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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State


Presidents and Congresses of the Confederate States of America

On February 8, 1861, the Confederate States of America was established via the Montgomery Convention between the slave states of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina after they declared secession from the United States of America in protest of the election of anti-slavery President Abraham Lincoln the previous year. Over the following months the states of Arkansas, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia also declared secession from the United States and joined the Confederacy. Most Native American tribes in the Indian Territory also signed treaties of friendship with the Confederacy during this period. The United States did not initially recognize the Confederacy and attempted to militarily recapture it during the 1861-1863 War of Secession but was ultimately forced to recognize its independence under foreign pressure following a series of military defeats. On February 9, 1863, the United States made formal peace with the Confederacy via the British-mediated Treaty of London. The states of Kentucky and Missouri were also claimed by the Confederacy and represented in its Congress during the War of Secession but were never de facto controlled by the Confederacy and were retroceded to the United States in the Treaty of London, alongside the western counties of Virginia as the new state of West Virginia. The Confederacy also claimed parts of the New Mexico Territory (later divided between the New Mexico Territory and the unrelated United States Arizona Territory) as the Confederate Arizona Territory during the War of Secession but retroceded it to the United States in the Treaty of London.

NOTE: Due to the de jure nonpartisan nature of the Confederacy its political officers did not carry official party affiliations. Despite this the Confederacy became de facto divided between two major political factions over time, eventually resulting in the Confederate Civil War. These factions are most often referred to as "Centralists" and "anti-Centralists" in retrospect but were known by a variety of names in their original time depending on context. For this list the names "pro-administration" and "anti-administration" are used for these factions during the War of Secession and Jefferson Davis administration then "Centralist" and "anti-Centralist" afterwards.



Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America (1861-1862)

1861-1862: Provisional President Jefferson Davis (pro-administration, Mississippi) / Acting Vice President Alexander H. Stephens (anti-administration, Georgia)
(1861 def. Senator Robert Toombs (anti-administration, Georgia) via convention)
  • 1861-1862 Provisional Congress
    • (Unicameral): pro-administration majority
On February 22, 1862, the Provisional Constitution of the Confederate States was superseded by the permanent Constitution of the Confederate States which was ratified the previous year.


Confederate States of America (1862-1881)

