Contemporary History of British Londinium
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This article features historical information pertaining to British Londinium during the years 1745 to 2009. For information regarding other periods in Londinian history, view the sidebar to the right.
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First Civil War (1994-1997)
Prime Minister Saakashvili's economic reforms, especially the creation of the denarii, led to significant economic problems in early 1994 due to a rough transition. With employment down, inflation rampant, and the stock market fluctuating wildly, faith in the free market began to falter, leading to considerable socialist movements in the north. Violent revolution flourished in Northolt, Cambridge, and Oxford, with a mysterious man known only as Grueber seizing control of the movement, formally referred to as the People's Red Revolution, or PRR. After marshalling fifty thousand Londinians to march on the capital, Prime Minister Abdulaziz al-Filastini pleaded for international aid. Among the first two states to reply were Atopiana and Skgorria, who deployed Brobdingnagian amounts of soldiers and equipment. The PRR was successful in bombing the Houses of Parliament, nearly wiping out the centre of government, forcing King James III to flee to neutral Nova Britannica. After days of brutal fighting which ravaged the countryside, the PRR was finally crushed. The government was reinstalled; notwithstanding that, Kensington laid in shambles - the interim government set up its headquarters in Westminster. Atopiana and Skgorria proved to have their own interests at heart, however, when they created the Social Republic of Londin in Ganapati, which comprised Waltham Forest, Stirling, Worchester, and Hillingdon. UKBL lacked the capacity to repel this development, and permitted it to pass. al-Filastini began a policy of reconstruction - however, his Deputy Prime Minister, Daniel Yañez, schemed to depose of al-Filastini, placing him under house arrest in Kensington Palace. Yañez began a series of cruel, tyrannical acts - harking back to the worst authoritarian regimes of the twentieth century. A Royal Navy submarine unit, comprising twelve SSNs and twelve SSBNs, initiated the first assualt against Yañez, levelling Westminster. In the ensuing chaos, Atopiana and Skgorria reinvaded British Londinium, killing off Yañez and the new regime, and installed Robert Trantor as President, in tandem with a constitutional reform that was forced through the House of Commons and the House of Lords. The New Party acted even more ghastly than the Yañez regime, with genocide against Chinese individuals raging across the nation. There was widespread hatred of the Party, which resulted in major insurgent activity, including an assassination of Trantor and the torture of Yañez. After a year of such resistance, Atopiana and Skgorria decided to pull out, especially in light of international condemnation of the invasion.
Reconstruction Period (1997-2000)
The actions of Skgorria and Atopiana showed the Londinian government the many problems with security and defence policy within the nation. al-Filastini realised that British Londinium lacked any type of powerful allies on the international scene. Quickly, Parliament enacted legislation which had Eurasia join the Corporate Alliance, the Grand Imperial Alliance, and the Union of Democratic Nations. al-Filastini also was forced to re-enact Labour-style reforms as to provide for the millions displaced and affected by the civil war. By late 1999, life in Eurasia had slowly normalised.
The Swanner Regime (2000-2006)
James Swanner was the darling of the Londinian Conservative Party - dashing, young, and energetic, Swanner was poised to take the office was al-Filastini stepped down on the first day of the new millienium. For the first year of his term, Swanner continued to be the star of the Londinian political scene, with popularity levels rocketing to unprecended highs. Liberalization and deregulation of the economy ensued after his first election, and the UKBL was as close as it had ever been to achieving its libertarian dreams up to that point. In late 2001, however, Swanner made radical shifts in his policies, which ran against the grain of standard Conservative practices. Before that point in time, a set of anarchists attempted to raid a nuclear missile compound - in response, James Swanner proposed the Londinian Defence and Solidarity Act, which strengthened military infrastructure, something that al-Filastini neglected. Three weeks later, a 'terrorist attack' on Parliament ravaged Kensington - an incident later revealed to be orchestrated by Swanner himself. With most Members of Parliament dead or severely injured, Swanner declared a state of emergency and granted himself the full power of Parliament, noting that he and his cabinet were all that remained of the Parliament. Swanner quickly initiated a series of drastic reforms; namely, he made sedition a crime, shaking one of the UKBL's founding tenets - the freedom of speech. With criticising the government now a capital crime, government oppression and tyranny spiralled out of control in British Londinium, and Swanner became more and more bizarre and sadistic in his governance. Swanner made purchasing teddy bears punishable by firing squad, he turned election booths into gas chambers, he introduced the giant blender as an execution method, he ordered that retirees be executed and used in the making of Chinese food. At one point, Swanner made utilising math a crime punishable by "being raped by Oprah". Swanner was also infamous for personally taking part in the rapes of female government officials and military officers. Internal passports and constant surveillance became commonplace, with the UKBL possessing the highest concentration of CCTV cameras in the world; the situation of soldiers prowling the streets, armed to the teeth, with the cold statement "Your papers, please," becoming commonplace. Furthermore, British Londinium entered into the EVIL alliance, only making the UKBL look worse in international eyes.
First Londinian War
New Era (2007-2009)
Second Londinian War
In May 2009, a chain of events was set in motion that would later be called the "Second Londinian War."
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