The Economist ~ Artela for UK President

Day 1,261, 06:58 • Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom • by Spite313

Note: The new Economist Article will be released around the Party President elections date, and will contain full analysis of the shifting power of alliances. I will be doing bonus graphs again. Please take the time to vote this nice article anyway, as having a crappy media module makes it hard to get top 5 anymore 🙁



Dear friends,

As some of you may know, or may have guessed by now at least, I have long been a figurehead of the campaign for UK alliance neutrality. This is because I feel that the UK is too small to participate in alliance politics as anything more than a pawn of bigger powers. As such I vigorously opposed our entry into Terra, and therefore it might be a surprise to some that I am choosing to run as the Deputy Presidential Candidate to Artela, who was once SC of Terra.

The UK’s political history is a turbulent one. Our love/hate relationship with our English speaking brethren to the West (USA, Canada and Ireland) has defined our politics for the past three years. Throughout membership of ATLANTIS, PEACE GC, Phoenix and Terra we have had UK leaders rising to the top of the alliance and trying to guide it to success, and protect the UK’s interests. I myself was among the number who led Phoenix, and the reasons that pushed Artela and jamesw to step up and lead the Terra alliance were no less noble.



In times of political uncertainty, what we need in a leader is strong decision making, high activity, and a wide range of international contacts in both alliance groups. With Woldy stepping down this month, there will be a necessary vacuum at the top of our political tree, and it’s essential that the UK has a hard-hitting, active President. We cannot afford complacency and inactivity at a time where we have no alliance to hide behind, no “superior” to report to and protect us.

I am supporting Artela because she has all of those qualities. She has the potential to make this mess we’re in work. When I campaigned to exit the Terra alliance people asked me what our final goal was. Our final goal is simple: UK foreign and military policy defined by UK citizens. We choose where we fight, and we give our friendship and loyalty to the people that earned it, not just those who signed the same piece of paper we did.

When I saw Irish tanking against us in Belgium and South East England, and Croatians and Romanians in our rented regions, I asked myself: what makes us allies? Terra/EDEN forces have only deployed on UK soil three times- once in SEoE, once in our rented regions, once in Northern Ireland. All three times they fought against the UK. What made us allies was the mentality that not being in an alliance meant failure, and when our friends joined we were almost strong-armed to join too. It took us three months to realise that mistake, and it’s a realisation that is now slowly coming on others all around the world.



In this new world, we need a new foreign policy. A policy defined by the goals that matter to us, whether they be defending France, dancing with the Serbs or paying our Irish friends to the West a little visit now and then. Building a new foreign policy in a single month is a gargantuan task, and it’s the main reason I have come forward to stand by Artela this election.

On May 5th, the eUK will have a simple choice.

I am hoping that you will choose to vote Artela & myself for a strong, active Britain. You won't regret it.


~Iain