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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

POD: Sam Hawakaya doesn't run for senate in 1976, leading to Alphonzo E. Bell Jr. winning the Republican nomination, who would then go on to win the general election.

Political Career of Alphonzo E. Bell Jr.
1961-1963: Representative (Republican) for CA-16
'60 def. Jerry Pacht (Democratic)
1963-1975: Representative (Republican) for CA-28
'62 def. Robert J. Felixson (Democratic)
'64 def. Gerald Gottlieb (Democratic)
'66 def. Lawrence "Lorry" Sherman (Democratic)
'68 def. John McKee Pratt (Democratic) and Sherman Pearl (Peace & Freedom)
'70 def. Don McLaughlin (Democratic), Derek A. Gordon (American Independent), and Jane E. Gordon (Peace & Freedom)
'72 def. Michael Shapiro (Democratic) and Jack Hampton (Peace & Freedom)

1969: Republican candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles
1969 Sam Yorty (Democratic) def. Tom Bradley (Democratic) and Alphonzo E. Bell Jr. (Republican)
1975-1977: Representative (Republican) for CA-27
'74 def. Michael Shapiro (Democratic) and Jack Hampton (Peace & Freedom)
1977-1981: Senator (Republican) from California
'76 def. John V. Tunney (Democratic)
1980: Candidate for the Republican nomination for President
'80 def. Bob Dole (Republican) and John Connally (Republican)
1981-1989: President (Republican) of the United States
'80 (with George Bush) def. Jimmy Carter (Democratic)
'84 (with George Bush) def. Gary Hart (Democratic)

1989-2004: Private citizen

List of Presidents of the United States (1981-Present)
1981-1989: Alphonzo E. Bell Jr. (Republican)
'80 (with George Bush) def. Jimmy Carter / Walter Mondale (Democratic)
'84 (with George Bush) def. Gary Hart / Chris Dodd (Democratic)

1989-1997: Jack Kemp (Republican)
'88 (with Nancy Kassebaum) def. Lloyd Bentsen / Neil Goldschmidt (Democratic) and Pat Robertson / various (Independent)
'92 (with Nancy Kassebaum) def. Mario Cuomo / Donald MacKay Fraser (Democratic)

1997-2005: Ann Richards (Democratic)
'96 (with Tim Wirth) def. Benjamin Gilman / Connie Mack III (Republican) and Bob Dornan / Bill Archer ("Patriotic" Republican)
'00 (with Tim Wirth) def. John McCain / Colin Powell (Republican)

2005-2009: Donald Rumsfeld* (Republican)
'04 (with Al D'Amato) def. Paul Wellstone / Jeff Bingaman (Democratic)
2009-2017: Daniel Hamburg (Democratic)
'08 (with Mel Carnahan) def. Al D'Amato / Chuck Hagel (Republican)
'12 (with Mel Carnahan) def. Robert Zoellick / Artur Davis (Republican)

2017-2021: Val Kilmer (Democratic)
'16 (with Jay Inslee) def. Mike Fitzpatrick / Gary Johnson (Republican)
2021-////: Rob Sobhani (Republican)
'20 (with Mark Andrew Green) def. Val Kilmer / Jay Inslee (Democratic)

* Did not run for re-election due to advanced age.
 
Decking The Shuffle: Yankeedoodle Edition

Presidents of the United States

1933-1934: Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic)
1932 (with John Nance Garner) def. Herbert Hoover (Republican)
1934-1950: Douglas MacArthur (Military / National Movement)
1950-1952: Dwight D. Eisenhower (National Movement)
1952-1953: Gerald Ford (National Movement)
1953-1955: Hubert Humphrey (Peoples')
1952 (with Warren Magnuson) def. Gerald Ford (National Movement)
1955-1956: Dwight D. Eisenhower (Military / National Movement)
1956-1958: Harry S Truman (National Movement)
1956 (with Lyndon B. Johnson) def. Ronald Reagan (Independent Labor)
1958-1961: Lyndon B. Johnson (National Movement)
1961-1964: Thomas E. Dewey (Liberal)
1960 (with Adlai Stevenson) def. Lyndon B. Johnson (National Movement)
1964-1968: Adlai Stevenson (Liberal)
1964 (with John Lodge) def. Lyndon B. Johnson (Nationalist)
1968-1981: Gerald Ford (Nationalist)
1981-1983: John F. Kennedy (Nationalist)
1983-1983: James E. Carter (Military / Nationalist)
1983-1984: George Bush Sr. (Corporate / Nationalist)
1984-1995: John Kerry (Winter Soldier Movement)
1984 (Resistance Coalition with Progressives, Communists and Constitutionalists) def. George McGovern (Progressive), Ronald Reagan (Communist), Bob Dole (Nationalist), Barry Goldwater (Constitution)
1988 (Popular Front with Progressives and Communists) def. John McCain (United)
1992 (Popular Front with Progressives and Communists) def. John McCain (United)

