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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

1960: John Fritzgerald Democratic. stuart Adams:

Def: Richard Nixon Republican Nelson Rockefeller

1964: Stuart Adams Democratic Henry Jackson
Def: Barry Goldwater Republican William Scranton

1968: Stuart Adam's Democratic Henry Jackson

Def: George Romney Republican George Walker Bush

George Wallace American Independent Curtis Lemay

Stuart Adam's is great great great grandson of 2nd president John Adam's who served as Governor of Texas Picked by then senator John F. Kennedy to be his running mate.
 
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Hello From The Gutters - America in the Age of the Satanic Panic

1974-1975: Gerry Ford/George Bush

- Replaced Richard Nixon following the Watergate Scandal.
- Assassinated by Squeaky Fromme, member of the Charles Manson cult.


1975-1985: George Bush/Bob Dole
defeated Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale
defeated
Gary Hart/Abraham Beame, John Anderson/Percy Greaves Jr.
- Opened a minor federal investigation into links between David Berkowitz and the Process Church of the Final Judgement. Subsequent revelations lead to widespread action against the Church of Scientology and the establishment of the Countercult Crimes Branch within the FBI.
- Mass suicide of the Peoples Temple cult in San Francisco results in unwarranted scepticism towards civil rights activism.
- Scandal involving illegal arms trade to Iran to fund the Contras is completely forgotten in wake of religious fervour.


1985-1989: Jerry Brown/Dick Lamm
defeated Bob Dole/Paul Laxalt
- During governorship, launched Federal Guard offensive against the Rajneeshpuram following their terrorist attack in California.
- FBI began investigating links between John Wayne Gacy, Dean Corll and Elmer Wayne Henley in a possible satanic trafficking ring.
- Outrage over perceived 'interference' in the McMartin Preschool trial weakens trust in the Brown administration.


1989-1993: Pat Robertson/Trent Lott
defeated Jerry Brown/Dick Lamm
- Preacher with no political experience, ran on platform of 'moral hygiene' and traditional christian values.
- RNC Chairman Lawrence E. King, former National Security Advisor Donald Gregg and Republican lobbyist Craig Spence arrested as suspected trafficking ringleaders following the Franklin Credit Union scandal. Former President George Bush and former Chief of Staff Dick Cheney are subsequently named directly in testimony supplied by Paul Bonacci. Public opinion in the Republican party plummets. Verdict remains 'inconclusive' due to reported jury tampering.
- A sting-turned-siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho leaves one entire family and seven US Marshals dead, mobilising domestic White Supremacist militias nationwide. Approval ratings reach single digits.


1993-2001: Art Bell/Joe Lieberman
defeated Trent Lott/Bob Dornan, Ted Gunderson/various
defeated Dan Quayle/Duke Cunningham,
Bo Gritz/various
- An independent probe is launched following the Waco massacre. Distrust in the government reaches an all-time high.
- Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley Jr. and Jason Baldwin are sentenced to death in Arkansas following an apparent Satanic ritual murder.
- Ted Kaczynski mails his manifesto to FBI Director Louis Freeh, lauding the actions of "
welfare leaches, youth gangs, cultists, satanists, nazis, radical environmentalists, militiamen, etc.", resulting in greater government crackdowns on white militias.
- Oklahoma City Bombing and the Columbine High School Bombings occur in rapid succession, links involving satanism are purported for both.
- Attempted assassination of Vice President Gore by Aum Shinrikyo whilst attending the Asian Pacific Economic Forum leads to tightened military tensions.


2001-????: Ernie Chambers/Ralph Nader
defeated Joe Lieberman/Bob Kerrey, Alan Keyes/Joe Arpio, various minor parties
- first Independent to win the Presidency since George Washington.
- Y2K panic sees thousands commit acts of shooting, mass suicide and riots nationwide, despite lack of actual fault.
- Investigation into the Franklin scandal was set to be reopened prior to the September 11th Terrorist Attacks.
 
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A rather messy layout of a TL I was trying to figure out

Hello From The Gutters - America in the Age of the Satanic Panic

1974-1975: Gerry Ford/George Bush

- Replaced Richard Nixon following the Watergate Scandal.
- Assassinated by Squeaky Fromme, member of the Charles Manson cult.


1975-1985: George Bush/Abraham Beame
defeated Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale
defeated
Gary Hart/Reubin Askew, John Anderson/Percy Greaves Jr.
- Opened a minor federal investigation into links between David Berkowitz and the Process Church of the Final Judgement. Subsequent revelations lead to widespread action against the Church of Scientology and the establishment of the Countercult Crimes Branch within the FBI.
- Mass suicide of the Peoples Temple cult in San Francisco results in unwarranted scepticism towards civil rights activism.
- Scandal involving illegal arms trade to Iran to fund the Contras is completely forgotten in wake of religious fervour.


1985-1989: Jerry Brown/Dick Lamm
defeated Abraham Beame/Bob Dole
- During governorship, launched Federal Guard offensive against the Rajneeshpuram following their terrorist attack in California.
- FBI began investigating links between John Wayne Gacy, Dean Corll and Elmer Wayne Henley in a possible satanic trafficking ring.
- Outrage over perceived 'interference' in the McMartin Preschool trial weakens trust in the Brown administration.


1989-1993: Pat Robertson/Trent Lott
defeated Jerry Brown/Dick Lamm
- Preacher with no political experience, ran on platform of 'moral hygiene' and traditional christian values.
- RNC Chairman Lawrence E. King, former National Security Advisor Donald Gregg and Republican lobbyist Craig Spence arrested as suspected trafficking ringleaders following the Franklin Credit Union scandal. Former President George Bush and former Chief of Staff Dick Cheney are subsequently named directly in testimony supplied by Paul Bonacci. Public opinion in the Republican party plummets. Verdict remains 'inconclusive' due to reported jury tampering.
- A sting-turned-siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho leaves one entire family and seven US Marshals dead, mobilising domestic White Supremacist militias nationwide. Approval ratings reach single digits.


1993-2001: Art Bell/Joe Lieberman
defeated Trent Lott/Bob Dornan, Ted Gunderson/various
defeated Dan Quayle/Duke Cunningham,
Bo Gritz/various
- An independent probe is launched following the Waco massacre. Distrust in the government reaches an all-time high.
- Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley Jr. and Jason Baldwin are sentenced to death in Arkansas following an apparent Satanic ritual murder.
- Ted Kaczynski mails his manifesto to FBI Director Louis Freeh, lauding the actions of "
welfare leaches, youth gangs, cultists, satanists, nazis, radical environmentalists, militiamen, etc.", resulting in greater government crackdowns on white militias.
- Oklahoma City Bombing and the Columbine High School Bombings occur in rapid succession, links involving satanism are purported for both.
- Attempted assassination of Vice President Gore by Aum Shinrikyo whilst attending the Asian Pacific Economic Forum leads to tightened military tensions.


2001-????: Ernie Chambers/Ralph Nader
defeated Joe Lieberman/Bob Kerrey, Alan Keyes/Joe Arpio, various minor parties
- first Independent to win the Presidency since George Washington.
- Y2K panic sees thousands commit acts of shooting, mass suicide and riots nationwide, despite lack of actual fault.
- Investigation into the Franklin scandal was set to be reopened prior to the September 11th Terrorist Attacks.
I fucking love this you magnificent bastard.
 
