Squiddy's Journey to No. 10 Begins (TUP Presidential Candidacy)
Day 435, 10:01
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by Squiddy
Dear UK citizens,
It is with great honour that I announce my intention to run for Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on behalf of The Unity Party.
Currently, the United Kingdom is a great country. We always have been and we always will retain just a little bit of supremacy, just because we're British and we make the best tea.
It is of my opinion though, that as of late we have been under performing as a global power. As the recent revelation that the UK is the worlds most inactive country, in terms of total citizens vs number of votes in the previous Congressional Elections. The proof is as follows:
"An analysis of the most active eNations (those with the higher percentage of voting population) can also give us an idea of the situation in the eWorld.
The least active eNation is the UK (12
😵followed by the eCanada (13
😵and by the eUSA (14
😵.
The most active nation yesterday, was by far eSpain (34
😵, Hungary (28
😵in the second place and Croatia in third place at some distance with 23%."
As a fellow citizen and politician of the UK, I find this news unbearable. This is appalling by our own standards and we must not be allowed to continue this trend as a nation.
I have not been entirely oblivious to this problem, as I'm sure many others haven't either, but such hard evidence really does promote the need for action to be taken. I have been working on a policy in which to counter this situation, which comes in the form of a new Ministry, you will all find out more about this in the coming week.
Another area in which the UK is falling behind, is protection. I'm not a huge fan of ATLANTIS, it's stagnant and expiring. The ideas on which ATLANTIS are based on are fine, but in practice it's just not enough. I refuse to allow the UK to be a part of an alliance that allows members to abuse it's position and to use other members as blank cheques.
The current world situation is ATLANTIS vs PEACE. Alliances should not be formed as a means to spark wars and conflict but as a means of self-improvement and unity. This goes further than any military alliance ever could and asks for much more than ATLANTIS or even PEACE can ever provide.
An alliance should be made up of close friends, not distant relations. For that reason I am setting the wheels in motion to create the first truly united Europe. The first draft proposal of this alliance can be found here: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfh555wb_6hs9zwbgx
With unity comes responsibility. With responsibility comes the power necessary to create a better future.
In real life, the UK is a reactive government. They wait for problems to happen then try to fix them. We need to be a Government that foresees the consequences of our actions, or rather, inactions and introduce preventative measures to counteract this.
If you're looking for a true leader for the citizens of the United Kingdom in these ever worsening times, I'm your man.
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Good luck Squiddy! 🙂
"I have not been entirely oblivious to this problem, as I'm sure many others haven't either, but such hard evidence really does promote the need for action to be taken. I have been working on a policy in which to counter this situation, which comes in the form of a new Ministry, you will all find out more about this in the coming week."
You have to be in mind most of new population don't have the XPs to vote yet.
Also, theres no need for a new ministry. It works better when done locally, like mayors used. Regional congressman should pick up the slack, and this will be less workload than what would be on the potential new minister.
"For that reason I am setting the wheels in motion to create the first truly united Europe"
Hate to be a pedant, but shouldnt the MoFA be doing stuff like this It seems odd that some random congressman would do it instead.
Good luck Squiddy !
Which is why he is setting up a new Ministry no?
"Which is why he is setting up a new Ministry no?"
Read my comment...
It always worked better doing this at a local level.
Thats why we abandoned the Minister of Communications and gave this responsibilty to mayors. Now population is much bigger - so its more important than ever the responsibilty is spread rather than given to a ministry.
Good luck 🙂
I agree with you Bob that it's easier to do at local level, in the same was as the NHS is. However, having someone to co-ordinate at ministry level helps. It would also mean that there could be resources such as stock messages, tactics and so on for locals to use.
Unless that Ministry is set up for all the Congressmen and women then it doesn't matter 😉
You need to be level 6 to vote, that takes hardly any time what so ever to reach. You can get 35 exp in 11 days from eating working and training each day, so that doesn't include any other exp boosts.
>Which is why he is setting up a new Ministry no?
We barely have enough people coming forward for the current ministries. A job that'll take this much time wont be popular. Perhaps you'd like to stop forward? Or we could do as Bob says, scrap the unneeded ministry and let the regional representatives do the job. This is far more effective than creating more and more ministries to combat situations.
>I refuse to allow the UK to be a part of an alliance that allows members to abuse it's position and to use other members as blank cheques.
So you're planning to quit ATLANTIS (which contradicts your point about security)and try to create a new alliance of the European countries? Firstly, I doubt most the few countries(France, Italy, etc...) that are in PEACE will leave to join an alliance that, IMO will be far less effective.
>For that reason I am setting the wheels in motion to create the first truly united Europe.