1995-1996: Ronald Reagan (Communist leading Popular Front with Progressives and Winter Soldier Movement)
1996-1999: George Bush Jr. (United)
1996 (Minority) def. Walter Mondale (Progressive), Ronald Reagan (Communist), vacant (Winter Soldier Movement)
1999-2004: George Bush Jr. (Alliance 2000: 21st Century Americanism)
2000 (Majority) def. Walter Mondale (Progressive), Billy Blythe III (Communist)
2004-2008: Albert Gore Jr. (All-American)
2004 (Majority) def. Billy Blythe III (Communist), Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Progressive), Will Romney (Mormon Interests)
2008-2010: George Bush Jr. (All-American)
2008 (Majority) def. Billy Blythe III (Communist), Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Progress), Will Romney (Mormon Interests)
2010-2013: Hillary Rodham (All-American)
2012 (Coalition with Mormon Interests) def. Hussein Obama III (Communist), Will Romney (Mormon Interests), Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Progress)
2013-2017: Donald Trump (Corporate / All-American)
2017-0000: Hussein Obama III (Communist, backed by Winter Soldier Movement)

1955-1983: Richard M. Nixon, Bureau of Investigation Director

1996-2011: Mickey Dukakis, Winter Soldier Movement Insurgency
 
Bevan’s Britain:

1945-1949: Clement Attlee (Labour)†

1945 (Majority) def: Winston Churchill (Conservative), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Ernst Brown (National Liberal), Harry Pollitt (CPGB)
1949: Herbert Morrison (Labour Caretaker)
1949-1959: Nye Bevan (Labour)†
1950 (Majority) def: Lord Woolton (Conservative), Clement Davis (Liberal), John Maclay (National Liberal), Harry Pollitt (CPGB)
1955 (Majority) def: Harold MacMillian (Conservative), Jo Grimond (Liberal), Alfred Robens (Workers Party), Harry Pollitt (CPGB)

1959: John Freeman (Labour Caretaker)
1960-1967: Iain MacLeod (Conservative)

1960 (Majority) def: John Freeman (Labour), Jo Grimond (Liberal), Alfred Robens (Workers Party), John Gollan (CPGB), Tony Cliff (International Socialists)
1964 (Majority) def: Harold Wilson (Labour), Jo Grimond (Liberal), Alfred Robens (Workers Party), John Gollan (CPGB), Tony Cliff (Socialist Labour Party)

1967-1969: Ted Heath (Conservative)
1967 (Coalition with Liberals) def: Micheal Foot (Labour), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal), Alan Brown (Workers Party), Tony Cliff (Socialist Labour)
1969-: Barbara Castle (Labour)
1969 (Majority) def: Ted Heath (Conservative), Jeremy Thorpe (Liberal), Dick Taverne (Workers Party), Tony Cliff (Socialist Labour)

Bevan's Britain Redux:
1945-1949: Clement Attlee (Labour)
1945 (Majority) def: Winston Churchill (Conservative), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Ernst Brown (National Liberal)
1949: Herbert Morrison (Labour Caretaker)
1949-1959: Nye Bevan (Labour)†
1950 (Majority) def: Lord Woolton replacing Winston Churchill (Conservative), Clement Davis (Liberal)
1955 (Majority) def: Harold MacMillian (Conservative), Jo Grimond (Liberal)

1959-1960: John Freeman (Labour)
1960-1966: Peter Thorneycroft (Conservative)

1960 (Majority) def: John Freeman (Labour), Jo Grimond (Liberal), Stan Newens (Independent Socialists)
1964 (Coalition with Liberals) def: John Freeman (Labour), Mark Bonham Carter (Liberal)

1966-1969: Anthony Nutting (Conservative-Liberal Coalition)
1969-1974: Barbara Castle (Labour)
1969 (Majority) def: Anthony Nutting (Conservative), Mark Bonham Carter (Liberal)
1974-1982: Peter Tapsell (Conservative)
1974 (Majority) def: Barbara Castle (Labour), Emlyn Hooson-Dick Tavarne (Liberal-Democrat Alliance)
1978 (Majority) def: Norman Atkinson (Labour), Trevor Jones (Centre), Viv Bingham (New Democrats)
1982-1989: Dick Marsh (Labour)
1982 (Majority) def: Peter Tapsell (Conservative), Trevor Jones (Centre), Viv Bingham (New Democrats)
1986 (Majority) def: Peter Walker (Conservative), Alan Beith (Centre), Hilary Wainwright (New Democrats)

1989-: Neil Kinnock (Labour Majority)

It’s a Redux Folks, In which I address and expand on the original with more creativity and better colours etc.

So Attlee still falls down some stairs but lives, but is put out of commission. The 1949 Leadership election is a victory for Bevan, mainly due to A.V.Alexander not being able to muster support and Attlee still detesting Morrison. So Bevan manages to become leader, but first he must fight an election. The 1950 election occurs before Cripps presents the budget, so things go better which is compounded by Churchill having a stroke which leads to Lord Woolton having to run things as the Tories do worse.

Bevan manages to win another substantial majority for Labour and uses the opportunity to pursue his own projects. Meanwhile the Tories enter into a protracted power struggle, made worse by Eden accidentally suffering a drug overdose in 1954 leading to Macmillan getting the crown. Meanwhile Britain is reformed on Democratic Socialist grounds, but the idea that this would lead to a Socialist paradise is unfounded. The 50s are a time of relative prosperity compared to the War years but just because the Worker has a say in how his factory is run, doesn’t dissuade them from wanting luxury goods which becomes a problem in the late 50s.

Still Labour wins the 55’ election, with Macmillan’s attempts to appeal to the public falling flat as people are relatively content for the most part and the Tory’s are still in the midst of a bloodletting. Buoyant on another’s majority, Bevan proceeds to push more of his agenda, Homosexuality decriminalisation, Industrial Democracy and establish the Yugoslavian-British Enterprise Treaty are some of his success.