1862-1868: President Jefferson Davis (pro-administration, Mississippi) / Vice President Alexander H. Stephens (anti-administration, Georgia)
(1861 unopposed)
  • 1862-1864 Congress
    • Senate: pro-administration majority
    • House: pro-administration majority
  • 1864-1866 Congress
    • Senate: pro-administration majority
    • House: pro-administration majority
  • 1866-1868 Congress
    • Senate: anti-administration majority
    • House: anti-administration majority
1868-1874: President Joseph E. Brown (anti-Centralist, Georgia) / Vice President Robert M. T. Hunter (anti-Centralist, Virginia)
(1867 def. Speaker of the House Thomas S. Bocock (Centralist, Virginia) / Senator Clement C. Clay Jr. (Centralist, Alabama))
  • 1868-1870 Congress
    • Senate: anti-Centralist majority
    • House: anti-Centralist majority
  • 1870-1872 Congress
    • Senate: anti-Centralist majority
    • House: anti-Centralist majority
  • 1872-1874 Congress
    • Senate: anti-Centralist majority
    • House: Centralist majority
1874-1880: President Clement C. Clay Jr. (Centralist, Alabama) / Vice President Zebulon B. Vance (Centralist, North Carolina)
(1873 def. Vice President Robert M. T. Hunter (anti-Centralist, Virginia) / Senator Robert W. Barnwell (anti-Centralist, South Carolina))
  • 1874-1876 Congress
    • Senate: Centralist majority
    • House: Centralist majority
  • 1876-1878 Congress
    • Senate: anti-Centralist majority
    • House: Centralist majority
  • 1878-1880 Congress
    • Senate: anti-Centralist majority
    • House: anti-Centralist majority
1880-1884: President Wade Hampton III (Centralist, South Carolina) / Vice President James L. Kemper (Centralist, Virginia)
(1879 def. Governor John McEnery (anti-Centralist, Louisiana) / Senator Isham G. Harris (anti-Centralist, Tennessee))
  • 1880-1882 Congress
    • Senate: anti-Centralist majority elected, Centralist majority following the 1881 resignation of most anti-Centralist senators in favor of the Atlanta Convention
    • House: anti-Centralist majority elected, Centralist majority following the 1881 resignation of most anti-Centralist representatives in favor of the Atlanta Convention
Following the Depression of 1880-1881 and the Black Spring of 1881 President Wade Hampton III issued the Electoral Security Resolution on April 22, 1881, which declared that the midterm elections of 1881 would not be held as scheduled and instead be delayed until “civic order may be completely restored in the Confederate States” and that Congress would then be recessed after the scheduled end of the 1880-1882 congressional term. The state governments of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina subsequently declared this action legally invalid, began an interstate convention in Atlanta, Georgia, and then issued the Atlanta Declaration on May 9, 1881, which declared that the Electoral Security Resolution must be rescinded before the scheduled end of the midterm elections on November 6, 1881, or else they would begin an armed rebellion. The state government of Texas also issued a resolution which declared that it would enforce a policy of “armed neutrality” in any interstate conflict until the “legitimate government of the Confederate States may be ascertained” on June 3, 1881. Most counties in southern and central Florida disregarded the state government’s adherence to the Atlanta Declaration and formed a rival state government based in Tampa. In the following weeks most anti-Centralist Confederate government officers resigned and declared loyalty to the Atlanta Convention. Following the passage of the midterm elections’ scheduled end date armed conflict began between the existing Confederate government, retrospectively referred to as the “Richmond Government”, and the Atlanta Convention, retrospectively referred to as the “Atlanta Government”.


Richmond Government of the Confederate States of America (1881-1884)

1880-1884: President Wade Hampton III (Centralist, South Carolina) / Vice President James L. Kemper (Centralist, Virginia)
(1879 def. Governor John McEnery (anti-Centralist, Louisiana) / Senator Isham G. Harris (anti-Centralist, Tennessee))
  • 1880-1882 Congress
    • Senate: anti-Centralist majority elected, Centralist majority following the 1881 resignation of most anti-Centralist senators in favor of the Atlanta Convention
    • House: anti-Centralist majority elected, Centralist majority following the 1881 resignation of most anti-Centralist representatives in favor of the Atlanta Convention
  • (Indefinitely recessed following the expiration of the 1880-1882 congressional term)
On July 15, 1884, the Richmond Government of the Confederate States of America was dissolved following the Confederate Instrument of Surrender at Raleigh and its remaining legal and financial obligations were assumed by the United States of America, which subsequently reorganized much of the Upper South into a series of federally controlled military districts. These military districts were eventually divided and readmitted to the United States as states.


Atlanta Government of the Confederate States of America (1881-1885)

1881-1885: Provisional President John McEnery (anti-Centralist, Louisiana) / Acting Vice President Benjamin R. Tillman Jr. (anti-Centralist, South Carolina)
(1881 def. Senator Isham G. Harris (anti-Centralist, Tennessee) via convention)
  • 1881-1885 Provisional Congress
    • Senate: anti-Centralist majority
    • House: anti-Centralist majority
On April 5, 1885, the city of Atlanta, Georgia and its defenders surrendered to the United States Army, which arrested most Atlanta Government political officers including Acting Vice President Benjamin R. Tillman Jr., after Provisional President John McEnery was mistakenly killed by friendly soldiers while attempting to flee the city. At this point the Atlanta Government of the Confederate States of America effectively ceased to exist and this date is generally regarded as the end of the Confederacy’s existence for historical purposes, but major armed groups claiming to represent the Confederate government continued to operate in the former Confederacy until late 1890. Following the dissolution of the Confederacy most of its former territory was divided between the United States of America and the Free Republic of Libertalia, an abolitionist state in the Deep South created by former slaves who revolted against the Confederacy during the Confederate Civil War. Numerous smaller states also came to exist on the fringes of the former Confederacy through various means during this period.
 