A rather messy layout of a TL I was trying to figure out

Hello From The Gutters - America in the Age of the Satanic Panic

1974-1975: Gerry Ford/George Bush

- Replaced Richard Nixon following the Watergate Scandal.
- Assassinated by Squeaky Fromme, member of the Charles Manson cult.


1975-1985: George Bush/Abraham Beame
defeated Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale
defeated
Gary Hart/Reubin Askew, John Anderson/Percy Greaves Jr.
- Opened a minor federal investigation into links between David Berkowitz and the Process Church of the Final Judgement. Subsequent revelations lead to widespread action against the Church of Scientology and the establishment of the Countercult Crimes Branch within the FBI.
- Mass suicide of the Peoples Temple cult in San Francisco results in unwarranted scepticism towards civil rights activism.
- Scandal involving illegal arms trade to Iran to fund the Contras is completely forgotten in wake of religious fervour.


1985-1989: Jerry Brown/Dick Lamm
defeated Abraham Beame/Bob Dole
- During governorship, launched Federal Guard offensive against the Rajneeshpuram following their terrorist attack in California.
- FBI began investigating links between John Wayne Gacy, Dean Corll and Elmer Wayne Henley in a possible satanic trafficking ring.
- Outrage over perceived 'interference' in the McMartin Preschool trial weakens trust in the Brown administration.


1989-1993: Pat Robertson/Trent Lott
defeated Jerry Brown/Dick Lamm
- Preacher with no political experience, ran on platform of 'moral hygiene' and traditional christian values.
- RNC Chairman Lawrence E. King, former National Security Advisor Donald Gregg and Republican lobbyist Craig Spence arrested as suspected trafficking ringleaders following the Franklin Credit Union scandal. Former President George Bush and former Chief of Staff Dick Cheney are subsequently named directly in testimony supplied by Paul Bonacci. Public opinion in the Republican party plummets. Verdict remains 'inconclusive' due to reported jury tampering.
- A sting-turned-siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho leaves one entire family and seven US Marshals dead, mobilising domestic White Supremacist militias nationwide. Approval ratings reach single digits.


1993-2001: Art Bell/Joe Lieberman
defeated Trent Lott/Bob Dornan, Ted Gunderson/various
defeated Dan Quayle/Duke Cunningham,
Bo Gritz/various
- An independent probe is launched following the Waco massacre. Distrust in the government reaches an all-time high.
- Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley Jr. and Jason Baldwin are sentenced to death in Arkansas following an apparent Satanic ritual murder.
- Ted Kaczynski mails his manifesto to FBI Director Louis Freeh, lauding the actions of "
welfare leaches, youth gangs, cultists, satanists, nazis, radical environmentalists, militiamen, etc.", resulting in greater government crackdowns on white militias.
- Oklahoma City Bombing and the Columbine High School Bombings occur in rapid succession, links involving satanism are purported for both.
- Attempted assassination of Vice President Gore by Aum Shinrikyo whilst attending the Asian Pacific Economic Forum leads to tightened military tensions.


2001-????: Ernie Chambers/Ralph Nader
defeated Joe Lieberman/Bob Kerrey, Alan Keyes/Joe Arpio, various minor parties
- first Independent to win the Presidency since George Washington.
- Y2K panic sees thousands commit acts of shooting, mass suicide and riots nationwide, despite lack of actual fault.
- Investigation into the Franklin scandal was set to be reopened prior to the September 11th Terrorist Attacks.
Damn.

Really interesting,I like it,though 1980 may be too early for Hart.
 
The World Spins.

1959-1963: Hugh Gaitskell (Labour)

1959 (Majority) def: Harold Macmillan (Conservative), Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1963-1967: Harold Wilson (Labour)
1963 (Majority) def: Quintin Hogg (Conservative), Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1967-1972: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)
1967 (Majority) def: Harold Wilson (Labour), Mark Bonham-Carter (Liberal)
1971 (Majority) def: Anthony Crosland (Labour), Mark Bonham-Carter (Liberal)

1972-1973: Maurice Macmillan (Conservative)
1973-1976: Anthony Barber (Conservative)

1975 (Minority) def: Anthony Crosland (Labour), Emlyn Hooson (Liberal), Tony Whittaker (Ecology), William Wolfe (SNP)
1976-1985: Anthony Benn (Labour)
1976 (Majority) def: Anthony Barber (Conservative), Emlyn Hooson-Jonathon Porritt (Liberal-Eco Alliance)
1980 (Majority) def: John Biffen (Conservative), David Penhaligon (NewLiberals)
1984 (Majority) def: Douglas Hurd (Conservative), David Penhaligon (NewLiberals), Jim Sillars (ILP)

1985-1987: Colin Phipps (Labour)
1987-1991: Peter Walker (Conservative)

1987 (Majority) def: Colin Phipps (Labour), Des Wilson Replacing David Penhaligon (NewLiberals), Maria Fyfe-Hilary Wainwright (ILP)
1991-1999: Ann Clwyd (Labour)
1991 (Majority) def: Peter Walker (Conservative), Norman Baker (NewLiberals), John Peck (Democratic Left)
1995 (Majority) def: Tom King (Conservative), Norman Baker (NewLiberals), John R. Pinniger (Democratic Unionist)

1999-: Sarah Hogg (Conservative)
1999 (Majority) def: Ann Clwyd (Labour), Olly Grender (NewLiberals), Mark Ashton-Molly Scott Cato (Democratic Left), John R. Pinniger (Democratic Unionist)

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1961-1967: John F. Kennedy (Democratic) †
1960 (With Lyndon B. Johnson) def: Richard Nixon/Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. (Republican), Harry Byrd Sr./Strom Thurmond (Dixiecrat)
1964 (With George Smathers) def: Barry Goldwater/William E. Miller (Republican)

1967-1969: George Smathers (Democratic)
1969-1973: Ronald Reagan (Republican) †

1968 (With William Scranton) def: George Smathers/Hubert Humphrey (Democratic), George McGovern/Martin Luther King Jr. (Freedom)
1972 (With William Scranton) def: Frank G. Clement/Mike Gravel (Democratic), Eugene McCarthy/Scattered Others (Freedom), George Wallace/Scattered Others (Dixiecrat)

1973-1977: William Scranton (Republican)
1977-1981: Howard Baker (Republican)

1976 (With Donald Rumsfeld) def: Hubert Humphrey/Fred Harris (Democratic), Tom McCall/Jerry Brown (One Earth Coalition)
1981-1989: Robert F. Kennedy (Democratic)
1980 (With Walter Fauntroy) def: Howard Baker/Donald Rumsfeld (Republican)
1984 (With Walter Fauntroy) def: Donald Rumsfeld/Richard Lugar (Republican), Charles Mathias/Marty Martínez (Unity)

1989-1993: Mike Curb (Republican)
1988 (With Lynn Morley Martin) def: Mario Cumo/George L. Brown (Democratic), Jesse Jackson/Karen Silkwood (People’s), Marty Martínez/Dick Lamm (Unity)
1993-2001: Wilson Goode (Democratic)
1992 (With John Norquist) def: Mike Curb/Lynn Morley Martin (Republican), Dick Lamm/Eunice Groark (Unity), Karen Silkwood/ Scattered Others Replacing Tom Kahn (People’s)
1996 (With Barbara Mikulski) def: Pete Wilson/Steve Forbes (Republican), Jesse Ventura/Pat O'Rourke (Unity)

2001-: Kay A. Orr (Republican)
2000 (With Pat O'Rourke) def: Barbara Mikulski/Paul Wellstone (Democratic), John Norquist/Yuri Kochiyama (Peace & Freedom)

The Sixties for many was unbridled optimism about the future tainted by the ending of the decade and the subsequent chaos of the Seventies. As JFK rabbited on about Camelot and the Future and Harold Wilson continued with the Gaitskellite vision of technocratic modernity for many it seemed like these two men would bring about great change to the Anglosphere.