But Bevan doesn’t ban the bomb and to some of his supporters, that’s a step too far and the Independent Socialists are briefly a grouping within Parliament, lead by Stan Newens. Dealing with a renewed Tories under Thorneycroft, an overheating economy and increased demand for consumer goods leads to Bevan becoming ill and soon after dying.

As a nation mourns, the telegenic John Freeman takes over, promising to bring a ‘Modern Bevanism’ for the masses. But a charismatic leader can do very little to deal with the problem of being in power for 15 years. Labour crashes against the rejuvenated Tories lead by Thorneycroft.

Thorneycroft’s promises of a ‘New Economy for a New Britain’ would in the end, fail. A combination of austerity and reducing worker control whilst stabilising the economy wouldn’t endear him to the masses and the Trade Unions who dominated much of the economy would constantly push Thorneycroft. His election called on ‘Who Runs Britain?’ see’s the Tories entering coalition with the Liberals.

As polls dip and Thorneycroft is seen as a problem more than a solution, he’s replaced by Anthony Nutting. A moderate, One Nation Tory, he works incredibly well with the Liberals but the economy overheats yet again and dry monetary policy does little to help.

Barbara Castle comes in 1969 and has to deal with a country slowly leaning into chaos. Her solution is to reform how the Trade Unions operate and whilst endearing her to the public, pisses them off. Meanwhile a gaggle of Labour MPs advocate that Britain's woes would be solved by Europe. Castle and Eurosceptic cabinet refuse and lead to a ‘Democratic Labour’ split in 1972. The Economy sees a slight dip in 73’ followed by a Trade Union spat which causes Castle to lose in 74’.

Her replacement wasn’t the first choice, but Heath’s death in a boating accident meant that the Conservative Keynesian’s chose Peter Tapsell as there candidate during the 1971 leadership election believing he would lose in 74’. His victory would see the semi-destruction of the Bevanite dream, already kicked into motion by Castle. The creation of a Germanic Social Market Britain would be the order of the day, though with trade being pursued with the Commonwealth due to Tapsell’s Euroscepticism. This combined with a series of economic projects and tough on crime/war on drugs would make Tapsell decently popular as Post War Tory leaders went.

The Left would wander aimlessly in 70s and 80s, the Labour Party stuck in Bevanite aspic as they were outmanoeuvred on the Left by the New Democrats who would advocate for more radical Libertarian Socialist ideas. In the beginning of the 80s the economy would see stagflation occur, Tapsell’s dream of Keynesian economic proving to be his downfall.

Dick Marsh had come into parliament wearing a CND badge and had consider joining Newens before being dissuaded by Michael Foot. But the Marsh of 82’ was very much a different beast. ‘Supply Side Socialism’ and ‘Singapore On Thames’ wasn’t what had been expected from a nominally Socialist Party but Marsh saw that the people wanted a Consumer Democracy to emerge. And he ensured that, through a collection of Market Socialist ideas and interconnected computer system that should manage Britain’s economy.

It’s now 1989, Marsh has resigned due to age and his successor claims to be a follower of the Bevanite ideals, but Kinnock is just as firmly rooted his Marshism too. As the Conservative’s continue to flail and Kinnock’s popularity soars nothing can put a dampener on Britain’s mood...well apart from the fact that he wants to join the European Commonwealth.
 
