Alternate Time

Hi All, 

There are many different realities and alternatives in time and in the next couple of days I hope to do an anthology of various short stories set in an alternative reality.  Like any good world building exercise, here is a time line of the past couple of years in this alternative reality : 

 

2016

July -August : UK holds Brexit referendum , votes 51 to 49% to leave EU . Cameron David (Con) , the UK’s second Jewish Prime Minister resigns. In Parliamentary shenanigans, backed by Speaker BurCow, a coalition of remain Conservative, Blairite Labour, Liberal Democrats, Greens , Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish nationalists, plus rebels from the new ‘changed UK’ party takes power under Prime Minister Yvonne June.  She invokes Jesus on the doors on Ten Downing Street, saying that the British people should be forgiven ‘for they no not what they have voted for’ .To placate the outrage, she agrees to hold a further, confirmatory referendum at a later date. Upon hearing the news European President Jean Luc Ricardo also quotes Jesus ‘There is much rejoicing in Europe over one sinner who repents’ . Germany suggests that Brits might be allowed to be the first to get to sun loungers whilst on holiday.

November : Richard ‘Dick Chuck’ Henry III (GOP) wins the US Presidency against the Democrat ticket of Clinton-Trump, calling Trump in particular ‘too left wing’ , Chuck promises to ‘make America great again and forever’ .

December : Russia annexes Belarus, Ukraine and the Baltic States, challenging the lame duck administration of American President Ibrahim Hussein. As the Baltic states are part of NATO America , UK , France etc are compelled to invoke article 5 and declare war on Russia.

2017

January : After a month of fierce fighting NATO manages to liberate the Baltic states, but at great cost ( 34,000 soldiers and countless civilians) . Russia, under its ‘de-escalation’ doctrine launces a nuclear attack on NATO, specifically Birmingham, England, the greatest ever catastrophe Britain has ever faced – 500,000 dead, 2,500,000 horrific injuries and many millions more homeless. President Ibrahim Hussein tells Prime Minster June that she should not retaliate with Trident and says America can stop the missiles, despite an apparent ‘independent’ nuclear deterrent. The war ends with the collapse of NATO ,the British government and Russia holding onto Ukraine and Belarus: Russia subsequently annexes all previous states that used to be part of the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire in Asia.

February : In the first 100 days of the new Chuck Administration , US corporate taxes are abolished. In the next 3 years,  thanks to supreme court nominations ,abortion is outlawed, all gun laws are repealed (allowing citizens to own rocket propelled grenades is confirmed as a constitutional right)  gay marriage is repealed. Congress agrees as a bi -partisan compromise to build a wall on the Mexico and Canadian borders.  US  withdraws from NATO, NAFTA and the middle east, including the ending of any aid to Israel  or the UK saying ‘ fuck the Joos and the Limeys’ . The foreign policy  focus is on war with North Korea,  China and a trade war with Europe. North Korea continues to detonate nuclear weapons.

May : British general election and second referendum on remaining in Europe.  The referendum result is now an 80% vote to leave and the election results in a 200 seat majority for the newly formed ‘British Commonwealth party’, led by former Conservatives, UKIPERS. Their leader is Nathan Flambeau, who becomes the new Prime Minister.  The Guardian newspaper laments that Britain has ‘fallen to a second dark age akin to the fall of Rome’.  The result isn’t surprising given the perilous state of Britain.  The SNP insist the result shows that Scotland should remain within the EU and have an indyref II.

August : President Chuck, confirms 'America first and only' policy and says remaining US forces will leave overseas military bases over time, including Japan and South Korea. Rescinds every single military alliance that America has with other powers.

September : President Chuck offers to buy Greenland from Denmark and in a Twitter rant suggests that the US is interested in Canada joining the USA. 

December :  Secret Israeli-UK- Korean- Japanese - New Zealand- Australian- Canadian talks held in the Negev.

2018

January : The middle east is in perpetual turmoil , with wars waging from Tunisia to Afghanistan and a  complex web of intrigues, state and non state actors and general bloody slaughter.  In the Mediterranean Turkey and Greece are constantly clashing over various islands and oil rights.

February : The British Israeli Korean , Japanese ,Canadian Australian New Zealand (BRITYKOJCANZ) scientific  and defence institute is formed, research is classified. 

March  : Britain formally leaves the EU.

April : European summit : reconstruction of the EU into the Eurozone as a full federal state.  Greece, Hungary and Cyprus walk out. Republic of Ireland mulls reunification with Great Britain. 

2019 

May :  Britain moves a 10 KM  near earth object (an asteroid )  into geo-stationary orbit, begins mining for its resources . SNP say ‘it’s Scotland’s Asteroid’ and say this is another example of why Scotland should join the EU and be independent of the UK.

June : China invades Taiwan .

July : North Korean sabre rattling and further missile tests.

October : BRITYKOJCANZ institute announces a workable food copier or replicator and that it will help to end mass starvation and famine across the world.  Eurozone , Brazil, China, Russia and US ban imports of this food and research into it. Israel suggests to her Arab neighbours that peace in the middle east could be made not with 'land for peace', but 'food for peace' .

November : Brief Turkish-Greek war, ended by Russian intervention on behalf of Greece, who vows to protect 'the Orthodox faithful' across the world. Turkey aligns with China as a result. With America in full isolation and with the Eurozone nothing other than a French led talking shed,  the new global cold war is between Russia and China power blocs. 

December : BRITYKOJCANZ institute (in secret) form a stable Einstein -Rosen bridge (wormhole) from London to the Negev Desert. On 25th December they successfully open up a wormhole to the sun under project 'solar well', with the intention of sucking the sun's fusion plasma directly into a reactor, thus taping into a massive energy supply potential