But in 67’ it changed. Wilson would voted out as Thorneycroft fought on policies of tax cuts and EEC partnership and Kennedy would die due to health complications. Smathers wouldn’t be a good replacement and the battle over Civil Rights would spiral into a frenzy. As Smathers was chosen at the 68’ Democratic convention which symbolised for many one of the death blow of the Kennedy’s vision of Camelot. George McGovern would end up creating the Freedom Party which would gain several electoral votes and help ensure that Smathers lost to Reagan.

Whilst Thorneycroft and Reagan would get on like a house on fire, for the wider world, the Conservative reaction to the mild gains made by Social Democrats was something they weren’t necessarily fond of. British Troops would find themselves in Saigon, Civil Rights Marchers would be shot at by the National Guard and the Weathermen would be to America, what the RAF was to West Germany. This period of spasming chaos would be put to end with two of the most shocking events of the 20th Century.

Reagan whilst sunning it up in California on a Government visit would meet his end when a former member of the Manson Family blew herself up to take down the President. As the world recoiled from that shock and Scranton calmed a panicked nation, another event in a reactor in Windscale would cause a deeper existential threat to the world.

Government cuts on British Nuclear Power had occurred, the White Heat to be discarded. But the cuts under Barber had lead to a reduction in Safety standards and a melt down at Windscale would occur. Whilst the heroic efforts of many firefighters and nuclear power station staff would ensure that the disaster wasn’t as bad as it could have been, a vast swathe of Cumbria and the Irish Sea would irradiated.

The Ecological Movement both politically and militantly would take root as the Conservatives in Britain’s collapsed and the Republicans began to spin into infighting and chaos.

Benn and Kennedy despite presenting a new positive image for the ‘Fair Deal Consensus’ as they termed it were still bringing back the concepts of the past with a fresh makeover. Social Markets, Industrial Democracy and tentative steps towards Social Democracy would be the order of the 80s as the once young man tried to bring some semblance of order to an injured world. The men would be successful in keeping reviving the Keynesian consensus but in time the coalitions that backed them dissolved into infighting leading to the brief tenure of Colin Phipps in the UK and the infamous 88’ Democratic Convention as Fauntory would find himself cast aside, as the Left splintered away and continued anew in response.

Walker and Curb would find themselves at a loss, as there predecessors projects had been popular. Mainly consisting of being tough on crime and the Second Summer of Love there time was mainly one of impotence as there attempts to dismantle the ‘Fair Deal’ would find them falling flat on there faces.

Ann Clwyd and Wilson Goode would be seen as a possible fresh start, as both pandered towards the Left that had felt left behind. But there continuation of the Tough On Crime policies of there predecessors, poor cabinet picks (With John Norquist being the most prominent of them) and a sense of Liberal Adventurism leading to wars across the globe would see there legacies as mixed ones. Sure they brought about Workers Cooperatives, but that was little comfort to the mothers of the dead in Iraq, Iran and Cambodia. Even the change of the Soviet Union into the Sovereign States would offer little enthusiasm.

In the end, as the 21st Century dawned people just wanted tax cuts, a brand new television and for an Earth that was Green and Peaceful (and maybe to look like a suburb of Düsseldorf). Sure maybe this meant voting in the homophobe and her eccentric Veep or voting the former Newscaster who preached back to basics, at least they could say the world would still spin.
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Probably one of the more pessimistic Soft dystopian lists I’ve ever done if anything.
 
Okay, that was a lot of work because @Time Enough made a throwaway comment

Jenny Jones Town
The Death of the Greens
And How UKIP Survived

2010-2015 David Cameron (Conservative) - Coalition with Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats)

2010

Caroline Lucas loses the selection in Brighton to local candidate, Jenny Jones. Who goes on to narrowly lose the election.
Brighton Pavilion
Warren Morgan (Labour): 26.7%
Charlotte Vere (Conservative): 25.9%
Jenny Jones (Green): 25.7%
Berni Millam (Liberal Democrat): 18.8%
Nigel Carter (UKIP): 1.6%
Ian Fyvie (Socialist Labour): 0.7%
Soraya Kara (Citizens for Undead Rights and Equality): 0.3%
Leo Arteides: 0%

2012

Caroline Lucas 95.4% Reopen Nominations: 2.4% Tom Young: 2.2%

2014

Clacton

By-election following Carswell's defection to UKIP.
Douglas Carswell (UKIP): 59.7%
Giles Watling (Conservative): 24.6%
Tim Young (Labour): 11.2%
Chris Southall (Green): 1.9%
Andy Graham (Liberal Democrats): 1.3%
Bruce Sizer: 0.6%
Howling Laud Hope (Loony): 0.4%
Charlotte Rose: 0.2%

Brighton Pavilion

Warren Morgan, an adamant Blairite, resigned from the party following David Miliband's resignation and Ed Balls' handling of the Unite Lobbying Scandal. Warren Morgan stood as an independent but with the backing of the local Labour Party, the national party opted not to stand against him in the hope that he would rejoin.
Jenny Jones (Green): 35.8%
Ian Dale (Conservative): 23.2%
Warren Morgan: 19.1%
Chris Bowers (Liberal Democrat): 15.6%
Nigel Carter (UKIP): 3.5%
Ian Fyvie (Socialist Labour): 1.1%
Charlotte Rose: 0.3%
Leo Arteides: 0.1%
Nick Yeomans: 0%

Green Party Leadership Elections - Jenny Jones: 91.2% Reopen Nominations: 8.8%


2015-2017 David Cameron (Conservative)

2015

Clacton
Douglas Carswell (UKIP): 43.2%
Giles Watling (Conservative): 34.9%
Tim Young (Labour): 17.3%
Chris Southall (Green): 3.6%
Andy Graham (Liberal Democrats): 0.9%

Brighton Pavilion

The Green led City Council had intense problems with a bin strike and maintaining a budget, and Jenny Jones was highly critical of it, setting herself up with allies on the left of the Greens along with Christina Summers - who many considered on the right due to her abstaining on gay marriage issues
Jenny Jones (Green): 36.7%
Clarence Mitchell (Conservative): 26.4%
Nancy Platts (Labour): 25.1%
Chris Bowers (Liberal Democrat): 17.8%
Christina Annesley (UKIP): 3.5%
Leo Arteides: 0.2%

2016

Green Leadership Election - Jenny Jones: 78.6% Kat Boettge: 10.7% David Malone: 5.8% RON: 4.9%

With support from the left, right, and centre of the party, and great name recognition, Jenny Jones was easily elected leader of the Greens.

2017

September EU Referendum - Leave: 50.6% Remain: 49.4%
The EU Referendum was delayed when Cameron's initial "renegotiation" of EU membership failed to win much support within the party. It was a close and contentious election. Jenny Jones' own stated support for leave, even though she did not campaign for it, damaged the party further.

