Covid hits the UK's leadership much harder - BritPol short scenario
Mar 16, 2021 19:57:07 GMT
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Post by James G on Mar 16, 2021 19:57:07 GMT
In March 2020, the British PM is unknowingly infected with COVID-19. Boris Johnson fights the infection while self-isolating in Downing Street. His leadership, especially into early April, is disorganised. Underlings fight and carve out territories. Health Secretary Matt Hancock is too ill with the same infection. Other high-profile Covid cases include the Prince of Wales and - until April - the Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn.
Johnson, Hancock and Corbyn were all infected at the same meeting with the latter's political aide Seamus Milne present; Prince Charles' infection came from elsewhere.
The POD is that the strength of the Covid in the UK is stronger than it was.
Corbyn dies first, followed by Johnson being taken to hospital and put on a ventilator.
The day after that news about the PM being gravely ill, Buckingham Palace announces that Charles has died overnight.
Then it is Johnson next who loses his battle to live: Hancock survives but is too ill to undertake his duties.
Dominic Raab, First Secretary of State, meets the Queen via Zoom and is asked to form a Government. Starmer has taken office and agrees for there to be a short Gov. of National Unity with Johnson and the Prince of Wales both dead leaving a nation in shock.
Raab is PM, not 'acting' or anything like that. The Conservatives agree to hold off a leadership election due to the national emergency but only until the end of the summer. Raab stays in place. The National Government last until the beginning of September where there is an amical - sort of - end to it.
In the Conservatives' leadership election, Raab is the frontrunner by the virtue of being in office. He is challenged by Michael Gove, Savid Javid and Priti Patel. Few hustlings in person are had and there are no rallies: everything is 'Covid secure'. Raab loses to Patel as Britain gets its third female PM... not long after Labour have had a new male leader who ran against four women. She is an ethic minority yet hated by the Left! Her approach to the summer's Black Lives Matter protesters won over party members while alienating outsiders. Regardless, she is the PM.
Plans are made for Prince William to be invested as Prince of Wales the next (2021) summer.
Johnson, Hancock and Corbyn were all infected at the same meeting with the latter's political aide Seamus Milne present; Prince Charles' infection came from elsewhere.
The POD is that the strength of the Covid in the UK is stronger than it was.
Corbyn dies first, followed by Johnson being taken to hospital and put on a ventilator.
The day after that news about the PM being gravely ill, Buckingham Palace announces that Charles has died overnight.
Then it is Johnson next who loses his battle to live: Hancock survives but is too ill to undertake his duties.
Dominic Raab, First Secretary of State, meets the Queen via Zoom and is asked to form a Government. Starmer has taken office and agrees for there to be a short Gov. of National Unity with Johnson and the Prince of Wales both dead leaving a nation in shock.
Raab is PM, not 'acting' or anything like that. The Conservatives agree to hold off a leadership election due to the national emergency but only until the end of the summer. Raab stays in place. The National Government last until the beginning of September where there is an amical - sort of - end to it.
In the Conservatives' leadership election, Raab is the frontrunner by the virtue of being in office. He is challenged by Michael Gove, Savid Javid and Priti Patel. Few hustlings in person are had and there are no rallies: everything is 'Covid secure'. Raab loses to Patel as Britain gets its third female PM... not long after Labour have had a new male leader who ran against four women. She is an ethic minority yet hated by the Left! Her approach to the summer's Black Lives Matter protesters won over party members while alienating outsiders. Regardless, she is the PM.
Plans are made for Prince William to be invested as Prince of Wales the next (2021) summer.