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>> No. 2515 Anonymous
29th April 2013
Monday 6:12 pm
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Let's say the government just crumbles tomorrow for whatever reason. Nothing centralised like a rebellion, it just fails.

What would become of the country? Would the Kingdom collapse? Would there be pretenders? Would the regions split? Would we have tribes? What do you think would happen to a modern first-world country if everything disintegrated?
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>> No. 2516 Anonymous
29th April 2013
Monday 6:15 pm
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>>2515
What do you mean 'the government crumbles'?
>> No. 2517 Anonymous
29th April 2013
Monday 6:15 pm
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Other countries would provide aid while a new government is established.
>> No. 2518 Anonymous
29th April 2013
Monday 6:17 pm
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>>2516

Parliament ceases to function.
>> No. 2519 Anonymous
29th April 2013
Monday 6:18 pm
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>>2518
Then we just have no new laws and the civil service carries on as normal - nothing changes, we just carry on until there's a problem which needs sorting that doesn't get sorted through legislation.
>> No. 2520 Anonymous
29th April 2013
Monday 6:23 pm
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>>2519

You're saying that without elected (or indeed un-elected) representatives in power, the government would continue to function the same as it always has?
>> No. 2521 Anonymous
29th April 2013
Monday 6:52 pm
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>>2518
You mean it goes on recess /gets prorogued?

For the state to fail in this country there'd have to be an almost unthinkable disaster, even full-on thermonuclear war wouldn't stop it functioning in one way or another.
>> No. 2522 Anonymous
29th April 2013
Monday 6:57 pm
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>>2520
More or less. The civil service wouldn't go anywhere.


The biggest consequence would be what people's reaction would be to the fact that there's nobody making laws anymore.
>> No. 2523 Anonymous
29th April 2013
Monday 7:00 pm
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>>2521
What's that image from?
>> No. 2524 Anonymous
29th April 2013
Monday 7:04 pm
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>>2515

The same thing that happens anywhere else - the muzzies take over.
>> No. 2525 Anonymous
29th April 2013
Monday 7:05 pm
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>>2515
>Let's say the government just crumbles tomorrow for whatever reason. Nothing centralised like a rebellion, it just fails.
Isn't that pretty much a hung parliament? There's plenty of evidence out there if you're curious what happens.
>> No. 2526 Anonymous
29th April 2013
Monday 7:07 pm
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>>2520
Depends on the Treasury. The civil service would keep on as long as there's money to pay them.
>> No. 2527 Anonymous
29th April 2013
Monday 7:13 pm
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>>2523
UK govt. Cold war report on how to ensure a tea supply after a global thermonuclear war. They were also after biscuits
>> No. 2528 Anonymous
29th April 2013
Monday 7:18 pm
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>>2527
gib more pls
>> No. 2529 Anonymous
29th April 2013
Monday 8:12 pm
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>>2527

Is this the report that led to HMG buying 2 million teaspoons, one for each predicted survivor, then dumping them in a warehouse in London for good knows how long?
>> No. 2530 Anonymous
29th April 2013
Monday 8:23 pm
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Assuming a complete and utter breakdown with little chance of a comeback:

I think life would carry on as it is until things get so bad that the Police start turning up for parade and when that happens, well it'll be a free for all until vigilantism takes over. People look for a group to scape goat for the country's woes and make victims out of whomever is perceived to be the cause. People will inevitably form off in to tribes and groups and attempt to subjugate the other groups.
>> No. 2545 Anonymous
4th May 2013
Saturday 4:43 pm
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You should watch Threads, it's quite informative on the topic.

My answer would that the forces would assume a leadership role but it wouldn't stay centralised for long as food and other resources begin to run out. I don't really like to think about it.
>> No. 2546 Anonymous
4th May 2013
Saturday 9:31 pm
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>>2525
Not quite, because constitutionally the current Cabinet remains in office until a new government can be formed. Recall Gordon Brown was PM for a week following the election until the coalition got their act together, which The Sun shrieked about as being undemocratic, or something.
>> No. 2547 Anonymous
6th May 2013
Monday 12:15 pm
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>You should watch Threads
Everyone should watch Threads.
>> No. 2548 Anonymous
6th May 2013
Monday 1:03 pm
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>>2547>>2545
my mum was in Threads, she was enlisted as an unpaid extra from when she was at Sheffield poly.
>> No. 2549 Anonymous
6th May 2013
Monday 2:07 pm
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How would rural people and urban people fare?
>> No. 2550 Anonymous
6th May 2013
Monday 2:12 pm
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>>2549

As opposed to what other people?
>> No. 2551 Anonymous
6th May 2013
Monday 7:38 pm
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>>2550

Jungle dwellers, I believe.
>> No. 2552 Anonymous
6th May 2013
Monday 7:44 pm
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>>2551

I'm pretty sure those are rural people too.
>> No. 2553 Anonymous
7th May 2013
Tuesday 7:50 am
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>>2552

Not sure if they are really people. Monkeys perhaps.
>> No. 2572 Anonymous
20th May 2013
Monday 2:38 pm
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Have a look at Yugoslavia's problems for one potential outcome. Wandering rape gangs and bandits. A spiral of increasing brutality and horror.

Alternatively there could be some bonding from it, either before or after the dust settles. Close-knit communities, old fashioned values, etc.

Riots and chaos in the cities would be a certainty for the interm period anyway. I'd expect local governments to form. Depending on the reach and state of the authorities and feelings of "us" and "them" would start shaping new borders and lines of conflict or cooperation.
>> No. 2575 Anonymous
8th June 2013
Saturday 9:24 pm
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America would probably take control. Or we'd have an EU government almost instantly implemented creating the first real EU 'state'

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