2017-2018 Theresa May (Conservative)

UKIP Leadership Elections: Douglas Carswell: 44.5% Diane Jones: 42.2% Phillip Broughton: 13.3%
Nigel Farage's embarrassing on stage stunt with George Galloway just weeks before Galloway's arrest, added to his failure to win more than one seat in 2015, left him unpopular and marginalised in a party looking to modernise and find new challenges. Carswell had enough upport to win against the NEC's appointed successor and began modernising the party.

2018-2019 Theresa May (Conservative) coalition with Jo Swinson (Liberal Democrat) and Arlene Foster (DUP)
Theresa May called an election to easily defeat Corbyn and secure Brexit. But instead she won too few seats to form any government not including the Lib Dems. She reluctantly agreed to negotiate a softer Brexit and hold a second referendum. Negotiations began. Swinson, aware that her decision would be unpopular, negotiated a comprehensive environmental strategy, along with gender self-ID, an idea that had grown contentious during the national debate on the matter.

August General Election

Clacton

Carswell campaigned as a good constituency MP with a platform who would stand up for Brexit. This seemed popular and overrode growing concerns that he was too moderate and soft on Brexit. His continued position as the Party's only MP made up for UKIP's decreased national vote as the two big parties squeezed the rest.
Douglas Carswell (UKIP): 40.7%
Clarence Mitchell (Conservative): 37.5%
Kevin Bonavia (Labour): 19.2%
Chris Southall (Green): 1.5%
Gina Miller (Liberal Democrats): 1.4%
Count Binface (Loony): 0.2%

Brighton Pavilion

Jenny Jones had spent much of the summer annoying local Green Councillors and forging closer relationships with Christina Summers, and through her the anti-trans caucus within the party. The Aimee Challenor scandal coming out in the middle of the election focused a lot of attention on the issue and Jones' handling of it which misgendered Aimee and spoke mostly about "women's rights" did not eimpress voters. Her inability to speak positively about the EU, however, was what really soured her reputation within the party.
Nancy Platts (Labour): 34.5%
Clarence Mitchell (Conservative): 27.9%
Jenny Jones (Green): 23.8%
Daisy Benson (Liberal Democrat): 19.9%
Christina Summers: 0.7%
Christina Annesley (UKIP): 2.8%
Leo Arteides: 0.1%

September Green Leadership Election: Rupert Read: 35.1% Derek Wall: 31.5% Olivia Palmer: 21.1% Pippa Bartolloti: 7.2% Clive Lord: 5.1%
Final Result: Derek Wall: 55.1% Rupert Read: 44.9%

The 2018 Green Party election came down to a vote between Rupert Read - a more staunchly Remain Jenny Jones ally, and Derek Wall - a Corbynista who wanted to stand down for Labour in multiple seats in the next election. Olivia Palmer, the third candidate, left the party to form the Biology Party to oppose the pro-trans bias in all major parties. Rupert Read would assist in setting up the Anthropocene Party - a political wing of Extinction Rebellion.

2019

With no agreement yet on the EU Referendum, or the deal, the UK participated in one last EU election. TIG did exceptionally well, hitching their wagon to a pro-remain alliance which included the Greens, Renew, and smaller parties. Nigel Farage's vanity project, the Brexit Party, attracted odd candidates who were never properly vetted and some of the worst elements of UKIP who were dissatisfied with Carswell. It even picked up far right youtubers in a kind of desperation. It sank almost without a trace. Though Farage got to return to Brussells one last time.

June: EU Election
UKIP: 29
Remain & Renew: 19
Labour: 11
Conservative: 3
SNP: 3
Green: 2
Liberal Democrats: 1
Brexit: 1
Plaid: 1

August Green Party of Wales Referendum - Should the Welsh Green Party be a separate political entity from the English Green Party? Yes 56.7% No 43.3%

September European Referendum - Leave: 55.6% Remain: 44.4%

Britain leaving the EU killed the Coalition, and with it, May. Even though she had technically supported it.

2019-20XX: Sajid Javid (Conservative)

Derek Wall resigns as leader following the EU Referendum and his heart attack. Deputy Leader Shahrar Ali becomes leader.

2020

January

A further General Election was necessary to pass Brexit as the Conservatives no longer had a majority.

Clacton
While UKIP only won one seat, overall the party won its best vote share in history, taking advantage of anti-Deal voters who were angered by the second referendum.
Douglas Carswell (UKIP): 44.5%
Alan Goggin (Conservative): 29.3%
Natasha Osben (Labour): 20.6%
Gina Miller (Renew): 3.2%
David Grace (Liberal Democrats): 2.9%

Chorley

The best Green result was against the Speaker. The Greens made a policy of standing down for Labour where possible in order to give Corbyn the best chance possible.
Linsday Hoyle (Speaker): 59.7%
Mark Smith (UKIP): 16.8%
Nigel Farage (Brexit): 12.1%
James Melling (Green): 11.4%


Shahrar Ali resigns following poor election results. the second deputy leader, Emma Bateman, steps in as leader.

Laura Pidcock resigned from the Labour Party following Corbyn's expulsion by the new leader, Jess Phillips. She would go on to establish the Leftists' Party

Gender Self-ID finally became law in the UK in June, at the same time, news of a police officer raping and murdering a young woman came out. National protests began and while many focused on the latter issue, the London Women's Pride event focused on both. Emma Bateman was arrested for breaching lockdown laws, and while she wasn't imprisoned for long (just six weeks) the Green Party Regional Council asked for, and received, her resignation. The Chair of the party was next in line to take over, but he had already resigned. Alan Borgars, elected as Internal Comms Officer, took over as leader and continued the policy of delaying the next leadership election due to COVID.


September UKIP Leadership election: Douglas Carswell: 55.5% Steven Woolfe: 31.3% Mike Hookem: 7.7% John Rees-Evans: 4.5%
Carswell's New Constitution had established a Party Council made up of members of the party branches. It was largely successful, especially as it only met three times a year and the NEC had learnt to get most it's decisions through it on the nod. While many wanted the party to shift right now Brexit was done, Carswell managed to hold his own as an anti-lockdown, libertarian, candidate.

2021

February Green Election: Storm Poorun: 23.3% Dawn Furness: 21.5% Clive Lord 17.6% June Tranmer: 17.5% Alan Borgars: 14.8% RON: 3.2% Simon Parkes: 2.1%
Final Result: Dawn Furness: 50.7% Storm Poorun: 49.3%

The 2021 Green election became a contest between a continuity leftist and a Jenny Jones style feminist ecologist. In the end, Dawn won, but only barely. June Trammer would go on to form Open Up! an anti-mask, antivax, anti-trans party.

In March TERF extremist drives their car into Tavistock and Portman hospital, in an attempt to prevent medical treatment of trans youths. Twitter screenshots show that Dawn Furness was in regular contact with the perpetrator and regularly traded ideas about how to prevent trans youths. In May Dawn resigned, the two deputies had already resigned. The party leadership falls to Jacqi Hodgson, the Chair of the party.

The Greens go into the May elections at the centre of Britain's growing unease at the TERF movement, with no Remain credentials left and outflanked by Climate Crisis and the Leftists' Party. They retain just 39 Councillors.

Meanwhile, UKIP goes from strength to strength as a soft anti-lockdown party - that rejects the excesses of the Javid government while maintaining that vaccines mostly work and that woke ideas around Black Lives Matter, Trans Rights are Human Rights, Extinction Rebellion, and Women's Safety should be rejected.
 
