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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State
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- Start date
Makemakean
Mr Makemean
- Pronouns
- Logical, unlike those in German
The one personal union I've long wondered about is the personal union that would have formed if Edward III really did manage to win on his claim to be Éduard Ier de France. My basic suspicion is and remains that he would have moved to France the same way James VI of Scotland moved to England, and England over time growing more and more angered at this notion of an absentee monarch, and it all ending with some English noble leading a rebellion and finally being declared King.
- Location
- NYC (né Falkirk)
- Pronouns
- he/him
Now there's an idea...
Beata Beatrix
Camille Paglia on Judge Dredd
- Location
- Portland, OR
- Pronouns
- she/her/hers
but my anglo-french superstate
- Location
- NYC (né Falkirk)
- Pronouns
- he/him
They prefer to be called Canada.
- Location
- Das Böse ist immer und überall
- Pronouns
- he/him
In connection with the Reformation, maybe?
1962 - 1967: Independent, President of Students for a Democratic Society
1967 - 1977: Private Citizen
1977 - 1989: Democratic, United States Senator from California
1969 - 1973: Richard Nixon / Spiro Agnew (Republican)
defeated, 1968: Hubert Humphrey / Ed Muskie (Democratic), George Wallace / Curtis LeMay (AIP)
defated, 1972: George McGovern / Sargent Shriver (Democratic)
1973 - 1974: Richard Nixon / John Connally (Republican)
1974 - 1975: John Connally / Donald Rumsfeld (Republican)
1975 - 1977: Donald Rumsfeld / Howard Baker (Republican)
1977 - 1985: Scoop Jackson / Birch Bayh (Democratic)
defeated, 1976: Donald Rumsfeld / Howard Baker (Republican), Tom McCall / Ralph Nader (Independent)
defeated, 1980: Jack Kemp / Trent Lott (Republican)
1985 - 1993: Lewis Lehrman / Barry Goldwater, Jr. (Republican)
defeated, 1984: Reubin Askew / James Blanchard (Democratic)
defeated, 1988: John Glenn / Sam Nunn (Democratic)
1993 - 1997: Lloyd Doggett / Elizabeth Holtzman (Democratic)
defeated, 1992: Bob Dole / Tom Kindness (Republican), Lee Iaccoca / Ed Zschau (Good Government)
1997 - ???: Barry Goldwater, Jr. / Jeff Bell (Republican)
defeated, 1996: Lloyd Doggett / Elizabeth Holtzman (Democratic)
Ever since the publication of the explosive "Port Huron Statement" in 1962, talk of a radical new movement spread across the American Left - the old ways of compromise and even-keeled reform seemed increasingly out of touch with reality, as cultivators of leftist thought began to shift towards the unyielding strain of radical action espoused by its primary author, Tom Hayden. The bogeyman of the intellectual right and the patron saint of the university left, Hayden was a personally intriguing man; a "victim" of Catholicism and a former Freedom Rider, Hayden was described by his peers as "charming" and "warm," as well as "egotistical" and "domineering." He espoused idealistic visions of an America free from hierarchy and from Marxist alienation, but clashed frequently with the other leaders of Students for a Democratic Society while working to consolidate power and turn the SDS into a sort-of personality cult. However, despite successfully purging the SDS of those opposed to him (Michael Harrington being the most notable removal), Hayden seemed destined for a lifetime of ineffectiveness. While the initial flames of change were flamed in Berkeley with the rise of the free speech movement and the spread of black power within the SNCC, Hayden himself did little more than make attention-grabbing visits to Hanoi and seek coverage from the press, leading the majority of organizing to the other heads of the SDS. While eventually the post of President was replaced with a triumvirate of secretaries, Hayden was still the face of the movement. Soon enough, the SDS split up along ideological lines as all the disparate tendencies tore themselves apart, but Hayden kept on keeping on. He married Jane Fonda, he took shots at the crumbling Nixon Administration from the sidelines, and he continued visiting Vietnam on a semi-regular basis.
But 1976 was different. While the American empire survived the 60's relatively unscathed, the 70's would be when it all fell apart. The War in Vietnam ended with the fall of Saigon and total American defeat. The economy was in a spiral, as out-of-control inflation crushed regular Americans just struggling to get by. Nixon was destroyed by his own machinations, Connally was brought down over milk of all things, and by the time the Rumsfeld was inaugurated, being affiliated with the Republican Party was essentially a death sentence. The mood had changed - while most just wanted things to go back to normal, Hayden recognized that there was a small but passionate base of voters that wanted change. That wanted action. That wanted blood. While he said on the record that he was a "changed man," you wouldn't get that the platform from his 1976 primary of California Senator John V. Tunney: there was a proposal for a national energy policy centered around new solar and nuclear technology, another for major employers to have a worker-selected 'representative' for every 1,000 workers that would represent their interests and would have a direct line of communication to management, and Hayden included a plank advocating for the decriminalization of homosexuality. Tunney, himself a progressive liberal, expected to win renomination easily against the aggressive, uncompromising leftist.