List of Presidents Post-Revolution:
1953-1955: Dwight D. Eisenhower / [vacant] (Nonpartisan)
Replaced National Reconstruction Transitional Triumvirate
1955-1959: G. Mennen Williams / Lyndon Johnson (Progressive Democratic)
1954 def. John Sherman Cooper / Ted Dalton (New Era), Robert Gray Allen / Frank Lausche (Center), and Robert A. Taft / Thomas Werdel (Constitutional Restoration)
1959-1963: Harold Stassen / Arthur Summerfield (New Era)
1958 def. Leo Isacson / Isidor Stone (American Labor), Jack Arvey / Richard Neuberger (Forward!), Cully Cobb / Henry Berquist (People’s), Howard Buffett / Clarence J. Brown (Constitutional Restoration), and Frank Lausche / Clinton Clauson (Center)
1963-1967: Jeremiah Voorhis / Eugene Faubus (Farmer-Labor)
1962 def. William Vann Rogers / Sidney Yates (Forward!), Goodwin Knight / Theodore McKeldin (New Era), Lemuel Boulware / Wheeler Williams (Constitutional Restoration), and Oveta Culp Hobby / Ralph Herseth (Center)
1967-1971: Hosea Williams / Philip Hoff (Farmer-Labor)
1966 def. Jack R. Gage / Richard Howard Ichord Jr. (Center), Grant Sawyer / Philip Hart (Forward!), John deKoven Alsop / William B. Hartsfield (New Era), and Barry Goldwater / Joe Shell (Constitutional Restoration)
1971-1975: Alphonzo E. Bell Jr. / Willis Ward (National Union)
1970 def. Ellis Arnall / Joseph Yablonski (Farmer-Labor), Pierre Salinger / John Pastore (Forward!), and Henry Salvatori / Max Rafferty (Constitutional Restoration)
1975-1979: Oran Gragson / Ernest Gibson III (National Union)
1974 def. Martin Robinson / Ignatius Bakewell (Constitutional Restoration), William Fitts Ryan / Carlton Goodlett (Forward!), and Wilbur Hobby / Philip Hoff (Farmer-Labor)
1979-1983: Dixy Lee Ray / Brendan Byrne (Forward!)
1978 def. Jerry Litton / Joseph Gaydos (Farmer-Labor), Luigino Paulucci / Walter Alessandroni (National Union), and William Loeb III / Richard Obenshain (Constitutional Restoration)
1983-1987: Mike Curb / Pat Moynihan (National Union)
1982 def. Ivan Allen Jr. / Charles Hynes (Forward!), Bronson La Follette / William W. Winpisinger (Farmer-Labor), and S. I. Hayakawa / James Quinn Wilson (Constitutional Restoration)
1987-1989: George Leland* / George Wallace (Farmer-Labor)
1986 def. Vic Atiyeh / Charles A. Morris (National Union), Edmund Brown / Charles Hynes (Forward!), Bill Clements / Dick Randolph (Constitutional Restoration), and Claiborne Smothers I / Irv Homer (Nonpartisan)
1989-1991: George Wallace / [vacant] (Farmer-Labor)
Replaced Leland
1991-1995: Bill Blythe / John Melcher (Farmer-Labor)
1990 def. Lido Iacocca / Ray Metcalfe (National Union), Jay Hammond / Gordon Humphrey (Constitutional Restoration), and Carl Levin / George Miller (Forward!)
1995-1998: Hillary Rupert** / Steve Merrill (Constitutional Restoration, then National Security)
1994 def. Patrick Leahy / Niilo Koponen (Farmer-Labor), Edmund Brown / Richard Vander Veen (Forward!), and Vernon Froehlich / William Donald Schaefer (National Union)
1998-1999: Steve Merrill / [vacant] (Constitutional Restoration)
Replaced Rupert
1999-2003: Nighthorse Campbell / Arne Carlson (United We Stand)
1998 def. Isaac Skelton IV / Harvey Gantt (Farmer-Labor), Ron Paul / Bob Bork (Rally for the Republic), Guy Vander Jagt / Oliver North (National Security), and John Norquist / Augustus Savage (Forward!)
2003-2005: Penn Kemble*** / Jim Oberstar (Farmer-Labor)
2002 def. Paul Schell / Albert Hofstede (New Millennium), Salvatore Bono / Angus King (United We Stand), Barry Goldwater Jr. / John Sophocleus (Rally for the Republic), and Tom Clancy / Donald Rumsfeld (National Security)
2005-2007: Jim Oberstar / [vacant] (Farmer-Labor)
Replaced Kemble
2007-2011: Robert Lloyd Duncan / Norm Coleman (United We Stand)
2006 def. Rush Holt Jr. / Alexander B. Johnson (New Millennium), Dennis Kucinich / Mike Blouin (Farmer-Labor), Bob Ney / John Perry Barlow (Rally for the Republic), and Charlie Wilson / Jim Sensenbrenner (National Security)
2011-2015: Denise Giardina / Paul Wexelstein (Farmer-Labor)
2010 def. Harrison Ford / Dave Cieslewicz (New Millennium), Mike Fitzpatrick / Jim Rex (United We Stand), and Bruce Fein / Tom Feeney (Rally for the Republic)
2015-2019: James G. Janos / Clement Otter (Rally for the Republic)
2014 def. Deirdre Scozzafava / Patrick Murphy (United We Stand), Arn Menconi / Bob Fitrakis (Labor), Daniel Biss / Barbara Ann Radnofsky (New Millennium), and John Boyd / Nancy L. Hoffmann (New Populist)
2019-////: Robbie O'Rourke / Andrew Gillum (New Millennium)
2018 def. Artur Davis / Aimee Winder Newton (United We Stand), Zephyr Teachout / Demetrius Smart (Labor), Krist Novoselic / Clinton LeSueur (New Populist), and Erik Vendt / Michael Benjamin (Rally for the Republic)

* Died in a plane crash over Ethiopia.
** Impeached for wire-tapping the Farmer-Labor Party headquarters.
*** Died from complications with brain cancer.
 
When I'm 64: the Limited Reboot

Slight Redo of my dystopian future TL I did back on the old country (which started had a PoD of 2012 when the protagonist was born, with maybe a couple of tweaks made in hindsight)

2015-2018: Ed Miliband (Labour Minority with SNP S&C)
Scottish Independence Referendum: 51% No 49% Yes
“A Deal with the Devil: Miliband Agrees to second Scottish Independence Referendum)
“Yes to the Union, Hunt hails victory in Independence referendum”

2018-2028: Jeremy Hunt (Conservative)
“Woman on the Moon: Artemis III lands two astronauts on Moon,”
“Shades of Nixon as President Jindal Greets Astronauts after Pacific Splashdown,”

2028-2031-Clive Lewis (Labour)
“Disaster: Radiation leak at Hinkley Point C spreads radiation across Somerset”
“Pearce orders mass evacuations, Weston, Taunton and Yeovil to be Evacuated”
“Children of Earth claim responsibility for Hinkley Point. Mass police raids across country”
“Lewis Resigns over Hinkley Point disaster”

2031-2035-James Pearce (Labour lead National Emergency)
“Temporary towns built across Devon, Dorset and Gloucestershire to house Somerset Evacuees”
“James Pearce Assassinated while visiting temporary town in Devon”
“Pearce Assassin lost wife to radiation poisoning, blamed PM for death”