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Monarchs and Prime Ministers of the Kingdom of Columbia from 1649 to 1800

"Kings Across The Sea" - Columbia from 1649 to 1701

Charles I and II (Stuart) (1649 - 1683)
James I and III (Stuart-Richmond) (1683 - 1701)


The Protestant Boys - Columbia from 1701 to 1800

Charles II and III (Stuart-Richmond) (1701 - 1748)

Henry I (Stuart-Richmond) (1748 - 1775)
Charles III (Stuart-Richmond) (1775 - present)

Chief Minister Peyton Randolph, Duke Randolph of Williamsburg (Tory) (1761 - 1777)
Edmund Pendleton, Baron Pendleton of Shenandoah (Tory) (1777 - 1779)
Richard Henry Lee, Earl Lee of Northumberland (Tory) (1779 - 1784)
Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Baron Pinckney of Charlestown (1784 - 1789) (Charlestown Club)
Thomas Jefferson (1789 - 'present') (Charlestown Club)

 
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The Retford Red; Corresponding List

2007-2011: Gordon Brown (Labour)
2010 (Minority) def. David Davis (Conservative), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats)
2011-2016: Andrew Lansley (Conservative)
2011 (Majority) def. Gordon Brown (Labour), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats)
2015 (Majority) def. David Miliband (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish National), Michael Moore (Liberal Democrats)
2015 Scottish Independence Referendum: Yes 47%, No 53%

2016-2018: Boris Johnson (Conservative)
2017 (DUP Confidence & Supply) def. Andy Burnham (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish National), Martin Horwood (Liberal Democrats), Nigel Farage (UKIP)
2018-2023: Mark Harper (Conservative)
2019 (Majority) def. Andy Burnham (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (Scottish National), Martin Horwood (Liberal Democrats), Nigel Farage (UKIP), Kenny MacAskill (Alba)
2020 Referendum on Europe: Leave 48%, Remain 52%

2023-: Emily Thornberry (Labour)
2023 (Liberal Democrats Confidence & Supply) def. Mark Harper (Conservative), Fiona Hyslop (Scottish National), Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrats), Kenny MacAskill (Alba)
 
Not the first time this has been done but...

The Dull Shall Inherit the States
1974-1981: Gerald Ford (Republican)
1976 def: Birch Bayh (Democratic)
1981-1985: Bob Dole (Republican)
1980 def: Adlai Stevenson III (Democratic)
1985-1993: Mike Dukakis (Democratic)
1984 def: Bob Dole (Republican)
1988 def: Howard Baker (Republican)

1993-2001: Pete Wilson (Republican)
1992 def: Jim Hunt (Democratic)
1996 def: Paul Tsongas (Democratic)

2001-2009: Evan Bayh (Democratic)
2000 def: Connie Mack III (Republican)
2004 def: Lamar Alexander (Republican)

2009-2017: John Thune (Republican)
2008 def: Mark Warner (Democratic)
2012 def: Joe Hoeffel (Democratic)

2017-2025: Tim Kaine (Democratic)
2016 def: Tim Pawlenty (Republican)
2020 def: Mark Neumann (Republican)


Massachusetts and Virginia seem to have used up all their interesting politicians in providing presidents in the early years of the USA, making them prime veins of dullness these days.
 
Not the first time this has been done but...

