Liberal)
1969 (Majority) def: Reginald Maudling (Conservative), Richard Wainwright (Liberal), Ray Gunter (ILP)
1972-1977: Peter Shore (Labour)
1972 (Majority) def: Reginald Maudling (Conservative), Richard Wainwright (Liberal)
1977-1983: Geoffrey Rippon (Conservative)
1977 (Majority) def: Peter Shore (Labour), John Pardoe (Liberal), Jimmy Reid (ILP)
1979 (Majority) def: Alf Morris (Labour), John Pardoe (Liberal), Jim Sillars (ILP)
1983-1988: Timothy Riason (Conservative)
1983 (Majority) def: Alf Morris (Labour), John Pardoe (Liberal), Douglas Henderson (SNP)
1988-: Maria Fyfe (Labour)
1988 (Majority) def: Timothy Riason (Conservative), Gwynoro Jones (Liberal), Mike Thomas (Reform), Douglas Henderson (SNP)
~~~
1953-1961: Dwight Eisenhower (Republican)
1952 (With Richard Nixon) def. Adlai Stevenson/John Sparkman (Democratic)
1956 (With Richard Nixon) def. Adlai Stevenson/Estes Kefauver (Democratic)
1961-1969: Nelson Rockefeller (Republican)
1960 (With Robert B. Anderson) def. Lyndon B. Johnson/Robert B. Meyner (Democratic)
1964 (With Robert B. Anderson) def. Henry Jackson/Frank G.Clement (Democratic), Harry Byrd Jr./Various (States Rights)
1969-1977: Edmund Muskie (Democratic)
1968 (With Abraham Ribicoff) def. George E. Murphy/Jim A. Rhodes (Republican)
1972 (With Abraham Ribicoff) def. Clifford Hansen/John J. Marchi (Republican)
1977-1985: John Tunney (Democratic)
1976 (With Birch Bayh) def. Tom McCall/Al Quie (Republican), John Connolly/John G. Schmitz (Courage)
1980 (With Birch Bayh) def. A. Linwood Holton/William E. Simon (Republican)
1985-19XX: Guy Vander Jagt (Republican)
1984 (With Jack Kemp) def. Birch Bayh/Stan Lundine (Democratic), Ed Clark/Dick Lamm (Libertarian)
1988 (With Jack Kemp) def. Wayne Cryts/Basil Paterson (Democratic)
“Obviously the previous ideals of there being a broad and untouched consensus has changed on both sides of the Atlantic in recent years. The wobbly Keynesian consensus would probably be first truly challenged by the Rippon administration. A series of denationalisations, austerity measures and various other policies influence by the emerging Economic Liberal strain of thinking. This was helped by a fairly sclerotic opposition as Shore’s Economic Nationalist Populism had managed to hollow the party out of ideas and Alfie Morris wasn’t particularly able to work well with a divided party.
In America the Rockefeller-Muskie consensus wheezed it’s last in the late Tunney years, New York was burning, you had that Jonestown stand off, Fred Hampton took a bullet to the heart and Ed Clark’s surprise win in California indicated that the public wanted change. Guy Vander Jagt wasn’t considered to be the fellow who would usher rolling back of the American state having campaigned on a Moderate Platform, but his message of a ‘Small, but Strong State’ resonated with voters. The 84’ election would see the Democrats doing incredibly poorly and the Libertarian’s gaining about 10% indicating the time was right for a shift away from the Big Federal State that had been the bug bear for many over the previous decade...”
-The Introduction to ‘Keynes is Dead. Long Live Keynes.’ by Peter Jay, 1985
“Saying, things would have been better if Eden or if your an American Nixon had lived is not a valid platform for Red Conservative’s to campaign on. I for one think Riason is doing a stand up job bring Red Toryism into the 21st Century. I sincerely do...
What about Walker and Slater?!
Who said that?!”
