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    Praying for Mazda

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    Cameron's majority

    Looks like the OP posted it in the map thread first.
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    How "bad" was Italian fascism?

    Mussolini was a pragmatist and believed that overt racist rhetoric and laws would alienate foreign markets and allies, and potentially stir domestic dissent. He was particularly conscious of this around the time of Hitler's rise to power and feared being tarred with the same brush, so he made a...
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    The Weimar Republic institutes Hitler's economic policies

    The public works/infrastructure investment (including autobahns) had already started before the Nazis came to power; Hitler had actually wanted to cancel them, although he was rapidly persuaded to U-turn after he took office.
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    AH Vignette: Remain Means Remain

    I mean, there's nothing to stop the Guardian interviewing some brawny crime-solving Malaysian lifeguards for their views on a win for In.
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    Alternate Wikipedia Infoboxes IV (Do not post Current Politics Here)

    I don't think he was ever in the orbit of the NILP (except possibly in 1971, when he and a couple of other Unionists crossed the floor to join Vivian Simpson in the Official Opposition after the SDLP walked out of Stormont, but that was just to keep Stormont functioning), and if he had been he'd...
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    List of U.K. Prime Ministers 1945-2020

    No worries - I didn't realise I'd buggered the italics up, hopefully fixed now.
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    List of U.K. Prime Ministers 1945-2020

    Yes, February 1960 based on the timing of 1950 and presumably 1955, that's what I followed. Hence votes to prolong Parliament at the start of January 1960 and in the following years (the same annual process as during the War). Democracy postponed at home as well as in the colonies.
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    List of U.K. Prime Ministers 1945-2020

    New Democracy- The Liberals agree to an electoral alliance with the Conservatives, Unionists, UUP and National Liberals, resulting in the foundation of the New Democratic Party. 1950: Winston Churchill (New Democratic) [1] 1955: Winston Churchill (New Democratic) [2] 1957: Rab Butler (New...
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    Plausability, Hughes wins 16 Republicans bedome progressive party

    Protectionism was a left-wing position in American politics? The US never ceases to amaze me.
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    WI: Little new Commonwealth immigration to the UK after WW2

    Significantly weaker levels of economic growth, and inflation would be even more of a problem with greater upward pressure on wages than in OTL.
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    PC: Coup via Privy Council?

    A good question. As I said, Parliament can always vote to change the law, and what happened in both World Wars is that Parliament passed laws to prolong the term of the Parliament. It did that repeatedly, each extension only adding 7 (in WWI) or 12 (in WWII) months at a time to the life of that...
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    PC: Coup via Privy Council?

    Fundamental issues in law: 1) Legally, the dissolution of Parliament occurs automatically every 5 years, and the proclamation summoning a new parliament and writs for election to that parliament must be made/issued when that dissolution happens. That was also the case before the 2011 Fixed...
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    TLIAW: For Want Of A Paragraph

    I never realised how close together David Miliband's eyes are. Very excited to see how this develops. Also: Literally Michael Foot.
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    AHC: Who is the worst person you can get leading your nation?

    I'm not at all convinced about that. I think history suggests that the more elections a party loses, the more moderate its leadership gets; and a Tory loss in 1970 will probably be blamed on the proto-Thatcherite "Selsdon Man" platform - I'd say Reggie Maudling is the most likely successor if...
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    Man of Celluloid? Earliest possible superhero film franchise

    There were two films based on The Shadow franchise, in 1937 and 1938 (as well as a serial in 1940). Both films had the same lead, but character and actor seem to have been the only connections between them, and they went entirely for standard noir characterisation. If they had instead utilised...
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    Agent Lavender: The Flight of Harold Wilson

    I'm not sure that's entirely accurate - he did become more Conservative as he got older, and I think he always favoured them over Labour, but I'd say he was still on the Liberal/Conservative cusp in the late 70s (supporting Jeremy Thorpe, going on protests against South Africa, hanging out with...
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    WI: Republicans win the Spanish Civil War

    The Republican side only became a Soviet client after Negrin took over and brought the PCE into the centre of government. Keep either Giral or Largo in power long enough for a Republican victory, and the Communists will never be more than a minor influence; even with Negrin leading, have Britain...
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    The Quiet Coup: The Fall of Gordon Brown

    Yes, he is.
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    WI: Hitler waits for Soviet invasion

    Because Japan still exists. Stalin was terrified of fighting a war on two fronts. That's why, even after the formal alliance with Britain and America, the Soviets refused to declare war on Japan until the war in Europe was over; it's why Stalin delayed Soviet entry into Poland in 1939 until he'd...
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