Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

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The Men (and Women) of Downing Street

1890-1900 Rupert Audinland (Conservative) (1)
1900-1903 Hector D'Estrange (Liberal) (2)
1903-1906 Sir John Cabal (Liberal) (3)
1906-1911 Jack Carterham (Conservative) (4)
1911-1921 Brian Marvin (Conservative) (5)
1921-1926 Zilliboy Shinbags (Labour) (6)
1926-1933 Walter Outrage (Labour) (7)
1933-1935 Oswald Parham (Conservative) (8)
1935-1939 Edmund Blackadder (Conservative) (9)
1939-1945 Winston Audinland (Conservative) (10)
1945-1952 Everard Webley (Labour) (11)
1952-1953 Winston Audinland (Conservative) (12)
1953-1959 Arthur Lytton (Conservative) (13)
1959-1962 Kenneth Widmerpool (Conservative) (14)
1962-1970 Harold Blocket (Labour) (15)
1970-1974 Michael Rimmer (Conservative) (16)
1974-1979 Iorwerth Jones (Labour) (17)
1979-1984 Joan Carpenter (Conservative) (18)
1984-1985 Herbert Attwell (Conservative) (19)
1985-1988 James Hacker (Conservative) (20)
1988-1989 Harry Perkins (Labour) (21)
1989-1991 Lawrence Wainwright (Labour) (22)
1991-1995 Francis Urquhart (Conservative) (23)
1995-1996 Tom Makepeace (Conservative) (24)
1996-1997 Alan B'Stard (Conservative) (25)
1997 Adam Lang (Labour) (26)
1997 Edward Grayhaven (Ice Warrior occupation) (27)
1997-2003 Michael Stevens (Labour) (28)
2003-2006 David Grant (Labour) (29)
2006 Joseph Green (Labour) (30)
2006-2008 Harriet Jones (Labour) (31)
2008 Harold Saxon (Liberal Democrat) (32)
2008 Rosamund Pritchard (Independent) (33)
2008-2009 Tom Davis (Labour) (34)
2009-2013 Michael Callow (Conservative) (35)
2013 Tom Dawkins (Conservative) (36)
2013-2018 Felix Durrell (Conservative) (37)
2018-2022 Julia Montague (Conservative) (38)
2022-2024 Adam Susan (Norsefire/Shepherd Party/Waldo Movement Coalition) (39)
2024-2028 Adam Susan (Norsefire) (40)
2028-2029 James Jaspers (Norsefire) (41)
2029-2030 Arthur Pendragon (Independent) (42)

1. An unashamed populist and a devotee of what he called “Tory Democracy”, Audinland stood for a mixture of reform at home and aggression abroad. He presided over the annexation and colonisation of much of the remaining African territories and instituted several major reforms which would eventually form the basis for the modern welfare state. Early on in Audinland’s term in office, he was nearly killed by the deranged Lord Blackwood along with the rest of Parliament. Audinland also presided over the brief War of 1897, in which Britain beat back a French and Russian invasion attempt and defeated both nations with the help of Germany, acquiring several new colonies in the process. His time in office would also see the creation of the first sentient animals by Dr. Moreau, the rampage of a malevolent deity in Wales and the attack on London by anarchist terrorists. Audinland is most famous however for being Prime Minister during the first public alien invasion, the Sarmak Invasion of 1898. Although the Sarmaks were ultimately killed by the common cold, the devastation of London, the poor performance of the armed forces and the resulting economic downturn combined with pre-existing inter-party squabbles over Audinland’s constant shift to the left led to Audinland’s defeat to the Liberals.
   
   
2. Hector D’Estrange was secretly the women’s suffrage campaigner Gloriana de Lara, posing as a man. As such “Hector” took a great interest in women’s affairs, with controversial policies such as female suffrage and unisex education. This was justified with the claim that Britain would need to be united in order to defeat any future alien attack. Believing that the best defence was a good offence, de Lara sponsored efforts at space exploration by genius scientists such as Cavor and Lord Redgrave, although no permanent British presence was established in space. However, she would also face problems from closer to home, such as the Boer War and the attempted German invasion of 1903. De Lara was forced to resign in 1903, as she was due to meet with her former lover, Harry Flashman, who might have exposed her.
   
   
3. Cabal took office with the intention of eventually destroying Mars. Although a joint Anglo-American expedition was launched, led by Thomas Edison, the expedition was defeated when they were Grokked by a different group of aliens living on Mars. Cabal also saw the ascension of the first English pope, Hadrian VII. To make matters worse for Cabal, the invention of Boomfood led to the creation of a variety of giant life forms. While the rampages of giant vermin were relatively easy to deal with, giant humans proved rather harder. Cabal’s efforts to live in peace with the giants were rejected by a terrified electorate who were demanding “harsh measures”.
   
   
4. A ruthless demagogue, Jack “The Giant Killer” Carterham proceeded to do exactly that. After the giants refused to exile themselves away from human society, they were ruthlessly destroyed and Boomfood was banned. For a few months in 1906, the passage of a comet made the entirety of humanity rational, moral and constantly aware of the great beauty of the universe before the effects wore off. Carterham would ally with the United States against Germany and the Sino-Japanese Empire in the Airship War of 1908. Although Britain was victorious, and China-Japan was shattered, Germany was none the worse for wear. This contributed to a decline in popularity for Carterham which would eventually result in his resignation in 1911.
   
   
5. Marvin, a veteran of both the Sarmak invasion and the Boer War was brought in to provide Britain with some military discipline. The early years of his time in office saw the discovery of Maple White Land, resulting in a Brontosaurus rampaging through London, the disastrous sinking of the Titan, the Earth passing through a belt of poisonous ether which rendered almost all humans unconscious and the discovery of an aerial ecosystem 40,000 feet above the ground. 1914 however would lead to what Marvin is most famous for- the First World War. As the war dragged, killing ever more thousands of young men, morale began to suffer, despite propaganda triumphs such as the return of the Bowmen of Mons. In response, Marvin grew ever more authoritarian, arresting critics of the war. Although Britain was eventually victorious, the continuing war in Ireland made Marvin even more unpopular and his desperate attempts to cling to power in 1921 were a miserable failure.
   
   
6. With the Conservatives discredited and the Liberals divided into dozens of squabbling factions, it was Labour’s time to shine. While the ascension of a socialist party to power created outrage and fear in some quarters, Shinbags was soon able to assuage fears, especially given his relative lack of radicalism and poor relations with the Soviet Union. Shinbags time in office also saw a great explosion in archaeology, resulting in the resurrection of several cursed mummies. His anti-communist credentials were extended further by his defeat of a Soviet invasion in 1923. Labour gained a further boost when several Conservative MPs were found guilty of poaching. Shinbags was Prime Minister when Cthulhu was briefly awakened in 1925 and was briefly driven insane by the revelation. Although he regained his senses, he would resign the following year to seek treatment
   
   
7. Outrage was not too different from his predecessor in ideology, although he made more of an effort to shore up his left-wing credentials. Outrage presided over first contact with the Atlantean remnant found in the Maracot depth and the sharing of their advanced science with Britain. This was considered a great coup for Outrage, as Britain had desired Atlantean technology ever since it had been given to America following the Whitmore Expedition. Outrage was also notable for his anti-Americanism, as he clashed with President Wintergreen over the Swiss War and President Hammond over his authoritarianism. Outrage was also Prime Minister when Professor Moe was briefly able to inform the public of future events. Outrage was ousted after failing to deal effectively with the Great Depression.
   
   
8. A frustrated, reactionary university don, known as “The Leader” to his followers, such as his right-hand man, Sir Roderick Spode, Parham was propelled to power by the efforts of the crude plutocrat, Sir Bussy Woodcock. Parham’s regime was autocratic and authoritarian in nature, with crackdowns occurring on opposition both at home and in the colonies. With regards to foreign policy, Parham was even more Anti-American than his predecessor and brought Britain close to Germany and Italy. During his time in office, a species of intelligent amphibians was discovered in the Pacific and soon enslaved. Despite his generally negative reputation, Parham has earned some praise for his promotion of science, founding the National Institute for Co-Ordinated Experiments, as well as for his successful handling of a Satanist cult operating in London. Parham’s heavy-handed rule soon attracted opposition and he was ousted by an internal party coup in 1935.
   
   
9. The scheming Blackadder was notable for having narrowly escaped death in the First World War and yet spent most of his premiership avoiding war. Blackadder was criticised for his passivity in response to the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, the Ishmaelia Crisis and the Spanish Civil War, although he did send troops to support the anti-Corporatist side in the Second American Civil and put down the revolt of the Newts. Blackadder presided over a number of bizarre astronomical events, as the Moon nearly fell to Earth and the planet Mongo launched a teleporting assault. His tenure also saw the Ransom Expedition, marking Britain’s return to Mars and the discovery of a Roman State living underneath Northern England. Blackadder was forced to resign after it become clear that his Munich Agreement would fail to prevent war.
   
   
10. Rupert Audinland never thought much of his son, so perhaps it is ironic that he would grow up to thoroughly surpass his father in the public imagination. In stark contrast to his predecessor, Audinland was bullish and perpetually optimistic, traits that would serve him well in the long war against Hynkel’s Germany. Even as the bombs fell on London and Britain stood alone, Audinland remained firm that there could be no peace save total victory. Audinland was the target of several kidnapping plans by the Axis but they would always fail. British morale was also improved by stories of brave heroes such as James Bigglesworth, Joan Worralson, Peggy Carter and Montgomery Falstaff. Finally, victory came but Audinland would find himself losing the subsequent election, as many were unconvinced that he would serve well in peacetime.
    
    
11. Webley was a long-term radical, who saw the devastation of the war as an opportunity to build a new kind of society from the ashes. He pursued radical policies such as the nationalisation of many industries, the consolidation of almost all government departments into four “super ministries” and even an attempt to popularise a new “simplified and rationalised” form of English. Webley also opted to pursue a policy of decolonisation, withdrawing from India in 1947. States inhabited by intelligent animals, such as Manor Farm and the Hundred Acre Wood, were discovered and integrated as autonomous regions. Webley controversially led Britain into the Korean War, over the objections of many on the left. Webley would also see the beginnings of the atomic mutation and alien invasion crazes of the 50’s, as cosmic rays mutated several animals in the south, turning them into bizarre monsters which were only stopped thanks to a friendly alien visitor. Although Webley was beloved by many, who affectionately called him “Big Brother”, the British people grew tired of the grinding austerity and elected a new government.
    
