January MoLA Report - Week 1

Day 1,882, 12:05 Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom by Department for Education

Law Proposals
Here is the list of Laws which Congress has voted on in the last week.


Alliances:
The MoFA prepared the following alliances for us. We have a mix of big and old countries to protect us and similar countries for mutual protection.

Slovakia - Accepted.
Latvia - Accepted.
Bulgaria - Accepted.
Indonesia - Accepted.
Hungary - Accepted.

In addition Lancer450//UKPP proposed an alliance with Australia. This was paid for by the proposer and went through the MoLA discussion/sponsor system. A vote was then started by the CP of Australia without telling anyone which was unexpected.

Australia - Accepted.

There was a miscommunication in that I thought that the MoFA would tell me if this needed voting down and the MoFA thought that it would be voted down automatically. Issues between Australia and Indonesia were then disclosed. I apologise for keeping proposals at arm’s length and will be taking more care in future to check them out.


Tax:
TheSocialist//ESO proposed that the Minimum Wage be slightly increased from 0.1GBP to 0.5GBP which is basically a small tax increase on Military Unit Communes - Accepted.

Talon Karrde//TUP proposed that VAT be raised from 10% to 15% to pay for Government Programmes - Accepted.

Several Congressmen proposed undiscussed Income Tax cuts and rises - Rejected.
Deepfryedmarsbar//TUP
MookieGobu//TUP
Fenyang//OV


War & Peace:
Peace - Ireland:
Our Training War with Ireland is complete - Accepted.

War - Norway:
Keep up to date with the Media to find out why and what progress we are making - Accepted.



Other Votes:
Right click and paste broken links into your browser window. Several people, mainly TUP and UKPP members did not understand the concept of a Congress Vote and Bohemond//TUP tried to bias one of the votes by posting comments in the vote and not the appropriate discussion area.

1. Cap the Call To Arms Weapons Donations to lv36 (Divisions 1-3 only).
Proposed by Mick Cain, Discussion Link.
8 YES, 13 NO - Rejected.

2. Mr. Woldy is the King of eUK.
Proposed by multiple people, Discussion Link.
13 YES, 7 NO, 1 Abstain - Accepted.

3. Bank of England to start an Investment and Loans Bank for Citizens.
Proposed by John Maverick, Discussion Link.
14 YES, 7 NO - It is up to the CP & MoF to agree to and implement this.




Citizenship Passes
PM me if you would like to be a citizenship judge and have space to place your judgements on the spread sheet.
PM Nebojsa if you would like to be part of his citizenship committee on the eUK Community Forums.

The 16 Citizenship Applications which have been made in the last week can be seen here: http://tinyurl.com/Citizens-Advice-Doc

7 players entered the country after being rejected by all Citizenship Judges or didn't fill in the Citizenship Application Form. These Congressmen did not follow the system and now we are missing vital information about who is entering the country and may even have potential PTOers with us:

DIW//OV
Sir Nick Griffin//UKPP
Bogdan Vladuca//UKRP
Gucio//TUP
TheSocialist//ESO
AlottaFunz//NE

You judge if they made a good call or not. John Maverick was let in by Sir Nick last month without following the system and has so far been proving to be a pretty active and constructive citizen.

6 players entered the country after filling in the Citizenship Application Form and being accepted by the Citizenship Judges. Thanks to these Congressmen for doing the right thing:

Kravenn//TUP
Sven Goran Duran-Duran//PCP&NE
Dr Hugh Jardon//NE

56% of Applications were handled following the new system this is down nearly 30% so I hope that we get some corrections in. Only 46% of Immigrants passed the checks so we will do more work to improve, advertise and run the Citizenship System in the coming weeks. vMoLA Sven has taken over and will be dedicating his work to this 🙂




Future Updates
MoLA was based totally in game last term. Most people considered it a success and I was very happy in the job.

We got taken by surprise with some forum reforms which meant that we tried to base the MoLA both in game and on the Kumnaa Forums and tentatively move towards more integration and eventually advertising the forum. This has lasted just over a week.

It failed.

MoLA work has been damaged and I have had my energy and enthusiasm sapped. There is just too strong a coalition players there from the same parties who want to see the Government fail and will create and exaggerate issues to make it happen, you know who you are and what organisations you are in. It was just a waste of time dealing with petty and trivial issues stopping the real work from happening.

I will be reforming the MoLA back to the previous in game state with extra presence in the media and wiki. I will also be encouraging forum people to use the in game communication functions like Articles, as many of their complaints were down to them not reading Top 5 articles during their two days in the media.

If it all runs smoothly again I will then be looking at new projects for which I have a few ideas 🙂



- Sage Goku, Minister of Legislative Affairs