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Today, the Parliament voted down my proposal to prohibit me from serving as a Minister this term. The question of whether what I did makes me untrustworthy has been resolved.



In the recent elections, my party and I supported GLaDOS. For his campaign I organized the contacting of 2376 citizens of the eUK without a party. We aimed to personalize our messages as much as we could, and the idea came up of varying the message not only by whether the citizen was in a UK region or not, but also by whether they were in the military.

Initially we discussed using the place of employment of the citizen to check whether they were in the military (the military are regularly ordered to work in military companies to produce their munitions). After beginning to construct such lists however I realized that plenty of soldiers were on temporary deployment away from their companies or on rotation at thome. I then recalled that, like all soldiers, I had access to a roster of everyone in my branch on the website known as the Hub. Eureka, I thought, the right way to solve this technical problem. Considering whether it was ethical to use the lists, I decided it was fair and ethical as the other campaigns had equally easy access to the same data, if they were to think of it.

What I didn't realize was that the recent ban on using military orgs for voting up political or personal articles I had heard of was part of a general demand for a strict separation of politics from the military. I should have suspected this possibility and asked the commanders whether what I wanted to do was okay, but I didn't. As a result, I used a resource that I shouldn't have, which was unfair to the other campaigns. For that I am sorry.

I do not, however, believe that what I did was inherently wrong, regardless of policy. I do not believe that this somehow makes me an untrustworthy two-faced scoundrel who should not be permitted in any positions of power. Minister of Defence and Prime Ministerial candidate Pensive however believed that I could not be trusted because of my misdeed. His vehemence, and that of others, led me to call for a confidence vote to see whether Parliament believed I should be permitted to serve as Minister.



I am happy to say that Parliament has voted against forbidding my service and I am free to stay as co-Minister of Foreign Affairs.