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* FictionalPoliticalParties: By the end of the timeline, most of the major political parties in the [[spoiler:1977]] General Election have changed their names from OTL. Led by Roy Jenkins and Tony Benn, the Labour Party have renamed themselves [[spoiler:The Democrats]], Ted Heath is leading a Conservative/Liberal coalition that is implied to become [[spoiler:The Moderates]] whilst Enoch Powell is leading a large number of right-wing Conservatives, Monetarists and Ulstermen as a newly formed [[spoiler:Unionist Party]].
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* FictionalPoliticalParties: FictionalPoliticalParty: By the end of the timeline, most of the major political parties in the [[spoiler:1977]] General Election have changed their names from OTL. Led by Roy Jenkins and Tony Benn, the Labour Party have renamed themselves [[spoiler:The Democrats]], Ted Heath is leading a Conservative/Liberal coalition that is implied to become [[spoiler:The Moderates]] Moderates]], whilst Enoch Powell is leading a large number of right-wing Conservatives, Monetarists and Ulstermen as a newly formed [[spoiler:Unionist Party]].
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* HotLine: [[spoiler: Margaret Thatcher]] and Brezhnev are connected via a primitive form of this. The sexism of the leader of the Comintern's does little damage, thanks to careful translators.
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* HotLine: [[spoiler: Margaret Thatcher]] and Brezhnev are connected via a primitive form of this. The sexism of the leader of the Comintern's does little damage, thanks to careful translators. A more sophisticated version later puts President Ford in touch with [[spoiler:Lord Mountbatten]].
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* InMediasRes: Chapter Seven begins with a man being hit in the head with a cricket bat, and goes on to explain the chain of events that led to this.
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* InMediasRes: Chapter Seven begins with a man being hit in the head with a cricket bat, and goes on to explain the chain of events that led to this. Part Three commences with a nuclear submarine surfacing in the Arctic Ocean, with similar explanations as to why it is there.
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* ReportingNames: The title comes from Wilson's, Lavender. We also meet Tulip and Lily early on, and [[spoiler: Stafford Cripps]] is later implied to have been 'Agent Petunia' at some point.
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* ReportingNames: The title comes from Wilson's, Lavender. We also meet Tulip and Lily early on, and [[spoiler: Stafford Cripps]] is later implied to have been 'Agent Petunia' at some point. Yet another, [[spoiler:Primrose]] only appears in the closing paragraph.
* UnexplainedRecovery: Quite how [[spoiler:John Stonehouse]] turns up in Havana, albeit in a wheelchair, is never fully explained.
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"Certainly, Mr Heath."]]
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"Certainly, Mr Heath."]]
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* TheVietnamWar: In a memory sequence, it is revealed that Wilson kept British troops out of 'nam on Moscow's orders.
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** Additionally, one recurring character would IOTL grow up to be a major power-broker in the Labour Party. Here he's a rambunctious student activist.
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Beginning on a chilly night in November 1975, Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, First Lord of the Treasury, Leader of the Labour Party and Soviet agent decides that to rather abruptly leave office. Why? He's an agent of the KGB, and has been since the 1930s. What follows is a grand chase around East Anglia, constitutional coups by civil servants, slash fiction involving Roy Jenkins and shady cabals of forces of the democratic left and the rather more undemocratic right.
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Beginning on a chilly night in November 1975, Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, First Lord of the Treasury, Leader of the Labour Party and Soviet agent decides that to rather abruptly leave office. Why? He's an agent of the KGB, and has been since the 1930s. What follows is a grand chase around East Anglia, constitutional coups by civil servants, slash fiction involving Roy Jenkins and shady cabals of forces of the democratic left and the rather more undemocratic right.
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Beginning on a chilly night in November 1975, Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, First Lord of the Treasury, Leader of the Labour Party and Soviet agent decides that the time is right for him to leave office. What follows is a grand chase around East Anglia, constitutional coups by civil servants, slash fiction involving Roy Jenkins and shady cabals of forces of the democratic left and the rather more undemocratic right.
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Beginning on a chilly night in November 1975, Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, First Lord of the Treasury, Leader of the Labour Party and Soviet agent decides that the time is right for him to rather abruptly leave office.office. Why? He's an agent of the KGB, and has been since the 1930s. What follows is a grand chase around East Anglia, constitutional coups by civil servants, slash fiction involving Roy Jenkins and shady cabals of forces of the democratic left and the rather more undemocratic right.
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* ShoutOut: Several, including junior reporter [[spoiler: AlanPartridge]] blundering onto a crime scene, Wilson emulating Mark Corrigan's heat-retention techniques from PeepShow and [[spoiler: Suslov]] citing The Doctor after a hapless [[spoiler: Brezhnev]] fails to bring order to a particularly lively session of the Politburo.
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* ReportingNames: The title comes from Wilson's, Lavender. We also meet Tulip and Lily early on, and someone else is later implied to have been 'Agent Petunia' at some point.