The Dull Shall Inherit the States
1974-1981: Gerald Ford (Republican)
1976 def: Birch Bayh (Democratic)
1981-1985: Bob Dole (Republican)
1980 def: Adlai Stevenson III (Democratic)
1985-1993: Mike Dukakis (Democratic)
1984 def: Bob Dole (Republican)
1988 def: Howard Baker (Republican)

1993-2001: Pete Wilson (Republican)
1992 def: Jim Hunt (Democratic)
1996 def: Paul Tsongas (Democratic)

2001-2009: Evan Bayh (Democratic)
2000 def: Connie Mack III (Republican)
2004 def: Lamar Alexander (Republican)

2009-2017: John Thune (Republican)
2008 def: Mark Warner (Democratic)
2012 def: Joe Hoeffel (Democratic)

2017-2025: Tim Kaine (Democratic)
2016 def: Tim Pawlenty (Republican)
2020 def: Mark Neumann (Republican)


Massachusetts and Virginia seem to have used up all their interesting politicians in providing presidents in the early years of the USA, making them prime veins of dullness these days.
This does work a little but it also sorta fails,since Bob Dole wasn’t dull,he was perpetually angry and resentful at the world for being cripped during WW2 and often his politics were influenced by pure pettiness.

Same with others: Mikey D is a man of people who uses the subway like Jimmy Carter but without the racist past,Pete Wilson embodied every wrong with the Conservative Revolution of the 1990’s,Bayh the corrupt nepotism and everything wrong with political dynasties while being a massive opportunist,Thune a toxic GOP consensus and Kaine is honestly one of most progressive senior politicians in America right now.
 
This does work a little but it also sorta fails,since Bob Dole wasn’t dull,he was perpetually angry and resentful at the world for being cripped during WW2 and often his politics were influenced by pure pettiness.

Same with others: Mikey D is a man of people who uses the subway like Jimmy Carter but without the racist past,Pete Wilson embodied every wrong with the Conservative Revolution of the 1990’s,Bayh the corrupt nepotism and everything wrong with political dynasties while being a massive opportunist,Thune a toxic GOP consensus and Kaine is honestly one of most progressive senior politicians in America right now.
Well, these things are subjective - often people have a reputation for being dull now because we forget those aspects at the time.
 
Well, these things are subjective - often people have a reputation for being dull now because we forget those aspects at the time.
I do wonder if Dole and Dukakis would've still been considered so boring if they had become President - conversely, I think the only three Presidents since the PoD who would inarguably still have been considered interesting if they hadn't are Reagan, Obama, and Trump. "Oh, you made the guy who bounced around the Nixon administration because he couldn't win a Senate seat President? And followed him up with that Governor who made a really boring speech and cheated on his wife, and then followed him with the first guy's son who's really into baseball?"
 
A Mirror on the Border: United States as reverse Canada (political left and right are inverted)

1993-2003: Mike Castle (Liberal)

1993 (majority) def. James Carville (Dixie Bloc), Paul Wellstone (Progress), Judy Martz (New National), Julia Brownley (Moderate Radical)
1997 (majority) def. Paul Wellstone (Progress), Lindsey Graham (Dixie Bloc), Jan Brewer (New National), Roy Cooper (Moderate Radical)
2000 (majority) def. Dennis Kucinich (American Coalition), Lindsey Graham (Dixie Bloc), Jan Brewer (New National), Roy Cooper (Moderate Radical)
2003-2006: Wayne Gilchrest (Liberal)
2004 (minority) def. Sherrod Brown (Radical), Lindsey Graham (Dixie Bloc), Fred Thompson (New National)
2006-2015: Sherrod Brown (Radical)
2006 (minority) def. Wayne Gilchrest (Liberal), Lindsey Graham (Dixie Bloc), Fred Thompson (New National)
2008 (minority) def. Ben Bernanke (Liberal), Lindsey Graham (Dixie Bloc), Fred Thompson (New National), Michelle Fischbach (Farmers')
2011 (majority) def. Fred Thompson (New National), Fred Thiele (Liberal), Lindsey Graham (Dixie Bloc), Michelle Fischbach (Farmers')
2015-0000: Patrick Murphy (Liberal)
2015 (majority) def. Sherrod Brown (Radical), Bill Cassidy (New National), Lindsey Graham (Dixie Bloc), Michelle Fischbach (Farmers')
2019 (minority) def. Tim Ryan (Radical), Brian Kemp (Dixie Bloc), John E. James (New National), Michelle Fischbach (Farmers'), Glenn Greenwald (People's)
2021 (minority) def. Robert O'Rourke (Radical), Brian Kemp (Dixie Bloc), John E. James (New National), Mia Love (Farmers'), Glenn Greenwald (People's)
 
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to be fair no one ever made a rule that Bernie 2020 had to be all sunshine and roses
I apologize for this.