Thomas Emmet Hayden was inaugurated as California's Class I Senator on January 7th, 1977, silencing the critics who wrote him off as a 'protest candidate.' Hayden, however, didn't live up to expectations in the Senate; while the Workplace Democracy Act of 1979 successfully put his ideas into action, his other ideas were poorly received by his more conservative colleagues. Hayden eventually moderated his beliefs after a few years were under his belt, but he never moderated his rhetoric. He was always the outsider, the radical throwing bombs in the Senate, the only Democrat who would speak truth to power. Sure, now he was saying that "socialism is a failed ideology," and that the "state will never replace private entrepreneurship," but Hayden could never let himself be seen as an insider, as part of the establishment, as just another Democrat.
His abortive run for President in 1988 would be the end of Hayden's career in national politics, as the right of the party called him a "traitor" and actively advocated for his impeachment, while the left criticized his turn to the center during his time in Congress, forcing him to drop out after disappointing results on Super Tuesday. Hayden lost his Senate seat that November, ironically falling victim to a primary from Rose Bird, another prominent figure of the California left. His marriage with Fonda, which had been under intense strain and scrutiny in recent years, fell apart. Tom Hayden had seen any political future ahead of him evaporate just within the span of a year.
He would and try to run for public office again in the 90's, falling short in the competitive 44th District in 1992 and came close to becoming the Mayor of Los Angeles in 1997. However, after failing to restart his career twice, Hayden retired to the private sector and spent his time fundraising for the California Democratic Party, a position he would have rallied against back in his days with the SDS.
1967 - 1977: Private Citizen
1977 - 1989: Democratic, United States Senator from California
defeated, 1976 (Primary): John V. Tunney
defeated, 1976 (General): Bob Finch (Republican)
defeated, 1982 (Primary): Daniel Boatwright (Democratic)
defeated, 1982 (General): Maureen Reagan (Republican)
1988 (Primary): Rose Bird, Tom Hayden, Gray Davis
1988: Democratic, Candidate for the Presidency of the United States1988: John Glenn, Jesse Jackson, Lloyd Doggett, Tom Hayden, Paul Tsongas
1992: Democratic, Candidate for California's 44th Districtdefeated, 1992 (Primary): unopposed
1992 (General): Duke Cunningham (Republican), Tom Hayden (Democratic), Dennis Thompson (Libertarian)
1997: Democratic, Candidate for the Mayoralty of Los Angelesdefeated, 1997 (Primary): Antonio Villaraigosa, Gil Carcetti, Rick Tuttle
1997 (General): John Van de Kamp (Republican), Tom Hayden (Democratic)
1969 - 1973: Richard Nixon / Spiro Agnew (Republican)
defeated, 1968: Hubert Humphrey / Ed Muskie (Democratic), George Wallace / Curtis LeMay (AIP)
defated, 1972: George McGovern / Sargent Shriver (Democratic)
1973 - 1974: Richard Nixon / John Connally (Republican)
1974 - 1975: John Connally / Donald Rumsfeld (Republican)
1975 - 1977: Donald Rumsfeld / Howard Baker (Republican)
1977 - 1985: Scoop Jackson / Birch Bayh (Democratic)
defeated, 1976: Donald Rumsfeld / Howard Baker (Republican), Tom McCall / Ralph Nader (Independent)
defeated, 1980: Jack Kemp / Trent Lott (Republican)
1985 - 1993: Lewis Lehrman / Barry Goldwater, Jr. (Republican)
defeated, 1984: Reubin Askew / James Blanchard (Democratic)
defeated, 1988: John Glenn / Sam Nunn (Democratic)
1993 - 1997: Lloyd Doggett / Elizabeth Holtzman (Democratic)
defeated, 1992: Bob Dole / Tom Kindness (Republican), Lee Iaccoca / Ed Zschau (Good Government)
1997 - ???: Barry Goldwater, Jr. / Jeff Bell (Republican)
defeated, 1996: Lloyd Doggett / Elizabeth Holtzman (Democratic)
Ever since the publication of the explosive "Port Huron Statement" in 1962, talk of a radical new movement spread across the American Left - the old ways of compromise and even-keeled reform seemed increasingly out of touch with reality, as cultivators of leftist thought began to shift towards the unyielding strain of radical action espoused by its primary author, Tom Hayden. The bogeyman of the intellectual right and the patron saint of the university left, Hayden was a personally intriguing man; a "victim" of Catholicism and a former Freedom Rider, Hayden was described by his peers as "charming" and "warm," as well as "egotistical" and "domineering." He espoused idealistic visions of an America free from hierarchy and from Marxist alienation, but clashed frequently with the other leaders of Students for a Democratic Society while working to consolidate power and turn the SDS into a sort-of personality cult. However, despite successfully purging the SDS of those opposed to him (Michael Harrington being the most notable removal), Hayden seemed destined for a lifetime of ineffectiveness. While the initial flames of change were flamed in Berkeley with the rise of the free speech movement and the spread of black power within the SNCC, Hayden himself did little more than make attention-grabbing visits to Hanoi and seek coverage from the press, leading the majority of organizing to the other heads of the SDS. While eventually the post of President was replaced with a triumvirate of secretaries, Hayden was still the face of the movement. Soon enough, the SDS split up along ideological lines as all the disparate tendencies tore themselves apart, but Hayden kept on keeping on. He married Jane Fonda, he took shots at the crumbling Nixon Administration from the sidelines, and he continued visiting Vietnam on a semi-regular basis.
