[CP] Opening Comments

Day 3,184, 16:18 • Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom • by 10 Downing Street


Greetings to you all, eUK. First I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me in these elections; I hope to be able to deliver some very positive changes for the nation. Helping me to this end is a capable cabinet, whose members are:

Vice President: jamesw
Minister of Foreign Affairs: Aaron Mark Daniels
Minister of Defence: Sir Jimmy Savile
Minister of Home Affairs: Mr Woldy
Governor: Huey George
Cabinet Advisor: Bogi
Cabinet Padawan: James Radcliff

I'm thrilled to be joined by such a strong team, and hope that you will give them the support that they need to run the country, including volunteering to help in the Ministry of Home Affairs, following the battle orders as detailed each day by the Minister of Defence etc. I myself intend to be pretty involved in all the ministries, and support any minister who requires it.



Foreign Affairs

Since the dissolution of Sirius all that time ago, the UK has not really settled on a clear foreign policy. In part this piecemeal approach and incoherent MPP list has been dictated by circumstance: having MPPs with this country ruled out having an MPP with that country and so on. In recent months new, serious alliances were founded and unfortunately we received an invitation to precisely NONE of these. We did participate in PLUTO, but while we shared good relations with the members of the alliance, it never grew into a serious project capable of asserting itself on the international stage. This was most obvious when the key member of the alliance Spain was wiped by a combination of countries from different alliances: defence of Spain was weak and incoherent because the alliance was not fit for purpose and had not formed strong connections to other alliances capable of assisting.

As mentioned in my candidacy article, I believe that the first step our country should take to stabilise our situation on the world stage is to secure our borders as much as possible. This means improving relations with our neighbours who have been considered hostile to this point. Congress will be consulted and asked for their approval before any concrete steps are taken, and the public kept informed as soon as possible on the outcome of any negotiations with countries we have been enemies with to this point.

Your MoFA team finished contacting every government in the game yesterday; I’d like to thank the Minister for creating the message and working hard to ensure eUK was prompt to congratulate the new governments of the e-world.



Home Affairs

The cabinet has begun considering what changes we can make to the so called “legislation” that eUK has. I don’t understand the endless talking and circular debates that congress seems to have, which led in part to the ridiculous war with the United States. I’m really pleased when I see participation from a wider group of players, but I’m not convinced that our current setup is actually conducive to it: we have endless reams of “legislation” that few have read and even fewer understand, if any. Any changes will of course be submitted to congress themselves for scrutiny, but I am not going to pretend that I will attempt to follow every made up rule that was written during a different era of the game.

I would really value any input people have on this subject, as I understand I am a “new” face here and I’d like to gauge the appetite here to change things. If you have any ideas about how we might change our “laws” not passed through ingame functions, please send a PM to myself or any member of the cabinet.

Mr Woldy needs volunteers to assist him in running this part of government, so please send him a PM if you would like to participate in the projects he is arranging. Being involved at this level of government is a fantastic way to begin your career in e-politics, so if you fancy becoming a future president then I suggest you give this a try. 🙂



Defence

Sir Jimmy has begun the month strongly and we have clear priorities for where we would like the UK military strength, such as it is, to focus. Some brief details can be found in the Ministry’s first article of this month:

https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-mod-battle-orders-day-3-183-new-term-orders-2608712/1/20



That’s all for now, I look forward to a successful month.
--Arrlo