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A Touch of Flu:
1916-1918: David Lloyd George (War Coalition-Liberal)†
1918:Fredrick Guest (War Coalition-Liberal)
1918-1925:Austen Chamberlin (Conservative)
1918 def:(Majority) Arthur Henderson (Labour), Fredrick Guest (Liberal), George Barnes (National Democratic Socialist League), Éamon de Valera (Sinn Féin), Henry Page Croft (National)
1922 def: (Majority) George Lansbury (Labour), H.H. Asquith (Liberal), George Barnes (National Democratic Socialist League), Albert Inkpin (Communist Party of Great Britain),
1925-1927: J.R.Clynes (Labour)
1925 def: (Coalition with Liberals) Austen Chamberlain (Conservative), H.H.Asquith (Liberal), Tom Kennedy (National Democratic Socialist League), Albert Inkpin (CPGB), Rotha-Lintorn Orman (British Fascists)
1927-1931: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative)
1927 def: (Coalition with Liberals) J.R Clynes (Labour), John Simon (Liberal), Francis Acland (Action), Tom Kennedy (National Democratic), Albert Inkpin (CPGB), Rotha-Lintorn Orman (British Fascist Party)
1931-1937: Christopher Thomson (Labour)
1931 def: (Majority) Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), John Simon (Liberal), William Wedgwood Benn (Action), Frank Markham (National Democratic), J.R.Campbell (CPGB), Rotha-Lintorn Orman (British Fascist Party)
1934 def: (Majority) Oswald Mosley (Unionist), Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), Leslie Hore-Belisha (Liberal), William Wedgwood Benn (Action), Jessie Eden (CPGB), Rotha-Lintorn Orman (British Fascist Party)
1937-1941:Oswald Mosley (Unionist)
1937 def: (Majority) Christopher’s Thomson (Labour), Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), William Wedgwood Benn (Action), Tom Wintringham (CPGB)
1941-1946: William Wedgwood Benn-Thomas Johnston (Popular Front)
1941 def: (Popular Front Coalition) Oswald Mosley (Unionist), Violet Bonham Carter (Liberal), Lord Halifax (Conservative), Tom Wintringham (CPGB-Popular Front), Jessie Eden (CPGB-Third International), John Beckett ('Social Credit' Unionist), William Joyce ('Fascist' Unionist)
1946-1950: Thomas Johnston (Labour)
1946 def: (Majority) Charles Simmons (Unionist), William Wedgwood Benn (Action), Violet Bonham Carter (Liberal), John Llewellin (Conservative), Tom Wintringham (CPGB-Popular Front),Jessie Eden (CPGB-Third International), John Beckett (Social Credit Party), William Joyce (British Fascists)
1950-:Harold Macmillan (Unionist)
1950 def: (Coalition with Conservatives) Thomas Johnston (Labour), Honour Balfour (Action), Violet Bonham Carter (Liberal),Oliver Lyttelton (Conservative), John Cornford-Margot Heinemann (Popular Front), John Beckett (Social Credit Party)
September 1918 and Spanish Flu has felled an important figure of British politics in David Lloyd-George. In some backdoor deals in which the sickly Bonar Law declines the offer of being Prime Minister, Liberal War Hero and Ally of David Lloyd George, Fredrick Guest is made Prime Minister. His brief rule was more about managing the remaining few months of the War alongside preparing the Liberals for an election after the new Conservative leader Austen Chamberlain (having ousted Bonar Law for being weak) decides against a coalition coupon. The Conservatives win, through a mixture of banging on the drum of populist nationalism in the wake of Germany defeat and also the Liberals collapsing into infighting and the Labour and National Democratic parties gobbling up the former Working Class Liberal vote.
Austen Chamberlain's rule is tumultuously, his Liberal Unionist past means that the Irish War of Independence spirals further lasting until 1923 when he begrudgingly signs a treaty that allows for the Free State of Ireland to exist. Despite his paternalistic conservatism and support of a welfare state (too a point, of course) it doesn't solve unemployment and despite winning the 1922 election (helped mainly by George Lansbury being seen as too Left Wing and Pacifist for the public liking and the Liberals being in free fall) it doesn't stop him loosing the 1925 election rather narrowly. J.R.Clynes enters a coalition with the Liberals but his brief run as Prime Minister falls into chaos after he manages to annoy the Free Traders and Libertarians and his attempts to put Radical MPs like William Wedgwood Benn as members of his cabinet leads to the coalition collapsing after 2 years. Angered by there comrades actions, William Wedgwood Benn and Francis Acland create there own party which leads to a rather Conservative/Business obsessed Liberals lead by John Simon (Asquith now being a drunken mess) joining into a coalition with Baldwin's Conservatives. The rule is rocky and the rise in Nationalist Populism, Communism, Fascism and more leads to the Baldwin government being a case of trying to constantly put out fires. The Great Depression finally causes the government to collapse and the Labour government takes hold.