But 1976 was different. While the American empire survived the 60's relatively unscathed, the 70's would be when it all fell apart. The War in Vietnam ended with the fall of Saigon and total American defeat. The economy was in a spiral, as out-of-control inflation crushed regular Americans just struggling to get by. Nixon was destroyed by his own machinations, Connally was brought down over milk of all things, and by the time the Rumsfeld was inaugurated, being affiliated with the Republican Party was essentially a death sentence. The mood had changed - while most just wanted things to go back to normal, Hayden recognized that there was a small but passionate base of voters that wanted change. That wanted action. That wanted blood. While he said on the record that he was a "changed man," you wouldn't get that the platform from his 1976 primary of California Senator John V. Tunney: there was a proposal for a national energy policy centered around new solar and nuclear technology, another for major employers to have a worker-selected 'representative' for every 1,000 workers that would represent their interests and would have a direct line of communication to management, and Hayden included a plank advocating for the decriminalization of homosexuality. Tunney, himself a progressive liberal, expected to win renomination easily against the aggressive, uncompromising leftist.
Thomas Emmet Hayden was inaugurated as California's Class I Senator on January 7th, 1977, silencing the critics who wrote him off as a 'protest candidate.' Hayden, however, didn't live up to expectations in the Senate; while the Workplace Democracy Act of 1979 successfully put his ideas into action, his other ideas were poorly received by his more conservative colleagues. Hayden eventually moderated his beliefs after a few years were under his belt, but he never moderated his rhetoric. He was always the outsider, the radical throwing bombs in the Senate, the only Democrat who would speak truth to power. Sure, now he was saying that "socialism is a failed ideology," and that the "state will never replace private entrepreneurship," but Hayden could never let himself be seen as an insider, as part of the establishment, as just another Democrat.
His abortive run for President in 1988 would be the end of Hayden's career in national politics, as the right of the party called him a "traitor" and actively advocated for his impeachment, while the left criticized his turn to the center during his time in Congress, forcing him to drop out after disappointing results on Super Tuesday. Hayden lost his Senate seat that November, ironically falling victim to a primary from Rose Bird, another prominent figure of the California left. His marriage with Fonda, which had been under intense strain and scrutiny in recent years, fell apart. Tom Hayden had seen any political future ahead of him evaporate just within the span of a year.
He would and try to run for public office again in the 90's, falling short in the competitive 44th District in 1992 and came close to becoming the Mayor of Los Angeles in 1997. However, after failing to restart his career twice, Hayden retired to the private sector and spent his time fundraising for the California Democratic Party, a position he would have rallied against back in his days with the SDS.
- Location
- Derbyshire
I actually did a map along those lines ages back.
Basic concept is that you end up with strong independent Burgundy, Anjou, Brittany and Aquitane as strong but loyal duchies and the rest being quite independently minded.
- Location
- Municipal Commune of Bourne
- Pronouns
- He/Him
1970-1972: Reginald Maudling (Conservative and Unionist)
1970 (Majority) def. Harold Wilson (Labour), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1972-1975: Willie Whitelaw (Conservative and Unionist majority)
1975-1976: Harold Wilson (Labour)
1975 (Majority) def. Willie Whitelaw (Conservative and Unionist), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal), William Wolfe (Scottish National)
1976-1980: Michael Foot (Labour majority)
1980-1984: Keith Joseph (Conservative and Unionist)
1980 (Majority) def. Michael Foot (Labour), Roy Jenkins (Social Democratic), William Wolfe (Scottish National), John Pardoe (Liberal)
1984-1995: Ian Paisley (Conservative and Unionist)
1985 (Majority) def. Tony Benn (Labour), Roy Jenkins (Social Democratic-Liberal Alliance), Gordon Wilson (Scottish National)
1990 (Suspended, with Unison Movement support)
1995-1995: Chris Patten (Conservative and Unionist majority)
1995-2000: Tony Benn (Labour)
1995 (Reconstruction Government with Democratic Alliance and Reform) def. Ian Wrigglesworth (Democratic Alliance), John Redwood (Unison), Chris Patten (Reform)
2000-2005: Gordon Brown (Labour)
2000 (Majority) def. Ronny Tong (Democracy 2000), Norman Tebbit (Unison)
Maudling triumphs over Heath and the maintenance of a pro-Stormont policy in Westminster means the UUP never formally breaks with the Tories. Maudling's corruption eventually comes out, bringing about the fall of his government and the crumbling of Tory fortunes. Wilson wins a comfortable majority in 1975 but the government endures the same problems as OTL and Foot wins the leadership election thanks to the mildly enlarged ranks of the party compared to OTL. Keith Joseph wins a majority of his own against a tired Labour Party that has suffered a centrist split, whilst the onwards march of the SNP means the Liberals are toppled from their third party perch in the aftermath of Thorpe's leadership.
