United Kingdom
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, referred to in shorthand as the United Kingdom (UK), is a sovereign state in Western Europe located off the northwestern coast of the European continent that had evolved from Great Britain in 1801 to its exile by revolutionary forces in 1925, and eventual reclamation of the home islands by Canada and the Entente in late 1947. The dominant world power for most of the nineteenth century, the United Kingdom fell into struggling and short decline in the post-Weltkrieg era after its defeat in the Great War before subsequently collapsing into full-blown civil war in 1925 led the government to enter exile in Ottawa. The British empire would be picked apart by the Germans, while the semi-independent dominions assumed responsibility for the rest. Only through Entente-Reichspakt cooperation the home isles would be reclaimed in December 1947 after the bombing of Portsmouth and the collapse of the Union of Britain.
History
Second Weltkrieg
Politics and Parties
| Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom since 1925 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portrait | Leader | Duration | Party | Government | Monarch | |
| Term Start | Term End | |||||
| Austen Chamberlain | 11th January 1924 | 20th December 1925 | Conservative | National I
Chamberlain |
George V
r. 1910–1936 | |
| British Government evacuates to Canada United Kingdom dissolved Parliament Officially Enters Exile & reorganised in Ottawa | ||||||
| Austen Chamberlain | 20th December 1925 | 27th May 1926 | Conservative | National I
Interim | ||
| William Joynson-Hicks | 27th May 1926 | 14th October 1927 | Conservative | National II
Joynson-Hicks | ||
| Stanley Baldwin | 14th October 1927 | 27th October 1931 | Conservative | National III
Baldwin | ||
| Douglas Hogg | 27th October 1931 | 31th October 1936 | Conservative | National IV
Hogg | ||
| Edward VIII
r. 1936– | ||||||
| Samuel Hoare | 31th October 1936 | 3rd January 1946 | Conservative | National V
Hoare | ||
| Anthony Eden | 3rd January 1946 | Present | Conservative | National VI
Eden | ||
National Government
With the Reclamation War ending in the total internal collapse of the Union of Britain, a temporary government structure was needed to stabilise and rebuild the United Kingdom. To this end, King Edward VIII and Anthony Eden have opted to form a non-partisan National Government, with predominantly New Liberal, National Liberal and Conservative aligned representation, though controversially some former-Syndicalist defectors have been allowed into the appointed Provisional Parliament to bolster its legitimacy to the ex-syndicalist population. The broad front means that the ideology of the National Government is hard to pin down, other than a cadre of politicians working together to rebuild their country.
Parties
Tories
After the Conservative Party leadership fled to the Canada during the British Revolution, their former party collapsed in months. Heavily oppressed by the victorious syndicalists in the years afterwards, the Tory remnants were divided into numerous cliques and underground clubs, devoid of widespread political influence.
However, they are far from useless for the National Government, making up a new youthful grouping of promising Conservative modernisers with a unique perspective that Anthony Eden hopes will bolster a future Tory government.
Liberal National Organisation
After being banned by the Mann Government in 1932, the Liberal Party completely collapsed into various groups. The final form of a series of National Liberal, or 'Constitutionalist' groups during the Mosley period, the Liberal National Organisation are headed up by James Henderson-Stewart and Army Veteran John Selwyn Lloyd (before he was interned by Maximist Commissars in 1942 due to his ties to the National Liberal movement).
Historically staunchly opposed to the 'Pro-Syndicalist' New Liberal groups, the LNO toes a liberal-conservative, laissez-faire line with prominent inclusion within the National Government, though tensions with their former allies have been slowly ameliorating since the Restoration.
Liberal Action
Liberal Action, a splinter from the SLRG and led by Megan Lloyd George, have a more radical, syndicalist-inclined ideology, and collaborated with the former Parliamentarian within the Labour Party before Mosley's consolidation of power. Today, both groups are supportive of the National Government and ambivalent on the question of Monarchy.
Social and Liberal Reform Group
After being banned by the Mann Government in 1932, the Liberal Party completely collapsed into various groups. The group that eventually became the rump Social and Liberal Reform Group claimed the linage of the 'New Liberal' remnants with staunch anti-syndicalist policies. They were heavily targeted by the Syndicalists, with several key figures, including former Liberal leader Herbert Samuel being jailed indefinitely.
Labour
The center of Clement Attlee's former Parliamentarians have reformed under his old deputy Herbert Morrison, having defected en-mass from the Union of Britain in the last years of the war. Commonly referred to as "Morrison's Labour", to differentiate themselves from the syndicalist, collapsed old Labour Party, his contingent include a collection of more moderate politicians.
Free Republican Movement
A minor political movement that has picked up steam following the Restoration, the Free Republican Movement was one of the first explicitly anti-Mosley movements within the Union of Britain, formed in 1935 by former TUC members Ernest Thurtle and Arthur Greenwood with the goal of preserving the republican, parliamentarian system before the then Deputy Chairman had even taken power.
Both men and their main supporters would be jailed for much of the next 15 years, but were released during the downfall of Mosley's regime. Today, they act as an obstructionist political grouping within London, campaigning for a referendum on the Monarchy and a return to a republican (though explicitly not syndicalist) system.