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Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State

I feel like I should call @theev here to see my list because “LBJ leads the New Deal Coalition leading to semi-successful New Left Party and Vance Hartke becoming President only to assassinated by Quebec Nationalists” does seem like something he would do.
 
1969-1973: Robert F. Kennedy Sr. (Democratic)
(With J. William Fulbright)
1968 def. Richard Nixon/Spiro Agnew (Republican), George Wallace/Clay Smothers (American Independent), Others

1973-1981: Ronald Regan (Republican)
(With Claude R. Kirk Jr.)

1972 def. Robert F. Kennedy/J. William Fulbright (Democratic), Jesse Helms/Sam Yorty (American Independent), Others
1976 def. Moon Landrieu/Henry Jackson (Democratic), Norman Podhoretz/Ellen McCormack (American Independent), Others

1981-1983: Rudy Perpich (Democratic)
(With Carl Stokes)

1980 def. Claude R. Kirk Jr./Malcolm Wilson (Republican), Frank Rizzo/Ronnie Thompson (American Independent), Others

1983-1985: Carl Stokes (Democratic)
(With Vacant, later Mario Biaggi)


1985-1989: Vernon B. Romney (Republican)
(With Elliot Richardson)

1984 def. Carl Stokes/Mario Biaggi (Democratic), Jesse Helms/Robert Byrd (American Independent), Others

1989-1997: H.A "Red" Boucher (Democratic)
(With Tom Harkin)

1988 def. Vernon B. Romney/Elliot Richardson (Republican), Velvela Phillips/Joe Medicine Crow (Freedom), Others
1992 def. Julie Nixon-Eisenhower/Maurice M. Paul (Republican), Others

1997-2005: Micheal Huffington (Republican)
(With Willam Howard Taft IV)

1996 def. Tom Harkin/Geraldine Ferraro (Democratic), Bay Buchanan/Peg Luksik (Independent, endorsed by American Independent), Others
2000 def. Andrew Cuomo/Wyche Fowler (Democratic), Others
 
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A NEW CONSENSUS: Falklands Lost

1979
: Conservative (Margaret Thatcher) 44%, Labour (Jim Callaghan) 37%, Liberal (David Steel) 14%

Result: Conservative majority

1984: Liberal (David Steel)/Social Democratic (Roy Jenkins) 40%, Labour (Michael Foot) 25%, Conservative (Willie Whitelaw) 30%

Result: Liberal/Social Democratic majority

1989: Alliance (Shirley Williams) 35%, Labour (Tony Benn) 32%, Conservative (Michael Heseltine) 28%

Result: Alliance/Conservative majority

1993: Conservative (Michael Heseltine) 34%, Alliance (Shirley Williams) 30%, Labour (John Prescott) 29%, Green (Sara Parkin) 3%

Result: Conservative/Green minority

1997: Labour (John Prescott) 31%, Conservative (Michael Heseltine) 30% , Alliance (Paddy Ashdown) 28%, Reform (David Owen) 5%, Green (Sara Parkin) 2%

Result: Labour/Alliance majority

2002: Alliance (Paddy Ashdown) 32%, Labour (John Prescott) 27%, Conservative (John Redwood) 25%, Reform (David Owen) 7%, Green (Sara Parkin) 5%

Result: Alliance/Green minority

2006: Conservative (Michael Portillo) 35%, Alliance (Paddy Ashdown) 28%, Labour (Margaret Beckett) 23%, Reform (Rosie Barnes) 6%, Green (Derek Wall) 3%

Result: Conservative/Reform minority

2010: Labour (John McDonnell) 31%, Alliance (Charles Kennedy) 30%, Conservative (Michael Portillo) 26%, Reform (Rosie Barnes) 4%, Green (Derek Wall) 4%

Result: Labour/Alliance majority

2015: Conservative (Michael Gove) 30%, Labour (John McDonnell) 25%, Alliance (Norman Lamb) 23%, Reform (Nigel Farage) 12%, Green (Caroline Lucas) 5%

Result: Conservative/Reform minority

2019: Alliance (Lisa Nandy) 33%, Conservative (John Bercow) 24%, Labour (George Galloway) 22%, Reform (Nigel Farage) 9%, Green (Caroline Lucas) 7%

Result: Alliance/Green minority
 
A NEW CONSENSUS: Falklands Lost
Good list, though I think there’s a successful SDP spin off about I doubt Nigel Farage would be leading it (particularly if there’s a mostly Thatcherite Tory party). I could see someone like Chris Huhne or Paul Keetch being part of it or even (klaxon) Jason Zadronzy, who’s politics are probably closer to a continuing SDP if anything.
 
