Characters / TRO Britain

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United Kingdom

Official Name: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Ruling Party: Conservative Party - One Nation

Ideology: One-Nation Conservatism^note Traditional Conservatism

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• Conscription: In order to maintain control over its colonies, the UK maintains a bloated military, conscripting generation after generation of young men. Outside of Northern Ireland, all British male citizens must serve at least 18 months, usually in one of the tropical colonies.
• The Empire: In 1962, Britain is the largest empire in the world, master of Europe, suzerain over a dozen nations. Countless petty autocrats in Africa and Asia remain propped up by the grace of London, selling off their nations' liberty to secure their own power.
• Evil Colonialist: The British Empire spends almost a tenth of its GDP on 'defence', and constantly crushes native rebellions with massive brutality.
• Government in Exile: After King Christian X of Denmark's death, his sons managed to avoid the people's justice and fled to the UK. The ECO continues to recognise their claim to the throne of Denmark.
• Historical Downgrade: Since the developers do not want to use people who served in this capacity in real life, Harold Wilson cannot become Prime Minister of the UK (Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan do not have proper paths for themselves). Instead, he only serves as Chancellor of the Exchequer and later Secretary of State for Economic Affairs under Tony Greenwood.
• Pragmatic Villainy: In contrast to the hardline Monday Club Tories, the Labour Party advocates for decolonisation, giving up the Empire to replace it with neocolonialism, a much more sustainable system of exploitation.
• Pyrrhic Victory: Although the UK manages to win the Suez Crisis by assassinating Gamal Abdel Nasser, this also leads to the collapse of Bretton Woods, causing a massive economic crisis and kickstarting the Cold War between the ICA and the ECO.

Anthony Eden

Role: Prime Minister^note Head of Government

Party: Conservative Party - One Nation

Ideology: One-Nation Conservatism^note Traditional Conservatism

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• Allohistorical Allusion: Despite the changes from our world and while it doesn't end the UK as a superpower, Eden's term still ends with him resigning in disgrace after botching a confrontation with Nasser over the Suez Canal.
• Et Tu, Brute?: When his friend Harold Macmillan calls Eden out for his mishandling of the Suez Crisis, he tries to ask if any of the other ministers are going to side with him, only to be met with silence, and can only respond with:
  Et tu, et tu to the whole lot of you trait—
• Hypocrite: Eden justifies his killing of Gamal Abdel Nasser by calling him a fascist, despite ruling the world's largest colonial empire.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: His solution to Suez crisis is to order Nasser killed.

Harold Macmillan

Role: Prime Minister^note Head of Government (Eden succession)

Party: Conservative Party - One Nation

Ideology: One-Nation Conservatism^note Traditional Conservatism

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• Short-Lived Leadership: Due to a misdiagnosis of prostate cancer, Macmillan announces his resignation as leader of the Conservative Party and Prime Minister, effective immediately after the 1963 general election, having led the UK for only eight months.
• The Starscream: Macmillan, Eden's Home Secretary, backstabs his boss following the Suez Crisis, forcing Eden to resign so he could take full control as the far more capable and level-headed man.

Rab Butler

Role: Prime Minister^note Head of Government (1963 election)

Party: Conservative Party - One Nation

Ideology: One-Nation Conservatism^note Traditional Conservatism

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Enoch Powell

^{1968 portrait} 

Role: Prime Minister^note Head of Government (1963 election)

Party: Conservative Party - Rightist

Ideology: Fiscal Conservatism

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• Enemy Mine: Powell seeks détente with the Soviet Union in order to turn Great Britain's focus in the Cold War against the United States, perceiving the USSR as the easier enemy to work with.

Patrick Wall

Role: Prime Minister^note Head of Government (1963 election)

Party: Conservative and Unionist Party - Monday Club

Ideology: High Toryism^note Anocracy

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show} A Marine Commando. A stalwart of the Conservative Right. A devout Catholic. An ardent Anti-Communist. A proud patriot of the British Empire. And now, Prime Minister. Patrick Wall is many things, but just who is this man, with whom the fate of millions now rests?

Raised as a dedicated Catholic, Wall holds two things dearest. Love of God, and love of Country. Having served in the Royal Marines for 15 years, joining the Commandos upon their formation and fighting from Normandy to the Rhine, Wall entered into politics following a narrow election victory in 1951, soon becoming known for his staunch conservatism, vigorous defense of Empire and uncompromising nature, traits which made the Monday Club a natural home for him. Both on the campaign trail and now in office, Wall has made one thing abundantly clear to Britain, and indeed the world. So long as he sits in Number 10, the British Empire shall endure.

To many observers, this has made him akin to the face of evil. Many think he is delusional, clinging to fantasies of an old and decaying empire. Others believe that his election, while tragic, is simply the last gasp of a dying system, with defeat the only possible outcome.

To think this is to make a fatal underestimation. He did not become Prime Minister simply through a cloying desire to hold onto past glories. He sees the flaws in the Empire as clearly as any other. Currently, it is a disgraceful display of incompetence, division and unrest. He sees these flaws and challenges, and has resolved to tackle them head-on.

The spectre of anti-colonialism shall be excised with vigorous reinforcement and reform. The Empire and Commonwealth will be reforged stronger than ever, with bonds to London that are not merely unbreakable, but ones which no-one would ever wish to ever break in the first place. The ambition of this great project is only matched by the difficulty and violent opposition it shall face, for Wall's vision is nothing less than an Empire Eternal, one on which the Sun shall truly never set.

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• Appeal to Tradition: Wall knows that the Monday Club has an image problem, one they need to fix if they want to cement themselves as popular. Instead of attacking these things, they focus on promoting traditional values and social conservatism.
• Dystopia Is Hard: As Prime Minister, Wall will find it very difficult to maintain Britain's colonial empire all the way to the 1970s.
• Evil Colonialist: As the representative of the Monday Club within the Tories, Wall is the most openly and potentially violently imperialist potential Prime Minister of the UK.
• President Evil: Wall is the most far-right and overtly imperialistic politician that can be elected Prime Minister of the UK.
• Visionary Villain: Wall dreams of making Britain an Empire Eternal where the Sun will truly never set.

Hugh Gaitskell

^{1968 portrait} 

Role: Prime Minister^note Head of Government (1963 election)

Party: Labour Party - Right

Ideology: Liberal Socialism^note Social Democracy

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Tony Greenwood

1968 Portrait

Role: Prime Minister^note Head of Government (1963 election)

Party: Labour Party - Left

Ideology: Democratic Socialism^note Socialism

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• Internal Reformist: The representative of Labour's left wing, Greenwood believes in transitioning Britain to socialism, while rejecting both milquetoast reforms and the dictatorship of the proletariat.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Greenwood was the first Chair of Labor Friends of Israel and is a passionate supporter of Israel since his days of traveling in the Middle East as Walter Monckton's secretary. If he becomes the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, he will push hard for Israel to join a formal alliance with the United Kingdom in the post-Suez world.