[vCP] CP Announcement
Deputy Prime Minister
Statement regarding our CP
Hello.
As you’re probably aware, our elected CP Sir Humphrey Appleby has been missing for over a week. No one is quite sure why he’s gone AWOL - reports that he was last seen on a Jamaican beach with a hammock and a bottle of rum are uncorroborated. It would have been Talisker for a start.
Anyway, if a CP goes AWOL it falls upon the vCP to take over his or her duties until something more important happens. And as I am the vCP, that means me taking over. Therefore, as of yesterday, I have become the Acting CP of the eUK. This state of affairs will continue until…
[1] Apples shows up
[2] Congress impeaches the real CP and puts something else in place
[3] Woldy exercises his rights as a dictator to take over everything and blow a raspberry at government and congress
[4] A new CP is elected in the usual way
Given that the next CP election is due in one week, my guess is that option 3 will prevail (although congress are currently discussing the impeachment option).
So, for the time being at least, please treat me with all the usual scorn and disdain you would usually reserve for the CP. And if you have any actual business you would normally bring to the CP, I’m your man.
War with the septics*
With all this going on, our cheeky colonial cousins from the U S of A decided that now would be the perfect time to invade our green and pleasant land. To be honest, if I was facing the prospect of Trump as president I’d be looking longingly to foreign shores as well.
While the timing isn’t helpful, we’re not the sort of country to let minor logistical inconveniences get in the way of glory, so rest assured that we are all over this, like a m'urican with doughnuts (or “donuts” if you can’t spell properly).
Before I took over Sir Jimmy Savile (MoD) and Aaron Mark Daniels (MoFA) were already doing a sterling job of running our military and diplomatic campaign, so that will continue unchanged. To provide some extra assistance I’ve moved Sir Charles Moncrieff from MoHA to MoD. We can do without a MoHA for the final week of this government’s term.
We’ve also secured the backing of many of our friends and allies, so we’re looking forward to fighting side-by-side with them on the battlefield, and then treating them to lots of proper beer served in proper measures.
What you can do…
[1] Fight! - check the daily orders in the MoD newspaper every day and fight where requested. These orders are also being distributed to all the key eUK MU commanders, so you should see them as your DOs.
[2] Don’t start RWs - we have plans in place (which include our allies) that will allow us to concentrate our damage where and when it’s needed. Unauthorised RWs will only distract from this and split our damage. Rest assured, RWs - in the right places - are all part of the plan.
[3] Stock up on weapons! - you can get 25 Q7s from the MoD’s Call To Arms just by commenting on the MoD Daily Order articles (open to eUK citizens and allies). MoD has also reopened the Tank Fund, where you can buy discounted Q7s direct from the eUK government. Check the MoD newspaper for details of both schemes.
[4] Donate - COs are already being placed on key battles, and the MoD Call To Arms programme and Tank Fund needs supplies. If you’re a wealthy oldfag with cash or weapons to spare, and you’re looking for the warm glow you get from helping your nation in its time of need, please contact our MoD Sir Jimmy Savile, who’ll be happy to take them off your hands.
[5] Annoy as many Americans as you can - write articles, comment on their articles, shout in your friends feed. Let them know that we won’t go quietly
TL
😉R?
I’m the boss (for now)
Fight Americans
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[*] Cockney rhyming slang - look it up
Comments
I think I might go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over...
For the Empire! (AND SCONES!)
Whilst I'm not particularly concerned by most of the options, esp. as we have a competent vCP, I'm curious what happens if congress (who are calling for blood, as it's a chance to press a button so to speak) pass the impeachment.
Would an impeachment just mean no shiny medal for Appleby or would something else happen? Would there be a question over who is CP falling to the person with the 2nd most votes in the last election? Being a different party and thus disrupting the whole cabinet for the sake of sending an unheaded message to would-be slacker CPs ?
An impeachment cannot be called in-game I believe since we are in a Dictatorship (I may be wrong about that). In our amazing meta-legislation world everything would carry on as if an impeachment had happened in game. The person who came second in an election would be the new CP. It is their choice on who is in cabinet (so we'd have to ask them) but generally the cabinets stay very similar after an impeachment, just like we have similar people in cabinet each month. I don't understand what the medal thing you are on about means, if you mean the achievement on the profile then you get that straight after being elected so Appleby got it for this term.
According to the meta law that Paul Tyndale quoted in various threads, in the case of an impeachment the dictator takes over. So it'll be up to Woldy what happens.
Having said that, I don't think anyone knows how to impeach. Woldy can't do it (it's one of the only two things a dictator can't do), and Congress has no buttons. So who proposes an in-game impeach law?
We created more meta law to stop following in-game mechanics? Can we get rid of Congress now...
There is no game mechanic for impeachment under dictatorship, as congress loses it's "propose law" button so physically cannot propose an impeachment, and the dictator does not get given the impeach button.
Hence why we made a meta law for it, however the meta appears to be misunderstood, likely because nobody has even opened the statute book since that one time I proposed to obliterate half of it and then never pursued it because people didn't really care.
We originally created legislation to follow in-game democracy mechanics I believe. Then we put Addaway in charge of it all...
Interestingly, all the meta was written by Addaway and Apples, both of whom have disappeared this month.
An impeachment can take place as a meta vote, I suppose
Well, to put it this way:
If it doesn't take place as a meta vote there can be no impeachment.
"I'm curious what happens if congress (who are calling for blood, as it's a chance to press a button so to speak) pass the impeachment."
I support impeachment as I said in congress with argument and also support the vCP to stay on as CP, so if that's calling for blood, I am calling for exactly this kind of blood 😛
The disappearence of our beloved Appleby without warning or symptoms is a mystery! Still - life and the process of Government must go on - the disappearence of our CP just as the country gets invaded is most unfortunate....
We *DO* need to stop the US invasion - by making them lose the initiative (and consequently the support of their allies - without which the invasion would not be possible). Then - we are back on the Resistance/Liberation game again.
This is a sequence that many of us have been through countless times - the only really boring bit is the impact which it has on our commercial/industrial processes. Luckily, the Huey investment processes operate independantly of the goings on in country...... I would advise citizens to invest in these schemes - all pretty super!
Malvines are argentine!
Don't you start too 😛
Go VM, AMD and others, o7 🙂
LoL, awesome article!
Voted and endorsed 🙂
At the beginning of this term you asked Belgium to accept the UK as overlords, well I think it is about time you guys accept us as overlords, because we have a functioning government and an active CP 😃