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3 | ''A Greater Britain'' is an AlternateHistory timeline by Ed "[=EdT=]" Thomas, originally posted on Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom. The original timeline can be found [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/a-greater-britain.24238/ here]], while the updated and revised version can be found [[https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/a-greater-britain-mk2.75867/ here]]. |
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5 | The timeline is a ForWantOfANail scenario centering on one of the most hated political figures in British history, Oswald Mosley. He is infamous as a fascist who openly supported Nazi Germany in the 1930s. Yet only a few years earlier, Mosley had been a promising and ambitious young Labour MP. In the scenario he is compared to Tony Blair (each chapter is prefaced by a Blair quote) and portrayed as a Labour politician who thought that centrism was the way forward. |
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7 | ''A Greater Britain'' diverges from our timeline when a few votes at a close by-election go the other way and Mosley scrapes into Parliament a little earlier. Consequences and butterflies from this mean Mosley never quixotically abandons Labour to start his dead-end New Party and instead reforms Labour from within, becoming Prime Minister in 1932. His domestic policy such as a House of Lords reform and devolving power in India is explored, but most significant is his foreign policy, as he pursues an alliance with Mussolini's Italy. This means the Rome-Berlin Axis never forms, and when thanks to butterflies Austria contests the Anschluss, Italy and Britain call Hitler's bluff and war begins before Germany is ready... |
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9 | This timeline [[http://www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page/a-greater-britain was published]] by Sea Lion Press in 2015. |
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12 | !!This work contains examples of : |
13 | * BalkanizeMe: Yugoslavia, [[TropeNamer of course]]. And [[spoiler:India after 1953]]. |
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15 | * HappilyEverBefore: The timeline proper ends with a short victorious Second World War, no Holocaust, peace in Europe and an India which has seen a peaceful transition to a confederation within the British Commonwealth. The ''epilogue'' set in 1974, on the other hand, has [[spoiler:a crazy North Korea-style Fourth Reich run by Reinhard Heydrich armed with nuclear space stations, India having broken apart through civil war and strife, and more]]. |
16 | * HistoricalInJoke: Many, but in particular the epilogue features UsefulNotes/MargaretThatcher and Alan Clark as members of the Labour Party [[spoiler: (and lovers!)]] thanks to Mosley's move to the centre. |
17 | * NinjaPirateZombieRobot: [[spoiler:[[AppealToForce Nuclear-armed]] [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]] JustForFun/{{IN SPACE}}!]] |
18 | * PeaceConference: The Stockholm Conference, which ends the Austrian War. |
19 | * RedScare: [[spoiler:After the defeat of Germany in the Austrian War, the Soviet Union was regarded as the "main threat to world peace". Later replaced by the more radical-left People's Republic of China.]] |
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