Successful Brighton Bombing



In this timeline, Margaret Thatcher survived an attempted assasination whilst staying at a hotel in Brighton on 12 October 1984 for a Conservative party conference the next day. According to media reports, she narrowly avoided the explosion. What if she hadn't?

Differences in this timeline

 * Northern Ireland becomes an autonomous part Ireland following a referendum in response to the attack.
 * The UK plays a smaller role in ending the Cold War.
 * Thatcherism doesn't become a significant ideology.
 * Others rise to power in the Conservative Party.
 * Fewer industries are reprivatised.