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The Fourteenth HoS Challenge

The Fourteenth HoS List Challenge: Personal Failure


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As we move into these uncertain times, it's important that some traditions be maintained. Like me not putting the new thread up at the time I say it will be.

The rules are simple; I give a prompt, and you have until 4:00pm on the 26th to post a list related to the prompt. As for what constitutes a list? If you'd personally post it in Lists of Heads of Government and Heads of State rather than another thread, I think that's a good enough criterion. Writeups are preferred, please don't post a blank list, and I'd also appreciate it if you titled your list for polling purposes. Once the deadline hits, we will open up a multiple choice poll, and whoever receives the most votes after a week gets the entirely immaterial prize.

We're very technically back on schedule after February messing with our timescales, since today is the first day of the month...of Adar II (so called because the leap year means the Jewish calendar includes the 30-day Adar I this year)! Adar, in all years, is most notably the month of Purim, one of the many Jewish holidays celebrating us not being killed. This paticular holiday is commemorated wih, among plenty of other things, eating biscuits in the shape of the hat of Haman, the Jew-hating first minister of the Persian Empire whose attempt to kill us ended with himself being executed thanks to Esther, Mordecai, and the hidden hand of the Lord, a story we also read out. With rattles and boos every time his name is mentioned.

Fittingly both in light of this and of recent events, the theme of this list challenge is Personal Downfall! Lists are just as much about the individuals within as the parties and positions, and your task is to craft lists where a powerful individual (public, private, philosophical, as long as it's some kind of power) comes a cropper from events, their best-laid plans failing.

Good luck!
 
When The Crown Breaks

1910 - 1936: George V

1936 - 1939: Edward VIII

1939 - 1955: Prince George, Regent

1955 - 1968: Mary III


George V famously told a courtier "I pray to God that my eldest son will never marry and have children", but despite Edward's best efforts to have affairs with every married woman he could find, in 1933 he managed to convince actress Lillian Gish - who had moved to Britain due to struggles with 'talkie' jobs in Hollywood - to hook up with him. To the public, who didn't know about his hordes of affairs and his callow, spoiled attitude, this seemed to prove he was a truly modern monarch. Alas, Edward found the Germans to be pretty modern as well and his wife was a 'non-interventionist'. The 1930s saw his own governments struggle with him to take the Nazi threat seriously, and he undermined Britain's position at the Munich Conference by trying to negotiate with Hitler directly and arguing with Chamberlain.

The conference fell apart, leading to war before Britain & France were ready. Edward and Princess-Consort Lillian continued to rail behind the scenes for peace and even made approaches to America to "help convince my government to stand back", and in public the King was clearly a disgruntled man who would inspire nobody. When German tanks tore through the Low Countries and force a surrender from France, Edward "abdicated" because Chamberlain was blackmailing him. First, with with news of his affairs coming public, and when Edward called his bluff, Chamberlain threatened that the government could ensure Edward's children never reigned. Wanting to secure his legacy, Edward agreed.

For the rest of the war, as the Allies fought in the Nordic, Polish, Greek, and North African fronts, Edward seethed as Duke of Windsor. When Germany and Italy fell but left Britain too bankrupt to hold most of the empire, Edward seethed some more. When a Labour government took Britain and its loyal 'Commonwealth' out of the growing Cold War as head of the "Neutral Nations" and brought in horrific decadent things at home like stronger unions and legalised homosexuality for the over 24's, he really seethed.

All through this, he primed his daughter Mary for rule with venom in her ear about how they'd been betrayed, how she had to fix things, how everything was dependent on her, how she had to be right, proper--

Mary was a brittle woman who would simply sit quietly and listen with sad eyes 90% of the time, and burst out in furious rants ther other 10%, and drank more than was healthy. She was not a monarch who could manage in an era of TV, radio, and film; she was not a monarch that could interact well with Labour governments; she was not a monarch who worked as a diplomatic envoy to the capitalist and communist world, or to the Commonwealth that both US and USSR wanted to poach away. She was not a monarch who could hold down a relationship to keep the bloodline going. Meanwhile, Edward had devolved into an isolated, hard-drinking, moody bastard.

By the late 1960s, it was clear the monarchy had no status anymore. It was tired, past-it, grubby. Mary clearly had no interest in fighting for it and so PM Castle bit the bullet with a referendum - 59% of the country voted to become a republic in 1968. Edward died five days later, which was reported by much of the world's press as a broken heart or a symbolic event. The communist press said he'd been on an enraged bender and died from alcohol poisoning. The communist press was right.

Mary Windsor, private citizen, would become an art dealer in Sweden/
 
When The Crown Breaks

1910 - 1936: George V

1936 - 1939: Edward VIII

1939 - 1955: Prince George, Regent

1955 - 1968: Mary III


George V famously told a courtier "I pray to God that my eldest son will never marry and have children", but despite Edward's best efforts to have affairs with every married woman he could find, in 1933 he managed to convince actress Lillian Gish - who had moved to Britain due to struggles with 'talkie' jobs in Hollywood - to hook up with him. To the public, who didn't know about his hordes of affairs and his callow, spoiled attitude, this seemed to prove he was a truly modern monarch. Alas, Edward found the Germans to be pretty modern as well and his wife was a 'non-interventionist'. The 1930s saw his own governments struggle with him to take the Nazi threat seriously, and he undermined Britain's position at the Munich Conference by trying to negotiate with Hitler directly and arguing with Chamberlain.

The conference fell apart, leading to war before Britain & France were ready. Edward and Princess-Consort Lillian continued to rail behind the scenes for peace and even made approaches to America to "help convince my government to stand back", and in public the King was clearly a disgruntled man who would inspire nobody. When German tanks tore through the Low Countries and force a surrender from France, Edward "abdicated" because Chamberlain was blackmailing him. First, with with news of his affairs coming public, and when Edward called his bluff, Chamberlain threatened that the government could ensure Edward's children never reigned. Wanting to secure his legacy, Edward agreed.

For the rest of the war, as the Allies fought in the Nordic, Polish, Greek, and North African fronts, Edward seethed as Duke of Windsor. When Germany and Italy fell but left Britain too bankrupt to hold most of the empire, Edward seethed some more. When a Labour government took Britain and its loyal 'Commonwealth' out of the growing Cold War as head of the "Neutral Nations" and brought in horrific decadent things at home like stronger unions and legalised homosexuality for the over 24's, he really seethed.

