brucejoel99
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« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2019, 12:35:24 PM » |
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A good Iraq means Blair remains a moderately popular PM, much to the annoyance of Brown. Blair remains PM after 2007 following a successful 2005 election. Brown gets restless, but when the financial crisis hits, he's able to enter the limelight without all the gaffes that plagued the Treasury under Darling as Blair is still in control. The economy recovers under the 'Brown Plan' & Brown takes on a Denis Healey-like image. Blair & Brown hatch a plan for another election while the recovery looks good under the idea of support for the Brown Plan in the face of criticism from the Conservatives. They bottle it at the last minute.
The 2010 general election is held, & Blair surprisingly defeats Cameron & wins; though the votes aren't overwhelmingly bad for Cameron, the seat losses are, the reason being that the public was reminded of the Conservatives' support for deregulation & that the banks would've collapsed had they been in power. Polls had shown a Conservative victory; however, with the benefit of a collapse in Liberal Democrat support following a scandal involving their leader, Chris Huhne, Labour is once again returned. Brown also proved himself to be popular enough to win votes, especially after a story leaks about the papers having attempted to gain his son's medical records. This story bubbles over with Labour consequently losing the support of some newspapers.
Blair remains in office until the Olympics are held, at which point Blair has been PM for 15 years. While some spending cuts would be adopted & there'd be mutterings of a credit rating downgrade, it may or may not happen. The 'Brown Effect' is credited for the election win, & with Brown's personal approval ratings hovering at around 60%, he finally takes over from Blair, though with a stimulus program still widely criticized by the opposition.
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