Joseph pursues an aggressive anti-IRA policy and is assassinated in 1984. Ian Paisley ascends to the Tory leadership and wins in a landslide as his bloodcurdling rhetoric proves popular, and Labour's continued leftwards shift means the Alliance eats into their votes. Paisley negotiates with the Chinese to return Hong Kong and begins a 'New Plantation' as Hongkongers move into the Province in what he hopes will secure Ulster for the Union. Terrorist attacks intensify over the course of the 80s, and increasingly authoritarian measures are taken. Social progress is rolled back and the IRA is joined by other militant movements calling for his removal. This reaches a crescendo ahead of the 1990 election and he suspends the election, using the much enlarged Unison paramilitary of Walter Walker to enforce his rule.
The economy, which enjoyed something of a boom thanks to monetarist policies, grinds down in the 1990s, and by 1995 his decision to again suspend the election leads to an uprising by his own backbenches. Chris Patten releases political prisoners and reforms the Tory Party into err Reform. The Paisleyite hard right fuse with Walker's Unison Movement. Tony Benn takes the premiership in a tripartite reconstruction government with the Democratic Alliance and Reform, in the process transforming Britain into a republic. With Benn becoming Britain's first elected President, Gordon Brown - who led an 'alternative government' in exile in Romania - wins a majority of his own, triumphing over the merger of the Democratic Alliance and Reform, while Unison slides further into irrelevance.
1970 (Majority) def. Harold Wilson (Labour), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal)
1972-1975: Willie Whitelaw (Conservative and Unionist majority)
1975-1976: Harold Wilson (Labour)
1975 (Majority) def. Willie Whitelaw (Conservative and Unionist), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal), William Wolfe (Scottish National)
1976-1980: Michael Foot (Labour majority)
1980-1984: Keith Joseph (Conservative and Unionist)
1980 (Majority) def. Michael Foot (Labour), Roy Jenkins (Social Democratic), William Wolfe (Scottish National), John Pardoe (Liberal)
1984-1995: Ian Paisley (Conservative and Unionist)
1985 (Majority) def. Tony Benn (Labour), Roy Jenkins (Social Democratic-Liberal Alliance), Gordon Wilson (Scottish National)
1990 (Suspended, with Unison Movement support)
1995-1995: Chris Patten (Conservative and Unionist majority)
1995-2000: Tony Benn (Labour)
1995 (Reconstruction Government with Democratic Alliance and Reform) def. Ian Wrigglesworth (Democratic Alliance), John Redwood (Unison), Chris Patten (Reform)
2000-2005: Gordon Brown (Labour)
2000 (Majority) def. Ronny Tong (Democracy 2000), Norman Tebbit (Unison)
Maudling triumphs over Heath and the maintenance of a pro-Stormont policy in Westminster means the UUP never formally breaks with the Tories. Maudling's corruption eventually comes out, bringing about the fall of his government and the crumbling of Tory fortunes. Wilson wins a comfortable majority in 1975 but the government endures the same problems as OTL and Foot wins the leadership election thanks to the mildly enlarged ranks of the party compared to OTL. Keith Joseph wins a majority of his own against a tired Labour Party that has suffered a centrist split, whilst the onwards march of the SNP means the Liberals are toppled from their third party perch in the aftermath of Thorpe's leadership.
Joseph pursues an aggressive anti-IRA policy and is assassinated in 1984. Ian Paisley ascends to the Tory leadership and wins in a landslide as his bloodcurdling rhetoric proves popular, and Labour's continued leftwards shift means the Alliance eats into their votes. Paisley negotiates with the Chinese to return Hong Kong and begins a 'New Plantation' as Hongkongers move into the Province in what he hopes will secure Ulster for the Union. Terrorist attacks intensify over the course of the 80s, and increasingly authoritarian measures are taken. Social progress is rolled back and the IRA is joined by other militant movements calling for his removal. This reaches a crescendo ahead of the 1990 election and he suspends the election, using the much enlarged Unison paramilitary of Walter Walker to enforce his rule.
The economy, which enjoyed something of a boom thanks to monetarist policies, grinds down in the 1990s, and by 1995 his decision to again suspend the election leads to an uprising by his own backbenches. Chris Patten releases political prisoners and reforms the Tory Party into err Reform. The Paisleyite hard right fuse with Walker's Unison Movement. Tony Benn takes the premiership in a tripartite reconstruction government with the Democratic Alliance and Reform, in the process transforming Britain into a republic. With Benn becoming Britain's first elected President, Gordon Brown - who led an 'alternative government' in exile in Romania - wins a majority of his own, triumphing over the merger of the Democratic Alliance and Reform, while Unison slides further into irrelevance.