Thomson is weak leader with a good team, he lets Webb and Morrison take control of digging the country out of the Depression whilst Thomson goes around oiling the right wheels here and there with his military background and mild charisma managing well against the Conservatives and National Democrats. But still the government of Thomson manages to get Britain out of the depths of a Depression but still hasn't conquered unemployment and has created a state that leans towards Centralised Corporatism over anything Socialist in nature which angers both the Conservatives, Radicals and the Left of the Labour Party and especially the cancerous mass of the Unionist Party.
A combination of National Democrats, Social Creditors, Fascists, Keynesian Liberals, Pacifists, Former Labour and Conservative MPs and generally a force of Keynesian National Populism and Paternalistic Conservatism lead by a loose cannon MP that is Oswald Mosley (having joined the National Democrats around 1922). Mosley wins the 37' Election (thanks to a Popualist campaign and a scandal over Thomson's love to Princess Marthe Bibesco being found out) and tries to implement his ideas but his loose coalition is not really a good force for change and Mosley's isolationist stance doesn't lend well to a world in which a German Military Government is fighting it out with the Polish, the Italians gobbling up various territories across the Mediterranean and the French and Spanish collapsing into Civil War. Alongside this and an increase in Authoritarianism leads to the various Left to Centrist parties joining together into a Popular Front lead by the Left Wing Labour MP Tom Johnston and Radical MP William Wedgwood Benn who proceed to smash the Unionist party in the 1941 election as the Unionist coalition collapses.
The next 9 years is about bringing Britain back from the brink, the scourges of British Fascism and Stalinism are wiped out by the Johnston Government (helped by rivals like the Anti-Stalin Communists of the Popular Front party and the Social Creditors of the Social Credit Party), a new Democratic Socialist style Britain inspired by the ideas of G.D.H Cole is brought in ranging from Socialised Health Care, increase in housing, a rise in alternative energy like Dams and the first inclining of Nuclear Energy, a rise in CoOps and Trade Unions and attempts to implement Workers Democracy and finally the Popular Front government battling the Italians in Africa and helping the French and Spanish Popular Fronts win there Civil Wars. Tom Johnston would be ousted in 1950 by a revived Unionist party, one which has rid itself of the shackles of Fascism and Social Credit and lead by Harold Macmillan, a true believer in so called 'One Nation Labour' politics and a man who may be able to give the Unionist Party it's place in the sun again.
1916-1918: David Lloyd George (War Coalition-Liberal)†
1918:Fredrick Guest (War Coalition-Liberal)
1918-1925:Austen Chamberlin (Conservative)
1918 def:(Majority) Arthur Henderson (Labour), Fredrick Guest (Liberal), George Barnes (National Democratic Socialist League), Éamon de Valera (Sinn Féin), Henry Page Croft (National)
1922 def: (Majority) George Lansbury (Labour), H.H. Asquith (Liberal), George Barnes (National Democratic Socialist League), Albert Inkpin (Communist Party of Great Britain),
1925-1927: J.R.Clynes (Labour)
1925 def: (Coalition with Liberals) Austen Chamberlain (Conservative), H.H.Asquith (Liberal), Tom Kennedy (National Democratic Socialist League), Albert Inkpin (CPGB), Rotha-Lintorn Orman (British Fascists)
1927-1931: Stanley Baldwin (Conservative)
1927 def: (Coalition with Liberals) J.R Clynes (Labour), John Simon (Liberal), Francis Acland (Action), Tom Kennedy (National Democratic), Albert Inkpin (CPGB), Rotha-Lintorn Orman (British Fascist Party)
1931-1937: Christopher Thomson (Labour)
1931 def: (Majority) Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), John Simon (Liberal), William Wedgwood Benn (Action), Frank Markham (National Democratic), J.R.Campbell (CPGB), Rotha-Lintorn Orman (British Fascist Party)
1934 def: (Majority) Oswald Mosley (Unionist), Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), Leslie Hore-Belisha (Liberal), William Wedgwood Benn (Action), Jessie Eden (CPGB), Rotha-Lintorn Orman (British Fascist Party)
1937-1941:Oswald Mosley (Unionist)
1937 def: (Majority) Christopher’s Thomson (Labour), Stanley Baldwin (Conservative), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), William Wedgwood Benn (Action), Tom Wintringham (CPGB)
1941-1946: William Wedgwood Benn-Thomas Johnston (Popular Front)
1941 def: (Popular Front Coalition) Oswald Mosley (Unionist), Violet Bonham Carter (Liberal), Lord Halifax (Conservative), Tom Wintringham (CPGB-Popular Front), Jessie Eden (CPGB-Third International), John Beckett ('Social Credit' Unionist), William Joyce ('Fascist' Unionist)
1946-1950: Thomas Johnston (Labour)
1946 def: (Majority) Charles Simmons (Unionist), William Wedgwood Benn (Action), Violet Bonham Carter (Liberal), John Llewellin (Conservative), Tom Wintringham (CPGB-Popular Front),
1950-:Harold Macmillan (Unionist)
1950 def: (Coalition with Conservatives) Thomas Johnston (Labour), Honour Balfour (Action), Violet Bonham Carter (Liberal),Oliver Lyttelton (Conservative), John Cornford-Margot Heinemann (Popular Front), John Beckett (Social Credit Party)
September 1918 and Spanish Flu has felled an important figure of British politics in David Lloyd-George. In some backdoor deals in which the sickly Bonar Law declines the offer of being Prime Minister, Liberal War Hero and Ally of David Lloyd George, Fredrick Guest is made Prime Minister. His brief rule was more about managing the remaining few months of the War alongside preparing the Liberals for an election after the new Conservative leader Austen Chamberlain (having ousted Bonar Law for being weak) decides against a coalition coupon. The Conservatives win, through a mixture of banging on the drum of populist nationalism in the wake of Germany defeat and also the Liberals collapsing into infighting and the Labour and National Democratic parties gobbling up the former Working Class Liberal vote.
