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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Oct 14, 2014 21:42:00 GMT
An interesting one might be a Labour defeat at the 1929 general election.
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Post by carlton43 on Oct 14, 2014 23:23:51 GMT
What about a narrow Conservative victory in 1945 because a third of the Service Vote was lost and the rest was painstakingly repatriated to the home constituency of each serviceman rather than being apportioned across all constituencies?
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Post by neilm on Oct 15, 2014 1:01:14 GMT
The Gordon Banks one (Jimboo's link appears not to work on my phone), is that the one with Enoch Powell as PM and a stage of emergency linked to Northern Ireland? Who wrote it?
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Post by neilm on Oct 15, 2014 1:03:08 GMT
Also why is Alternate Political History in this section and not the main board? It's not really psephological.
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Post by Pimpernal on Oct 15, 2014 8:41:47 GMT
What if,
once upon a time
many many years ago
an amoeba decided not to divide itself
and lived happily ever after
the end.
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Post by The Bishop on Oct 15, 2014 10:30:34 GMT
The Gordon Banks one (Jimboo's link appears not to work on my phone), is that the one with Enoch Powell as PM and a stage of emergency linked to Northern Ireland? Who wrote it? That's the one  Written by Anthony Wells, now of UK Polling Report and YouGov fame - which is why I suspect he has let it slip into obscurity. As far as alternate histories go, one that hasn't been done much is Labour winning in 1951 (which, after all, nearly happened) |
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Post by mrhell on Oct 15, 2014 19:27:31 GMT
There are couple of others that people could look into both of which are points when John Major could have resigned but was saved by a margin of three votes. Firstly, there's the Maastricht Paving Motion vote which Major won by only three votes and he would have resigned if the vote had been lost. Secondly, there is the Conservative Party leadership election of 1995 where John Major received 218 votes which was three votes more than his private minimum.
While Anthony Wells effort is interesting it is rather bizarre.
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Post by Davıd Boothroyd on Oct 15, 2014 20:11:29 GMT
I'm not sure about those 'deciding moments' for Major. It's very easy to say in retrospect "if that had gone the other way, I'd have resigned". I suspect if it had actually happened, he might have felt he could still put up with it and remain PM.
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Post by Passwordless swanarcadian on Oct 16, 2014 16:17:30 GMT
I wonder what would have happened had Ted Heath lost Bexley in 1966 after just a few months as Conservative leader.
(Incidentally, I can't access the log-in page at the moment, I just get one of those sodding "Page cannot be displayed" messages).
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Oct 16, 2014 16:27:02 GMT
I wonder what would have happened had Ted Heath lost Bexley in 1966 after just a few months as Conservative leader. (Incidentally, I can't access the log-in page at the moment, I just get one of those sodding "Page cannot be displayed" messages). Iain MacLeod maybe? I doubt Maudling or Powell would have been able to beat him if he stood. |
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Post by Guest on Oct 16, 2014 17:24:56 GMT
Macleod in 1966? After having, as the party saw it, stitched up Douglas-Home with Enoch Powell? Still too raw. Reggie could have beaten him easily.
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Oct 16, 2014 17:36:23 GMT
Macleod in 1966? After having, as the party saw it, stitched up Douglas-Home with Enoch Powell? Still too raw. Reggie could have beaten him easily. It's all speculation here after all. But I can defer to that. Reggie as leader becomes a problem later on. |
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Post by john07 on Oct 17, 2014 14:21:22 GMT
Macleod in 1966? After having, as the party saw it, stitched up Douglas-Home with Enoch Powell? Still too raw. Reggie could have beaten him easily. It's all speculation here after all. But I can defer to that. Reggie as leader becomes a problem later on. When did news of the Gozo scandal break? |
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Post by neilm on Oct 17, 2014 14:47:28 GMT
I think the news of that actually broke after Poulson had been made bankrupt and after Maudling had resigned.
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Post by 🏴☠️ Neath West 🏴☠️ on Jul 15, 2022 19:21:56 GMT
I offer: what if Ibrahim Babangida had restored the monarchy in Nigeria? We all know that the 1993 Presidential election was a disaster that resulted in rioting, a half-arsed attempt to appoint a Governor-General-style figure, and a military coup. What if Babangida had had the sense to make having a Governor General plan A?
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