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My second commissioned map, this time commissioned by BobMumby. It's for his Sealion Press submission The Last Colony, which involves the British voting Leave...out of the Pan-African Federation. I strongly suggest reading that, as it is well-written and will fill in some blanks. As always, if you're interested in commissioning your own piece, see this for details.
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- The PoD is that Andrew Bonar Law decides not to go to the Carlton Club meeting in 1922. Fewer Tory MPs turn up, and the debate is significantly more weighted toward those who would prefer to continue the coalition with Lloyd George's National Liberals. They ultimately decide to go into the next election, in 1923, as a coalition with the National Liberals, but to then hold a vote after the election on whether or not to continue it. Stanley Baldwin leads the anti-Lloyd George-ites out of the party, and while the 1923 general election delivers a majority for the Coalition, in the ensuing vote the National Conservatives vote to leave Lloyd George's government. Samuel Hoare forges a Coalition with the Independent Conservatives, who remain distrustful enough not merge back in. The All-Conservative Coalition has a minority, and they hold a general election in 1924. This results in Labour being the largest party, but a coalition of both Conservative parties and both Liberal parties can hold a majority. This coalition does not deal with the General Strike of 1926 very well at all, and collapses due to infighting. A Labour minority government is established. Winston Churchill takes the most anti-worker of Tory and Liberal splitters and forges the 'Confederation of Conservatives and Liberals' and overthrows the Labour government in a coup, aided by fascist 'Q Brigades'. This goes down about as well as expected and by the end of the next year, Churchill is dead and the King and Stanley Baldwin leading the remains of Churchill's government flee into exile in Canada.
- WWII breaks out over Spain, and France's Popular Front coup falls to a fascist-aligned military coup. There is no Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, but that doesn't help much, as the Red Army is being purged, and the USSR is on the back foot when war breaks out. The Japanese attack America in similar fashion to our world. However, Britain is the primary military power in Western Europe, and launches a much earlier invasion of Europe via Spain. When Europe is divided after the war, its along the Rhine and Alps, west and south of that being British aligned socialists, east and north, with the Soviets. America, with a much chillier relationship with Britain, focussed her efforts on fighting Japan and gives a lot of help to the KMT. Britain's generally anti-colonialist government doesn't help out the Netherlands getting the East Indies back, and the same goes for Indochina. America does get involved here, with support from Britain's former Dominions, trying to secure the Pacific as her backyard. The French retain control of Africa, but under a socialist government post-war, try and turn it into a federation, which becomes the Francophonie.
- By the 1960s, the Cold War is in full swing. Britain isn't really a Soviet ally any more, having turned hostile after equivalents of the Hungarian revolution in the 1950s which the Soviets crush brutally. British Pan-Africanism has actually worsened civil rights in America, as its a lot easier to explicitly tie socialism and black civil rights together. However, Africa is also a bit more stable than in our world. The Pan-African Federation has avoided the plague of strongmen backed by ex-colonial powers, and if the Francophonie can be a bit authoritarian, it is at least an authoritarian democracy. South Africa and Portuguese Africa are the worst spots, and Ethiopia isn't amazing, what with people turning against Haile Selassie for roughly the same reasons as OTL, but the British and Pan-African government being very pro-Selassie for historical reasons. That's another reason Moscow and London don't talk. Western European integration isn't really a thing, what with only a sliver of Germany being outside the Soviet sphere.
- The US and USSR are the only two superpowers. Britain isn't a superpower, even through her alliance with the members of the Peoples' Commonwealth, the Francophonie and the other Western European states. They are more like a larger Non-Aligned League with teeth, and they definitely have their awkward squads and their fair share of blood. The British have been spread thin due to her commitments fighting the Americans and Soviets in the former colonies. National Service and rationing are still in place. However, their military spending is not as high as that of the USSR, since the Indians do pick up the slack.
- Israel was a joint Anglo-Soviet project, made up mostly of Jews who fled Europe after the Holocaust.
- Greece was jointly occupied by Britain and the USSR during the war, and was peacefully reunited afterwards "in the spirit of internationalism and socialist brotherhood." Said brotherhood did not last, and now Greece is like an awkward step-child of both blocs. Thanks to her proximity with Turkey, it has become hot bed of espionage.
- The Ulster government is a result of British anti-socialists fleeing there, and the Ulster loyalists being very loyal to the crown. The fight to reclaim Northern Ireland wasn't a fight Bevin was interested in fighting, and his harder left allies wanted no part in it. Strongly Unionist and Protestant, Ulster wants to kick out the communists and recreate the United Kingdom, even all of these years later. Ulster is a really awkward point for the US, as they are allies, but the Protestant Ulstermen, with a virtual apartheid system to keep the growing Catholic population from voting really pisses off the Republic of Ireland.
- South Africa and Portugal are American allies, and Britain is funneling arms to rebels in Africa. America, in turn, is helping 'alternative-nationalist' groups in the Francophonie and Pan-Africa, which is less of a struggle for Pan-Africa, but for the Francophonie is a bit of a pain in the posterior.
- There is considerable agitation of Islamic groups by America in the Middle East, particularly Iraq and Syria. The Indians and Pan-Africans have put down some of these rebellions, particularly the attempts in Yemen, but this has only led to greater enmity between Islamists within Pan-Africa and India and the government. The Soviets cooperate with the British to keep these rebellions down.
- The Pacific has become an American lake, but does have trouble with remnants of the CCP, Vietcong, and Indonesian socialists. The British support the Americans here against the Soviet-backed socialists, as they do not want to upset the balance of power.
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There's no color in the key for Rhodesia or Botswana