[Parliament] 28th - 29th July Session
Speaker of the House
Previous Session
Discussed 'Improve legislation for Emergency Procedures'
Speakers Response Thankyou for contributions, as ever the style of response has effected how I approach the problem, as much as the content. Initially I was thinking of a long-winded multiple tier system, but from all the responses it makes more sense to streamline to two of the the more popular and useful and to maintain the form that I used intended only as a guide for the actual legislation as it makes it easier to read and implement - which is the whole point, not creating verbose literature to weigh the government down. I'll review the legislation existing and write the small change appropriate for our needs, presenting it in the next few days as an amendment to law.
Current Session
Reminder that we are focused on war room related discussion/proposals and would like to point out that anything related to 'congress gold' will get a cold reception, it is active policy for congress, but has to be approved by the government, once done details will follow. I understand that new congress members for this month are likely driven to express an opinion on the matter, but can we keep it brief so not to drag congress through a mire it's visited a few short days ago, thanks.
Congress - Sick List
KosovoKid - Managed to go the last term without reporting in for work, but somehow remembered to run this month.
Mr Brilliant
Mary Jane Hawksmore
Philip Nowak
Madelina de Melrose
Messages were sent out to PPs asking for shouts in your party threads, but it's still your responsibility to find me for a drink before the start of congress. You'll not be in the discussion threads, and will be ill-informed. Congress threads are created weekly and/or after cabinet reshuffles.
You... Yes.. You
Any eUK Citizen can propose any idea they have for improvement to either Government or Parliament here. Don't be afraid to share your thoughts in the comments below.
Michael Ludgate - Speaker of the House
Comments
Congrats to all the returning and new members of congress!
You are focused on war related stuff? Well, you shouldn't, because Congress is useless here, so therefore therfore you should discuss other things also...
And being that I'm not in Congress anymore, I'll use my right as stated at the end of the article, so... I don't care it is war time, I still want import taxes to be increased as long there is a possibility and second thing, I would like an impeachment vote against you, on the basis that you are a very annoying speaker and you also aren't neutral.
I sponsor everything my right honourable friend has put forward
Thank you for your submissions, they will be reviewed in due course. Congress welcomes the input of all citizens interested in making the country better and more productive.
I have four proposals that I would get carried out in order:
1) Raise import tax
2) Make sure Congress are not going to get paid
3) Each Congress member, when replying to another Congress member, must refer to the other Congress member is one of the following:
a) my right honourable friend
b) the right honourable gentleman
c) the right honourable lady
d) the right honourable member
e) my honourable friend
f) the honourable gentleman
g) the honourable lady
h) the honourable member
4) Delete Congress
You might think these are jokes proposals but I am very serious. Each proposal is as equal as the one preceding it and more equal than the one which it precedes. I am prepared to start a civil war against Congress if my proposals are not thoroughly considered.
Your proposals were carried out in order, on #4 the fabric of space-time become corrupted by the causality of deleting ourselves. Fortunately before the eUniverse ripped apart, your list of proposals become null and void as you were not a congress member of the congress that didn't exist.
"Any eUK Citizen can propose any idea they have for improvement to either Government or Parliament here. Don't be afraid to share your thoughts in the comments below"
I can agree with 2, but just want to see it for a month. And would like to add "bellend" as an option to 3
Possibly interchangeable with 3 d)
Dear Cheetah,
With the greatest respect - your proposals are a load of bollucks!
Reply ignored.
I myself quite like everything the right honourable lady has put forth
As a congressman I would actually support notion 4
In RL "honourable" is for a standard MP, while "right honourable" is for a government minister. Therefore I would like to see a proposal whereby members of congress are ranked. However, instead of using membership of the government as a determinant, how about ranking according to past performance? So you could have...
honourable = new member of congress
right honourable = experienced and good member of congress
dishonourable = experienced and bad member of congress
(see the "bellend" amendment for an alternative to "dishonourable")
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right yes and just to add all members of the Privy Council are right honourable as well I believe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privy_Council_of_the_United_Kingdom
1. i would like to propose that if this gold for congress 1 month trial is deemed succesful then it should be approved by the Uk population as well before its a permanent thing.
2. also my proposal that i wrote to you last month about
1. Has already been suggested and is already supported.
2. I've already answered you with regard to how to raise suggestions, your decision to continue referencing indirectly does not change my response.
ive messaged you, ive raised it in the congress thread and ive raised it here
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I propose that any elected MP who fails to check in or attend Congress should be automatically barred from standing for office in the next term.
Being a member of Congress should be all about participation and serving the Nation - and should have nothing to do with Gold bonuses!
"Reminder that we are focused on war room related discussion/proposals and would like to point out that anything related to 'congress gold' will get a cold reception,"
So effectively, congress is going to focus on things it has no control over and totally ignore something it actually handles?
Well isn't that very interesting...
Why can't we just has a congress system that follows the exact rules and procedures of the default erepublik mechanics rather than messing about with this "meta congress" which as we can clearly see just doesn't work.
The only good thing I can think of that it is good for is things like the Woody's Angels Act, but then congress just goes and ignores it anyway, so what's the point?
And in regards to paying congress, absolutely not. Congress sacrifice their 5 gold and in return, the country is slightly safer from a Military Takeover. If congress care that much about being paid, then maybe we should return back to a democracy.
That was the original idea - the Constitutional Dictatorship would allow the Government and Congress to function as if we had a Democracy, whilst at the same time we had the stability of a Dictatorship to protect us from foreign PTO or internal threats.
However, it has become increasing clear, particularly in recent months that maybe it is time for something new. We need something to regenerate activity somewhere - I do feel that maybe it is the system we have that gives people a perception that Congress and Government are not in control.
Congress voting themselves 5 gold is a clear example that we don't need to allow Congress "power" to vote on anything they want.
We need a new outlook.
May I ask for the re-formation of an eUK citizenship committee? As a result of a lack of recent citizenship requests the former one has fallen inactive.
I believe the last citizenship committee was formed of myself, Pannonian Nomad, jamesw, FightAndProduce and yurigavin (Hopefully my memory hasn't failed me)
So we'll require an election to replace Pannonian Nomad and FightAndProduce who are no longer members of Congress.
I would seek to fill one of their seats