Be Careful What You Wish For
Presidents of the United States of America
2017-2021: Donald Trump (Republican)
2016 (with Mike Pence): def. Hillary Clinton / Tom Perez (Democratic)
2021-2026: Bernie Sanders (Democratic)
2020 (with Amy Klobuchar): def. Donald Trump / Mike Pence (Republican)
2024 (with Amy Klobuchar): def. Rick Scott / Kristi Noem (Republican)

2026-2029: Amy Klobuchar (Democratic)
2029-0000: Blake Masters (Republican)
2028 (with Derek Schmidt) def. Maura Healey [replacing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] / Mandela Barnes (Democratic), Andrew Yang / Bari Weiss (Vision '28)

Generally speaking, Bernie wasn't a very lucky president. David Perdue edging out Jon Ossoff in the hotly-contested senate runoff (and thus giving senate control to Mitch McTurtle for two years more) wasn't exactly a good start to his time in the White House. Neither was a series of economic downturns and foreign crises, from the collapse of the Afghan government to the Taiwan standoff, when the Seventh Fleet collided with the PLAN (in some cases literally) as Speaker Pelosi's plane glided about in the crosshairs of Chinese fighter jets. Still, things looked like they were going well. Democrats won the Senate in 2022 (despite losing the gavel to Kevin McCarthy), and Bernie was re-elected in a surprising slam-dunk as the economy picked up in the fall of 2024 (though to be fair, he was going up against Rick Fucking Scott) and people were generally unbothered about the status quo.

Things went to shit soon afterwards.

To this day, no one knows if it was the diagnosis of Stage 4 bowel cancer or too much expired rice wine, but Xi Jinping decided - entirely on a whim - that he was going to be the Great Reunifier or die trying. As the PLAN made quick work of Taiwan's concerningly weak naval forces, the American Seventh Fleet panickily sprang into action, managing to hold the Chinese fleet to just east of Penghu, with a handful of American cruisers and smaller ships being sank or scuttled and China losing 50% of their functioning aircraft carriers in the process. What followed was an uneasy stalemate - American ships blockaded the Strait of Malacca and the southern Chinese coast, while the mauled PLAN stared down the massed American fleet. It took three months, but eventually (read: after two palace coups, a minor rebellion in several cities, and the loss of several more ships) the PLAN withdrew, claiming that the attempted invasion had been an "anti-sedition police operation" and thus victory (because of course they did).
The economy was wrecked and US-China relations lay in smoldering ruins, but everything was still fine.

Then Sanders had a heart attack.

Then another.

Then a hemorrhagic stroke.

Resigning from office on the 25th of October, the 46th President of the United States headed home to Burlington to die retire, leaving the White House in the hands of Amy Klobuchar. While the sympathy bump from Sanders' untimely departure netted Democrats the Senate (propelling Bee Nguyen to a shock victory over the increasingly-doddering Perdue and Jeff Jackson to victory over Governor Mark Robinson), Klobuchar found herself increasingly out of sync with both the party and the nation. Ultimately, she went out not with a bang but with a whimper, as allegations of abuse from her days in Number One Observatory Circle proved to be the wooden stake through the chest that finished off her 2028 hopes. For a while, it seemed that New York Senator Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would be the American Left's light in the dark, finally reviving the promise of Sanders' movement.

Then a neo-Nazi shot her in Baltimore.