    
12. As he was by this stage very old and in poor health, Audinland’s return to government did not last long. He reversed many of the prior government’s more radical policies, although most industries remained nationalised. Audinland also managed to defend his country again during a second Martian invasion.
    
    
13. Lytton soon became popular for his air of respectability and unflappability, as well as his activities as the superhero known as Supermac, although he would be forced to hang up his tights while in government. Lytton presided over a Britain that was beginning to improve economically leading Lytton to claim that many people had “never had it so good”. However, decolonisation continued, with countries such as Buranda, Zamunda, Equatorial Kundu, Liliput-Blefuscu and Bialya gaining independence. Lytton sought to make up for this with the possibility of a new empire in space, leading him to form the British Rocket Group, which unfortunately led to the Westminster Abbey Horror of 1953. Lytton would also see tensions with the Soviet Union, especially following their support of the attempt by a former Nazi to nuke London. Lytton would also deal with stranger threats such as the rampage of an Amazonian Martian in Scotland, the war with a race of ocean dwelling aliens and the attack on London by a giant radioactive dinosaur. Tired of the role and faced with a health scare, Lytton retired in 1959.
    
    
14. From the beginning of his premiership, Widmerpool was derided as a useless windbag who had only gained the job thanks to his talent for sucking up to authority and being too boring to offend. Widmerpool was widely mocked in the new wave of satire publications, such as Lord Gnome’s Private Eye. His woes were compounded by several disasters. A Soviet experiment gone wrong led to many British citizens being left blinded and some areas being overrun by Triffids. London was also attacked by two giant monsters, the huge dinosaur Gorgo and the enlarged Chimpanzee Konga. A small village in Winshire was briefly taken over by telepathic children. With all these issues, it was no surprise that Widmerpool would badly lose the next election.
    
    
15. Blocket was on the moderate side of his party and sought a more restrained version of Webley’s dead dream, speaking of forging a new nation in the heat of technology. Under Blocket, Britain would become famous for its intelligence service, as heroic agents such as James Bond, John Steed, John Drake and Austin Powers thwarted numerous attacks, both from the Soviets and from more independent actors such as SPECTRE. There was, however a dark side to this, as it led to the creation of facilities such as The Village in Wales. Blocket would earn both praise and criticism for refusing to get involved in the Vietnam and Sarkhan wars, despite generous monetary offers from Washington. He did, however intervene in the former British colony of Britanula, which had been taken over by a ruthless Eugenicist regime. Culture bloomed under Blocket, with bands like the Rutles and the Purple Orchestra becoming popular worldwide. Like his predecessors, Blocket would face a number of creature attacks and alien invasions, including the loss of Petrie’s Island to bone eating Silicates and the horrific mutations caused by a radioactive meteorite. Following the devastation caused by the attacks of WOTAN and the Cybermen, in addition to a sluggish economy, Blocket lost the 1970 election.
    
    
16. A narcissistic opportunist, Michael Rimmer is sometimes considered to the first “American style” Prime Minister, as he often focused on public relations at the expense of actual government. Rimmer kept the public exhausted by calling numerous postal votes on completely trivial matters, hoping to eventually make himself dictator. During Rimmer’s time in office, the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce gained praise for their manner of dealing with alien invasions, with the assistance of their mysterious scientific advisor. This infuriated Rimmer, who sent numerous bureaucrats to interfere with UNIT’s operations hoping that he would be able to take their praise. It was also Rimmer who first brought Britain into the European Commonwealth. Scotland proved to be a difficult issue for Rimmer, as the Scottish Liberation Army seized Fort William and the small island of Summerisle was placed under military occupation when it was found to be run by a human-sacrificing pagan cult. Rimmer was also preoccupied by a rise in juvenile delinquency, as seen in the infamous DeLarge case. Rimmer also witnessed the return of Count Dracula and the beginning of the Troubles. Rimmer’s lack of any real solutions would lead to his defeat in 1974.
    
    
17. Jones, the Welsh radical, would start off his time in office by prosecuting Manson Consolidated for their attempt to overthrow the government of Zangaroo. The number of alien invasions would decline sharply during his term, but the economy grew increasingly sluggish and Britain was blighted with industrial action. Jones would largely act as a bystander during the Fernando Poo crisis and his efforts to promote peace would largely come to naught. Jones also failed to win a referendum on the introduction of the multiple vote. Most of humanity was nearly destroyed twice, by the mad geniuses Karl Stromberg and Hugo Drax. He was also notable for his bizarre feud with the royal family, which led to strained relations with the royalist states of Australia and Canada. Jones would lose the 1979 election in a landslide.
    
    
18. Carpenter was the first female Prime Minister but soon became more notable for her policies. She embarked on a radical agenda of privatisation and cuts to public spending, which caused a great deal of opposition. Carpenter was very close to US President Johnny Cyclops, believing that he shared most of her beliefs. During her time in office a werewolf rampaged through Piccadilly Circus and the superhero Miracleman attempted to make himself god of the Earth, before he was defeated by Doctor Manhattan. Having prevented the Argentineans from taking the Falkland Islands and defused the Soviet Grain/North Sea Oil crisis, Carpenter won a landslide victory over the deluded Labour leader, Kevin “Superman” Pork. Throughout her time in office, Britain was plagued by terrorist attacks, both from the IRA and from the anarchist Black Star and she was assassinated by the IRA in 1984.
    
    
19. Attwell was considered no more than a caretaker Prime Minister, who had only agreed to stand in order to prevent either his hated rival, the Home Secretary or the extremist Sir Mortimer Chris from becoming Prime Minister. Attwell defeated a Soviet plot to use a nuclear incident to place a Communist government in Britain. Attwell hung on just long enough to see the Home Secretary disgrace himself with a drunk driving incident at Christmas and resigned early in the new year.
    
    
20. Hacker was able to triumph as a compromise candidate in the leadership election, due to the other two candidates representing the most extreme wings of the party. Hacker’s time as Minister for Administrative Affairs had seen many of his plans to reduce bureaucracy foiled thanks to his Personal Private Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby and his time as Prime Minister was much the same story. Hacker’s plan to overhaul the Ministry of Defence failed, as did his attempt to abolish the Department of Education. However, Hacker proved more successful in foreign affairs, successfully foiling a Communist takeover on St. George’s Island and recuing a British nurse in Qumran from the lash. Hacker did earn some praise for reversing some of Carpenter’s less popular policies, as he was considered firmly on the Liberal-Conservative wing of the party. Also, under Hacker, London was attacked by what could only be described as “sexy space vampires”. Despite Hacker’s grand ambitions, his bureaucratic and dull rule would him to lose the 1988 election.
    
    
21. Perkins was very much on the left of his party, which led to a great deal of unease among the establishment. Perkins planned to dismantle media monopolies, withdraw from NATO and dismantle the British nuclear arsenal. Perkins did gain a temporary boost after an invasion by capitalist aliens lid to widespread criticism of corporations but it failed to last. Fearful of the implications of his remaining in power, the British establishment united to force him out of office.
    
    
22. Wainwright was widely criticised, especially among members of his own party, for being overly subservient to American and corporate interests. Given the circumstances of his rise to power, this is perhaps not surprising. Under Wainwright, the TimeScanner experiment of 1988 led to bloodthirsty dinosaurs being unleashed in cities across the world, including in Britain and the alien warlord known as Thanos temporarily killed half of the world’s population. Wainwright led Britain into the third world war, against Alexander Romanov’s Soviet Union, following its attempt to invade the United States. Despite winning the war, Wainwright was unable to compete with the canny and ruthless Conservative leader.
    
    
23. Originally, Henry Collingridge became leader of the opposition, but he was forced out of office by a scandal only a few weeks after being elected. Before and during Urquart’s time as Prime Minister, all of his rivals tended either to be felled by sudden scandals or to die mysteriously. As Prime Minister, Urquart’s policies were deeply right wing, including enormous cuts to public expenditure, the reintroduction of the death penalty and the return of conscription. The latter policy was somewhat understandable, as Urquart sent British troops to help the Americans in their wars against Japan, South Africa, the United Islamic Republic and Khan Noonien Singh’s India. The royal family did not have a good time under Urquart as first Queen Gloriana and her family were killed in an accident, leading to the ascension of the American King Ralph. Ralph would abdicate shortly after coming to the throne and his successor, Cedric I, was forced to abdicate in favour of his teenage son when he began to criticise Urquart’s policies. Urquart was assassinated in 1995, just as evidence of his supposed wrongdoings had come to light.
    
    
24. Makepeace was Urquart’s preferred successor and he managed to triumph over the liberal Chancellor, Peter Mannion thanks to Mannion being found to have gotten his housekeeper pregnant. Makepeace continued to devote troops to America’s wars and his brief premiership was enlivened when his Minister for Families was found to have had an affair with a former call girl and subsequently lost the resulting by-election to his wife. Makepeace was killed during the Harvester invasion.
    
    
25. B’astard was unpopular from the start. In contrast to the heroism of President Whitmore, B’astard spent the Harvester invasion cowering in a secure location. B’astard’s sexist, racist and generally bigoted views and his incredible levels of corruption would soon become obvious. B’astard’s time in office also saw Ireland being devastated by a synthetic plague and Britain nearly went to war with China, thanks to the machinations of a newspaper publisher. B’astard’s last year in office was further marred by several bizarre murders and disasters and a sense of nationwide depression, which were actually caused by Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters. Ultimately the Conservatives were massacred in the 1997 general election, which give Labour one of the biggest majorities in British history.
    