All through this, he primed his daughter Mary for rule with venom in her ear about how they'd been betrayed, how she had to fix things, how everything was dependent on her, how she had to be right, proper--

Mary was a brittle woman who would simply sit quietly and listen with sad eyes 90% of the time, and burst out in furious rants ther other 10%, and drank more than was healthy. She was not a monarch who could manage in an era of TV, radio, and film; she was not a monarch that could interact well with Labour governments; she was not a monarch who worked as a diplomatic envoy to the capitalist and communist world, or to the Commonwealth that both US and USSR wanted to poach away. She was not a monarch who could hold down a relationship to keep the bloodline going. Meanwhile, Edward had devolved into an isolated, hard-drinking, moody bastard.

By the late 1960s, it was clear the monarchy had no status anymore. It was tired, past-it, grubby. Mary clearly had no interest in fighting for it and so PM Castle bit the bullet with a referendum - 59% of the country voted to become a republic in 1968. Edward died five days later, which was reported by much of the world's press as a broken heart or a symbolic event. The communist press said he'd been on an enraged bender and died from alcohol poisoning. The communist press was right.

Mary Windsor, private citizen, would become an art dealer in Sweden/

Eddie marrying the female lead from Birth of a Nation is almost too on the nose. Excellent work!
 
We Become What We Do
- Chiang Kai-shek

Supreme Ruler of Russia, 1918-1947:

1918-1947: Alexander Kolchak
(under house arrest 1941-1942)

Chairmen of the Council of Ministers of the Russian State, 1918-1947:

1918-1919: Pyotr Vologodsky
Socialist Revolutionary Party

1919-1927: Viktor Pepelyayev
Kolchak loyalist

1927-1928: Vasily Flug
Russian All-Military Union

1928-1940: Pyotr Wrangel
Russian All-Military Union

1940-1941: Vladimir D. Nabokov
Kolchak loyalist

1941-1942: Alexander Kutepov
Organization of Russian Nationalists

1942-1947: William F. Cassidy
Alaskan-American Association

Chief Managers of the Russian-American Company, 1920-1947:


1920-1927: Mikhail Berens
Kolchak loyalist

1927-1928: Pyotr Wrangel
Russian All-Military Union

1928-1941: Vasily Flug
Russian All-Military Union
(1928-1940)
Organization of Russian Nationalists (1940-1941)

1941-1942: Anton Denikin
Organization of Russian Nationalists

1942-1947: Austin E. Lathrop
Alaskan-American Association

Representatives of the Russian State to Japan, 1917-1945:


1917-1921: Vasily Krupensky
Kolchak loyalist
(ambassador)
1921-1935: Dmitri Abrikosov
Kolchak loyalist
(chargé d'affaires)
1935-1945: Urzhin Garmaev
Organization of Russian Nationalists
(chargé d'affaires)

Governors-General of Northern Russia, 1917-1942:

1917-1936: Yevgeny Miller
Kolchak loyalist
(1917-1925)
Russian All-Military Union (1925-1936)

1936-1941: Mikhail Kedrov
Russian All-Military Union

1941-1942: Pavel Bermondt-Avalov
Organization of Russian Nationalists

Military Governors of Sakhalin Oblast, 1920-1945:


1920-1937: Mikhail Diterikhs
Kolchak loyalist
(1920-1925)
Russian All-Military Union (1925-1933)
Organization of Russian Nationalists (1933-1937)

1937-1941: Alexander Kutepov
Organization of Russian Nationalists

1941-1945: Fyodor Abramov
Organization of Russian Nationalists


The march across Siberia left Kolchak broken. He may have still held the title of "Supreme Ruler" of all Russia, but he was no longer the man he once was. He had once held the Russian nation, its last hope against the tide of Bolshevism, in his hand. Now all he had was a frozen, desolate fiefdom across the Bering Strait from his former home, a husk of his old country. He let out a long, deep sigh as the General Alekseyev entered the port of Novo-Arkhangelsk.

His government at first seemed poised to gain the continued support of the Western powers against the Soviet Union. The United States, Britain, and Japan had all sent representatives to court his favor, and as the chaos of the revolution subsided his administration brought order to the wayward province. Berens had with military discipline brought the finances of the Russian-American Company back into order, even turning a meager profit, Diterikhs and Miller continued to hold the last vestiges of Russia proper in Sakhalin and the Arctic isles, and Pepelyayev had managed to quell the initial protests of the locals and implement a stable civil administration. The numerous exiles of the old nobility had even begun to settle in his new capital, bringing on a brief period of prosperity.

It was not to be. He simply could not handle his new position, it ate at his mind as his rheumatics did his body. His wife, his beloved Sophia, could not even console him. As Pepelyayev took on more and more of his day-to-day duties, the man who had once been the strongest in Russia sunk to his dacha, and a new affair began with a woman only known as Stolichnaya.

By 1927, it was clear that the Supreme Ruler had become a mere figurehead, a drunken aristocrat no more just than the tsars of old. Pyotr Wrangel's Russian All-Military Union, the largest political organization in Alaska, began to consolidate its hold over political power. That year, Pepelyayev and Berens would resign at the point of a gun to their estates, and Wrangel would rise through the ranks as Kolchak's new political viceroy. His second-in-command, Vasily Flug, would take up the management of the state's finances after paving the way for Wrangel's rule.

Things only continued to grow more unstable though. In Sakhalin, that final far-flung outpost of White rule in Asia, Alexander Kutepov, Anton Denikin, and the ever-pragmatic Mikhail Diterikhs would form a rival group to the All-Military Union under the close watch of their Japanese sponsors. They would initially gain the favor of Wrangel, becoming brothers-in-arms against the Bolshevik menace, but under the surface their true ambitions began to unfold. As ministers, representatives, and officials of their Organization of Russian Nationalists were appointed across the country, complicit in the purges and pogroms already omnipresent in their minority exile state, a network of operatives began to lay the groundwork for what was, in their view, the ultimate endpoint of the Russian nation.

However, their plans would be interrupted in early 1940, as perhaps the most unexpected of all outcomes began to unfold, and Kolchak pulled himself out of the bottle. The death of his wife the preceding winter had motivated him, and he began to take the reigns of power once more. In a turn of events which stunned the entire nation, Kolchak dismissed Wrangel as Chairman of the Council of Ministers, replacing him with the relatively unknown Minister of Justice, Vladimir D. Nabokov.

