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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

This is vaguely based on Daphne du Maurier's Rule Britannia - really, just on part of it.

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

1945-1953: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1945 (Majority) def. Winston Churchill (National - Conservatives, Liberal Nationals), Sir Archibald Sinclair, 5th Baronet (Liberal)
1950 (Majority) def. Winston Churchill (Conservative - National Liberal), Clement Davies (Liberal)
1951 (Majority) def. Winston Churchill (Conservative - National Liberal), Clement Davies (Liberal)
1953-1955: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1953 (Minority w. National Liberals; coalition w. Liberals) def. Clement Attlee (Labour), Clement Davies (Liberal)
1955-1959: Nye Bevan (Labour)
1955 (Majority) def. Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1959-1960: George Brown (Labour)
1960 (Minority) def. Rab Butler (Conservative), Mark Bonham Carter (Liberal)
1960-1968: Michael Foot (Labour)
1963 (Majority) def. Quintin Hogg (Conservative), Mark Bonham Carter (Liberal)
1967 (Majority) def. Enoch Powell (Conservative), Emlyn Hooson (Liberal)

Lord-Governors of the Commonwealth of Britannia

1968-1970: William Westmoreland, Lord Westmoreland (officially Nonpartisan, Military Administration - National Union)
1970-1977: Henry Cabot Lodge, Lord Lodge (officially Nonpartisan, Republican - National Union)
1977-1979: Airey Neave, Lord Neave (Conservative - British Union)
1976 def. Christopher Mayhew (Progressive - British Union)
1979-1982: David Stirling, Lord Stirling (officially Nonpartisan, Military Administration - British Union)
1982-1983: Sir Paddy Ashdown (officially Nonpartisan, Military Administration - Knights Errant Movement)
1983-1987: Albert Booth, Lord Booth (Labour)
1982 def. Sir Mike Rose (Knights Errant Movement), Sir Edward du Cann (Conservative), Andrew Fountaine (Excalibur), Sir Christopher Mayhew (Progressive)
1987-1989: Eric Heffer, Lord Heffer (Labour)
1986 def. Sir Anthony Meyer (Conservative), Dick Taverne (Democratic Labour), Neil Hamilton (Excalibur), Alan Beith (Progressive)
1989-1991: Ken Coates, Lord Coates (Labour)
1991-1999: Paddy Ashdown, Lord Ashdown (Progressive)
1990 def. Ken Coates, Lord Coates (Labour), Norman Tebbit (Conservative), Neil Hamilton (Excalibur)
1994 def. John Smith (Labour), Neil Hamilton (Excalibur), Chris Patten (Country), Norman Tebbit (Conservative)
1999-2003: Tiberius Blair, Lord Blair (New Times)
1998 def. Simon Hughes (Progressive), Gordon Brown (Labour), Chris Patten (Country), Neil Hamilton (Excalibur)
2003-2007: Paddy Ashdown, Lord Ashdown (Progressive)
2002 def. Edward Leigh (Country), Tiberius Blair, Lord Blair (New Times), Frank Dobson (Labour), Neil Hamilton (Excalibur), collective (Diggers)
2007-2015: Laura Sandys, Lady Sandys (Country)
2006 def. Mark Oaten (Progressive), Alan Milburn (New Times), collective (Diggers), John Reid (Labour), Neil Hamilton (Excalibur)
2010 def. John Leech (Progressive), Derek Wall (Toiler's Association - Diggers, Labour), Tristram Hunt (New Times), Neil Hamilton (Excalibur)
2015-2019: David Laws, Lord Laws (Progressive)
2014 def. Michael Gove (Country), Peter Tatchell (Toiler's Association - Labour, Diggers, Liberties), Tristram Hunt (New Times), Neil Hamilton (Excalibur)
2019-2023: Zac Goldsmith, Lord Goldsmith (Country)
2018 def. David Laws, Lord Laws (Progressive), Alan Moore (Toiler's Association - Labour, Liberties, Diggers), Neil Hamilton (Excalibur), Tiberius Blair, Lord Blair (New Times)
2023-0000: Jon Cruddas, Lord Cruddas (Labour - Toiler's Association)
2022 def. Zac Goldsmith, Lord Goldsmith (Country), David Cameron (Progressive), Neil Hamilton (Excalibur)

People often laugh at Britain - Britannia, sorry. 'Real country' they often mutter between chuckles. And it's not hard to see why - Britannia has struggled and to a large extent failed to shrug off the legacy of American occupation. The title of Lord-Governor alone demonstrates that alone, though that is dwarfed by the enormous deindustrialisation, the radical restructuring of land ownership, the cultivation of 'Ren Faire' culture on a colossal scale. They even still use the florin currency, though these days it's pegged to the ecu rather than the dollar.

But Britons don't have one of the highest rates of happiness and life satisfaction in the world for no reason. The deindustrialisation inflicted by a Washington fearing that England was to become a Second Cuba, coupled with the neo-medievalist policies (however anachronist they might be), ironically prepared the country for a wider deindustrialisation of the West. Britannia is an incredibly popular tourist destination - often compared to Japan.

The very anachronisms that the United States introduced in order to turn Britain into a compliant client state, a holiday destination where Americans could enjoy an England where Robin Hood overthrew King John in a 1776 transposed five centuries into the past, proved to be a deep well of political radicalism. The reversal of enclosure to remove a 'Norman Yoke' saw the wholesale disassemblage of centuries of aristocratic land accumulation. Deindustrialisation was coupled with the restoration of cottage industries that provided sustainable employment - and a wealth of green industry which has made Britain an ecological leader. And what began as attempts to make shlocky 'ren faire' mainstream, has morphed from a reboot of the English Array into a weird mish mash of fantasy and medieval, which has proved to be fertile ground for alternative expression of all kinds.

