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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

I've done an update on this


1908 - 1916: Herbert Henry Asquith (Liberal)
1909 - House of Lords backs the People's Budget, fulfilling the dying wish of King Edward VII who was seeking to avoid a constitutional crisis
1910 (Majority) def. Arthur Balfour (Conservative), John Redmond (Irish Parliamentary), George Barnes (Labour)
1912 - Austro-German War or "Bruderkrieg" breaks out between Germany and Austria-Hungary, Germany is eventually aided by Russia and Italy in dismembering Austria-Hungary
1914 - Austro-German War ends with a German-Russian-Italian victory, the dismantling of Austria-Hungary
1914 (Minority, w/ support) def. Austen Chamberlain (Conservative), John Redmond (Irish Parliamentary), George Barnes (Labour)
1916 - PM Asquith resigns after the April Crisis develops into the Irish War for Independence

1916 - 1919: David Lloyd George (Liberal)
1919 - Irish War for Independence ends with an independent Irish Republic amid a partitioned Ireland
1919 - 1924: Austen Chamberlain (Conservative)
1919 (Majority) def. David Lloyd George (Liberal), Arthur Henderson (Labour)
1921 - King George V assassinated by members of the IRA, his son King Edward VIII takes the throne

1924 - 1925: David Lloyd George (Liberal)
1924 (Coalition) def. Austen Chamberlain (Conservative), David Lloyd George (Liberal), Philip Snowden (Labour)
1925 - 1930: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative)
1925 (Majority) def. David Lloyd George (Liberal), Philip Snowden (Labour)
1926 - New York City Stock Market Crash ushers in the "Long Depression"

1930 - 1931: David Lloyd George (Liberal)
1930 (Majority) def. Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), Philip Snowden (Labour), Oswald Mosley (New)
1931 - PM Lloyd George announces "Lloyd George's Model Administration" a Keynesian economic program modeled after US President George Norris' of the same name
1931 - PM Lloyd George dies from illness

1931 - 1934: Winston Churchill (Liberal)
1934 - PM Churchill signs the Rome Accords, bringing the UK closer to the "rightist" powers of Italy, Germany, and Russia in opposition to the "leftist radical" governments of France, Spain, Hungary, Ireland, and Turkey
1934 - 1937: Leo Amery (Conservative)
1934 (Minority) def. Winston Churchill (Liberal), Stafford Cripps (Labour), Oswald Mosley (New)
1937 - PM Amery resigns following the defection of his son John to Ludendorff-led Germany

1937 - 1938: Anthony Eden (Conservative)
1938 - Outbreak of the Northern Irish Internal Conflict between loyalist protestant militias and republican socialist or catholic militias
1938 - 1939: Winston Churchill (Independent Liberal led British Union)
1938 (Coalition) def. Oswald Mosley (New), Megan Lloyd George (Liberal), Anthony Eden (Conservative), Stafford Cripps (Labour), Winston Churchill (Independent Liberal)
1939 - Shelling of Belfast occurs on the order of PM Churchill following the destruction of most of the loyalist forces in the city
1939 - PM Churchill assassinated by the IRA as retaliation for the Shelling of Belfast

1939 - 1939: Oswald Mosley (New led British Union)
1939 - 1946: Oswald Mosley (British Union)
1939 (Majority) def. Megan Lloyd George (Liberal), Stafford Cripps (Labour), Neville Chamberlain (Independent Conservative)
1940 - European War or "Anti-Socialist War" begins with the British Invasion of Ireland over Irish weapons trafficking to republicans in British-controlled Ireland; War develops into confrontations between the UK, Russia, Italy, and Germany opposed to Ireland, France, Spain, Hungary, Turkey, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
1943 - US enters war on the side of the Allies following lethal submarine warfare between the British and the Americans
1944 - US invasion of Britain begins
1946 - PM Mosley commits suicide as US forces converge on Chequers following the Fall of London

1946 - 1946: Hugh Gaitskell (British Union)
1946 - PM Gaitskell deposed by US Occupation Authority, transitional administration established to oversee duration of European War
1946 - 1948: Clement Attlee (Nonpartisan)
1947 - King Edward VIII pardoned for war crimes, maintained as pro-American monarch
1947 - European War ends in Allied victory; Growing "great power" competition between "liberal powers" led by the United States and the "integral socialist" Third International

1948 - 1950: Stafford Cripps (Labour)
1948 (Majority) def. Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Harold Macmillan (New Democratic), Tom Wintringham (Integralist)
1948 - US led by President John Winant fears possible "integralist influence" in Cripps Ministry, begins utilizing OSS to influence British politics
1949 - Liberal and New Democratic parties merge, creating Liberal Democratic Party; LDP begins receiving US support shortly following its formation
1950 - PM Cripps dies of cancer

1950 - 1951: Herbert Morrison (Labour)
1951 - PM Morrison loses vote of no confidence following Suez Crisis; Morrison attempted to occupy the Suez Canal, which had been converted into an International Trust Territory, disregarding the views of the majority of the Labour Party; Morrison only backs down following threats of military intervention from US President Eisenhower; Morrison and his supporters split from the party and form the 'Social Democratic Party' in outrage
1951 - 1951: Herbert Morrison (Social Democratic)
1951 - 1958: Harold Macmillan (Liberal Democratic)
1951 (Majority) def. Richard Crossman (Labour), Herbert Morrison (Social Democratic), Tom Driberg (Integralist)
1956 (Majority) def. Richard Crossman (Labour), Herbert Morrison (Social Democratic), Tom Driberg (Integralist)
1958 - PM Macmillan resigns following the death of several protesters in a police crackdown to support the recently ratified Anglo-American Defense Treaty

1958 - 1964: Rab Butler (Liberal Democratic)
1959 (Majority) def. Tony Greenwood (Labour), George Brown (Social Democratic), Tom Driberg (Integralist)
1963 - Salad Oil Recession arrives to the UK from the US

1964 - 1967: Tony Greenwood (Labour)
1964 (Coalition) def. Rab Butler (Liberal Democratic), Tony Greenwood (Labour), George Brown (Social Democratic), Tom Driberg (Integralist)
1967 - Social Democrats threaten to withdraw from coalition government unless disagreements with aspects of Greenwood Ministry policies are rectified, PM Greenwood plans resignation

1967 - 1968: James Callaghan (Labour)
1968 - PM Callaghan assassinated by ultranationalist militant
1968 - 1968: Roy Jenkins (Social Democratic)
1968 - PM Jenkins resigns following conclusion of Labour Leadership Election, returns to position as Deputy PM
1968 - 1970: Harold Wilson (Labour)
1968 (Minority, w/ support) def. Reginald Maudling (Liberal Democratic), Roy Jenkins (Social Democratic), Eric Hobsbawm (Integralist)
1969 - Ted Heath elected new LDP leader, 'left' faction victory
1970 - PM Wilson resigns due to plummeting approval ratings catalyzed by accusations of poor health

1970 - 1971: Barbara Castle (Labour)
1971 - PM Castle resigns following withdrawal of support from trade unions over planned industrial policy
1971 - 1972: Peter Shore (Labour)
1972 - PM Shore resigns following parliamentary vote for UK entry into the North Atlantic Free Trade Zone (NAFTZ)
1972 - 1973: Denis Healey (Labour)
1972 - King Edward VIII dies of a stroke, his daughter and only (legitimate) child 23 year-old Queen Margaret takes the throne
1973 - 1974: Ted Heath (Liberal Democratic)
1973 (Majority) def. Denis Healey (Labour), Roy Jenkins (Social Democratic), Eric Hobsbawm (Integralist)
1974 - Heath kidnapped and murdered by ultraleftist terrorists over "continued existence of Mosleyites at the highest levels of government"

1974 - 1978: Michael Foot (Liberal Democratic)
1975 (Majority) def. Anthony Crosland (Labour), Roy Jenkins (Social Democratic), Eric Hobsbawm (Integralist)
1978 - Michael Heseltine elected new LDP leader, 'right' faction victory

1978 - 1983: Michael Heseltine (Liberal Democratic)
1980 (Majority) def. Roy Hattersley (Labour), Ralph Miliband (Integralist), Bill Rodgers (Social Democratic)
1983 - Tony Benn elected new LDP leader, 'left' faction victory

1983 - 1986: Tony Benn (Liberal Democratic)
1985 (Coalition) def. Roy Hattersley (Labour), Ralph Miliband (Integralist), David Owen (Social Democratic)
1986 - PM Benn assassinated by ultranationalist officer clique within the armed forces in failed coup d'état

1986 - 1986: David Owen (Social Democratic)
1986 - PM Owen resigns following conclusion of LDP leadership contest where 'right' faction candidate Margaret Thatcher emerged victorious, returns to position as Deputy PM
1986 - 1989: Margaret Thatcher (Liberal Democratic)
1986 (Majority) def. Robert Kilroy-Silk (Labour), Kenneth Clarke (Integralist), David Owen (Social Democratic)
1986 - PM Thatcher purges dozens of 'left' faction MPs, still able to maintain a narrow parliamentary majority without them
1987 - Black Monday Crash in US kicks off 'Lost Decade' period of economic recession
1989 - PM Thatcher resigns due to loss of confidence from cabinet over economic recovery, John Major selected to succeed her

1989 - 1995: John Major (Liberal Democratic)
1991 (Majority) def. Kenneth Clarke (Integralist), Robert Kilroy-Silk (Labour), David Owen (Social Democratic), Peter Hain (Reform Group)
1995 - PM Major ousted by LDP following tentative acceptance of deal with US for an economic bailout in exchange for less political autonomy and direct US economic oversight