This was, in the end, to be the catalyst for the ORN's final plot. On 7 December 1941, as Japanese planes dive-bombed the American port of Pearl Harbor across the Pacific, Kutepov and Denikin would, with the assistance of Japanese soldiers, declare the "end of the Judeo-Bolshevik menace in America" as Nabokov was found dead, ruled three days later to have been poisoned by "Soviet operatives". Kolchak himself would be placed under house arrest for "alcohol-induced psychosis" and deemed insane as Kutepov took over the Council of Ministers and appointed Denikin to the Russian-American Company's board.

By the end of January though, their administration would be ended by Canadian Mounties and American Marines, and they would be tried and executed by a military tribunal. The new Allied administration would release Kolchak from house arrest, nominally to resume his post as Supreme Ruler. However, by this point he was but a puppet. The Council of Ministers would be packed with American appointees, the Russian-American Company would be led for the first time by a non-Russian, the Soviets would gain control of the Arctic isles and Sakhalin as the Empire of Japan fell, and by the end of the decade the aging Kolchak would die, leaving behind an administration which would summarily abolish the Russian State, implementing a new Republic of Alaska in its place.
 
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Taste Good With The Money; A Peter Walker Story:

Career of Peter Walker, MP:
Born 25th of March 1932
1955: Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Dartford
1955 (Sydney Irving, Labour) def. Peter Walker (Conservative)
1958-1960: Chair of the National Young Conservatives
1959: Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Dartford
1959 (Sydney Irving, Labour) def. Peter Walker (Conservative), Barry Charles Davis (Liberal)
1961-1991: Member of Parliament for Worcester
1961 def. Bryan Stanley (Labour), Robert Glenton (Liberal)
1964 def. John Martin (Labour), John G. Parry (Liberal)
1966 def. Frank Barrington-Ward (Labour)
1970 def. Peter Jones (Labour)
Feb 1974 def. W.B.Morgan (Labour), D.S. Smith (Liberal)
Oct 1974 def. W.B.Morgan (Labour), D. Elliot (Liberal)
1979 def. D. Sparks (Labour), D. Elliot (Liberal), J. Davenport (Ecology), K. Stevens (National Front)
1982 def. Colin Phipps (Labour), John Caiger (Liberal), J. Davenport (Ecology), Stuart Christie (Anti-Fascist Action), John Tyndall (BNP), Bill Boaks (Road Safety, Welfare and Democratic Morals)
1986 def. Michael Webb (Labour), John Caiger (Liberal), Ashley Gunstock (Green), Screaming Lord Sutch (MRLP), Nick Griffin (BNP), Lord Buckethead (Gremloid Party)
1991 (Tom Hayhoe, Conservative) def. Roger Berry (Labour), John Caiger (Liberal), Colin Phipps (Reform), Mike J. Foster (Green), Martin C. Solden (Independent), Paul Davis (Natural Law)

1963-1964: Parliamentary Private Secretary to Selwyn Lloyd, Lord Privy Seal
1964-1979: Business Partner in Slater-Walker
1965-1969: Shadow Minister for Transport
1969-1970: Shadow Minister of Housing and Local Government
1970: Minister for Housing and Local Government
1970-1972: Secretary of State for the Environment
1972-1974: Secretary of State for Trade and Industry
1972-1974: President of the Board of Trade
1974-1976: Shadow Secretary for Defence
1975: Founder of the Tory Reform Group
1976-1979: Shadow Secretary for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
1979-1989: Leader of the Conservative Party
1979 def. Geoffrey Howe, Norman Tebbit, John Peyton
1989 def. Edwina Currie

1979-1982: Leader of the Opposition
1982-1989: Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
1982 (Majority) def. John Silkin (Labour), David Steel (Liberal), Douglas Henderson (SNP)
1986 (Majority) def. Denzil Davies (Labour), David Penhaligon (Liberal), John Sillars (SNP)

1987: Host of the 13th G7 Summit
1988: Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, for Efforts in Mediating the End to the Syrian Civil War
1991-2010: Member of the House of Lords, Baron Walker of Worcester
1990-1993: Chairman of Conservative Devolutionists
1991-1993: Chairman of Lloyd’s Bank
1993-1995: Investigation of possible Bribery and Corruption charges by Slater-Walker Group, Walker charged as Not Guilty.
1997-2010: Chairman of the Green Conservative Group
Died 23rd of June 2010

Peter Walker occupies an odd space in British History, most people probably refuse to acknowledge that they supported him during his seven year Premiership despite his high polling numbers and general popularity with the public at the time.

Indeed the image of Peter Walker, the valiant one nation Reformist Conservative who saved Britain from the brink of economic collapse and rebuilt anew that so many believed in the Mid 80s has been washed away, instead he represents the eventual intermingling of Business and Politics and the spectre of corruption that haunts the hallow Halls of Westminster. To see how this man once perceived as one of the most popular Prime Ministers since the War, we must go back to when Walker was a young man.

Indeed as a young man, Walker represented a new and dynamic image for the Tories, with many seeing him as the future of the party. Indeed, Leo Amery saw much potential in him and remarked that before becoming an MP he must first have a career in business and a pot of money to start off with. This advice paid off, by 1961 Walker was already a Millionaire and had made connections with several up and comers like Edward Du Cann and Jim Slater.

As an MP Walker would provide a number of eclectic positions; Anti-Inflation but Firmly Keynesian, A One Nation Conservative who was firmly Trans-Atlantic and Commonwealth focused over Europe and a man who made his money from asset stripping who firmly believed in the Post War Settlement. Despite this all, he would slot himself into the Heath Government fairly well, being one of the Young Turks who helped keep the Selsdon Idea within the One Nation Current in Heath’s early Tenure-ship.

On the business sides of matters Walker would become business partners with a young accountant called Jim Slater and together the two would pioneer the art of asset stripping on the fusty old corporations that ran the British economy’s. Believed to be a way to revitalise the British economy that had slumped, Walker and Slater would share the floor with other buccaneer tycoons like James Goldsmith and Tiny Rowland of the era.

Walker’s domination of the Political and Business world would nearly hit a snag when Slater & Walker was almost overwhelmed during the 1973 Stock Market crash (caused by a combination of policies that Walker had helped implement and the 73’ Oil Crisis) the company was able to sell off there assets for a tidy return with the support of Edward Du Cann and the Keyser Ullman bank which managed to weather the storm after avoiding a deal with Jack Dellal (with Dellal being forced to sell to Jim Slater in 1974 after the banking crisis). Other tycoons weren’t as lucky and the fate of Tiny Rowland of fleeing to Rhodesia to avoid the authorities was an image that few wanted to repeat.