...do I want to know more?

Computer company worker - there were a few people who stood under that label I think. She got shit from her work about it at the time - she was at Capcom and CURE are a faction? in their game Dead Rising - though I think it only appeared in Dead Rising 2 which came out in September 2010? idk - way out of my area
 
Computer company worker - there were a few people who stood under that label I think. She got shit from her work about it at the time - she was at Capcom and CURE are a faction? in their game Dead Rising - though I think it only appeared in Dead Rising 2 which came out in September 2010? idk - way out of my area

I'm torn between relief that this wasn't a necrophilia thing, and despair at the idea of an election candidacy solely to promote a video game. Thank you.

Imagine if one of them somehow eked out a win.
 
I'm torn between relief that this wasn't a necrophilia thing, and despair at the idea of an election candidacy solely to promote a video game. Thank you.

Imagine if one of them somehow eked out a win.

Capcom was against her doing it, I recall reading about her having issues with them at the time. As far as I can see the company named a faction in their game after the joke political party that had caused some gossip in the company. That's just a theory, though
 
A rather messy layout of a TL I was trying to figure out

Hello From The Gutters - America in the Age of the Satanic Panic

1974-1975: Gerry Ford/George Bush

- Replaced Richard Nixon following the Watergate Scandal.
- Assassinated by Squeaky Fromme, member of the Charles Manson cult.


1975-1985: George Bush/Abraham Beame
defeated Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale
defeated
Gary Hart/Reubin Askew, John Anderson/Percy Greaves Jr.
- Opened a minor federal investigation into links between David Berkowitz and the Process Church of the Final Judgement. Subsequent revelations lead to widespread action against the Church of Scientology and the establishment of the Countercult Crimes Branch within the FBI.
- Mass suicide of the Peoples Temple cult in San Francisco results in unwarranted scepticism towards civil rights activism.
- Scandal involving illegal arms trade to Iran to fund the Contras is completely forgotten in wake of religious fervour.


1985-1989: Jerry Brown/Dick Lamm
defeated Abraham Beame/Bob Dole
- During governorship, launched Federal Guard offensive against the Rajneeshpuram following their terrorist attack in California.
- FBI began investigating links between John Wayne Gacy, Dean Corll and Elmer Wayne Henley in a possible satanic trafficking ring.
- Outrage over perceived 'interference' in the McMartin Preschool trial weakens trust in the Brown administration.


1989-1993: Pat Robertson/Trent Lott
defeated Jerry Brown/Dick Lamm
- Preacher with no political experience, ran on platform of 'moral hygiene' and traditional christian values.
- RNC Chairman Lawrence E. King, former National Security Advisor Donald Gregg and Republican lobbyist Craig Spence arrested as suspected trafficking ringleaders following the Franklin Credit Union scandal. Former President George Bush and former Chief of Staff Dick Cheney are subsequently named directly in testimony supplied by Paul Bonacci. Public opinion in the Republican party plummets. Verdict remains 'inconclusive' due to reported jury tampering.
- A sting-turned-siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho leaves one entire family and seven US Marshals dead, mobilising domestic White Supremacist militias nationwide. Approval ratings reach single digits.


1993-2001: Art Bell/Joe Lieberman
defeated Trent Lott/Bob Dornan, Ted Gunderson/various
defeated Dan Quayle/Duke Cunningham,
Bo Gritz/various
- An independent probe is launched following the Waco massacre. Distrust in the government reaches an all-time high.
- Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley Jr. and Jason Baldwin are sentenced to death in Arkansas following an apparent Satanic ritual murder.
- Ted Kaczynski mails his manifesto to FBI Director Louis Freeh, lauding the actions of "
welfare leaches, youth gangs, cultists, satanists, nazis, radical environmentalists, militiamen, etc.", resulting in greater government crackdowns on white militias.
- Oklahoma City Bombing and the Columbine High School Bombings occur in rapid succession, links involving satanism are purported for both.
- Attempted assassination of Vice President Gore by Aum Shinrikyo whilst attending the Asian Pacific Economic Forum leads to tightened military tensions.


2001-????: Ernie Chambers/Ralph Nader
defeated Joe Lieberman/Bob Kerrey, Alan Keyes/Joe Arpio, various minor parties
- first Independent to win the Presidency since George Washington.
- Y2K panic sees thousands commit acts of shooting, mass suicide and riots nationwide, despite lack of actual fault.
- Investigation into the Franklin scandal was set to be reopened prior to the September 11th Terrorist Attacks.
This might be one of the more interesting "Republican Party collapses" TLs I have seen. Chambers and Nader is an amazing ticket as well.
 
A rather messy layout of a TL I was trying to figure out

Hello From The Gutters - America in the Age of the Satanic Panic

1974-1975: Gerry Ford/George Bush

- Replaced Richard Nixon following the Watergate Scandal.
- Assassinated by Squeaky Fromme, member of the Charles Manson cult.


1975-1985: George Bush/Abraham Beame
defeated Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale
defeated
Gary Hart/Reubin Askew, John Anderson/Percy Greaves Jr.
- Opened a minor federal investigation into links between David Berkowitz and the Process Church of the Final Judgement. Subsequent revelations lead to widespread action against the Church of Scientology and the establishment of the Countercult Crimes Branch within the FBI.
- Mass suicide of the Peoples Temple cult in San Francisco results in unwarranted scepticism towards civil rights activism.
- Scandal involving illegal arms trade to Iran to fund the Contras is completely forgotten in wake of religious fervour.


1985-1989: Jerry Brown/Dick Lamm
defeated Abraham Beame/Bob Dole
- During governorship, launched Federal Guard offensive against the Rajneeshpuram following their terrorist attack in California.
- FBI began investigating links between John Wayne Gacy, Dean Corll and Elmer Wayne Henley in a possible satanic trafficking ring.
- Outrage over perceived 'interference' in the McMartin Preschool trial weakens trust in the Brown administration.


1989-1993: Pat Robertson/Trent Lott
defeated Jerry Brown/Dick Lamm
- Preacher with no political experience, ran on platform of 'moral hygiene' and traditional christian values.
- RNC Chairman Lawrence E. King, former National Security Advisor Donald Gregg and Republican lobbyist Craig Spence arrested as suspected trafficking ringleaders following the Franklin Credit Union scandal. Former President George Bush and former Chief of Staff Dick Cheney are subsequently named directly in testimony supplied by Paul Bonacci. Public opinion in the Republican party plummets. Verdict remains 'inconclusive' due to reported jury tampering.
- A sting-turned-siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho leaves one entire family and seven US Marshals dead, mobilising domestic White Supremacist militias nationwide. Approval ratings reach single digits.


1993-2001: Art Bell/Joe Lieberman
defeated Trent Lott/Bob Dornan, Ted Gunderson/various
defeated Dan Quayle/Duke Cunningham,
Bo Gritz/various
- An independent probe is launched following the Waco massacre. Distrust in the government reaches an all-time high.
- Damien Echols, Jessie Misskelley Jr. and Jason Baldwin are sentenced to death in Arkansas following an apparent Satanic ritual murder.
- Ted Kaczynski mails his manifesto to FBI Director Louis Freeh, lauding the actions of "
welfare leaches, youth gangs, cultists, satanists, nazis, radical environmentalists, militiamen, etc.", resulting in greater government crackdowns on white militias.
- Oklahoma City Bombing and the Columbine High School Bombings occur in rapid succession, links involving satanism are purported for both.
- Attempted assassination of Vice President Gore by Aum Shinrikyo whilst attending the Asian Pacific Economic Forum leads to tightened military tensions.