The DNC — even more chaotic than 1968, and ironically sinking into the ground rather than rising from the ashes like the namesake of its host city — cycled through several elections' worth of candidates (California's Senator Porter and ex-Governor Newsom, Pennsylvania's Senator Fetterman, Maryland's Governor Moore and Senator Raskin, home-state favorites Senator Feehan and The Klobberer, Virginia's Governor Foy, Michigan's Senator Benson, Secretary Kunce, ex-First Lady Michelle Obama, Oregon's Governor Read and Senator Fagan, Illinois' Senator Duckworth, Vermont's Governor Gray and Senator Donovan, Texas' Senator Castro, Washington's Governor Ferguson...) before settling on third-placer Maura Healey and Wisconsin progressive Mandela Barnes. Meanwhile, the Republican nomination fell to Arizona Senator Blake Masters (winning 2024 in an upset when Sinema decided to go out in a blaze of whatever-the-fuck-she-was-made-of when Gallego won the nomination by 23 points), campaigning on a far-right platform of neo-Trumpism, reactionary conservatism, and neo-isolationism. Despite all the flagrant sexuality-baiting and race-baiting, despite the GOP's approval of negative 17, despite it all - a divided Democratic Party and hyper-centrist splinter ticket proved to be sufficient for Peter Thiel's pet candidate to come through in the Electoral College.

It is 2030. Hu Haifeng's China is practically salivating over Taiwan, India and Brazil are in states of civil war between militant leftists and far-right reactionaries, much of Russia has become an Arctic-based remake of Mad Max, and the U.S. is doing...whatever the crypto-fellating, social-media-manipulating, 4chan-wet-dreaming fuck Blake Master considers to be 'truly American'.

The Free World looks to the leadership of Western Europe — Keir Starmer, Annalena Baerbock, Rob Jetten Ahmed Aboutaleb — in these trying times.
 
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The Free World looks to the leadership of Western Europe - Keir Starmer, Annalena Baerbock, Rob Jetten - in these trying times.
Rob Jetten will never become a thing. The D66 tried so hard to make it happen, but he got called Robot Jetten for two years, and then they released her with Sigrid Kaag, who proved to be surprisingly popular. My bet for a Dutch politician who could play a leadership role is one of the big name Moroccans of the PVDA, so either Khadija Arib or Ahmed Aboutaleb.
 
Rob Jetten will never become a thing. The D66 tried so hard to make it happen, but he got called Robot Jetten for two years, and then they released her with Sigrid Kaag, who proved to be surprisingly popular. My bet for a Dutch politician who could play a leadership role is one of the big name Moroccans of the PVDA, so either Khadija Arib or Ahmed Aboutaleb.
Thanks for the suggestion, I chose him mostly because of ... this.
 
Be Careful What You Wish For

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2019-2023: Boris Johnson (Conservative)
2019 (majority): def. Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrats)
2022 Conservative leadership election: Boris Johnson def. Sajid Javid

2023-present: Keir Starmer (Labour)
2023 (minority, C&S with Liberal Democrats): def. Boris Johnson (Conservative), Ed Davey (Liberal Democrats), Angus Robertson (SNP)
2026 (minority, coalition with Momentum): def. Priti Patel (Conservative), Ed Davey (Liberal Democrats), Joanna Cherry (SNP), Zarah Sultana (Momentum)
2030 (majority): def. Tom Tugendhat (Conservative), Layla Moran (Liberal Democrats), Paul Joseph Watson (Sovereign), Joanna Cherry (SNP)


The Starmer Miracle: A Post-Election Reflection
Posted 24 September 2030
With Keir Starmer finally winning Labour its first majority since 2005, it's worth thinking back on how he got here.
More specifically, how on earth does a Prime Minister last eight years with back-to-back minority victories?

Three words: Boris. Fucking. Johnson.

Bumbling his way through Britain's post-COVID recovery and an increasingly-indefensible carousel of scandals, it was looking increasingly likely that Johnson would be going out the same way as his two predecessors. Then, things got worse. Chris Pincher, porn in the commons, double-barrelled losses in Stoke-on-Trent North and Bolsover...somehow, the resignation of Rishi Sunak and 30 other ministers wasn't the final wooden stake through the shambling pretense of Dracula's chest that was the Johnson ministry.

it was no surprise that he became the first sitting PM to be challenged for the Tory leadership since Thatcher.

