Lloyd George in 1922
1922: David Lloyd George (Liberal) [1]
1927: David Lloyd George (Liberal-Labour Coalition) [2]
1932: J.R. Clynes (Labour)
1937: J.R. Clynes (Labour)
1942: Winston Chruchill (Conservative - Mosley Labour) [3]
1948: Anthony Eden (Conservative - Mosley Labour) [4]
1949: Anthony Eden (National Government) [5]
1951: Brendan Bracken (United Party) [6]
1956: Philip Noel-Baker (Moderate Party) [7]
1961: Philip Noel-Baker (Moderate Party) [8]
1965: William Harrison (Moderate Party) [9]
1966: Quentin Hogg (United Party) [10]
1970: Francis Pym (United Party) [11]
1975: Francis Pym (United Party) [12]
1979: David Steel (Moderate Party) [13]
1983: David Steel (Moderate Party) [14]
1988: Ian Mikardo (Worker's-Moderate Coalition) [15]
[1] Lloyd George consulted the Commonwealth Prime Ministers before making a decision over the Chanak Crisis. An Imperial Council is established in law, and the Liberal Party storms to power, as confidence in Lloyd George's abilities and the security of the Empire are restored. The Conservatives are increasingly bitter about this rejection...
[2] A stagnating economy leads to a decline in Liberal support and a hung parliament. Lloyd George forms a coalition with J.R. Clynes' Labour Party.
[3] Labour is voted out in a landslide after a combination of several un-popular domestic policies and a failiure to do anything about the Soviet's 1941 invasion of Poland and the subsequent outbreak of the Second World War. Chruchill, with the suport of Labour interventionists led by Oswald Mosley and with Soviet forces rapidly overunning Euorpe, immediatly joins the war.
[4] Winston Churchill is killed when London is largely destroyed by the Soviets 2nd nuclear weapon (after Lyons).
[5] The Nottingham Government suspends elections (to little dissent) after the Peace of Trier. With six nuclear explosions having taken place across Europe, the sky is literally and metaphorically dim and Eden is rumoured to turn to a painkiller addiction.
[6] In the first elections since the end of the war, former Churchillian Brendan Bracken forms the United Party out the surviving members of the old Conservative Party and the anti-communist Mosley faction of the old Labour Party, winning the election on a land slide. With irradiated and crippled europe now almost completely overrun by the Soviets and the Japanese eyeing the wounded British in the East, Bracken attempts to unite whats left of the Empire as well as attempting to court the Americans into an alliance while at home, "Fortress Britain" becomes increasingly more right-wing and paranoid.
[7] Bracken is popular but the Czech Insurrection and ensuing small-scale nuclear exchange between the USA and USSR encourages isolationism in the month before the General Election. Noel-Baker's moderates sweep to power with a healthy majority, promising a policy of 'Britain First', even, most controversially, over parts of the Empire.
[8] The isolationist moderates are returned to power, as the UK continues to dump the last remnants of the Empire, suddenly and shockingly into an unexpected independence. The wounded Soviets clamp down exceptionally hard on a wholly Red Europe, only reinforcing the Britain First and Fortress Britannia vote.
[9] William Harrison replaced Noel-Baker after he resigned. Harrison made extensive reforms to agriculture, to try and improve Britain's diet and its soil after the war. However, he was easy to mock because of his poor education, and his poor literacy. This was to prove his undoing...
[10] After ruthlessly needling Harrison on the airwaves, in the press and from the dispatch box, Hogg leads the United Party back to power on a platform of 're-invigorated policy' - whatever that means. Hogg runs a tight ship, expanding British industry and trying to re-engage with the USA and the USSR.
[11] Taking over from the patrician Hogg following the Aden Crisis, Pym moved towards re-energising the United Party from within. In addition to restarting the old domestic nuclear power program, he also began promoting a number of equally youthful members to the Cabinet in an effort to hold off the challenge from John Peyton's Nationals and Ian Mikardo's Workers.
[12] The successful returning of the long occupied Channel Islands to UK sovereignty (yes, I know they aren't part of the UK, but you know what I mean) in exchange for diplomatic relations and significant investment in the decaying infrastructure of the long suffering People's Republic of France, helps the party back in to power with a stronger mandate. The Soviet Union's reluctantly allows this exchange do to minor reforming pressures domestically.
[13] Steel continues the policy of slowly continuing to roll back the isolationism of the 60's while further intergrating the surviving white commonwelath (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Rhodesia). In other news, the reconstruction of London is also nearing completion, with the city rising again as a modern, American style glass and steel metropolis, although much attention is given to reconstruction landmarks such as the Palace of Westmisnter, Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London etc and in the Far East, the Japanese are becoming increasingly tied up in a brutal counter insurgency campaign agaisnt Anglo-American backed rebels in Indonesia.
[14] The Moderates win a landslide victory, due to the economic boom of the early 1980s. [Japan: In 1985, the execution of 70-year-old human rights activist Ichio Asukata sparks weeks of peaceful protests from Tokyo to Seoul to Taihoku. Already frustrated by the economic downturn and the chaos in Indonesia, university students, intellectuals and workers jointly call for the return of Taisho democracy. Prime Minister Teruo Tojo brutally suppresses the protests, but Emperor Hirohito himself condemns the massacre, leading to the resignation of Tojo. In 1986, the first truly free election since 1932 is held. The opposition Japanese Alliance for Democracy defeats the ruling Taisei Yokusankai, and Emperor Hirohito appoints JAD leader Tetsuro Tamba Prime Minister of Japan.]
[15] The Workers get to power, on a policy of trying to moderate the Peoples Republics, in the fashion of France, and trying to show an example of how Stalinism isn't Socialism. They do however, need the help of the Moderates to form a government.