2001-????: Ernie Chambers/Ralph Nader
defeated Joe Lieberman/Bob Kerrey, Alan Keyes/Joe Arpio, various minor parties
- first Independent to win the Presidency since George Washington.
- Y2K panic sees thousands commit acts of shooting, mass suicide and riots nationwide, despite lack of actual fault.
- Investigation into the Franklin scandal was set to be reopened prior to the September 11th Terrorist Attacks.

Oh nooo. This is going to get worse huh.
 
If you went to school at any time since the late 80s, you probably learned at some point that every president has shared his name with another. Now that we've got the first new presidential name in 80 years, let's look at all the presidential names ordered by frequency.

John (5): Jay, Marshall, Calhoun, McCain, Edwards
Charles (5): Adams, Hughes, Curtis, Dawes, McNary
Robert (4): La Follette, Taft, Kennedy, Dole
George (3): Washington, Clinton, Wallace
Thomas (3): Jefferson, Watson, Dewey
William (3): Crawford, Bryan, McAdoo
Henry (3): Clay, Wilson, Wallace
Winfield (3): Scott, Scott Hancock, Dunn
James (3): Blaine, Farley, Florio
Levi (2): Lincoln, Morton
Millard (2): Fillmore, Tydings
Hiram (2): Grant, Johnson
Benjamin (2): Butler, Harrison
Alfred (2): Smith, Landon
Huey (2): Long, Newton
Wendell (2): Willkie, Anderson
Kirsten (1): Gillibrand

I doubt our current president will have a name buddy any time soon, unless there's some new state senator on the rise that I haven't heard of.
 
The Commonwealth Calls

1945-1949: Herbert Morrison (Labour)

1945 (Majority) def: Winston Churchill (Conservative), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Richard Acland (CommonWealth)
1949-1956: Anthony Eden (Conservative leading National Coupon)
1949 (‘National Coupon’) def: Herbert Morrison (Labour), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Richard Acland (CommonWealth), Megan Lloyd George (Radical)
1953 (Majority) def: Herbert Morrison (Labour), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), John Loverseed-Honour Balfour (CommonWealth-Radical Alliance)

1956-1958: Rab Butler (Conservative leading National Coupon)
1958-1964: Evan Durbin (Labour)

1958 (Majority) def: Rab Butler (Conservative), Roedric Brown (Liberal), John Loverseed (CommonWealth)
1963 (Minority) def: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative & National), Ernest Millington-Elaine Burton (CommonWealth)

1964-1968: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative & National)
1964 (Majority) def: Evan Durbin (Labour), Ernest Millington-Elaine Burton (CommonWealth)
1968-1975: Anthony Crosland (Labour)
1968 (Majority) def: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative & National), Elaine Burton (CommonWealth), Desmond Donnelly (National Democratic)
1972 (Majority) def: Julian Amery (Conservative & National), Illtyd Harrington (CommonWealth), Desmond Donnelly (National Democratic)

1975-1977: Eric Varley (Labour)
1977-1987: Peter Walker (Conservative)

1977 (Majority) def: Eric Varley (Labour), Illtyd Harrington (CommonWealth), Trevor Jones (Liberals 77’)
1981 (Majority) def: Eric Varley (Labour), Illtyd Harrington (CommonWealth), Trevor Jones (Liberals)
1986 (Minority) def: Shirley Williams (Labour), Hilary Wainwright-Viv Bingham (CommonWealth), Jerry Hayes (Liberals)

1987-: Shirley Williams (Labour)
1987 (Coalition with CommonWealth) def: Peter Walker (Conservative), Hilary Wainwright-Viv Bingham (CommonWealth), Jerry Hayes (Liberals)

The History of the Left in Britain has been one of a large Social Democratic Party having to deal with both the hegemony of the Conservative & National Party (later turned back into the Conservative’s following first the National Democratic and then Liberal 77’ splits) but also a Radical Democratic Socialist party on the side. A gaggle of Libertarian Socialists, Former Liberal Radicals and small c Communists, the CommonWealth party is a strange beast, United by a sense of Common Ownership, Industrial Democracy and Equal Rights for all.

The person that made the CommonWealth party what is today is probably Illtyd Harrington, who managed to cause a party which had been meandering in the 5-10 seat range to rocket to winning a incredible 42 seats in 1977 as discontent with the Labour Government reached it’s peak. Even in the 81 election that number would only go down by 2 as Walker stormed through.

This stationary total of around 40 would become a big bear towards forming a new government in 1986/87 in the aftermath of those elections, eventually leading to Shirley Williams forming the ‘First True Democratic Government’ with promises of Industrial Democracy and Electoral Reform on the cards.
 
The Commonwealth Calls

1945-1949: Herbert Morrison (Labour)

1945 (Majority) def: Winston Churchill (Conservative), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Richard Acland (CommonWealth)
1949-1956: Anthony Eden (Conservative leading National Coupon)
1949 (‘National Coupon’) def: Herbert Morrison (Labour), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Richard Acland (CommonWealth), Megan Lloyd George (Radical)
1953 (Majority) def: Herbert Morrison (Labour), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), John Loverseed-Honour Balfour (CommonWealth-Radical Alliance)

1956-1958: Rab Butler (Conservative leading National Coupon)
1958-1964: Evan Durbin (Labour)

1958 (Majority) def: Rab Butler (Conservative), Roedric Brown (Liberal), John Loverseed (CommonWealth)
1963 (Minority) def: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative & National), Ernest Millington-Elaine Burton (CommonWealth)

1964-1968: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative & National)
1964 (Majority) def: Evan Durbin (Labour), Ernest Millington-Elaine Burton (CommonWealth)
1968-1975: Anthony Crosland (Labour)
1968 (Majority) def: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative & National), Elaine Burton (CommonWealth), Desmond Donnelly (National Democratic)
1972 (Majority) def: Julian Amery (Conservative & National), Illtyd Harrington (CommonWealth), Desmond Donnelly (National Democratic)

1975-1977: Eric Varley (Labour)
1977-1987: Peter Walker (Conservative)

1977 (Majority) def: Eric Varley (Labour), Illtyd Harrington (CommonWealth), Trevor Jones (Liberals 77’)
1981 (Majority) def: Eric Varley (Labour), Illtyd Harrington (CommonWealth), Trevor Jones (Liberals)
1986 (Minority) def: Shirley Williams (Labour), Hilary Wainwright-Viv Bingham (CommonWealth), Jerry Hayes (Liberals)

1987-: Shirley Williams (Labour)
1987 (Coalition with CommonWealth) def: Peter Walker (Conservative), Hilary Wainwright-Viv Bingham (CommonWealth), Jerry Hayes (Liberals)

The History of the Left in Britain has been one of a large Social Democratic Party having to deal with both the hegemony of the Conservative & National Party (later turned back into the Conservative’s following first the National Democratic and then Liberal 77’ splits) but also a Radical Democratic Socialist party on the side. A gaggle of Libertarian Socialists, Former Liberal Radicals and small c Communists, the CommonWealth party is a strange beast, United by a sense of Common Ownership, Industrial Democracy and Equal Rights for all.

