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2030 United Kingdom General Election
The 2030 United Kingdom general Election was held on the 15th May 2035 to elect 650 members to the British House of Commons. It resulted in the largest landslide victory ever recorded in British history. The Labour Party under it's new leader Jake Swinburne gained every seat in the House of Commons, completely eliminating all other parties. The Conservative Party, lead by the resurrected former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, sufferred it's worst ever defeat which was partly blamed on the fact they were soulless cunts who hate everybody. The Liberal Party (by this point any actual democrats had been weened out) under Jack Roberts attempted to win over the Tory vote by getting on their knees and begging but this was useless beacuse Tories have no pity and viewed Roberts as a jacked up Tony Blair impersonator.

Overview
Swinburne became Prime Minister months after Labour's narrow victory in the 2025 election, following the shock death of former leader Sir Keir Starmer, under whom he had served as Home Secretary. In spite of Labour's narrow majority the government managed to implement the majority of it's manifesto pledges through a pact with the Liberal and Green Parties. Through mass nationalisation of industry and the introduction of protectionist tariffs on British goods, the UK emerged from the 2026 Financial Crisis relatively unscathed, largely credited to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Southwood. The Labour Party reached up to a net 80% approval rating during this period, with the alternative proposals by the Conservative Party being viewed as outdated and dull.

Following the resurrection of Margaret Thatcher by senior shadow cabinet members, she resumed leadership of her party in an attempt to return the country to a zombified version of the 1980s. This proved unpopular with voters, with polls showing a net negative approval rating of 100% for Thatcher and her leadership. Her shadow cabinet would be plagued with sleaze allegations for the majority of the parliament, further adding to negative public perception of the party. Academics theorise that the nail in the coffin for Thatcher's electoral prospects where the policies announced by her shadow chancellor with respect to the 2026 crash. These included full privitisation of the public sector and the abolition of the welfare state. This saw the Conservative Party plummet to near 0% in the opinion polls, with the Liberals becoming the preferred second party. This became evident as the party lost by-elections in several safe seats including Chelsea and South Holland, falling to Labour and the Liberals respectively. This failure was summed up by Swinburne in the House of Commons when he stated "Never did I think in my entire life I would see Stamford Bridge draped in red".

While the Liberals had seen great success in by-elections and local government elections they had only ever polled as high as 20% and still were viewed as a party incapable of forming a government. Roberts had a good working relationship with the Prime Minister, being the chief negotiator for the Lib-Lab pact, however he failed to achieve the electoral pact between the two which he regarded as "my electoral lifeline". The party ran on a pledge to "clean up Westminster" which didn't land with voters for two reasons, the pledge was simillar to the one employed in the 2010 election where the party ended in coalition with the Conservatives and delivered practically none of their pldges. Along with this the public perception of the present government was that they were very much open and frank with the electorate even if it was to their own detriment. The results of the election meant that the only Liberal prescence in Britain was on the local council level, where they had soaked up much of the former Conservative vote.

Government Record
Upon coming to power, the government had a slim majority of 2 and as such Starmer realised his party would have to rely on support from smaller parties, in particular the Liberals and Greens the latter of whom had enjoyed a successful breakthrough in the 2025 election. Then Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell issued an emergency budget which implemented the vast majority of Labour's economic pledges including nationalisation of utilities such as water and power, along with the nationalisation of all public transport. Green support for nationalisation of power and transport relied on a government pledge to guarantee all power generation in Britain was to be carbon neutral by 2030, a pledge which McDonnell and Starmer had both privately shown support for previoussly. The emergency budget also introduced a hiked rate of income tax for the top 5% of earners, whilst all lower brackets where either frozen or reduced. Labour had planned to introduce a bill for the abolition of the House of Lords, to be replaced with a Union Senate, however this was blocked by the Liberals who held a very strong prescence in the Lords as compared to their Commons representation.

The education system was greatly revamped under Education Secretary David Lammy, with the EBaC system of examinations being dropped and the taxation of private schooling. The curriculum was revamped to introduce topics previously seen as taboo, including the history of British colonialism and race relations within the UK. Tory leader Michael Gove accused the government of "making our children into woke zombies of the left", a statement which was dismissed by most as an attempt to give the impression of a culture war. More money than ever was pumped into adult education and apprenticeship schemes, paid for through the taxation of private school fees.

Starmer died suddenly on October 13th 2025 of a heart attack, believed to be stress induced. Angela Rayner assumed temporary control of the nation as First Secretary of State whilst the Labour Party organised a snap leadership election. The election came down to a three way race between McDonnell, Swinburne and Richard Burgon, where it appears that Burgon and McDonnell split the left wing vote thus ushering Swinburne into Downing Street. The ensuing cabinet reshuffle saw many veterans removed, including McDonnell himself, and replaced with allies of Swinburne. Taking to the backbenches McDonnell declared "the right wing of my party, an assortment of Blairites and red tories, have decided it was time the Labour Party was purged of it's socialism, they have declared war".

The ensuing split in the party led to members of the Socialist Campaign Group splitting from the Labour Party to form the Workers Party GB. This destroyed the government's majority and a vote of no confidence was called. The Green leadership was called to Downing Street for emergency talks, where it was agreed that they would form a Coalition for a Progressive Future, saving Swinburne's premiership. During the ensuing no confidence debate a firey Prime Minister berated the dissenters, proclaiming "if they do truly believe in democracy as they claim will they not resign their seats which they were elected to as LABOUR MPs and face the people's verdict in by-elections?". Pressure mounted on the WPGB, with even the Conservatives agreeing that by-elections should be held and eventually the members agreed on a vote of 24-23 to unanimously resign their seats, setting in motion the largest number of coinciding by-elections in British history. The Government framed these elections as a micro general election and campaigned as such. In the end Labour won 44 of the 47 seats up for grabs, with the Greens winning 2 and only McDonnell retaining his seat. The press spun this victory as Labour finally defeating it's millitant left wing and the majaority of newspapers switched their support to Labour.

Government approval ratings had never been higher and the party was 30% ahead in opinion polls, plans were being drawn up for an election in the autumn of 2026 but the ensuing global financial crash was considered too grave to hold an election and the national recovery was put first. In the second emergency budget in as many years, Lord Southwood announced that the government would nationalise the vast majority of British industry and banking, with shareholders to be given bonds redeemable upon declaration by the Treasury that the emergency was over. It was announced that for the first time in over a century, Britain would abandon free trade and introduce protectionist tarriffs on all goods, a policy which lost the support of the Liberals. Downing Street avoided critics by claiming that while they did not usually favour state control on such a mass scale "the emergency is of such a grave scale that if government does not step in we face the collapse of the British economy as we know it".