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Alright, so really important clarification:

TTL Dominions are not independent states, and are not akin to OTL Commonwealth realms. The Imperial Federation is a unified nation; and the dominions are more like Scotland, Ireland, and Wales within the present UK as opposed to say, Canada and the present UK. Albeit, ofc, with vastly more autonomy.
 
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The Hon. Jean-Robert Bourassa as Premier of Quebec in 1972
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Name: Jean-Robert Bourassa
Position: The Leader of the Opposition, Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Minister of Parliament for Saint-Laurent, Leader of the Canadian Liberal Caucus in London
Political Party: Liberal Party of Quebec (1966-1986), Liberal Party of Canada (since 1986)
Age: 57
Bio:

Probs won't write this.

Titles:
Prof. Jean-Robert Bourassa, Ph.D (1960-1966)
The Hon. Prof. Jean-Robert Bourassa, MNA, Premier of Quebec, Ph.D (1966-1976)
The Hon. Prof. Jean-Robert Bourassa, MNA, Ph.D (1976-1984)
The Hon. Prof. Jean-Robert Bourassa, MP, Ph.D (1984-1986)
The Hon. Prof. Jean-Robert Bourassa, MP, Leader of the Opposition, Ph.D (since 1986)
 
Scrapknight said:
darn, beat me to it. How strong are the Liberal( Democrat)s?
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Decent in GB proper, fairly weak without; except in Malta and small Pacific island nations.

ETA: Though apparently the Liberal Democratic Party of Canada is the main Opposition there.

ETA II: Apparently the Canadian Liberals aren't LibDem? Because reasons? Fuck if I know, talk to Dadarian.
 
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Who, dear friend, shall oppose the neo-liberalism of Ms. Thatcher? Who shall restore the old Tory Party to the roots of greatness and traditionalism?

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Peter Hitchens, MP.

Just remember who's the better brother.
 
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Name: The Rt. Hon. David Steel, IMP
Position: Deputy Prime Minster of the Imperial Government, Leader of the Liberal Democratic Party
Age: 52
Bio: Born to a Scottish minister in 1938, Steel was raised in both his native Scotland and in Kenya. He was educated at Dumbarton Academy; James Gillespies Boys' School, Edinburgh; the Prince of Wales School, Nairobi; and George Watson's College, Edinburgh. Entering the Imperial Parliament in 1965, Steel quickly ascended the ranks of the LDP, becoming Chief Whip in 1970 and party leader in 1976, aged only 38. Steel has been influential in securing the passage of moderate reforms throughout his parliamentary tenure, and he is currently leading his party in coalition with Margaret Thatcher's Conservatives.
 
Ab Ovo said:
Decent in GB proper, fairly weak without; except in Malta and small Pacific island nations.

ETA: Though apparently the Liberal Democratic Party of Canada is the main Opposition there.

ETA II: Apparently the Canadian Liberals aren't LibDem? Because reasons? Fuck if I know, talk to Dadarian.
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Because the Liberals have Canada have been around continuously since the 1860s, while the Lib Dems have only been around since the '80s. No way they're going to change their name to fit some British upstart.
 
In as the south african PM from the National Party, will post later
 
Dadarian said:
Because the Liberals have Canada have been around continuously since the 1860s, while the Lib Dems have only been around since the '80s. No way they're going to change their name to fit some British upstart.
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Well, technically, the Liberal Dems are just a continuity (without any break or gap) of the far older Liberal Party.
 
99KingHigh said:
Well, technically, the Liberal Dems are just a continuity (without any break or gap) of the far older Liberal Party.
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Yes, but they are a continuation.

I'm not saying the LPC isn't caucusing with the LibDems, just that they have a different name because they had no need to restructure.
 