2034-2038-Cerys Sealy (Labour lead National Emergency)
“Sealey plans for election, new constituencies to be drawn up”

2038-2040: Alice Sinclair (Conservative majority)
“Sinclair wins overwhelming majority of Two hundred as public blame Labour for Hinkley Point”
“Sinclair deploys Navy in supports of Canadian-American standoff with Russia,”
“Manchester Autonomous Zone retaken six days after declaration”

2040-2059: Alice Sinclair (Conservative Lead National Emergency Government)
“Drone strike on Palace kills King William and Family”
“Nihilist terror group DWO Claim responsibility for regicide attack”
“Prince Harry to fly back from California to assume throne, Princess Victoria to be made Princess of Wales,”
“New Anti Terror Laws drawn up, Anti terror and riot police to be created into seperate force”
“Despite William death, widespread protests against new Anti Terror Laws,”
“Three dead after London Protest,”
“DWO conduct attack on Tory MP Simon Lewis and Labour MP Alun Hughes,”
“Record low winter following Russian Civil War nuclear exchange,”
“Elections suspended owing to ongoing security emergency.”
“Technical fault in Thames barrier allows Storm Fred to devastate central London”
“Parliament moved to York,”
“Financial Exodus from London to Frankfurt and New York,”
“Free republic of Scilly captured by Marines,”
“Government refuses to recognise Republic of Western Antarctica”

2059-2061: Eve Dixon (Conservative Lead National Emergency Government)
“Sinclaire Assassinated, killer was member of staff, no known links to DWO or other groups”
“Paul Fraiser MSP calls for revolt against Dixon Government”
“Leader of the Opposition Arrested at protest,”
“Police fall to so called “Rubber Bullet Civil War” as units refuse government orders,”
“Army refuse to move on Army, stage partlal mutinee,”

2061-2065: Albert Fisher, Baron Cirencester (Democratic Transitional Authority)
“Dixon hands herself over to democratic forces”
“Crossbencher Albert Fisher to head up transitional government,”
“Scottish People First Demand Independence referendum on independence ahead of constitutional convention”
“New Constitution to outline rights of AI citizens as well as expand rights of transgender and non binary citizens, to overhaul marriage and kink laws,”

2063: Scottish Independence Referendum (53% Yes 47% No)
2063: Irish Border Poll (52%/54% Yes 48%/46% No)
2064: Constitutional Convention (64%Yes 46% No)

2065-2075: Steph Charles (Liberal Unionist-Community government with Green support)

“Embodied AI Izzy Green becomes first non-human MP, winning Gloucestershire’s 2nd seat for the LUs”
“Steph Charles first Transgender Prime Minister,”
“Charles signs UK-Scotland Agreement, open border remains and both Scottish
“Harry to abdicate, Princess Victoria to be crowned Queen of United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Scotland”
“Ireland unified, border fully reopened, Northern Ireland to become independent province within Republic of Ireland,”
“The Yellow black red and white, new Anglo-Welsh Flag causes controversy,”
“The-Davids Allen in first challenge to AI law with supreme court, ruling made on rights of multiple substantiations and integrated collectives”

2075-Present Rosemallow Black (Social Democrat-Ad Astra-Green Coalition with Artificiality support)
“Black to mediate trade and workers rights dispute between New Enterprise Station and United States,”
 
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THE REPUBLIC SHALL NOT BE VANQUISHED

I had a lot of notes written about the north, the rise of Canada as a world power, what cities like Resolution, Ilaquit now look like. For the south I just went "some independence, some still with ties to their home countries, almost all on the coast.

Western Antarctica is basically the Chilean, Argentinian and British settlements on the Antarctic Peninsula all declaring independence under a fairly corpocratic, libertarian system that slowly turns into a moderate democracy.
 
1981-1989: Ronald Reagan (Republican)
1980 (With George H.W.Bush) def: Jimmy Carter/Walter Mondale (Democratic), John Anderson/Patrick Lucey (Independent)
1984 (With George H.W.Bush) def: Walter Mondale/Denise Feinstein (Democratic)

1989-1993: George H.W. Bush (Republican)
1988 (With Kay A. Orr) def: Bill Clinton/Dick Gephardt (Democratic), Russell Means/Dick Lamm (Libertarian)
1993-: Tom Harkin (Democratic)
1992 (With Douglas Wilder) def: George H.W.Bush/Kay A. Orr (Republican), Dick Lamm/Ed Zschau (Reform), Ross Perot/Bo Gritz (Independent)

The situation for America in the 'For A Friend' story, original British Prime Minister list can be found here.

Anyway, Ronald Reagan's tenure continues as it did in OTL, with Mondale choosing a different Veep in 84' with Denise Feinstein being chosen, allowing the New Democrats to get more of a look in. It's still a lose for Mondale and this is used as an excuse to promote the ideals of the New Democrats in the years to come. 1988 comes, Hart infidelities are found out in 86' and he retires from politics, Dukakis focuses on a Senate Run in Massachusetts and the Primaries become a battle between Ferraro, Jackson and Clinton as they go on. Questions about her husband, cause Ferraro to lose support and fearing Jackson getting in, most moderates back Clinton in the end who makes Gephardt his running mate to gain Labour Union support.

