Parliament says "No Confidence" in funky44, Minister of Defence
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by Christophia
The United Kingdom House of Commons has today tabled a motion of no-confidence in eUK's Minister of Defence, funky44.
Malta_1990 of The Unity Party proposed the motion, stating: "we definately need a better organisation of the war and this should be the MoD's job."
"Its fine if the MoD is active, but when he does sweet FA and the paras' ideas are unanswered, it becomes incompetence."
A crisis in unravelling in the UK government as more and more battles in the war against France are being lost. We have lost 3 of the 4 battles against France, and with just over an hour to go until the latest battle for Champagne-Ardenne finishes, eUK looks set for another defeat.
Accusations of blame have been shot around with Bob Bobolo of the People's Communist Party claiming "the entire war council be to blame". Meanwhile it has emerged in alleged accusations that our current Minister of Defence, funky44 has been AWOL for the past few days and hasn't replied to questions by the army for days - is it time for a new administration in the Ministry of Defence?
PCP Member of Parliament defended the Minister, claiming "Funky did a good job under difficult circumstances and doesn't deserve as much critisism as he gets".
Either way, this crisis must be solved soon before this war is lost. There are already call for a cease-fire from within many in eUK. Reorganisation and replanning is desperately needed or eUK will face humiliation on the world stage.
Christophia
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1. Funky has not been AWOL. He's been busy, but still managed to check in.
2. The "vote" of no confidence was pointless, considering Funky had already announced he was stepping down a week ago.
There's already a new MoD. Doesnt sound like uncoordination to me.
Nice to see someone at the forums, but I'd ask that you paint the entire picture.
Interesting, thanks for keeping us informed on Parliamentary affairs.
Good article, Keeping us informed, But try and edit your next posts to not completely slander people who gave up their own time.
🙂
"The "vote" of no confidence was pointless, considering Funky had already announced he was stepping down a week ago."
Pointless in a constitutional respect, but highly important in a symbolic respect - showing parliament (which represents the people of eUK) has lost faith in his work.
Apologies if the article came across as completely disregarding funky44's previous work. I merely meant to suggest it was perhaps time for him to be replaced, coming from a citizen of eUK.
As a newer member of EUK and of the Guards Funky44 always answered any questions i had promptly,sorry to see him go 🙁
Funky is NOT a bad MoD. In fact, he's a better MoD than we've had since Widdows9000 was MoD. He's done remarkably considering the stress he's been under, and considering how he was suddenly thrust into a world of two warring superpowers. Funky was great at his job, and I'd like to see anybody in the eUK (except perhaps Widdows himself but he's already said that he doesn't want to) do a better job than him.
Seems that not everyone agrees with Malta.
Too bad that Funky could not step down well respected without people trying to drag him through the mud.
Parliament does not agree! There are very. very few opinions against confidence in Funky.
Deilos you were at least as good as Widdows at least on the diplomacy side of things.
It was an honour to work with you on Atlantis especially
Tim09
Hehe, it funny just like real-life, newspaper article will try to slander someone while leaving gaps of info. Then again that doesn't matter, I guess 😛
Lol...nothing wrong with funky..he was great but got busy at the end then wanted to resign? nothing wrong with that 🙂
'Deilos you were at least as good as Widdows at least on the diplomacy side of things. '
Tim take that back or I'll have to hurt you 😛
Nah I think Deilos was a great MoD, he just doesn't get the credit he deserves or think highly enough of himself.
I'm not interested in MoD at all atm, still got a bit of work, but I might return to politics late Jan/Feb time.
And stay on probs until May which is when I go on study leave.
I do think Funky had some faults and I said them to his face, but to be honest no one and yes that includes myself and Tarquin (original MoD - the best one imo) could have done better.
There's more of a whole problem with ATLANTIS, not just us.
I like this kind of reporting, it's more like RL! Keep it up! 🙂
Shame on them! Inquests should be done after wars.
Well, I've said it before. Commons can s*ck on it. I always made sure that at least someone knew if I wasn't going to be online near the end of the battle. If they had any decency they could have just asked as I answered every good question within 14hours. But hey, they can have it their way I'm not bending over for them and taking it up the *ss. The only incompetent ones are those who posted a topic like this in a public place while it is clearly a sensitive issue and as such it is supposed to go in there.
It must be stressed that filling any Cabinet post, particularly that of Minister for Defence during wartime, is a particularly demanding job and one that should not be undertaken lightly.
Funky has put a lot of effort into maintaining this essential role of the past few weeks - and it pains me to see anyone making unproductive personal attacks against him.
What *is* required here is a willingness to cooperate and work together as a team - the only way that we can be successful within a virtual world such as erepublik is to get organized and working together. This means good unequivocal direction, good communications, willingness to delegate and excellent team spirit.
Just looking at the historic records of the last four battles that we have lost, it would appear that the PEACE team are performing a little better than our team. Based upon our wealth, the size of our population and the breadth of the ATLANTIS alliance, we should be doing a little better than we have to date!
"Hehe, it funny just like real-life, newspaper article will try to slander someone while leaving gaps of info."
I beg to differ, both sides of the arguement have clearly been posted here.
No, but in the article only on side put forward
"Nah I think Deilos was a great MoD, he just doesn't get the credit he deserves or think highly enough of himself."
No, I think that as Tim says, I was better on the diplomacy side but when it came to domestic things, I was quite a bit worse than Funky. I did virtually nothing about the Reserves despite knowing that something needed to be done, I didn't get around to sorting out a logistics corp as I should have done (though admittedly Funky should have as well, he's been more busy organising effectively a battle every day), etc. And I didn't communicate nearly enough with the public, really.
I wrote a nice reply to this article, but I lost it when I clicked Post. I'm too tired to rewrite it.
This all be said and such, with a newly appointed MoD. Do we honestly still see a victory with france? and does the new MoD recognise the full gravity of this situation?
Just clarify, not slandering. Just questioning. 🙂
'Do we honestly still see a victory with france? and does the new MoD recognise the full gravity of this situation?'
In my opinion the new MoD has a better chance of leading us to victory than Funky did purely because of his activity and purely because I just think he will be a better MoD than Funky.
I'm not sure about victory though as there are problems with the whole of ATLANTIS not just ourselves but already there have been improvements in organisation by Ip Lockard - the new MoD.
it is vital that we win this war or we could risk losing, not only the territory gained but the respect of other world nations.
perhaps creating a new alliance is in order? i havnt been here long but all ive heard so far is that our allys have been letting us down..
Widds, how did Funky's activity affect our chances of victory ?