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Web Original Alternate History by Anthony Wells, located (in archived form) here.In 1970, the British elections were scheduled to take place during the 1970 World Cup. In our timeline, a few days before the election, England were knocked out of the Cup by West Germany (whom, four years before, England had defeated to win the Cup); it's commonly believed that things would have been different had England goalkeeper Gordon Banks not been forced to drop out due to a stomach illness. Days later, Harold Wilson's Labour government — increasingly unpopular to begin with — was defeated by Edward Heath's Conservatives.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })In the Alternate History, Banks plays, England wins and Wilson rides the surge of resulting patriotic pride back into office (albeit with a significantly reduced majority). Heath's kicked out, and he's replaced as leader by Enoch Powell (him of the infamous ethnos-baiting "rivers of blood" speech).Things go downhill. | |
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For Want of a Nail: Gordon Banks plays for England in the 1970 World Cup quarterfinal, which leads to England winning the match, which leads to a patriotism-based Labour victory in the 1970 election, which results in Ted Heath being discredited as Leader of the Conservative Party, which leads to Enoch Powell emerging as leader and eventually Prime Minister, which leads to the Troubles in Northern Ireland heating up into borderline civil war, which leads to an IRA attack on the Houses of Parliament that decimates the Labour Party, which leads to a "state of emergency" being declared which gives the PM and his cabinet massive powers over the press, the judiciary, the army and the observance of human rights along with a huge majority for the Conservatives in the 1977 elections, which leads eventually to Powell and a couple of inner-circle cabinet members exercising unchecked power as the U.K. slides into a authoritarian police state with ethnic cleansing and internment camps in Ulster, a war with the Republic of Ireland, and constant unrest, rioting, inter-religious tensions, and government oppression on the mainland. That's one hell of a butterfly. | |
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Dramatic Irony: Historians in-universe don't know why Powell decided not to resign as Prime Minister after the assassination of Queen Elizabeth. We know it's because the new King asked him not to. In addition, the only people in TTL's post-Powell era who allege that MI-5 and other security services were responsible for keeping the turmoil going for the sake of increasing their power are conspiracy theorists. The reader, on the other hand, knows that it's all true. | |
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