FarageOnFriday: Reform plan for an active House of Commons
NigelFarage
The inactivity of the parliaments in this game is visible in every eCountry.
Only if the Commons are strong, they are useful against the tendency for dictatorship.
So this is my plan for making the Commons strong and transparent, involved with the people and powerful against any ambitious MU leader.
A House of Commons MU
A Military Unit exclusively for the elected MPs.
Doing this we will be able to have a strong House of Commons in the future, financially independent in the long term, with the possibility to start a legitimate revolution against dictators.
Finance
The MU of the Commons will be financed by free donations, mandatory donation of the Congress Member Medal gold and will all be transparent and published in a Commons' newspaper.
Transparency
All political debates will be made in the MU Chatroom and published in a Commons' newspaper, mentioning the date, MP and the party of the MPs involved and a link to their profile.
All that is written in the MU Chatroom will go into the official newspaper even if there is no specific debate.
You can no longer say who you blackmail, hate or stolen from because the plebs will know.
Military Unit Leader
The MU leader will be called Speaker and will be an independent player with a mandate of 3 months. It is not mandatory for him to be an elected MP.
He will organize the debates, take care of the Commons' Funds, the Commons' newspaper and he will be payed with £10 from each MP a day.
I trust His Majesty, party presidents and the country president to name the most appropriate person.
Prime Minister Question Time
Elected a CP the respective person will have to join the House of Commons MU. This will force him in an certain degree of impartiality regarding the MUs of this country.
Apart from his own published views in his newspaper the CP will have to participate every week to a Question Time organized by the Speaker were MPs ask questions and he is to reply, without any time to polish his answers and avoid questions.
It will all be published in the official paper
For my Party President,
You can consider this my personal manifesto and reasons for running.
Also if I am active around politics I am very active in every aspect of the game and I will not have any tendency to leave the game again.
Ii want the eUK to have a strong democracy where the leaders are subordinated to the people and their representatives and not vice-versa.
Let's start working for a working democracy,
NigelFarage
Comments
Interesting ideas, but they won't work. People don't stand for congress to fight; they (usually, when there's not a dictatorship) stand to put forward their opinions, to debate and to run the country. Some, especially newer players, would not put their names forward if they are being forced to pay for an MU leader. Others are fond of their current MU, and would be loth to move at the behest of Parliament.
Military and politics are (or should be - take note, Plato, and make changes to this silly dictatorship module) completely separate, with the link being provided by a strong (note, Huey) MoD.
I proposed the MU idea not to make people fight but make the Commons a more independent institution and I can't see how £10 a day is not an financial effort for someone who will organize the entire political activity while keeping an unbiased attitude.
Thank you for your opinion
I am trying to start a National Debate on the subject so we may, in the future rework and change the system.
http://38.media.tumblr.com/c18c477246b3a55b96e8671f25676078/tumblr_n84c1jEfnG1sl151ho4_250.gif
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-gorgeous-guide-of-gregariousness-how-to-stay-relevant-2508123/1/20
£10 a day?!? all my money goes to fata, he lets me build houses n shit xD.
seriously though we dont actually get our congress gold, if a dictator is in command, so a significant proportion of the funding is lost there.
It's a proposal the sum can vary can be lowered, I was thinking at £5 a day when I wrote it, so yeah, this is a proposal only and I'm willing to change many aspects, I am just trying to spark a debate about it.
you sparked a debate, the 10 pound comment was meant to be satirical 😉 the gold comment was actually my debate. if congress dont get their gold, this MU wont be funded, what do they do in that respect? also will their be repurcussions for not following this as we cannot enforce this?
It's a long term goal, the dictatorship will die one day and we will get the Congress gold. You can't enforce it, we can just publish a list of people who kept the gold and their motive to do so. Giving money for the House of Commons will make the institution stronger and the future MPs are free to do what they please, but remember that a MP is a public servant not a privileged guy. That's the problem, people want big rewards but are not ready to do their duty, that's why we need it reformed.
and who is impartial and unbiased enough to create this list?
It's a donation list, not an opinion piece.
Is there a comedy competition for the media going on? If so I nominate this for first place
I like the idea.
1. It gets past the stupid 30 limitation on mails (should be at least 50 so that regiments and congress can have threads)
2. Creates a neutral forum goig since eRepublik admin are not prepared to give Congress a Chatroom or a Shoutbox.
It does mess with MU membership and communicating with you comrades.
Thinking on it, nothing really stops a Congress Members from moving between the HoC MU and their own. Its effort, sure, but a doable compromise.
It also serves as a good place to cage our dictator/CP so freeing up the MoD MU for CO. The CP/Dictator do need to be part of Congress discussions for government to work.
Finally someone with common sense 🙂 Thank you for your support sir.
Is that suggesting that I don't have common sense? 😛
There are other options for "neutral forums", such as... oh, I don't know... forums? If inane chat is what you want, make an IRC room. Just a suggestion.
@Mad Pauly no, not in any way, I'm just happy to see there is someone that changing MUs is not such a great effort.
I#m not suggesting anything and I'm not trying to insult anyone, so please don't feel offend.
Assuming the dictator's MU doesn't suddenly become invite only. Then congress is out in the cold where it belongs
It is an in-game solution to an in-game issue. Forums and IRC both suffer for people refusing to participate. The former because there are almost always moderation issues, and the latter because getting onto IRC is pretty daunting. Both suffer for being outside the game site. Good luck setting up a forum via eReplublik Forums.
You cannot be inclusive if you rubbish the reasons people do not participate the way we demand of them.
If you can do this under dictatorship then lets try it. 🙂
Open the Dictator MU. Sort the congress members into a single regiment other than Regiment 1 so that its easy to spot new arrivals (and kick them as necessary)... that's if I understand the commander interface right.
Hopefully the Dictator MU will become invite only so that congress will revert to the collection of nonentities it usually is.
No thanks
I did not realise that you were a congress member. Why do you care?
maybe because he is a 7 time congressman, former CP, and most likely a congressman next term
Didn't realise you had to be a serving congressman to have an opinion
If you elucidate then it may actually be helpful in crafting a more practical solution.
I can't tell whether this is good or bad.
Just look at the name of the account... tells you all you need to know
[removed]
You could always look at it's other articles
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-new-era-welcome-home--2416830/1/20
I've raised numerous tickets in the past suggesting we have both country & congress feeds .. but to no avail
Good idea, but unlikely to work. Consider a current MU Commander wants to run for congress, Under your system, they'll have to abandon their current MU, once elected.
My idea is much better .. if the admins ever listen, that is
Off course a Congress shoutbox and chatroom are better, but a wish does not help us now. A MU Commander is an inconvenience. Hand the MU to the 2nd commander for a few hours a day perhaps?
good to see some ideas.
a congress MU wont work though,
£10/day per congress to speaker is way too much.
all political debate could be done on the forum and therefore viewable by everyone. and also a permanent record that wont disappear.