"Hail to the Chief": The Pop Culture History of US Presidents

1953-1961: Gov. John Mervin (CA)/Former Sec. of State William Russell (IL) – Democratic
1952 def. Former Gov. Harrold Stassen (MN)/Joseph McCarthy (WI) - Republican
1956 def. Sen. John W. Bricker (OH)/Gov. Joe Foss (SD) - Republican


1961-1965: Sen. Merkin Muffley (IL)/Former Gov. Cecil H. Underwood (WV) - Republican
1960 def. Sen. George Smathers (FL)/Rep. Sam Rayburn (TX) - Democratic

1965-1973: Sen. Esker Scott Anderson (OR)/Rep. Edward M. Gilley (PA) – Democratic
1964 def. Pres. Merkin Muffley (IL)/Vice Pres. Cecil H. Underwood (WV) - Republican
1968 def. Sen. Barry Goldwater (AZ)/ William E. Miller (NY) - Republican


1973-1977: Sen. Richard "Dick" Monckton (IL)/Gov. Manfred Link (VA) – Republican
1972 def. Vice Pres. Edward M. Gilley (PA)/Former Gov. Terry Sandford (NC) - Democratic
1976 def. Gov. Jerry Brown (CA)/Sen. Frank Church (ID) - Democratic


1978-1982: Vice Pres. Manfred Link (VA)*/Rep. Noah Calvin (MN) – Republican
1980 def. Gov. Cliff Finch (MS)/Sen. Edmund Muskie (ME) - Democratic

1982-1985: Sen. Douglass Dilman (MA)/Vice Pres. Noah Calvin (MN) – Republican

1985-1993: Sen. Andrew Shepherd (WI)/Sen. Joe Biden (DE) - Democratic
1984 def. Pres. Douglass Dilman (MA)/Former Sec. of Treasury John Connally (TX) - Republican
1988 def. Sen. Bob Dole (KS)/Rep. John B. Anderson (IL) - Republican


1993-2001: Gov. James Marshall (IA)/Sen. Kathryn Bennett (ME) - Republican
1992 def. Vice Pres. Joe Biden (DE)/Rep. Pat Schroeder (CO) - Democratic
1996 def. Sen. Al Gore (TN)/Former Gov. Douglas Wilder (VA) - Democratic


2001-2005: Gov. Josiah "Jed" Bartlet (NH)/Sen. John Hoynes (TX) – Democratic
2000 def. Former US Ambassador Alan Keyes (MD)/Former Sec. of Defence Donald Rumsfeld (IL) - Republican
2004 def. Gov. Robert Ritchie (FL)/Gov. Ray Sullivan (WV) - Republican


2005: Acting President Rep. Glenn Allen Walken (MS) – Republican

2005-2009: Pres. Josiah "Jed" Bartlet (NH)/Sen. Bob Russell (CO) – Democratic

2009-2013: Rep. Matt Santos (TX)/Gov. Eric Baker (PA) – Democratic
2008 def. Sen. Arnold Vinick (CA)/Rep. Jeff Haffley (WA) - Republican

2013-2017: Rep. Frank Underwood (SC)/Rep. Donald Blythe (NH) – Republican
2012 def. Pres. Matt Santos (TX)/Vice Pres. Eric Baker (PA) - Democratic

2017-2018: Pres. Frank Underwood (SC)*/Former US Ambassador to UN Claire Underwood (TX) – Republican
2016 def. Gov. Will Conway (NY)/Gen. Ted Brockhart (MA) - Democratic

2018-2021: Vice Pres. Claire Underwood (TX)/Special Advisor Mark Usher (NY) - Republican

2021-Present: Rep. Thomas J. Whitmore (TN)/Former National Security Advisor Jack Ryan (MD) - National Union
2020 def. Gov. John Keeler (MA)/Sen. Charles Logan (CA) - Republican

Points to anyone who works out what shows, films and books they were all taken from.
 
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"Hail to the Chief": The Pop Culture History of US Presidents

1953-1961: Gov. John Mervin (CA)/Former Sec. of State William Russell (IL) – Democratic
1952 def. Former Gov. Harrold Stassen (MN)/Joseph McCarthy (WI) - Republican
1956 def. Sen. John W. Bricker (OH)/Gov. Joe Foss (SD) - Republican


1961-1965: Sen. Merkin Muffley (IL)/Former Gov. Cecil H. Underwood (WV) - Republican
1960 def. Sen. George Smathers (FL)/Rep. Sam Rayburn (TX) - Democratic

1965-1973: Sen. Esker Scott Anderson (OR)/Rep. Edward M. Gilley (PA) – Democratic
1964 def. Pres. Merkin Muffley (IL)/Vice Pres. Cecil H. Underwood (WV) - Republican
1968 def. Sen. Barry Goldwater (AZ)/ William E. Miller (NY) - Republican


1973-1977: Sen. Richard "Dick" Monckton (IL)/Gov. Manfred Link (VA) – Republican
1972 def. Vice Pres. Edward M. Gilley (PA)/Former Gov. Terry Sandford (NC) - Democratic
1976 def. Gov. Jerry Brown (CA)/Sen. Frank Church (ID) - Democratic


1978-1982: Vice Pres. Manfred Link (VA)*/Rep. Noah Calvin (MN) – Republican
1980 def. Gov. Cliff Finch (MS)/Sen. Edmund Muskie (ME) - Democratic

1982-1985: Sen. Douglass Dilman (MA)/Vice Pres. Noah Calvin (MN) – Republican

1985-1993: Sen. Andrew Shepherd (WI)/Sen. Joe Biden (DE) - Democratic
1984 def. Pres. Douglass Dilman (MA)/Former Sec. of Treasury John Connally (TX) - Republican
1988 def. Sen. Bob Dole (KS)/Rep. John B. Anderson (IL) - Republican