Political Parties

Toiler's Association
- Labour: Been through some weird times. From being the party of post-war plenty, to being banned under the American occupation, they won a majority based on a mixture of nostalgia and sympathy in 1982. But it was hard to inherit a country which had been so irrecevobaly changed. The traditional trade unions had been banned and their industrial cores torn out. They never quite reckoned with the 'half-republic' that the Commonwealth was. A lack of a traditional voter core, and their seeming focus on constitutional reform at the same time as trying to turn the clock back to the 1960s led to their disintegration. Labour remained in this mire until finally setting aside their hang ups and making common cause with the emergent social movements of the 'Commons and Liberties'.
- Diggers: The rural half of the new parties that form the TA with Labour. The Diggers represent the 'Commons', the collectivised land and villages that have adapted to the new normal established by neo-medievalism and have embraced it to make a kind of agrarian eco-socialism for the 21st century.
- Liberties: A kind of urban equivalent, most notable in 'studenty' areas, they are the cutting edge of social libertarianism, establishing both physical Liberties in the midst of cities, and furthering the extension of people's social liberties especially self-expression. Heavily associated with modern 'ren faire'.

Country: The modern iteration of Toryism, if modern isn't a bit of a contradiction. They are the Tories who made their peace with both American occupation, and the Knights Errant Movement which did away with the British Union. They are pro-European, pro-farmer, somewhat socially liberal, though a little hidebound in 2023, and a firm defender of the rituals of neo-medievalism. Some of them want to bring back the King, but they have a more natural home elsewhere.

Progressive: Once upon a time, the token opposition party of the British Union, composed of compliant Liberals and a number of Labourites. Eviscerated by the Knights Errant Movement's overthrow of the Stirling Tyranny, their withered husk was repurposed for Lord Ashdown's gubernatorial run, and soon became home to much of the KEM, parts of Labour which rankled against Heffer's primary against Booth, etc. Until recently were the main party of the left which accepted the neo-medieval status quo - their main distinguishing feature was a strong defence of liberalism, especially economic neoliberalism, which they have attempted to haltingly brink to British shores in an effort to diversify the economy away from the tourist and service sectors, with little success.

Excalibur: If you were wondering to the Tories who couldn't cope with the KEM, look no further. Neil Hamilton has reigned as tyrant of the party (as is right and correct) since Andrew Fountaine gave up, and the party is essentially for those who wish the neo-medievalism was more historically accurate, whilst simultaneously being a bit of a joke party.

New Times: Now only have three seats in Parliament, they were the most committed to doing away with neo-medievalism and making Britain fit for modernity. Ironically, they have become very trapped in a particular idea of modernity - their website looks very 1990s. The fact Blair actually uses his Lord title when in office he aggressively refused to use it, tells you a lot.

1965-1973: Edwin Walker (Democratic - National Union)
1964 (w. J. Edgar Hoover) def. effectively unopposed
1968 (w. J. Edgar Hoover) def. effectively unopposed
1973-1979: John Wayne (Republican - National Union)
1972 (w. Lester Maddox) def. George Wallace (Independent Democratic)
1976 (w. Lester Maddox) def. effectively unopposed
1979-1981: Lester Maddox (Democratic - National Union)
1981-1985: George Wallace (Independent Democratic - Opposition Ticket)
1980 (w. Elliot Richardson) def. Lester Maddox (Democratic - National Union)
 
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This is vaguely based on Daphne du Maurier's Rule Britannia - really, just on part of it.

Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

1945-1953: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1945 (Majority) def. Winston Churchill (National - Conservatives, Liberal Nationals), Sir Archibald Sinclair, 5th Baronet (Liberal)
1950 (Majority) def. Winston Churchill (Conservative - National Liberal), Clement Davies (Liberal)
1951 (Majority) def. Winston Churchill (Conservative - National Liberal), Clement Davies (Liberal)
1953-1955: Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1953 (Minority w. National Liberals; coalition w. Liberals) def. Clement Attlee (Labour), Clement Davies (Liberal)
1955-1959: Nye Bevan (Labour)
1955 (Majority) def. Winston Churchill (Conservative)
1959-1960: George Brown (Labour)
1960 (Minority) def. Rab Butler (Conservative), Mark Bonham Carter (Liberal)
1960-1968: Michael Foot (Labour)
1963 (Majority) def. Quintin Hogg (Conservative), Mark Bonham Carter (Liberal)
1967 (Majority) def. Enoch Powell (Conservative), Emlyn Hooson (Liberal)