The person that made the CommonWealth party what is today is probably Illtyd Harrington, who managed to cause a party which had been meandering in the 5-10 seat range to rocket to winning a incredible 42 seats in 1977 as discontent with the Labour Government reached it’s peak. Even in the 81 election that number would only go down by 2 as Walker stormed through.

This stationary total of around 40 would become a big bear towards forming a new government in 1986/87 in the aftermath of those elections, eventually leading to Shirley Williams forming the ‘First True Democratic Government’ with promises of Industrial Democracy and Electoral Reform on the cards.

>20+ Years of post war Labour government
>A C L A N D
>Successful CommonWealth
>Industrial Democracy
>Electoral Reform led by Labour
>"First True Democratic Government"

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Honestly its just nice to read a PMs list that doesn't make me sad.
 
I want to see more of these Turtledove decon-recons


A Thoroughfare for Freedom

Presidents of the United States of America


1913 - 1924: Theodore Roosevelt (Unionist)
1912 (with Thomas Marshall) def. Eugene Debs / Robert La Follette (Labor), William Bryan / Eugene Foss (Populist)
1916 (as National Union supported by Populist, Prohibition) (with Thomas Marshall) def. Eugene Debs / William Green (Labor)
1920 (with Warren Harding †) def. Hiram Johnson / Lynn Frazier (Labor), Gilbert Hitchcock / Arthur Townley (Populist)

1924 - 1925: Henry L. Stimson (Unionist)
1925 - 0000: Upton Sinclair (Labor)
1924 (with J. Griffith Chaney) def. Leonard Wood / Frank Lowden (Unionist), Walter M. Pierce / Prescott F. Hall (Populist)

Presidents of the Confederate States of America

1910 - 1916: Thomas Woodrow Wilson (Democratic)
1909 (with Gabriel Semmes) def. John M. Parker / Henry W. Grady (Radical Liberal)
1916 - 1922: Gabriel Semmes (Democratic)
1915 (with Joseph C. S. Blackburn) def. Jose Arango / Louis Brandeis (Radical Liberal)
1922 - 1923: Jacob Featherston (Freedom)
1921 (with William Knight) def. Wade Hampton V / William B. Bankhead (Democratic), Ainsworth Layne / Plutarco Elías Calles (Radical Liberal)

1923 - c. 1924 (DISPUTED): "The Punitive Expedition" and The Backwoods War
1923 - ????: Jacob Featherston (Freedom) ['Legitimist' or 'Phantom' Government]
1923 (Aug - Dec)(claimed): William Knight (Freedom) ['Redeemer' or 'Usurper' Government]
1923 (Aug - Nov): James Ewell Brown Stuart II (C.S. Army leading Government of National Reconciliation) ['Reconciliation' or 'Traitor' Government]


1923 - 1925: William B. Bankhead ('Reconciliationist' Democratic) †
1923: Presidential Succession Act 1923 provides for contingent Presidential and Vice-Presidential elections in case of dual vacancy
1923 emergency presidential contingent election: William B. Bankhead (Democratic, 9 votes) def. Joseph T. Robinson (Radical Liberal, 3 votes),
abstentions (Mississippi, South Carolina)
1925 - 0000: Westmoreland Davis (Democratic)



While the Treaty of Arlington and Redemptionism are usually (correctly) identified as the structural causes of the Punitive Expedition and the Bloody Twenties that followed, it was the Kimball Scandal of October 1920 that lit the tinder. Public outrage in the U.S. gave Roosevelt a slender majority, though he remained saddled with a Labor-dominated Congress. He then successfully demanded the extradition of Roger Kimball, whose execution in turn inflamed Confederate Redemptionism, allowing Jake Featherston to ride a wave of nationalist fury all the way to the Gray House in November 1921.

Having only existed since the Armistice, the Freedom Party lacked much Congressional presence, or for that matter much in the way of a policy platform beyond rearming and (somehow) making the nation great again. With the Red Rebellions beaten down by 1919, such a plan as existed was to use the Mexican Civil War as a proving ground for new tactics, training, and technology, to rebuild the C.S. Army and learn how to fight and win a modern war.

What actually happened was that Roosevelt shipped Colonel Zapata trainloads of Army surplus as Featherston found that the easy cash from London and Paris had dried up and - most importantly - the average Mexican despised the Confederates and everyone who sucked up to them.

By the 1923 midterms, the Imperial Government was on the run, the Geronimo Legion was in captivity or the grave, U.S. 'advisors' stood on the Rio Grande, the CS grayback was plummeting, the Democrat-held Senate kept on blocking the President's public works plans, and a sense that events were conspiring to keep the South from rising again. Something needed to be done to save the nation's honour, and Featherston had the perfect idea: stop paying reparations. Roosevelt could meddle in Mexico all he liked, but the cowardly Reds in Congress would never have the stomach for a real war, not with the U.S. Army tied down from the Rappahannock to the Yukon.

For a moment, it seemed like it was working. The U.S. Ambassador sent some sternly-worded letters, the Arbitration Board wrung their hands, and little else happened for two months. Then Teddy took the gloves off, and a lot of things started happening very quickly.

The Punitive Expedition was not, Roosevelt stressed, a war. A war required Congressional approval, the commitment of millions of men under arms, and a national sacrifice of blood and treasure. The Expedition was simply a police action to remind the Confederates of the obligations they had agreed to in 1916. The distinction was lost on the Confederates, who simply saw a Yankee invasion.

For all Featherston's bluster, the vestigial C.S. Army was brushed aside by a few divisions of Pershing's finest, striding toward Richmond. As Congress reconvened to discuss terms and found General Stuart's loyalists blocking the doors, and USS Remembrance anchored off Hampton Roads with what seemed like half the U.S. Navy, Featherston had the good sense to leave Richmond by the backdoor and disappear into the backwoods.

From there, things got messy. Pershing had neither the reach nor the mandate nor the will to apprehend the vanished President, but was eventually able to squeeze renewed reparations payments from the Confederacy. On the other side, the interim government under General Stuart that agreed to these terms then faced the task of building itself enough legitimacy to govern as Featherston (or somebody doing a good job of pretending to be him; nobody has seen Featherston in person since 1925, though the voice on the wireless is, his acolytes claim, unmistakably his) resurfaced in Mississippi, preaching resistance. Some hastily-written legislation was forced through and a new President and Vice-President elected by Congress, who then implemented Stuart's "recommendations" on how to conduct the counterinsurgency campaign.

By 1926, the situation had attained a fragile stability, give or take a dead President, even if the 1925 midterms had had to be "curated" and wide areas outside the towns in the Deep South remained no-go areas for the Federal Government. The Davis Administration had regained a tenuous grip on the situation and things were improving, just in time for the 1927 elections. It was unclear if the President could run for re-election but, whoever the Democrats stood, it was imperative that they win a convincing mandate to put the legitimacy question to bed once and for all. Provided there were no further setbacks, they ought to be able to keep the Rad Libs and the myriad feuding successors of the Freedom Party at bay.

That summer, heavy rain began falling in the Cumberland Valley, and spread across the Mississippi basin. The levees had been neglected through three wars and a depression, but should hold out if the wet season were within normal bounds.

It would not stop raining for another nine months.
 
