Labour wins in 1992 as predicted, receives blame for Black Wednesday and are immediately tarred again with economic incompetency a year into their first government in twelve years. The Conservatives MPs and membership elect Redwood after Major’s failure and ultimately win achieve a massive majority in 1997. Hitchens takes over from there.
Thatcher 🔵 1997-1990
Major 🔵 1990-1992
Kinnock 🔴 1992-1997
Redwood 🔵 1997-2000
Hitchens 🔵 2000-2030
(This feels more likely than Blair’s massive majority in 1997 collapsing in 2001 without a major divergence elsewhere - I can’t imagine road blockades or terrorist incidents notable enough for it to collapse entirely, although not a time period I know well so happy to hear how Blair could have lost it all)
Labour wins in 1992 as predicted, receives blame for Black Wednesday and are immediately tarred again with economic incompetency a year into their first government in twelve years. The Conservatives MPs and membership elect Redwood after Major’s failure and ultimately win achieve a massive majority in 1997. Hitchens takes over from there.
Thatcher 🔵 1997-1990
Major 🔵 1990-1992
Kinnock 🔴 1992-1997
Redwood 🔵 1997-2000
Hitchens 🔵 2000-2030
(This feels more likely than Blair’s massive majority in 1997 collapsing in 2001 without a major divergence elsewhere - I can’t imagine road blockades or terrorist incidents notable enough for it to collapse entirely, although not a time period I know well so happy to hear how Blair could have lost it all)
Maybe it’s a good thing that Hitchens, at least as extrapolated by you, never gained political power.
Great post, but what does it tell you about the author? I wonder if it’s too late to clone a few Hitchenses.
You should read ‘the Manifesto of a Meritocrat’ - there is still time…