AgentRudda
I DID EVERYTHING RITE AND THEY INDICTED MEee 👐
- Pronouns
- He/Him
i need a shower
- Location
- Teignmouth, Devon
- Pronouns
- She/Her
- Location
- Municipal Commune of Bourne
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I thought it's more dark teal?
- Location
- Teignmouth, Devon
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Mebbe a little too dark for my old eyes. But yeah, I could see them going teal if the dice had fell differently
- Location
- Municipal Commune of Bourne
- Pronouns
- He/Him
I usually use colours to get a mood across and I thought it was a sinister colour for a right wing party.
2004-2011: Gordon Brown (Labour)
2004-2011: Labour majority
2006 GE: Gordon Brown (Labour), Michael Howard (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat)
2011-2013: David Cameron (Conservative)
2011 GE: David Cameron (Conservative), Gordon Brown (Labour), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat)
2011-2013: Conservative minority
2013-2014: Ed Miliband (Labour)
2013 GE: Ed Miliband (Labour), David Cameron (Conservative), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat)
2013-2014: Labour minority
2014-2015: Bob Crow (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition)
2014-2015: TUSC coalition with Communist Party of Britain and New Spartacus League
2015-2015: Ed Miliband (Labour)
2015-2015: Labour leading National Government
2015-2015: "The people on the British Isle" (New Spartacus League)
2014-2015: New Spartacus League coalition with TUSC and Communist Party of Britain
2015-2016: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)
2015-2016: Labour leading National Government
2016-2018: Jeff Kent (Acting Witan of Mercia)/Colin Bex (Wessex Awake! – The Wessex Regionalists)/Harold Elletson (Northern)/Hilton Dawson (North East)
2016-2018: Acting Witan of Mercia, Wessex Awake! – The Wessex Regionalists, Northern Party, and North East Party leading Government of the Regions and Nations with Solidarity, Scottish Socialists, RISE – Scotland’s Left Alliance, Plaid Cymru, and Cymru Rydd
2018-2018: Jon Cruddas (Labour)
2018-2018: Labour leading National Government
2018-2019: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)
2018-2018: Labour leading National Government
2018 GE: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat), Theresa May (Conservative)
2018-2019: Labour majority
This is my attempt at the "your politics over time as a list" thing that was around a few months ago.
2004-2011: Labour majority
2006 GE: Gordon Brown (Labour), Michael Howard (Conservative), Charles Kennedy (Liberal Democrat)
2011-2013: David Cameron (Conservative)
2011 GE: David Cameron (Conservative), Gordon Brown (Labour), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat)
2011-2013: Conservative minority
2013-2014: Ed Miliband (Labour)
2013 GE: Ed Miliband (Labour), David Cameron (Conservative), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat)
2013-2014: Labour minority
2014-2015: Bob Crow (Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition)
2014-2015: TUSC coalition with Communist Party of Britain and New Spartacus League
2015-2015: Ed Miliband (Labour)
2015-2015: Labour leading National Government
2015-2015: "The people on the British Isle" (New Spartacus League)
2014-2015: New Spartacus League coalition with TUSC and Communist Party of Britain
2015-2016: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)
2015-2016: Labour leading National Government
2016-2018: Jeff Kent (Acting Witan of Mercia)/Colin Bex (Wessex Awake! – The Wessex Regionalists)/Harold Elletson (Northern)/Hilton Dawson (North East)
2016-2018: Acting Witan of Mercia, Wessex Awake! – The Wessex Regionalists, Northern Party, and North East Party leading Government of the Regions and Nations with Solidarity, Scottish Socialists, RISE – Scotland’s Left Alliance, Plaid Cymru, and Cymru Rydd
2018-2018: Jon Cruddas (Labour)
2018-2018: Labour leading National Government
2018-2019: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour)
2018-2018: Labour leading National Government
2018 GE: Jeremy Corbyn (Labour), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat), Theresa May (Conservative)
2018-2019: Labour majority
This is my attempt at the "your politics over time as a list" thing that was around a few months ago.
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- Location
- Op een dag, Nederland.