Walker would repay the favour that Du Cann had given him by offering him some support during his leadership bid in 1975 after Heath’s defeat, in the aftermath of his victory over Willie Whitelaw, Walker would find himself given the Shadow Defence Secretary position. Despite his economics and political background differing with the more Right Wing Shadow Cabinet, Walker’s friendship with Du Cann and his continued Pro-Atlantic attitudes would make him a popular fixture in Westminster and even amongst various NATO allies.

Despite Walker’s and Saatchi & Saatchi’s best efforts, Du Cann’s fumbling performance and a stable economy would ensure a Tory defeat in the snap 1978 election with Labour gaining a slim majority of eleven. Frustration set in over Labour managing to make gains over 1974 and after a tenuous couple of months, Du Cann would resign to little fanfare.

Walker would set out his stall as the ‘Reformist Centre Left’ Candidate and would be lucky that the Right of the party rapidly spit into infighting over there direction Post Du Cann. After his victory, Walker would set about uniting the part under a message of rebuilding the British economy, increasing international and business ties and controlling the Trade Unions which were fairly popular overall both within the party and with the general public as Callaghan was replaced by the awkward presence of Silkin.

As Walker was becoming more popular with the public as Labour’s policies lead to increased inflation and infighting in the cabinet lead to dramatic incidents like Peter Shore dramatic resignation in 1981 due to the IMF measures. Walker would also use his business and Political connections to expand his influence, as everyone from Richard Branson to President George H.W. Bush providing positive support for the Walker campaign.

The 1982 Election was a wash for Walker, gaining a fifty seat majority of the back of Labour having to fighting off the Liberals, the stuttering SDA and the SNP. Walker would push deflationary measures, though his ‘soft austerity’ measures would lead to an awkward 82/83’ for the Walker Government as the Right pushed for harsher measures whilst the Left pushed for more leniency. But Walker’s managed to sooth the worriers as Labour proceeded to bludgeon each other in a gruelling leadership election and the Liberals brief raise in the polls came crashing back down to Earth.

For Peter Walker, his next aims after dealing with inflation and bringing it down to reasonable levels was to modernise Britain. This wasn’t to be like how America modernised with half hearted attempts at Reganomics. In many respects, whilst Walker wasn’t the biggest Europhile Prime Minister Britain had in the last few years, in numerous respects Walker pushed for Britain to turns more into a European Social Market State.

Certain Nationalised industries would be privatised wholesale, others would be restructured or kept under government control but with elements being farmed off to private companies or council structures. Many didn’t see who this benefited when the initial effects were seen, mainly many folks getting shares from BT in the mail, there wasn’t discussion about how folks like Slater, Goldsmith or Du Cann had shares in these companies as they were being sold off or asset stripped.

Walker would push back any troublesome mentions of his policies by promoting his modernising projects, increased environmental protections and nuclear energy projects, the Right to Buy scheme (not actually something that Walker was fond of, but a useful sop to the Right) and active efforts to ensure devolved assemblies in Scotland and Wales and increased Local Government control. The One Nation ideal was brought kicking and screaming into a monetarist age with Walker as it’s captain.

The period from 1984 to 1988 would be Walker’s Golden Age, from a successful negotiation with the NUM ensuring no Strikes to helping draw up the Syrian Ceasefire with his Foreign Secretary David Howell, for many this was the good time of then Walker years as the economy proposed and home ownership increased. The main point of this could be seen on display with the 13th G7 summit in which Britain would see the beginnings of the ‘10 Year Plan’ to reduce air emissions, increase British links with the European economy’s and increased efforts to help democratic movements in Eastern Europe. It was unsurprising that Walker easily won the 1986 election against a backward looking Labour Party of Denzil Davies.

It seemed that the good times wouldn’t end. But in early 1989 Walker’s old friends would be his downfall, Du Cann’s new Chairmanship of Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation would see a snag when then corporation was accused of insider trading in Britain and Singapore. Slater Ltd who had started investing heavily in the booming South England’s Property market caused by the right to buy scheme caused a property bubble that burst in Spring 89’. Whilst Slater was able to leave nearly intact, many people found there properties taken away overnight.

This shocks would quickly be revealed to be related to Walker policies and people started questioning if the Prime Minister had been related to these dodgy schemes. But the worst was yet to come for Walker.

In May 1989, the Community Charge was introduced to replace the Rates system which many One Nation types believed was unfair and allowed Labour Councils to run up high deficits which needed to (in there eyes) needed to be stopped. Rather quickly the charge would become incredibly unpopular and be deemed the ‘Poll Tax’ by many. Despite not being the mastermind of the plan, Walker would become the figurehead of there woes for many, as conspiracies about Walker’s connections to business combined with his policies.

The Poll Tax affair would coincide with a series of fresh Miners Strikes (which occurred due to a more militant change in leadership) and a series of riots over Poll Tax in Major British Cities. The final blow to Walker’s pride would be an investigation into Jim Slater’s company by Private Eye would reveal how extensive the connections between Slater and Walker were, with the possibilities of bribery and Slater using his personal connections and brief advisor role to help steer Government policy. These were things that the Prime Minister could have easily brushed under the carpet but his inability to do so would cause the cries over his relationship with Slater to grow further.

Having a Prime Minister being very openly accused of corruption caused many in the Conservative Party to get nervous, compounded by the appearance of the Reform Party, a Centrist Party campaigning against mainly Corruption which would be the platform for David Owen to launch a successful bid back to Parliament. Edwina Currie, Health Minister would be the first one to try and plunge the dagger into Walker’s back by managing to organise a leadership bid against him.

Currie would fail but her relatively decent performance caused many in the centre of the party to become scared and so after a awkward meeting, Walker would resign and give his support to David Howell who would become the next Prime Minister.

Walker’s downfall wouldn’t end there, his attempts to reinvent himself as a political advisor with the Conservative Devolutionist Group and his brief Chairmanship of Lloyd’s Bank would be undercut by a police investigation of the so called ‘Slater & Walker Group’ of assets, properties and companies supposedly owned by the two men and a supposed dubious finical schemes that had swindled millions from unsuspecting customers. Spurned on by the Straw Government, happy to kick the former Conservative Prime Minister whilst he was down, the investigation would last two years.