Lord-Governors of the Commonwealth of Britannia

1968-1970: William Westmoreland, Lord Westmoreland (officially Nonpartisan, Military Administration - National Union)
1970-1977: Henry Cabot Lodge, Lord Lodge (officially Nonpartisan, Republican - National Union)
1977-1979: Airey Neave, Lord Neave (Conservative - British Union)
1976 def. Christopher Mayhew (Progressive - British Union)
1979-1982: David Stirling, Lord Stirling (officially Nonpartisan, Military Administration - British Union)
1982-1983: Sir Paddy Ashdown (officially Nonpartisan, Military Administration - Knights Errant Movement)
1983-1987: Albert Booth, Lord Booth (Labour)
1982 def. Sir Mike Rose (Knights Errant Movement), Sir Edward du Cann (Conservative), Andrew Fountaine (Excalibur), Sir Christopher Mayhew (Progressive)
1987-1989: Eric Heffer, Lord Heffer (Labour)
1986 def. Sir Anthony Meyer (Conservative), Dick Taverne (Democratic Labour), Neil Hamilton (Excalibur), Alan Beith (Progressive)
1989-1991: Ken Coates, Lord Coates (Labour)
1991-1999: Paddy Ashdown, Lord Ashdown (Progressive)
1990 def. Ken Coates, Lord Coates (Labour), Norman Tebbit (Conservative), Neil Hamilton (Excalibur)
1994 def. John Smith (Labour), Neil Hamilton (Excalibur), Chris Patten (Country), Norman Tebbit (Conservative)
1999-2003: Tiberius Blair, Lord Blair (New Times)
1998 def. Simon Hughes (Progressive), Gordon Brown (Labour), Chris Patten (Country), Neil Hamilton (Excalibur)
2003-2007: Paddy Ashdown, Lord Ashdown (Progressive)
2002 def. Edward Leigh (Country), Tiberius Blair (New Times), Frank Dobson (Labour), Neil Hamilton (Excalibur), collective (Diggers)
2007-2015: Laura Sandys, Lady Sandys (Country)
2006 def. Mark Oaten (Progressive), Alan Milburn (New Times), collective (Diggers), John Reid (Labour), Neil Hamilton (Excalibur)
2010 def. John Leech (Progressive), Derek Wall (Toiler's Association - Diggers, Labour), Tristram Hunt (New Times), Neil Hamilton (Excalibur)
2015-2019: David Laws, Lord Laws (Progressive)
2014 def. Michael Gove (Country), Peter Tatchell (Toiler's Association - Labour, Diggers), Tristram Hunt (New Times), Neil Hamilton (Excalibur)
2019-2023: Zac Goldsmith, Lord Goldsmith (Country)
2018 def. David Laws, Lord Laws (Progressive), Alan Moore (Toiler's Association - Labour, Diggers), Neil Hamilton (Excalibur), Tiberius Blair, Lord Blair (New Times)
2023-0000: Jon Cruddas, Lord Cruddas (Labour - Toiler's Association)
2022 def. Zac Goldsmith, Lord Goldsmith (Country), David Cameron (Progressive), Neil Hamilton (Excalibur)

People often laugh at Britain - Britannia, sorry. 'Real country' they often mutter between chuckles. And it's not hard to see why - Britannia has struggled and to a large extent failed to shrug off the legacy of American occupation. The title of Lord-Governor alone demonstrates that alone, though that is dwarfed by the enormous deindustrialisation, the radical restructuring of land ownership, the cultivation of 'Ren Faire' culture on a colossal scale. They even still use the florin currency, though these days it's pegged to the ecu rather than the dollar.

But Britons don't have one of the highest rates of happiness and life satisfaction in the world for no reason. The deindustrialisation inflicted by a Washington fearing that England was to become a Second Cuba, coupled with the neo-medievalist policies (however anachronist they might be), ironically prepared the country for a wider deindustrialisation of the West. Britannia is an incredibly popular tourist destination - often compared to Japan.
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collab list
The Century of Progress?

President of the United States
1909-1913: William Howard Taft (Republican)
1913-1917: Hiram Johnson (Progressive)
1917-1925: Herbert Hadley (Progressive)
1925-1929: Robert M. La Follette (Progressive)
1929-1936: Robert McNutt McElroy (All-American)
1936-1937: A. Mitchell Palmer (All-American)
1937-1941: Frank Knox (All-American, then independent)

Prime Minister of the United States
1941-1946: Fiorello La Guardia (Progressive supported by Broad Front)
1946-1954: Alben Barkley (National Democratic)
1954-1966: Edward de Valera (Sons of Liberty leading Federalist Front)
1966-1968: Syd Herlong (American Sovereignty leading Federalist Front)
1968-1969: Oetje Rogge (independent leading Americans for Constitutional Liberty)

Chairmen of the Armed Forces Council
1969-1969: Curtis LeMay
1969-1969: Creighton Abrams

Prime Minister of the United States
1969-1979: Bronson La Follette (Progressive-Libertarian)
1979-1979: S. I. Hayakawa (Federal)
1979-1985: Wendell R. Anderson (Progressive-Libertarian)
1985-1993: Pete Wilson (Federal, then New American)
1993-1996: George Miller III (Progressive-Libertarian)
1996-1999: Eddie Brown (21st Century)
1999-2008: Hillary Rodham (Progressive-Libertarian)
2008-2010: Eliot Cohen (New American)
2010-2021: Hilda Solis (LPUS)
2021-present: Evan McMullin (New American)

President of New England
1991-1995: John Sununu (New England Federalist, then Taxpayers')
1995-1996: Bob Smith (Taxpayers', part of 21st Century Alliance)