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* ReportingNames: The title comes from Wilson's, Lavender. We also meet Tulip and Lily early on, and someone else [[spoiler: Stafford Cripps]] is later implied to have been 'Agent Petunia' at some point.
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* OnlySaneMan: Enoch Powell, especially when compared to his some of his '[[MisaimedFandom supporters]]'.
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* YouWouldntShootMe: [[spoiler: Lord Lucan says a variation of this to Harold when Wilson hesitates to fire the gun. Ironically, the fact that he laughs at Wilson's paralysis jolts Harold into pulling the trigger.]]
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* TearJerker: Despite the fact he is [[spoiler:a traitor and Soviet apologist, the death of Jacob Brimley]] moved several readers, though perhaps not quite to tears.
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* TheCassandra: Peter Wright. See TheCuckoolanderWasRight.
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* YoungFutureFamousPeople: One of the protagonists (notable for being one of the few unarguable 'good guys') went on in Our Timeline to lead the Liberal Democrats.
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* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: Played straight with [[spoiler:John Stonehouse]].
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* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: Played straight with [[spoiler:John Stonehouse]].Stonehouse]].
* InMediasRes: Chapter Seven begins with a man being hit in the head with a cricket bat, and goes on to explain the chain of events that led to this.
* InMediasRes: Chapter Seven begins with a man being hit in the head with a cricket bat, and goes on to explain the chain of events that led to this.
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* TimeSkip: A week passes between the end of Part One and the beginning of Part Two. Enoch Powell provides readers with a narrative look back on the missing week's events.
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* Flashback: The story begins at the end of Wilson's time as an undercover spy, [[HowWeGotHere so there's a lot to catch up on]].
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* BasedOnATrueStory: A complicated version of this trope. Although Harold is a spy from 1937 onwards, the action only obviously diverges from history as we know it in November 1975. All the events up to then are the same, but the book acts as if it is revealing the ''real'' reasons they happened.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: A complicated version of this trope. Although Harold is a spy from 1937 onwards, the action only obviously diverges from history as we know it in November 1975. All As far as the public knows, however, the events up to then are the same, but the same. The book acts as if it is revealing the ''real'' reasons they happened.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: A complicated version of this trope. Although Harold is a spy from 1937 onwards, the action only obviously diverges from history as we know it in November 1975. All the events up to then are the same, but the book acts as if it is revealing the ''real'' reasons they happened.
** For example, Harold took over the leadership of the Labour Party when Hugh Gaitskell died, like in Our Timeline. Unlike Our Timeline, [[spoiler:Harold poisons him.]]
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** The book also implies that many of the apparent failures of the Wilson governments were AllPartOfThePlan.
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** The book also implies that many of the apparent failures of the Wilson governments were AllPartOfThePlan.AllAccordingToPlan.
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* HistoricalInJoke: The entire book is one long example of this trope. Just one example is Harold being inspired to make his (in)famous 'pound in your pocket' speech by an off-the-cuff remark from his Soviet handler.
** The book also implies that many of the apparent failures of the Wilson governments were AllPartOfThePlan.
** The book also implies that many of the apparent failures of the Wilson governments were AllPartOfThePlan.
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* StockUnsolvedMystery: So ''that's'' what happened to [[spoiler:Lord Lucan]].
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* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Harold Wilson was a Communist Spy.
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* StockUnsolvedMystery: So ''that's'' what happened to [[spoiler:Lord Lucan]].
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* HotLine: [[spoiler: Margaret Thatcher]] and Brezhnev are connected via a primitive form of this. The sexism of the leader of the Comintern's does little damage, thanks to careful translators.
* ReportingNames: The title comes from Wilson's, Lavender. We also meet Tulip and Lily early on, and someone else is later implied to have been 'Agent Petunia' at some point.
* TheGreatPoliticsMessUp: You have no idea.
* TheVoice: As an agent, Harold gets his orders from an unknown voice on various telephones.
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* DeathEqualsRedemption: Subverted. None of the characters who have been killed or died while assisting Harold express any regret for their actions.
* DirtyCommunists: Seemingly everywhere.
* DirtyCommunists: Seemingly everywhere.
* Flashback: The story begins at the end of Wilson's time as an undercover spy, [[HowWeGotHere so there's a lot to catch up on]].
* GloriousMotherRussia: Who Wilson is working for, though YMMV on whether he's doing it for them or out of ideological Marxism.
* GloriousMotherRussia: Who Wilson is working for, though YMMV on whether he's doing it for them or out of ideological Marxism.
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* DeathEqualsRedemption: Subverted. None of the characters who have been killed or died while assisting Harold have expressed any regret for their actions.
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* DeathEqualsRedemption: Subverted. None RedScare: Unsurprisingly, a fairly massive one of these hits the British establishment in the immediate aftermath of the characters who have been killed or died while assisting Harold have expressed any regret for their actions.first chapter, culminating in the [[spoiler: house arrest of the entire Parliamentary Labour Party.]]