Unlike Thatcher, though, he clung to the bitter end.

Calling a snap election to "defy the will of the self-serving elite", the Tories entered the election polling about 9 points behind Labour. The Tories were, of course, capable campaigners, but people were getting sick of BoJo's shit just as fast. Starmer tripped on a crack in the pavement trying to simultaneously answer a question about the definition of a woman and run away, then fell face-first down a flight of stairs trying to justify said answer. Tobias Ellwood crossed the floor. Johnson repeated the Saville slur at the debates and backtracked on the Downing Street parties, again.

With that in mind — well, that and a weakened post-Brexit, post-COVID economy, poor personal approvals and just about a million other things — it really wasn't a surprise that BoJo was left standing in second place on a community center stage somewhere in Uxbridge and Northolt — the first sitting PM to lose his seat, ever — as Labour surged to pole position in Parliament.

Not a majority, though — BoJo's 2019 landslide had made sure of that — but the results were clear. Keir Starmer had led Labour to just north of a 100-seat gain, with the LibDems tying the SNP for seat count.

Ever since then, Labour's come back from the dead at least thirty times — first it was the Indy2 referendum (which failed, no thanks to Joanna Cherry, John Mason and the rest), then it was the Momentum MPs walking out, then it was the Taiwan standoff. Now Starmer and Plibersek are the lonely liberals in the Anglosphere (no thanks to Masters, Poilievre and the rest).
 
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Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2019-2023: Boris Johnson (Conservative)
2019 (majority): def. Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nicola Sturgeon (SNP), Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrats)
2022 Conservative leadership election: Boris Johnson def. Sajid Javid

2023-present: Keir Starmer (Labour)
2023 (minority, C&S with Liberal Democrats): def. Boris Johnson (Conservative), Ed Davey (Liberal Democrats), Angus Robertson (SNP)
2026 (minority, coalition with Momentum): def. Priti Patel (Conservative), Daisy Cooper (Liberal Democrats), Joanna Cherry (SNP), Zarah Sultana (Momentum)
2030 (majority): def. Tom Tugendhat (Conservative), Layla Moran (Liberal Democrats), Paul Joseph Watson (Sovereign), Joanna Cherry (SNP)


The Starmer Miracle: A Post-Election Reflection
Posted 24 September 2030
With Keir Starmer finally winning Labour its first majority since 2005, it's worth thinking back on how he got here.
More specifically, how on earth does a Prime Minister last eight years with back-to-back minority victories?

Three words: Boris. Fucking. Johnson.

Bumbling his way through Britain's post-COVID recovery and an increasingly-indefensible carousel of scandals, it was looking increasingly likely that Johnson would be going out the same way as his two predecessors. Then, things got worse. Chris Pincher, porn in the commons, double-barrelled losses in Stoke-on-Trent North and Bolsover...somehow, the resignation of Rishi Sunak and 30 other ministers wasn't the final wooden stake through the shambling pretense of Dracula's chest that was the Johnson ministry.

it was no surprise that he became the first sitting PM to be challenged for the Tory leadership since Thatcher.

Unlike Thatcher, though, he clung to the bitter end.

Calling a snap election to "defy the will of the self-serving elite", the Tories entered the election polling about 9 points behind Labour. The Tories were, of course, capable campaigners, but people were getting sick of BoJo's shit just as fast. Starmer tripped on a crack in the pavement trying to simultaneously answer a question about the definition of a woman and run away, then fell face-first down a flight of stairs trying to justify said answer. Tobias Ellwood crossed the floor. Johnson repeated the Saville slur at the debates and backtracked on the Downing Street parties, again.

With that in mind — well, that and a weakened post-Brexit, post-COVID economy, poor personal approvals and just about a million other things — it really wasn't a surprise that BoJo was left standing in second place on a community center stage somewhere in Uxbridge and Northolt — the first sitting PM to lose his seat, ever — as Labour surged to pole position in Parliament.