1995 - 1996: Michael Portillo (Liberal Democratic)
1996 - 1997: Kenneth Clarke (Integralist)
1996 (Majority) def. Michael Portillo (Liberal Democratic), John Smith (Labour), Peter Hain (Reform Group), David Owen (Social Democratic)
1997 - PM Clarke is overthrown in a coup orchestrated by high-ranking members of the military, sections of the LDP, and the Royal Family with covert support from the US government led by President Donald Rumsfeld; Queen Margaret's husband the Duke of Edinburgh, Gordon Brown takes over as Prime Minister leading an emergency administration

1997 - 1997: Gordon Brown (Nonpartisan)
1997 - PM Brown is overthrown when a general strike topples the emergency administration and forces the exile of Royal Family and the coup plotters; TUC General Secretary Jeremy Corbyn takes over as Prime Minister and forms interim government
1997 - 1997: Jeremy Corbyn (Integralist)
1997 - Britain maintains much of the structure of the Westminster System; Britain aligns with the Third International in a watershed moment for "power bloc relations"
1997 - 2002: Jeremy Corbyn (Syndicalist)
1997 (Majority) def. Neil Kinnock (Ericist), Nina Temple (Austromarxist), Peter Hain (Libertarian), Tony Blair (Bolshevist)
2001 - Catholic Identitarian putsch in Ireland

2002 - 2006: Neil Kinnock (Ericist)
2002 (Coalition) def. Jeremy Corbyn (Syndicalist), Nina Temple (Austromarxist), Peter Hain (Libertarian), Tony Blair (Bolshevist)
2004 - Lyndon LaRouche elected US President, vows to work with rightist Ireland to "isolate Red Britain from the rest of the world"
2006 - Ericist-Libertarian coalition government collapses amid corruption investigation

2006 - 2011: John Prescott (Syndicalist)
2006 (Majority) def. David Miliband (Austromarxist), Neil Kinnock (Ericist), Tony Blair (Bolshevist), Peter Hain (Libertarian)
2011 - PM Prescott humiliated while campaigning for re-election after being filmed punching an anarchist protester who egged him

2011 - 2013: David Miliband (Austromarxist)
2011 (Majority) def. Tony Blair (Bolshevist), John Prescott (Syndicalist), Jon Cruddas (Ericist)
2013 - PM Miliband assassinated by ultranationalist militant, he's succeeded by his brother Ed Miliband

2013 - 2016: Ed Miliband (Austromarxist)
2016 - 2018: Tony Blair (Bolshevist)
2016 (Majority) def. Ed Miliband (Austromarxist), Len McCluskey (Syndicalist), Ed Balls (Ericist)
2017 - US President Lyndon LaRouche uses Anglo-American naval skirmishes as an impetus to declare war on Britain and initiate an invasion
2018 - After nearly a year of fighting, Blair is deposed by US forces; Former New York Governor Boris Johnson is selected by the ailing President LaRouche to be the new leader of the occupation authority in an olive branch to his domestic political opponents and on account of Johnson's British ancestry; Scotland and Wales partitioned into separate countries by occupation authority

2018 - 2019: Boris Johnson (Nonpartisan)
2019 - PM Johnson cedes control of the government to "native authority" in the form British exile community leader David Cameron
2019 - 2020: David Cameron (New Britain)
2020 - "LaRouchite" Theresa May accuses PM Cameron of being a "paid agent of the Third International" in the final days of the election campaign
2020 - 0000: Theresa May (Democratic)
2020 (Majority) def. David Cameron (New Britain), Jeremy Corbyn [exiled] (British Section of the Third International), Keir Starmer [imprisoned] (Neo-Bolshevist), Dick Cole (Mebyon Kernow), David Icke (Green)
 
1990-1994: John Major (Conservative)
1992 (UUP Confidence & Supply) def: Neil Kinnock (Labour), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrats)
1994-2000: John Smith (Labour)
1994 (Majority) def: John Major (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrats)
1994 Scottish Devolution Referendum: Yes 74%, No 23%
1995 Welsh Devolution Referendum: Yes 51%, No 49%
1995 London Devolution Referendum: Yes 73%, No 27%

1995 Yorkshire Devolution Referendum: Yes 54%, No 46%
1998 (Majority) def: Norman Lamont (Conservative), Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrats)

2000-2002: Hilary Armstrong (Labour)
2000 (Liberal Democrats Confidence & Supply) def: Michael Portillo (Conservative), Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrats)
2002-2009: Michael Portillo (Conservative)
2002 (Majority) def: Hilary Armstrong (Labour), Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrats)
2006 (Majority) def: Alan Milburn (Labour), Evan Harris (Liberal Democrats), Ron Davies-Lynne Jones (Forward!)

2009-2011: Liam Fox (Conservative Majority)
2011-2016: Peter Hain (Labour)

2011 (Majority) def: Liam Fox (Conservative), Evan Harris (Liberal Democrats)
2016-2020: Grant Shapps (Conservative)
2016 (Majority) def: Peter Hain (Labour), Martin Horwood (Liberal Democrats), Roseanna Cunningham (Scottish National)
2020-2024: Ben Wallace (Conservative)
2021 (UUP Confidence & Supply) def: Tom Watson (Labour), Caroline Pidgeon (Liberal Democrats), Angus Robertson (Scottish National), Jason Zadrozny (Reform)
2024-: Dawn Butler (Labour)
2024 (Majority) def: Ben Wallace (Conservative), Caroline Pidgeon (Liberal Democrats), Angus Robertson (Scottish National), Jason Zadrozny (Reform)

John Smith casts a shadow over the 21st Century, understandable given he was the Prime Minister to ring it in. When he beat Bryan Gould on the 18th of July 1992, there was a sense that Smith signalled business as usual. And in many respects they were right, Smith saw the modernisation efforts of Kinnock and agreed that was enough, oh sure One Member, One Vote made sense but stuff like scrapping Clause 4 was heresy to the true Labour Man.

Many worried if Labour would even win the next election as Smith proclaimed One More Heave but it turned out to be right in the end, Labour would win a 90 seat majority as the Major crumbled over Europe.

Smith legacy has been analysed many times both positive and negative. For many Labour historians, Smith represents the attempt to build a ‘European Style Social Democracy’ in Britain. Thatcherite laws on Trade Unions would be repealed, increased welfare funding, National Investment Bank and ‘Cooperative Association Scheme’ would be elements of Smith’s legacy that would survive. Some point out Smith’s lack of will to renationalise Former State Industries as evidence that he didn’t achieve this, though the continuation of National Rail as a state owned enterprise even after the Portillo and Shapps years indicates that the will power was there.

Others point out that Smith’s more Conservative nature meant that Socially Progressive reforms had to be forced out of the Labour Government. The equalisation of the age of consent would be cross party affair with Smith saying fairly little on the matter, whilst the dismantling of Section 28 would occur after Smith had left office. On race Smith was better, efforts undertaken thanks to the Stephen Lawrence Commission and the 1995 Nottingham and Leeds Riots causing there to be a bigger push to deal institutional racism within the police and deal with the legacy of racist policies in Britain.

But Smith could when the need called for it, support those communities that he was awkward about, after the Copeland Spree Bombings of 1998, Smith would try and actively meet survivors and would commit his ‘Light In The Darkness’ speech on the scene of London Pride as it was being cleared up. Indeed having a calm empathetic Prime Minister had it’s uses, his reassurances to Britain that it wasn’t the home of ‘Fascist Barbarism’ would make many feel safer and more secure and his promotion of a more multicultural Britain is the possible reason why we now have a BAME Prime Minister. His success at dealing with the disparate forces of Ulster, alongside his friendship with Irish Foreign Minister and future President Dick Spring is credited with having caused the 1997 Ulster Ceasefire and the Leeds Accord which brought peace and a Power Sharing Assembly to Northern Ireland.

Smith represented the continuation of the ideals of Attlee, Wilson and Callaghan and whilst they may have seemed out of place in Britain rapidly approaching the 21st Century for many they were needed.

Smith would resign as Prime Minister only a couple of months in to the New Millennium. The reasoning a combination of Smith’s increasingly poor health and the recent death of his long time comrade Donald Dewar had put things in perspective. Smith resignation would be greeted with tearful goodbyes and well wishes from both sides of aisles, his status as a formidable if respectful opponent being prominent.

Smith would spend his retirement years staying away from politics for the most part, whilst supporting the Ian Willmore and John Prescott ‘True Labour Movement’ in the Early 00s that was very much it. Instead he spent most of his time with his family and would present a mildly popular radio show about climbing and munro bagging on Radio 4. His last true appearance would be in the wake of Peter Hain’s 2007 leadership victory, though he had rarely gotten on with the troublesome South African during his time in office as leader, Smith would give a speech to Labour Conference supporting the ideas and aspirations of Hain’s Labour, pointing out how he was going to lead the Labour Party Forward into a new optimistic future.

Smith wouldn’t see the chaotic if well meaning Hain administration, his sudden death a few months later would bring tear to many an eye. But many have pointed out he would have likely supported and defended Hain, his belief in a united church being a key pillar as his success as Labour Leader.

Now, just over Thirty Years since his Labour Leadership victory it would be fair to judge that Smith managed to build the modern Britain we see around us, for better and worse.
 
1990-1994: John Major (Conservative)
1992 (UUP Confidence & Supply) def: Neil Kinnock (Labour), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrats)
1994-2000: John Smith (Labour)
1994 (Majority) def: John Major (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrats)
1994 Scottish Devolution Referendum: Yes 74%, No 23%
1995 Welsh Devolution Referendum: Yes 51%, No 49%
1995 London Devolution Referendum: Yes 73%, No 27%

1995 Yorkshire Devolution Referendum: Yes 54%, No 46%
1998 (Majority) def: Norman Lamont (Conservative), Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrats)

2000-2002: Hilary Armstrong (Labour)
2000 (Liberal Democrats Confidence & Supply) def: Michael Portillo (Conservative), Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrats)
2002-2009: Michael Portillo (Conservative)
2002 (Majority) def: Hilary Armstrong (Labour), Simon Hughes (Liberal Democrats)
2006 (Majority) def: Alan Milburn (Labour), Evan Harris (Liberal Democrats), Ron Davies-Lynne Jones (Forward!)

