So, It Begins.
Not quite as dramatic as 'So, it has comes to this.' But what can you do?
Not quite as dramatic as 'So, it has comes to this.' But what can you do?
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I also hoped for some more drama, but you can't have it all it seems.
Drama? With all the killings, destruction and devastation that the war and Urquhart had caused?
Oh, I didn't mean that, sorry for bad expression. I was thinking only on situation in Britain where it looks like that invasion force will have quite an easy job with neutralizing confused defenders who had already exhausted themselves during internal fighting.
While we're at British affairs, do you already have any plans for future political landscape in liberated UK? Will be Canadians parachuting Theresa May or someone else into Downing Street?
Probably the British Revolution of the 1920s butterflied in such a way the fates of May's parents that she was sent to nothingness, as Boris Johnson, for instance.
I have plans, well, FU has plans for the UK... Indeed... To sum up, Britain is going to go back to his glittering past...
May 25th - June 20th, 2005
In just ten days, the Entente landed five Canadian army corps and six US one. Facing them, just five enemy brigades. Soon Edinburgh and Glasgow were quickly overrun, having the Canadian 7th Armoured Brigade entering Glasgow, crushing any opposition that the few Scottish troops dared to offer.
In fact there was no figthing, as most of the enemy forces surrendered or simply swifted sides, not only because they were so terribly underpowered, but also because of the chaos that had settled in the Brisith Isles. Among the prisoners wa the so-called "das Komissar" Nigel Farage, a war criminal who was quietly put under an special guard, as Urquhart had a "special design" just for him.
By June 20th, all Scotland had been freed by the Etente troops, that were massing in front of Sunderland and Carlisle reading to race towards London.
In just ten days, the Entente landed five Canadian army corps and six US one. Facing them, just five enemy brigades. Soon Edinburgh and Glasgow were quickly overrun, having the Canadian 7th Armoured Brigade entering Glasgow, crushing any opposition that the few Scottish troops dared to offer.
In fact there was no figthing, as most of the enemy forces surrendered or simply swifted sides, not only because they were so terribly underpowered, but also because of the chaos that had settled in the Brisith Isles. Among the prisoners wa the so-called "das Komissar" Nigel Farage, a war criminal who was quietly put under an special guard, as Urquhart had a "special design" just for him.
By June 20th, all Scotland had been freed by the Etente troops, that were massing in front of Sunderland and Carlisle reading to race towards London.
Nigel Farage fighting in Scotland? He should have raised his very own People's Army in England, he'd have much better chances then.
He was leading a party of soldiers of the Ministry of Itnerior qwho was trying to craete a loyalist army to put down the Republic of the Scots,,,,
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June 20th, 2005
With the Entente troops massing in Scotland, the Beckett government's frantics efforts to contact Urquhart and/or Clooney mutiplied themselves without any result. Corbyn, on his part, began to feel in his flesh the desertions of his close collaborators who run away frmo the crumbling Syndicalist rump state. Utterley hopeless, Corbyn boarded a plane towards th Continent, but the Syndicalist leader never reached the mainland as the plane, after taking off, vanishedi over the North Sea, the path selected by the pilot to avoid the hostile lands to the sout hand the even more Irish hostile island to the west.
Finally, General George Castle was sent to Sweden in order to contact Entente diplomats. Among the representatives of the allies, there was the Canadian ambassador to Sweden, sir Roger Howard Campbell, and two generals sent by Uruqhart and Clooney, the American William Brandon Sanders and the Canadian Kenneth Stone. Initially, Urquhart was not entirely happy about the proposal of a surrender of the Union of Britain, as its defeat was considered only a matter of time. In addition to this, he was not in the mood to admit the legality of any "British" government but his own.
Meanwhile, the Entente troops began to advance, just crushing the weakened and demoralized Syndicalist troops they found in their path. The troops loyal to the " goverment" in London found themselves in a predicament. Some of them simply surrendere to the invading army, offering their services, while other simply tried to withdraw to the south until the enemy air power suggested them that this move was a bad idea.
In the end, the Entente offer was simple and straigthforward: Unconditional Surrender.