-Transcript of Peter Ainsworth, Policy Advisor to Tim Riason at Conservative Party Conference, 1988
“An analysis of Successful Third Parties in Britain often indicates that the parties often gravitate towards gaining the votes from the angry discontent and stay there. You see the Liberals, having learned from there near drubbing from the Independent League in 1960 adopting a policy of successful shapeshifting leaning towards Left or Right depending on how the political breeze was blowing. It ensured there successful survival compared to the dramatic highs and lows experienced by the aft for mentioned Independent League, to the SNP to the recent debacle of Reform.
What about the Independent Labour Party?
Oh they joined Labour again when Maria Fyfe was made Leader, there now behind the driving seat”.
-A Discussion On Politics with Peter Mandelson and Sarah Hogg, 1988
“The winning strategy for the Left is to lean into a Populist message whilst also providing a realistic and bold economic platform, look at the success of Fyfe compared to the almost win of Cryts. Fyfe’s program was whilst incredibly Left Wing, rooted in a deep need for reform and Industrial Democracy in our society and was inspired greatly by the recent successes seen in the Nordic Countries and Germany. Cryts on the other hand, apart from a good policy platform on welfare and farmers subsidies was scatter shot and Populism for the sake of Populism. The fact that it near brought down Vander Jagt does showcase the tenuous grip that the Republican Party has now that it too has decided to hope upon the Dash for Growth train that has been so disastrous in recent years...”
-Bryan Gould, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Why We Won, 1989.
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Luke_Starkiller
Well-known member
Political Career of Arthur Goldberg
1961-1962: Kennedy Appointee for United States Secretary of Labor
1962-1965: Kennedy Appointee to the Supreme Court of the United States
1965-1968: Johnson Appointee for United States Ambassador to the United Nations
1968-1974: Attorney in Private Practice
1970: Candidate for Democratic Party Nominee for Governor of New York
Arthur Goldberg def. Howard Samuels
1970: Democratic Party Nominee for Governor of New York
Nelson Rockefeller / Malcolm Wilson def. Arthur Goldberg / Basil Paterson
1974: Candidate for Democratic Party Nominee for Governor of New York
Arthur Goldberg def. Howard J. Samuels
1975-1981: Governor of New York
1974 (with Mario Cuomo) def. Malcolm Wilson / Barbara Keating (Republican-Conservative)
1978 (with Mary Anne Krupsak) def. Perry Duryea / Guy Molinari (Republican)
1979-1980: Candidate for Democratic Party Nominee for President of the United States
Jerry Brown def. Henry M. Jackson, Walter Mondale, Ed Muskie, Arthur Goldberg, Reubin Askew
1981-1983: Brown Appointee for United States Secretary of State
1961-1962: Kennedy Appointee for United States Secretary of Labor
1962-1965: Kennedy Appointee to the Supreme Court of the United States
1965-1968: Johnson Appointee for United States Ambassador to the United Nations
1968-1974: Attorney in Private Practice
1970: Candidate for Democratic Party Nominee for Governor of New York
Arthur Goldberg def. Howard Samuels
1970: Democratic Party Nominee for Governor of New York
Nelson Rockefeller / Malcolm Wilson def. Arthur Goldberg / Basil Paterson
1974: Candidate for Democratic Party Nominee for Governor of New York
Arthur Goldberg def. Howard J. Samuels
1975-1981: Governor of New York
1974 (with Mario Cuomo) def. Malcolm Wilson / Barbara Keating (Republican-Conservative)
1978 (with Mary Anne Krupsak) def. Perry Duryea / Guy Molinari (Republican)
1979-1980: Candidate for Democratic Party Nominee for President of the United States
Jerry Brown def. Henry M. Jackson, Walter Mondale, Ed Muskie, Arthur Goldberg, Reubin Askew
1981-1983: Brown Appointee for United States Secretary of State
Blackentheborg
Dennis Skinner's molotov
- Location
- Grand Hotel Abyss
- Pronouns
- He/Him