    
26. Lang was a devoted member of Labour’s right wing, who had spent his time as leader working to create a modernised, PR conscious party. However, his time in office would be cut short when a British Mars mission trespassed on the territory of Xznaal, Lord of the Ice Warriors. Lang was seemingly killed in the subsequent invasion, although there were several sightings of a man matching his description wandering aimlessly around Baghdad in 2031.
    
    
27. A distant relative of Urquart, Greyhaven had secretly planned the Ice Warrior invasion, hoping to use their technology to restore British greatness. Greyhaven served as the Ice Warriors’ chief collaborator and ruthlessly enforced their rule. Greyhaven ultimately turned on and was killed by his alien overlords and the Ice Warriors were defeated by The Doctor.
    
    
28. Stevens was an ally of Lang and continued much the same policies. Stevens sought to rebuild Britain from the alien invasions and the disastrous policies of the previous governments. Nevertheless, Stevens was criticised for sticking too closely to Conservative policies and for his overreliance on spin doctors. Under Stevens, Britain entered the War on Terror following the September 11th attacks and controversially sent troops to Afghanistan and Iraq. Stevens would also see the attempt by the French aristocrat Pascal Sauvage to make himself king and turn Britain into a giant prison, the rampage of several awakened dragons and the attack of the Kaiju Manda, under the control of the alien Kilaaks. Stevens’ attempts to liberalise drug laws would fail thanks to the scourge of the terrible new drug, Cake. He was also criticised after a classmate he had bullied at school attempted to kill every British schoolchild using smallpox. His attempts to reform the House of Lords would also fail. Stevens’ downfall would come when London was attacked by the mysterious entity known as the Simurgh. Although the Simurgh was driven off by the superhero Thermoman, Stevens was killed by his long-time aide, Sebastian Love, who had been driven violently insane by the Simurgh’s telepathic screeching.
    
    
29. Grant had previously been a famous actor and the Mayor of London. Handsome and charismatic, he quickly became very popular. His popularity was further enhanced by his strained relations with America, leading him to withdraw British troops from Iraq. However, he was criticised for his high-profile love affair with a Downing Street intern. Grant’s time in office was principally notable for its unusual diseases, as London was hit by epidemics of the Rage Virus and by zombies, although both were dealt with before they could get out of control. Grant also witnessed the Auton invasion of 2005, which devastated British shops. Grant was killed by the alien Slitheen famiy, who had infiltrated his government.
    
    
30. As the highest ranking elected official available following Grant’s demise, Green become Acting Prime Minister. In truth, Green was a member of the Slitheen in disguise, who planned to gain access to Britain’s nuclear arsenal and use it to cause a nuclear war, selling the radioactive remnants of Earth for use as starship fuel. Green was defeated by The Doctor and killed when 10 Downing Street was destroyed by a missile.
    
    
31. Jones had become known for her heroism during the Slitheen crisis and was surprisingly elected Prime Minister in the aftermath. Jones was initially highly popular, but her popularity began to decrease sharply as rumours arose of her supposedly ill health. Shortly after her ascension, elements within MI6, the Civil service and the press attempted to overthrow her in a coup. Jones dealt with the Sycorax and Racnoss invasions and the rampage of Abaddon in Cardiff. It was also under Jones that several time anomalies were discovered to be active in Britain leading to the creation of the Anomaly Research Centre. Jones also foiled several attempts to prevent peace with now nuclear armed Iran and an attempt by the CIA to assassinate the President of Venezuela. Under Jones, the existence of Vampires was revealed to the public, which led to controversy over Britain allowing the Slayer Organisation to reside in Scotland. Jones sought to call an early election to shore up her position, but her attempt would backfire.
    
    
32. Saxon had emerged, seemingly from nowhere eighteen months earlier to become leader of the Liberal Democrats. Saxon soon proved to be extremely charismatic and popular and his performance in the newly introduced debates would become legendary, with “I Agree With Harry” becoming a popular phrase. On election day, the Liberals gained their best result since 1900, winning an outright majority. However, Saxon was in actuality the evil renegade Time Lord known as The Master and proceeded to gas his cabinet, assassinate President Winters and conquer and rule the Earth for a year before history was rewritten. The Master was ultimately killed temporarily by his wife.
    
    
33. As the sole independent MP, Pritchard was appointed to lead the country until elections could be held. During her brief time in office her personal life became a source of scandal, as her husband was accused of money laundering and her daughter posed nude for a men’s magazine. Pritchard also rescued several French military personnel trapped in Iran and attempted to move Parliament to Bradford. Pritchard formed her own party, the Purple Democratic Alliance but failed to retain power.
    
    
34. The former Chancellor, Davis was only able to take power thanks to a confidence-and-supply agreement with the Purple Alliance. The gaffe-prone Davis was frequently troubled, and his government would be heavily criticised following the onset of the global financial crisis. He would, however gain some praise for his defiant response to the most recent Skrull invasion. Davis was also Prime Minister during the brief Dalek occupation of Earth and the FlashForward. Ultimately, the Purple Alliance would withdraw their support and collapse his government after it was revealed that Davis had been blackmailed into giving away 10% of British children to alien drug addicts.
    
    
35. Callow had spent his time as leader of the opposition working to create a modernised and effective party, distancing itself from the policies of the 80’s and 90’s. Callow had a rough first few months in power, as his drastic cuts in public spending were unpopular and the government was rocked by scandals such as the failure of the Silicon Playgrounds policy and the suicide of a nurse left destitute by his policies. Things only seemed to get worse for Callow when an insane artist blackmailed him into publicly engaging in bestiality. Surprisingly, this made him more popular, as it showed that he was willing to go to great lengths for his country. However, Callow would face criticism of his handling of British intelligence, after MI6 was devastated by cyber attacks from a vengeful former agent. Callow was fairly restrained in foreign affairs, although he provided air support to the rebels in the Wadiyan Civil War and provided financial assistance to America’s Jaeger programme. Callow was also Prime Minister when Britain was devastated thanks to the conflict between two rogue superheroes, Scion and The Plutonian. After a devastating industrial accident in Teesside left 19 dead and raised questions about the safety procedures of American chemical giant PetroFex, Callow travelled to PetroFex HQ to secure a compensation package. On the trip back, Callow was killed when his plane crashed mysteriously.
    
    
36. Dawkins was on the liberal side of his party, a long-standing supporter of Peter Mannion. Dawkins spent his brief premiership investigating Callow’s mysterious death, which led to him being forced to resign in a coup masterminded by allies of PetroFex.
    
    
37. Durrell defeated Freya Gardener in the subsequent leadership election and quickly worked to squash the PetroFex story. He was often accused of corruption but nevertheless triumphed over the directionless Labour under Dan Miller. Under Durrell, Earth was invaded, by the return of the Harvesters and by Nazis from the Moon. In addition, the People’s Liberation and Resistance movement took over Iran and destroyed Paris with a nuclear weapon. Durrell would face embarrassments, as his state-of-the-art surveillance system was infiltrated by a revived SPECTRE and his Education Secretary, Daniel Claremont, was revealed to be a Sea Devil in disguise. Durrell resigned when his ADI’s system was hijacked and used to kill hundreds of thousands of people who had engaged in internet bullying.
    
    
38. Montague was the Home Secretary under Durrell, known for her authoritarian tendencies. Her time in office started with a series of devastating terrorist attacks and got worse from there. Britain withdrew from the European Commonwealth after it began to transition into a single, integrated state, causing large economic problems. Scotland seceded from Britain and became an independent republic. The monarchy was shaken by the brief and disastrous reign of Charles III. In 2021, the economy would get even worse,as the global economy imploded as a result of the Third American Civil War. In order to deal with the rising and increasingly radical tide of popular discontent, Montague sought to use technology to pacify the population. The White Bear Justice Park was created to allow for the public punishment of particularly vile criminals and the welfare state was replaced by a system in which citizens would earn their dividends by working on exercise bikes and eventually earn the chance to win fame and fortune in a talent show. Her popularity collapsed completely when the St. Mary’s Virus was unleashed by terrorists. Despite her best efforts, she was unable to deley the 2022 election.
    
    
39. The disaster of Montague’s premiership led to a rise in populism. The neo-Nazi Norsefire Party, the authoritarian Shepherd Party and the nihilistic Waldo Movement all became popular and, in the election of 2022, displaced the old parties. Although the three parties disliked and distrusted each other, they were willing to work together for their common agenda and the government worked to slowly accumulate more power, with each party planning to betray the others and seize power for themselves.
    
    
40. Ultimately, Norsefire would triumph and purge its coalition partners. Susan was able to enact his real agenda, banning all other political parties. Susan’s government launched a genocidal campaign against ethnic minorities, mutants, homosexuals and nonhumans, creating a network of concentration camps. Susan also invaded and reincorporated Scotland and Ireland into Britain. Under Susan, Britain became a pariah state, perpetually on the brink of war with Europe. The only overseas allies remaining were the Republic of Gilead and the New Tsardom of Russia, both of which would collapse before the end of the decade. Susan would ultimately be killed by the wife of one of his assassinated ministers, leading to an anarchist revolution.
    
    
41. Jaspers had served as Chancellor under Susan and took control in the aftermath of Susan’s demise. Jaspers revealed himself to be a mutant, with extremely powerful reality- warping abilities, who had manipulated events for the last few decades in order to bring himself to power. Jaspers used his powers to destroy the revolutionaries and planned to turn all of reality into his plaything. However, he reckoned without King Arthur. Realising that England’s hour of greatest need had come, the Once and Future King rose from his tomb and gathered an army of heroes from across British history in order to oppose Jaspers. After a long and brutal battle, Jaspers was destroyed when a mysterious woman descended from the sky on an umbrella and turned him into a hamster.
    