2009-2011: Liam Fox (Conservative Majority)
2011-2016: Peter Hain (Labour)

2011 (Majority) def: Liam Fox (Conservative), Evan Harris (Liberal Democrats)
2016-2020: Grant Shapps (Conservative)
2016 (Majority) def: Peter Hain (Labour), Martin Horwood (Liberal Democrats), Roseanna Cunningham (Scottish National)
2020-2024: Ben Wallace (Conservative)
2021 (UUP Confidence & Supply) def: Tom Watson (Labour), Caroline Pidgeon (Liberal Democrats), Angus Robertson (Scottish National), Jason Zadrozny (Reform)
2024-: Dawn Butler (Labour)
2024 (Majority) def: Ben Wallace (Conservative), Caroline Pidgeon (Liberal Democrats), Angus Robertson (Scottish National), Jason Zadrozny (Reform)


Absolute banter that the Yorkshire devo referendum gets a bigger margin in favour than in Wales, love it
 
Absolute banter that the Yorkshire devo referendum gets a bigger margin in favour than in Wales, love it
The path to Welsh Devolution was basically ‘Ron Davies really fucking wants this’ and even then was done by the skin of it’s teeth because Wales had a really strong Unionist streak for some reason (I expect the Welsh members to tell me why soon enough). Yorkshire Devolution would probably be a bit like London Devolution, popular enough that it passes through fairly easily even in a time where Yorkshire Devolution was less on people’s minds.
 
Celebrity culture and it’s consequences have been a disaster for the human race

1933 - 1944: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat)
1944 - 1945: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Liberal / Democrat)
1944: President Roosevelt selects 1940 Republican nominee Wendell Willkie as VP-candidate, on newly formed Liberal party ticket. Selects incumbent VP after Willkie’s death.
1944 (with Henry Wallace) def: Thomas Dewey (Republican), Dan Moody (Texas Democrat)
1945: President Roosevelt passes away from an intracerebral hemorrhage aged 63.

1945 - 1948: Henry Wallace (Democrat)
1945: Armed Forces desegregated by President.
1945: Japanese Empire surrenders to Allied forces following Soviet invasion of Hokkaido, and nuking of Hiroshima, ending WW2
1945: Yalta Conference, Wallace, Stalin and Attlee agree on further cooperation in Europe, and the formation of a neutral demilitarized German state.
1946: Appointment of Calvin Benham Baldwin as Attorney General blocked by coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats.
1946: Republicans take back both Houses of Congress, losses are largely attributed to high unemployment, and President Wallace’s support of striking unions.
1947: Presidential veto of Taft-Hardley Act overriden.
1947: Wallace’s plan for economic aid to European countries fails to pass congress.
1948: Victories by Togliatti and Thorez in Italian and French general elections narrowly push Democratic party to nominate Indiana Governor Schricker over President Wallace, prompting the latter to run on the Liberal party ticket.

1948 - 1949: Henry Wallace (Liberal)
1948: First Chinese Civil War ends in stalemate between American-backed Nationalist forces in the South, and USSR-backed Communist forces in the North.
1949 - 1952: Robert A. Taft (Republican)
1948 (with William F. Knowland) def: Henry F. Schricker (Democrat), Henry Wallace (Liberal), Benjamin T. Laney (Regular Democrats)
1949: Ellender-Wagner Housing Act passes congress due to lobbying of President Taft.
1949: Korean voters elects Workers’ party to government.
1950: European Union formed by USSR, France, Italy, Sweden, and numerous other European countries.
1950: Outbreak of Second Chinese Civil War between Nationalist and Communist forces, Taft calls for neutrality despite protests from congress.
1950: Democrats make gains during mid-terms, though several dovish pro-Wallace Democrats lose re-election to hawk Republican challengers.
1951: Congress overrides Presidential veto of economic aid to anti-communist regimes. Taft complains about presidential overreach.
1951: President Taft diagnosed with cancer. Information sealed away from the public, but increasingly frequent hospital check-ins lead to daily running of the country being placed in the hands of congress.
1952: Taft passes away from cancer aged 62.

1952 - 1953: William F. Knowland (Republican)
1952: Impromptu decision by President Knowland to send American troops into South China causes declaration of war by PRC and start of the China War (1952-55).
1952: Start of Red Scare, numerous politicians, bureaucrats, celebrities, trade unionists, civil rights activists, etc. ostracized, among which former President Wallace.
1952: DNC nominates General Eisenhower as Democratic candidate.
1952: Unpopular President Knowland is challenged by several candidates at RNC. After several rounds of unsuccessful balloting leads to Democratic candidate Eisenhower being nominated on the Republican ticket as well. The general promises to govern as an independent, and leave day-to-day governing of domestic issues to congress.
1952: Historic Compromise, Democratic and Republic leadership officially agree to jointly support Eisenhower’s presidential candidacy, and on a joint-VP candidate, while also agreeing on slowly transferring power away from the presidency to congress. Byrd runs on a third party Constitution ticket to protest the decision, while former President Wallace is running again on the Liberal party ticket.

1953 - 1961: Dwight D. Eisenhower (Independent)
1952 (with Earl Warren) def: Harry F. Byrd (Constitution), Henry Wallace (Liberal)
1953: Year of the McFarlane Amendments, historians generally agree that 1953 was the year that the United States changed from a presidential republic to a parliamentary republic.
1954: President Eisenhower’s suggestions of a national highway system opposed by congress due to its costs.
1955: China War ends in a stalemate with a rump ROC surviving in the Southeast and on the island of Formosa.
1956 (with Earl Warren) def: Strom Thurmond (Constitution)
1957: Start of the Southern Troubles, as Civil Rights Movement clashes with Southern leadership. Eisenhower calls for dialogue, and opts to stays neutral on the conflict as the Democratic party falls into infighting on the issue.
1958: Republicans form coalition with ‘Constituionalist Democrats’ in Senate, handing Richard Nixon the Majorityship.
1960: Democrats and Republicans agree to continue supporting a joint-candidate, quickly landing on VP Warren, despite some protests from conservatives in both parties.
1960: President Eisenhower reverses his earlier neutrality, and comes out in cautious support for the civil rights movement.
1961: In his final presidential speech, President Eisenhower warns Americans of what he coined the “Deep State”. It is rumored that Allen Dulles, Edgar J. Hoover, and James Forrestal were among those accused of undermining American Democracy by the outgoing president.

1961 - 1966: Earl Warren (Independent)
1960 (with Adlai Stevenson) def: Barry Goldwater (Constitutional), William H. Meyer (Progressive)
1962: Democrats, led by the increasingly powerful Lyndon B. Johnson take absolute majorities in both houses of congress, ushering in the Second New Deal, and two major civil rights acts.
1964: Coalition of anti-Johnson Democrats and Republicans manages to get him on Warren’s ticket as VP following Stevenson’s death.
1964
(with Lyndon B. Johnson) def: John Wayne (Constitutional)
1966: President Warren shot and killed in Orlando, Florida. Assassin later deemed not competent to stand trial, and transferred to a mental hospital. This event would be the main inspiration for the 1971 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, starring Ronald Reagan.

1966 - 1968: Lyndon B. Johnson (Independent)
1967: President Johnson aids in successful removal of Republican Senate leader Nixon from political life.
1968: The Historic Compromise ends following the Republicans refusal to join Democrats in nominating President Johnson. The Republicans instead nominate former First Brother Milton Eisenhower. Johnson heavily criticizes the Republicans for this decisions, and argues that it may pave the way for a Wayne presidency.

1968 - 1972: Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat)
1968: President Johnson tours the country to campaign for re-election, gaining criticism across the board for acting unpresidential.
1968 (with Billy Graham) def: John Wayne (Constitution), Milhouse Eisenhower (Republican), Dick Gregory (Peace & Freedom)
1969: LBJ plays a vital role in ending the Indian Civil War, becoming a national icon in the newly formed Islamistan. Some pundits wonder whether the era of presidential power might have returned.
1970: Democrats suffer significant losses in the 1970 elections, though the shrinking of the Southern caucus allows the pro-Johnson Kennedy brothers to increase their power within the party.
1972: President Johnson passes away from a heart attack, aged 63.

1972 - 1972: Billy Graham (Independent)
1972: A Kennedy brothers led campaign successfully stops President Graham’s bid at becoming the Democratic nominee, largely due to his anti-Catholicism. President Graham announces 11 days later that he has joined the Republican party and will run on the GOP ticket.
1972 - 1977: Billy Graham (Republican)
1972 (with Maxwell D. Taylor) def: Arthur Goldberg (Democrat), George Wallace (Constitution), Ralph Nader (Peace & Freedom)
1973: President Graham delivers a controversial speech in favor of continued American involvement in the Nigerian Civil War, despite increasing opposition.
1976: Committee established for reforming electoral system. House elections shifted from every 2 years to every 4 years. Plans to scrap Vice-Presidency annulled after protests due to popularity of position among American citizens.

1977 - 1981: Walter Cronkite (Democrat)
1976 (with Edward Brooke) def: Billy Graham (Republican), Ramsey Clark (Peace & Freedom), George Wallace (Constitution)
1980: Republicans change strategy from running a presidential campaign attempting to unite Americans to an insurgent conservative campaign, which attempts to drive up turnout and gain Constitution voters. The campaign is led by actor and political activist Ronald Reagan.