'Democrats are the party of Lisa Simpson'
- Ted Cruz
2017-2019: First Daughter of Springfield, Oregon
under Mayor Marjorie J. "Marge" Simpson [1]
2020-2026: Private citizen, Yale University student, teacher, environmental and political activist, British political prisoner[2]
2026-2028: Educator and Academic Administrator, Boundless Horizons School[3]
2029-2036: Oregon State School Superintendent
'28: defeated Gary "Super-Nintendo" Chalmers
'32: unopposed
2036: Democratic Party primary candidate for Governor of Oregon
defeated Freddy Quimby
2037-2049: Governor of Oregon
(with John Armstrong) '36: defeated Shady Bird Johnson
'40: defeated Lindsey Naegle
'44: defeated Harper Jambowski
2050-2052: Private citizen, environmental and political activist
2053-2056: Provost, Harvard University
2056: Democratic Party Primary candidate for President of the United States
defeated Dahlia Brinkley, Colby Krause
2057-2065: President of the United States
(with Sam Monroe) '56: defeated Isabel Gutiérrez/Melina Costington
'60: defeated Luke Stetson/Kyle LaBianco, Fred Scorpio[4]/Stacey Deathsatan (Independent)
2065-20??: Private citizen, environmental and Zen Buddhist activist
[1] - Marge Simpson, despite not having any prior political experience, defeated incumbent Mayor Joseph "Diamond Joe" Quimby Jr. Despite her initial popularity, she was impeached by the Springfield City Council over trivial matters. Quimby was then subsequently reinstated.
[2] - Whilst holidaying with former partner Hugh Parkfield, Simpson, as non-native citizen, was briefly imprisoned under laws enacted by King Henry IX, often spitefully referred to by his former title of "Prince Harry", as well as "Bloody Harry", due to his seizure of power in the United Kingdom and subsequent use of capital punishment. Due to Parkfield's monetary connections, Simpson was quickly released.
[3] - Also referred to as "Lisa Simpson Academy", the alternative education programme started by Simpson to teach those who lack basic skills, such as literacy and math. The record successes of her initial programme allowed for multiple schools across the country, cementing her name on a national scale.
[4] - Freddie “Gold Star” Scorpio, successful philanthropist and son of Globex Corporation head and accused criminal mastermind Hank Scorpio ran an independent campaign capitalising on the popularity slump President Simpson suffered after implementing a tax hike. Despite initial polling success, the campaign crashed and burned when he was found to be actively blackmailing the United Nations for rights to newly discovered Cobalt Mines, under threat of "vaporising the world's oceans".
- Ted Cruz
2017-2019: First Daughter of Springfield, Oregon
under Mayor Marjorie J. "Marge" Simpson [1]
2020-2026: Private citizen, Yale University student, teacher, environmental and political activist, British political prisoner[2]
2026-2028: Educator and Academic Administrator, Boundless Horizons School[3]
2029-2036: Oregon State School Superintendent
'28: defeated Gary "Super-Nintendo" Chalmers
'32: unopposed
2036: Democratic Party primary candidate for Governor of Oregon
defeated Freddy Quimby
2037-2049: Governor of Oregon
(with John Armstrong) '36: defeated Shady Bird Johnson
'40: defeated Lindsey Naegle
'44: defeated Harper Jambowski
2050-2052: Private citizen, environmental and political activist
2053-2056: Provost, Harvard University
2056: Democratic Party Primary candidate for President of the United States
defeated Dahlia Brinkley, Colby Krause
2057-2065: President of the United States
(with Sam Monroe) '56: defeated Isabel Gutiérrez/Melina Costington
'60: defeated Luke Stetson/Kyle LaBianco, Fred Scorpio[4]/Stacey Deathsatan (Independent)
2065-20??: Private citizen, environmental and Zen Buddhist activist
[1] - Marge Simpson, despite not having any prior political experience, defeated incumbent Mayor Joseph "Diamond Joe" Quimby Jr. Despite her initial popularity, she was impeached by the Springfield City Council over trivial matters. Quimby was then subsequently reinstated.