Whilst Walker wouldn’t be found guilty of corruption, he was still forced to provide finical support to compensation scheme for victims of Corruption caused by his assets. Slater would be found guilty but managed to escape with only brief house arrest and several fines. The pair found themselves out gunned in the finical world anyway in there final years, with the crimes they committed being small fry compared to the increasing power of banks and pension schemes across the world.

In his final years Walker would occasionally make appearances in the House of Lords and being the Chairman of the Green Conservative Group, often being a nuisance to former cabinet colleagues when calling for greater care to the environment and would help push several environmental protection bills through. But in terms of his impact with Wider political landscape, it was negligible at best or despised at worst.

Despite the downfall of his father, his son Robin Walker has made a name for himself in the Lansley and Collins administrations and for many in the Centre of the Party is a true example of One Nation politics in action. Questions whether he’ll end up like his father are raised but few hope will be answered.
 
Total and Unmitigated Defeat

Career of Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill


1900-35: Member of the House of Lords as Duke of Marlborough.
1911: Left the Conservative Party.
1915-19: Governor-General of East Africa Protectorate.
1919-22: Leader of the House of Lords under David Lloyd George (Liberal-National Coalition.)

1924: Established the Constitutionalist Party.
1931-35: Viceroy of India.
1935: Committed suicide during the Hindustani Revolution.

History is never is a pre-ordained story, but a series of moments that can change on a whim. Winston Churchill probably wasn't thinking about this as he cradled his cousin, cut down by a stray bullet in South Africa. Given that Sunny had only daughters, it meant he was suddenly the new Duke of Marlborough. The energetic young politicians journey would be determined not in the Commons, but in the Lords. Initially joining as a Conservative peer, during the tumultuous days of the Prime Minister Asquiths conflict with the upper house, he changed to become a crossbencher (he only remained loyal during the tariff controversy out of loyalty to family friend Joe Chamberlain.) It was during this time that the seeds of Churchills unique ideology were sown including Bismarkian social democracy as well as abolishing the Lords (despite being one himself.)

He became a close friend and ally of Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George who eventually became Prime Minister after the failure of the Baltic Project sunk Asquith's war coalition. Knowing Lloyd George's new Tory partners wouldn't trust him (if anyone ever did) combined with his latent adventurism, he requested and was granted the governorship of British East Africa. This gave him a reputation as the hero of the East Africa Front, leading the fight against Mr Lettow-Warbeck (even though he was only the face of it and mostly took a back seat in the war effort.) His dismissive treatment of the local indigenous peoples, while being contextualised along his later career by modern scholars, barely impacted if not bolstered his treatment by Lord Northcliffe and the rest of the British media. This enabled Lloyd George to name him Leader of the House of Lords in his new Coupon Coalition after the war ended. He was forcibly removed from this position with the disappearance of left-wing journalist and rumoured illegitimate son Victor Grayson which proved the death knell for Lloyd George's government with the departure of the Conservative Party.

Marlborough would quip he was now "without an office, without a party, and without an appendix" the last having been operated on just after his resignation. These were his wilderness years where he split his time between Westminster and Blenheim in a state of depression and restlessness. He would start calling himself a "Constitutionalist" around this time in opposition to Communism and the Labour Party inspired by the campaign of George Jarrett. His dreams of a Constitutionalist Party were dashed with the 1924 when those elected under said label didn't act as a group and returned to either the Conservative or Liberal whips. Churchill resigned himself to his non-fiction writing (including compiling and meditating on his ideas) and kicking up stinks in the Upper House. He would remain a thorn in the Baldwins government even as they were re-elected in 1929 off the back of fears of industrial unrest given the hawkish actions of Chancellor Joynson-Hicks while avoiding returning to the gold standard. And come the 1931 retirement of Lord Irwin as Viceroy of India the new Conservative-National Liberal coalition would find a way to be rid of him.

This would not end well for any involved. From his days in Malakand, Marlborough had a contempt for the people of the subcontinent which are only just getting examined by modern scholars. He had also been angered by Irwin's passive stance and took a much more hard-line stance arresting Gandhi and other leaders and banning the various nationalistic organisations. He also used the police to forcefully put down the protests and boycotts, which only enflamed the situation and increased support for the revolutionary elements of the independence movement at the cost of more mainstream politics, especially in the north. Things only got worse after the death of Gandhi under suspicious circumstances. The already unstable province of Bengal, now suffering a food crisis as a result of Marlborough's spiteful export policy, collapsed into revolution which soon spread to Hindustan and across the rest of the subcontinent. The viceregal capital fell with the support of the largely native police and sympathetic officials such as Brig. Auchinleck. They found the Viceroy dead in his office of a self-inflicted headshot.

Thus ended the life of Winston Churchill, Duke of Marlborough a man of poor luck and even poorer principles. Largely disliked at the time and only surviving thanks to his title and having friends in the right places, his high reputation earned only in death as a martyr to the "red menace." Only after the fall of the Kings Party in the 70's was he re-examined with a more critical eye. His ideas would be picked up by his friend and former Prime Minister David Lloyd George during the Abdication Crisis and and with the support of the Mosleyite faction of the Labour Party would usher in a one-party, one-person dictatorship and lead Britain into its darkest hours...
 
Total and Unmitigated Defeat

Career of Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill


1900-35: Member of the House of Lords as Duke of Marlborough.
1911: Left the Conservative Party.
1915-19: Governor-General of East Africa Protectorate.
1919-22: Leader of the House of Lords under David Lloyd George (Liberal-National Coalition.)

1924: Established the Constitutionalist Party.
1931-35: Viceroy of India.
1935: Committed suicide during the Hindustani Revolution.

History is never is a pre-ordained story, but a series of moments that can change on a whim. Winston Churchill probably wasn't thinking about this as he cradled his cousin, cut down by a stray bullet in South Africa. Given that Sunny had only daughters, it meant he was suddenly the new Duke of Marlborough. The energetic young politicians journey would be determined not in the Commons, but in the Lords. Initially joining as a Conservative peer, during the tumultuous days of the Prime Minister Asquiths conflict with the upper house, he changed to become a crossbencher (he only remained loyal during the tariff controversy out of loyalty to family friend Joe Chamberlain.) It was during this time that the seeds of Churchills unique ideology were sown including Bismarkian social democracy as well as abolishing the Lords (despite being one himself.)