    
42. Arthur would briefly serve as his own Prime Minister, before abolishing the office in favour of direct rule. His wise and benevolent rule would last until 2066, when he returned to his slumber, after he was mortally wounded fighting demons in the Apocalypse War. Subsequently, the United Kingdom was dissolved and incorporated into the United Earth Alliance.
43. Spoiler: Sources

    [*]It Might Have Happened, Sherlock Holmes (2009), The Great War in England in 1897, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Great God Pan, Hartmann the Anarchist, The War of the Worlds, Gloriana or the Revolution of 1900, The First Men in the Moon, A Honeymoon in Space, The Riddle of the Sands, Flashman, Scarlet Traces, Edison's Conquest of Mars, Stranger in a Strange Land, Hadrian the Seventh, The Food of the Gods and how it Came to Earth, In the Days of the Comet, The War in the Air, The Massacre of Mankind, The Lost World, Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan, The Poison Belt, The Horror of the Heights, the bowmen of Mons, Zilliboy Shinbags, The Flying Submarine, The Call of Cthulhu, Vile Bodies, The Maracot Depth, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Of Thee I Sing, Gabriel Over the White House, The Gap in the Curtain, The Autocracy of Mr. Parham, Jeeves and Wooster, The War With the Newts, The Space Trilogy, The Devil Rides Out, Blackadder, Scoop, It Can't Happen Here, The Hopkins Manuscript, Flash Gordon, Land Under England, The Great Dictator, The Eagle has Landed, Biggles, Worrals, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Comics, Point Counter Point, 1984, Animal Farm, Winnie the Pooh, The Man from Planet X, War of the Worlds (1953), Seven Days to Noon, Supermac, Yes Minister, Coming to America, The West Wing, DC Comics, Gulliver's Travels, Quatermass, James Bond, Devil Girl from Mars, The Kraken Wakes, The Giant Behemoth, A Dance to the Music of Time, Private Eye, Day of the Triffids, Gorgo, Konga, The Midwich Cuckoos, The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, The Avengers, Danger Man, The Prisoner, The Ugly American, The Fixed Period, The Rutles, Performance, Island of Terror, They Came from Beyond Space, Doctor Who, Scotch on the Rocks, The Wicker Man, A Clockwork Orange, Dracula A.D.1972, In the Wet, The Dogs of War, Illuminatus!, The Devil's Alternative, Whoops Apocalypse, An American Werewolf in London, Marvelman, Watchmen, The Fourth Protocal, Lifeforce, A Very British Coup, They Live, Dinosaurs Attack, Red Dawn, Command and Conquer: Red Alert, House of Cards, Jack Ryan, Vortex, Star Trek, King Ralph, The Thick of It, The Politician's Wife, Independence Day, The New Statesman, The White Plague, Harry Potter, The Ghost, Little Britain, Johnny English, Reign of Fire, Destroy All Monsters, Brass Eye, Worm, My Hero, Love Actually, Shawn of the Dead, 28 Days Later, Spooks, Primeval, True Blood, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Amazing Mrs Pritchard, FlashForward, Black Mirror, The Dictator, Pacific Rim, Irredeemable, Secret State, The Politician's Husband, Iron Sky, Battlefield, Bodyguard, Halting State, King Charles III, Shattered Union, V For Vendetta, Curfew, A Handmaid's Tale, Victoria: A Novel of Fourth Generation Warfare, Arthurian Legend, Babylon 5
    [*]

 

[Makemakean]

Tried putting together a list of fictional Swedish Prime Ministers, but this is turning out to be even more difficult than I imagined, because in most Swedish-language media that features fictional Prime Ministers, they tend to be secondary characters, and often are not named, because they're meant to obviously be references to real life people, and so it is better to not outright name them.

The Prime Minister in both the movie Call Girl from 2012 and the Prime Minister in Leif G. W. Persson's Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End are both clearly meant to be Olof Palme, for instance, but their names are never given. Similarly, it's clear to everyone that the Prime Minister in at least the first book in the famous Cabinet Minister series is meant to be Tage Erlander, but that is never stated outright.

Other Prime Ministers are often based on politicians who were active at the times the books were written. In Operation Garbo, we have a Prime Minister named Jens Becker who is based off of Bengt Westerberg, and in The Revenge of the Prime Minister, we have a Prime Minister named Lennart Jönsson who is clearly based off of Göran Persson.

Fictional politicians who otherwise would be candidates also seem to suffer from the same "let's not name them problems", indeed, the eponymous character in the Cabinet Minister series by Bo Baldersson is in fact never named.

In the movie Four More Years from 2010, we have a Liberal leader by the name of David Holst who in this fictional world leads a Liberal People's Party that is the greatest of the centre-right block, and looks like they're about to win the election, but despite winning the popular vote, fails when it turns out that the Christian Democrats do not cross the 4%-threshold. He also discovers that he is gay over the course of the film, for the record.

In the alternate history novel 40 "Happy" Years, (which @Ares96 has on several occasions expressed his displeasure with), Sweden is run by a Communist dictator by the name of Valter Jönsson.

Having a really hard time remembering any other possible individuals who could go on such a list...

 

[Ares96]

In the alternate history novel 40 "Happy" Years, (which @Ares96 has on several occasions expressed his displeasure with), Sweden is run by a Communist dictator by the name of Valter Jönsson.

 

[EvilSpaceAlien]

Tried putting together a list of fictional Swedish Prime Ministers, but this is turning out to be even more difficult than I imagined, because in most Swedish-language media that features fictional Prime Ministers, they tend to be secondary characters, and often are not named, because they're meant to obviously be references to real life people, and so it is better to not outright name them.

The Prime Minister in both the movie Call Girl from 2012 and the Prime Minister in Leif G. W. Persson's Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End are both clearly meant to be Olof Palme, for instance, but their names are never given. Similarly, it's clear to everyone that the Prime Minister in at least the first book in the famous Cabinet Minister series is meant to be Tage Erlander, but that is never stated outright.

Other Prime Ministers are often based on politicians who were active at the times the books were written. In Operation Garbo, we have a Prime Minister named Jens Becker who is based off of Bengt Westerberg, and in The Revenge of the Prime Minister, we have a Prime Minister named Lennart Jönsson who is clearly based off of Göran Persson.

Fictional politicians who otherwise would be candidates also seem to suffer from the same "let's not name them problems", indeed, the eponymous character in the Cabinet Minister series by Bo Baldersson is in fact never named.

In the movie Four More Years from 2010, we have a Liberal leader by the name of David Holst who in this fictional world leads a Liberal People's Party that is the greatest of the centre-right block, and looks like they're about to win the election, but despite winning the popular vote, fails when it turns out that the Christian Democrats do not cross the 4%-threshold. He also discovers that he is gay over the course of the film, for the record.

In the alternate history novel 40 "Happy" Years, (which @Ares96 has on several occasions expressed his displeasure with), Sweden is run by a Communist dictator by the name of Valter Jönsson.

Having a really hard time remembering any other possible individuals who could go on such a list...

The SVT miniseries The Crown Princess and it's two sequels The Regicide and The Queen Sacrifice based on the Hanne-Vibeke Holst novels of the same names that were set in Denmark could offer some material. The Prime Minister in the first one was a man named Per Viksten with a working class background (a former mailman IIRC) who had clearly been in office for quite a while when the show started. His attempt to cling on to the leadership after losing the election in the sequel was apparently based on the 2001-2002 fight for the leadership of the Danish Social Democrats, though it took a different turn in the miniseries with the former Finance Minister Gert Jakobsson being revealed as a domestic abuser just after Viksten gave up and resigned.

Ulf Holmberg, the guy who Viksten lost the election to was so clearly based on Fredrik Reinfeldt that they even hired a bald actor to play him just so it could be painfully obvious to the most politically disinterested viewer. He wasn't a main character either, so he never got much substance beyond that.

Then there's the main character of the first and third miniseries Charlotte Ekeblad, who was only seen as Prime Minister in the final scene of The Queen Sacrifice. Hanne-Vibeke Holst was quite open about basing her on Mona Sahlin in the novel, but aside from her first stint as minister ending with a similar expenses scandal the character isn't that similar. A big difference would be that Ekeblad as opposed to Sahlin was an activist with a background in Greenpeace and zero experience of party-political work prior to joining the cabinet as Environment Minister under Viksten.

There's also other characters that could be used, like Suzanne Reuter's Elisabeth Meyer, the daughter of Jewish refugees who came to Sweden either during or after WWII who was Foreign Minister under Viksten and eventually became party leader when Jakobsson's misdeeds came to light. During her time as leader she was also diagnosed with Alzheimer's and spent the remainder of her leadership attempting to hide it whilst molding Charlotte Ekeblad into a successor who could take over shortly after the next election. Though Meyer eventually died on election day in an assassination actually meant for Ekeblad.

 

[Makemakean]

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Heh.

I suppose I could take characters from other works who while not actually politicians have a political bent to them, like Jan Guillou's Erik Ponti.

The problem with that, however, is that that sort of ruins the thrill of "what if all of Swedish fiction took place in the same universe", as Swedish detective fiction these days is already absurdly incestuous, in that the novels of Henning Mankell, Jan Guillou, Leif G. W. Persson, and Liza Marklund already take place in the same fictional universe.

I'm not kidding.

Kurt Wallander from Henning Mankell's novels shows up in En medborgare höjd över varje misstanke by Jan Guillou, the tenth novel of his featuring the "Swedish James Bond" Carl Hamilton. It is already clear that those novels take place in the same fictional universe as Guillou's other novels Ondskan, Det stora avslöjandet, Tjuvarnas marknad, etc. as Erik Ponti shows up in Coq rogue. Erik Ponti furthermore shows up in the TV-series Den vite riddaren, which was written by Leif G. W. and Guillou, and is a cross-over between their works already, in that Leif G.W.'s characters Anna Holt and Bo Jarnebring show up there as well, so we can add all of Leif G. W.'s detective fiction to the list. Oh yes, and while he doesn't show up in Liza Marklund's En plats i solen, he is mentioned and talked of as a real person, and referred by the main characters as something of an asshole. And of course, Guillou returned the favour by having Annika Bengtzon show up in the novel Fienden inom oss. So, add all the novels about Annika Bengtzon to the mixture while you're at it.