With the Entente troops massing in Scotland, the Beckett government's frantics efforts to contact Urquhart and/or Clooney mutiplied themselves without any result. Corbyn, on his part, began to feel in his flesh the desertions of his close collaborators who run away frmo the crumbling Syndicalist rump state. Utterley hopeless, Corbyn boarded a plane towards th Continent, but the Syndicalist leader never reached the mainland as the plane, after taking off, vanishedi over the North Sea, the path selected by the pilot to avoid the hostile lands to the sout hand the even more Irish hostile island to the west.
Finally, General George Castle was sent to Sweden in order to contact Entente diplomats. Among the representatives of the allies, there was the Canadian ambassador to Sweden, sir Roger Howard Campbell, and two generals sent by Uruqhart and Clooney, the American William Brandon Sanders and the Canadian Kenneth Stone. Initially, Urquhart was not entirely happy about the proposal of a surrender of the Union of Britain, as its defeat was considered only a matter of time. In addition to this, he was not in the mood to admit the legality of any "British" government but his own.
Meanwhile, the Entente troops began to advance, just crushing the weakened and demoralized Syndicalist troops they found in their path. The troops loyal to the " goverment" in London found themselves in a predicament. Some of them simply surrendere to the invading army, offering their services, while other simply tried to withdraw to the south until the enemy air power suggested them that this move was a bad idea.
In the end, the Entente offer was simple and straigthforward: Unconditional Surrender.
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June 20th, 2005, Western Front
Two hundred and thirty miles (three hundred and seventy kilometres) was the distance that separated the germanorssian troops in the Rhine from Paris. The offensive began on 04:35 on June 15 with an intense bombardment against the enemy positions, almost destroying their capacity to respond; a battalion commander in the French 68th Infantry Division stated "Before the bombardment began, I had an understrength battalion [...] after the smoke of the enemyt preparation cleared [...] I had only a platoon of combat effective soldiers left".
By 10:00 the main armored exploitation force of the Fourth Panzer Army moved forward in the center of the line, followed by the rest of the army and the Tsarist 3rd Guards and 4th Tank Armies. The two French armies defending the front were heavily outnumbered and outgunned. The Syndicalist armored reserves of the central front, the XXIV Corps Blindé Mécanisé, were committed, but had suffered serious damage by the time they reached the front line because of the enemy air attacks.
By the night of June 20, the frontline was broken and the French began to withdraw.
To the north, the Russian 3rd Army Group opened its attack on the French 9th Army aiming its advance towards Brussels; the 2nd and 1st Guards Tank Armies were deployed behind, ready to exploit the breach. By the end of June 15 they had advance 30 kms. If they kept that pace, in three days they would reach the capital of Belgium.
By then, the French reserves could only cover the withdrawal of the main force. THen, as in Paris noticed that the British sindicalist troops were not taking part in the actions, they decided to move against them.
Two hundred and thirty miles (three hundred and seventy kilometres) was the distance that separated the germanorssian troops in the Rhine from Paris. The offensive began on 04:35 on June 15 with an intense bombardment against the enemy positions, almost destroying their capacity to respond; a battalion commander in the French 68th Infantry Division stated "Before the bombardment began, I had an understrength battalion [...] after the smoke of the enemyt preparation cleared [...] I had only a platoon of combat effective soldiers left".
By 10:00 the main armored exploitation force of the Fourth Panzer Army moved forward in the center of the line, followed by the rest of the army and the Tsarist 3rd Guards and 4th Tank Armies. The two French armies defending the front were heavily outnumbered and outgunned. The Syndicalist armored reserves of the central front, the XXIV Corps Blindé Mécanisé, were committed, but had suffered serious damage by the time they reached the front line because of the enemy air attacks.
By the night of June 20, the frontline was broken and the French began to withdraw.
To the north, the Russian 3rd Army Group opened its attack on the French 9th Army aiming its advance towards Brussels; the 2nd and 1st Guards Tank Armies were deployed behind, ready to exploit the breach. By the end of June 15 they had advance 30 kms. If they kept that pace, in three days they would reach the capital of Belgium.
By then, the French reserves could only cover the withdrawal of the main force. THen, as in Paris noticed that the British sindicalist troops were not taking part in the actions, they decided to move against them.