Some notes:
  • The Great War ends up being a damp squib - Franz Ferdinand never gets shot, and while tensions with Germany get close to blowing up in 1916 over some damned foolish thing in the Pacific, cooler heads prevail. This takes long enough for the 1916 Progressive National Convention to dissolve into rancor between Western isolationists and Eastern Anglophiles - though Leonard Wood's bid fails, discontent over Johnson signing over the Panama Canal and banning Americans from volunteering in the war effort, as well as his close relationship with the Hearst media empire, leads to Johnson agreeing to return to the Senate and allow fellow Westerner Hadley to win the nomination.
  • A decade later, another war - this one between Russia and Germany over German support for nationalists in Central Asia and Eastern Europe - ended the Progressives' sixteen-year command (didn't help that La Follette was near death for most of his tenure); Robert McNutt McElroy led a swathe of the party's nationalist intelligentsia into a new party founded on xenophobia and corporatism. Then he sent the Army to join the new Joint Mandate aimed at peace through superior firepower; then the War in China turned into a quagmire; then labor peace broke down at home amid a General Strike; then Frank Knox, McElroy's eventual successor, agreed to demilitarization and political reform.
  • La Guardia's revival of the old Progressive tradition - now more than ever a Farmer-Labor party, or even Labor-Farmer - was the strongest current standing between Silonism and the ancien regime, preventing the dissolution of the old All-American Presidential system from spiraling into civil war. Part of that effort - by the tail end of La Guardia's tenure, the lion's share of it - involved a large-scale greasing of the wheels: patronage in the railroads, hospitals, and universities Johnson, Hadley, and La Follette had nationalized or universalized, price supports for agricultural commodities, and planism as never seen before, all funded by soaking the rich plus a few stirrings of Georgism. La Guardia's death and the 1946 election saw Barkley realize that a moderate form of that clientelism, without that idealistic social democracy in the way and with enough concessions to Mittelstand and commanding height alike to compensate for losing the left edge, could unite the (white) working classes of the North and South - until the bottom fell out during the fiscal crisis of the early '50s.
  • Then Edward de Valera's Federalists - Northerners who wanted to restore the power of churches and community leaders, Southerners who saw the stirrings of Communism in the welfare state and thought even Barkley's tepid triangulation was a bridge too far, military leaders who saw in the League of Nations and General Chiang the vaunted prophecy of 'the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined... with a Buonaparte for a commander' - spent the next decade and a half tearing the Progressive Era apart, brick by brick. Some local governments filled ballot boxes, others insulated their voters from the consequences of their own actions, but overall the resolute, austere "Dev" was the human face of 'responsible budgeting' and 'moral hygiene' - until he retired, and the fire-breathing Herlong said the quiet part too loud. Too bad the military had something to say about Oetje Rogge's new popular-front-by-another-name...
  • But that whiff of grapeshot killed its own shooters. De Valera's willingness to shoot Santa Claus no longer looked like prudent coldness, just like the opening act of dictatorship. La Follette the Younger and fellow Midwesterner Anderson ruled for sixteen years of their own, rebuilding the paternalistic Progressive 'eds and meds' state from decades of neglect; they were able to put a solid floor under the third of a nation that was underhoused, underfed, and undereducated, but unable to save the middle third of the nation from deindustrialization and urban decay. Pete Wilson dediabolized the right wing by tactically surrendering on the welfare state and civil rights to focus on illegal immigration and national security; unfortunately for him, this was anathema to the starchy New England conservatives who depended on cheap labor to take care of their aging population but thought taxes were too damn high and the rest of the world was not America's problem. The United States of New England never existed as more than a flag, label, and stemwinder for the Taxpayers' Party (despite the dreams of the Northeast Territorial Imperative, whose activities after "President" Smith's formal resignation were much less fun and more bloody), but it spelled the end of the Wilson administration.
  • Miller and Brown proved to be unequal to the challenges of the New World Order; Rodham, despite her efforts to improve equality at home and bring America into the Global Community, also wasn't enough. Since the Labor Party of the United States swallowed the lion's share of the old Progressive-Libertarians, the American political system has polarized around the interventionist, conservative, centralizing, 'post-racial' New American Party - and the LPUS, duly committed to the working class and American access to the global marketplace, at almost any cost...
 
Steve Brinson said:
collab list
The Century of Progress?

President of the United States
1909-1913: William Howard Taft (Republican)
1913-1917: Hiram Johnson (Progressive)
1917-1925: Herbert Hadley (Progressive)
1925-1929: Robert M. La Follette (Progressive)
1929-1936: Robert McNutt McElroy (All-American)
1936-1937: A. Mitchell Palmer (All-American)
1937-1941: Frank Knox (All-American, then independent)

Prime Minister of the United States
1941-1946: Fiorello La Guardia (Progressive supported by Broad Front)
1946-1954: Alben Barkley (National Democratic)
1954-1966: Edward de Valera (Sons of Liberty leading Federalist Front)
1966-1968: Syd Herlong (American Sovereignty leading Federalist Front)
1968-1969: Oetje Rogge (independent leading Americans for Constitutional Liberty)

Chairmen of the Armed Forces Council
1969-1969: Curtis LeMay
1969-1969: Creighton Abrams

Prime Minister of the United States
1969-1979: Bronson La Follette (Progressive-Libertarian)
1979-1979: S. I. Hayakawa (Federal)
1979-1985: Wendell R. Anderson (Progressive-Libertarian)
1985-1993: Pete Wilson (Federal, then New American)
1993-1996: George Miller III (Progressive-Libertarian)
1996-1999: Eddie Brown (21st Century)
1999-2008: Hillary Rodham (Progressive-Libertarian)
2008-2010: Eliot Cohen (New American)
2010-2021: Hilda Solis (LPUS)
2021-present: Evan McMullin (New American)

President of New England
1991-1995: John Sununu (New England Federalist, then Taxpayers')
1995-1996: Bob Smith (Taxpayers', part of 21st Century Alliance)