[2] - Whilst holidaying with former partner Hugh Parkfield, Simpson, as non-native citizen, was briefly imprisoned under laws enacted by King Henry IX, often spitefully referred to by his former title of "Prince Harry", as well as "Bloody Harry", due to his seizure of power in the United Kingdom and subsequent use of capital punishment. Due to Parkfield's monetary connections, Simpson was quickly released.
[3] - Also referred to as "Lisa Simpson Academy", the alternative education programme started by Simpson to teach those who lack basic skills, such as literacy and math. The record successes of her initial programme allowed for multiple schools across the country, cementing her name on a national scale.
[4] - Freddie “Gold Star” Scorpio, successful philanthropist and son of Globex Corporation head and accused criminal mastermind Hank Scorpio ran an independent campaign capitalising on the popularity slump President Simpson suffered after implementing a tax hike. Despite initial polling success, the campaign crashed and burned when he was found to be actively blackmailing the United Nations for rights to newly discovered Cobalt Mines, under threat of "vaporising the world's oceans".
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Comrade Izaac
Secretary General of the Alt-Historians Union
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Meppo
Anticommunist Mole
- Location
- Default City, Russia
- Pronouns
- he/him
I'm not sure how popular this opinion is going to be but I think Bart Simpson makes more sense as a successful politician
Blackentheborg
Dennis Skinner's molotov
- Location
- Grand Hotel Abyss
- Pronouns
- He/Him
In the canon future, he's a successful Weed dispensary CEO around the time Lisa's supposed to serve in office, but apparently he still becomes Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Meppo
Anticommunist Mole
- Location
- Default City, Russia
- Pronouns
- he/him
Oh well.
So how old is Lisa supposed to be around 2017, given The Simpsons's questionable (and controversial) timeframe?
- Location
- Municipal Commune of Bourne
- Pronouns
- He/Him
1940-1942: Winston Churchill (Conservative leading War Government with Labour, Liberal Nationals, Liberals and National Labour)
1942-1946: Stafford Cripps (Independent leading War Government with Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Nationals, Liberals and National Labour)
1946-1957: Herbert Morrison (Labour)
1946 (Minority) def. Anthony Eden (National Coupon - Conservatives, etc.), Stafford Cripps (Victory Coupon - Common Wealth, etc.), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal)
1949 (Minority) def. Anthony Eden (National), Stafford Cripps (Common Wealth)
1953 (Majority) def. Anthony Eden (National), Tom Wintringham (Common Wealth)
1956 Formation of 'Unity Government' coalition with Nationals
1957-1961: Bernard Montgomery (Independent)
1958 (Unity Government with Nationals and Labour) def. Nye Bevan (Common Wealth)
1961-1970: Alec Douglas-Home (National)
1962 (Minority) def. George Brown (Labour), Michael Foot (Common Wealth)
1965 (Majority) def. Michael Foot (Common Wealth), George Brown (Labour)
1969 (Coalition with Labour) def. David Pitt (Common Wealth), Alf Robens (Labour)
1970-1971: Anthony Wedgewood-Benn (Independent Labour-Common Wealth coalition)
1971-1979: Barbara Castle (Common Wealth)
1971 (Popular Front with ILP) def. Reginald Maudling (Unity - National, Labour)
1975 (Majority) def. Edward du Cann [replacing Reginald Maudling] (National), Desmond Donnelly [replacing Reginald Maudling] (Labour)