June 25th, 2005, Paris
When Coulais removed most of the General Staff and filled the empty places wioth his most trusted (but not the most skilled) Generals, he made a momentuous decision: to name General Marie Esme Patrice Bazaine as chief of the General Staff. That made some officers to mutter an omminous "Nous marchons à un désastre." ("We are walking into a disaster"). They were right, however.
Bazaine, who was by then 60 years on, was an energetic and distinguished offcier that had prvoed his valour as "foreign attaché", that, military advisor, to many Sydnicalist friednly countries, being as bold as visiting the frontline to see how the troops the he was training were perfoming and don't hesitating to take arms and join the fight, soemthing that he was quite prone to do. However, his actions in Africa had made him to be called "the most dangerous kind of offcier, both stupid and intensely energetic", in love with his own idea of the French grandeur and of his own glory. However, while Bazaine was moderately energetic, the truth was that he was intensely stupid.
That was the kind of man that was named head of the Combined Staff of the Armed Forces of the Commune of France.
To make things more interesting, Bazine's chief of Staff was General Edmond Challe, a carrer officer who had not seen a single day of battle. He excelled in planning and preparations, though he was quite reluctant to risk battle. Probably no soldier who did so little fighting had ever his qualities as a commander so fiercely tested. Luckily for Paris, the good points of the two men matched their weakness.
When Coulais removed most of the General Staff and filled the empty places wioth his most trusted (but not the most skilled) Generals, he made a momentuous decision: to name General Marie Esme Patrice Bazaine as chief of the General Staff. That made some officers to mutter an omminous "Nous marchons à un désastre." ("We are walking into a disaster"). They were right, however.
Bazaine, who was by then 60 years on, was an energetic and distinguished offcier that had prvoed his valour as "foreign attaché", that, military advisor, to many Sydnicalist friednly countries, being as bold as visiting the frontline to see how the troops the he was training were perfoming and don't hesitating to take arms and join the fight, soemthing that he was quite prone to do. However, his actions in Africa had made him to be called "the most dangerous kind of offcier, both stupid and intensely energetic", in love with his own idea of the French grandeur and of his own glory. However, while Bazaine was moderately energetic, the truth was that he was intensely stupid.
That was the kind of man that was named head of the Combined Staff of the Armed Forces of the Commune of France.
To make things more interesting, Bazine's chief of Staff was General Edmond Challe, a carrer officer who had not seen a single day of battle. He excelled in planning and preparations, though he was quite reluctant to risk battle. Probably no soldier who did so little fighting had ever his qualities as a commander so fiercely tested. Luckily for Paris, the good points of the two men matched their weakness.
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June 26th, 2005, London
When General Godwin-Austen finally reached the headquarters of the new regime, something unexpected happened there. First the news of Tucker's survival began to spread in spite of the efforts of the new government to avoid it. Suddenly, Godwin-Austen exploded in anger, berating Beckett and his followers as a pack of fools that had opened the gates of the British Isles to the enmy invasion. The probllem was this, that THEY and not Tucker had brought the enemy onslaught to the British shores, and THEY and not Tucker would be remembered as the ones who caused the demise of the Syndicalist cause, that, in this way, would survive into the future as a Lost Cause, as the Confederacy, and as wicked as that damned institution, Godwin-Austen ended.
Even worse, because THEY, that is, Becket and the putschists, had force him, Godwin-Austen to play a traitor twice, "Damned you all", he added. Thus, here and there, he ordered his soldiers to arrest the whole cabinet and then directed the forces under his command to put down the rebellion while adressing to the nation that he, Godwin-Austen, was restoring the legal authroity of the Tucker regim. When the British leader heard the unexpected development in London, he could only mutter his most well know motto:
-What the F****!!!
The battle for the government area lasted about two hours. Some, like General Beckett and the Foreign Minister Harris were captured and put under guard. Others, General Oliver, were shot while attempting to escape. A cadre of the more desperate officers, including Sorrell, were to fight until the end. Their bodies will be found later on. By the afternoon of June 26th, the loyalist are back in power, but for a few nests of resistance, and Godwin-Austen is basically master of London.
As the day began to fade, Godwin-Austen, gathering the survivors of the former gabinet, began to try to recover the rest of the country while trying to contact Tucker, away in Paris, and still shocked by all the events of the last few days.