Some notes:
  • The Great War ends up being a damp squib - Franz Ferdinand never gets shot, and while tensions with Germany get close to blowing up in 1916 over some damned foolish thing in the Pacific, cooler heads prevail. This takes long enough for the 1916 Progressive National Convention to dissolve into rancor between Western isolationists and Eastern Anglophiles - though Leonard Wood's bid fails, discontent over Johnson signing over the Panama Canal and banning Americans from volunteering in the war effort, as well as his close relationship with the Hearst media empire, leads to Johnson agreeing to return to the Senate and allow fellow Westerner Hadley to win the nomination.
  • A decade later, another war - this one between Russia and Germany over German support for nationalists in Central Asia and Eastern Europe - ended the Progressives' sixteen-year command (didn't help that La Follette was near death for most of his tenure); Robert McNutt McElroy led a swathe of the party's nationalist intelligentsia into a new party founded on xenophobia and corporatism. Then he sent the Army to join the new Joint Mandate aimed at peace through superior firepower; then the War in China turned into a quagmire; then labor peace broke down at home amid a General Strike; then Frank Knox, McElroy's eventual successor, agreed to demilitarization and political reform.
  • La Guardia's revival of the old Progressive tradition - now more than ever a Farmer-Labor party, or even Labor-Farmer - was the strongest current standing between Silonism and the ancien regime, preventing the dissolution of the old All-American Presidential system from spiraling into civil war. Part of that effort - by the tail end of La Guardia's tenure, the lion's share of it - involved a large-scale greasing of the wheels: patronage in the railroads, hospitals, and universities Johnson, Hadley, and La Follette had nationalized or universalized, price supports for agricultural commodities, and planism as never seen before, all funded by soaking the rich plus a few stirrings of Georgism. La Guardia's death and the 1946 election saw Barkley realize that a moderate form of that clientelism, without that idealistic social democracy in the way and with enough concessions to Mittelstand and commanding height alike to compensate for losing the left edge, could unite the (white) working classes of the North and South - until the bottom fell out during the fiscal crisis of the early '50s.
  • Then Edward de Valera's Federalists - Northerners who wanted to restore the power of churches and community leaders, Southerners who saw the stirrings of Communism in the welfare state and thought even Barkley's tepid triangulation was a bridge too far, military leaders who saw in the League of Nations and General Chiang the vaunted prophecy of 'the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined... with a Buonaparte for a commander' - spent the next decade and a half tearing the Progressive Era apart, brick by brick. Some local governments filled ballot boxes, others insulated their voters from the consequences of their own actions, but overall the resolute, austere "Dev" was the human face of 'responsible budgeting' and 'moral hygiene' - until he retired, and the fire-breathing Herlong said the quiet part too loud. Too bad the military had something to say about Oetje Rogge's new popular-front-by-another-name...
  • But that whiff of grapeshot killed its own shooters. De Valera's willingness to shoot Santa Claus no longer looked like prudent coldness, just like the opening act of dictatorship. La Follette the Younger and fellow Midwesterner Anderson ruled for sixteen years of their own, rebuilding the paternalistic Progressive 'eds and meds' state from decades of neglect; they were able to put a solid floor under the third of a nation that was underhoused, underfed, and undereducated, but unable to save the middle third of the nation from deindustrialization and urban decay. Pete Wilson dediabolized the right wing by tactically surrendering on the welfare state and civil rights to focus on illegal immigration and national security; unfortunately for him, this was anathema to the starchy New England conservatives who depended on cheap labor to take care of their aging population but thought taxes were too damn high and the rest of the world was not America's problem. The United States of New England never existed as more than a flag, label, and stemwinder for the Taxpayers' Party (despite the dreams of the Northeast Territorial Imperative, whose activities after "President" Smith's formal resignation were much less fun and more bloody), but it spelled the end of the Wilson administration.
  • Miller and Brown proved to be unequal to the challenges of the New World Order; Rodham, despite her efforts to improve equality at home and bring America into the Global Community, also wasn't enough. Since the Labor Party of the United States swallowed the lion's share of the old Progressive-Libertarians, the American political system has polarized around the interventionist, conservative, centralizing, 'post-racial' New American Party - and the LPUS, duly committed to the working class and American access to the global marketplace, at almost any cost...
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Speaking of De Valera, I thought of writing a TL where Sinn Fein won the 1981 Irish general election and set on building a democratic socialist society and reunifying Ireland.
 
NotDavidSoslan said:
Speaking of De Valera, I thought of writing a TL where Sinn Fein won the 1981 Irish general election and set on building a democratic socialist society and reunifying Ireland.
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It won’t happen, unless your doing the Sinn Fein - The Workers Party and even then, a Marxist Leninist Party taking over Ireland would scare everyone, also De Valera wasn’t a Socialist by any means.

Anyway @Steve Brinson looks good.
 
1987 - 1992: Neil Kinnock (Labour coalition with Liberal Democrats)

1992 - 1994: Michael Heseltine (Conservative minority coalition with UUP, supported by Lib Dem deals)

1994 - 1998: Gordon Brown (Labour coalition with SDLP & Greens)

1998 - 2001: William Hague (Conservative coalition with UUP & UKIP)

2001: Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat coalition with UUP & SDLP)

Proportional representation had been a demand of the formed-in-87 Lib Dems and after fourteen years of chaos, a Private Member's Bill brought back FPTP against the PM's wishes. (His campaign for it was undercut by his own absurd choice of allies)

As everyone went back to the polls, there was hope that stability would finally return--

2001 - 2014: Neil Hamilton (Conservative)

No! No!!
 
Charles EP M. said:
1987 - 1992: Neil Kinnock (Labour coalition with Liberal Democrats)

1992 - 1994: Michael Heseltine (Conservative minority coalition with UUP, supported by Lib Dem deals)

1994 - 1998: Gordon Brown (Labour coalition with SDLP & Greens)

1998 - 2001: William Hague (Conservative coalition with UUP & UKIP)

2001: Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat coalition with UUP & SDLP)

Proportional representation had been a demand of the formed-in-87 Lib Dems and after fourteen years of chaos, a Private Member's Bill brought back FPTP against the PM's wishes. (His campaign for it was undercut by his own absurd choice of allies)

As everyone went back to the polls, there was hope that stability would finally return--

2001 - 2014: Neil Hamilton (Conservative)

No! No!!
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How incredibly cursed.
 
Millennium Dawn, a Sealion Press collaborative timeline ~ contributors include me, @Luke_Starkiller, @Steve Brinson, @prezZF, @2ndH00PTIE$ON, and @SomeGuyOnline.

