Land of Hope and Glory RP (World-building thread)

[Greater Arab State]

Note to all: The purpose of this thread is to create the RP world of Land of Hope and Glory. Land of Hope and Glory, a British Political RP is the approved sister RP to the Land of the Free, an American Political RP. However, the two RP's do not share the same IC universe.

LOHG Administration Team:

Co-OP's: Greater Arab State and Gordano and Lysandus

Assistant Admin: The World Capitalist Confederation (Temporary)

Designated liaison with LOTF Administration: Alozia

Below can be found some information for applicants regarding what had already been established for the RP prior to the establishment of this thread:

For the purposes of effective RP, the RP diverges from reality in 1990, the year of Margaret Thatcher's resignation as Prime Minister, consequently, the names of Prime Minister and Leaders of the Opposition have been changed, however, the Prime Ministers themselves and the events during their period of leadership remain unchanged:

Prime Ministers (1990-2016)

Jack Monroe (Conservative, 1990-1997)

Tom Blake (Labour, 1997-2007)

Gilbert Black (Labour, 2007-2010)

Daniel Campion (Conservative, 2010-2016)

Leaders of the Opposition (1990-2016)

Neville Kirkbride (Labour, 1983-1992)

Joshua Sharpe (Labour 1992-1994)

Marcia Bainbridge (Labour, 1994)

Wilfred Hayes (Conservative, 1997-2001)

Ivor Dowding-Short (Conservative, 2001-2003)

Mathew Howell (Conservative, 2003-2005)

Henrietta Hanson (Labour, 2010)

Ted Merriment (Labour, 2010-2015)

Alexandra Bennett (Labour, 2015-present)

In order for the RP to maintain smooth functioning, some positions are listed below as being required for the maintenance of the RP's plot, It would be greatly appreciated if applicants were to consider this as they write their applications, however we would equally like other apps for positions not listed. Any reservations made to these positions all be added to the position reserved:

Her Majesty's Government (Conservative Minority)

Prime Minister: Gordano and Lysandus
Chancellor of the Exchequer: Vacant
Home Secretary: Reserved by Granluras
Foreign Secretary: Vacant
Brexit Secretary: Vacant

Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition (Labour)

The Leader of the Opposition: The World Capitalist Confederation
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer: The Democratic Marxists
Shadow Home Secretary: Vacant
Shadow Foreign Secretary: Vacant
Shadow Brexit Secretary: Vacant
Mayor of London: Vacant

Other

Speaker of the House of Commons: Vacant
Lords Speaker of the House of Lords: Vacant
Leader of the Liberal Democrats: Reserved by Fronket
Leader of the Brexit Party: Reserved by Sao Nova Europa
Leader of the Green Party: Vacant
Leader of Plaid Cymru: Vacant
First Minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party: Vacant
Leader of the SNP in the House of Commons: Vacant
First Minister of Wales: Vacant
Leader of the Democratic Unionist Party: Vacant
Leader of the DUP in the House of Commons: Vacant
Leader of Sinn Fein: Vacant

The Story as of January 2019 (IC RP Start Month)

The Government is in crisis. Over two years ago, when Diana Naismith came to power in the wake of Daniel Campion’s resignation, there was a lot of positive energy and goodwill. Labour were trailing in the polls, and Naismith was seen as a reliable, safe pair of hands, not ideologically bound to the fringes of the Party, who could shepherd the United Kingdom through the disruption of Brexit and towards the promises beyond.

Oh how times have changed.

A disastrous election result in 2017 has led to an insurgency by the Opposition, and the fabric of the constitution itself is beginning to splinter under the strain. Operating a Conservative minority government propped up by the DUP, the Prime Minister has found herself unable to move forward with her Withdrawal Agreement, despite the positive steps she has attempted to make to pass it. The DUP have been alienated, and ultra-Remainers and ultra-Brexiteers in her own Party act as a constant foil to her attempts to get the job done.

Narrowly surviving a confidence vote in December, the Prime Minister has resolved to resign come the summer, to make way for a new Conservative leader, and thus a new Prime Minister. Her legacy, no matter how positive she has tried to be, will forever be marked by her impotence in office.

The race to become the next Prime Minister, however, has already begun. Not merely in terms of the Conservative Party leadership, but also the sure expectation that - following the leadership election - the new Tory leader will be expected to seek a new mandate, a fresh general election. Parliament will be dissolved, and the country will decide… Who will be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland?