The battle for 1988 rapidly becomes a battle of scandals as Bush is haunted by Iran-Contra whilst Clinton becomes haunted by a variety of sex scandals and whitewater. In the end the attacks from the moral majority and Clinton's inability to shake off allegations of corruption wash and combined with disgruntled Jackson supporters voting for the Libertarian which makes a slight splash as result. In the years in between 88' and 93' America starts to slump into recession, the Labour Unions get rowdy within the Democrats and Dick Lamm decides to use some of the exposure in 88' to establish the Reform Party which makes a small splash when former Jesse Jackson organiser and eventual Mayor of El Paso, Pat O'Rourke manages to gain substantial support for the 1990 Texas Governor election (he loses but Mickey Leland manages to get in with a substantial margin).

The 1992 Democratic Primaries see Harkin push forward and gain support from a variety of groups (including the spinning remains of Jackson's supporters, helped by his choice of Douglas Wilder as running mate) whilst Paul Tsongas and Jerry Brown clash over balanced budgets and embracing neoliberalism which in the end allows Harkin to slip through and become the Presidential candidate. With Wilder as his Running Mate, there's a feeling amongst the moderates that he will do well but still fall wide of the mark. But Bush stumbles and finds himself being outmanoeuvred by a Populist campaign by Lamm who plays upon a mixture of balanced budgets and calling out Bush's kowtowing to the moral majority, whilst Ross Perot runs a surreal and nationalistic campaign with Bo Gritz which gains support from disgruntled Buchannan supporters think that Bush hasn't done enough.

Whilst not enough to gain any states or anything, Lamm's and Perot's campaigns do enough to knock Bush off kilter whilst Harkin's Populist Semi-Progressive campaign ran by Philip Gould and other spin doctors does well amongst the left behind states and the emerging rust belt. On election day, Bush finds himself squeezed whilst Harkin manages to walk it home and become's President to a rather chaotic America with his offering of bringing back the New Deal consensus which is left to be seen...
 
1972: Spiro Agnew Republican Willard Laird
Def: George Wallace Democratic Wilbur Miles
1976: George H. Bush Republican Charles Percy
Def: James Earl Carter Democratic Walter Mondale

1980: Jerry Litton Democratic John Glenn


DEF: George H. Bush Republican Charles Percy
 
Inspired by discussions the other day.


Presidents of Northumbria

1991-1991: R. A. Gibson (Communist)
1991-1995: Kate Adie (Independent)
1991 def. R. A. Gibson (Communist)
1995-2021: Tony Blair (New Socialist)
1995 def. Kate Adie (Independent), Jeremy Beecham ('Continuity' Communist)
1999 def. Jeremy Beecham (Northumbrian Communist), Susan Dungworth (Democratic Movement), Timothy Kirkhope (Liberal Democratic), Martin Callanan (Democratic Liberal)
2001 constitutional referendum: 59% YES, 41% NO
2001 def. Jeremy Beecham (Northumbrian Communist), Susan Dungworth (Democratic Movement), Timothy Kirkhope (Liberal Democratic), Martin Callanan (Democratic Liberal)
2006 def. Jeremy Beecham (Northumbrian Communist), Alexander Armstrong (Independent), Martin Callanan (Democratic Liberal), Timothy Kirkhope (Liberal Democratic)
2011 def. Alexander Armstrong (Independent), Paul Watson (Northumbrian Communist), Martin Callanan (Democratic Liberal), Timothy Kirkhope (Liberal Democratic)
2016 def. Alexander Armstrong (Independent), Paul Watson (Northumbrian Communist), Timothy Kirkhope (Liberal Democratic), Martin Callanan (Democratic Liberal)
2021 def. Abigail Thorn (Independent), Alexander Armstrong (Independent), Martin Levy (Northumbrian Communist), Ben Houchen (Liberal)


Northumbria was and is in no sense a nation; this was something even admitted by the 'New Northumbrians' whose regionalist project provided the slimmest of justifications for a Northumbrian entity. Its independence was a mere accident of history, a side effect of the dissolution of Soviet Britain for which there was no real appetite but an overwhelming feeling of apathy.

The ruthless firebrand R. A. Gibson, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Northumbria and an unabashed bigot to boot, would serve for only a few months before going down in flames to opposition activist Kate Adie. His own party's memories of his merciless purge of Mike Dungworth and Ronnie Campbell were unlikely to have helped the mere third of the vote he ended up managing.

Adie's presidency would soon turn out to be an unmitigated disaster, with shock therapy and mass privatisation being the order of the day. With the end of the vital subsidies from the centre that had sustained the region, government services were cut to the bone, and life expectancy and living standards plunged. Alcoholism and the unemployment rate skyrocketed, with half of Northumbria's shipyards being closed and the other half being sold off to the Koreans and Japanese. Perhaps the only person who benefited from her term in office was Ridley Scott, whose award-winning, hour-long documentary on the abandoned chemical plants and steelworks of Teesside brought him to a career in America.

Tony Blair, Trotskyite dissident turned young anti-reformist Party apparatchik turned enthusiastic moderniser after Gibson's defeat, offered a new course and promised the breaking of a new dawn.

Northumbria instead found that things really could get worse.
 
Inspired by discussions the other day.