>20+ Years of post war Labour government
More because Labour is more Centrist in tone for longer. Think just eternal Croslandism versus the Jayites essentially as the argument of the day.
>A C L A N D
>Successful CommonWealth
>Industrial Democracy
>Electoral Reform led by Labour
>"First True Democratic Government"
A successful Commonwealth that isn’t just ‘Bennites or CND plus’. Also I used Shirley Williams because she had discussed the idea of Industrial Democracy and Social Market ideals in the Social Democratic manifesto and was definitely on the Left of that party.

Essentially Britain turns into a rather, European style Social Democracy in the long run.
 
Part I: The Birth of the Federation
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The Integrity Class, launched 2295, represents the first Starfleet vessel to outperform Vulcan ships of the same type. In doing so it established Starfleet as the premier space force within the UFP.

2162-2164: Thomas Vanderbilt (Human)
"The most boring father of any nation in galactic history"

Earth's former defense secretary was responsible for the Daedalus Project during the Romulan War, which gave Earth a cheap, modular, fast to build starship.

He was an expansionist and a military man, who bought Vega Colony and Rigel into the Federation, expanding it to seven members.

Vanderbilt was elected by the council rather than the people, and was always seen as an administrator rather than someone whose personality defined the Federation.

2164-2172: Haroun al-Rashid (Human)
"His vision of a united and harmonious federation survived the brutality of interstellar realpolitiks, for months."

Earth's first Federation Council member was elected in a close election on a Federalist ticket against Anlenthoris ch'Vhendreni - they represented opposing visions of the Federation - Rashid's was federal, united, and peaceful. Thoris wanted an alliance of mutual defence. Under Rashid, the Federation Cuncil began meeting permanently and mechanisms for monetary exchange were established to allow capitalist and post-scarcity communities to interact. This was meant to be a transitional step towards a combined economic policy, but the early dominance of Federalists instead created a working but loose federal structure that they were never able to unify much further.

The Earth Kzinti Wars of 2169-2173 demonstrated the Federation's failure as a defensive organisation. Earth colonies were attacked without the support of the fleets from other worlds, who viewed the Earth colonies as aggressors for moving into former Kzinti space and disrupting the slave trade. The Kzinti were already a society in decline but the war was still an existential threat to the Federation - what the organisation meant was deeply threatened by its inability to act with unity.

2172-2176: T'Maran (Vulcan)
"The Vulcan who accidentally invented starfleet"

The election of a Planetaryist dismayed Earth, which voted by an absolute majority for their own, Federalist, candidate. But the other member species were tired of the Federation being ran from Earth, by Earth and for Earth. Of course, announcing this didn't make the primary political problem go away - Earth had been attacked and nobody had defended it. A unified fleet was needed but the Planetaryists saw this as a step towards the Federation becoming an actual state, which was something they did not want.

The answer was simple, and terrible - Earth wanted a unified fleet, and the other planets feared the formation of an overarching military organisation. Since the Romulan Wars, Earth's Starfleet had become a majority non-military organisation. Therefore, the military wing of Starfleet was separated into a small Earth Defense Force, and the other member planets opted to pay in a small amount to Starfleet. Earth had, and was the primary people to pay for, a combined fleet that only it wanted, and it was avowedly non-military. The idea was that it would never be better armed or prepared than the fleets of the member states, but could render assistance where needed.

On paper, this came to be seen as the point when Earth became, permanently, the capitol of the Federation. But at the time it wasn't seen like that. Earth had just lost 90% of its fleet in the creation of a joint run organisation that was neither as well funded as the Andorians and Tellarites, nor as technologically advanced as the Vulcans. And at the same time, the concept of a joint Federation military had been put to rest permanently. T'Maran was pleased with the logic of the solution.

T'Maran also moved the office of the President to Vulcan, and was the last president to attempt this. The oppressive heat of the city of ShirKahr made things impossible for the Andorian and Tellarite delegations and difficult for the Humans. It became a tradition for the president to build an official presidential residence on their home planet, but they never again permanently hosted the Office of the President

2176-2184: Avaranthi sh'Rothress (Andorian)
"The Andorian Compromise"

Avaran was elected to pursue a moderate path between the Planetaryism of Vulcan, Andoria and Tellar and the growing federalism of their fringe worlds but he had grand ambitions. He had noted that as the Federation's members expanded populations mingled and trade became more easy. There was, therefore, a permanent drive towards federalism. He predicted it could be stemmed by welcoming new member worlds into the Federation, who would be distant, more distinct, and keen to maintain their own independence. Avaran's expansion would take in five new worlds, but he would only oversee two entreants - the Loktarians and the Denobulans but the general logic - of an expanding Federation being a looser Federation, would continue.

Avaran's Ice Palace is one of the grandest presidential residences and has, as yet, not been utilised by any Vulcan president.

2184-2192: Jonathan Archer (Human)
"The Human Planetaryist."

Opinion is divided on whether Archer was a Planetaryist or a Federalist and his administration is seen by some as the point where the initial dichotomy of Federation politics broke down. He pursued policies of expansion and cultural distinctiveness, and frequently deferred to Earth's Prime Minister on internal matters. On the other hand, he saw Starfleet as central to the Federation's diplomacy and defense and began work on the Integrity Class - the first Starfleet ship that could match the Vulcans technologically.

During his time in power the Federation expanded to include the Ithenites, Makusians, Caitians, and Rigellians. The Caitians required a second conflict to free them from the Kzinti and in this Archer rallied support from the whole Federation and reduced the Kzinti to a small, compulsorily de-militarised minor power. Rigel was a more difficult win. The system came with multiple worlds and a GDP comparable to the entire rest of the Federation. It's entry meant that Rigellian vessels suddenly passing through Vulcan space with impunity and almost bought the two planets to war.

Archer, ever the explorer, was uninterested with the state of the Federation behind his frontiers, seeing them as the business of individual governments.

2192-2196: Greshlahrigm (Tellarite)
"The man who saved the Federation and hated every minute of it"

Over four years Greshlahrigm spent much of his time negotiating a deal between Rigel and Vulcan, Vulcan and Andor, Earth and its colonies and, in general, everyone and everyone. He was indefatigable, literally. Tellarites can manage on eight hours sleep in a thirty six hour day, but Greshlahrigm was a polyphasic sleeper and managed on about four. He also never adapted to Paris' sleep schedule. This meant that nobody was ever sure when he'd be awake, and whenever he was awake he might show up. In the space of four years he attended something like 20,000 meetings and had a bank of administrators simply to get him on the table.

His interactions were not always welcome, long, or thought through, but he did ensure that every decision made, every internal diplomatic matter, involved the office of the president. The result was, at best, people being forced to pull together for the common good rather than reaching bipartisan deals. At worst he gave the various planetary factions a common enemy.

Greshlahrigm advocated strongly for more military funding for Starfleet while by the time he left office it was still less well funded that the Rigellian Imperial Navy, new ship designs and technological developments made it the most effective military in the Federation.

It is impossible to characterise Greshlahrigm as a Federalist or Palanetaryist. The labels were breaking down in any case as planet turned against planet, and he was, mostly, indiscriminate in who he shouted at.What was clear was that the various schirmishes between Federation members had been extinguished, by sheer force of personality. Greshlahrigm refused to stand for a second term, declaring that the Federation was a doomed project and anyone who tried to prove him wrong is a naive imbecile who shouldn't be allowed to run a bath. He refused to move out of the new presidential residence on Tellar until his death, in 2205.
 
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