1993-2001: Gov. James Marshall (IA)/Sen. Kathryn Bennett (ME) - Republican
1992 def. Vice Pres. Joe Biden (DE)/Rep. Pat Schroeder (CO) - Democratic
1996 def. Sen. Al Gore (TN)/Former Gov. Douglas Wilder (VA) - Democratic


2001-2005: Gov. Josiah "Jed" Bartlet (NH)/Sen. John Hoynes (TX) – Democratic
2000 def. Former US Ambassador Alan Keyes (MD)/Former Sec. of Defence Donald Rumsfeld (IL) - Republican
2004 def. Gov. Robert Ritchie (FL)/Gov. Ray Sullivan (WV) - Republican


2005: Acting President Rep. Glenn Allen Walken (MS) – Republican

2005-2009: Pres. Josiah "Jed" Bartlet (NH)/Sen. Bob Russell (CO) – Democratic

2009-2013: Rep. Matt Santos (TX)/Gov. Eric Baker (PA) – Democratic
2008 def. Sen. Arnold Vinick (CA)/Rep. Jeff Haffley (WA) - Republican

2013-2017: Rep. Frank Underwood (SC)/Rep. Donald Blythe (NH) – Republican
2012 def. Pres. Matt Santos (TX)/Vice Pres. Eric Baker (PA) - Democratic

2017-2018: Pres. Frank Underwood (SC)*/Former US Ambassador to UN Claire Underwood (TX) – Republican
2016 def. Gov. Will Conway (NY)/Gen. Ted Brockhart (MA) - Democratic

2018-2021: Vice Pres. Claire Underwood (TX)/Special Advisor Mark Usher (NY) - Republican

2021-Present: Rep. Thomas J. Whitmore (TN)/Former National Security Advisor Jack Ryan (MD) - National Union
2020 def. Gov. John Keeler (MA)/Sen. Charles Logan (CA) - Republican

Points to anyone who works out what shows, films and books they were all taken from.

The Underwoods were Democrats and Conway/Brockhart were GOP.
 
General Secretaries of the Pan-African Democratic Assembly
1961-1962: Modibo Keïta (Independent)

Chairpeople of the Union of Pan-African Socialist Nations
1962-1965: Kwame Nkrumah (Lumumba clique)
1965-1971: Julius Nyerere (Ujamaa clique)
1971-1974: Justin Marie Bomboko (Lumumba clique)
1974-1976: Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr (Jamahiriya clique)
1976-1983: Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhāfī (Jamahiriya clique)
1983-????: Captain Thomas Sankara (military)
 
The Sum Total

1945-1953: Herbert Morrison (Labour)
1945 (Majority) def: Winston Churchill (Conservative), Archibald Sinclair (Liberal), Ernest Brown (Liberal National)
1950 (Majority) def: Winston Churchill (Conservative & National), Edgar Granville (Liberal), Ernest Millington (Commonwealth)

1953-1955: John Strachey (Labour)
1955-1957: Anthony Eden (Conservative)†

1955 (Majority) def: John Strachey (Labour), Edgar Granville (Liberal), Sir Richard Acland (Action)
1957-1963: Gwilym Lloyd George (Conservative)
1959 (Majority) def: Douglas Jay (Labour), Jo Grimond (Liberal), Fred Copeman (Action)
1963-1964: Reginald Maudling (Conservative)
1964-1966: Douglas Jay (Labour)

1964 (Majority) def: Reginald Maudling (Conservative), Jo Grimond (Liberal)
1966-: T.Dan Smith (Labour)
1967 (Majority) def: John Profumo (Conservative), Eric Lubbock (Liberal)

Attlee on Election Day is couped by Morrison before he can reach the King to kiss hands. So sets into place the long Morrison Years. Morrison fills with his cabinet with Yes Men and keeps a firm grip at all times, constantly keeping an eye on his Chancellor Manny Shillwell to ensure Britain’s rejuvenation Post-War doesn’t break the bank as it were.

The Morrison Years initially allow a revival for the flagging CommonWealth Party, with Sir Richard Acland going on to bigger and better things of being an awkward Christian Socialist Labour Backbencher and leaving a disgruntled Tom Wintringham to try and lash out a competent and coherent party with the support of Ernest Millington. The Winter of 1947 nearly causes a crisis in the Morrison Government, and the Conservative’s and CommonWealth begin to edge upwards in the polls.

Morrison’s reaction is ruthless, strikes against Government are broken by police and the army, miners are forced to work longer and harsher shifts and money is pumped into the industries to ensure rejuvenation. The measures are austere but Britain bounces back, and not long after American Aid from the Marshall Plan floods into the roughed up nation. Morrison uses the money to pay for big flashy campaign drivers as the time for election nears much to the annoyance of the Labour Left.

Hopes of the CommonWealth causing pain for Labour still seem likely as several Labour MPs defect to CommonWealth, but the party machinery by 1949 has atrophied and Tom Wintringham’s death dashes any hopes of CommonWealth making an impact. Morrison’s Campaign is big, flashy and very much a show of force for the Labour Propaganda department, despite a combined force of Conservative and National Parties and a good grassroots campaign from the Liberals, Labour wins another substantial majority as CommonWealth is ground into dust.