(42.) Bill Clinton / Al Gore (Democratic): 1993-2001
1992: def. George H.W. Bush / Dan Quayle (Republican), Ross Perot / James Stockdale (Independent)
1996: def. Bob Dole / Jack Kemp (Republican), Ross Perot / Pat Choate (Reform)
(43.) George Pataki / John Ashcroft (Republican): 2001-2001
2000: def. Al Gore / John Edwards (Democratic)
2001: Pataki killed in 9/11
(44.) John Ashcroft / vacant; Dick Cheney (Republican): 2001-2005
2001: Dick Cheney nominated as VP
(45.) Wesley Clark / Thomas Menino; vacant; John Whitmire (Democratic): 2005-2013
2004 def. John Ashcroft / Dick Cheney (Republican)
2008 def. Judd Gregg / Mike Parker (Republican), Dan Patrick / Skunk Baxter (Values), Robert Reich / Barbara Lee (Justice)
(46.) Bobby Jindal / John Thune (Republican): 2013-2021
2012 def. Ned Lamont / Blanche Lincoln (Democratic), Joe Lieberman / Charlie Crist (America for Lieberman)
2016 def. Deval Patrick / Russ Feingold [replacing Beau Biden*] (Democratic), Bill Walker / Greg Orman (Common Good), Jerry Brown / Dennis Kucinich (Green - Justice Fusion)
(47.) Al Franken / Janet Cowell (Democratic): 2021-2025
2020 def. John Thune / Dean Heller (Republican), Christine Todd Whitman / Elliot Ackerman (Common Good), Dennis Kucinich / John Bonifaz (Green - Justice - Peace & Freedom Fusion)
(48.) Pat McCrory / Rand Paul (Republican): 2025-2029
2024 def. Al Franken / Janet Cowell (Democratic), Joe Sestak / Lisa Boscola (Common Good), Ayanna Pressley / Jill Stein (Green - Justice - Peace & Freedom Fusion)
(49.) Janet Cowell / Mandela Barnes (Democratic): 2029-2033
2028 def. Pat McCrory / Rand Paul (Republican), Tom Campbell / Danielle Chesebrough (Common Good), Nina Turner / Cornel West (Green - Justice - Peace & Freedom Fusion)
(50.) Tom Kean Jr. / Byron Donalds (Republican): 2033-2041
2032 def. Janet Cowell / Mandela Barnes (Democratic), Peter Meijer / Ben McAdams (Common Good), Cori Bush / Summer Lee (Socialist Alternative {Fusion with Green - Justice - Peace & Freedom}
2036 def. Michelle Wu / Jon Ossoff (Democratic), Peter Meijer / Will Hurd (Common Good), Dario Hunter / Greg Cesar (Socialist Alternative)
(51.) Jon Ossoff / Meagan Simonaire (Democratic): 2041-2049
2040 def. Byron Donalds / Pat Grassley (Republican), Philip DeFranco / Hannibal Buress (Common Good), Greg Cesar / Briahna Joy Gray (People's Alternative)
2044 def. Alec Ryncavage / John Tyler Hammons (Republican), Philip DeFranco / Jeff Kurzon (Common Good), Briahna Joy Gray / Aalayah Eastmond (People's Alternative)

*- Biden resigned from his spot on the ticket on September 1 due to his cancer returning. He died on October 14.
 
The Long Road to the End

1921-1925: Warren G. Harding (Republican)
1918: Henry Ford is elected senator from Michigan on a pro-League of Nations platform. Despite this, the LoN still fails to gain support in America.
1920 def. (with Calvin Coolidge) James Cox (Democratic)
1922: Senator Henry Ford secures funding for a dam in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, which becomes a company town for Ford and soon becomes a "mega-city" in the south.
1923: "Teapot Dome" scandals break out, severely damaging president Harding's popularity. While not impeached, he doesn't stand for re-election. Republicans tap Herbert Hoover, one of the few Republicans still universally popular, to run.
1925-1933: Herbert Hoover (Republican)
1924: KKK begins official program to back Republican party; utilized by Hoover campaign.
1924 def. (with John Coulter) Oscar Underwood (Democratic), Robert LaFollette (Progressive)
1928 def. (with John Coulter) Al Smith (Democratic)
1929: Great Depression begins
1929: As Great Depression begins, KKK breaks from Republican party, begins recruiting campaigns, offering food to starving people during Depression.
1930: Food riots occur in many major cities.
1933-1937: Henry Ford (Democratic)
1932 def. (with Newton Baker) John Coulter (Republican), Norman Thomas (Socialist)
1933: Allies of Ford publish "Protocols of Elders of Zion"; an anti-semitic forgery. Jews begin to be blamed for Depression.
1933: Pogroms occur of Jews outside of many major urban areas.
1934: With worsening anti-semitism, a plan is hatched by members of Ford administration to "transfer" America's Jewish population to Alaska. The plan is really much more similar to a deportation, and is hoped by Ford to "starve out" Jewish-Americans.
1934: In response to Alaska plan, New York governor Al Smith refuses, and forms "Nullifier" sect of Democrats, who begin to dominate in New York.
1936: J. Edgar Hoover resigns from position of head of FBI, secures Republican nomination for president.
1937-0000: J. Edgar Hoover (Republican)
1936 def. (with Alf Landon) Henry Ford (Democratic), Al Smith (Nullifier), Norman Thomas (Socialist)
 
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Presidents of Brazil since 1994 in a SI timeline I do not post to this site:

29. Pedro Simon (1994–1999)
30. Tasso Jereissati (1999–2003)
31. José Serra (2003–2007)
32. Geraldo Alckmin (2007–2011)
33. Eduardo Campos (2011–2015)
34. Ciro Gomes (2015–2019)
35. Álvaro Dias (2019–2023)
36. Fernando Haddad (2023–)
 
1973-1977: Tom Bradley (Democratic)
1973 def. Sam Yorty (Democratic)
1977: Tom Bradley is appointed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development by President Frank Church.
1977-1982: David Cunningham (Democratic)
1977: Appointed by Los Angeles City Council
1977 def. Alan Robbins (Democratic - Anti-Busing), Howard Jarvis (Republican)
1979: Riots break out over death of black man George Martin by the LAPD.
1982-1990: Daryl Gates (Republican)
1981 def. David Cunningham (Democratic)
1985 def. Nate Holden (Democratic), John Ferraro (Democratic)
1990-1998: Jay Paul (Republican)
1989 def. Zev Yaroslavsky (Democratic)
1993 def. Julian Nava (Democratic)
1994: Campaign to overturn term limits law ends Jay Paul’s mayoralty
1998-2000: Tom Hayden (Democratic)
1997 def. Jay Paul (Republican)
2000: Vietnamese-American ally of General Ky assassinates Tom Hayden, rumored to have connections with VOECRN
2000-2006: Xavier Becerra (Democratic)
2000: Appointed by Los Angeles City Council
2001 def. Jim Gilchrist (Republican)
2005 def. O.J. Simpson (Republican)

in memorial of a certain someone featured; a backlog list from the other alternate history website
 