So, so far, we have, in the same universe:

Mördare utan ansikte, by Henning Mankell;
Hundarna i Riga, by Henning Mankell;
Den vita lejoninnan, by Henning Mankell;
Mannen som log, by Henning Mankell;
Villospår, by Henning Mankell;
Den femte kvinnan, by Henning Mankell;
Steget efter, by Henning Mankell;
Brandvägg, by Henning Mankell;
Pyramiden, by Henning Mankell;
Innan frosten, by Henning Mankell;
Den orolige mannen, by Henning Mankell;
Handen, by Henning Mankell;
Coq Rouge – berättelsen om en svensk spion, by Jan Guillou;
Den demokratiske terroristen, by Jan Guillou;
I nationens intresse, by Jan Guillou;
Fiendens fiende, by Jan Guillou;
Den hedervärde mördaren, by Jan Guillou;
Vendetta, by Jan Guillou;
Ingen mans land, by Jan Guillou;
Den enda segern, by Jan Guillou;
I hennes majestäts tjänst, by Jan Guillou;
En medborgare höjd över varje misstanke, by Jan Guillou;
Hamlon – en skiss till en möjlig fortsättning, by Jan Guillou;
Madame Terror, by Jan Guillou;
Men inte om det gäller din dotter, by Jan Guillou;
Ondskan, by Jan Guillou;
Det stora avslöjandet, by Jan Guillou;
Tjuvarnas marknad, by Jan Guillou;
Fienden inom oss, by Jan Guillou;
Men inte om det gäller din dotter, by Jan Guillou;
Äkta amerikanska jeans, by Jan Guillou;
1968, by Jan Guillou;
Grisfesten, by Leif G.W. Persson;
Profitörerna, by Leif G.W. Persson;
Samhällsbärarna, by Leif G.W. Persson;
En annan tid, ett annat liv, by Leif G.W. Persson;
Linda - som i Lindamordet, by Leif G.W. Persson;
Mellan sommarens längtan och vinterns köld, by Leif G.W. Persson;
Faller fritt som i en dröm, by Leif G.W. Persson;
Den döende detektiven, by Leif G.W. Persson;
Den som dödar draken, Leif G.W. Persson;
Studio sex, by Liza Marklund;
Paradiset, by Liza Marklund;
Prime time, by Liza Marklund;
Sprängaren, by Liza Marklund;
Den röda vargen, by Liza Marklund;
Nobels testamente, by Liza Marklund;
Livstid, by Liza Marklund;
En plats i solen, by Liza Marklund;
Du gamla du fria, by Liza Marklund;
Lyckliga gatan, by Liza Marklund;
Järnblod, by Liza Marklund;

That's over fifty fucking novels!

 

[Ares96]

Karl Staaff (Liberal minority with Social Democratic support): 1908-1914
1908: no central leadership (Conservative), Hjalmar Branting (Social Democratic)
1911: no central leadership (Conservative), Hjalmar Branting (Social Democratic)

Though stymied by his lack of a majority and the conservative lean of the First Chamber, Staaff's time in the premiership cannot be considered a failure. Not only did he introduce several high-profile social reforms, including relief work, strict alcohol controls and the first state pension, in 1913 he finally succeeded in bringing in the oldest and greatest Liberal cause: universal suffrage. The First Chamber announced its intention to block the bill, but after riots in Stockholm saw five protesters killed by police, the chaos and upheaval was enough to convince even Ernst Trygger to drop his opposition and allow the bill to pass.

Hjalmar Branting (Social Democratic minority with Liberal support): 1914-1915
1914: no central leadership (Conservative), Karl Staaff (Liberal)

It was perhaps ironic that Staaff's much-vaunted universal suffrage would be his government's undoing. The first elections held under it saw the Social Democrats break through and achieve largest-party status with 93 seats and just over thirty percent of the vote. The verdict was clear, and while conservatives grumbled, the King was persuaded to appoint Branting Prime Minister. It wouldn't last, his advisors said. Nor did it.

Carl Swartz (Conservative leading expeditionary ministry): 1915-1917

Swartz was a compromise choice after it became clear that neither Lindman nor Trygger could countenance a government led by the other. His cabinet, coming to office at the height of the Great Baltic War, had its hands full keeping the peace and the economy, and never really tried to set policy. It did successfully press claims to Åland toward the end of the war, never officially joining in on the German side but seizing Bomarsund Fortress and announcing the annexation of the islands with German backing.

Hjalmar Branting (Social Democratic minority with Liberal support): 1917-1919
1917: no central leadership (Conservative), Karl Staaff (Liberal)

If Branting's first term had been dominated by fighting against the rest of the Riksdag, his second term would be dominated by fighting against his own party. In the post-war order, with the rise of the SPD opposition in Germany and the creation of the Comité populaire in Paris, leftward winds were blowing. A faction within the SAP, led by the political odd couple of Zeth Höglund and Per Albin Hansson, were convinced that the only way forward was to propagate the creation of a worker's government, but Branting was strongly opposed to this. The struggle nearly ended with the party splitting in half, but this was prevented at the last minute at the 1917 party congress. But party unity was fragile at best, and when Branting's ministry proposed its budget in 1919, a backbench revolt brought it down and forced the Prime Minister to resign in disgrace.

K. A. Wallenberg (Conservative leading expeditionary ministry): 1919-1920

Wallenberg, who had held the Foreign Office under Swartz, was tapped to lead the second transitional ministry. Bereft even of the excitement of war, it did very little except hold the fort until the regular elections in September 1920.

Johan Widén (Independent Liberal leading Unity Ministry): 1920-1923
1920: Zeth Höglund (Social Democratic), Arvid Lindman (Conservative), Raoul Hamilton (Liberal)

Johan Widén is one of the most unlikely Prime Ministers in Swedish history. Driven by an earnest religious zeal, he was known as an effective social reformer and investigator, and had aided various governments in his career. In 1920, he expected to serve out a second term as Speaker of the Second Chamber and then retire to a professorship or county governorship. But events overtook him. The victory of the Social Democrats under Höglund, who had overthrown Branting at the 1920 party congress and declared it his mission to "overthrow the bourgeois establishment", caused distress throughout the non-Marxist political spectrum, and there was increasing pressure from both Conservatives and Liberals to unite against socialism. Arvid Lindman proposed a plan to the King - he would appoint Widén to form a ministry without the Social Democrats or the Conservatives, and when this inevitably failed, turn to Lindman to lead a Conservative minority administration.

The plan went awry when, to everyone's surprise, Widén succeeded in pulling together his coalition, and his coalition succeeded in staying in power until the next elections. It even managed to standardise council tax and local elections and conduct a major reform of the poor law. Nonetheless, Widén declared his abject refusal to form another government after the 1923 elections, and the King went another round. This time perhaps with more success.

Arvid Lindman (Conservative minority): 1923-1926
1923: Zeth Höglund (Social Democratic), Raoul Hamilton (Liberal)

With no Widén, no Liberals of note wanting the job and the Social Democrats continuing their stay in the wilderness, the premiership more or less fell into Lindman's lap. He surprised everyone by not really doing very much at all in the position he'd spent ten years craving and fighting for, excepting a military reform that pledged modest spending increases (though nothing on the scale the left had warned about during the election campaign) and some minor tax alterations.

Erik Palmstierna (Social Democratic minority): 1926-1927
1926: Arvid Lindman (Conservative), C. G. Ekman (Liberal)

As 1926 returned yet another hung parliament, the Social Democrats had once again fallen under the sway of the right-wing faction, led now by the "Red Baron" Palmstierna. The King felt he could work with Palmstierna more than he could anyone else, and invited him to form a ministry - which, like all previous Social Democratic administrations, was to be cut short. This time by an industrial dispute involving state relief workers being used as strikebreakers, which was completely unacceptable to his backbenchers and to the unions - two bases of support no Social Democratic Prime Minister has ever been able to do without. There was nothing for it but to resign.

C. G. Ekman (Liberal minority): 1927-1929

The last Liberal Prime Minister of Sweden, Ekman was an odd bird indeed. Born to working-class parents in Västmanland, he nevertheless went into the Liberal Party, earning him a lifetime of scorn from the Social Democrats. The Conservatives loathed him almost equally, but as it turned out, neither side actually loathed him so much they wouldn't rather see him in power than the other side. He used this to his advantage and was able to secure the premiership by a resounding vote of confidence.

Erik Palmstierna (Social Democratic majority): 1929-1931
1929: Arvid Lindman (Conservative - Swedish Unity), C. G. Ekman (Liberal), Olof Olsson (Conservative - National Agrarian League)

The 1929 elections were held in the midst of a severe economic downturn, and proved dramatic. A split in the Conservative Party over farm subsidies helped the Social Democrats win a number of rural constituencies previously out of their reach, bringing Palmstierna to power at the head of the first majority government elected by universal suffrage. Securing its programme through deals with the Agrarians and Liberals in the First Chamber, the Palmstierna ministry was able to conduct sweeping social and economic reforms including a vast expansion of the relief worker programme, the establishment of state housing funds, the expansion of state pensions and, at long last, equal suffrage in local elections. Palmstierna and his Finance Minister Torsten Nothin balked at nationalisations, however, and this opened up the running sore of internal conflict once more.

Erik Palmstierna (Social Democrat leading Unity Ministry): 1931-1932

Palmstierna's final decision to invite Liberal and Agrarian ministers into the cabinet, despite having a majority in the Second Chamber, was controversial to say the least. It sent clear signals that he did not trust his own party, and enraged the left wing even further - a Prime Minister, nominally in the workers' party but actually of high noble birth, now seemed to be conspiring to overthrow the first real promise of implementing socialism. Could a man with a hereditary title even be trusted to lead the party? Many thought not, and more thought Palmstierna specifically unfit. When the congress was convened in the spring of 1932, the knives were not long in waiting.

