PTO - One Week On.
Mr Woldy
PTO - One Week On.
One week ago I released an article outlining what at the time seemed a daunting task. The One Week Warning detailed a PTO attempt made against the eUK and the vital steps that you, the public had to take in the days preceding Congress elections. Once the article was published, group messages between myself and other prominent players and the Government were arranged, and IRC channels set up to coordinate and discuss Anti-Takeover strategy. As someone who had been heavily involved in ATO in the past I was sure that what we needed to be doing was moving people. When elections came, it would all culminate in a battle of numbers and what we needed to do was use our numbers to cut the PTO’ers out of the election completely.
As you have no doubt seen on the election page, we were successful. Over the past week, members of all eUK parties have moved in an effort to block PTO’ers running for election into both WRP and PCP. The result was that both UKPP and ESO - PTO’d parties - have been excluded from running Congressmen and so this month, the threat has been averted.
There are many people worth mentioning by way of thanks; however I would like to offer my own thanks to various individuals I feel made an exceptional effort during this crucial week:
Kravenn and Count Drakula for their open communication with various international and national types in order to not only coordinate wings of our own government, but also in making back up plans should PTO’ers have got into elections and multi busting.
Ayame Crocodile and Neil Lewis, for multi busting and being generally very helpful and communicative in ATO messages.
Thomas765 and Bohemond4 for also being productive and useful in the ATO messages.
iAdastros and The Equalist for coordinating and informing government and Congress of the ATO strategy.
FightandProduce, Massacar and CheetahCurtis for maintaining a media presence and keeping people informed.
The leadership of all parties for cooperating and helping encourage people to move, with a special mention to Neil Lewis and Rob the Bruce of UKPP, iAdastros of ESO for keeping their members informed and encouraging them to block the PTO, as well Sven Goran Duran Duran of NE and the leadership of TUP for informing their own members on their stance regarding the PTO and discussing which steps to take next. It is altho worth shouting out to Huey George for making sure all movers remained represented in WRP's Congress list.
Most of all, I would like to thank everyone who moved and all members of the public who supported this campaign. If I am honest, last week I had a somewhat bleak outlook on how many people would move and as I monitored the rankings I was overwhelmed with how well everyone came together to help. Good job. Pat yourselves on the back, you saved the eUK this week.
Next Steps
We may have won the battle, but there is still a war going on. As long as these individuals hold UK citizenship, they pose a risk as at any time they may run in and win a PP election, triggering this threat all over again.
I would say the best way to combat this risk is to have the government monitor PP elections for risky candidates, Parties will have an idea of who isn’t a risky candidate, and with lists of known PTO’ers available and the knowledge of party representatives hopefully we can identify PTO risks before the PP elections start, and can send loose or free voters to help tackle any surge in votes they receive.
However, what is also important is a strong and active cohort of top 5 parties. The eUK was a conflicted, and polarized society when the PTO’ers decided to target us, with two large parties constantly butting heads and agreeing not to message each others members, and dominating the political scene through stratifying their membership bases and drawing on resources to expand further. This as we now know left our smaller parties fairly vulnerable, and I would push for a lift on the de facto ban on cross party messaging, as an honest discourse between all the parties and all our citizens is not only more democratic but it allows for smaller parties to openly recruit and grow, giving them the numbers and strength to repel PTO attempts in the first place.
Increasing the strength of our smaller parties is the only long term solution to this problem. We do need to discuss immigration and preventing more PTO’ers entering the country, but we also need to conduct our own risk assessment and reduce the vulnerability of the weaker political vessels in the eUK. It would be better for everyone if this wasn’t done artificially, if they weren’t propped up by mobile voters and instead merged and grew of their own accord, developing a strong and reliant player base as we see in the larger parties. However, all such decisions must be made by the parties themselves. Even in desperate times, we shouldn’t be as draconian as to force mergers or members into disregarding their own self determination.
I am sure there is a teeth parallel here.
Thanks for reading,
King Woldy.
OBE, KCVS, MC, HRH.
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Thanks for spreading the ATO Calendar. Remember the final steps:
25th: Vote for your Congressmen, if we have been unable to move UKPP out of the top 5, be very careful of your vote.
26th: Return back to your respective parties and feel proud of what you have achieved.
15th (April): Help UKPP/ESO take back their parties from PTO agents.
Comments
Good job all.
Well done Woldy et all o7
Great job all round
Thanks to all involvedwiththis eUK is a safe for now o7
None like or love Shoe people, they will soon leave UK or be banned it's simple 🙂
hahaha
Ko se zadnji smeje 😘
ciji si ti jbt o.0
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Ah nismo se pravilno upoznali.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COAvbDK2S5s
We've done good eUK!
And thank you Woldy, Tangbod and CheetahCurtis both joined the multi hunt and kept UKPP clear of them.