1922: David Lloyd George (Liberal) [1]
1927: David Lloyd George (Liberal-Labour Coalition) [2]
1932: J.R. Clynes (Labour)
1937: J.R. Clynes (Labour)
1942: Winston Chruchill (Conservative - Mosley Labour) [3]
1948: Anthony Eden (Conservative - Mosley Labour) [4]
1949: Anthony Eden (National Government) [5]
1951: Brendan Bracken (United Party) [6]
1956: Philip Noel-Baker (Moderate Party) [7]
1961: Philip Noel-Baker (Moderate Party) [8]
1965: William Harrison (Moderate Party) [9]
1966: Quentin Hogg (United Party) [10]
1970: Francis Pym (United Party) [11]
1975: Francis Pym (United Party) [12]
1979: David Steel (Moderate Party) [13]
1983: David Steel (Moderate Party) [14]
1988: Ian Mikardo (Worker's-Moderate Coalition) [15]
[1] Lloyd George consulted the Commonwealth Prime Ministers before making a decision over the Chanak Crisis. An Imperial Council is established in law, and the Liberal Party storms to power, as confidence in Lloyd George's abilities and the security of the Empire are restored. The Conservatives are increasingly bitter about this rejection...
[2] A stagnating economy leads to a decline in Liberal support and a hung parliament. Lloyd George forms a coalition with J.R. Clynes' Labour Party.
[3] Labour is voted out in a landslide after a combination of several un-popular domestic policies and a failiure to do anything about the Soviet's 1941 invasion of Poland and the subsequent outbreak of the Second World War. Chruchill, with the suport of Labour interventionists led by Oswald Mosley and with Soviet forces rapidly overunning Euorpe, immediatly joins the war.
[4] Winston Churchill is killed when London is largely destroyed by the Soviets 2nd nuclear weapon (after Lyons).
[5] The Nottingham Government suspends elections (to little dissent) after the Peace of Trier. With six nuclear explosions having taken place across Europe, the sky is literally and metaphorically dim and Eden is rumoured to turn to a painkiller addiction.
[6] In the first elections since the end of the war, former Churchillian Brendan Bracken forms the United Party out the surviving members of the old Conservative Party and the anti-communist Mosley faction of the old Labour Party, winning the election on a land slide. With irradiated and crippled europe now almost completely overrun by the Soviets and the Japanese eyeing the wounded British in the East, Bracken attempts to unite whats left of the Empire as well as attempting to court the Americans into an alliance while at home, "Fortress Britain" becomes increasingly more right-wing and paranoid.
[7] Bracken is popular but the Czech Insurrection and ensuing small-scale nuclear exchange between the USA and USSR encourages isolationism in the month before the General Election. Noel-Baker's moderates sweep to power with a healthy majority, promising a policy of 'Britain First', even, most controversially, over parts of the Empire.
[8] The isolationist moderates are returned to power, as the UK continues to dump the last remnants of the Empire, suddenly and shockingly into an unexpected independence. The wounded Soviets clamp down exceptionally hard on a wholly Red Europe, only reinforcing the Britain First and Fortress Britannia vote.
[9] William Harrison replaced Noel-Baker after he resigned. Harrison made extensive reforms to agriculture, to try and improve Britain's diet and its soil after the war. However, he was easy to mock because of his poor education, and his poor literacy. This was to prove his undoing...
[10] After ruthlessly needling Harrison on the airwaves, in the press and from the dispatch box, Hogg leads the United Party back to power on a platform of 're-invigorated policy' - whatever that means. Hogg runs a tight ship, expanding British industry and trying to re-engage with the USA and the USSR.
[11] Taking over from the patrician Hogg following the Aden Crisis, Pym moved towards re-energising the United Party from within. In addition to restarting the old domestic nuclear power program, he also began promoting a number of equally youthful members to the Cabinet in an effort to hold off the challenge from John Peyton's Nationals and Ian Mikardo's Workers.
[12] The successful returning of the long occupied Channel Islands to UK sovereignty (yes, I know they aren't part of the UK, but you know what I mean) in exchange for diplomatic relations and significant investment in the decaying infrastructure of the long suffering People's Republic of France, helps the party back in to power with a stronger mandate. The Soviet Union's reluctantly allows this exchange do to minor reforming pressures domestically.
[13] Steel continues the policy of slowly continuing to roll back the isolationism of the 60's while further intergrating the surviving white commonwelath (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Rhodesia). In other news, the reconstruction of London is also nearing completion, with the city rising again as a modern, American style glass and steel metropolis, although much attention is given to reconstruction landmarks such as the Palace of Westmisnter, Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London etc and in the Far East, the Japanese are becoming increasingly tied up in a brutal counter insurgency campaign agaisnt Anglo-American backed rebels in Indonesia.
[14] The Moderates win a landslide victory, due to the economic boom of the early 1980s. [Japan: In 1985, the execution of 70-year-old human rights activist Ichio Asukata sparks weeks of peaceful protests from Tokyo to Seoul to Taihoku. Already frustrated by the economic downturn and the chaos in Indonesia, university students, intellectuals and workers jointly call for the return of Taisho democracy. Prime Minister Teruo Tojo brutally suppresses the protests, but Emperor Hirohito himself condemns the massacre, leading to the resignation of Tojo. In 1986, the first truly free election since 1932 is held. The opposition Japanese Alliance for Democracy defeats the ruling Taisei Yokusankai, and Emperor Hirohito appoints JAD leader Tetsuro Tamba Prime Minister of Japan.]
[15] The Workers get to power, on a policy of trying to moderate the Peoples Republics, in the fashion of France, and trying to show an example of how Stalinism isn't Socialism. They do however, need the help of the Moderates to form a government.