Morrison deals with the Korean War, Strikes and Unrest in the Colonies in a firm Morrison fashion but the stress of governance slowly takes a toll on him as he becomes more erratic and paranoid as his cabinet of Yes Men is slowly replaced by a younger, more hungry generation. The toll of the 1952 Smog Crisis and the bungled attempt to deal with it makes Morrison both incredibly unpopular and personally wounded due to the crisis happening in his home territory of London.

Then in January 1953, events that would lead to Morrison’s ousting were set in motion by a Junior Minister called Bill Field being caught "importuning for immoral purposes" in a men’s toilet in London. Attempts to brush it under the carpet are ruined by a combination of Field trying to argue his case in court causing a media flurry (particularly once it’s found out he lied about his job to the policeman) and Morrison using the scandal to try and paint raising star, Minister for Fuel and Power, Hugh Gaitskell as in league with a closeted homosexual and possibly being one himself.

Morrison’s attempt at a lavender scare backfires, as Gaitskell threatens to sue Morrison with libel and John Maude’s defence of Bill Field gets him not guilty, with a slightly tarnished reputation retiring not long after. It’s decided that Morrison was tainted goods and he would be ousted after the Paddington North By-Election following Field’s resignation leads to a Independent Richard Acland victory on a Christian Socialist platform.

John Strachey is a figure who becomes leader because Bevan scared most of the PLP and folks like Evan Durbin were seen as too young and wonky. Strachey’s platform is a continuation of many of the same policies and ideals of Morrisonism, though with a look towards adapting the views of the Fabians and reaching a consensus within the cabinet unlike Morrison’s dictatorship.

But Strachey isn’t as charismatic and is dealing with a tainted, corruption filled government as Morrison’s Local Government policies allow many Labour Councils to build there own fiefdoms. The Popkess affair in which a Labour Council and Government tried to cover up supposed East German supported Corruption in the City of Nottingham was a particular example of perceived Labour Corruption run rampant and Labour’s plummets in the public perspective.

Strachey‘s loss is compounded by the appearance of Richard Acland’s Action Party, a group of Christian Socialists and Moralistic Pacifist Preachers who believe that Labour has failed it’s brief to bring about a New Jerusalem. Whilst Acland’s party would only end up gaining 7 seats in the 1955 election, the vote splitting and tone of the Action Party cause problems for Labour and even the Liberals who grumble down from the awkward hovering of around 15 seats to 6.

Anthony Eden comes into power leading a new and revitalised Conservative party, happy to adopt the popular policies of the Morrison Government and bring in his own beliefs like increased house building and increased worker ownership of Nationalised industries. Eden even pulls back from Morrison’s numerous Colonial escapades, more due to budget balancing than any particular strong belief in decolonisation. But Eden is burden with a bad sense of health that means that he’s unable to complete his tasks he sets out.

A botched surgery leads to Eden dying a horribly painful death and the nation mourns it’s popular and charismatic Prime Minister. Discussions of a successor lead to a fight between the Bland Chancellor Rab Butler and the Tory Right choice of Gwyilm Lloyd-George who’s Anti-Corruption Campaign as Home Secretary leads to him being a popular candidate. Lloyd-George gets support from the Magic Circle and so, the former Liberal becomes a Conservative Prime Minister.

But Lloyd-George quickly turns out to be shackled to a machine that he hasn’t much control over. He spends much of the 1957-1961 period continuing the policies of Eden due to there popularity and mainly being a figurehead of firm action against crime that occurs in Britain. In particular Lloyd-George leads the crackdown on the inner cities following a series of race riots in 1959, though recommendations in a report to help divert funding to poverty stricken neighbourhoods are carefully shuffled aside towards a more blunter and draconian response of increased policing.

Lloyd-George slowly cultivates a cabal within his cabinet of believers in more Liberal economics and Socially Conservative ideas and in 1961 performs a reshuffle that makes Thomas Dugdale, Home Secretary, John Profumo, Foreign Secretary and Peter Thorneycroft, Chancellor of the Exchequer. The “Caernarfon’s Cabal’s” attempt to slowly redirect the Conservative party away from the Edenite policies are scuppered by a combination of Thorneycroft’s reaction to an overheating economy is to slash wages and impose austerity measures which causes the party to become rapidly unpopular and Dugdale’s attempts to reform the Civil Service leading an all out strike at one point much to his embarrassment.

A series of Liberal By-Election victory’s and a decreasing popularity of the Conservative’s lead to the knives sharpening against Lloyd-George. Brought down by a bout of ill health due to stress, Lloyd-George resigns and Reginald Maudling takes the Conservative Party back towards the ideals of Eden.

Maudling turns out to be a poor choice on the campaign trial against Labour, as he fumbled at campaign events and gave dull speeches to unenthused crowds the joke of the 1964 election was ‘Battle of The Bores’ as Douglas Jay, whilst more energetic than Maudling still didn’t electrify Britain with his vision of 1950s Fabian Socialism. Jay would get in with a slim majority of 5 and it quickly became apparent as the Conservative Party changed to the leadership of John Profumo that getting legislation past would be difficult.