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Jacques Delors participates and predictably wins the 1995 French Presidential Election

1995-2002 : Jacques Delors (Parti Socialiste)
1995 def. Edouard Balladur (ind.), Jacques Chirac (Rassemblement pour la République)

2002-2012 : Philippe Séguin (Rassemblement Pour la République) - (L'Appel Républicain)
2002 def. : Martine Aubry (Parti Socialiste), Jean-Marie Le Pen (Front National)
2007 def : Jean-Marie Le Pen (Front National), Bertrand Delanoë (Parti Socialiste)

2012-2017 : Ségolène Royal (Parti Socialiste)
2012 def. : Michelle Alliot-Marie (L'Appel Républicain), François Bayrou (Union pour la Démocratie Française)

2017-2022 : Nicolas Sarkozy (Rassemblement Citoyen)
2017 def : François Philippot (Front National), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (Parti de Gauche)

2022-2027 : Jean-Marie Bockel (En Avant!)
2017 def : Nicolas Sarkozy (Rassemblement Citoyen), François Philippot (Front National),

(Keeping with the running gag having the neo-gaullist parties changing names every two elections)
 
The Slow Rise of Labour and the Intermitent Resuctation of the Liberals

1916-1922: David Lloyd George (Coalition Liberal)
1918 (Coalition w/ Conservative) def. Andrew Bonar Law (Conservative); David Lloyd George (Coalition Liberal); Éamon de Valera (Sinn Féin); William Adamson (Labour); H.H. Asquith (Liberal); John Dillon (IPP)

1922-1923: Andrew Bonar Law (Conservative)
1922 (Minority) def. J.R. Clynes (Labour); H.H. Asquith (Liberal); David Lloyd George (Coalition Liberal)

1923-1928: Winston Churchill (Liberal)
1923 (Coalition w/ Conservative) def. Austen Chamberlain (Conservative); Ramsay MacDonald (Labour)

1928-1930: J.R. Clynes (Labour)
1928 (Minority w/ Liberal support) def. Stanley Baldwin (Conservative); David Lloyd George (Liberal); Winston Churchill (National Liberal)

1930-1938: Douglas Hogg, 1st Viscount Hailsham (Conservative)
1930 (Nat. Govt. w/ Lib., Nat. Lib. & Nat. Labour) def. J.R. Clynes (Labour); Winston Churchill (National Liberal); David Lloyd George (Liberal); Ramsay MacDonald (National Labour); Oswald Mosely (New Party)
1935 (Nat. Govt. w/ Nat. Lib. & Nat. Labour) def. Herbert Morrison (Labour); Harcourt Johnstone (Liberal); Archibald Sinclair (National Liberal); Ramsay MacDonald (National Labour); Oswald Mosely (B.U.F.); J. R. Campbell (C.P.G.B.)

1938-1940: Walter Elliot (Unionist)

1940-1943: Winston Churchill† (National Liberal)
(Wartime Coalition) def. Sir Stafford Cripps (Labour); Harcourt Johnstone (Liberal); Archibald Sinclair (National Liberal); Harold Nicolson (National Labour); Harry Pollitt (C.P.G.B.); Oswald Mosely (B.U.F.)

1943-1953: Anthony Eden (Conservative)
1944 (Majority w/ Nat. Lib.) def. Sir Stafford Cripps (Labour); Harcourt Johnstone (Liberal); Archibald Sinclair (National Liberal); Harold Nicolson (National Labour); Harry Pollitt (C.P.G.B.)
1948 (Majority w/ Nat. Lib.) def. Sir Stafford Cripps (Labour); Percy Harris (Liberal); Gwilym Lloyd George (National Liberal); Harry Pollitt (C.P.G.B.)
1952 (Majority w/ Nat. Lib.) def. Herbert Morrison (Labour); Gwilym Lloyd George (National Liberal); Violet Bonham Carter (Liberal)

1952-1956: Gwilym Lloyd George (National Liberal)

1956-1963: Hugh Gaitskell† (Labour)
1956 (Majority) def. R.A. Butler (Conservative); Violet Bonham Carter (Liberal); Gwilym Lloyd George (National Liberal)
1961 (Majority) def. Harold Macmillan (Conservative); Donald Wade (Liberal)

1963-1966: Barbara Castle (Labour)

1966-1970: Alec Douglas-Home (Unionist)
1966 (Majority) def. Barbara Castle (Labour); Donald Wade (Liberal)

1970-1971: Barbara Castle (Labour)
1970 (Minority) def. Alec Douglas-Home (Unionist); Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)

1971-1976: Alec Douglas-Home† (Unionist)
1971 (Coalition w/ Liberal) def. Barbara Castle (Labour); Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1975 (Coalition w/ Liberal) def. Anthony Crosland (Labour); Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)

1976-1980: Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)

1980-1990: Tony Benn (Labour)
1980 (Majority) def. Francis Pym (Conservative); Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1985 (Majority) def. Francis Pym (Conservative); David Penhaligon (Liberal); Roy Jenkins (Social Democrats)

1990-1995: Norman Tebbit (Conservative)
1990 (Majority) def. Tony Benn (Labour); Malcolm Bruce (Liberal); Bill Rodgers (Social Democrats)

1995-2003: Mo Mowlam (Labour)
1995 (Majority) def. Norman Tebbit (Conservative); Don Foster (Lib. Dem.); Sir George Young (Reform)
1999 (Majority) def. Michael Heseltine (Conservative); Sir George Young/Don Foster (Alliance)
 