1941-1949: Charles Lindbergh (Republican)
1940 (with Charles L. McNary) def. James P. Farley (Democratic)
1944 (with Francis E. Walter) def. Tom Dewey (Independent Republican / Democratic), John H. Bankhead II (faithless Democratic electors)
1949-1950: Averell Harriman (Democratic / Conscience)
1948 (with Earl Warren) def. Charles Lindbergh [replacing Eugene Talmadge] (Republican), Strom Thurmond (Constitution)
1950-1953: Averell Harriman (Liberal)
1953-1957: Douglas MacArthur (Republican)
1952 (with Herman Talmadge) def. Averell Harriman (Liberal)
1957-1965: Herman Talmadge (Republican)
1956 (with Joe P. Kennedy) def. Hubert Humphrey (Liberal)
1960 (with Joe P. Kennedy) def. Wayne Morse (Liberal)
1965-1969: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Republican)
1964 (with Orval Faubus) def. Hubert Humphrey (Liberal)
1969-1977: George McGovern (Liberal)
1968 (with Tom McCall) def. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Republican)
1972 (with Ron Dellums) def. Orval Faubus (Republican), Joe P. Kennedy (Third Force)
1977-1981: Ron Dellums (Liberal-Socialist)
1976 (with Fred Harris) def. James L. Buckley (Republican), Ted Kennedy [replacing Tom McCall] (Green)
The central idea here is that the US never gets involved in the Western theatre, the Pacific War being strictly maintained as an American-Japanese affair. Things are bad for Britain by 1942, with only the Soviets as Allies and Churchill gets pushed out. Unable to open a second front in Europe on their own, the UK instead commits tens of thousands to the Eastern Front. A generation bleeds itself white pushing Germany back to Poland before an invasion of Western Europe can be launched via Portugal.
In the aftermath, Britain is impoverished, shorn of India and toeing an uneasy line between Red Europe and Lindbergh's America, where the GOP have done the Southern Strategy a generation early. The labour shortage post war is much much worse and tens of thousands more Africans and West Indians arrive on British shores, all while Morrison seeks to maintain British global relevancy by reorganising and committing to keeping the African Empire.
A racial panic begins in the 1950s and Britain slowly becomes an appendage of the emergent American superpower, getting their support for the bloody Middle Eastern conflict that ushers in Montgomery's quasi military regime and reduces the Labour Party to a firmly quiescent partner to the Nationals.
This party system breaks down as the Civil Rights movement breaks through across the pond amidst a general 'Great Awakening of Black Identity' across Africa, the West Indies, the United States and, inevitably, Britain. With the GOP's coalition fracturing as the most ardent reactionaries close their first around the party machinery, the Liberals get in and pass a slieu of much belated reforms and in particular put huge pressure on Britain to also desegregate.
The 1970 crisis in Britain sees a chunk of the Labour Party peel away to form a shaky ministry with Common Wealth which has neatly adopted the anti-imperialist positions rejected by Labour since Morrison. Wedgewood-Benn was more of a placeholder than McGovern, essentially passing an equivalent of a Civil Rights Act, before standing aside.
As the 1970s draws to a close, the Cold War is essentially over as a weary Khrushchev ushers in a multi-party communism, and shakes hands with Dellums and Castle. It's been a long road, but the promise of a better world that was once murmured about at the end of World War Two may just about to be realised.