Jay’s brief Premiership was beset with a combination of crisis due to a slow economic recovery and series of disturbances across the world as Jay tried to keep Britain relevant East of Suez to a bloody cost. Additionally Jay would make enemies within his own party through a pursuit centralising political power to Westminster which angered the Labour Councils who had enjoyed powers and luxuries granted by the Morrison Government and through supporting American intervention against Communism. This coalition of Morrisonites and Labour Left would be harnessed by T.Dan Smith during the 1966 Labour Party Conference.

The former Newcastle Council Leader who portrayed himself as a man of good clean morals when he got into Westminster, is quick on the take. The period of 66-67 is one of determination to ensure his own legacy, as Durbin’s economic solutions start to pay off and Smith’s plans for renewed house building schemes become rather popular with the British Public.

The snap election of 1967 sees the the charismatic Prime Minister easily runs rings around the privileged and awkward Profumo. Smith wins himself a majority of around 90 seats, a firm mandate to push his own ideals. British troops are withdrawn from Asia, money on defence is reduced to help fund Smith’s model cities up and down the country.

It’s now 1970, Smith is still fairly popular and the economy has finally stabilised after Durbin devalued the pound in 1967 after the election to help with exports. But cracks are beginning to emerge, in the hot Summer of 1969, protests and riots lead by groups ranging from Militant Young Leftists angry at the system to Neo-Nazi’s angry at increased immigration battled in the cities across the country. Industries are seeing decline and Smith has partnered up with a young businessman called Jim Slater to help nationalise both declining and not declining industries and positioning them to be able to make a profit. Smith’s citywide rejuvenation schemes often come at the cost of ripping up communities and displacing them.

Across the U.K., the Communist Party, which has existed as a perpetual annoyance in British Politics with it’s two MPs and hundred or more councillors are seeing opportunities to expand and take in these new rebellious Leftists. Meanwhile the New Left within the Labour Party is battling to make themselves a viable force against the corrupt Machine politics that dominates the City’s.

These forces unite strangely in Nottingham, a combination of Communist Councillors and New Left Activists see an opportunity when a plan to create to ‘revive’ St Ann’s angers the local residents and supporting activists who see it as destroying a community without fixing the problems in the area. This force decide to pick a mouthpiece in the form of a charismatic Writer, Documentarian, TV Presenter and fighter of the Everyman, Ray Gosling, a figure who has been campaigning with St Ann’s residents for several years now.

An opportunity appears for Ray to go beyond just campaigning, when the local MP Jack Dunnett resigns to take up full time Football Chairmanship role, the forces of change in the city decide that now is there time to put there ideas in practice.

But there are many who would rather not see the 54’ Group get there way...
 
1981-1988: Ronald Reagan (Republican)
1988-1989: Jack Kemp (Republican)
1989-1997: Harry Reid (Democratic)
'88 (with Joe Biden) def. Jack Kemp (Republican)
'92 (with Walter Mondale) def. H. John Heinz (Republican), H. Ross Perot (Independent)
1997-2001: Ann Richards (Democratic)
'96 (with Dick Celeste) def. Pat Buchanan (Republican)
2001-2005: John McCain (Republican)
'00 (with Elizabeth Warren) def. Ann Richards (Democratic), Ray Flynn (Right2Life)
2005-2013: Xavier Becerra (Democratic)
'04 (with Katie McGinty) def. John McCain (Republican), Ray Flynn (Right2Life)
'08 (with Katie McGinty) def. Helen Chenoweth (Republican)
2013-2021: Sarah Palin (Republican)
'12 (with Pat McCrory) def. Katie McGinty (Democratic), Harold Ford Jr. (Independent)
'16 (with Pat McCrory) def. Brian Schweitzer (Democratic)
2021-: Mandela Barnes (Democratic)
'20 (with Rory Reid) def. Pat McCrory (Republican)

HENDERSON - Former President Harry Reid, who had been suffering from pancreatic cancer for several years, died Tuesday at his home in Henderson, Nevada. He was 82.

Reid has often been referred to as the father of the modern Democratic Party. In his hardscrabble youth in isolated Searchlight, an embroidered pillowcase with the face of Franklin Roosevelt was one of his home's few adornments; as President, he worked to modernize the party, bringing together labor unions, youth organizations, and traditional party institutions into the "Reid Machine", which helped ensure that the Democratic Party would hold unified control of the Presidency and Congress for fifteen years after his service, compared to only four for the Republicans.

As President of the United States, elected in 1988 in the wake of the Iran-Contra scandal, Reid presided over the fall of the Soviet Union. Though some have criticized his full-throated and aggressive support for "peaceful" nationalist and liberal movements as counterproductive, his work with Secretary of State Philip Habib and General Secretary Gorbachev to negotiate the Athens Principles and formation of the Union of Sovereign States won him, Gorbachev, and Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. Additionally, he presided over the Second Korean Crisis, lending his support both to the Olympic Revolution and to the Korean Sole Authority policy. Statues of Reid stand in, among other places, Moscow, Kyiv, Seoul, and Pyongyang.