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Name: Shehu Shagari
Position: Prime Minister of the Federation of Nigeria
Political Party: National Party of Nigeria (members of which follow the whip of the Conservative and Unionist Party in the Imperial Parliament)
Age: 65
Bio: N/A
 
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The Rt. Hon. The Viscount Tonypandy PC
Speaker of the House of Commons for the Imperial Parliament
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And those people should not be listened to who keep saying 'Vox populi, vox Dei,' since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness. -- Saint Alcuin of York

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Imperial Parliament, the federal legislative body for the Imperial Federation. It is composed of 800 seats; evenly divided between seats elected by the constituencies at home in the British isles and by voters in the dominions. The 400 seats elected by the dominions are divided individually between those dominions, with certain dominions electing more IMPs than others. There is no pretense of equality between them on an Imperial level, but the 'foreign' IMPs mostly vote as a bloc in any case. Any discontent from, say, Canada electing more Members of Parliament than Jamaica is usually mitigated by both dominions having their own legislatures.

The Imperial Prime Minister is elected directly by ballot by the MPs themselves; while the Speaker of the House is selected based on which party is the single largest. The current government is based on a coalition between Tory and Liberal Democratic Members, who united to get Thatcher elected and thereby form a Unionist government; interrupting the stretch of Labour dominance that had presided since Wilson II was inaugurated in '74. Labour muttered angrily under their breath and elected the rather conservative (for a Labourite) Viscount Tonypandy as Speaker of the House of Commons; and Thatcher and the Viscount have regarded each other with a wary mutual respect ever since.

Seat allocations per dominion, out of four-hundred seats; grouped by party:

Canada (Unionist government) -- 20 seats
Australia (Unionist government) -- 15 seats
South Africa (National Front government) -- 15 seats
Rhodesia and Nyasaland (Unionist government) -- 15 seats
Fiji (Unionist government) - 3 seats
Guyana (Unionist government) -- 5 seats
Malta (Liberal Democratic government) -- 2 seats
Nigeria (Unionist government) -- 25 seats
New Zealand (Unionist government) -- 5 seats
Belize (Unionist government) -- 5 seats
Papua New Guinea (People's National Congress government) -- 5 seats
Jamaica (Unionist government) -- 5 seats

Newfoundland (Labour government) -- 5 seats
India (Labour government) -- 170 seats
Pakistan (Labour government) -- 65 seats
Sri Lanka (Labour government) -- 5 seats
The Gambia (Labour government) -- 3 seats
Ghana (Labour government) -- 10 seats
Kenya (Socialist government) -- 12 seats
Uganda (Labour government) -- 10 seats

268 (Dominion Labourites) + 12 (Kenyan Socialists) = 280 Labour-caucused seats in Dominion seating

98 (Dominion Tories) + 15 (National Fronters) + 2 (Liberal Democrats) + 5 (People's Nationalists) = 120 Tory-caucused seats in Dominion seating

The British seating in the House of Commons is dominated by Labour, with Labour holding 212 seats due to the rank unpopularity of Thatcher's privatising economic policies with the "regular folk"; which is seen as reversing the welfare reforms made under previous Labour ministries. Of the 188 seats remaining, 127 of them are held by the Tories and the Liberal Democrats retain the 61 remaining seats. Prime Minister Thatcher has held her government together by pulling her weight with the Dominion Tories and their allies; but her increasing unpopularity in the non-Anglo dominions is beginning to severely threaten her position in her own party. Meanwhile, the Labour majority is beginning to realise that it could fairly easily pass a vote of no confidence; but is fearful of the elections which would be triggered across the Federation as a result...

Graphs:

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Without opposition parties in the Dominions being able to get representation in the Imperial Commons, would it make sense for say an ANC member to have immigrated to the Isles in order to get elected to a Labour seat and rail against the National Front?
 
Kowloon said:
Without opposition parties in the Dominions being able to get representation in the Imperial Commons, would it make sense for say an ANC member to have immigrated to the Isles in order to get elected to a Labour seat and rail against the National Front?
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Absolutely.
 
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Name: Asif Ali Zardari
Age: 35
Position: IMP for the Dominion of Pakistan
Party: Pakistani Labour Party
 
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