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sabremeisterIt's World War 2. Britain said it would protect Poland if Germany invaded it. Then Germany did, and we did nothing. Britain then said it would protect any other country invaded by Germany, and sent a small army to camp in France - they don't even start bombing German factories, because the factories are privately owned and have nothing to do with the German state. A few months go by, and Germany overruns Denmark and invades Norway. Britain sends a few planes to the north of Norway (well away from the invasion) and hopes that the Germans will kindly stop invading places. Germany conquers Norway, then invades the low countries. Britain steals all their money and bits of their armed forces, and waits. Germany's invasion doesn't stop at Belgium, it carries on into France. Desperate, Britain sells the RAF to Henry Ford and abandons its' army to destruction in France. Germany conquers France, sets up a puppet regime in the south, then starts building up forces to invade Britain.
Despite their de facto acquisition of the RAF, the USA decides not to intervene in any way whatsoever. After all, there is significant public support for the Nazi regime, and Europe is such a long way away that nothing from there could ever affect them.
Meanwhile, Italy has allied with Germany and has started attacking British territories in North Africa. In response, Britain sells them the Suez Canal and secretly attacks the French forces in Africa who didn't accept the creation of the puppet Vichy regime. Further east, Japan demands the Indochina territories of (Vichy) France to keep them out of British hands. They are surprised when Britain offers to throw in Malaya and Burma as well, but accept the offer.
Germany manages to get a toehold invasion force into Britain - it can't manage more because of the supremacy of the Royal Navy. Kent, Essex, Sussex and Middlesex are overrun. The royal family and government are evacuated to York, and every man and woman over the age of 12 is conscripted into the army. Horribly unequipped, they are slaughtered, until the government manages to procure some flintlock muskets for them - and they are still slaughtered. The Royal Navy is ordered to scuttle in their moorings at Portsmouth and Southampton, sold to Germany for scrap, and more flintlocks are bought and distributed to the conscripts. By now, the whole south coast is under German occupation, as is East Anglia and much of the Midlands and west country.
Northern Ireland seceeds and joins the Republic, and shortly after the royal family reloactes to Edinburgh, Scotland declare independance and joins Ireland, Sweden and Switzerland in strict neutrality. The government relocates to Liverpool long enough to issue orders to have anyone not attacking the Germans with their bare hands shot, then escapes to Canada. The slaughter of the ill-equipped conscripts continues.
Germany conquers England and Wales, and respects Scotland's neutrality, though they do still "accidentally" send air raids over Glasgow and Edinburgh on a regular basis. Most of Germany's armed forces are relocated to their Eastern borders to prepare for the invasion of Russia. British North and East Africa and Palestine are Italian. The British government-in-exile are forced to relocate to Jamaica, where they sell the Empire's West African territories to Vichy.
Japan, meanwhile, has launched a largely succesful invasion of India. ANZAC and South African forces come to the aid of the beleagured British Army of India, but when the British government-in-exile orders them to hand over all supplies of oil and rubber to the Japanese, India - the jewel in the British Empire's crown - is abandoned by the Commonwealth forces. India is annexed by Japan.
In the next six months, Japan goes on to crush China from three sides. Having satisfied their strategic resource requirements, they see no need to attack the USA. Japan, in fact, joins Germany in invading Russia two months later. Assailed on two sides, Russia cannot hold back the fascist tide, and surrenders in early January when Stalingrad, Leningrad, Moscow, Minsk, Kursk, Kiev, Archangelsk, Astrakhan, Vladivostok, and over 3million square miles of territory are overrun.
So, which bits are part of an historial account, and which bits are paralells to Cameron's/May's/Johnson's government?
Despite their de facto acquisition of the RAF, the USA decides not to intervene in any way whatsoever. After all, there is significant public support for the Nazi regime, and Europe is such a long way away that nothing from there could ever affect them.
Meanwhile, Italy has allied with Germany and has started attacking British territories in North Africa. In response, Britain sells them the Suez Canal and secretly attacks the French forces in Africa who didn't accept the creation of the puppet Vichy regime. Further east, Japan demands the Indochina territories of (Vichy) France to keep them out of British hands. They are surprised when Britain offers to throw in Malaya and Burma as well, but accept the offer.
Germany manages to get a toehold invasion force into Britain - it can't manage more because of the supremacy of the Royal Navy. Kent, Essex, Sussex and Middlesex are overrun. The royal family and government are evacuated to York, and every man and woman over the age of 12 is conscripted into the army. Horribly unequipped, they are slaughtered, until the government manages to procure some flintlock muskets for them - and they are still slaughtered. The Royal Navy is ordered to scuttle in their moorings at Portsmouth and Southampton, sold to Germany for scrap, and more flintlocks are bought and distributed to the conscripts. By now, the whole south coast is under German occupation, as is East Anglia and much of the Midlands and west country.
Northern Ireland seceeds and joins the Republic, and shortly after the royal family reloactes to Edinburgh, Scotland declare independance and joins Ireland, Sweden and Switzerland in strict neutrality. The government relocates to Liverpool long enough to issue orders to have anyone not attacking the Germans with their bare hands shot, then escapes to Canada. The slaughter of the ill-equipped conscripts continues.
Germany conquers England and Wales, and respects Scotland's neutrality, though they do still "accidentally" send air raids over Glasgow and Edinburgh on a regular basis. Most of Germany's armed forces are relocated to their Eastern borders to prepare for the invasion of Russia. British North and East Africa and Palestine are Italian. The British government-in-exile are forced to relocate to Jamaica, where they sell the Empire's West African territories to Vichy.
Japan, meanwhile, has launched a largely succesful invasion of India. ANZAC and South African forces come to the aid of the beleagured British Army of India, but when the British government-in-exile orders them to hand over all supplies of oil and rubber to the Japanese, India - the jewel in the British Empire's crown - is abandoned by the Commonwealth forces. India is annexed by Japan.
In the next six months, Japan goes on to crush China from three sides. Having satisfied their strategic resource requirements, they see no need to attack the USA. Japan, in fact, joins Germany in invading Russia two months later. Assailed on two sides, Russia cannot hold back the fascist tide, and surrenders in early January when Stalingrad, Leningrad, Moscow, Minsk, Kursk, Kiev, Archangelsk, Astrakhan, Vladivostok, and over 3million square miles of territory are overrun.
So, which bits are part of an historial account, and which bits are paralells to Cameron's/May's/Johnson's government?
