[The Don] Ancient History from Day 441

Day 4,684, 07:34 • Published in India India • by DonMogul

Well this was quite the fun time in the ancient history of eRepublik. Below is the text of the article I wrote on that day.

The Context

The United Kingdom Reform Party were the dominant party in the UK. Essentially whoever they nominated as CP or for any office at all took that office.

In the leadup to the election on November 5 that year, the UKRP nominated JerryGFL. This guy was a good eRepublik player but the leaders of the other parties did not take that man's nomination well.

Jerry had been in positions of power in the UK before but had disappeared without a word. So the other parties banded together and nominated Final Destiny.

This kicked off quite a debate when the Yellow Submarine Coalition finally revealed itself. The UKRP crying foul because suddenly they were outnumbered and they Yellow Submarine Coalition just as loudly proclaiming Final Destiny's virtues.

Read on to witness the old days 😃

This article is written in response to this article written for the Bristol Herald by Rayf Drayson www.erepublik.com/en/article/why-i-am-not-voting-on-5-february-729708/1/20

This election is the most democratic election that I have ever been privileged to see. It truly is the best election since I joined the UK about 5 months ago now. Everyone has finally been given a voice on who should lead the UK.

For all of those who do not know how this monumental Coalition was formed and how it went about finally selecting Final Destiny to be its presidential candidate, I will tell you.

The non-UKRP party leaders joined together at the conference table discussing their concerns about the UKRP candidate JerryGFL. The chief concern was Jerry's apparent sporadic activity, while they (and this author) appreciates that this is largely due to RL commitments, they believed that the UK needed a leader that would first and foremost be active. The second concern was that they believed that Jerry was not yet ready for the top job. They felt his experience did not really meet the criteria for a position such as Country President.

The problem was that due to the UKRPs massive party size and massive army of 'sheep voters' JerryGFL is almost guaranteed the top job despite sporadic activity and relative inexperience. Each party leader then went to their party members and proposed that we form a Coalition. This was accepted with great enthusiasm amongst the Coalition parties.

Then came the problem of who would be the leader of the Coalition? Who was active enough? Who was the most experienced? And (most importantly) who was the best man (or woman!) for the job?

The Coaltion then posted a poll of candidates in the UK forums where all party members of the Coalition could vote on who they believed was the best possible choice for the United Kingdom. It soon became apparent that some of the candidates were not as popular as the top two which were Final Destiny and BBB. There was one last poll between FD and BBB and Final Destiny won the poll in a tight contest.

Can anyone please tell me what is so undemocratic about this process? The majority of active UK citizens voted in these polls... each person had an equal voice, furthermore, not a single person voiced their outrage in the coalition forums, so clearly this has a lot of inside support.

So, instead of the original 5 candidates we were looking at before, due to this extremely democratic process of events, we now have just two. On the one hand we have JerryGFL's coalition, with his own party UKRP and a new party called Scottish Labour. On the other hand, we have Final Destiny's coalition with his own party, Free-Thinking Party, backed by The Unity Party led by Squiddy, Peoples Communist Party led by Hassan Pesaran and Movement for Democratic Unity led by Big Boy Bully and Oexis - all of which are huge names in the political and military spheres of the UK. When either candidate is elected via democratic process, it will be because they were chosen by the will of the people. Isn't this what democracy is about?

I am amazed that anyone is calling this election undemocratic. It is the most democratic UK election I have ever seen!

Good luck to BOTH candidates and let the will of the people decide who is the best person for the top job - President of the United Kingdom.

Here is the link to the article. The comments section is some interesting reading!

https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/why-i-am-voting-on-5-february-730225/1/20