Christmas Bestseller
With just ten days to go in the leadership election there was suddenly a groundswell of public support across the Kingdom, the like of which had not been seen before, in favour of a third candidate, the millionaire novelist and philanthropist, Jeffrey Archer. Unwilling and reluctant to take the job he was persuaded by his beautiful and loyal wife Mary and the demands of millions of his countrymen. After a short consultation with the Conservative Party in the country David Cameron, the previous front-runner, decided to stand aside out of his desire for party unity and the knowledge he was going to be easily defeated. After a week in office the new Conservative leader decided to stand in a by-election for the Commons after the MP for Finchley had suddenly decided to quit. Elected by 90,000 votes, the highest individual vote for an MP ever recorded in British politics, he returned to the Commons triumphant. Panic set in amongst the Cabinet, who begged the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, to go to the Palace and ask the Queen to sack them and appoint Jeffrey Archer. Archer, a democrat to the core, thought the process at risk of sounding illegitimate and announced a snap election which was held on Christmas Day. The results were a revelation -- Archer's new Conservative Party took 46% of the votes, the highest share in electoral history, and 397 seats, the most in history. As Prime Minister Archer's reign, which was to last 10 years -- the longest in history - was considered the best in Britain's last 1000 years, with Winston Churchill's granddaughter confirming it live on television. His time in office was sure and just: beginning with the Daily Mirror Reperations Act and ending with the Ken Livingstone String-em-Up Act.
posted by Matthew @ 11/26/2005 09:45:00 AM
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