Presidents of Northumbria

1991-1991: R. A. Gibson (Communist)
1991-1995: Kate Adie (Independent)
1991 def. R. A. Gibson (Communist)
1995-2021: Tony Blair (New Socialist)
1995 def. Kate Adie (Independent), Jeremy Beecham ('Continuity' Communist)
1999 def. Jeremy Beecham (Northumbrian Communist), Susan Dungworth (Democratic Movement), Timothy Kirkhope (Liberal Democratic), Martin Callanan (Democratic Liberal)
2001 constitutional referendum: 59% YES, 41% NO
2001 def. Jeremy Beecham (Northumbrian Communist), Susan Dungworth (Democratic Movement), Timothy Kirkhope (Liberal Democratic), Martin Callanan (Democratic Liberal)
2006 def. Jeremy Beecham (Northumbrian Communist), Alexander Armstrong (Independent), Martin Callanan (Democratic Liberal), Timothy Kirkhope (Liberal Democratic)
2011 def. Alexander Armstrong (Independent), Paul Watson (Northumbrian Communist), Martin Callanan (Democratic Liberal), Timothy Kirkhope (Liberal Democratic)
2016 def. Alexander Armstrong (Independent), Paul Watson (Northumbrian Communist), Timothy Kirkhope (Liberal Democratic), Martin Callanan (Democratic Liberal)
2021 def. Abigail Thorn (Independent), Alexander Armstrong (Independent), Martin Levy (Northumbrian Communist), Ben Houchen (Liberal)


Northumbria was and is in no sense a nation; this was something even admitted by the 'New Northumbrians' whose regionalist project provided the slimmest of justifications for a Northumbrian entity. Its independence was a mere accident of history, a side effect of the dissolution of Soviet Britain for which there was no real appetite but an overwhelming feeling of apathy.

The ruthless firebrand R. A. Gibson, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Northumbria and an unabashed bigot to boot, would serve for only a few months before going down in flames to opposition activist Kate Adie. His own party's memories of his merciless purge of Mike Dungworth and Ronnie Campbell were unlikely to have helped the mere third of the vote he ended up managing.

Adie's presidency would soon turn out to be an unmitigated disaster, with shock therapy and mass privatisation being the order of the day. With the end of the vital subsidies from the centre that had sustained the region, government services were cut to the bone, and life expectancy and living standards plunged. Alcoholism and the unemployment rate skyrocketed, with half of Northumbria's shipyards being closed and the other half being sold off to the Koreans and Japanese. Perhaps the only person who benefited from her term in office was Ridley Scott, whose award-winning, hour-long documentary on the abandoned chemical plants and steelworks of Teesside brought him to a career in America.

Tony Blair, Trotskyite dissident turned young anti-reformist Party apparatchik turned enthusiastic moderniser after Gibson's defeat, offered a new course and promised the breaking of a new dawn.

Northumbria instead found that things really could get worse.
Great stuff,but I should point out that in said allegory Wales was Belarus and Northumbria was Ukraine.

Still,great list.
 
Kinnock Plus Debris
1979-1988: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative)
1979 (Majority) def: James Callaghan (Labour), David Steel (Liberal)
1983 (Majority) def: Micheal Foot (Labour), David Steel-Roy Jenkins (Liberal-SDP Alliance)
1987 (Majority) def: Neil Kinnock (Labour), David Steel-David Owen (Liberal-SDP Alliance)

1988-1991: Tom King (Conservative)
1991-1992: Neil Kinnock (Labour)

1991 (Majority) def: Tom King (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrat)
1992-1999: Ann Clywd (Labour)
1995 (Majority) def: John Moore (Conservative), Paddy Ashdown (Liberal Democrat)
1999-2005: Stephen Dorrell (Conservative)
1999 (Majority) def: Ann Clywd (Labour), Don Foster(Liberal Democrat)
2003 (Majority) def: Ian Willmore (Labour), Don Foster (Liberal Democrat), John Swinney (SNP)

2005-2008: Michael Portillo (Conservative)
2008-2014: Hilary Benn (Labour)

2008 (Majority) def: Michael Portillo (Conservative), Evan Harris (Liberal Democrat), John Swinney (SNP)
2012 (Coalition with Liberal Democrats) def: William Hague (Conservative), Evan Harris (Liberal Democrat)
2014 AV+ Referendum: Yes 37%, No 63%

2014-2015: Fiona Jones (Labour-Liberal Democrat Coalition)
2015-2020: William Hague (Conservative)

2015 (Majority) def: Fiona Jones (Labour), Evan Harris (Liberal Democrat), Angela Constance (SNP)
2017 Brexit Referendum: Remain 52%, Leave 48%
2019
(Majority) def: Rushanara Ali replacing David Prescott (Labour), Louise Bloom-Beki Adam (Liberal Democrat-Green Alliance), Stewart Hosie (SNP), Chic Brodie-Cat Boyd (RISE), Jason Zadrozny (Reform)
2020-2021: Daniel Kawczynski (Conservative)
2021-2023: Karen Bradley (Conservative)
2023-: Sarah Owen (Labour)

2023 (Majority) def: Karen Bradley (Conservative), John Leech-Gina Miller (Liberal Democrat), Stewart Hoise (SNP), Jason Zadrozny (Reform)

A list in which @Callan beats me with a rake, anyway.

So Thatcher steps down after a slightly better 87’ election for Labour, King steps and bumbles it up slightly. That isn’t the important bit, the important bit is, Kinnock wins and within a year of his premiership he’s hit by an IRA mortar, chaos notably ensues.

As one of the few cabinet ministers not to be incapacitated in some way, Ann Clwyd running on a Continuity Kinnock platform becomes Labour leader against a shell shocked Brown and a Ken Livingstone who’s very much trying to avoid discussing his previous support for the PIRA.