- Pronouns
- she/her & ne/nem
Nobody Will Get This
Úna Siúlóir (Fine Gael-Labour coalition) 1997-2004
Mícheál Mac Tíre (Fine Gael-Labour coalition) 2004-2005
Ross Aindriú (Democratic Left-Labour-Green coalition) 2005-2013
Gearóid Mac Hoireabard (Fianna Fail-Progressive Democrats coalition) 2013-2015
Seán Sealgair (Fianna Fail-Progressive Democrats coalition) 2015-2018
Liam Mac Rómhánach (Fine Gael-Democratic Labour-Green coalition) 2018-
Úna Siúlóir (Fine Gael-Labour coalition) 1997-2004
Mícheál Mac Tíre (Fine Gael-Labour coalition) 2004-2005
Ross Aindriú (Democratic Left-Labour-Green coalition) 2005-2013
Gearóid Mac Hoireabard (Fianna Fail-Progressive Democrats coalition) 2013-2015
Seán Sealgair (Fianna Fail-Progressive Democrats coalition) 2015-2018
Liam Mac Rómhánach (Fine Gael-Democratic Labour-Green coalition) 2018-
OHC
deep green blue collar rainbow
- Location
- Little Beirut
- Pronouns
- they/she
1955-1957: Rassemblement nationale, President of the Young Sovereigntists
Appointed, 1955
Party dissolved by order of the Crown, 1957
1956-1957: Rassemblement nationale, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Québec for Rivière-du-Loup
Québécois general election, 1956, def. Léon Casgrain (PLQ), Roméo Gagné (Union nationale), Alistair K. Smith (Royal Assistance Organization)
1958-1961: Ralliement Laurentienne, Party President
Party founded, 1958
Party dissolved by order of the People, 1961
1959-1960: Ralliement Laurentienne, Delegate to the National Convention of Laurentie
1960-1961: Ralliement Laurentienne, Deputy to the National Assembly of Laurentie for Bas-Saint-Laurent
Laurentine general election, 1960, unopposed - popular coupon
1961: Ralliement Laurentienne, Deputy to the People's Assembly of Québec
1961-1962: Independent, Deputy to the People's Assembly of Québec
1962-1965: incarcerated at the Prison de Bordeaux
1965-1969: private citizen, writer and activist
1969-1973: Republican, board member, President's Commission on Human Rights
Republican primary for United States Senator from Maine, 1972: Margaret Chase Smith def. Robert Monks, Jean-Louis L. de Kérouac
Few names evoke such an emotional response among the French Canadian diaspora as that of Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 to emigre parents, de Kérouac and his mother returned to their ancestral home after his alcoholic father was killed in a bar fight in 1929, and he grew up as a troubled and deeply devout young man. Drafted into the Royal Navy during the Second World War, he was frequently in and out of the brig and was described as "unable to conform" by disdainful superiors. It was during one of those spells in military prison that he encountered the Québécois sovereignty movement, which had grown rapidly after the British monarchy's flight to Ottawa in 1926. After the war, de Kérouac moved to Montréal, briefly studied French literature at university, and became a prominent figure in the province's small literary scene. His energetic and impulsive writing style impressed his friends in underground politics, and during the brief Thaw of the mid-50s he joined the big-tent separatist group Rassemblement nationale. In the epochal provincial election of 1956, de Kérouac defeated the sitting attorney general, running on the united separatist coupon alongside the communists and creditists. The coalition government had barely taken office when it was forcibly dissolved by the Imperial Parliament.
De Kérouac fled to the United States during the subsequent crackdown, and during the Liberation War he acted as the international face of the separatist cause. Handsome, eloquent, and burning with messianic zeal, his relatively minimal role in the military conflict mattered little to the American and French radicals to whom he became an icon, and his louche reputation for womanizing, brawling and heavy drug use if anything enhanced his stature. Posters of his face appeared on college campuses and his speaking tours were credited with preventing American intervention in the conflict. (Of course, the real rationale for America's neutrality was the Anglophobic posture of President Nixon's populist Democrats.)
Following independence and the collapse of the Imperial regime, de Kérouac took up a seat in the new National Assembly, winning an uncontested election on the unity coupon. His Rassemblement Laurentienne party was little more than a personal vehicle; while he was an ardent romantic nationalist (he was the loudest proponent of the name Laurentie rather than Québec for the new nation), he had few strong political views and did not sympathize with the socialist vision of many of his fellow revolutionaries. De Kérouac, as a staunch Catholic and a self-proclaimed descendant of Breton nobility, soon became a loud critic of what he saw as increasing Communist domination of the National Assembly. Following the Second Constitution of 1961 which renamed the country and consolidated power in the Communist-run executive council, his party was dissolved, and shortly thereafter de Kérouac himself was dismissed from the Assembly and arrested on charges of sedition.
Given his fame and American citizenship, his imprisonment soon became a sticking point in relations with the United States, and the onetime revolutionary was deported in 1965. He quickly became a fixture on the professional anti-Communist circuit, earning him the enmity of the radicals for whom he had once been a beloved icon but the friendship of figures such as George Murphy and Phyllis Schafly. After Murphy's shock election victory in 1968, de Kérouac was appointed to the "Presidential Commission on Human Rights" - a quasi-non-governmental body labeled by the President's critics as a paper cover for Murphy's aggressive foreign policy. The exile certainly did not cover himself in glory on the board. His years of hard living had caught up to him; by the time he launched his quixotic challenge to Margaret Chase Smith - the Maine senator who had objected to Murphy's military buildup on her state's northern border - he was already dying of cirrhosis of the liver.
To this day, he remains a secular saint to the Laurentien exile population of New England. Their status as a key Republican voting bloc means that conservative politicians are expected to have a passing familiarity with his works in the original French before running for President.