At home, he helped create the Federal Insurance Program, expanded into Universal Medicare in 2007, and reformed labor law to protect farmworkers' right to organize and establish "card check" systems for organizing unions. He also helped to create the modern transnet by pushing for the Gore Act and signing it into law, establishing the National Telecommunications Authority to standardize systems and fund both research and physical infrastructure, and massively expanded protected lands. However, he also pressed for the 1989 Omnibus Crime Prevention Act, the 1991 Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act, and the 1992 Defense of Marriage Act, all of which Reid would later say he regretted; ironically, many of the more stringent provisions thereof were repealed by progressive Congressional majorities made possible by the "Reid Machine".

He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Landra Gould, and five children, including sitting Vice President Rory Reid.
 
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HENDERSON - Former President Harry Reid, who had been suffering from pancreatic cancer for several years, died Tuesday at his home in Henderson, Nevada. He was 82.
Just quietly, my favourite part of this list is that the Democrats and Republicans are just two different shades of the same colour.
 
Just quietly, my favourite part of this list is that the Democrats and Republicans are just two different shades of the same colour.
The Democrats are red for Reid, obviously. The Republicans, on the other hand, are red for Reagan. It makes perfect sense, doesn't it?
 
1981-1988: Ronald Reagan (Republican)
1988-1989: Jack Kemp (Republican)
1989-1997: Harry Reid (Democratic)
'88 (with Joe Biden) def. Jack Kemp (Republican)
'92 (with Walter Mondale) def. H. John Heinz (Republican), H. Ross Perot (Independent)
1997-2001: Ann Richards (Democratic)
'96 (with Dick Celeste) def. Pat Buchanan (Republican)
2001-2005: John McCain (Republican)
'00 (with Elizabeth Warren) def. Ann Richards (Democratic), Ray Flynn (Right2Life)
2005-2013: Xavier Becerra (Democratic)
'04 (with Katie McGinty) def. John McCain (Republican), Ray Flynn (Right2Life)
'08 (with Katie McGinty) def. Helen Chenoweth (Republican)
2013-2021: Sarah Palin (Republican)
'12 (with Pat McCrory) def. Katie McGinty (Democratic), Harold Ford Jr. (Independent)
'16 (with Pat McCrory) def. Brian Schweitzer (Democratic)
2021-: Mandela Barnes (Democratic)
'20 (with Rory Reid) def. Pat McCrory (Republican)

HENDERSON - Former President Harry Reid, who had been suffering from pancreatic cancer for several years, died Tuesday at his home in Henderson, Nevada. He was 82.

Reid has often been referred to as the father of the modern Democratic Party. In his hardscrabble youth in isolated Searchlight, an embroidered pillowcase with the face of Franklin Roosevelt was one of few adornments; as President, he worked to modernize the party, bringing together labor unions, youth organizations, and traditional party institutions into the "Reid Machine", which helped ensure that the Democratic Party would hold unified control of the Presidency and Congress for fifteen years after his service, compared to only four for the Republicans.

As President of the United States, elected in 1988 in the wake of the Iran-Contra scandal, Reid presided over the fall of the Soviet Union. Though some have criticized his full-throated and aggressive support for "peaceful" nationalist and liberal movements as counterproductive, his work with Secretary of State Philip Habib and General Secretary Gorbachev to negotiate the Athens Principles and formation of the Union of Sovereign States won him, Gorbachev, and Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. Additionally, he presided over the Second Korean Crisis, lending his support both to the Olympic Revolution and to the Korean Sole Authority policy. Statues of Reid stand in, among other places, Moscow, Kyiv, Seoul, and Pyongyang.

At home, he helped create the Federal Insurance Program, expanded into Universal Medicare in 2007, and reformed labor law to protect farmworkers' right to organize and establish "card check" systems for organizing unions. He also helped to create the modern transnet by pushing for the Gore Act and signing it into law, establishing the National Telecommunications Authority to standardize systems and fund both research and physical infrastructure, and massively expanded protected lands. However, he also pressed for the 1989 Omnibus Crime Prevention Act, the 1991 Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act, and the 1992 Defense of Marriage Act, all of which Reid would later say he regretted; ironically, many of the more stringent provisions thereof were repealed by progressive Congressional majorities made possible by the "Reid Machine".

He is survived by his wife of 62 years, Landra Gould, and five children, including sitting Vice President Rory Reid.
This has some very "End of History" vibes and I love it.
 
The Sum Total

I love your timelines - but I always wish they'd go a bit further. I get why you don't do that as with a PoD of 1945 anything past a few decades is pure fiction. But I'd love to know what Britain is like with a successful CPGB and a new left. By 2021 is Common Wealth still a small but functional party? Do we get a kind of united left? Does Labour have an earlier Corbyn style backlash to the right? There's so many options here
 
But I'd love to know what Britain is like with a successful CPGB and a new left. By 2021 is Common Wealth still a small but functional party? Do we get a kind of united left? Does Labour have an earlier Corbyn style backlash to the right? There's so many options here
The Commonwealth party imploded in 1951 after Millington left to be a full time CND Activist etc. Action still exists though as a Labour Pressure Group who become the biggest supporters of T.Dan Smith as Acland makes a more Left Wing Blue Labour essentially.