1981 - 1989: Ronald Reagan (Republican)
1980 (with Fred Rogers) def: Walter Cronkite (Democrat), Tom Hayden (Peace & Freedom)
1981: Start of the Conservative Revolution, with Republican dominated congress passing numerous social conservative bills while also cutting taxes.
1984 (with Gerald Ford) def: John F. Kennedy (Democrat), Muhammad Ali (Jackson Democrat)
1985: Supreme Court rules 5-4 in Koufax v. Oklahoma making it effectively impossible for third parties to compete in a meaningful way in presidential elections, and shifting the US back to a clear two-party system after smaller parties made minor gains over the previous decades.
1987: President Reagan attempts to publicly lobby against removal of Kirkpatrick as Secretary of State, gaining him significant controversy and anger by Democrats.

1989 - 1993: John Glenn (Democrat)
1988 (with Wendell R. Anderson) def: Clint Eastwood (Republican)
1990-91: President Glenn attempts to intervene in 90/91 shutdown in favor of Democratic Senate against Republican House, getting nearly impeached by the House in the process.

1993 - 1998: Colin Powell (Republican)
1992 (with Howard Baker) def: John Glenn (Democrat)
1994: President Colin Powell actively comes out in support of American intervention in South African Civil War, despite protests from far-right congressmen.
1996 (with Howard Baker) def: Harvey Gantt (Democrat)

1998 - 2001: Colin Powell (Independent)
1998: President Powell leaves GOP after conflicts with Speaker Ed Madigan.
1999: Businessman Donald Trump announces independent candiacy for president, though initially largely ignored as a publicity stunt. His campaign gained steam over the following months.

2001 - 2002: Donald Trump (Team Trump)
2000 (with Oprah Winfrey) def: Ben Affleck (Democrat), Alveda King (Republican)
2002 Impeachment of Donald Trump: Removed (97-2) [over obstruction of justice and insider trading]

2002 - 2009: Oprah Winfrey (Democrat)
2004: President Winfrey picks children-rights activist Hillary Rodham as VP-candidate.
2004 (with Hillary Rodham) def: Dennis Miller (Republican), Donald Trump (Team Trump) [ineligible]

2009 - 2017: Kelsey Grammer (Republican)
2008 (with Mitt Romney) def: Hillary Clinton (Democrat)
2011: President Grammer calls Trey Parker and Matt Stone ‘sons of bitches’ for his portrayal in Coloradoe.
2012 (with Ben Carson) def: Ellen DeGeneres (Democrat), Matt Stone (Jacksonian, but not the Muhammad Ali one)

2017 - 2018: Al Franken (Democrat)
2016 (with Robert ‘Psycho’ O’Rourke) def: Ben Carson (Republican)
2018: President Franken forced to resign following sexual harassment revelations.

2018 - 2021: Robert ‘Psycho’ O’Rourke (Democrat)
2021 - 2025: Kanye West (Republican)
2020 (with Joel Osteen) def: Robert ‘Psycho’ O’Rourke (Democrat)
2021: Kanye West suffers a mental breakdown following his divorce with First Lady Kim K, causing VP Olsteen to serve as Acting President for the next 90 days.
2023: President West holds a 1st of April joke, fooling everyone that he’ll resign.
2024: President West calls Democratic nominee Swift a “fake ass bitch” in the sixth presidential debate.

2025 - 0000: Taylor Swift (Democrat)
2024 (with Ruby Bridges) def: Kanye West (Republican)
2025: Outgoing President West holds an anti-Swift concert revealing his new diss track on the 19th of January with capitol police having to remove his fans the next day for President Swift’s inauguration.
 
2024: President West calls Democratic nominee Swift a “fake ass bitch” in the sixth presidential debate.
Sixth?

Also here's another list. Has anyone read For One Man back on the Other Place?

Presidents of the United States of America
2021-2029: Former Vice President Joe Biden (DemocraticDelaware)
2020 (with Kamala Harris) def. Donald Trump / Mike Pence (Republican)
January 2021: Capitol Insurrection and death of Mitt Romney (Jan 6); Second impeachment, conviction and barring of Donald Trump (Jan 6-10); Inauguration of Mike Pence (Jan 10) and Joe Biden (Jan 20)
2024 (with Kamala Harris) def. Ann Romney / Tim Scott (Republican), Josh Hawley / Mo Brooks (Patriot), Donald Trump Jr. / Kristi Noem (Patriot)
2029-2037: Governor Wes Moore (Democratic—Maryland)
2028 (with Tammy Baldwin) def. Liz Cheney / Chris Sununu (Republican), Kevin Stitt / Lauren Boebert (Patriot)
May 2031: 34th Amendment ratified; national runoff system for presidential elections established, electoral college maintained (lol)

[Also inc. 35th: Hatch Amendment; all naturalized citizens of 35 years or above who have been naturalized for 15 years can serve as president; 36th: codifies right to same-sex marriage; 37th: codifies abortion rights]
2032 (first round) (with Tammy Baldwin) def. Nikki Haley / Doug Wardlow (Republican), Paul Gosar / Jackson Lahmeyer (Patriot) [eliminated]

2032 (runoff) (with Tammy Baldwin) def. Nikki Haley / Doug Wardlow (Republican)
2037-2041: Senate Majority Whip John Fetterman (Democratic—Pennsylvania)
2036 (with Michelle Wu) def. Frank LaRose / Craig Romney (Republican), Jackson Lahmeyer / Charlie Kirk (Patriot)
June 2039: Citing a recent stroke, Pres. Fetterman declines to seek re-election

2041-0000: Governor Benji Backer (Republican—Wisconsin)
2040 (with Erin Stewart) def. Michelle Wu / Andy Beshear (Democratic), Ryan Bundy / Nick Fuentes (Patriot)
2044 (first round) (with Erin Stewart) def. Kenneth Mejia / Jon Ossoff (Democratic), Nick Fuentes / Andy Ngo (Patriot) [eliminated]
2044 (runoff) (with Erin Stewart) def. Kenneth Mejia / Jon Ossoff (Democratic)
 
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Sixth?

Also here's another list. Has anyone read For One Man back on the Other Place?

Presidents of the United States of America
2021-2029: Former Vice President Joe Biden (DemocraticDelaware)
2020 (with Kamala Harris) def. Donald Trump / Mike Pence (Republican)
January 2021: Capitol Insurrection (Jan 6); Death of Mitt Romney (Jan 6); Second impeachment, conviction and barring of Donald Trump (Jan 6-10); Inauguration of Mike Pence (Jan 10) and Joe Biden (Jan 20)
2024 (with Kamala Harris) def. Ann Romney / Tim Scott (Republican), Josh Hawley / Mo Brooks (Patriot), Donald Trump Jr. / Kristi Noem (Patriot)

2029-2037: Governor Wes Moore (Democratic—Maryland)
2028 (with Tammy Baldwin) def. Liz Cheney / Chris Sununu (Republican), Kevin Stitt / Lauren Boebert (Patriot)
May 2031: 34th Amendment ratified; national runoff system for presidential elections established, electoral college maintained (lol)

2032 (first round) (with Tammy Baldwin) def. Nikki Haley / Doug Wardlow (Republican), Paul Gosar / Jackson Lahmeyer (Patriot) [eliminated]
2032 (runoff) (with Tammy Baldwin) def. Nikki Haley / Doug Wardlow (Republican)
2037-2041: Senate Majority Whip John Fetterman (Democratic—Pennsylvania)
2036 (with Michelle Wu) def. Frank LaRose / Craig Romney (Republican), Jackson Lahmeyer / Charlie Kirk (Patriot)
June 2039: Citing a recent stroke, Pres. Fetterman declines to seek re-election

2041-0000: Governor Benji Backer (Republican—Wisconsin)
2040 (with Erin Stewart) def. Michelle Wu / Andy Beshear (Democratic), Ryan Bundy / Nick Fuentes (Patriot)
2044 (first round) (with Erin Stewart) def. Kenneth Mejia / Jon Ossoff (Democratic), Nick Fuentes / Andy Ngo (Patriot) [eliminated]
2044 (runoff) (with Erin Stewart) def. Kenneth Mejia / Jon Ossoff (Democratic)
Yeah, this tracks with the story. Though I would think Baldwin would win instead of Fetterman.
 
Yeah, this tracks with the story. Though I would think Baldwin would win instead of Fetterman.
My assumption was that Baldwin - by 2036 in her mid-70s - would give way to the slightly-younger and more popular Fetterman. Also a good way to have the incumbent Dem retire - far as I know, only Fetterman has a history of poor health that could persuade him to retire (and give the GOP a big opening).
 
My assumption was that Baldwin - by 2036 in her mid-70s - would give way to the slightly-younger and more popular Fetterman. Also a good way to have the incumbent Dem retire - far as I know, only Fetterman has a history of poor health that could persuade him to retire (and give the GOP a big opening).
That's fair, but yeah this feels like where the story would be heading if it continued in the 2030s and beyond.
 
He's Just Not that into EU (Pocket edition)
or
How Jeremy Corbyn lost the Labour Party but destroyed the Conservatives

2016-2017: Theresa May (Conservative)

-’17 election

May 2017- Grenfell Tower disaster



2017-2019: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour Minority with SNP S&C)

July 2017: Boris Johnson Elected conservative leader

October 2018- Govt fails first vote on Labour deal

October 2018- Several Labour and Conservative MPs form the Progressive Party

November 2018- Multi Party agreement over Labour Brexit Deal

June 2019- EU Deal Referendum 50.5% leave.

