[UKRP]Primary Manifestos

Day 3,472, 09:38 Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom by Dishmcds
Greetings,

There are a total of five candidates for PM that will be run through our primary system this time around, for UKRP nomination for Country Presidential Elections.

The candidates are:

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James Radcliff, TUP Party President

"Yes I might run myself, if I get support from the party. Its about time a Unity member was CP."

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Sambo223 (Party Member):

Okay I'm going to keep this quick.

The Military

I believe that the UK military needs to stop standing still. Our damage output is poor. I will seek to reward those fighters in each division that are performing well. This will not only create a culture of competition but also reward those who are actually taking part.

I will look to create more active 2-way conversation with MUs to coordinate damage. The military module is the main part of this game and the UK currently ignores it.

I will encourage UK fighters to grow in the aircraft battles so that our fighters do not get left behind during these battles.

The Economy

Our economy for some time now has been carefully maintained and protected. We're not had a time of crisis in a while. We have to make sure we have the funds to use COs over multiple battles for when the UK is involved in a serious war in order to attract fighters in the cause.

Money in the mean time should be spent on community development at a sensible level. Rewards for fighters, Calls to Arms and a continuation of the MoD Tank Fund are sensible ideas. I also want to hold a review of the NHS program. We hardly ever hear of what is happening with that any more. How many people is it currently helping? Are these people sticking around once they finish being supported? This will allow us to see what else needs to be done to help new UK citizens grow and stay active.


The Alliance

I've now held positions in 2 alliance the UK has been a part of and interactions with allies from across the eWorld and real life world is one of the coolest things about this game in my opinion. I will use these contacts to help represent the eUK.

One way I will do that is holding a conference with our Orion allies to plan a better way for UK fighters to have UK wars. We've been without a proper war to invest ourselves in for a while. This doesn't mean I want to see the UK wiped though. I want to receive strong alliance backing to see the UK fight a reasonable war that may help boost our damage and activity.

This would mean putting our TW with Ireland on hold. It's done its job of giving UK citizens a chance to fight for TP medals but it has seemingly not captured the interest of many UK citizens. Of course if the UK and our allies can not find a suitable solution then continued TWs will have to be the next best course of action.

The Community

Along with military plans to boost activity I want to see more community engagement on other levels. If elected my cabinet will be open to everybody. If you want to try your hand in government or just want to learn what its about then I'm happy to include you if you can prove you deserve the spot through activity, drive and commitment.

I want to reward those that use the media module with cash rewards for writing articles that attract mainstream UK attention about the game.

I want to hold a UK competition under the leadership of the MoHA that is open to all UK citizens. Something like the old RPS game.

I also want to promote the UK discord server. Whenever you have time come say hi. Let's build a strong community spirit.

The Final Bit

The game is about to finally have some major changes with the new residency module coming in. I will hope to see this module benefit the UK and look forward to working with mayors and councillors if they are brought in during my term. I will look to support all the cities UK citizens have chosen to call home and work with their elected representatives to create a system where each town and city thrives.

So that is all for now. I hope I will get your vote in the UKRP primary and then onwards in June 5th.


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Dishmcds (myself):

So, here we go, although I'm going to go with "cliff notes" compared to what I would normally write for CP Elections (anyone around for my last runs saw 5-6 articles for them!).

Economic Growth

I believe from a treasury standpoint we're at a very solid level. I have every confidence in Huey and his ability to...make things grow. He's done a solid for what, two years or so, and has said that should I win he would stay on as MoF. So there's part of the the Cabinet as well (already trimmed down!).

I also believe that we're somewhat sitting on a surplus that we need to start putting to work for our players. Our MPPs should range around 120K a month, and we're at 2.8 million. We also make more than enough every month (as Huey has proven) to pay for them, so I think there's some investment opportunities, in the form of:

a) Fighting/Training
b) Business opportunities for new players
c) Market growth in areas that we struggle

I also believe that we need to look at how to improve our resource pools, but I'll get there eventually (there's a bit more tied to it with Foreign Affairs, so it'll have to be explained).

Community Engagement

This is usually something I'm very big on. I find that the best ideas, and the most fun you can have at this game is by engaging your community. Even if it is stupid chats, talking about how horrible Top Gear is (HI COTTON!), and spending time with each other, that breeds in game ideas as well. It creates Friendships that usually tend to create organisations, that usually tend to come up with new and exciting things to do.

That's the best part of it. So, here's my wicked dastardly plan:

I'm usually actually online, and I usually actually say things. I believe in keeping things simple, and easy to understand. I also believe in being available, including myself and any cabinet members. I believe we should be doing stuff. Therefore, if you should put your trust in me, I will be there, and I will surround myself with people who are also there. There's nothing more frustrating for a new player than to find that there's no one to answer a question or help out, and it's the easiest way to lose people. I believe that if we can rebuild our community, re-establish our friendships, we can even do things like....make a more organized, stronger, more efficient military. IMAGINE THAT. The UK used to have one of the absolute best mobile corps in the world, with some of the strongest fighters in the world. It would be great to see another core group of players that represented us to the rest of the world.