Ann Clwyd’s time see’s the continuation of ‘Supply-Side Socialism’, being part of NATO interventions in Yugoslavia, Iraq (especially Iraq) and Sudan alongside President Bush and then Kerry. Clwyd is fairly popular and John Moore is an incredibly poor operator (with an attempt pushing out by John Major making the party even weaker) and Clywd keeps her Majority.

In the investment into ‘Internet Socialism’ would be the downfall of her government, as a recession caused by the Dot Com bubble busting leading to Bryan Gould resigning and Clywd’s poll ratings slumping. A rejuvenated Liberal Democrats lead by Don Foster and the Tories humbling along under Dorrell manage to regain the Centre ground and Clywd is turfed out.

Dorrell is a fairly bland leader and his use of austerity measures doesn’t improve his popularity much. But the economy bounces back and jobs return and Dorrell’s steady as she goes leadership means that Labour’s gains aren’t placed in the dustbin of history. Still, the 2003 election is fairly close, with Ian Willmore’s Populist 'Old Labour' style striking a surprising positive tone with the public. In the end Dorrell is saved by a small SNP surge that allows the Tories to still retain a small majority.

Dorrell is soon ousted with a battle between Thatcherites and One Nation folks ensuing. Portillo raises to the top due to his mixture of Modernisation rhetoric and charm. But in the end this angers some of the older members of his party, and Portillo ignoring the Right of the Party to be the party of Social Liberalisation would annoy them (Civil Partnerships being created in 2005 under Portillo’s watch etc.)

In the end, a recession caused by a President Thompson’s administration letting Wall Street loose alongside Portillo doing the same would be the downfall of the Tories. Hilary Benn was a safe pair of hands for Labour, not particularly brash or confrontational, Benn’s tenure would be about repairing Britain. But his Pro-EU ways and lack of proper change would lead him susceptible to being attack by an increasingly Eurosceptic Right and the revived Liberal Democrat’s.

The 2012 election would see Harris’s Liberal Democrat Anti-Establishment Populism winning out against the dulled Benn and a awkward Right Winger Hague. Harris would end up making a mistake by joining up with Labour in a coalition though.

Whilst a Greener Britain program was a relative success the coalition barely managed to get what they wanted to work. The Orange Book Liberals felt locked out by Harris and railed against him, Benn was seen as too cautious by many on the Right and Left of Labour and there was a general sense of malaise from the administration. The failure of the PR Referendum would see Benn's Chancellor Peter Hain and prominent support of the referendum, resigning which would lead to a snowball effect that would cause Benn himself to bow out himself. The Labour Right managed to muster a candidate in the form of Fiona Jones, the Health Secretary for two years, her time in office was one of the few not to be filled with problems and scandals. Campaigning on a platform that mixed 'Old and New to create Renew' as she called it, she managed to beat a corruption filled campaign by Peter Hain and a Left Wing Populist one lead by Lynne Jones which did better than expected for many.

Fiona Jones immediately was dealt with crisis after crisis; the collapse of the Assad Regime into Civil War, flooding in various parts of the country and general malaise was too much for her and she would start drinking heavily. The decline in ability horrified the Liberal Democrats and Evan Harris would pull the party out of coalition. The ensuing election would lead to a landslide victory for the Conservative's as the Liberal Democrats would collapse in support (with Evan Harris losing his seat to a Conservative) and Labour would lose a large number of support from a Radical SNP campaign.

William Hague was not expected to win a majority of 80 but he seized to it like a duck to water. 'Wasteful' Labour Projects were rolled back and an increase Social Conservative, Anti-Immigrant and Eurosceptic mind set came across to Britain. But Hague did also stay out of the eventual Syria quagmire which would sink the Romney administration and lead to the election of President Schweitzer. The attempted Brexit referendum was a narrow victory for Remain thanks to support from Labour and the LibDem-Green Alliance.

But despite it all, Hague’s Populist rhetoric and a strong economy would mean that Hague managed to keep his majority almost intact as Labour floundered under a lack of leadership due to David Prescott’s sexual harassment allegations and a LibDem-Green surge. Where the Conservative’s did feel pressured was where Jason Zadrozny’s Centrist Localist Eurosceptic Party, Reform stood (Zadrozny being kicked out of the LibDems for failing to stick to there Brexit messaging).

Hague would continue forward, with plans for another Brexit Referendum to occur in the near future would be shattered when Hague caught Swine Flu during a flare up of it in early 2020. He would be replaced by Daniel Kawczynski who tried to continue on Continuity Hague’s platform but scandals involving his past statements on abortion and his present same sex relationship would anger Right and Left equally and Kawczynski provided inadequate at being in charge.

When a scandal involving party donations and unsafe cladding hit, Kawczynski quickly resigned and another leadership contest ensued. Karen Bradley wasn’t the most popular, but Grayling, Leadsom, Rudd and Herbert had bloodied themselves in the contest and she was seen as the ‘safe’ choice. This provided to be a terrible mistake as Bradley bungled any good she had.

The 2023 election saw Labour back in with a majority of 30 as Reform mainly gobbled Tory seats and Owen’s Left Wing Populist platform and a tactical pact with the LibDems seeing her win. Now Sarah Owen has to roll up her sleeves and bring about the New Green Social Democratic consensus she promised.
 
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