He became a close friend and ally of Chancellor of the Exchequer David Lloyd George who eventually became Prime Minister after the failure of the Baltic Project sunk Asquith's war coalition. Knowing Lloyd George's new Tory partners wouldn't trust him (if anyone ever did) combined with his latent adventurism, he requested and was granted the governorship of British East Africa. This gave him a reputation as the hero of the East Africa Front, leading the fight against Mr Lettow-Warbeck (even though he was only the face of it and mostly took a back seat in the war effort.) His dismissive treatment of the local indigenous peoples, while being contextualised along his later career by modern scholars, barely impacted if not bolstered his treatment by Lord Northcliffe and the rest of the British media. This enabled Lloyd George to name him Leader of the House of Lords in his new Coupon Coalition after the war ended. He was forcibly removed from this position with the disappearance of left-wing journalist and rumoured illegitimate son Victor Grayson which proved the death knell for Lloyd George's government with the departure of the Conservative Party.

Marlborough would quip he was now "without an office, without a party, and without an appendix" the last having been operated on just after his resignation. These were his wilderness years where he split his time between Westminster and Blenheim in a state of depression and restlessness. He would start calling himself a "Constitutionalist" around this time in opposition to Communism and the Labour Party inspired by the campaign of George Jarrett. His dreams of a Constitutionalist Party were dashed with the 1924 when those elected under said label didn't act as a group and returned to either the Conservative or Liberal whips. Churchill resigned himself to his non-fiction writing (including compiling and meditating on his ideas) and kicking up stinks in the Upper House. He would remain a thorn in the Baldwins government even as they were re-elected in 1929 off the back of fears of industrial unrest given the hawkish actions of Chancellor Joynson-Hicks while avoiding returning to the gold standard. And come the 1931 retirement of Lord Irwin as Viceroy of India the new Conservative-National Liberal coalition would find a way to be rid of him.

This would not end well for any involved. From his days in Malakand, Marlborough had a contempt for the people of the subcontinent which are only just getting examined by modern scholars. He had also been angered by Irwin's passive stance and took a much more hard-line stance arresting Gandhi and other leaders and banning the various nationalistic organisations. He also used the police to forcefully put down the protests and boycotts, which only enflamed the situation and increased support for the revolutionary elements of the independence movement at the cost of more mainstream politics, especially in the north. Things only got worse after the death of Gandhi under suspicious circumstances. The already unstable province of Bengal, now suffering a food crisis as a result of Marlborough's spiteful export policy, collapsed into revolution which soon spread to Hindustan and across the rest of the subcontinent. The viceregal capital fell with the support of the largely native police and sympathetic officials such as Brig. Auchinleck. They found the Viceroy dead in his office of a self-inflicted headshot.

Thus ended the life of Winston Churchill, Duke of Marlborough a man of poor luck and even poorer principles. Largely disliked at the time and only surviving thanks to his title and having friends in the right places, his high reputation earned only in death as a martyr to the "red menace." Only after the fall of the Kings Party in the 70's was he re-examined with a more critical eye. His ideas would be picked up by his friend and former Prime Minister David Lloyd George during the Abdication Crisis and and with the support of the Mosleyite faction of the Labour Party would usher in a one-party, one-person dictatorship and lead Britain into its darkest hours...
Really good stuff, Churchill destroying himself through his white supremacism is something we don’t see nearly enough.
 
Indigo Injury
Political Career of Joe Kennedy, Jr.

1940-1940: Delegate to the Democratic National Convention
1941-1946: Pilot, US Navy
1948-1952: Representative from Massachusetts' 11th District,
Democrat
def 1948: Florence Luscomb (Progressive)
def 1950: Vincent Celeste (Republican)
1952: Candidate for Senate from Massachusetts, Democrat
defeated by, 1952: Henry Cabot Lodge (Republican)
1954-1960: Representative from Massachusetts' 11th District, Democrat
def 1954: Charles S. Bolster (Republican)
def 1956: Vincent Celeste (Republican)
def 1958: Vincent Celeste (Republican)

1960-1970: Senator from Massachusetts, Democrat
def 1960: Leverett Saltonstall (Republican)
def 1966: Edward Brooke (Republican)

1968-1969: Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States
defeated by 1969 (with Sam Yorty): Stuart Symington, James Eastland, Howard Levy, Paul Fisher
1970: assassinated by Kathy Boudin and Theodore Gold

Political Career of John "Fitz" Kennedy

1941-1942: Ensign, US Navy Reserve
1942-1946:
Lieutenant, US Navy
1946-1961: Foreign correspondent, Hearst Newspapers, Democrat
1956-1978: Opinion columnist and author, Hearst Newspapers, Democrat
1978-1985: Opinion columnist and author, Hearst Newspapers, All-American
1984-1985:
Candidate for President of the United States, All-American
defeated by 1985 (with James Irwin): Ted Moore (United People's), George C. Lodge (Republican)

Political Career of Robert Kennedy

1944-1946: Seaman Apprentice, US Navy Reserve
1946-1948: Student, Harvard
1948-1950: Student, University of Virgina School of Law
1950-1953: Lawyer, US Department of Justice
1952-1952: Campaign manager, Joe Kennedy for Senate, Democrat
1953-1956: Assistant counsel, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
1956-1960: Attorney General of Massachusetts, Democrat
def 1956: George Fingold (Republican)
def 1958: Christian Herter, Jr. (Republicam)

1960-1960: Campaign manager, Joe Kennedy for Senate, Democrat
1960-1968: Lawyer, private practice
1966-1966: Campaign manager, Joe Kennedy for Senate, Democrat
1968-1969: Campaign manager, Joe Kennedy for President, Democrat
1969-1970: Lawyer, private practice
1970-1978: Attorney General of Massachusetts, Democrat
def 1970: Donald Conn (Republican)
def 1974: Charles Cabot (Republican), Francis Belotti (United People's)
defeated by 1978: Francis Belotti (United People's), William Cowin (Republican)

1978-1985: Lawyer, private practice.

Political Career of Ted Moore

1959-1962: Lawyer, private practice
1962-1962: Candidate for the Democratic nomination for Massachusett's 11th District
defeated by, 1962: Edward McCormack
1962-1968: Lawyer, private practice
1968-1969: Campaign assistant, Joe Kennedy for President, Democrat
1969-1972: Lawyer, private practice
1972-1976: Representative from Wyoming's at-large District, United People's
def 1972: William Kidd (Republican)
def 1974: Tom Strock (Republican)

1976-1984: Senator from Wyoming, United People's
def 1976: Malcolm Wallop (Republican)
def 1982: Nels Larson (Republican), Richard Redland (All-American)

1984-1985: Candidate for President of the United States, United People's
def 1985: Richard Hatcher, Wilbur Hobby, Wayne Cryts, Mario Cuomo, Oran Gragson, Paul Fisher
def 1985 (with Maynard Jackson): George C. Lodge (Republican), Fitz Kennedy (All-American)


Once upon a time, there was a king, and he had four sons.

