[Wall of Text] An update from your inactive Dictator
Sir Humphrey Appleby
Good afternoon gentlemen; hope the majority of you are well & a mandatory congratulations to the folks at TUP for their successful liberation.
This is in many eyes long overdue and I unreservedly apologise for my public silence for the last 11 days since we’ve had Sir Scott Williamson (BA’s original account). My actions in regards to securing/stealing the Emergy fund has been strongly divisive and I hope I can more clearly demonstrate my reasons by an observation of the last few days.
Before I begin with the more recent events - I think it's only fair to give you an idea of SSW’s historical relationship with our national treasury. Before fleeing to eIreland to tank against us and try and convince them to invade, he had already robbed funds from the NHS and Grant funds in his maiden CP term (which is why he ran away, funnily enough). When he came back, sodded the citizenship system and magically got elected (sound familiar?) he was spoonfed funds by Carlini to ensure he couldn’t steal anything sizable. But even in the extremely limited funds he was given there were notable discrepancies and he was duly lambasted for them.
Fast forward to 3 days ago and totally predictably, no doubt after getting tired of the “english speaking” part of community calling him out for being thick as lead, decides to fire one of the most respected members of the eUK from the Bank of England and cash out with every penny - including manually resetting orgs loaned to citizens to which he didn’t have the passwords and taking their money too. To add insult to injury, he then appoints and attempts to sacrifice one of his foreign lieutenants to try and cover the motorway-sized tracks that lead back to his little ant colony (http://prntscr.com/432esp).
Now I’d been saying since he wanted to run that he was as trustworthy as a drunk frenchmen and that irrespective of what were to happen the term before he would still make a stab at taking us to the cleaners. I firmly believe that had I not moved the rest of Emergy’s fund to a place he couldn't get at then it would’ve disappeared too. The fact he has reset private orgs too shows that to have moved it into an obscure government org would’ve been pointless, there was no other choice.
A lot of his PR men like to regurgitate the argument that cos I took 300k that therefore gives them the right to take 900k (a more accurate figure would now be nearer £1.26m given the loss of citizen’s money stored on orgs). For those that don’t immediately recognise how ridiculous that point is, let me explain a few things. As this is the part of the article dapper & co are really gonna be paying attention to, I’ll simplify it.
1. Every penny I took is still accounted for. This is not the case with SSW
2. Every penny will be returned. This will almost certainly not be the case with SSW
3. I happily admit that I took the money. This is not the case with SSW
4. My MoF knew and supported the move. This is not the case with SSW even with a Serb MoF!
5. I have never stolen in eRep, I’m not about to start. This is not the case with SSW
6. I’ve always been loyal eUK and will likely continue so. This is not the case with SSW
I now invite BA to either return the funds, point out an alternative culprit, or hang his head in shame.
Cheers,
Appleby
EDIT: A new addition
Comments
If Appleby didn't move the money, BigAnt would steal 1.3 million instead of 980k... Try to spin this Sexagenerian.
I should've taken the bloody lot really.
Theft is theft, condone Appleby and you condone ANY theft
So you would like if BA (who confessed his treachery) stole more money... Nice.
I would rather Appleby had not set the example for BA to follow.
You can't have it both ways, either you are against any theft or you don't care if everyone is a thief.
In reality it makes ansolutely no difference to the average player, they still get nothing from any government regardless of whoever is in control.
Crap logic. BA's only reason to become CP was to rob UK again and Appleby prevented that to the best of his ability. Time to face the facts.
Appleby didnt set the example, he was not the 1st eUK CP to take money,
are you realy this thick in RL as well ?
I thought sexagenarian meant your age was 60-69 not your IQ
The thing is, BA has stolen before, so if anything he set the precedent of theft.