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* TheVietnamWar: In a memory sequence, it is revealed that Wilson kept British troops out of 'nam on Moscow's orders.
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* LastRequest: [[spoiler:Jacob Brimley]] asks Paddy Ashdown to make sure a letter he has written gets to his wife, then [[CyanidePill drinks his last whisky]].
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** [[spoiler:This eventually becomes leads to a somewhat convoluted BondOneLiner in response to Wright's PreMortemOneLiner.]]
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* IWillOnlySlowYouDown: Played straight with [[spoiler:John Stonehouse]].
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** The exception to this is Jacob Brimley, a friend of Harold's from university who did not exist in real life.
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** The only major exception to this is Jacob Brimley, a friend of Harold's from university who did not exist in real life.
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* ShownTheirWork: Roem and Meadow are British political geeks. Obviously.
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* RealPersonFic: Sort of qualifies, as the vast majority of major characters are real historical figures. Only minor roles like police constables, farmers or minor civil servants are fictionalised.
** The exception to this is Jacob Brimley, a friend of Harold's from university who did not exist in real life.
* ShownTheirWork: Roem and Meadow are British political geeks.Obviously. This becomes fairly obvious after reading a couple of chapters.
* TearJerker: Despite the fact he is [[spoiler:a traitor and Soviet apologist, the death of Jacob Brimley]] moved several readers, though perhaps not quite to tears.
** The exception to this is Jacob Brimley, a friend of Harold's from university who did not exist in real life.
* ShownTheirWork: Roem and Meadow are British political geeks.
* TearJerker: Despite the fact he is [[spoiler:a traitor and Soviet apologist, the death of Jacob Brimley]] moved several readers, though perhaps not quite to tears.
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* AlternateHistory: Rather than the conspiracy theory that the book might appear to be, it is explicitly set in an alternate timeline where Harold Wilson was, in fact, a spy.
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* YoungFutureFamousPeople: The name's [[spoiler:Ashdown, Paddy Ashdown]]
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* YoungFutureFamousPeople: The name's [[spoiler:Ashdown, Paddy Ashdown]]
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* PunnyName: Peter Wright is a real world example of this, only in the real world he was wrong.
** [[spoiler:This eventually becomes a somewhat convoluted BondOneLiner in response to Wright's PreMortemOneLiner.]]
** [[spoiler:This eventually becomes a somewhat convoluted BondOneLiner in response to Wright's PreMortemOneLiner.]]
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* BerserkButton: Don't accuse Tony Benn of being a Stalinist.
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* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: Peter Wright spent years trying to expose Wilson (and others) as spies, as he did in Our Timeline. When he's proved right, he rapidly descends into a combination of this trope and JerkassHasAPoint.
* TheNameIsBondJamesBond: [[spoiler:"Ashdown, Paddy Ashdown."]]
* TheNameIsBondJamesBond: [[spoiler:"Ashdown, Paddy Ashdown."]]
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* ForWantOfANail: Harold Wilson stays for an extra glass of port with his tutor.
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* ForWantOfANail: Harold Wilson stays for an extra glass of port with his tutor. tutor, who just happens to be [[spoiler:recruiting promising students as agents of the KGB.]]
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* IronLady: [[spoiler:The TropeNamer [[MargaretThatcher is a Deconstructed]] version of this, being thrown into office before her image make-over.]]
* ShownTheirWork: Roem and Meadow are British political geeks. Obviously.
* YoungFutureFamousPeople: The name's [[spoiler:Ashdown, Paddy Ashdown]]
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* YoungFutureFamousPeople: The name's [[spoiler:Ashdown, Paddy Ashdown]]
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''[[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=261475 Agent Lavender]]'' written by Lord Roem and Meadow, is a recent addition to the pantheon of works on AlternateHistoryDotCom.
The timeline is written as a classic Cold War thriller, with most of the action taking place in Whitehall, the White House and Red Square, with a large number of characters from across the political spectrum taking leading roles within the narrative.
Beginning on a chilly night in November 1975, Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, First Lord of the Treasury, Leader of the Labour Party and Soviet agent decides that the time is right for him to leave office. What follows is a grand chase around East Anglia, constitutional coups by civil servants, slash fiction involving Roy Jenkins and shady cabals of forces of the democratic left and the rather more undemocratic right.
!! This work provides examples of:
* ForWantOfANail: Harold Wilson stays for an extra glass of port with his tutor.
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The timeline is written as a classic Cold War thriller, with most of the action taking place in Whitehall, the White House and Red Square, with a large number of characters from across the political spectrum taking leading roles within the narrative.
Beginning on a chilly night in November 1975, Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, First Lord of the Treasury, Leader of the Labour Party and Soviet agent decides that the time is right for him to leave office. What follows is a grand chase around East Anglia, constitutional coups by civil servants, slash fiction involving Roy Jenkins and shady cabals of forces of the democratic left and the rather more undemocratic right.
!! This work provides examples of:
* ForWantOfANail: Harold Wilson stays for an extra glass of port with his tutor.
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