The king said to himself "My kingdom, it is poor and weak. All my attempts to make it greater have failed, my attempts to make myself greater" (for kings always confuse theirselves and their kingdoms,) "have failed. All I can do now is to make my sons great, for their glory shall be the family's glory, which is my glory." (This is another way kings often become confused.) "As I wished to rule, my sons shall rule, and their rule shall last for a generation, and my name shall be pre-eminent among nations."

So the king prepared a plan to aid the rule of his sons.

The empire, of which the kingdom was part of, was in a great war against another empire overseas. Although he had himself proclaimed the glories of that other empire and counseled against war, the king sent his sons to war, that they might win valour for themselves and their house. And so they did, and all three of them would return from war, and the king's heart was overjoyed.

The king was aware that, although feared by many for his dealings, he was not much loved by any of his subjects. So the king had also had his sons polish their rhetoric, before and after they left for war, that they might learn how to sway the hearts of men and bring popularity to their house. And so they did, and all three would be leaders of men, and the king's heart was overjoyed.

It was known that the king had dealings with many an underhand man, and this was a stain on his banner. In contrast, the king had his sons study the laws of the empire they lived in, so they might learn the machineries of statecraft and how to avoid error (or at least how not to get caught doing so). And so they did, and all three would be men of the law, and the king's heart was overjoyed.

So it is that we tell of the three sons of the king; the warrior, the leader of men, the man of the law.

The warrior was the first son of the king, and he shone brightly in his father's eye, and so it was decided that he should inherit the throne, and one day succeed to the throne of the empire. Mighty a man was he, and he had fought valiantly against the foe, even if he held very little hatred in his heart for them, and so he stood well in the esteem of men. The word on his lips was war, always war, against the new empire to the East and those who sympathised with it, and those who opposed the rule of the Great Houses.

The leader of men was the second son of the king, and he shone brightly in his father's eye, and so it was decided that he should chronicle the annals of his brother, and smooth his path to the throne. Cunning a man was he, and he chronicled well the devastation of the foe and the building of a new world across the seas, even if he owed his place to his father's friends, and so he stood well in the esteem of men. The word on his lips was the people, always the people, who needed freedoms, who needed democracy, who needed the protection of the Great Houses.

The man of the law was the third son of the king, and he shone brightly in his father's eye, and so it was decided that he should guide and advise his brother, and smooth his path to the throne. Upright a man was he, and he exacted well the appropriate penalties for wrongdoing, even if with an eye for advancing his house's cause, and so he stood well in the esteem of men. The word on his lips was justice, always justice, meted out with a firm hand, but a fair hand, to those who threatened the lives of men and the dominion of the Great Houses.

You may recall, dear child, that this tale has not yet mentioned his fourth son; and that is no accident.

The fourth son of the king did not shine brightly in his father's eyes; indeed, he only shone as a replacement for his brothers, an understudy to fight when the warrior could not, speak when the leader could not, advise when the man of the law could not. Even in this, he failed, and after he lost the smaller estate of his brother to enemies and faltered in his efforts to speed the warrior to the throne (even though it was a fierce battle, with enemies on all sides), he was exiled--allowed to flee to the farthest West, to practice the law in that desolate land, with even his name, the name of his house, stripped from him.

This was the manner in which the king brought up his sons; and before he died, he was content, for he saw that his plans would proceed.

Lo, so it came to pass that after the warrior faltered and was denied the Imperial throne, his enemies, those inhabitants of the kingdom who he had called again and again to be warred against, came for him in the night, as a secret combination; and in a moment of fire and sound he was no more, and many of his allies went with him.

So it came to pass that, without his duty to advise the warrior, the man of the law did retire from the power-playing of the kingdom, for he had learnt well the lessons of the law, and strove only to exact them faithfully; and in truth, these lessons had made him weary of endlessly scheming to advance a hollow banner.

So it came to pass that without the counsel of law or strength of arm by his side, the leader of men grew shrill and impotent, railing and raging against the enemies he saw in the world, speaking only what would draw people to him; and lo, when he rode out in his brother's stead, alone, he was cut down, and perished utterly.

Lo, so it came to pass that the fourth son, whose name had been cut off, cut his brother down, and took the Imperial throne; and he was successful in war, beloved by the people, and ruled with justice, and undid all the works his father had sought to do.

Indeed do many things come to pass!

The Moral of This Story:
No matter how much your older sister may irritate you, do not lobotomise her.

--Robert Anton Wilson, Fairy Tales and Fables for Bad Children, MAD Magazine
 
He Who Lives By the Sword,Dies By the Sword

Political Career of Crin Antonescu:

1990-1992 Member of the National Liberal Party,teacher

1992-2000 Deputy for Tulcea,
Civic Alliance Party,PNL’93,National Liberal Party

1997-2000 Minister of Sport and Youth,National Liberal Party

2000-2004 Deputy for Teleorman,National Liberal Party

2004-2008 Deputy for Bucharest,National Liberal Party
,head of PNL parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies

2008-2012 Senator for Bucharest,
National Liberal Party

2009-2012 Leader of the National Liberal Party,PNL+PC

2012-2012 Leader of the Senate

2012-2012 Interim President of Romania

2012 Impeachment Referendum: 89,02% YES,voting presence 51,09%-APPROVED


2012-2016 President of Romania,Social Liberal Union,National Liberal Party after November 2015,Presidential candidate for the National Liberal Party
2012 Presidential Election First Round def: Dan Diaconescu [PP-DD],Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu [ARD],Corneliu Vadim Tudor [PRM],Kelemen Hunor [UDMR]
2012 Presidential Election Second Round def: Dan Diaconescu [PP-DD]
2013 Constitutional Referendum: 88,93% YES,voting presence 41,19%-APPROVED
2016
Impeachment Referendum: 88,90% YES,voting presence 33,90%-APPROVED,,Dan Voiculescu interim President
2016 Presidential Election First Round def:
Liviu Dragnea [PSD],Nicușor Dan [USR],Victor Ponta [PRU],Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu [PL-C]
2016 Presidential Election Second Round def by: Liviu Dragnea [PSD]

2016-present day Private citizen,National Liberal Party

To put it bluntly,both Crin Antonescu's rise and fall from power were not only fraudulent and a mockery of every constitutional system,but ridiculosly stupid and unnecessary.They weren't the result of calculated scheming,but of temper tantrums thrown by crooks and megalomaniacs because they couldn't wait to obtain something they were gonna win anyway.