30th June 2019: UK Enters transition period with EU

October 2019: Scotland Votes to remain by 58%

October 2019: Nicola Sturgeon Resigns as SNP Leader

November 2019: Liberal Democrats and Progressives form electoral alliance

November 2019: Angus Robertson becomes leader of SNP and First minister of Scotland

December 2019: General election



2019-2020: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour Minority with Liberal Democrat/Progressive Supply and Confidence)

December 2019: Boris Johnson Resigns as Conservative Leader, Angus Robertson resigns as SNP Leader

February 2020: Liz Truss elected as Conservative Leader

February: Joanna Cherry elected SNP Leader and First Minister of Scotland

February 2020: First case of COVID 19 in UK

March 2019: UK goes into first Lockdown

March 2019: Government faces some backlash over COVID-19 Relief bill spending, Lib Progs say it is “insufficient” to protect Businesses despite strong support for individuals

April 2020: Prime Minister Corbyn is hospitalised with COVID



2020-2022 Claire Wright (Independent leading National Government)

April 2020: Claire Right becomes Prime Minister leading a National Government of Labour, Liberal Progressive and Greens with Some “National Conservative” support and Plaid Cymru, SDLP, Alliance and SNP support for Nationwide matters. Jeremy Corbyn appointed Deputy Prime Minister

June 2020: Government begins slow phase out of First lockdown

October 2020: Mhairi Black and Several other SNP MPs and MSPs form Alba Party over Joanna Cherry’s stance on Trans rights. Form electoral alliance with Scottish Greens

October 2020: Lawrence Fox elected leader of UKIP on anti-lockdown and “anti woke” platform.

November 2020: Government Enters Second lockdown

February 2021: Govt Begins roll out of vaccines.

April 2021: Government Begins slow phase out of Lockdown

May 2021: Government holds referendum on Electoral reform. Public votes to change from First Past the Post, then selects the Additional Member system to replace it

May 2021: Labour-Liberal Progressive Government elected in Scottish Elections as SNP loses significant votes to Green-Alba Alliance.

January 2022: Jeremy Corbyn announces he is standing down as Labour leader

March 2022: Angela Rayner elected leader of Labour, narrowly defeating Rebecca Long-Bailey.

March 2022: Radical Alliance alliance formed for next General election. Formed of Scottish, Welsh and English Greens, Alba and Plaid Cymru on platform of “Green Federalism”



2022-2027 Angela Rayner (Labour-Liberal Progressive-Radical Alliance Coalition)

May 2022: Sinn Fein become biggest party in Northern Ireland Assembly as Alliance makes significant gains from Unionist parties.

May 2022: Tamsin Ormond becomes first openly non-binary MP

June 2022: Angela Rayner finishes negotiations with Liberal Progressive party and Radical alliance. Forming a (technically) six party coalition.

June 2022: Government votes through Gender Self ID Laws and introduces gender neutral markers on official documents

September 2022: Government Unveils plans to roll out universal basic income

September 2022: Scotland act introduces Devo-Max for Scotland, followed by acts increasing Welsh government powers. It is worth noticing both first ministers are part of the Labour party.

November 2022: Charlie Blake (List MP for Southwest England) comes out as transgender, becoming the first openly trans MP

March 2023: Scotland act introduces Devo-Max for Scotland, followed by acts increasing Welsh government powers. It is worth noticing both first ministers are part of the Labour party.

April 2024: House of Lords reformed. Shrunk to 400 seats, 80% of which will be elected by Closed list Proportional representation. The actual role of the lords is mostly unchanged

May 2025: President Donald Trump makes a faux Pas after a state visit to the UK when he claims Angela Rayner was crossing and uncrossing her legs to distract him.

May 2026: Conservatives suffer significant loses in Scotland, Wales and Local elections. Labour-Liberal Progressive government stays in power in Scotland. Labour forms majority government in Wales. Liz Truss stands down as leader

September 2026: Grant Shapps elected leader of the Conservatives.

September 2026: Black Tuesday. 24 MPs defect from Conservatives to Liberal Progressives to



2027-2031: Anegla Rayner (Labour-Radical Alliance Government)

May 2027: Poor weather in summer and winter 2026 see rise in Green Party vote. Radical alliance also benefit from increase in demand for Plaid Cymru calls for Welsh Devo Max, increased demand for English Devolution (which is now a policy of the Green Party of England and Wales) and collapse of SNP, making Alba the largest pro independence (such as the term is) party. Allowing Labour and RA to form slim majority without the Lib Progs. Conservatives lose significant ground to both Liberal Progressives and UKIP. Also a movement from Liberal Progressives towards Labour. Grant Shapps resigns as Conservative Leader

May 2027: Future Prime Minister Charlie Blake is made Health Secretary.

June 2027: Alex Chalk (SW List MP) Elected Conservative leader

May 2028: English Devolution Referendum delivers result in support of devolution. England is to be split into 8 regions (including London) with their own regional assemblies along the lines of Wales.

January 2029: Prime Minister Rayner makes public support for President-Elect Ocasio-Cortez over claimant President Taylor-Greene during the

May 2029: First elections for English Assemblies deliver a mix of results with the Liberal Progressives leading governments in the South west, South East and North West.



2031-2032: Charlie Blake* (Labour-Radical Alliance Government)

February 2031: Charlie Blake elected Labour leader, Becomes first trans head of government in the world and first LGBT+ Prime Minister.



2032-2037: Charlie Blake* (Labour-Liberal Progressive Grand Coalition)

May 2032: Liberal Progressives narrowly replace the conservatives as biggest party and the only combination of parties to form a majority would either be a Lab-Lib grand coalition or would break the cordon sanitare with regards to UKIP. This leads to a decrease in the popularity of Labour as they are seen as conceding too much to the Lib Progs

May 2033: Border Poll in Northern Ireland delivers a pro-reuinification result

April 2035: Ireland is Reunified.

Summer 2036: A series of storms hit Britain, leading to severe flooding and damage to the Labour Government’s reputation over climate change.



2037-Present: Dehenna Davison (Liberal Progressive-Conservative Government with Green S&C)

May 2037: Labour maintain position as biggest party but Liberal Progressives and Conservatives (almost on equal seats). They come to an agreement to prioritise green policies with some members of the Radical League. Leading to a significant chunk of Radical PMs leaving the Greens to form the Radical Party. It remains to be seen whether the Radical Alliance will reform for the next General election. Charlie Blake asks the King to invite Ms Davison to form a government, then tenders his resignation as Labour leader.

With a large number of left wing people joining Labour following the collapse of the Radical Alliance. The current favourite to win the Labour election is 72 year old stalwart of the party left, Dawn Butler

SealionPress
21st July 2022
Some other timeline

Bolt451
“Finally got to vote yellow/green”

WI: Grenfell happened AFTER the 2017 election.

So with Rayner apparently being the great unifier and our first election (and government) under AMS leading to *IainBHX voice* Die Ampelkoalition I thought I’d go back and look at WI: Grenfell happened after the 2017 General election. A lot of people saying this one thing ruined May but I’d argue it didn’t. Her polls were slipping significantly in the earlier stages of the election and Corbyn was on the rise. Was this enough in itself to put Corbyn in number 10? Well


2016-2019: Theresa May (Conservative Majority then minority)

So, May scrapes a majority of about 4 seats, losing some to Labour but gaining some from the SNP (who also lose some to Labour). With such a tiny majority she regularly butts heads with the awkward squad and finds herself relying on the Lib Dems and sometimes the DUP for support depending on the issues. The Progressive Party forms earlier with more defectors from Labour (with Corbyn seen as less stable) with folks like Nick Boles and Philip Lee staying in the Conservatives. None the less this leaves the government as a minority.

In spring 2019 May’s deal (much harder Brexit than OTL’s common market but with some awkward wrangling over NI) fails miserably several times and with the deadline approaching May takes an extreme option

Now, hear me out on this one

2019-2019: Theresa May (National Conservative leading National Government with Labour S&C)

May comes to an agreement with the Lib Dems, the Progressives and parts of Labour to put her deal to a second referendum. No renegotiation, just a second referendum. This insences her own Party and she ends up full Ramsay Mac as Johnson (who is positively erect at the thought of getting the leadership) and other Johnsonites like Patel and Truss cross the floor. Folks like Greening are in as Home Sec and Vince Cable (ITTL the Libs are less confident and go for him over Moran) is Deputy PM. Corbyn holds his nose and backs the government over the second referendum only* . The government asks for an extension and scrapes through a vote on second referendum, which ITTL, with May’s deal being less popular, leads to a vote for remain. Following this May resigns.

*Theres also a What if where Labour splits over this and Tom Watson forms a IDFK “Social Democrat” Party which goes full on into government which has most of the PLP but very little of the popular support Jez has. This makes things go full Five Lecterns come autumn 2019


2019: Justine Greening (National Conservative then Progressive leading National Government with Labour S&C)

Rather than heal the rift between Johnson and Greening, the majority of the National Conservatives into Anna Soubrey’s Progressives (Soubs taking over as home sec). Her support from Labour running out she calls a general election


2019-Present Jeremy Corbyn (Labour Majority)

Taking advantage of the split between the centre right Lib Dem/Progressive Alliance and the increasingly populist Conservatives Labour get a comfy majority of fifty and Jeremy Corbyn is finally in power. Ready to radically overhaul Britain… just in time for the pandemic. Expect packages to be a lot less pro business (no Lib Progs in govt) and way more pro worker. Might even see a form of Universal Basic Income be introduced (a lot of Labour were suggesting it in the pandemic) even if its just time limited.

As we move out of the pandemic? Who knows. We might finally get the Labour government we were robbed of in 2017. Except this time, it has teeth.