And I know they're much maligned, but a massive thanks is owed to the admins!
They took out tens of new multis last night very late on and without them we would quite possibly have failed.
And thank you Woldy ofc for getting everyone ready and informed \o/
Agreed, but admins should permaban the ones guilty for making multies and should make it more difficult and less profitable to make multies.
I was like "oh no, where is my thanks" but then I read on and was like "oh, he thanks me anyway". Tangbod needs recognition in the article.
Just doing what was needed to keep the eUK safe, we may not all see eye to eye but then it's OUR right to throw crap at each other and not for others to try and take advantage of that and DICTATE to us what is best. There are still a few suspicious accounts present in UKPP that are still being watched and reported
I've been a TUP member all my life, and I am happy to move to smaller parties to help protect them from PTO. However the responsibility for their strength or weakness doesn't lie with TUP or New Era but with their own leaders.
We shouldn't need to have a situation where people like yourself, TUP through and through, have to permanently move to other parties because they lack the ability to grow themselves.
I think you're absolutely right that strong parties make strong countries but the way to do this is to organise. Even a small group can organise effectively, ensuring safe pp and congress.
Bit of an odd dig at the PCP & Woldy there Iain, I'm not really sure what the point of it was.
We didn't put any new Serbians in viable congress spots last month (in a party-wide primary), We had a secure PP election, and without a single player moving to us we still would have been secure in the top 5 this month. Add to that the fact that we've tripled membership since our low point last year largely due to leadership and organisation (lot of credit to Acroc there).
No offence to Woldy (Obviously) but if he only left his true calling as TUP to come help us hopeless PCP'ers, as you seem to claim, he can go back now.
My move was based more on ideology and apart from offering a friendly face and some bad jokes I have done very little to grow or recruit the party, which was more the domain of the PP's and enthusiastic players whom were fully capable of getting work done without me 😁
What ideology?
I felt as though my views and programs to involve the populace at large and my views on the role of Congress would be better received and more likely to gain ground in PCP. So if you want to pin it down to some buzz words 'inclusive democracy' might work
Ironically, your ideas were developed by TUP candidates for the Speaker role, at least initially, and then by iAdrastos. I've yet to see a PCPer actually try to bring in these changes, Woldy.
Overall, TUP has done more to try out your ideas and work on them than any other party. The people who have done some work, or tried to, include myself, Lord Farhan, Count Drakula, yourself when in TUP and Alice when he ran for CP.
Overall, the ideas have had mixed success. It relies on active speakers who are pushing the ideas constantly. A lazy speaker will kill it, hence why I chose to support iAdrastos again for the Speaker.
In response to any allegations that our members have made a mistake regarding it, sure, we had people overreacting to the New Era PTO stuff, etc. but that has, now, been resolved and wasn't supported by the Party as a whole.
Overall, I fail to see where PCP is better at this stuff than TUP. Forgive me, but I have not seen a proper PCP candidate for Speaker or CP since Ayame ran almost a year ago. Or where your ideas are more widely accepted. In fact, all I see as PCP idealogy different to ours is 'we oppose NE BS but are not TUP'
I don't doubt that Boh, but I wasn't referring to the speaker so much as the general attitude or approach to handling members/people in general.
And the speaker has never been the entirety of my ideas and is the tip of the iceberg in a whole web of relations and theories regarding social engagement. I spent many hours discussing these issues predominantly with PCP'ers before I moved and I eventually concluded that remaining 'loyal' to one party based on the amount of time I had spent there was a betrayal of my own principles. As such I left for a party whose attitude and approach was more synchronised to my own belief of how parties should operate, and it is those attitudes and approaches that separate PCP from most top five parties.
Great job by everyone involved!
It's been great to see people from across the eUK pull together and turn the WRP into a kind of eUK mega-party.
Massive thanks must also go to Huey and the other WRP members for being so willing to help out and also ensuring that UKPP and ESO get slots on their congress list.
Well done eUK! 😃
I like the WRP mega-party, it's cosy.
Good article, thanks for all of your help Woldy
Well done good team work,just to let you know my friends and New, New Era friends are NOT the shoe people anyone I invite into the country are not part of that group and will only be joining to help the party the country and not to steal gold.
A very well done Mr Woldy and all else involved o/
C'mon brits. Aren't PTOs fun? Always trying to outsmart each other, making a bunch of multies (you used veterans in the Commie party), constantly being on the watch, making sure those damn PTOers dont sneak in to a congress spot. You should thank us for bringing some action to your boring world. 🙂
THE SHOE PEOPLE ARE COMING \o/
I've a strong bone o/
good article Woldy
only one critique: "It is altho [sic] worth shouting out" - is that a li-th-p coming through your typing?
who was the bastard that put an 's' in lisp....
o/
Well done woldy and co.