Zeth Höglund (Social Democratic majority): 1932-1933
1932: Olof Palme (Swedish Unity), Olof Olsson (Agrarian), Martin Fehr (Liberal)

Changing the party leader in mid-stream is always a dicey proposition, so why gamble on a new boss when you can just bring back the old boss? Höglund was hardly an old man, younger than Palmstierna in fact, so why not? Certainly it seemed to work well enough to begin with. He formed a new ministry with nothing but good socialists (the King could complain all he wanted), got started on the first true workers' budget alongside Finance Minister Kilbom, and went into the 1932 election campaign with wind in his sails. It went well, too. He held the Social Democratic majority. But then, all of a sudden, armed men began to appear menacingly outside the Chancery, and in January they were joined by a procession of peasants, fifty thousand strong, demanding the resignation of the ministry and "a return to the principle of God, King and Fatherland at the centre of political life, as it always was and always will be". The King jumped at the chance, and Höglund chose to resign rather than help provoke bloodshed in the streets of the capital.

Olof Palme (Swedish Unity leading Unity Ministry): 1933-

It was a high-energy time in Swedish politics, it seemed. Palme, who had led the assault on Bomarsund and made a name for himself in ultra-right-wing circles, now took power at the head of a "unity" administration containing of Conservatives, conservative Agrarians and conservative Liberals, all united in their desire to prevent socialism. All was not bad - the new ministry promised to continue moderate social reforms with an eye to improving the national well-being. And with the SAP finally splitting, it looked as though it might stay in power long enough to implement them...

 

[Comisario]

SNIP

This is delicious stuff.

 

[Yossarian]

Something I threw together at work today while bored (your taxpayer dollars at work, New Zealand): a list of fictional New Zealand Prime Ministers. If anybody recognises where more than three of these names are from, I'll be frankly astounded.

1957-1960: Barrett Lindsay (National)
1960-1973: St. John Swindells (National) [1]
1973: Harry Drinkwater (National) [2]
1973-1976: Arthur Volkner (National) [3]
1976: Brig. Brent Haywood (military government) [4]
1976-1977: Quentin Hankey (New Zealand Liberation Front) [5]
1977-1980: Douglas Kendrick (Country League)
1980-1989: Greg Foreskin (Labour) [6]
1989-1994: Wallace Cadwallader Footrot (Country League) [7]
1994-1998: Trev "Townie Trev" Dagg (Country League)
1998-2007: Brian Grady (Labour) [8]
2007-2012: Dennis Plant (Future New Zealand) [9]
2012-2016: Mortimer Ellis Gormsby (Future New Zealand) [10]
2016-0000: Leighton Mills (Labour) [11]

[1] Taking power from his unremarkable predecessor after he failed to crush Labour as convincingly as the National Party had come to expect, Swindells lazily steered the country through the sixties and casually ambled into the role of father of the nation. In this Swindells' charisma proved his greatest political asset, as New Zealand collectively accepted that Swindells was the Prime Minister because he just sort of made sense in the role. So far as actual events went Swindells' tenure was unremarkable, the PM preferring to keep the country in the cultural stasis to which it had become accustomed than to risk volatility. It was rather too effective, and when he
[2] "The Youngest and Fattest Turk", Drinkwater, lately Minister for Trade and was an unlikely choice for Prime Minister and an unproductive one. Preferring to focus on drinking to governing, he was removed from office by his caucus once it became apparent that the oil crisis meant National might actually face defeat for the first time in twenty years.
[3] A bass-voiced, snowy-haired, hawk-nosed sociopath who could have passed for St John Swindells' evil twin, Volkner encouraged the industrial chaos of mid-70s New Zealand in order to scare middle New Zealanders into supporting his seizure of "emergency" (read: absolute) powers and the establishment of a police state. Civil liberties were curbed, baton charges and bloodsoaked protestors filled the streets, and by 1975 the Americans had been invited in to "suppress Communist revolutionaries". For three years Volkner held sway over the nation, defoliating half of the Coromandel in an effort to root out the citizen's militia led by a divorced dad from Tauranga. Even after the enigmatic Mr Smith was captured by the Special Force and hauled before the Prime Minister, Volkner was unable to bask in his victory, as Smith took advantage of the opportunity to attack mid-proverbial gloat, striking the PM in the side of the head with a bust of William Massey and killing him almost instantly.
[4] The only military dictator to ever take power in the (white) Commonwealth, Haywood attempted to hold the regime together in the wake of Volkner's death, the Americans deserting his regime when the Queen Street Massacre sickened domestic audiences who could tolerate supporting tinpot dictators in the Third World, but not in a country where people spoke and acted like themselves. Fleeing the country as the remaining military loyalists surrendered en masse during Broken October to scratch forces like the Blondini Gang, Haywood spent a quiet retirement in southern Africa, teaching the Rhodesians and South Africans a thing or two about military strongmanship.
[5] A thoroughly average man who was about as passively left-wing as it was possible to be in the 1970s, Quentin Hankey took to the bush (his neighbour's cabbage tree) with his transistor radio and a shotgun after heavyset U.S. Marine Alvin J. Bruckmeyer sat on his car bonnet one day in 1976 and he realised something had gone very wrong with the country. Finding himself in the Coromandel alongside Mr Smith, Hankey was propelled into the leadership of the interim government as the ultimate compromise candidate, and he frantically turned power over to the leader of the successor to the disgraced National Party as soon as he could organise an election.
[6] "Whaddarya?" Labour's return to power after a quarter-century out of office was spearheaded by a man with a piercing question for the nation, a wiry socialist intellectual and minor rugby legend who'd covered himself in quiet glory from his high school First XV to the All Blacks squad of '75, before covering himself in camo paint and the blood of secret policemen as he fought against Volkner's goons in the Tararuas. Foreskin's time in office was one of lamentation for the seventies and hope for the eighties, tempered by the desire for social and economic liberty which jostled uncomfortable with his provincial welfare state sensibilities.
[7] A rough-edged farmer from the Manawatu by way of Raupo (just up there past Gisborne), Wal Footrot was the kind of jovial, not-overly-bright, and basically decent Kiwi bloke the country needed to feel good about itself as the twentieth century entered its final decade. Relatable, down-to-earth, and accompanied by an adorable border collie everywhere he went, Footrot was beloved by all, ending politics earlier than anyone wanted him to after he decided that he didn't like the way politics was going.
[8] A scruffy trade union leader who spent most of the sixties on strike, most of the seventies being beaten up by riot police, most of the eighties drinking in West Auckland and most of the nineties asleep in the backbenches, Bryan (he always insisted on a first-name basis, which caused some awkwardness when meeting the Sovereign) became Prime Minister because the country decided the farmers had had their go already, so it was time to put someone whose house actually had electricity before 1985 into office. Bryan spent more time than any other Prime Minister at the United Nations, which was absolutely not just an excuse to go to New York and hang out with the head of the consulate and his friends. He also wanted to go shopping.
[9] "Strength. Leadership. Direction." Plant's premiership was won on a platform made up of three simple words, but was better characterised by three different ones: "Essentially, do nothing." The product of Third Way postmodern spin doctor focus group bullshit, "Big Den" did very little and looked pretty good while doing so. He rebranded the Country League into something which conveyed the idea of a promise for action while literally only requiring them to sit still and wait.
[10] A moustachioed relic of a bygone era (having entered Parliament out of a desire to horsewhip the Leader of the Opposition), Gormsby turfed Plant out of office when he and the FNZ caucus got tired of sitting still and waiting. A former schoolteacher and member of the Army (untainted by the stain of the Volkner years, though he had fought in a number of late colonial wars), Gormsby's efforts to de-reform the education system met with failure, his re-election coming down mostly to the fact working-class New Zealanders liked having a domestic equivalent of Prince Phillip in the Beehive.
[11] A former diplomat who met with disgrace after being caught in flagrante delicto with a British princess in the back of a limo, Mills spent time as New Zealand's representative at the Mount Roskill home which served as the consulate of central Pacific island state of Fe'ausi, where he married a different (Feausian) princess before entering Parliament as Labour's answer to Dennis Plant, an empty vessel through whom the party could roll back Gormsbyism and relive the glories of the Foreskin era.

 

[Makemakean]

Nice work, Ares! Sweden with continuing FPTP!

Olof Palme (Swedish Unity leading Unity Ministry): 1933-

It was a high-energy time in Swedish politics, it seemed. Palme, who had led the assault on Bomarsund and made a name for himself in ultra-right-wing circles, now took power at the head of a "unity" administration containing of Conservatives, conservative Agrarians and conservative Liberals, all united in their desire to prevent socialism. All was not bad - the new ministry promised to continue moderate social reforms with an eye to improving the national well-being. And with the SAP finally splitting, it looked as though it might stay in power long enough to implement them...

Oh, is that the Other Olof Palme?

I've been vaguely curious as to who this other Olof Palme was after I discovered a set of very thick tomes detailing the history of the Palme family in several volumes at the Karin Boye library, written by a Olof Palme.

 

[Ares96]

Oh, is that the Other Olof Palme?

Indeed - his uncle, to be precise. Died in the storming of Tampere during the Finnish Civil War IOTL, but up until that point was considered a talented historian as well as one of the leading lights of the Young Right (i.e. the quasi-proto-fascist sort who went on to found the SNF in the 30s).