1942-1946: Stafford Cripps (Independent leading War Government with Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Nationals, Liberals and National Labour)
1946-1957: Herbert Morrison (Labour)
1946 (Minority) def. Anthony Eden (National Coupon - Conservatives, etc.), Stafford Cripps (Victory Coupon - Common Wealth, etc.), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal)
1949 (Minority) def. Anthony Eden (National), Stafford Cripps (Common Wealth)
1953 (Majority) def. Anthony Eden (National), Tom Wintringham (Common Wealth)
1956 Formation of 'Unity Government' coalition with Nationals
1957-1961: Bernard Montgomery (Independent)
1958 (Unity Government with Nationals and Labour) def. Nye Bevan (Common Wealth)
1961-1970: Alec Douglas-Home (National)
1962 (Minority) def. George Brown (Labour), Michael Foot (Common Wealth)
1965 (Majority) def. Michael Foot (Common Wealth), George Brown (Labour)
1969 (Coalition with Labour) def. David Pitt (Common Wealth), Alf Robens (Labour)
1970-1971: Anthony Wedgewood-Benn (Independent Labour-Common Wealth coalition)
1971-1979: Barbara Castle (Common Wealth)
1971 (Popular Front with ILP) def. Reginald Maudling (Unity - National, Labour)
1975 (Majority) def. Edward du Cann [replacing Reginald Maudling] (National), Desmond Donnelly [replacing Reginald Maudling] (Labour)
1941-1949: Charles Lindbergh (Republican)
1940 (with Charles L. McNary) def. James P. Farley (Democratic)
1944 (with Francis E. Walter) def. Tom Dewey (Independent Republican / Democratic), John H. Bankhead II (faithless Democratic electors)
1949-1950: Averell Harriman (Democratic / Conscience)
1948 (with Earl Warren) def. Charles Lindbergh [replacing Eugene Talmadge] (Republican), Strom Thurmond (Constitution)
1950-1953: Averell Harriman (Liberal)
1953-1957: Douglas MacArthur (Republican)
1952 (with Herman Talmadge) def. Averell Harriman (Liberal)
1957-1965: Herman Talmadge (Republican)
1956 (with Joe P. Kennedy) def. Hubert Humphrey (Liberal)
1960 (with Joe P. Kennedy) def. Wayne Morse (Liberal)
1965-1969: Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Republican)
1964 (with Orval Faubus) def. Hubert Humphrey (Liberal)
1969-1977: George McGovern (Liberal)
1968 (with Tom McCall) def. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Republican)
1972 (with Ron Dellums) def. Orval Faubus (Republican), Joe P. Kennedy (Third Force)
1977-1981: Ron Dellums (Liberal-Socialist)
1976 (with Fred Harris) def. James L. Buckley (Republican), Ted Kennedy [replacing Tom McCall] (Green)
The central idea here is that the US never gets involved in the Western theatre, the Pacific War being strictly maintained as an American-Japanese affair. Things are bad for Britain by 1942, with only the Soviets as Allies and Churchill gets pushed out. Unable to open a second front in Europe on their own, the UK instead commits tens of thousands to the Eastern Front. A generation bleeds itself white pushing Germany back to Poland before an invasion of Western Europe can be launched via Portugal.
In the aftermath, Britain is impoverished, shorn of India and toeing an uneasy line between Red Europe and Lindbergh's America, where the GOP have done the Southern Strategy a generation early. The labour shortage post war is much much worse and tens of thousands more Africans and West Indians arrive on British shores, all while Morrison seeks to maintain British global relevancy by reorganising and committing to keeping the African Empire.
A racial panic begins in the 1950s and Britain slowly becomes an appendage of the emergent American superpower, getting their support for the bloody Middle Eastern conflict that ushers in Montgomery's quasi military regime and reduces the Labour Party to a firmly quiescent partner to the Nationals.
This party system breaks down as the Civil Rights movement breaks through across the pond amidst a general 'Great Awakening of Black Identity' across Africa, the West Indies, the United States and, inevitably, Britain. With the GOP's coalition fracturing as the most ardent reactionaries close their first around the party machinery, the Liberals get in and pass a slieu of much belated reforms and in particular put huge pressure on Britain to also desegregate.
The 1970 crisis in Britain sees a chunk of the Labour Party peel away to form a shaky ministry with Common Wealth which has neatly adopted the anti-imperialist positions rejected by Labour since Morrison. Wedgewood-Benn was more of a placeholder than McGovern, essentially passing an equivalent of a Civil Rights Act, before standing aside.
As the 1970s draws to a close, the Cold War is essentially over as a weary Khrushchev ushers in a multi-party communism, and shakes hands with Dellums and Castle. It's been a long road, but the promise of a better world that was once murmured about at the end of World War Two may just about to be realised.
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