When General Godwin-Austen finally reached the headquarters of the new regime, something unexpected happened there. First the news of Tucker's survival began to spread in spite of the efforts of the new government to avoid it. Suddenly, Godwin-Austen exploded in anger, berating Beckett and his followers as a pack of fools that had opened the gates of the British Isles to the enmy invasion. The probllem was this, that THEY and not Tucker had brought the enemy onslaught to the British shores, and THEY and not Tucker would be remembered as the ones who caused the demise of the Syndicalist cause, that, in this way, would survive into the future as a Lost Cause, as the Confederacy, and as wicked as that damned institution, Godwin-Austen ended.
Even worse, because THEY, that is, Becket and the putschists, had force him, Godwin-Austen to play a traitor twice, "Damned you all", he added. Thus, here and there, he ordered his soldiers to arrest the whole cabinet and then directed the forces under his command to put down the rebellion while adressing to the nation that he, Godwin-Austen, was restoring the legal authroity of the Tucker regim. When the British leader heard the unexpected development in London, he could only mutter his most well know motto:
-What the F****!!!
The battle for the government area lasted about two hours. Some, like General Beckett and the Foreign Minister Harris were captured and put under guard. Others, General Oliver, were shot while attempting to escape. A cadre of the more desperate officers, including Sorrell, were to fight until the end. Their bodies will be found later on. By the afternoon of June 26th, the loyalist are back in power, but for a few nests of resistance, and Godwin-Austen is basically master of London.
As the day began to fade, Godwin-Austen, gathering the survivors of the former gabinet, began to try to recover the rest of the country while trying to contact Tucker, away in Paris, and still shocked by all the events of the last few days.
These SyNdiEz really can't live without infighting even during the time of worst trouble.
Well, all the dictatorships are always made of people not capable of sharing power, you know...
June 20th, 2005, Glasgow
By late June, as the Entente troops massed in Scotland, an argument broke among the Beckett government.
As early as June 1st, John Brown, a member of the British Socialist Workers' Party, contacted the Swedes and asked them if they could mediate in the war. Brown did not get any positive assurances from ther Swedish government. With the news of the Entente landing in Scotland, Brown decided to seek peace.He wanted to dissolve the Beckett cabinet and replace it with a new government, since he thought the Western democracies were determined by anti-syndicalism and anti-militarism and wouldn't trust the presence of so many generals in the provisional government. Then he contacted Colonel Sigfried Cornwall, commander of the Reserve units in Sussex, to discuss a coup.
As the Entente troops raced towards the Scottish border, a leading British General, John Monarch, who had supreme command of the Northern Command that protected the Scottish border, communicated with Becket asking him permission to negotiate a peace given the extreme weakness of his forces.
By late June, as the Entente troops massed in Scotland, an argument broke among the Beckett government.
As early as June 1st, John Brown, a member of the British Socialist Workers' Party, contacted the Swedes and asked them if they could mediate in the war. Brown did not get any positive assurances from ther Swedish government. With the news of the Entente landing in Scotland, Brown decided to seek peace.He wanted to dissolve the Beckett cabinet and replace it with a new government, since he thought the Western democracies were determined by anti-syndicalism and anti-militarism and wouldn't trust the presence of so many generals in the provisional government. Then he contacted Colonel Sigfried Cornwall, commander of the Reserve units in Sussex, to discuss a coup.
As the Entente troops raced towards the Scottish border, a leading British General, John Monarch, who had supreme command of the Northern Command that protected the Scottish border, communicated with Becket asking him permission to negotiate a peace given the extreme weakness of his forces.
Beckett then met Cornwall on June 20. Cornwall told him bluntly that the loss of Scotland had settles the course of the war. Also, there was an alarming shortage of raw materials. He said that "Under the circumstances we cannot produce the indispensable minimum for continuing the struggle." Beckett agreed that the situation was extremely grave, but said that they could not simply give up, to the amazement of Cornwall.
Maybe you should release Scotland as royal dominion just to show remaining Syndies in London that you're totally serious with full anti-Syndicalist stance?
Methinks that Urquhart wants the old United Kingdom, specially the first part of it 