I don’t like to go to far but I can tell you the situation circa 1980, The CPGB is split between the New Red Clydesiders and the Nottinghamshire EuroCommunists as they are most dominant Council wide forces, they also dominate most Trade Unions still. The New Left has split between the more Liberal aspects defecting to the Liberals lead by Peter Hain and the ones inspired by Community Activism who align with the 54’ Group in Nottingham and many stand with the Left Lion Party of Roy Gosling’s creation.

Meanwhile Airey Neave has been replaced as Prime Minister by Robert Carr after another bout of heart problems and Labour has chosen Peter Shore as there Leader after another gruelling contest.

This worlds 2021 probably has Labour in coalition with the Liberals against the raising United Left Alliance who’s chief spokesperson is Paris Lee etc. whilst Jesse Norman’s Tory’s are battling for opposition with the Law and Justice party of David Davis.

Joking aside, I’m happy to discuss the scenario further in PMs and the like because it’s fun.
 
Presidents of Brazil
1969 - 1974: Emílio Garrastazu Médici (ARENA)

1974 - 1976: Ernesto Geisel (ARENA)
1976 - 1976: João Leitão de Abreu (ARENA)
1976 - 1978: Golbery do Couto e Silva (ARENA)

Results of the 1978 Presidential Election: Ulysses Guimarães / Franco Montoro (PMDB)

defeated, 1978: Leonel Brizola / Theotônio dos Santos (PDT), João Castelo / Jose Sarney (PD), Lula da Silva / Lysâneas Dias Maciel (PT)

Paulo Evarista Arns is kidnapped and killed shortly after Wladmir Herzog; revelation of the TPP project (which in real life is known as Brasil: Nunca Mais - TPP was a random acronym used by researchers to maintain secrecy) after an unaware assistant to Cardinal Arns uses it as example of cross-faith cooperation in public newsletter. Chaos follows in the government and outside; Geisel moves to tamp down on the excesses of the torturers but the young officer class revolts and begins a bombing campaign throughout Rio de Janeiro. Geisel is overthrown in February, 1976 and de Abreu, the Chief of Staff and right-hand man of hardliner Médici, is brought in to represent their interests. However, mass revolt is imminent as the murder of the leader of the largest Archdiocese in the world causes both international condemnation from the Church and Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter (eager to establish his credibility as an advocate for human rights) as well as uprisings from all corners of society. The progressive church institutions centered in the Northeast encourage mass protest, further inflamed by encouragements from middle-class outlets like Veja and Folha de São Paulo as well as a mass strike in São Paulo's heavy industrial 'ABC' region led by Lula da Silva. The initial repression is immense; curfews are implemented across major urban centers, the ranks of the military judiciary are beefed up immensely to further prosecute the new intakes of 'disappeared' protest leaders and civilian dissidents, torture (which briefly waned under Geisel) is widely encouraged by de Abreu and sees a notable increase in sexual torture and "edge of life" torture (ex. drownings), and mass violence takes place; most notably during the funeral mass for Cardinal Arns, as public turnout (which had been greatly limited by the de Abreu government) grossly exceeds government expectations and security officials turn violent.

However, Pandora's Box has been opened; the people are clearly against the military, and international opinion has grossly turned against the military outside of the anti-communist right. The beginnings of the international sanctions regime begin in earnest as the Carter/Church ticket begins campaigning on ending all military aid and cooperation with the Brazilian government as well as a financial services freeze and a ban on the sale of goods, services and technology related to aerospace, computer technology and construction (all financial sectors heavily influenced by the military, or on the matter of construction, the top of the military regime). Brazil's B3 Stock Exchange undergoes a panic as jolted foreign investors and horrified civilian elites begin selling off assets en masse; this is the final straw. Golbery do Couto e Silva, who articulated the academic justification for the coup back in '64, leads a group of "moderates" to counter-coup de Abreu and Médici and begin the abertura - the opening - of society continuously promised by the dictatorship but never delivered. The old electoral college is abolished and direct elections are nominally guaranteed; however, the transition is viewed as fragile, with the threat of a still-powerful military lashing out at a civilian President omnipresent. Two civilian trends emerge; middle-class, pro-democracy moderates represented by MDB Congressman Ulysses Guimaraes, while the union movement, radicalized youth and the mass of increasingly radicalized poor Catholics (represented by the decentralized Comunidades Eclesiais de Base, essentially spontaneous churches of the poor and rural poor led by lay priests) represented by Lula da Silva and the hastily-created Worker's Party. Lula's radicalism is too much for the military to stomach, and while outright repression is impossible, the Worker's Party is denied registration by the Supreme Court on technicalities and is barred from participating in the elections. Leonel Brizola, as the only left candidate remaining, surges thanks to Lula's full support, but Guimaraes limps over the finish line, beating Brizola's PDT and the new successor party to the dictatorship, the aptly named Democratic Party.

While President Carter has made his support for the inauguration of Guimaraes public, it is currently unknown whether he will become Brazil's first directly elected President since 1964.