Austen Chamberlain's rule is tumultuously, his Liberal Unionist past means that the Irish War of Independence spirals further lasting until 1923 when he begrudgingly signs a treaty that allows for the Free State of Ireland to exist. Despite his paternalistic conservatism and support of a welfare state (too a point, of course) it doesn't solve unemployment and despite winning the 1922 election (helped mainly by George Lansbury being seen as too Left Wing and Pacifist for the public liking and the Liberals being in free fall) it doesn't stop him loosing the 1925 election rather narrowly. J.R.Clynes enters a coalition with the Liberals but his brief run as Prime Minister falls into chaos after he manages to annoy the Free Traders and Libertarians and his attempts to put Radical MPs like William Wedgwood Benn as members of his cabinet leads to the coalition collapsing after 2 years. Angered by there comrades actions, William Wedgwood Benn and Francis Acland create there own party which leads to a rather Conservative/Business obsessed Liberals lead by John Simon (Asquith now being a drunken mess) joining into a coalition with Baldwin's Conservatives. The rule is rocky and the rise in Nationalist Populism, Communism, Fascism and more leads to the Baldwin government being a case of trying to constantly put out fires. The Great Depression finally causes the government to collapse and the Labour government takes hold.
Thomson is weak leader with a good team, he lets Webb and Morrison take control of digging the country out of the Depression whilst Thomson goes around oiling the right wheels here and there with his military background and mild charisma managing well against the Conservatives and National Democrats. But still the government of Thomson manages to get Britain out of the depths of a Depression but still hasn't conquered unemployment and has created a state that leans towards Centralised Corporatism over anything Socialist in nature which angers both the Conservatives, Radicals and the Left of the Labour Party and especially the cancerous mass of the Unionist Party.
A combination of National Democrats, Social Creditors, Fascists, Keynesian Liberals, Pacifists, Former Labour and Conservative MPs and generally a force of Keynesian National Populism and Paternalistic Conservatism lead by a loose cannon MP that is Oswald Mosley (having joined the National Democrats around 1922). Mosley wins the 37' Election (thanks to a Popualist campaign and a scandal over Thomson's love to Princess Marthe Bibesco being found out) and tries to implement his ideas but his loose coalition is not really a good force for change and Mosley's isolationist stance doesn't lend well to a world in which a German Military Government is fighting it out with the Polish, the Italians gobbling up various territories across the Mediterranean and the French and Spanish collapsing into Civil War. Alongside this and an increase in Authoritarianism leads to the various Left to Centrist parties joining together into a Popular Front lead by the Left Wing Labour MP Tom Johnston and Radical MP William Wedgwood Benn who proceed to smash the Unionist party in the 1941 election as the Unionist coalition collapses.
The next 9 years is about bringing Britain back from the brink, the scourges of British Fascism and Stalinism are wiped out by the Johnston Government (helped by rivals like the Anti-Stalin Communists of the Popular Front party and the Social Creditors of the Social Credit Party), a new Democratic Socialist style Britain inspired by the ideas of G.D.H Cole is brought in ranging from Socialised Health Care, increase in housing, a rise in alternative energy like Dams and the first inclining of Nuclear Energy, a rise in CoOps and Trade Unions and attempts to implement Workers Democracy and finally the Popular Front government battling the Italians in Africa and helping the French and Spanish Popular Fronts win there Civil Wars. Tom Johnston would be ousted in 1950 by a revived Unionist party, one which has rid itself of the shackles of Fascism and Social Credit and lead by Harold Macmillan, a true believer in so called 'One Nation Labour' politics and a man who may be able to give the Unionist Party it's place in the sun again.
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