Post of the Month for sure. Classic line.
Indeed! Perhaps TTL Britain becomes an agricultural powerhouse and eventually is the greatest beneficiary of the EEC's Common Agricultural Policy.
Also, Spain +1.
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Post of the Month for sure. Classic line.
trekaddictDonnieBaseball - What is this EEC you speak of? The Empire and Expanded Commonwealth perhaps?
It's the European Economic Community. In an alternate reality, Europe bands together after WW2 to control conflict through economic cooperation, the idea having been set forth by Winston Churchill's comments to form some kind of continental union. Also, years after being freed from Mussolini, Italy votes a closet fascist in power, several times! And Catholic clergy turns out to be largely pedarastic. And the Soviet Union is overthrown by a union leader from Poland. And dictator Fransisco Franco is STILL dead. And the US elects a chimp who declares wars left and right and has a few pet humans who pelt their opponents with feces.
Hey, don't laugh! I swear it's real!
+1 US prez
AC Anarchisto? Instead of a manager, they have an elected anarcho-syndicalist committee to manage the club.I'm not sure what anarchists would call a football club... or if they could manage to form one!
Would be, as The Chap (a sterling publication) calls him, that "..randy Italian dicator Silvio Berlusconi.."Italy votes a closet fascist in power
Voting for Spain in the hope that the Spanish Inquisition will get a mention. That would be the last thing anyone would expect. That and an Anglo-French detente. Well, the last two things that anyone would expect would be the Spanish Inquisition and an Anglo-French detente. And the Republicans actually surviving as a viable state. Alright, the last three things that anyone would expect would be...
There is also the fact that in this dystopian reality Labour sells the British great power status to the Americans for essentially free, gives the Communists Jet Engine tech for free and then goes on to destroy British Industry.
How did Labour sell Britain great power status?
How did Labour sell Britain great power status?
trekaddict - But surely no-one elects them again in that timeline? I mean after this Labour party ruins everything for everyone and then almost bankrupts the country surely they wouldn't keep getting elected?
Davout - Nobody expects the Hispano-Soviet Inquisition, their chief weapon is torture.