Conclusion: ITTL or OTL I don’t see the Conservative Party surviving Brexit. Maybe in a TL where Johnson takes over from May and we crash the fuck out just in time for COVID and hundreds of thousands die but even then the next election would be the end of him. Whether we see Corbyn still as Labour leader or someone like Rayner or RLB in power? I don’t know
 
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McGoverning (or, inspired by it)

1969-1973: Richard Nixon (Republican-California*)

1969-1972**: Spiro Agnew (Republican-Maryland)
1972-1973: vacant


Richard Nixon could have been remembered as a successful two-term president, whose effective statesmanship ended the Vietnam War, opened China, and continued the policy of detente. However, beneath the statesman was a highly paranoid and broken man, who saw no limits to securing his second term, and this was his undoing. In the span of only a few months, a presidential race which looked to be a coronation for President Nixon got turned on its head, as all of the Nixon Administration’s criminality got blown right into the open as the Brookings Institution lay smoldering and Chuck Colson lay in custody. Thru both the finagling of George Wallace and a competent campaign from whom he assumed to be an easily beaten rival, George McGovern, Nixon went down like Icarus, all because he flew too close to the sun.

1973-1977: George McGovern (Democrat-South Dakota)
1973-1976***: Philip Hart (Democrat-Michigan)
1976-1977: vacant


America’s unlikeliest president, no one could have guessed that the 38th president of the United States would be none other than George Stanley McGovern, but thanks to a roller coaster of an election on January 20th, 1973, that was the reality. A humble historian and veteran from the prairies, George McGovern always carried with him a righteousness that contrasted him with the crooked Richard Nixon. Despite the right’s branding of him as a far-left loonie, McGovern was a liberal who firmly believes in the duty of government to serve its people and better their lives, as well as the need for government to be transparent and accountable. As President, McGovern made both of these missions his purpose, passing healthcare reform, maternity leave, government-provided child-care, support for small farmers, and many more pieces of liberal legislation in his term. President McGovern also oversaw the restraining of the imperial presidency, reforms on the economy and the military, and of course the prosecution of the disgraced former president. He would also continue de-escalating the Cold War as his predecessor did, with the Rambouillet talks resulting in the CART agreement to limit nuclear warheads. President McGovern impressed many Americans, however unfortunately, with their faith broken in government by Brookingsgate, economic malaise caused by inflation and troubles in the Middle East, and a growing backlash towards liberalism from what Nixon had called his “silent majority”, the unlikely president would only serve one term, but the humble prairie man would forever leave his mark on America forever.

*Changed residence from New York to California

**Resigned due to bribery scandal

***Resigned for health reasons
 
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Hasta la vista, baby

2019-2022: Boris Johnson (Conservative)
2019 Conservative leadership election def. Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gove, Sajid Javid, Rory Stewart
2019 (majority) def. Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Jo Swinson [defeated] (Liberal Democrats)
2022 Conservative leadership vote of confidence: Confidence def. No Confidence

2022-2024: Liz Truss (Conservative)
2022 Conservative leadership election def. Rishi Sunak, Penny Mordaunt, Kemi Badenoch, Tom Tugendhat
2024 Conservative leadership vote of confidence: No Confidence def. Confidence

2024-2025: Boris Johnson (Conservative)
2024 Conservative leadership election def. Kemi Badenoch, Penny Mordaunt, Bim Afolami
2025-20__: Keir Starmer (Labour)
Jan. 2025 (minority) def. Boris Johnson (Conservative), Ian Blackford (SNP), Ed Davey (Liberal Democrats)
Oct. 2025 (majority) def. Steve Barclay (Conservative), Ed Davey (Liberal Democrats), Angus Robertson (SNP), Nigel Farage (Sovereign UK)


The Conservative leadership campaign is marked by the candidates spending the summer taking lumps out of each other, culminating in a narrow-than-expected victory for a bruised Liz Truss. Her cabinet is up and running in days: Thérèse Coffey is sent to the Treasury, Annie-Marie Trevelyan to the Home Office, and James Cleverly is tasked with running Britain's foreign policy. Rishi Sunak is conspicuously dumped on the backbenches alongside Priti Patel, whilst Tom Tugendhat and Penny Mordaunt turn down posts at International Trade and DEFRA. After a vicious summer of blue-on-blue, Team Truss seems to have little appetite to unite a fractured party. In a rare bright spot, the government lauds the Supreme Court ruling that Nicola Sturgeon must receive Westminster consent to table a second referendum on independence. The Scottish government consequently tears itself apart, culminating in the ousting of Nicola Sturgeon and a damaging leadership fight between Ian Blackford and Angus Robertson. It's downhill from there. Inflation remains stubbornly high, household bills hit the stratosphere, and the NHS is stretched to the brink by a potent mix of heavy snowfall and a bad COVID season. The economy shudders, and sinks into recession. Politically, the government is wounded by Johnson's parting gift of twin by-elections: Labour takes Selby in an upset whilst vote splitting in Bedfordshire allows the Tories only a pyrrhic victory.

The Conservatives plumb the depths after a new winter of discontent. Four months after taking office, the new prime minister conclusively achieves her campaign pledge to hit the ground. Labour polls solidly north of forty percent as the Truss government appears unwilling or unable to address the cost of living crisis. Energy prices remain stubbornly high as Truss encourages the Ukrainians to fight on in a bloody and protracted stalemate; war crime after war crime creates the perception of a bleak organ grinder on the Dnieper, and no one gives Truss the credit her predecessor had reaped on the issue. Attempts to distract the nation with flashy photos ops and culture war fire-breathing, spearheaded by Kemi Badenoch at Education and Gareth Bacon at DCMS, were unwelcome and largely unsuccessful. Indeed, they appear to have backfired: by the time Truss presided over an abysmal set of local elections, the most common phrase used to describe her in focus groups was, perhaps unfairly, "Thatcher tribute act." Others, not without reason, drew parallels with Theresa May and her calamitous time in office.

The prime minister's penchant for gaffes rivalled that of her predecessors, and her luck proved even worse. A Sunday morning interview with Laura Kuennsberg causes ripples on the world stage after Truss implies the Ukrainians could, in theory, "borrow" Trident; her performance at a press conference in Bristol is panned after incorporating "unleash the patriotic potential of the British lion" into every answer; her whirlwind tour of East Asia goes viral after she implies she herself is "part-Chinese" in response to an offhand question about Hong Kong. Attempts to make light of the situation at PMQs backfires when she jokes to have a "chronic case of foot and mouth disease," and her road testing of the line "Erdogan? Erdo-lost" amidst the violence in Istanbul saw the chamber fall uncharacteristically and awkwardly silent. An embarrassing leak of diplomatic cables in the summer of 2023 suggested the White House views Truss as a "lightweight" and, perhaps more damagingly, a "seat warmer." Biden and Truss try to put a brave face on it, but Truss standing awkwardly in the background after Biden fainted in Vilnius was like something written by Armando Iannucci. By the end of the parliamentary session, the cheers of Conservative MPs were that bit more strained - and people were starting to notice.

The anaemic support the prime minister had received during the 2022 race left her with few natural allies, and fewer still when the government's polling plateaus in the low-twenties. And all the while, the rehabilitative effects of extra-political life worked wonders on the recalled member for Uxbridge. He set about earning the big bucks on the after dinner speaking circuit, and takes a plum position editing the Evening Standard. As Truss slowly collapses, Johnson's approvals began to rise. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. By the autumn of 2023, an alarming amount of polls were suggesting that the "deep state" and the "mainstream media" had stabbed the former prime minister in the back. The same people regularly attested that Truss and other "Tory traitors" hadn't fought hard enough to save him. Mischievous polling casually suggested Johnson maintained a glimmer of appeal in the Red Wall seats that Truss was tanking in, even if his support remained quite slim nationwide. Perhaps people just wanted a bit of cheering up. Just over a year after taking office, there were already serious rumours about the Tories copying their Antipodean cousins and wielding the knife.

It moved very quickly in the end. The government was blown out of the water in Bridgend and Stoke-on-Trent North. A certain former prime minister took advantage of a by-election in Romford to catapult himself back into the Commons. There was backlash to a Downing Street staffer suggesting that Badenoch should "know her place" after a poorly-disguised leadership pitch at the party conference. The backroom moves to deselect Gavin Williamson - seen as a way of cutting off the head of the rebels - were phenomenally mishandled. Another harsh winter for household bills and the NHS proved the final straw for a generation of Tory MPs that had gained a taste for mutiny. The final MRP before Christmas placed the Tories in third, a point behind the Lib Dems and Labour leagues in front. A noticeably greyer Graham Brady ambled onto College Green in January 2024 to declare that the fifty-three letters were in.

There was surprise when Truss was voted out by her colleagues, if only because it felt like she'd only been around for five minutes. Many newspapers opined that the Conservatives were more willing than Labour to gamble on a reset, and why not? The alternative, staring down the barrel of a 1997-level catastrophe, couldn't be worse. Many MPs were satisfied that sufficient numbers could block Johnson from the final two, and it was to their shock and horror that the hollowing out of the parliamentary party became clear. By some miracle, the former prime minister performed best in general election polling, and that was enough for leagues of Tory MPs fearful for their future. He's learned his lesson, many thought, it was worth a punt. It wasn't even as if there were many candidates standing to oppose him: Tugendhat declined to run, sensing the way the wind was blowing; Sunak was already measuring the drapes for a sprawling Silicon Valley estate; Cleverly had a habit of abandoning interviews when the topic of the leadership came up. In the end, PM4PM2 would reluctantly throw its weight behind Badenoch, but it wouldn't be enough. The Education Secretary gave Johnson a good run for his money, but Brand Boris remained alive in the heartlands.

