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  1. WW1 starts with Tanks

    Back to my speculation or Ireland, how would the Government reacted to someone in Carson's UVF with connections to Harland and Wolf converting a handful or armoured cars in 1912-14.

  2. AHC: A country enacts female-biased immigration.

    Well considering the alternative at the time was often the noose for even petty theft it wasn't that bad a deal for the convicts. Seven years (or fourteen) work followed by a chance to start a new life in the colonies is a lot better than three weeks prison followed by dangling at the end of a...

  3. Surname of Female Monarch Following Marriage to Equal?

    As far as I know Mary Tudor (Bloody Mary) was still Mary Tudor even though she was married to Phillip II of Spain, and Mary Stuart (Queen of Scots) was still Mary Stuart even though she was married to the King of France

  4. What if Churchill didn't under-estimate the Turks at gallipoli?

    It didn't help that the officers in charge of the Gallipoli operation weren't the first team, who were busy in France and the North Sea.

  5. WW1 starts with Tanks

    Britain COULD have invested in armoured cars for security in an increasingly tense Ireland that was on the brink of Civil War.

  6. WI: Government of India Act 1935 introduced in 1919

    Some should have anyway, they were the ones blocking the transfer of food from other Indian provinces to Bengal.

  7. WI: Government of India Act 1935 introduced in 1919

    From what I understand (and I could be wrong) what really upset the Indian politicians wasn't so much that India was involved but that the Viceroy declared war on Germany without even having the curtesy to inform them first, let alone actually consult with them before doing it. With an extra 20...

  8. WW1 starts with Tanks

    Not when you consider that the alternative is the horse. While the horse can achieve a higher top speed it can't sustain it for very long. A tracked vehicle able to sustain 6-8 mph (Like the Whippet of 1918) for several hours at a time will soon outpace horse patrols.

  9. WW1 starts with Tanks

    Put a Rolls Royce Armoured Car body on the running gear of a Hornsby Artillery Tractor. Job done. However you're not going to get massed ranks of the things in 1914. At most you'd get a company per division for scouting and support. These things are expensive and as yet untested.

  10. DIXIE GOES DOWN!

    You might want a title that sounds less like a porn film.

  11. Earning the vote through National Service of some type.

    I'm just speculating on what if. I personally think it's far too open to abuse to work.

  12. What if Britain lost World War I.

    At which point the British Government gets off fairly lightly with the British population. They'll be saying at every chance "It's France and Russia that were beaten not Britain. Our armies were still building up and not in a position to do more than save themselves by withdrawing to the...

  13. The Germans build carriers, instead of battleships, prior to WW2

    That's not going to fool anyone, particularly the British who looked at the same idea.

  14. Earning the vote through National Service of some type.

    And in this system the abuse is not who get's to take part or not as the laws would specifically prevent that. Rather as the individual would have little choice as to what role they have to fill, who gets the most dangerous jobs with the highest risks to life and limb and who gets to sit in a...

  15. Earning the vote through National Service of some type.

    Every political system that's ever been tried has proved to be open to abuse.

  16. Earning the vote through National Service of some type.

    Even conscripts ultimately have to make the choice to serve rather than attempt to dodge the draft. For example in the US many draft dodgers went to Canada rather than serve.

  17. Earning the vote through National Service of some type.

    Limiting it to those willing to earn it, and having had earn it be less likely to take it for granted.

  18. Earning the vote through National Service of some type.

    This is why I'm modifying the idea so that you don't have to serve in the military, but can also do so in some government run program that benefits the nation as a whole. Conservation, Forestry, Nation infrastructure construction and maintenance, social health care ect. The point being you...

  19. Earning the vote through National Service of some type.

    That's true but in the book those tasks (even according to an example given in the book of counting the hair on a caterpillar) were performed while technically in the military.

  20. Earning the vote through National Service of some type.

    I want to speculate on a variation of something Robert Heinlein set out in his book Starship Troopers. (Note I mean the book itself not the terrible films). The basic idea is that in order to gain the Vote the citizen must undertake a term of National Service. Now in the book that's military...
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