Phoenix from the Ashes
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by JLP Official
A hearty hello to the people of Japan from the Japanese Labour Party!
The departure of our leader and presidential candidate, GLaDOS, was not only a shock for us, but for a lot of people from eJapan. Many people have expressed their sadness at seeing GLaDOS going, and as the JLP we obviously cannot do anything but agree to this. The JLP will miss its leader and wishes him well on the tasks that lie ahead of him.
To say that the JLP is currently in a favorable position would not only be an exaggeration, it would be an outright lie. Stripped of our leader and facing a rather inactive, unorganized and small membership base, the JLP has seen better times. However, we are not willing to give up. Rather, we hope to use this time of weakness as a time to reconsider where we stand, to reform our party in regards to our membership as well as our platform. We hope that in months to come, we will be able to say: "This was when the JLP was born again."
Of course, the task ahead will not be an easy one. Nobody is saying that. But we have the will and the determination to do what has to be done, to reshape our profile and make a good start into 2009. The first steps have already been taken: thanks to Gustavius, the JLP Official has been founded and the Mainichi Koujin, the Daily Worker, this very newspaper, has been born as a means of communicating with the citizens of eJapan. Communication and Openness: those are two major pillars we wish to reconstruct the JLP upon.
As of now, Gustavius and me(Kokawayoshi Makoto) are busy reorganizing the party, devising new programs for the weeks and months to come and essentially rebuilding the organizational structure of the JLP from scratch. We hope that many citizens of eJapan considers this to be an opportunity, an opportunity to participate and an opportunity to have their voices heard. Participate. Discuss. Take initiative. Everyone is invited to help us rebuild a JLP that will be a industrious and vocal voice in the eJapan community.
The fight for a new Japanese Labour Party begins today!
~Kokawayoshi Makoto
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Best of luck. Have you ever considered a merger with another less successful party? That's what the Chinese did. We combined two of the smallest parties and managed to become the biggest party in China, the Independent China Party. Not that it's any good, we've been overrun...
Anyways, hope you meet successes in recruitment.
We haven't really considered a merger with other parties yet, especially as there seems to be no party close to the JLP. We also wouldn't want Japan to make a development towards a two-party system, since that would damage the democratic process and give citizens less choice and fewer opportunities to choose a party most closely representing their opinion. I am personally not ruling it out completely, but right now I don't see any opportunity. And of course let us just hope that if we ever did decide to join with someone that wouldn't be a bad omen for Japan given the situation in China 😛
But thanks for the encouragement, we will try to do our best.
Dito what Kokawayoshi Makoto says.
Good luck restoring JLP! It's always sad to see Party fall, since that would mean less choice for people, and future generation of Japan. I hope you can continue where GLaDOS had began and restore JLP back into one of the top party of the Japan.