Oh look, somebody's published the Stetchford result by mistake and replaced the name of the Liberal candidate with that of Labour's James Callaghan....
I swear Tommy, if this AAR were written by almost anyone else I'd probably quit reading out of sheer ahistorical frustration at this point. The only possible plausible justification for Callaghan doing that would be that the Liberals have been
so successful in securing the support of the right-wing unions that virtually
all of them have defected en masse to the Liberal party. Doing so would in effect make large swathes of the Liberal Party indistinguishable from the right of the Labour Party in our timeline, with the old guard composing a minute (albeit not insignificant politically) percentage of the parliamentary party and bearded vegetarian activists if any confined to the furtherest-away fringes of the party machine. Antonine is quite right to say that this is a
very different Liberal party indeed.
Social Democrats in command, old guard liberals disproportionately (heh) influential albeit significantly outnumbered and beardies all but nonexistent - it's everything the Alliance should've been and more.
That's what we want, by God.