Recent content by idumea

Horizon has likely been butterflied away by the lack of PFI contracts in the 1990s and the relative health of ICL and Fujitsu in this timeline.

Liz Truss in TTL's left-wing Labour and standing in Leeds makes perfect, awful sense, although I would not bet on her staying there for much longer. Her early republicanism which led her to OTL Liberal Democrats will have been tempered by the very different monarchies and geopolitics in this...

Yes, the Green is unlikely to vote with the UUP whereas individual UUs are more likely to agree with Progressives than the nationalist NILP. Community politics are thankfully less extreme here but the Stormont polity will still be less ideological and more independent than Wales or Scotland...

That does not seem particularly stable for Yr Rhyddfrydol to continue in coalition with a 1 seat majority after losing half their seats - surely Labour would also have sought a stronger deal with PC? I hope Jenny knows what she's doing.

The Tories would be sensible to do what they can in terms of a governing programme before throwing away their only shot at power in decades.

Does Britain deserve better?

You have got Nash and Campbell's final round vote percentages the other way around. A remarkable achievemnt for Mrs Nash - perhaps some who nominated her thinking she would not win will come to regret it.

The number of seats is smaller due to greater devolution and the presence of an elected Senate. A party in 1991 needs 317 seats for a majority.

Will Penhooligan narrowly avoid having to vote for a Conservative government as promised, barring some Patten/Blair or Sykes/Booth shenanigans?

Do any minor parties seek quotas of Life Senators for themselves, or are such Independents permitted to sit as members of fourth parties? I can imagine the SNP seeing a slow but consistent vote for themselves in the Senate along with the declining Liberal vote versus their unelected quotient...

I confess I thought he also died recently, and am glad to hear he is still alive, but having known and worked with Michael Meadowcroft in the past I am not sure he is the most reliable narrator of other Liberal Party figures in this period, given his own iconoclasm and marginalisation within the...

Johnston or Livsey or would be "sensible" choices - moderate, managerial, engaging background to the membership. But never underestimate the Liberal Federation's taste for penhooliganism or meadowcroftery.

A very minor point that Bradford Town Hall was renamed Bradford City Hall in OTL in 1965 and that it has never hosted election counts in the modern era, being too awkwardly shaped by far for large rooms and accommodating media presence. St. George's Hall or the Bradford Hilton would be local...

Keep it up, pip! :)

A bit of instability for a Labour minority government, but the only practical way to avoid a Conservative landslide at the next one.