Appointed, 1955
Party dissolved by order of the Crown, 1957
1956-1957: Rassemblement nationale, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Québec for Rivière-du-Loup
Québécois general election, 1956, def. Léon Casgrain (PLQ), Roméo Gagné (Union nationale), Alistair K. Smith (Royal Assistance Organization)
1958-1961: Ralliement Laurentienne, Party President
Party founded, 1958
Party dissolved by order of the People, 1961
1959-1960: Ralliement Laurentienne, Delegate to the National Convention of Laurentie
1960-1961: Ralliement Laurentienne, Deputy to the National Assembly of Laurentie for Bas-Saint-Laurent
Laurentine general election, 1960, unopposed - popular coupon
1961: Ralliement Laurentienne, Deputy to the People's Assembly of Québec
1961-1962: Independent, Deputy to the People's Assembly of Québec
1962-1965: incarcerated at the Prison de Bordeaux
1965-1969: private citizen, writer and activist
1969-1973: Republican, board member, President's Commission on Human Rights
Republican primary for United States Senator from Maine, 1972: Margaret Chase Smith def. Robert Monks, Jean-Louis L. de Kérouac
Few names evoke such an emotional response among the French Canadian diaspora as that of Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1922 to emigre parents, de Kérouac and his mother returned to their ancestral home after his alcoholic father was killed in a bar fight in 1929, and he grew up as a troubled and deeply devout young man. Drafted into the Royal Navy during the Second World War, he was frequently in and out of the brig and was described as "unable to conform" by disdainful superiors. It was during one of those spells in military prison that he encountered the Québécois sovereignty movement, which had grown rapidly after the British monarchy's flight to Ottawa in 1926. After the war, de Kérouac moved to Montréal, briefly studied French literature at university, and became a prominent figure in the province's small literary scene. His energetic and impulsive writing style impressed his friends in underground politics, and during the brief Thaw of the mid-50s he joined the big-tent separatist group Rassemblement nationale. In the epochal provincial election of 1956, de Kérouac defeated the sitting attorney general, running on the united separatist coupon alongside the communists and creditists. The coalition government had barely taken office when it was forcibly dissolved by the Imperial Parliament.
De Kérouac fled to the United States during the subsequent crackdown, and during the Liberation War he acted as the international face of the separatist cause. Handsome, eloquent, and burning with messianic zeal, his relatively minimal role in the military conflict mattered little to the American and French radicals to whom he became an icon, and his louche reputation for womanizing, brawling and heavy drug use if anything enhanced his stature. Posters of his face appeared on college campuses and his speaking tours were credited with preventing American intervention in the conflict. (Of course, the real rationale for America's neutrality was the Anglophobic posture of President Nixon's populist Democrats.)
Following independence and the collapse of the Imperial regime, de Kérouac took up a seat in the new National Assembly, winning an uncontested election on the unity coupon. His Rassemblement Laurentienne party was little more than a personal vehicle; while he was an ardent romantic nationalist (he was the loudest proponent of the name Laurentie rather than Québec for the new nation), he had few strong political views and did not sympathize with the socialist vision of many of his fellow revolutionaries. De Kérouac, as a staunch Catholic and a self-proclaimed descendant of Breton nobility, soon became a loud critic of what he saw as increasing Communist domination of the National Assembly. Following the Second Constitution of 1961 which renamed the country and consolidated power in the Communist-run executive council, his party was dissolved, and shortly thereafter de Kérouac himself was dismissed from the Assembly and arrested on charges of sedition.
Given his fame and American citizenship, his imprisonment soon became a sticking point in relations with the United States, and the onetime revolutionary was deported in 1965. He quickly became a fixture on the professional anti-Communist circuit, earning him the enmity of the radicals for whom he had once been a beloved icon but the friendship of figures such as George Murphy and Phyllis Schafly. After Murphy's shock election victory in 1968, de Kérouac was appointed to the "Presidential Commission on Human Rights" - a quasi-non-governmental body labeled by the President's critics as a paper cover for Murphy's aggressive foreign policy. The exile certainly did not cover himself in glory on the board. His years of hard living had caught up to him; by the time he launched his quixotic challenge to Margaret Chase Smith - the Maine senator who had objected to Murphy's military buildup on her state's northern border - he was already dying of cirrhosis of the liver.
To this day, he remains a secular saint to the Laurentien exile population of New England. Their status as a key Republican voting bloc means that conservative politicians are expected to have a passing familiarity with his works in the original French before running for President.
