ILP – Building the party
Comrade Lovely
Comrades and citizens of eIreland,
This is my first article on eRepublik. I am motivated to write after reading WHS's call to arms and for the investment of trust he has placed in me by making me Gen Sec of the ILP, despite my relative inexperience. I completely support his initiative to rebuild the ILP so that we not only remain the largest party in eIreland, but that we compete for every congressional seat. We can't be complacent about our third of the vote. Every day other parties are messaging our new members trying to lure them to the other side. In my first week in eRepublik I received two recruitment messages from Saoirse inviting me to join them, even after I had joined ILP. I didn't receive one from the ILP, not even a welcome to the party. This has to change. Getting a structure in place to bring our natural supporters into the ILP and keeping them informed and active will be my first goal in my term as Gen Sec.
A further point of illustration concerning the size of our challenge: in the recent PP elections, Saoirse, our nearest and bitterest competitor, managed to turn out 50 votes across all their candidates, including 5 for their planted candidate in the ILP and 19 in their attempted PTO of the IFP. We managed 46 across all our legitimate candidates. This means they managed to mobilise nearly their entire base. If this was a congressional election, they would have more seats despite our having a sizeably bigger membership. Now, we are disadvantaged because we fight fair. We all know that our rivals use multis and largely get away with it. But that means we have to double down on our efforts to build an organisation that will lock-in our natural advantage as being the party of inclusion that offers opportunities to everybody, not just some old guard who think they have a natural right to rule. As such, building an electoral machine that preps our base and makes inroads into the large number of swing voters will be mine and the ILP's second major task. We have already made a start in addressing that. WHS has made clear: congressional seats will be allocated on the basis of honesty, activity, newness of players and crucially, the efforts invested in rebuilding the ILP. Nobody can rest on their laurels. All is to play for.
I hope that ILP members who share our goals and other eIreland citizens will take part in this conversation by messaging either myself or WHS ingame, so that we can build the broadest, most inclusive party in eIreland.
Fraternally,
CL
ILP – Working hard for eIreland
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Excellent first article
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Keep writing! 😃
good luck in the game
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I'm shocked that you are suggesting that Saoirse attempted a PTO of the IFP, it was just a good, well contested election between some great friends of ours. In fact, I'll write an article about it tonight to spread the love.
V+S Greetings from Paraguay!
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v+s keep working like that!
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Malbekh
Is it normal for IFP election candidates to search for votes outside the IFP in frantic attempts to pass out another candidate?
"Saoirse, our nearest and bitterest competitor, managed to turn out 50 votes across all their candidates, including 5 for their planted candidate in the ILP and 19 in their attempted PTO of the IFP"
Are u fu*king idiot? Saoirse never tried to PTO any party.
^ ask Marcus he seems to have a different opinion.
>Marcus
Wow, it was really a PTO!! He got one vote and some guy got four votes! Let's blame MUFC for it. Logic..
Great Start! V22 S9.
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Face it MUFC92, if it's a rainy day, it would be your evil doing. since you can not avoid it, might as well revel in it. start practicing your dr. evil laugh ... =8-0
Yeah blame me for end of world 21.12.2012 pls
V & S
Greetings from Switzerland
"...Saoirse, our nearest and bitterest competitor..."
"We all know that our rivals use multis and largely get away with it..."
So basically your approach to building a stronger Ireland is to accuse Saoirse members of using multis? Yeah, slandering your rivals really motivates both sides to work more closely together. Nice work.
This is your leadership, ILP members...
Keep writing CL
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Lol I ran in ILP for fun. Saoirse had nothing to do with it? Saoirse isn't even my main party LOL.
My 5 votes came from ILP members.
Also this article is silly.
@WHS
IFP members are always asking for outside votes to be PP as it's such a prestigious position.
Anyways, I'll write an article about it tonight
I must inform ireland that James Killer PTOed Independent Voices.....i tried to PTO Independent Voices but James beat me to it so now i feel great butthurt coz female human women will not like me like they would do if i won.
Right now i pleasure only a hundred females and i could thousands....per hour....
">Marcus
Wow, it was really a PTO!! He got one vote and some guy got four votes! Let's blame MUFC for it. Logic.."
We had a membership of 4 people, we were all on 1 vote each then members joined the party gave your mate 3 votes then left.
When he won he changed myself from running to supporting you.
😁^ prity clear it was a PTO that even a child like you know its true.
Conway
I watched you shouting on an IRC channel looking for votes
Admittedly everyone there, while I was on ignored you, but I assume you did not limit your begging to just that channel and then.
@ Malbekh
Well if that is the case and is accepted and ok by the IFP remind me to send a few voters there next time...lol
(for the trolls I was joking)
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