 

[Turquoise Blue]

Split The Vote
(A chaotic election game of years ago)

1949-1953: Earl Warren/Harold Stassen (Republican)
1948: Harry S. Truman/Alben Barkley (Democratic), Jacob Boyd/A. Phillip Randolph (Labor) and Strom Thurmond/Fielding L. Wright (States' Rights)
1953-1954: William Turnbull/Harold Stassen (Democratic/Republican)
1952: Henry A. Wallace/Russell Long (Labor), Earl Warren/ (Republican), /Estes Kefauver (Democratic) and James Jacoby/Howard Buffet (Freedom)
1954-1957: William Turnbull/Harold Stassen (National Democratic)
1957-1961: Hubert Humphrey/Wayne Morse (Labor)
1956: William Turnbull/Lyndon B. Johnson (National Democratic), Barry Goldwater/Joseph McCarthy (Freedom), Dwight D. Eisenhower/Richard Nixon (National Union) and Thomas E. Dewey/Goodwin Knight (New Progressive)
1961: Vacant/James Crawford (Democratic)
1960: Hubert Humphrey/Wayne Morse (Labor), George Long/ (Democratic), Richard Nixon/J. Bracken Lee (Republican/Freedom) and Margaret Chase Smith/John F. Kennedy (Progressive)
1961-1965: Hubert Humphrey/James Crawford (Labor/Democratic)
1965-1969: James Crawford/Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
1964: Wayne Morse/Julia Blackford (Labor), George W. Romney/Robert F. Kennedy (Progressive), James M. Gavin/William Scranton (Republican) and Roman Hruska/Ronald Reagan (Freedom)
1969-1973: John J. McKeithen/Wendell Anderson (Labor)
1968: Ronald Reagan/Edward Tucker (Freedom/Republican), Nelson Rockefeller/Charles H. Percy (Progressive) and James Crawford/Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)
1973-1977: John Connally/George H. W. Bush (National Union)
1972: John J. McKeithen/Wendell Anderson (Labor), /Harold Hughes (Democratic) and Birch Bayh/Gerald Ford (Progressive)
1977-1981: Frank Church/Jerry Brown (Labor)
1976: John Connally/George H. W. Bush (National Union)/Jimmy Carter (Democratic)
1981-1983: Frank Church/Matthew Cohle (Labor)
1980: Reubin Askew/John Abbott (Coalition)
1983-1985: Matthew Cohle/Vacant (Labor)
1985-1989: John Abbott/Bill Clinton (Coalition)
1984: Matthew Cohle/Ron Dellums (True Labor) and Jerry Brown/Michael Harrington (Labor)
1989-1997: Matthew Cohle/Willa Kenoyer (Labor)
1988: John Abbott/Bill Clinton (Coalition) and Arnold Crowe/Bob Graham (Reform)
1992: Colin Powell/Douglas Wilder (Coalition) and Steve Jobs/Tim Penny (Reform)
1997-2001: Ben Nighthorse Campbell/George W. Bush (Coalition)
1996: Dolan Pmurt/Hulk Hogan (Reform), Matthew Cohle/Richard Trumka (Labor) and Andrew Baker/Virgil Goode (American)
2001-2002: Matthew Cohle/George W. Bush (Labor/Coalition)
2000: Ben Nighthorse Campbell/ (Coalition), Paul Wellstone/Cheryl Jacques (People's), Dolan Pmurt/Angus King (Reform) and Virgil Goode/Herman Cain (New American)
2002: George W. Bush/Vacant (Coalition)
2002-2005: George W. Bush/Paul Wolfowitz (Coalition)
2005-2009: George W. Bush/John McCain (Coalition)
2004: Jerry Brown/Barney Frank (People's), Donald Rumsfeld/Alan Keyes (American), /Paul Wolfowitz (Democratic), /Sam Webb (Labor), /Dolan Pmurt (Reform)
2009-2017: Jesse Ventura/Rocky Anderson (People's)
2008: Robert Avakian/Walter Magnusson (Labor), Lindsey Graham/Butch Otter (Coalition), Sarah Palin/Steve Stockman (American) and Stanley McChrystal/Jim Webb (National Unity)
2012: Angus King/Rick Perry (Coalition), Richard Trumka/Cornel West (Labor) and Tom Tancredo/Joe Arpaio (American)
2017-Present: Mark Cuban/Jim Webb (Independent)
2016: Bernie Sanders/John Fetterman (People's), George W. Bush/Mike Lee (Coalition), John McAfee/Marc Allen Feldman (Libertarian) and Cornel West/Howie Hawkins (Labor)

With Labor continuing to shrink as America moves further and further away from the days of Matthew Cohle and the "Christian Coalition", it has increasingly radicalised, adopting much further left economic policies than even Cohle dreamt of, and blending it with a hardline social conservatism that makes the Coalition pause. Falling below 20 seats in the 2018 midterms only confirmed what everyone knew. Labor was a dead party walking

Their replacement as the "Party of the Left", the Populists had their dream of Libertarian Municipalism taking root only done so in several states. In others, they only barely won seats thanks to the standard anti-incumbent wave benefiting them due to Cuban being seen as a man of the right. Their wild dreams of a "Green Wave" would have to wait another two years...

The Coalition and Libertarians losing seats made them displeased too. Nobody seems to come away from the midterms happy

Current parties
Labor: Social conservatism, Democratic socialism. Aka "We stand for straight cis Christian workers"
People's: Social democracy, Libertarian socialism. Aka a mix of New Left-y stuff with bog-standard soc-demmery stuff
Coalition: Conservatism
- Democratic: Paternalistic conservatism, kinda "Tory"
- Republican: Standard conservatism, like OTL pre-Trump
- Reform: Weird centrism
- American: Right-wing anti-establishment
Libertarian: Right-libertarianism, Classical liberalism. Aka "low tax, fuck you"
Mark Cuban: Who knows. Seems more right-y and allied with Libertarians

For Labor going that direction, blame Zeldar155 and Cohle. That whole episode was both hilarious and weird. But in retrospect disturbing

 

[Japhy]

Oh hey I found my ATLF of Fail Safe!

 

[Callan]

Oh hey I found my ATLF of Fail Safe!

Don't be a tease about it

 

[Japhy]

Don't be a tease about it

I've been teasing it for like a decade now. Because I never quite get it the way I want it.

 

[Tom Colton]

This is of course ASB because after Kennedy everyone's fictional, but here's the Wikitable I made for the presidents before, during, and after All the Presi-Dent's Men:

• Tex Thompson is better known as the Americommando, who debuted in the same issue (Action Comics #1) as Superman and appeared as a war hero and Presidential hopeful in a mini-series called The Golden Age.
  • Henry Knight is the Phantom Lady's dad, and appears as a Senator in the comics.
• Harvey Dent needs no other introduction.
• "Prez" Rickard was the title character of a brief series exploring a teenaged POTUS.
  • Russell Abernathy is another Senator in the DCU, whose house Wonder Woman once crashed at (figuratively, suprisingly enough.)
• The next President is the unnamed POTUS we saw kneel before Zod in Superman II.
  • He and his VPOTUS named after E. G. Marshall's two other famous performances, the lawyer Lawrence Preston, and the neurosurgeon David Craig.
• Paul Sloane is an actor who got scarred on one side filming a TV docudrama about Harvey Dent, and it's only fitting that Reagan's expy is also an actor; Clint's used to reference the perennial rumour that he was going to play Two-Face in the Batman '66 series. I swapped his and Robert Redford's birthdates for the sake of sensibility here, given how many anomalously young Presidents we wind up with.
  • King Faraday (I swapped the names around because it's a bad pun ["King for-a-day"] in the original form and doesn't make much sense) is a Harry Palmer-esque cynical spy and references GHW Bush's stint as director of the CIA before becoming VPOTUS.

 

[Alex Richards]

The next President is the unnamed POTUS we saw kneel before Zod in Superman II.

'Abilities: Leadership'.

 

[Turquoise Blue]

List of Presidents of the Union of Great Britain in Spoil the Broth
Winston Churchill (Liberal) 1937-1952
1937: def. James Maxton (Independent Labour), Ernest Shepperson (Agriculturalist), Duff Cooper (Conservative), Hugh Dalton (Social Democratic)
1942: unopposed (ILP petition to be on the ballot denied)
1947: def. Herbert Morrison (Social Democratic), Frederick Marquis (Union), Fenner Brockway (Independent Labour), John Hargrave (Agriculturalist)
"Titan of a New Era"
Yes, yes, the Abdication Crisis ended up terribly for everyone. We now have a Republic. The UK is now just the Union. Or Britain. Whatever. But for the presidential election there was a decision to have a runoff. To ensure everyone could at least agree that one person would have the support of the majority of the populace, you see. The Liberal Party ended up narrowly saying that Lloyd George would not be nominated, and instead his ally Winston Churchill would, mainly because they distrusted DLG more than Churchill. And anyway, the Liberals stood no chance. Right?

Well. The Liberals got in the runoff against the ILP and won handily. Now Churchill's the first President. Great. And he's now talking about fighting Hitler and how we should stop appeasing him. Is this how our Presidents are going to be. Loud, abrasive and totally wro-

Oh.

Can the President just stop being so fucking smug? Yes, yes, we're at war with Germany, our former King is over there and the Nazis have declared us an illegitimate regime or something. Can he just be quiet and be a national symbol of us being strong? There's supposed to be an election in 1942? Can we like, re-elect him unopposed? Ah, the ILP is making noises about how they want to contest the election. Can we just say no?

Oh good, we can. Now he's re-elected. Shut up, Maxton, nobody likes you. Now we can focus on winning the war. Oh good, the war is won. Now time to get a peacetime pres- oh come on, he's running for a third term. Why? Why do we have him as our president?

Ugh, he won a third term. At least it seems like he's planning on retiring in '52. Oh, it's 1952 now. That went by fast

Malcolm MacDonald (National Democratic, then National) 1952-1957 [endorsed by Union]
1952: def. Harold Macmillan (Liberal-Social Democratic), John Hargrave (Agriculturalist), Emanuel Shinwell (Independent Labour)
"Carrying on the Consensus"
Malcolm MacDonald? Who? Oh, the son of Ramsay MacDonald. Why did he get nominated again? Ah, the most uncontroversial pick, I see. Anyway, Macmillan will win it handily, he got the support of Churchill and the SDP. That's rare. 50.1-49.9? I think we're starting to regret the idea of the runoff... Ah well. President MacDonald. Not bad sounding tho. Oh, he's much less loud than Churchill. What a relief. That means we can sit eas-

John Hargrave (Agriculturalist) 1957-1962
1957: def. Malcolm MacDonald (National), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Aneurin Bevan (Independent Labour), A. V. Alexander (Co-operative-Social Democratic)
"A Rude Interruption"
Wait what. How did MacDonald lose re-election. And to... him. Seriously. How did the White Fox win the Presidency of this poor country? Ah. ILP and SDP support. Well, let hope things don't spiral out of control now we're led by a weird paganistic Scouts leader. No, no, no, President Eisenhower, the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift isn't the Ku Klux Klan, it's a whole different thing that we can promise. So can you please tell all those American newspapers to stop overreacting and telling DC to put sanctions on to us? And President Hargrave, can you please stop talking about "survival of the fittest"? It's not helping, especially as our Empire is crumbling

Malcolm MacDonald (Independent) 1962-1965* [endorsed by Nationals, Liberals and Social Democrats]
1962: def. John Hargrave (Agriculturalist), Annie Maxton (Independent Labour), John Loverseed (Fellowship)
"Tanned, Rested and Ready"
Oh God, who can get us away from President Hargrave? Oh, look who it is, former President MacDonald, back from his holiday. He looks healthy. And more full of pip and vigour than ever. And he said he's running again, yay! And the SDP, Liberals and Nationals have all agreed to back him to kick out Hargrave. That's good. A firm victory! Wait, who's that in fourth? Apparently it's a bunch of weird university professors and socialites talking about... the environment? The environment? Why?