Being blunt, most people aren't scared of anyone in our military because we're not all that "efficient" with our damage (although we do have some awesome folks in it). We just need to help put our community back together, which will help out the MoD as well.

Military Manifesto

So, there's not much here, outside of "be basic". I see a lot of private MU's, which are a good thing in some senses, but it can be a little more difficult when those private MU's only have 5-10 fighters that hit throughout the day. To put it in perspective the US has an MU with almost 3800 members.

Now, I don't know that I think a full national MU is the way to go, but I believe there has to be a way to get the commanders to coordinate with the MoD, based on damage/supply (not all that different than what we do now) to be coordinated and efficient. You get your run off damage throughout the day, and then you need the "boost" when it counts. I believe finding some kind of more functional "bonus" program for MU's that follow national orders, and that can arrange strikes at certain times would also help their growth as well (kind of helping us both, eh?).

The last thing is, to me, the time for research is over. We need to keep our momentum up, and we need to start putting things in place. Anyone who knows me knows I hate not seeing progress, and I hate not seeing commitment. So let's get both, and let's get at it.

Foreign Affairs

Lastly, for now, anyway, is our Forrig Section. Point 1 is that we all know Mexicans have a lower life expectancy. HI JHORLIN.

Now, being serious, I love Orion. I love our allies, and I love the people who fight for us every day. Each day I try to make it a point to engage them as to how we might be able to help them (without whipping out my credit card, I do have some limits :3).

That being said, the UK is not going to really grow and establish anything if we're sitting here on our little island, rotting. We have our TW in Ireland, and our paper union in Belgium, but overall we're just "here", so to speak, trying to not drown. Now, we're not the biggest hitter, and I can say that I am not completely insane enough to pick a fight that is bad for our country. I'm more of an organized chaos type person, and I've to explore options in terms of the friends we currently have, the friends we could have, and what growth might help our nation, and our allies.

In closing, I'm back with a lot of energy, and June is a great month (for the most part) for me. Should I be honoured enough to gain your nominations, I'd love the opportunity to give this a shot once again. I've got 7 terms prior, but that was in the older versions, and there are only two things that remain from those. The first are some of the connections to some of the older players, and the second is some of the know-how and experience you get from doing the job. Not just the things you succeed in, but learning from the things you've failed in, and doing them better the next time around.

This is about us, this is about you, and this is about the United Kingdom. This is our community, let's get it back.

I hope to earn your nominations, and if I'm lucky enough to pass that test, I hope to earn your vote.

Regards,

Dishmcds


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SHA, Current Country President (Party Member):

Afternoon lads!

After a quick chat with a few gents around the eUK am happy to confirm, with your hopeful blessing, interest in re-securing the CPship for Reform and her allies this June. I know not all of you are fans of the ‘Roman bollocks’ that appeared out of thin air this month and this has been accordingly toned down a bit. Its main goal though was to revive a bit of activity given how stale things had become under Dapper, and to that end I think areas of it largely worked. The Senate, for example, I expect will be here to stay for a while longer yet.

But these rather cosmetic changes have come at the cost of galvanising our opposition into a persistent migraine. We were all used to the routine headaches that come with systemic abuse of citizenship passes/the odd impeachment but this has grown into a rather nightmare scenario: if we and our allies split our vote too far it hands over the treasury to BigAnt, Ajay, Dapper & Sons. Unexpectedly losing majority control of congress has also contributed to the farce of this term – hopefully something we can address earlier on the 25th.

So with the above in mind the principle aim for June would be “fortifying” the last sane remnants of the eUK. I don’t think there’s much hope dealing with the upper ranks of BP/LP, but aggressively poaching their members should be encouraged and more than fair game to save them from themselves. As Cit passes were to be a battleground we’ve historically declined to fight on we may as well start looking for decent allies to fill our own ranks too.

Dragging people on discord for a general chat was a good first step in getting the lads together again and resurrecting a few others (has also been infinitely easier for managing things >_>). Hopefully we can take this a bit further at some point - as most of us are gamers and have several multiplayer games some of us share it would be nice to get some events going for probably the first time in years 😛.

So to sum up – rally our allies and **** over dapper & co! As I have become the living embodiment of everything they hate nothing would give me greater joy than rewarding them for their active service this month. As the incumbent CP it should make the election slightly easier to pull off if James Radcliff does end up running himself 😛

Thanks gents 🙂


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CaptChazBeard (Party Member)

No Manifesto submitted, although he has past articles in his newspaper regarding his policies.

We will be PMing a link to this article to all party members, and adding a forum poll as well. Responses need to be in by 4 PM, Friday, May 26th, either to me or to Cotton (who will be sending the PMs).

We will then be communicating to the other parties who our candidate is to drum up any cross-party support as well so we can try to be more prepared than we were last month.

Sincerely,
Dish
PP and Consul

PS - The picture was requested by Wookie, otherwise it would be pictureless. :3