[TUP] Mandate For Democracy + NPFriday!
Day 3,902, 06:49
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by Talon Karrde
The Unity Party: Mandate for Democracy
My Friends,
When I last wrote to you, I gave a bold aim for the congress elections: To elect every candidate that we had to congress. When I wrote that I knew it would be a tough ask; it would have required roughly a 10% swing to our party, which isn’t easy considering that most players already belong to a party that they will generally vote for. So getting out the vote and making sure people logged in to make their voice heard was crucial.
I am delighted to report that we did just that: All 16 of our candidates were elected!
Not only that, but the Pirate Cats actually lost votes and lost members of congress. They have 8; we have double that on 16.
I think this result represents a stinging rebuke of the pirates support for dictatorship in the UK. After all, what use are members of congress to a party that has no interest in representing the will of the people?
In addition to our own success, the UKRP and WRP were also able to elect members of congress on a pro democracy ticket. Between the three parties we elected 28 of the 40 congress members. That’s 70%, and represents a supermajority of congress elected in opposition to the current dictatorship.
With that in mind, I hereby claim a mandate from the people to build a coalition in opposition to the current dictatorship; an Alliance to Restore the Republic.
Over the next few days TUP will be working hard at our party conference, developing a set of progressive policies for governing the UK. These policies will then become the manifesto of our CP candidate, and we will put them to the people on the 5th. This election will be important; in addition to deciding the ingame, largely ceremonial CP position, it will also act as a referendum on the dictatorship. I expect it to provide a clear message that the UK does not support this dictatorship and wishes to return to democracy.
If that is your wish, then join us. The forces of democracy need every able body in the fight against tyranny.
Some good news for you all too: New Player Friday is set to continue! Even dictatorship cannot stop us from seeking to help new players, and the program will continue to run in exactly the same way, but privately for now instead of under the Ministry of Education.
Welcome to this week’s edition of New Player Friday! Each week the Ministry of Education will be posting an article filled with useful information and fun for the whole country.
For those that don’t know, every Friday anyone that has signed up to the eUK receives a message welcoming them and giving them a few missions to complete in order to earn some cash. This has been working really well so far and has definitely upped our retention rates.
This will be continuing, with the addition of these articles to help welcome new players into the eUK community at large. One of their missions will be to comment on this article, and I’d like everyone to get involved in welcoming them and getting to know them as and when they do.
We’ll also be posting links to guides and any programs to help new players, like the NHS. If you have a program you’d like us to include then comment below or send us a PM. We’d be delighted to bring attention to any scheme that helps our newer players!
Some of us have been around for a lot longer than these new players, and we’d like to give a couple of incentives to older players to read and participate in these articles too. So with each article there may be games, competitions, challenges and rewards available too. The bigger the buzz and welcome we can create around these articles the better!
As always: Unity is Strength!
Talon Karrde
President of The Unity Party.
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Onwards and upwards!
That sounds like something "King" Willy comes out with. Except he'd do it in ALL CAPS cos he's the "real King, honest guv'nor" 😉
Voted! Amazing work as ever
Well you've made me a subscriber.. (Wait, why wasn't I subscribed before?!)
UKRP and WRP were running on a platform?
Endorsed 100 GBP and voted
Onwards and upwards!
Unity is Strength! Well done everyone! Like I have said before, democracy is YOUR RIGHT! TUP will fight for your right to have a democratic government.
Really?
Isn't it time you came out?
You want "democracy"? OK put up your cash and fight for it.
A CP election is exactly that, it isn't a "referendum" on the dictatorship or any other strange and wonderful spin you want to put on it. It would serve you right if the other side boycotted the election especially as it has no real meaning.
If you want to claim a majority for your view then you should check your numbers. If you add all the votes of your coalition (TUP, UKRP, WRP) you achieved around 10% of the active citizens. That means 90% of the active citizens either disagreed with you or your rousing call for democracy wasn't sufficient motivation for people to vote one way or the other.
Doesn't this level of disinterest show that the current politics here have no bearing on how the game is played and maybe you should stop navel gazing and start to engage the majority that exists outside of your little bubble? Instead of moaning about how apathetic players here are maybe it's time for you to change and actually find out what is important to the majority.
"Open your wallets or find another game to play."
Anything free is worth every penny you've spent on it
Nowt but empty rhetoric
well done and as you say a great result
So TUP's manifesto of resistance is to do nothing but weakly squeak "we disagree" whenever UK's Finest does anything? Awesome.
If you did want to fight the dictatorship then what you should be doing is raising the funds to start an anti-dictator battle, arrange it so that you have enough support and firepower and then hit the attack button.
And even if you lose the war, at least you can point to trying...
and remember I get to have another go 7 days after you win (whenever that is)
At the moment that would make Ajay Bruno CP. No thanks. I'm a consensus builder. We're gonna put some great policy together and build support through the CP election first, and provide a positive, democratic vision for the UK. Once that's done and people have a genuine choice to help them decide which way to fight, then we'll liberate.
Your "democracy" was lost because it simply refuses to acknowledge that they are seen as irrelevant by the majority. When you start to look outside your cosy little group and work with everyone you might have a chance.
Great policy will either be the rough tax rates and stuff we have now and/or some legislation that has no application ingame
Next CP election is on the 5th August so you have about a week for Huey to "safeguard" the treasury and have the funding in place the moment someone not Ajay is elected. Ajay is just an excuse for doing nothing right now. The reality, and this is why UKsF won the dictatorship without really trying is that you and your colleagues couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.
As ever, you are all talk role-playing and are incompetent in actually doing anything.
So it's a mandate for democracy except when democracy puts King Willy in a position to seize power?
Blah blah blah, start a revolution if you don't want dictatorship...
Tbh, you guys should be thankful to UKsF, now you have a reason to write useless articles and roleplay some kind of a democratic front thing and stuff... Increased activity, innit? 😁
Well written article as always Talon. One of the best assets to the eUK!
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Just saying that when SHA (UKRP) was CP he fought of 2 coup attempts.
Great article, Talon. As a new player, I particularly applaud the education initiatives including New Player Friday. Superb.