*bang*

Oh God. The President's dead. Who takes over? The Prime Minister, right? Why do I hear David Lloyd George laughing?

Megan Lloyd George (Liberal) 1965-1967 [as Princess of Wales]
Megan Lloyd George (People's) 1967-1972 [endorsed by Social Democrats]
1967: def. Enoch Powell (Unionist), Emlyn Hooson (Liberal-Agriculturalist), Charles Coulson (Fellowship), Anthony Barber (National), Ted Grant (Independent Labour)
"Y Ddraig Goch"
Fuck Lloyd George. No, not you Megan. Your father, who managed to make the Prince of Wales the one to take over in an acting position if the President is dead. He came up with that for some damned reason. I'm sure you'll do well, it's just the whole how you got to here. Wow, MLG is pretty firm and active as President, unlike past ones, and she managed to piss off the Liberal Party in the process. She won't win the next ele-

Huh. She split off as the People's Party and got the SDP endorsement. Still, the Nationals will wi- oh come on why are we like this. Ugh. Apparently the Nats had a split and Powell walked out with the whole right-wing to form the Unionists. And now MLG won a term thanks to Powell managing to unite everyone against him in the runoff. Great

Yeah, MLG is doing a good job as President. Although her calls for devolution to Wales is pretty predictable by now. And the fact her party is kinda mostly just her and they only won like, 7 seats at the last election kind of hurts her possibility for re-election, I guess

Maurice Macmillan (Liberal) 1972-1977 [endorsed by Nationals]
1972: def. Megan Lloyd George (People's-Social Democratic), Enoch Powell (Unionist), Rolf Gardiner (Agriculturalist), Emrys Thomas (Independent Labour), Charles Coulson (Fellowship), Desmond Donnelly (Our Democracy)
"Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow"
Macmillan? Didn't the Liberals nom- oh wait, it's his son. And the runoff is between two Liberals. Huh. What a good thing Powell narrowly came third, he would have been a nightmare if he won. Alright, Macmillan won. Let see if things hap-

*blinks*

Okay. Jeremy Thorpe somehow became PM leading a coalition of his Liberals, the Nationals and SDP, and this somehow fell apart as an investigation turned up... quite a few things that made him no longer suitable to lead. The President had to intervene, and the President ended up choosing his father as the most suitable man to lead that coalition. He wasn't... wrong per se, but it looked shit

Roy Jenkins (Social Democratic) 1977-1982
1977: def. Maurice Macmillan (Liberal-National), Albert Booth (Independent Labour), John Biffen (Unionist-Agriculturalist), Tony Whittaker (Fellowship)
"A Civilised Society"
What the hell does Jenkins mean by a civilised society? A liberal one? Well, that's civilised, I guess? Anyway, he got elected thanks to people seeing Macmillan as self-serving by appointing his own father. Wow. He's not going to live that down, is he?

And huh, I just noticed that the only president to be re-elected to a consecutive term is Churchill. Is anyone else gonna do that?

Ian Gilmour (National) 1982-1992
1982: def. Roy Jenkins (Social Democratic), Maurice Macmillan (Liberal), Albert Booth (Independent Labour-Globalist), Norman Tebbit (Unionist-Agriculturalist)
1987: def. Arthur Scargill (Independent Labour), Ranulph Fiennes (Agriculturalist-Unionist), Shirley Williams (Social Democratic-Liberal), John Abineri (Globalist)
"Enough of That"
Well, not Jenkins, as he lost to Gilmour. And wow, is our politics getting fragmented. ILP, Fell- Globalists, SDP, Liberals, Agriculturalists, Nationals, Unionists, and don't forget the Scots Independents and Cynghrair Cymru. Wow. Is it just me or is the maps starting to look like an abstract painting?

And with Benn's government falling apart, it seems that the Tories will be in charge for the 80s. Gilmour and Pym. I guess it's a good thing they're not hardline neoliberals like some in the Unionists want, even if Scargill got loud about them "undermining" workers' rights. He clearly just wants the Presidency, just ignore the ambitious bastard. Oh look, he announced his run. Told ya

And he lost in the runoff to Gilmour. First consecutive re-election for... 40 years? Huh. That long. Anyway, things seem to be falling apart for the Tories as the Unionists grow and whatnot. Certainly not a good sign for... huh. That was unexpected

Michael Heseltine (Liberal) 1992-1997
1992: def. Ken Clarke (National), Alan Clark (Unionist), Neil Kinnock (Social Democratic), Ben Mancroft (Agriculturalist), Peter Tatchell (Independent Labour-Globalist)
"Free Trade, Free People"
A Liberal as president? I thought that was out of the window after, well, the Thorpe thing. Apparently I was wrong. Heseltine is very active on foreign policy, which has pissed off Boyson. Good, Boyson's awful. Wait, he's no longer PM? That's Maxton? Wait, Maxton?! Ah, his nephew. We're certainly having a polarised time of it, first the right-wing Unionists now the left-wing ILP. And poor Heseltine in the middle

The whole Non-Aligned Movement thing Heseltine is pushing hard for has made President Clinton pretty irked off, especially as Heseltine spoke out against the idea of nuclear disarmament, calling it a dangerous and foolish thing. Prime Minister Maxton has nevertheless signalled his willingness to agree with Clinton on this, which has led to a clash between the President and PM. The election'll decide who the British people support

David Owen (Social Democratic, then Democrats for Owen) 1997-2002
1997: def. Michael Heseltine (Liberal-National), Sara Parkin (Globalist), Charles Spencer (Agriculturalist), Michael Meacher (Independent Labour), Neil Hamilton (Unionist), Alasdair Morgan (Scots Independent-Cynghrair Cymru - "League of Nations")
"The Wild Card"
Ah. Turns out it was neither. The British people didn't want Heseltine any more, but neither did they particularly want to give Maxton's party the Presidency. Congrats, President David Owen. Why am I feeling a deep sense of unease at that?

Owen has been... well, certainly the most vocal president, and one that seems to think he's the party leader when he's not. The SDP hates him and has decided to say no to renominating him. I don't bla- "I am forced to follow the example of a past President". Oh God, this damn country...

John Major (National) 2002-2007 [endorsed by Unionists]
2002: def. Cynog Dafis (Cynghrair Cymru-Globalist), David Owen (Democrats for Owen), Gordon Brown (Social Democratic), Jeremy Corbyn (Independent Labour), Malcolm Bruce (Liberal), Ann Mallalieu (Agriculturalist)
"Grey Mornings"
Huh. That was one weird election. I didn't expect the Welsh Nats to form an alliance with the Globalists and somehow get in the runoff and for Brown, Owen and Corbyn to basically split the Left vote to smithereens. But we're now left with... why am I feeling so bored?

Ah. It's John Major. The greyest man ever. The man who left the circus to become an accountant. At least that's a change from Heseltine and Owen. He'll be re-elected easily as people vote for the safe and secu-

Charles Windsor (Globalist) 2007-2017 [endorsed by Agriculturalists and Cynghrair Cymru, and Liberals in 2012]
2007: def. John Major (National-Unionist), Charles Kennedy (Liberal), Jeremy Corbyn (Independent Labour), Jack Straw (Social Democratic)
2012: def. Suzanne Evans (Unionist-National), John McDonnell (Independent Labour), Margaret Beckett (Social Democratic)
"The Black Spider"
Okay. There was a recession. The Globalists somehow decided to nominate the cousin of the would-be Queen and he got the endorsement of the Agriculturalists and Cynghrair Cymru somehow, and he won. Well, congrats on the death of the Republic, I guess

The Black Spider [his nickname in the somehow still-existent Kibbo Kift] has been a somewhat "aristocratic" president, as befitting his station, but he has supported several climate change bills. We must show ourselves better than the Americans on this. We must get to 100% green energy by 2030! Full steam ahead! He gets on famously with American President Beatty, which is a welcome change from the days of Atlantic frostiness

In 2012, the Liberals, after voting on it, has decided to endorse him, declaring "there is no one better to lead this country". And he got close to winning an outright majority, almost becoming the first President to do so. The runoff was almost an afterthought

In his second term, he has been vocal about... the countryside. I knew there was a reason the Agriculturalists liked him. He has met with Agriculturalist leader Minette Batters quite a bit and she's clearly hoping some of his popularity can rub off on her party as well as the Globalists

Mike Woodin (Globalist) 2017-present [endorsed by Independent Labour]
2017: def. Theresa May (National), Yvette Cooper (Social Democratic), Andrew Adonis (Liberal), Tim Farron (Agriculturalist), Nigel Farage (Unionist)
"Everything's Gone Green"
Back in 2007, there was a meeting, according to rumours. This meeting was between Charles Windsor and Mike Woodin. The deal apparently was that Windsor got the nomination for two terms if he won, and then Woodin would take the nomination in 2017. And this deal went by smoothly as Woodin won it with no opposition. Unlike Windsor, Woodin has been more left and so got the support of the ILP although none of the parties that supported the President in 2012. But with Windsor campaigning for him and his spirited energetic charismatic campaign, he won the election

His radical views make him Britain's most visionary President yet. What a pity he now has to deal with PM Minette Batters leading a centre-right coalition, instead of a left one that he could influence. The next four years promise to be interesting

 

[Zachanassian]

List of Presidents of the Union of Great Britain in Spoil the Broth

This was fun and different. ^^