In other words,ordinary behavior for Crin Antonescu.

It didn’t matter to him that the referendum was narrowly won by massive electoral fraud (with 150% voting presence in some areas). It didn’t matter that he’d unleashed forces that he or others couldn’t control. He didn’t care. At the end of the day,he won and ergo so did National Liberalism. Sure,he’d have to share power to people he had nothing in common beyond wanting power and revenge but hey,compromises have to be made for the greater good.

A constant in Crin’s character that was always present and now more powerful than ever was his ego. He and Ponta had the same common arrogance that made Năstase look humble by comparison. During the first round,Crin didn’t even bother showing up to debate the other candidates-just went around to Antena 3 and get praised to the heavens by Gâdea and the others almost as much as their boss Doctor Professor Philosopher President of the Senate Dan Voiculescu. Even in the second round he only had one debate with Dan Diaconescu (who narrowly won against Ungureanu,giving us the modern version of Iliescu vs Vadim for millennials) at the very end,where he managed the impossible and made ultra populist Dan Diaconescu seem slightly more balanced.

It didn’t matter though. No one was crazy enough to put the owner of OTV,the embodiment of everything wrong with television,in change of the country. Yes,34,49% voted for him but Crin still won with 65,51% of the vote (ignoring that only 43% of the population actually went to vote). Was he pissed that he didn’t win more against an unworthy adversary? Oh brother,was he ever. But a win is a win. USL dominated over all like a behemoth. And no one could truly stop it.

Well,expect itself.

It cannot be stated how little was actually accomplished during the USL years. Apart from massive corruption,nothing actually united USL. After ”defeating” Băsescu (who was already politically dead by May 2012),all real motives for the alliance to exist anymore simply vanished. Ponta and Antonescu fought over Roșia Montană,Ponta and Dragnea fought over control of the country,Voiculescu and Ghiță used their TV channels to fight over influence-you nume it.The only reasons it kept on going was because no one wanted to give up power and both Ponta and Antonescu kept using it as a way to play each other and become the dominant political figure at the end of it all. It simply existed and changed nothing,creating a odd feeling of both frustration and malaise.

Even the new Constitution [which only passed because of even bigger (badly done) electoral frauds,the referendum lasting two days,
voting sections being everywhere (including hospitals,malls,supermarkets and even churches) and the government changing laws at the last minute] didn’t have anything new. Gay marriages? Already illegal,they just made them more harder to legalize. The trumped,bloated and barely thought out “regionalization” of Dragnea ? The same counties still existed,the only things added were more unelected public functions-i.e. Bucharest’s problems but on steroids. The enforcement of 30% being the official legal voting presence needed to validate any referendum? Also pointless,given that the government passed at the last moment a law to make the voting presence needed to validate any referendum 40%. Apart from a few small details that only interested ultra populist idiots and nutters,the only other things added were stuffs that made harder (if not impossible) to prosecute any politician of corruption and easier for crooks to do whatever they wanted with even less repercussions. A Constitution meant for the few,not the many.

But Crin didn’t care. In his view it was a win for National Liberalism. The flag had a new coat of arms,marriage was defined as the union between a man and a woman, they put in the preamble that the Orthodox Church and the Royal Family played a major role in the formation of the Romanian people and recovered Nihil sine Deo. All compromises were viewed as acceptable by him in order to maintain his vision for the country. Soon,he thought,he would outsmart that arrogant man child and then he would finally be truly in charge.

Note that Ponta thought and plotted the same,as both co-leaders of USL being alike in terms of arrogance and massive egos that over weighted common sense-not to mention morals. Neither seemed to care about any kind of consequences and embodied pure populism. The main difference however was that Crin thought everything he did was all acceptable as long as his vision of National Liberalism triumphed. Victor though? Victor didn't believe in shit beyond himself. He was a born opportunist who only cared about power and money and thought rules only apply to losers.

And thus,the stage was set for the inevitable civil war.

Neither of them would win it,however.

The Collective Fire protests marked the official end of USL as Antonescu (out of pure opportunism than a genuine interest in the demands of the protesters) demanded that Ponta resign,leading to a tense month where the real winner wasn’t neither of them. Nor the protesters.

No,that person was Liviu Dragnea. In their characteristic idiocy and arrogance,Ponta and Crin forgot about Dragnea and his increasing power while waging war on each other. Both just viewed him as a redneck mobster that they can outsmart cuz they got degrees and shit-forgetting that crooks like Dragnea were the real power in the country.

And now the Balkan bootleg of Arturo Ui was Capo di Tutti Capi. PSD was now firmly in his control (abit a bit smaller due to Ponta throwing a hissy fit after being forced to resign and forming his own xenophobic splinter party). Crin once again forgot who really ran the country and tried to stop him-all to no avail. The new Constitution forced him to accept Dragnea’s government that included Tăriceanu’s newly created splinter party that eventually fused with Dan Voiculescu’s “party”-and he sorta capitulated. For a while.

Then,after months of demonizing Crin and going full on mask off on the racism and the conspiracy theories,Dragnea impeached him over RADET going bankrupt and Bucharest not having running hot water which,he and the PSD loyal TV channels yelled,was all because of Crin and the Deep State not wanting to accept Gabi Firea (“a TRUE Christian PATRIOT”) as Mayor.

And thus Crin was impeached,suffering the same fate that Băsescu did years ago. He reaped what he sowed,being couped by the same laws he implemented. All the dark forces that he fueled all these years turned against him. He kept deluding himself that he could win against Dragnea and win a second term. “Surely PDL and all the others would rally against him to stop PSD” he thought,
forgetting that they were sick of him and resentful for what he did. He took part in the destruction of Romanian democracy and now arrogantly thought only he could save it.

Some believe that,after losing to Dragnea in the second round,exploding in anger and then just staring silently at the walls,Crin might have realized the evil that he did. That his and others vendetta against Băsescu had destroyed all the progress Romania made since the Revolution. That it was all pointless.

But let’s be real-he most likely didn’t. His ego is too big to ever accept that he was wrong. His career ended in failure and,as always,
he learned nothing out of it.

Because Crin will always be himself.

A goddamn idiot.
 
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