Johnson was back, although he found that few would serve in what the Guardian labelled "the cabinet at the end of the world." Kit Malthouse moved to the Treasury and Priti Patel took up the Foreign Office. James Cleverly became Home Secretary. Baroness Dorries of Flitwick was drafted in to continue the culture war from Education. Jacob Rees-Mogg returned from the backbenches to run the Ministry of Justice. Johnson's third ministry was as controversial on the Tory benches as it was in the country. Tobias Ellwood, having already announced his intention to stand down, crossed the floor, declaring the Tories "hadn't a heart, a brain, or the courage of their convictions." Roger Gale went a step further and quit the Commons entirely, seeking re-election as an independent in protest. And yet, by sheer force of will, the summer was marked by a gradual Conservative rise in the polls. The death of the Queen in September 2024 was as good an excuse as any for Johnson to delay the election until January. His "patriotic" grandstanding was embarrassing, although perhaps not as much as the official request from the Palace that he not speak at the funeral. When it came, the winter campaign was nasty and long. Chaos was the order of the day: Johnson repeated his Saville slur at the debates; Mark Jenkinson punched a constituent; Starmer literally fell backwards down a flight of stairs trying to avoid a question about the definition of a woman. Christmas flooding in the South West gave Johnson an opportunity to stomp around in wellies and a hi-vis jacket but, after a brief indulgence, few found the shtick amusing anymore. Everybody was just tired.

In the end, the mountain Labour had to climb for an outright majority was too much. The election resulted in a hung parliament, with Starmer leading Labour to just shy of a hundred seat gain. Ed Davey virtually doubled the Lib Dem seat count - surprisingly holding Chesham and Tiverton - as Raab, Rees-Mogg, and Jeremy Hunt were ejected from parliament. Johnson huffed and puffed, but was ultimately gone within days. He abandoned the Commons a month later to tour Trump's America, privately declaring his intention to earn a few million and finance his divorce. The Conservatives, bruised by defeat, set about electing a new leader. There was little appetite for Penny Mordaunt's third-time's-the-charm campaign. Graham Brady tried to stand for leader as a compromise candidate, but ultimately Conservative MPs would present to its membership a choice between Tom Tugendhat and Johnson's former Defence Secretary. The base, loyal to Johnson and fuelled by two years of culture war hysteria, seethed. It didn't take long for Nigel Farage to make a comeback, and his shameless new political vehicle all but declared war on the post-Johnson Tories - this time from the green benches after a stunner in Johnson's old seat. The autumn would swing by quickly, and Starmer found himself atop the first Labour majority in twenty years with relative ease.

The briefing naturally began within the year. Despite everything, Labour had failed to clear forty percent of the vote. The outlook for the next election, with the SNP getting their groove back under Yousaf and the Greens consistently nearing double digits, was dour. Whilst there were smiles around the cabinet table and loyalty was publicly assured, the manoeuvring was obvious. Sleuths at the Telegraph uncovered the website for Infrastructure Secretary Andy Burnham's future bid. Downing Street publicly dressed down Angela Rayner for encouraging the PM to "put some welly into it." Wes Streeting at Transport, Rosena Allin-Khan at Health, and Lisa Nandy at Education all made a habit of touring the rubber chicken circuit. Even Jess Phillips at Culture found the time to tear the prime minister a new one on Have I Got News For You.

Oh well, the nation groaned, at least the pubs were open. The average price of a pint was stable at £6. Your round?

Yeah, you'd need extreme stuff - but the example in my head was Truss gets in, completely bungles cost of living in advance of winter, gets the full Gordon treatment and is seen as a mad do-nothing, and the Tories properly, properly collapse in the polls next year. Like, there's some outliers where they are looking at sub-20%. If that happens at the right/wrong time, Sir Graham might very quickly return to our screens.

Basically what would've happened to Gordon if Labour were the Tories. "Hang how it looks, it's better than what will happen if we don't do it."

She got less than a third of MPs support in this round, so the appetite for loyalty won’t be a high bar if it goes to shit.

One wonders if the Continuity Boris people think that Truss will fail and that they can coup her in a year or so, to allow the Prince over the Water to return because only Boris can win the election. I suspect that if they did coup her, they might have a shock from Bad Enoch.
 
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Kamakura Shogunate:

Minamoto no Yoritomo (Kamakura, 1185-89)
Shimazu Tadahisa (Kamakura, 1189-1209)
Hōjō Tokimasa as head of the Kumonjo, including Hojo Masako and Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1189-99), equivalent to regent
Minamoto no Yoriie (Kamakura, 1209-12)
Minamoto no Sanetomo (Kamakura, 1212-)


Musashi Shogunate:

Minamoto no Ichiman (Musashi, 1212-)

Hiki Yoshikazu as Shikken, equivalent to regent

Heads of the Northern Fujiwara Family:

Fujiwara no Hidehira (d. 1192)
Fujiwara no Yasuhira (1155-1205)
Fujiwara no Kunihira (1205-)


The sudden death of Minamoto no Yoritomo before he could purge the Northern Fujiwara for sheltering his erstwhile ally and half-brother Yoshitsune did not kill Yoritomo's dream of all the Japanese lands gathered beneath the tent of the figurehead Cloistered Emperor, controlled by the Minamoto. Indeed, the Kamakura Shogunate he had established grew in power and substance, as Yoshitsune played no small part in aiding Yoritomo's widow, Hojo Masako, in her struggle against her father Hojo Tokimasa, but power now flowed subtly outward to the independent clans.

Tokimasa plotted to expand his stature as regent beneath the Chrysanthemum Throne, first in trying to replace Yoritomo's son Shimazu Tadahisa with the sickly and theoretically more compliant Yoriie before he reached his majority, and then in trying to force Yoriie's abdication in favour of the young Ichiman. Eventually Yoshitsune supplanted Takimasa's son Yoshitoki, forcing the patriarch to retire and allowing Yoriie to abdicate of his own volition, partitioning the realm between his brother and son, ironically confirming the Minamoto's centrality.
 
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2007-2010: Gordon Brown (Labour)

2010-2017: David Davis (Conservative)

2010 winner: Conservative [341]. def: David Miliband (Labour) [233]; Lembit Öpik (Liberal Democrat) [75]
2013 EU Referendum (Leave: 51.8%, Remain 48.2%)
2014 winner: Conservative [367]. def: Owen Smith (Labour) [148]; Lembit Öpik (Liberal Democrat) [101]
2017 Scotland Referendum (Leave: 52.6%, Remain: 47.4%)
2017-2020: Mark Harper (Conservative)
2018 winner: Conservative [290]. def: Liz Truss (Liberal Democrat) [154]; Jeremy Corbyn (Labour) [125]
2020-2022: Peter Bone (Conservative)

2022-2026: Liz Truss (Liberal Democrat)

2022 winner: (Liberal Democrat) [252]. def: Peter Bone (Conservative) [181]; Nick Thomas-Symonds (Labour) [62]
2023 STV Referendum (Yes: 51.3%, No: 48.7%)
2024 EU Rejoining Referendum (Yes: 54.3%, No: 45.7%)
2025: Northern Ireland Referendum (Remain: 57.6%, Leave: 42.4%)
2026-2030: Liz Truss (Liberal Democrat) Coalition with (UUP)
2026 winner: (Liberal Democrat) [248], Alan Lewis (UUP) [3]. def: Rishi Sunak (Conservative) [175]; Wes Streeting (Labour) [69]; Natalie Bennett (Green) [2]
2027 Gender self-ID referendum (No: 59.7%, Yes: 40.3%)
2028 House of Lords Reform Referendum (No: 52.3%, Yes: 47.7%)
2029 English Parliament Referendum (Yes: 55.6%, No: 44.4%)
2030-2031: Liz Truss (Liberal Democrat) Coalition with (Conservative)
2030 winner (Liberal Democrat) [189]; Kemi Badenoch (Conservative) [151]. def: James Potts (Labour) [150]; Benali Handache (Green) [3]
2031 Euro single currency referendum (Yes 50.2%, No 49.8%)
2031-2038: Rory Stewart (Liberal Democrat) Coalition with (Conservative)
2032 Elected School Boards Referendum (Yes: 54.1%, No: 45.9%)
2033 Keep the Pound Referendum (Yes: 55.8%, No 44.2%)
2034 winner: (Liberal Democrat) [211]; Emma Hogan (Conservative) [45]; def: Jessica Barnard (Labour) [211]; Rebecca Long-Bailey (Green) [7]
2037 Gender Self-ID Referendum (No: 50.3%, Yes: 49.7%)
2038-2048: Kavya Kaushik (Labour)
2034 winner: (Labour) [271]. Def: Rory Stewart (Liberal Democrat) [143]; Emily Hewertson (Conservative) [49]; Frankie Rufolo (White Rose) [15]; Ruby Tuesday (Green) [6]

Five Challenges Labour Faces that a Landslide Victory Can't Solve

1. British Isles Relations

Scotland voted to leave the UK in 2017 in the wake of Brexit and formally left in 2019. Nineteen years later, Northern Ireland has voted to remain in the UK but for the first time since 2026 the republicans have a majority in the Northern Ireland Assembly. Plaid Cymru controls a minority government alongside Labour in Wales and will also be pushing for a referendum.

Kavya is not a fan of the nearly annual referendums of the Lib Dem years, and Labour could block both Sinn Fein and Plaid Cymru. But doing so runs the risk of painting the UK as an involuntary union, and would cause problems with Ireland and Scotland. The problem is UK-Celtic relations are already icy at present. The First Ministers of Northern Ireland and Wales have already attended a summit to discuss the formation of some form of Celtic Alliance, which would offer financial support to those regions if they left the UK. If Kaushik allows referendums, Labour will need to try to outbid the Celts.

2. Bubonic Plague

The current drug resistant strain of Bubonic Plague is a tragedy in itself and although outbreaks have been mostly controlled in the Western world people still remember COVID. We've already seen the chaos panic buying caused in Texas and Italy when Bubonic Plague arrived, and Britain - a state that had one of the highest per capita death rates in the world during COVID - is already in a low level state of panic.