Based off a real anecdote related by Jaime Wright to Lawrence Weschler in his book A Miracle, A Universe, based off research from Weschler's writing, John D. French's biography Lula and His Politics of Cunning, Ann Mische's Partisan Publics: Communication and Contention across Brazilian Youth Activist Networks and Maud Chirio's Politics in Uniform: Military Officers and Dictatorship In Brazil, 1960-1980.
 
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Presidents of Brazil
1969 - 1974: Emílio Garrastazu Médici (ARENA)

1974 - 1976: Ernesto Geisel (ARENA)
1976 - 1976: João Leitão de Abreu (ARENA)
1976 - 1978: Golbery do Couto e Silva (ARENA)

Results of the 1978 Presidential Election: Ulysses Guimarães / Franco Montoro (PMDB)

defeated, 1978: Leonel Brizola / Theotônio dos Santos (PDT), João Castelo / Jose Sarney (PD), Lula da Silva / Lysâneas Dias Maciel (PT)

Paulo Evarista Arns is kidnapped and shortly after Wladmir Herzog; revelation of the TPP project (which in real life is known as Brasil: Nunca Mais - TPP was a random acronym used by researchers to maintain secrecy) after an unaware assistant to Cardinal Arns uses it as example of cross-faith cooperation in public newsletter. Chaos follows in the government and outside; Geisel moves to tamp down on the excesses of the torturers but the young officer class revolts and begins a bombing campaign throughout Rio de Janeiro. Geisel is overthrown in February, 1976 and de Abreu, the Chief of Staff and right-hand man of hardliner Médici, is brought in to represent their interests. However, mass revolt is imminent as the murder of the leader of the largest Archdiocese in the world causes both international condemnation from the Church and Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter (eager to establish his credibility as an advocate for human rights) as well as uprisings from all corners of society. The progressive church institutions centered in the Northeast encourage mass protest, further inflamed by encouragements from middle-class outlets like Veja and Folha de São Paulo as well as a mass strike in São Paulo's heavy industrial 'ABC' region led by Lula da Silva. The initial repression is immense; curfews are implemented across major urban centers, the ranks of the military judiciary are beefed up immensely to further prosecute the new intakes of 'disappeared' protest leaders and civilian dissidents, torture (which briefly waned under Geisel) is widely encouraged by de Abreu and sees a notable increase in sexual torture and "edge of life" torture (ex. drownings), and mass violence takes place; most notably during the funeral mass for Cardinal Arns, as public turnout (which had been greatly limited by the de Abreu government) grossly exceeds government expectations and security officials turn violent.

However, Pandora's Box has been opened; the people are clearly against the military, and international opinion has grossly turned against the military outside of the anti-communist right. The beginnings of the international sanctions regime begin in earnest as the Carter/Church ticket begins campaigning on ending all military aid and cooperation with the Brazilian government as well as a financial services freeze and a ban on the sale of goods, services and technology related to aerospace, computer technology and construction (all financial sectors heavily influenced by the military, or on the matter of construction, the top of the military regime). Brazil's B3 Stock Exchange undergoes a panic as jolted foreign investors and horrified civilian elites begin selling off assets en masse; this is the final straw. Golbery do Couto e Silva, who articulated the academic justification for the coup back in '64, leads a group of "moderates" to counter-coup de Abreu and Médici and begin the abertura - the opening - of society continuously promised by the dictatorship but never delivered. The old electoral college is abolished and direct elections are nominally guaranteed; however, the transition is viewed as fragile, with the threat of a still-powerful military lashing out at a civilian President omnipresent. Two civilian trends emerge; middle-class, pro-democracy moderates represented by MDB Congressman Ulysses Guimaraes, while the union movement, radicalized youth and the mass of increasingly radicalized poor Catholics (represented by the decentralized Comunidades Eclesiais de Base, essentially spontaneous churches of the poor and rural poor led by lay priests) represented by Lula da Silva and the hastily-created Worker's Party. Lula's radicalism is too much for the military to stomach, and while outright repression is impossible, the Worker's Party is denied registration by the Supreme Court on technicalities and is barred from participating in the elections. Leonel Brizola, as the only left candidate remaining, surges thanks to Lula's full support, but Guimaraes limps over the finish line, beating Brizola's PDT and the new successor party to the dictatorship, the aptly named Democratic Party.

While President Carter has made his support for the inauguration of Guimaraes public, it is currently unknown whether he will become Brazil's first directly elected President since 1964.

Based off a real anecdote related by Jaime Wright to Lawrence Weschler in his book A Miracle, A Universe, based off research from Weschler's writing, John D. French's biography Lula and His Politics of Cunning, Ann Mische's Partisan Publics: Communication and Contention across Brazilian Youth Activist Networks and Maud Chirio's Politics in Uniform: Military Officers and Dictatorship In Brazil, 1960-1980.

Excellent Andrew Content
 
Just quietly, my favourite part of this list is that the Democrats and Republicans are just two different shades of the same colour.
Does seem like the sort of thing that could actually happen. I've thought the same thing but with two shades of purple (as a way of representing that they both use red, white and blue, as some people do with the SDP here).
 
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