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  1. WI: Ferguson sacked in 1990

    I've recently got round to watching BBC's Documentary about the early years of the Premier League, and was struck by how it is much it revolved around Manchester United's dominance in that era. This got me thinking about what English football might have looked like without Sir Alex Ferguson's...

  2. AHC: Dominant UK Rugby Code

    As sport fans in places where Rugby is popular will know, the game has been split into two codes since the end of the 19th century, when disputes over professionalism caused the largely working class, northern clubs broke away from the national union to found what would become 'Rugby League'...

  3. WI: Franco stranded in Morocco

    As most here will know, at the start of the Spanish Civil War, some of the nationalist's best troops were stationed in Morocco under the command of Franco, but due the Spanish navy remaining largely loyal to the Republic, he was unable to transport his troops across to the mainland. It was only...

  4. WI: Eurozone splits in two

    This might be a bit too current for post-1900, but I'm sticking it in here for now. At the height of the eurozone crisis, there were suggestions that it could split in to two currency unions, with Germany and a handful of other Northern European economies keeping the current 'hard' Euro, and the...

  5. The Politics of Respect: A British Political TL
    Threadmarks: Prologue

    Prologue The media room was filling up nicely. Normally press conferences were attended by only the regional press, but today, things were different. Every national outlet seemed to be represented. A few had even brought television cameras. All of them were here for one man. And he was running...

  6. WI: Shore becomes Labour Leader in 1980

    Apparently, Michael Foot had to be talked into running for the Labour leadership in 1980, and was initially going to back Peter Shore. From what I hear, Shore seems like an interesting party leader for this era. He was opposed to the electoral college, was in favour of the nuclear deterrent and...

  7. WI: Heath wins in 1974

    This is something that has been explored in other WIs but there are a few particular questions I have about it. Let's say Heath is returned in February 1974 with a ten seat cushion, something large enough to allow the Tories to govern for a while but not enough to make massive changes. What...

  8. WI: PP win the 2004 Spanish Election

    Let's say the Madrid bombings are either foiled, or the PP manage to respond a little better to its aftermath, and end up as the largest majority 5-10 seats off a majority, as the polls indicated up till then. What would Spain be like now? Would it be too late to avert the debt crisis...

  9. WI: FRG is a Presidential Republic?

    Browsing around the other day on a wiki article for Kurt Schumacher, I came across this Others might know a bit more about this than I do, but my questions are: -What would it take to get at least part of Schumacher's plans granted, and have the FRG become a Presidential, rather than...

  10. AHC: PM Charles Kennedy

    As the title suggests, your challenge is to make Charles Kennedy Prime Minister of the UK. The PoD must be after he was elected Lib Dem leader in 1999. Bonus points if he is elected under FPTP.

  11. AHC: Left Wing English Nationalism

    Your challenge is to have a left wing party advocating for English independence as a major force in contemporary UK politics, regularly polling at least around 10% in general elections. By left wing, I mean in the sense of being economically interventionist (this can mean anything from Social...

  12. WI: UK Adopts STV in 1918

    I was reading 'Prime Minister Boris and other things that never happened' a few months back, and one of the earlier chapters was devoted to what would have happened if the UK parliament had followed the recommendations of the 1917 Speakers Conference that advocated introducing the Single...

  13. AHC: Modern English Heptarchy

    Hope I have got the right forum for this, since the PoD would likely need to be pre-1900. Anyway, the challenge is to make the area covering modern England split up into four or more sovereign states. To make it a little easier, they do not necessarily have to be the same entities as in the...

  14. AHC: Wank Respect

    For those who don't know, Respect was a leftist party that grew out of opposition to the Iraq War in 2004. Last month it formally deregistered as a political party with the electoral commission. It didn't ever poll particularly highly on a national level, yet it was able to secure some...
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