Labour have big plans for the NHS - abolishing GP fees, the Ambulance Tax, and the co-pay on elective surgery. This will involve the biggest investment in Health since Truss' first term but if plague reaches true pandemic proportions that investment will be wiped out purely by emergency relief. If we need a second lockdown Labour's spending plans won't even touch the sides of what will be needed.

3. Gender Self-ID

The convention of holding referendums for LGBT issues is less well established than the one for constitutional matters. There wasn't a referendum when gay marriage was introduced in 2024, although Truss says she regrets this as she believes it would have been the right thing to do and would have easily passed. That said, if she thought she'd had a majority for self-ID there would likely have never been a referendum on it.

Self-ID remains a divisive issue in the two major parties. The Lib Dems have struggled with this since the Tory pro-lockdown defectors prevented it from being included in the 2022 manifesto. Most of Labour supports self-ID, though many of them do so on proviso that there's a proper debate and a vote.

There's also a debate on what the most palatable form would be the 2037 referendum had a much less extreme model that the 2037 one - binary recognition only and by statutory declaration filed in court. The Yes campaign almost won that time, which may mean there's an appetite for a more conservative policy. But then turnout was far lower, especially among the young, which may indicate that conservative reforms will not be good enough.

Support for self ID rests somewhere between 65-55% but this is a totemic issue in British politics and any action will annoy people. Are Labour really ready for another round of mass protests if people feel self-ID is being forced on them? And of course, the Supreme Court could block legislation on the basis that referenda are meant to be once in a generation.

4. Constitutional Reform

House of Lords reform is the last great unfinished project of both Blair and Truss, and Labour has promised to untie that Gordian knot by simply abolishing it. This will almost certainly require a referendum and its not clear which side would win. Beyond that, local government is a mess and its still not clear what the role of the English Parliament is.

5. Europe

The European Union has been on a path towards greater unity since the Russian Invasion of Moldova and the two big parties agree that our future lies in the EU. Unfortunately this involves accepting a level of financial and military coordination that most people dislike. Signing up for the euro cost Truss her career and leaving it again certainly helped Stewart. Kaushik will have to navigate a process of integration that's aiming at a single European military force by 2050. Labour may have the majority to push for change, but a second Brexit is always just a referendum away.
 
MAXIMEum Chaos (Prime Ministers of Canada)



2015-2021: Justin Trudeau (Liberal)
-15: def. Stephen Harper (Conservative), Tom Mulcair (New Democratic), Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Quebecois), Elizabeth May (Green)
-19: (min.) def. Andrew Scheer (Conservative), Yves-Francois Blanchet (Bloc Quebecois), Jagmeet Singh (New Democratic), Elizabeth May (Green)
-20: (min.) def. Maxime Bernier (Conservative), Yves-Francois Blanchet (Bloc Quebecois), Jagmeet Singh (New Democratic), Jo-Ann Roberts (Green)

2021-2022: Chrystia Freeland (Liberal)

2022-2027: Maxime Bernier (Conservative)

-22: (min.) def. Chrystia Freeland (Liberal), Yves-Francois Blanchet (Bloc Quebecois), Jo-Ann Roberts (Green), Jagmeet Singh (New Democratic)
-24: def. Sean Fraser (Liberal), Alexis-Brunelle Duceppe (Bloc Quebecois), Jody Wilson-Raybould (Co-Operative Grassroots Front)

2027-XXXX: Steven Guilbeault (Liberal)
-27: (S&C w/ NDP & Greens) def. Christy Clark (United), Ruth Ellen Brosseau (New Democratic), Anna Keenan (Green), Brad Wall (Agrarian) Pierre Poilievre ('Enterprise' Conservative), Alexis-Brunelle Duceppe (Bloc Quebecois), Maxime Bernier (Conservative)

When Justin Trudeau had called the 2020 federal election, the stars seemed to have aligned. 2019 had him inches away from a second majority, and with polls showing him hitting 45%, it finally seemed within reach. It was a gamble for sure, but a relatively secure one.

Or so he thought.

The Conservatives had spent most of the COVID pandemic embroiled in bitter infighting. Andrew Scheer, a man who had all the energy, appeal, and charisma of lethargic milk bread breathed a sigh of relief when the plague hit - at least he wouldn't have to dread being couped at the weekly caucus meeting. Plus, not seeing Garnett Genuis in-person automatically made one's day better.

Nevertheless - one can't outrun fate forever. With the Conservatives fighting to maintain second in the low-twenties over the NDP, Maxime Bernier who had giveth the courtesy of not forming a splinter party in 2019, now taketh away everything he had worked for. Barely a week into the campaign, Bernier took over and stormed onto the federal scene like a man on a mission. He was convinced that the followers were there, seething with rage at Trudeauvian tyranny. They just needed a messiah to lead them to the promised land - and so he did.

Well, less lead, and more stumble into it. Justin Trudeau certainly was blindsided when the WE Charity scandal exploded into full view in October right as the campaign heated up. Capitalizing on growing anger against harsh COVID restrictions that the Liberals had rammed through as though they had a majority. All of a sudden, the race was close, with the Liberal star falling back to earth as Canada felt the Bern.

When the dust settled, Bernier had whittled the Liberal plurality over the Conservatives to a tenuous dozen seats. With the golden boy increasingly an electoral liability, Chrystia Freeland took up the mantle of leading Canada's Natural Governing Party for all of six months until a new austere budget, aimed at taming inflation was brought down in the House. A combination of COVID restrictions and fiscal woes led Canadians to gamble on the Albertan from Quebec, who led the Conservatives back to government for the first time in 7 years.

With the Liberals aimless and searching for direction, for a brief few moments, Jody Wilson-Raybould seemed like the saviour of the left. Having forged together an electoral alliance between the surging Greens and middling NDP to bring about a new era of Canadian politics, the CGF underperformed on election night, and with the battered Liberals clinging onto Official Opposition amidst the stormy blue tides along with the Tories riding vote-splits across the country to the narrowest of majorities, quickly split apart.

With his opponents divided and distracted, Maxime Bernier seemed to be the most powerful Conservative leader since Harper. However, all was not as it seemed. Indeed, Bernier and his cabinet would openly disagree on multiple occasions, from cutting supply management subsidies for agriculture to embarassing antics on the world stage.

The caucus descended into dysfunction, with the wounds finally being ripped open by Michelle Rempel Garner and Michael Chong leading the charge against Bernier's insanity. They even scored a coup with tacit support from an embittered Pierre Poilievre, demoted from the position of Finance Minister over disagreements with the Prime Minister over cryptocurrency.

What they didn't count on was the fanatical base behind Bernier at the leadership convention - indeed, MRG was defeated by the Quebecer 55-45. Refusing to give up on common sense rationality and centrism, Chong, Deltell, and Garner would walk out of the convention and announce the formation of the United Party, reducing Bernier to a weak minority government.

Speaking of national unity though, all 3 were Tories. Moderate Tories, yes, but still Tories. To prove that their claims weren't just talk, the new party was able to poach former Liberal Premier Christy Clark out of retirement to lead the party and stir it away from the radical tree-hugging, weed-smoking environmentalism of new Liberal leader Steven Guilbeault.

They made a gentlemen's agreement with Brad Wall, who was heading a party dedicated to agricultural issues that Bernier was callously handling. Poilievre himself would lead a small cohort of cryptocurrency believers under what essentially amounted to be a Canadian reprise of Ron Paul 2012 under the banner of Enterprise. Rumours that he considered hijacking the moribund Social Credit party are entirely bullshit and made up by the Laurentian elites in the Bank of Canada, thank you very much.

Bernier would be defeated on the 2027 budget and the country would be sent to the polls as Harper's project faced Judgement Day. When the dust settled, it initially seemed like Christy Clark had reached the top job with a narrow plurality over the Liberals. Her worst nightmare would come true when the news broke on Parliament Hill that the Liberals, NDP, and Greens had formed a supply and confidence agreement to install Guilbeault as Prime Minister to end the chaos of the Bernier premiership. With Bernier himself defeated by an Agrarian-United fusion ticket candidate, for the first time in 7 years, Canada seems to be returning to normalcy.
 
The Yes campaign almost won that time, which may mean there's an appetite for a more conservative policy. But then turnout was far lower, especially among the young, which may indicate that conservative reforms will not be good enough.

Support for self ID rests somewhere between 65-55% but this is a totemic issue in British politics and any action will annoy people. Are Labour really ready for another round of mass protests if people feel self-ID is being forced on them?

I like how mealy-mouthed the article is here, utterly refusing to offend one or the other view to maximise clicks and cover their bases.

Constant rolling referenda is what I imagine hell to look like, but is also grimly plausible under super-Lib-Dems.
 
Governors of the U.S. State of Kanawha since 1991

1991 - 1993: R. Charles Cummings (Independent)
1993 - 1995: Joseph Manchin (Independent)
1992 def. unopposed
1995 - 2000: Joseph Manchin (Home Alliance)
1996 def. Glen Gainer (Socialist), Oliver Luck (New Democratic)
2000 def. Glen Gainer (Socialist), Jim Traficant (New Democratic)
2000 - 2020: Joseph Manchin (United America)
2004 def. Carol Miller (Socialist)
2008 - Reinstated by the State Legislature; election not held per moratorium introduced by President Dale Brown
2012 def. Tina Pickett (New Democratic), David Moran (AIP)
2016 def. Trey Hollingsworth (New Democratic), Joshua Booth (Socialist)
2020 - Massive fire at Charleston Center Mall kills 60 people; Joseph Manchin submits resignation to President Dale Brown, is subsequently appointed to the Senate by the State Legislature
2020 - 2021: Steve Castor (United America)
2021 - present: Mike Harmon (United America)
2020 def. Ryan Ferns (Socialist), Matt Miller (New Democratic)
 
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