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Presidents of Russia
2012-2029: Vladimir Putin (Independent, affiliated with United Russia)
2029-2037: Alexei Dyumin (Indpendent, affiliated with United Russia)
2037-2041: Georgy Samokhvalov (Independent, affiliated with National Renewal)
2041-2049: Zhanna Nemtsova (Independent, affiliated with Russia of the Future)
2049- : Dmitri Yanayev (Independent, affiliated with Russia of the Future)
Vladimir Putin was the longest-serving Russian ruler in modern times. In 2022 he abolished term limits, allowing him to run for a third term in 2024 (where he won 85% of the vote). The latter part of the Putin era was noted for its repressiveness and the increasing tensions between Russia and the West. The war in the Donbass froze, allowing Russia to consolidate the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. In 2028 Abkhazia and South Ossetia were formally annexed by Russia. However, the Putin era also saw the slow and steady degradation of Russia's infastructure and economy (which remained tied to oil). This was noted at the time, but did not present much of a threat to the regime so they ignored it. Putin was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2028 and died the following year at the age of 77.
Putin's successor was his former chief security guard and Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Dyumin. Dyumin's regime was essentially the same as Putin's. Then the world economy collapsed in 2035. Suddenly all of the issues that Putin had ignored came to the fore, and the government proved unable to manage the increasingly decrepit Russia. In 2037 protestors took to the streets across Russia, and Dyumin was forced to resign when the military declared that they wouldn't support him. He fled to Belarus, but Belarusian President Nikolai Lukashenko, mindful of the need to maintain good relations with Russia, turned Dyumin over to the new government. Dyumin died in 2044 in prison, with the official cause of death being suicide.
Elections were swiftly held, and longtime opposition figure Georgy Samokhvalov (who rose to prominence in the late 2020s) won a major victory. The Russian political system was completely overturned. United Russia and A Just Russia were banned, and the evidence of the Liberal Democratic and Communist collaboration with the government was so overwhelming that both parties collapsed (the KPRF was swiftly replaced as the main Communist party by the Communists of Russia party). Samokhvalov presided over the deputinization of Russia, and brought many economic reforms. Unfortunately, these reforms were not enough and the economy stumbled. As a result Samokhvalov was defeated in the 2041 elections by Zhanna Nemtsova, daughter of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. The Nemtsova years were marked by the increased liberalization of Russia. Most controversially, she repealed many of the anti-gay laws passed under Putin. This upset the conservatives in Russia, but they struggled to defeat the enormously popular Nemtsova. The election of her chosen successor, Dmitri Yanayev, occurred after Nemtsova's second term in 2049. The question now is if the liberal gains that Russia has made over the last 12 years can be held.
2012-2029: Vladimir Putin (Independent, affiliated with United Russia)
2029-2037: Alexei Dyumin (Indpendent, affiliated with United Russia)
2037-2041: Georgy Samokhvalov (Independent, affiliated with National Renewal)
2041-2049: Zhanna Nemtsova (Independent, affiliated with Russia of the Future)
2049- : Dmitri Yanayev (Independent, affiliated with Russia of the Future)
Vladimir Putin was the longest-serving Russian ruler in modern times. In 2022 he abolished term limits, allowing him to run for a third term in 2024 (where he won 85% of the vote). The latter part of the Putin era was noted for its repressiveness and the increasing tensions between Russia and the West. The war in the Donbass froze, allowing Russia to consolidate the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics. In 2028 Abkhazia and South Ossetia were formally annexed by Russia. However, the Putin era also saw the slow and steady degradation of Russia's infastructure and economy (which remained tied to oil). This was noted at the time, but did not present much of a threat to the regime so they ignored it. Putin was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 2028 and died the following year at the age of 77.
Putin's successor was his former chief security guard and Deputy Defense Minister Alexei Dyumin. Dyumin's regime was essentially the same as Putin's. Then the world economy collapsed in 2035. Suddenly all of the issues that Putin had ignored came to the fore, and the government proved unable to manage the increasingly decrepit Russia. In 2037 protestors took to the streets across Russia, and Dyumin was forced to resign when the military declared that they wouldn't support him. He fled to Belarus, but Belarusian President Nikolai Lukashenko, mindful of the need to maintain good relations with Russia, turned Dyumin over to the new government. Dyumin died in 2044 in prison, with the official cause of death being suicide.
Elections were swiftly held, and longtime opposition figure Georgy Samokhvalov (who rose to prominence in the late 2020s) won a major victory. The Russian political system was completely overturned. United Russia and A Just Russia were banned, and the evidence of the Liberal Democratic and Communist collaboration with the government was so overwhelming that both parties collapsed (the KPRF was swiftly replaced as the main Communist party by the Communists of Russia party). Samokhvalov presided over the deputinization of Russia, and brought many economic reforms. Unfortunately, these reforms were not enough and the economy stumbled. As a result Samokhvalov was defeated in the 2041 elections by Zhanna Nemtsova, daughter of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. The Nemtsova years were marked by the increased liberalization of Russia. Most controversially, she repealed many of the anti-gay laws passed under Putin. This upset the conservatives in Russia, but they struggled to defeat the enormously popular Nemtsova. The election of her chosen successor, Dmitri Yanayev, occurred after Nemtsova's second term in 2049. The question now is if the liberal gains that Russia has made over the last 12 years can be held.
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It's something to do with Comedians but I can't quite work out what the original list was.