Not a majority, though — BoJo's 2019 landslide had made sure of that — but the results were clear. Keir Starmer had led Labour to just north of a 100-seat gain, with the LibDems tying the SNP for seat count.

Ever since then, Labour's come back from the dead at least thirty times — first it was the Indy2 referendum (which failed, no thanks to Joanna Cherry, John Mason and the rest), then it was the Momentum MPs walking out, then it was the Taiwan standoff. Now Starmer and Plibersek are the lonely liberals in the Anglosphere (no thanks to Masters, Poilievre and the rest).
Great stuff. What caused the Stoke and Bolsover by-elections?
 
much of Russia has become an Arctic-based remake of Mad Max, and the U.S. is doing...whatever the crypto-fellating, social-media-manipulating, 4chan-wet-dreaming fuck Blake Master considers to be 'truly American'.

who did President Masters endorse for the next пахан President of Russia

Neither was a series of economic downturns and foreign crises, from the collapse of the Afghan government to the Taiwan standoff, when the Seventh Fleet collided with the PLAN (in some cases literally) as Speaker Pelosi's plane glided about in the crosshairs of Chinese fighter jets.

Was there any significant disillusionment among some left-wingers with President Sanders?
 
who did President Masters endorse for the next пахан President of Russia
Currently the existing federal government headed by a troika of Rotenberg, Yegorov and Golikova. Master(bater)s may be a prick but he at least understands basic PR. For instance, understanding that backing the pogrom-leading totalitarian tsarists isn’t a good way to get good PR.
Was there any significant disillusionment among some left-wingers with President Sanders?
Most of the people who might call a U.S. visit to Taiwan “imperialist” or some such probably voted for Trump anyways (I’m imagining the Hinkle/Maupin types). On a broader scale? Yes, but Sanders is better at communicating his difficulties to the average voter than Biden.
 
The Dominance and Fall of the Labour Right

1957 - 1963: Harold Macmillan (Conservative)

1959: Hugh Gaitskell (Labour); Jo Grimond (Liberal)

1963 - 1966: Alec Douglas-Home (Conservative)
1964: Harold Wilson (Labour); Jo Grimond (Liberal)

1966 - 1969: Iain Macleod (Conservative)

1969 - 1975: Anthony Crosland (Labour)

1969: Iain Macleod (Conservative); Emlyn Hooson (Liberal)
1974: John Peyton (Conservative); Emlyn Hooson (Liberal)

1975 - 1979: Roy Jenkins (Labour)

1979 - 1984: Patrick Jenkin (Conservative)

1979: Roy Jenkins (Labour); Ronald Gardner-Thorpe (Liberal)

1984 - 1991: Bill Rodgers (Labour)
1984: Patrick Jenkin (Conservative); John Pardoe (Liberal)
1988: Peter Walker (Conservative); John Pardoe (Liberal)

1991 - 1993: Roy Hattersley (Labour)

1993 - 1995: Kenneth Baker (Conservative)

1993 (Coalition w/ Lib): Roy Hattersley (Labour); Alan Beith (Liberal)

1995 - 2006: Peter Mandelson (Labour)
1995: Kenneth Baker (Conservative); Alan Beith (Liberal)
2000: Malcolm Rifkind (Conservative); Nick Harvey (Liberal); Ken Livingstone (Left!)
2005: Stephen Dorrell (Conservative); Simon Hughes (Liberal); Ken Livingstone (Left!)

2006 - 2010: Charles Kennedy (Labour)

2010 - 2017: Oliver Letwin (Conservative)

2010: Charles Kennedy (Labour); Chris Huhne (Liberal)
2014: Tony Blair (Labour); Jeremy Browne (Liberal)

2017 - 2024: Nick Herbert (Conservative)
2019: Lord Mandelson (Labour); Naomi Long (Liberal); Dawn Butler (Left!)
 
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