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I am so horrified by the creativeness of everyone involved, @Comisario, @Time Enough, @Skaven, @Wendell, @Edmund, @TheHatMan98, @neonduke, @Bene Tleilax, @Fleetlord, and @Steve Brinson
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Presidents of the Confederate States:
1861-1867: Jefferson Davis / Alexander Stevens (Nonpartisan)
1867-1873: J. L. M. Curry / Lawrence O'Bryan Branch ("Dixie" Democratic)
1873-1879: Joseph E. Johnston / Alexander H. H. Stuart (Democratic-Whig)
1879-1885: Barzillai J. Chambers / William M. Lowe (Alliance supported by Agrarian and Anti-Monopoly League, National Reform Society, and United Workers' Party)
1885-1891: Simon Bolivar Buckner / William D. Bloxham (Democratic-National)
1891-1897: William Mahone / Jim Hogg (Reform Alliance)
1897-1903: William Campbell Preston Breckinridge / William E. Cameron (Reform Alliance)
1903-1909: Josephus Daniel/John Sharp Williams (Democrat-National)
1909-1913: Henry W. Grady†/Samuel I. Hopkins (Democrat-National)
1913-1915: Samuel I. Hopkins / Murry Cuthbert Falkner (Democrat - National)
1915-1921: Sam Faubus/Sydney J. Catts (Reform Alliance)
1921-1926: William H. Murray / Oscar Branch Colquitt (Reform Alliance)
Position Abolished

U.S. Governors of the Southern Territories:
1926-1935: Ulysses S. Grant III (Military)
1935-1938: Smedley Butler (Military)
1938-1945: Henry A. Wallace (Labor)
1945-1951: George L. Berry (Labor)
1951-1957: James W. "Jim" Ford (Colored Labor)

Presidents of the Southron Federal States
1957-1959: Lyndon B. Johnson†/Benjamin Hooks (Independent)
1959-1967: Benjamin Hooks/Russell Long (Independent)
1967-1972: James E. Webb / Aaron Henry (Independent)
1972-1977: Aaron Henry / Henry Howell (Independent)

Presidents of the Socialist Republic of Virginia
1977-1998: James H. Webb (Jeffersonian Socialist Vanguard)
1998-2007: Christopher Hitchens (JSV - Internationale)

Coordinator-General of Southron Reintegration
2007-2009: Clarence Thomas (Sea Islanders Command, US Army)
2009-2011: Oliver North (Marine Corps, US Navy)
2011-2023: Timothy McVeigh (US Army)
2023-Present: James Comey (National Security Council)
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Presidents of Equatorial Guinea in a timeline where Francisco Macías Nguema did not govern as the worst dictator and arguably the worst ruler ever:

1. Francisco Macías Nguema (1968–1983); died in office after becoming increasingly erratic in his final years)
2. Atanasio Ndongo (1983–1993)
3. Secundino Edú-Aguong (1993–2008)
4. Plácido Micó (2008–2010)
5. Celestino Bonifácio Bacalé (2010–2013)
6. Andrés Esono Ondo (2013–2018)
7. Monica Macías (2018–2021)
8. Military junta (2021–)
 
1969-1973: Mark Hatfield / Jacob Javits (1) (Republican)
1968 def. Eugene McCarthy / John Connally (Democratic), George Wallace / Curtis LeMay (AIP)
1973-1977: Mark Hatfield / Roger MacBride (Republican)
1972 def. Henry M. Jackson / James E. Carter (Democratic), Thomas Moorer / John Schmitz (AIP), George McGovern / Alfred King (Peace)
1977-1979: George Mitchell / Frank Church (Democratic)
1976 def. Cornelia Wallace / Steve Symms (AIP), Roger MacBride / John Conlan (Republican)

(1) Resigned to serve as Secretary of State

George Mitchell had risen from little-known senator from Maine (replacing Ed Muskie who died in the 1972 DNC riots) to one of the most popular men in America to President so fast it still didn’t feel real. In early 1976 he lead the peace process that ended the Anglo-Irish invasion of Free Ulster. After the Democratic party fell into a three-way war between Scoop Jackson, Ron Dellums, and Jerry Brown, he was practically airdropped in from Belfast to gain the nomination. Mitchell’s lack of political service during the Vietnam War, his lack of real stances on things like busing or nuclear energy caused the Democrats to stick together, and a strategy conducted by Robert Strauss to avoid offending anyone at all led to a 48-state landslide. Mitchell won both a piece of the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency in the same year.

But now Mitchell had to deal with the reality of post-Hatfield governance, and it was the same governance that had led to Mitchell, a freshman senator, having to lead a peace conference while the president sat at home and twiddled his thumbs. The Community Government Act had stripped the federal gov of tax revenue and destroyed the Great Society and Second Reconstruction. Now ”Neighborhood Power” was king, and a divided Democrat congress failed to get anything done. Too many Southerners to pass Universal Healthcare or Full Employment. Too many liberals like Gar Alperovitz (D-WI), Norman Mailer (D-NY), and Jerry Brown (D-CA) to repeal the CGA or Taft-Hartley. So Mitchell struggled. His time as president was instead focused on lofty goals for world peace, where Secretary of State Donald Fraser would try to establish a UN parliament and Mitchell himself would focus on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

1979 rolled around and the shine had worn off on Mitchell just enough. The economy was in a downturn, as Hatfield-era economic programs had led to deflation and high unemployment. Americans had gone to the polls and elected anyone BUT Democrats, with the Republicans, AIP, and a new party representing “neighborhood power”, the Rainbow Coalition (2), would gain seats in congress. Yet despite that, the real scandal that would tear down the Mitchell administration was brewing within the halls of the FBI, where surprise appointee Ted Gunderson felt like his brain was going to explode realizing some of the horrors of the presidency…


(2) Author’s note: the RC would endorse the Republican candidate for president in 1980.
 
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