President Evil - Hello! Hooray! Let the Show Begin
Blue And Evil
Today’s Song: Alice Cooper - Hello, Hooray
Well, the election was... interesting. First of all, let me say thank you to everybody who voted for me. I hope that in the coming weeks, I can prove to you that your faith in me wasn’t misplaced. I’m writing today to address a few issues that have been raised over the last couple of days, and to give you a bit own news regarding future developments.
But before that: Are you a new player? Not been in the game too long, under level 29, and perhaps looking for a bit of support whilst you find your feet? Look no further than the NHS! Every UK citizen can claim 500 energy worth of food FREE every day. You can also be put in touch with an experienced player who can answer any questions you may have. Signing up is easy, you simply need to add your name and profile link to the sign up sheet here: http://tinyurl.com/NHS-eUK
On the topic of war
The most common topic which is raised in my inbox, in the media, on my friends feed, pretty much everywhere I look, is the topic of war. People want to have a war to fight in - which is obvious, given the nature of this game. More than this, people want to fight for their own country, in order to earn themselves their True Patriot medals. This is something I can understand, and agree with, having myself done about 6 million damage for the UK against Norway in our recent attempt to kept Sorlandet. The problem is our position in the world (both geographically and in terms of military strength) means invading and curb-stomping our neighbours isn’t an option, so UK wars can be somewhat rare.
To this end, I’ve been talking closely with Irish President MUFC992 about a Training War between our two countries. We’ve worked out a plan of give-and-take with our border regions which will allow citizens of both our countries to earn TP medals AND Resistance Hero medals. The details will be published in full in the MoD Newspaper in the coming days, but the tl;dr is we’re taking it in turns to capture a region, from each other, then capture it back with a RW. Ireland will be going first, and as such will be launching their NE this evening.
The problem with this plan, however, is there are concerns about still being able to give our full support to our allies - particularly in this time where a new massive campaign has been launched by Poland. Rest assured, this TW will not detract from our dedication to our allies. We will still be setting orders for our allies when our support is needed. This will be a balancing act, but myself and my MoD Garth Lidlington will be working closely with MU commanders throughout the country in order to see it maintained.
A Strong Start for Ministries
In the past, when I’ve held a ministerial position, I’ve always favoured being left to my own devices and being given the freedom to implement what I felt was needed for the role. I’ve always appreciated being able to take the initiative, and have been giving my ministers that same freedom to run their departments as they see fit. Most of them have taken to this like a duck to water, and whilst one or two have needed a little guiding in the right direction, all of them have hit the ground running.
The MoFA have already published the first of many regular international news updates, which can be read here. Your Domestics SuperTeam have been fighting each other to get their own news projects out first, with the Competitions team of Moriarty and Bohemond announcing their poetry competition, which you can read here.
Poetry Contest,
So I wrote this small haiku.
I might win 5 gold.
To finish, a few small matters. Firstly: Sorlandet. We lost. So what? There was no strategic benefit to keeping it right now, and no economic benefit to keeping it at all. We may have cause to attack again some time in the future, but for now, there is little point. Let them have this one, we’ll show them what a real fight is when we have a reason to win
😉
And lastly, the eItalian Ambassador to the eUK, Hinamarth, has been talking to me over the last few days for an interview. He’s published this, as well as a dossier on the eUK, and if your Italian is any good you can give it a read here.
~Blue And Evil
UK Country President
Comments
Any roles in politics for people who didn't get a role in you cabinet. UKPP doesn't have much to do.
UKPP didn't not get in; they didn't ask for anything in the first place. You can ask the ministers for stuff, I've seen people recruited off of the shout feed.
I really don't think a TW is wise when our allies are embarking on the greatest campaign of TWO so far. If you think you can direct the damage well enough then I hope it works out. I would have said this whoever was president.
Thats true, poor China!
Good first article btw. Cheers
Not sure that now is a good time to start a training war...the Poles will be in need in the coming days
other than that, good job
I know, but if we held off every time our allies had a big battle, we'd never do anything.
However, in order to minimise the disruption to our allies, I'll be working with the eUK's MU commanders to ensure that DO's give top priority to our allies.
bear in mind, that Ireland has been funnelling support into RW and the like against Poland in the last day or so...this means distracting Irish damage, and even Canucks who don't know better, will help Poland
Based on our TW program we can afford to ignore the Irish every so often and let them clean win before knocking them back down while they let us win. Of course, if things go hairy, we can always smack 'em hard then sign peace after 7 days.
o7
I would rather focus on supporting Polish RW's and helping out against Russia then a shitty TW with Ireland...
Then do so. I'm just opening up the option for those who don't - the same people who wouldn't be moving to Poland to fight in against RWs anyway.
but tasty TP's will prove too much of a distraction...
they are so darn tasty
Well, I'm for a training war! People will still fight for Poland etc but this gives them an option to get their TP medals, the gold from which can be used to buy weapons for other campaigns.
Nice update, Blue And Evil 07
Best of luck for the term ahead
Seems that you can't win - no UK wars and people complain about having nowhere to fight, TWs and people complain about distracting damage. One attack every 72 hours (game mechanic limit) could be a good compromise I guess.
Never going to please everyone. I'm not a war mad person, I mean perhaps because its been a couple of weeks since Norway. In Talons terms it had been a lot longer and things were quiet so then I wanted it more. I thought we'd be all sick of war after BigAnt's terms LOL.
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Sadly, so many people want war that not having it in some form isn't really an option. This is the least costly so kudos for that.
At least we shouldn't have to spend any money on it.
4 months ago the UK voted to end the region swap.
Like 80%+ said Ireland was a waste of time, and it angered ppl in NI and Scotland, two regions I'm sure you will swap for terrible and pointless food bonus. Even Talon and other top cats from that fraction of UK agreed Ireland a wasted effort.
Basically lame attempt at war and hardly president evil.
This isn't a landswap. This is just a TW with added RH medals. Read the MoD paper, the details of the battles are there.
My god, BA
you've been bitching in the fees for weeks about getting a TW, and now, when we actually get one, you shit all over it.
How about you just shut up for once. Just because we don't follow your every whim does not give you a license to be an ass to the CP
In the feeds, rather.
Also almost a week into term still no new MOLA Congress message, but we all know how inactive and useless woldy is...
Actually, there is one. You're just not in it. I'm told you were refusing to accept Woldy's friend request, so we decided that we didn't want to keep the rest of congress waiting because of your lateness.
actually i accepted with 40mins of him sending it and rq sent, shows how this government wants to suppress UKPP and NE
Hey BA, when are you gonna stfu?
Lol.
No one in UKPP applied for Gov, that's your own fault that you have no representation
I'd rather B&A angered people in the Celtic fringes than have you piss off the entire nation again, BA 😛
Damned if you do...and damned if you don't. No matter what you did you would face criticism, you arrange a TW then what about our allies? You don't and then you are neglecting our newbies. Good luck butjam anyway and I'm sure you'll do a damned fine job
IMPEACH!!! ; )
pretty sure the president is Blue and Evil not Butjam...
We3ll thats a waste of an impeachment then
A training war might not be seen with good eyes by your allies right now, I'm hope you will reconsider this.
Good luck on your term Blue And Evil!
Some agree, myself included, but people are calling for true patriot gold sadly so B&E had to arrange something. We are looking to stage the TW's at times where our allies aren't fighting important battles.
It's either a minor planned TW or have congress randomly attacking someone who will fight back and waste even more damage.
I lol'd at some comments xD