Are we just going to kick our Friends out on the street, simply because they aren't in the European continent? The USA is arguably the strongest country in ATLANTIS, yet we're going to leave them dry and we're going to create a new, weaker alliance.
Say we leave ATLANTIS and try to form this "European Union", and then the other countries don't feel it's the right way to go? Are we going to lose our pride and crawl back to the alliance or are we going to stand alone?
Sad but true. And are the UKRP going to be backing you, like it was stated in the treaty?
Tbh, the treay thing put me off Squiddy as a CP candidate. I don't like ruthless streaks...
The NHS only works on a regional level, because we have the MoH coordinating each Director. If we just left each NHS Director to get on with it alone, nothing would get done. This is evident by our complete lack of NHS service now that Jerry has gone AWOL and Waz quit.
Being part of a Ministry does not necessarily remove the regional factor, it just allows for organisation to be carried out quicker.
It didn't say it was regional in the article...
And the RCP system was better than a ministry would be IMHO
Why not expand on the MoI? If we could somewhat merge the regional directors/representatives, it would combat the situation as well as the lack of people coming forward.
We don't need a ministry to organise things, we can easily do this with a simple department. I also wasn't saying that the NHS director should do the job, just the representatives of the region, whether this is congressmen or the gifting guys.
Brodie, it's interesting that you take things I've not commented on, formed your own opinion of what I will/won't do and then criticised it.
We have a lot of active congressmen now, and I believe that there are still some Ministries that can be reviewed to free up extra resources.
I'm rather of the same opinion as Dish, that Congressmen don't do enough, including myself. So instead of saying, "Yeah, be a Congressmen, do what ever you want or don't want to do" it's time to say, "If you're going to be a congressman then the minimum you need to do will be this:" otherwise, you'll be punished. (I like to say publicly condemned 🙂
I never said I was planning to quit ATLANTIS, did I? No, so why are you saying I am?
I believe it's possible for both to run in tandem. I will be taking the necessary steps in which to ensure this is both possible and still constructive.
Just as in Real Life, we have NATO and we have Europe. There is nothing to stop us helping out other nations should they fall into despair. Again, I never said anything about abandoning our current allies so I'm not sure why you took it upon yourself to make out that I did.
>Brodie, it's interesting that you take things I've not commented on, formed your own opinion of what I will/won't do and then criticised it.
Such as?
>"If you're going to be a congressman then the minimum you need to do will be this:"
Good luck with that, people who will actually be bothered by this will already be doing things, those who wont be bothered will continue the way things are.
>I never said I was planning to quit ATLANTIS, did I? No, so why are you saying I am?
"I refuse to allow the UK to be a part of an alliance that allows members to abuse it's position and to use other members as blank cheques." I assumed you were talking about ATLANTIS? And with the formation of the EU, how are we going to be in ATLANTIS at the same time? I can't see being in 2 alliances as a plus, so at some point we'll have to quit one of them, no? Our ideas will clash and at some point we'll have to pick sides.
>I never said anything about abandoning our current allies so I'm not sure why you took it upon yourself to make out that I did.
I didn't say you did say that. I left a question mark on the end to make sure I'm not making incorrect assumptions, which you appear to think I have.
I was also looking at the repercussions which may be cause by this new group of countries. It comes back to my first point of picking sides.
Most of your "questions" were asked in such a way as to instantly assume that of which you asked. Maybe I read into that a little wrong but there was definitely a small whiff of it in the "So your planning to quit ATLANTIS" question.
Perhaps I phrased that part wrongly, "I refuse to allow the UK". What I meant to say was that I think it's wrong to be in such an alliance and I would argue the point of being in such an alliance. I wasn't saying that I would instantly leave ATLANTIS.
"Good luck with that, people who will actually be bothered by this will already be doing things, those who wont be bothered will continue the way things are."
Of course, but you can't change one thing and expect everything else to work perfectly. With a more active user base, we'll have a more active Congress, a congress that won't be semi-inactive. With a renewed effort on increasing our active population I believe that we can look forward to a congress that the majority of are active.
In regards to the European Social Alliance itself, that's all it will be for now. All this can be seen on the draft proposal that I gave the link to, so I'm not going to go over information that's already available. If we leave ATLANTIS because the ESA is better, then what does it matter? We join a new and improved alliance. If it doesn't work, then there's no loss.
good luck Squiddy
I think you need to give the idea of the ESA a chance. Think of the real life EU - that has done more to stop wars than any Military Alliance has (at least since the cold war ended). I think a political, social and cultural alliance would be a great step forward, think of the possible trade spin-offs which could occur. I also agree that the lack of activity is a problem which needs to be addressed. Squiddys manifesto is different, provokes debate and I think is a good alternative choice to more traditional politics.