There's theft and then there's off-sheet accounting. Like we do in the NHS/eBrit. The NHS/eBrit does not have its own account, so every penny, every morsel, every lump of gold donated is held in the accounts of the Director, the two past Directors still active and is doled out to the "lunch ladies" to distribute. I can assure you the bookkeeping is a nightmare - I have spreadsheets which show everything I took in on behalf of NHS/eBrit and everything I spent on same, including a record of all purchases made using NHS/eBrit funds. And the sheet goes back to when I started, a long time ago. Could I steal it? Yes, but that's why we elect people with integrity (excepting certain bugs) to control resources and access.
I'm much relieved to see this, as I'd always found Sir H to be a scholar and a gentleman, and no thief. I'd say he had quite a bit more sense than the rest of us, stashing the money where it couldn't be stolen!
If you can not see the difference then senility is setting in.
Fully agreed with this move at the time, still agree with it.
Appleby, you are my hero.
He should pay back the money he stole from citizens using orgs first.
I imagine that anyone who supported BigAnt, either when he PTOd TUP or ran as CP, feels pretty foolish now.
Or at least realizes he's a liability.
Trollku will distance himself and pretend he never trusted him, Daiper will blame everyone else as he is too stupid to release he is a stooge.
or just has a share...
for sexy a$$*
tl;dr
More BAW if Appleby's theft is OK why not anyone else?
>totally ignores the last 6 points of the article
get better glasses grandad
as I said tl;dr
Checking the points you mentioned 3 & 5 are contradictory
because theft requires no intention to give it back...
I suggest you "borrow" something in a similar fashion in real life. I promise at least one visit to you in jail to say "I told you so"
I would try it except sadly there's no equivalent situations in my life, there's no collective pot of money I'm responsible for for a limited time etc.
Just out of curiosity if Appleby returns the money will you still be calling him a thief?
Makes up for completely leaving me in the dark for a month as MoD. Well done apples :3
Also just so everyone knows.
Hollenboer only won the PP election in V thanks to Multi voters and the admins being slow to remove the votes.
http://prntscr.com/43m8g8
If you don't believe the SS go look for yourself.
He didn't win then. Rules are rules... The guy with most votes wins. Everyone send the ticket.
So does this mean the results can be overturned?
Ridiculous.
Ticket sent. To anyone writing a ticket about this, do NOT name any specific players. You may link their profiles, but Admins like to use naming & shaming as a reason to discard tickets instead of dealing with them.
you are welcome 😃
the result has been changed he's no longer pp, such a shame that ba forced them to waste 40 odd votes in a failed PTO of TUP and they lost control of their own party by such a small margin.
What next New Vendetta or Vendetta Era or hopefully New Eire
Appleby is a national hero. He pretended he was inactive during his term, but was merely preparing his greatest moment of safeguarding £300k.
Appleby4CP
Except he wasn't pretending... He failed to start many battles when they were needed.
That's precisely what he wanted you to think
Solid job tipping yourself, Applecart.
More robberies pls.
Let's have Moriarty form a cabinet and Appleby can send his MoF the funds he has 'borrowed' in lieu of the impending impeachment, and everyone is happy?
Good idea.
everyone except the people BA robbed...which I guess is everyone...
He has 50 of my gold the thieving bum
🙁
You were still a bad CP, however, protecting the treasury (sort of) helps a little.
True... I remember when hie own Cabinet was anxious because he wasn't showing up for days and starting wrong battles... NWG did all the work for him.
Still have no Money for MoD or supplies
Why would any sane person give money to one of Diapers V cronies?
This "Chrony" has given all of his gold and money into buying supplies for MoD
The very least you could do in the circumstances, however WHY would anyone trust you with a single penny when you have so very clearly demonstrated how gullible and stupid you are.......... do the decent thing resign and flock off to another counrty
Long live our Dictator Apleby!
We keep no cash in Treasury because we do not trust the majority of Congress. We are afraid to keep cash in the Bank of England because we do not trust our Presidents. See the problem?
Is there anyone everyone can agree on who we can just make Governor to oversee cash reserves and transfer them as voted in budgets and proposals?
How about we don't make a Governor why don't we just trust our King.