Accepted Character Roster

Her Majesty's Government

The Prime Minister, Diana Naismith MP (Conservative- North Somerset)- Gordano and Lysandus

National-Level Politicians

The Conservative Party

Isobel Grace Morton-Howard MP (Stone)- Greater Arab State

The Labour Party

The Leader of the Opposition, Alexandra Bennett MP (Manchester Withington)- The World Capitalist Confederation

Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, Ruby Holmes MP (Hackney North and Stoke Newington)- The Democratic Marxists

Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Emma Beasley MP (Barking)- Alozia

David Richardson MP (York Central)- Agarntrop

The Liberal Democrats

Other Political Parties

Local-Level Politicians

The Conservative Party

The Labour Party

The Liberal Democrats

Other Political Parties

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[West Bromwich Holme]

I would be interested in taking part in this RP, but a different context to political.

A question: would you like me to add IC pieces of non-political news (mainly automotive news, restaurant reviews etc.) to add some content for this continuity, or have you got that decided? I ask this as those two are my areas of interest IRL.

[Gordano and Lysandus]

Much excitement!

[Greater Arab State]

I would be interested in taking part in this RP, but a different context to political.

A question: would you like me to add IC pieces of non-political news (mainly automotive news, restaurant reviews etc.) to add some content for this continuity, or have you got that decided? I ask this as those two are my areas of interest IRL.

My colleagues and I have came to the decision that such content will be permitted in order to provide a form of stage dressing (i.e. inference of the performance of the UK and Global economies), however we have some concerns that such a position in a Political RP may lead to a lack of interest in the RP if one were to do that.

[Greater Arab State]

I'm just posting my app here in order to provide an example to potential applicants of what a finished app would look like and so I can have it posted and saved on the thread.

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NS Nation Name: Greater Arab State
Character Name: Isabel Grace Morton-Howard
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 45
Character Height: 5' 4"
Character Weight: 154 lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (2016-2018), Minister of State for Immigration (2012-2016), Private Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of State for Immigration (2010-2012), Assistant Opposition Whip (2002-2010), Member of the Home Affairs Select Committee (1997-2002), Member of Parliament for Stone (1997-Present), Councillor for Moulton Division of Northamptonshire County Council (1993-1997)
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Character Constituency of Origin: Daventry (Born in Lower Saxony, West Germany)
Character Constituency of Residence: Stone
Character Party Affiliation: Conservative
Main Strengths: Strong record of experience, holds weight amongst Brexiteers, fairly appealing social background, strong on law and order.
Main Weaknesses: Could have difficulty appealing to Remainers, controversial Ministerial career, could have limited appeal amongst Northern and Scottish voters.
Biography:
Isabel Grace Morton was born on the 22nd March 1973 in the city of Hanover, West Germany. The only daughter and 3rd child of a British Army Officer. Raised in a lower-middle class family meant that Isobel was raised in fairly comfortable conditions, even if some had it better. As a student studying at Southfield Girls School, Morton excelled at her studies, achieving 9 GCSE's before then going onto achieving A Levels in Politics, History, English Language and Sociology.

Isabel Morton then went onto study Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham in 1991, where she was an active member of the University Conservative Association, later becoming its President. It was during her University education that Morton met Richard Howard, a law student, whom she would shortly after begin a relationship with.

However, in 1993 Morton stood, whilst still as a student for the Moulton division of Northamptonshire County Council. Despite her relative youthfulness and inexperience, Morton was elected with 38% of the vote, down from the previous councillor. Isabel's time spent as a councillor was predominantly spent supporting rural communities, ensuring that wind turbines were not erected within her council division for which she received immense support from her constituents.

However, 4 years after being elected, Morton was selected for the newly-recreated seat of Stone, standing on a platform of Euroscepticism and a focus on the issues of law and order meant that Morton was elected as the Member of Parliament for Stone with 45% of the vote, one of the few Conservative successes that election. Soon after, Isabel Morton married Richard Howard, now a practising Immigration Lawyer.

Upon entering Parliament, Morton-Howard almost immediately began to develop her career, quickly placing herself on the Tory right. As a result of her focus on Home Affairs in both her campaigning and maiden speech, Morton-Howard was placed on the Home Affairs Select Committee. During this time, Morton-Howard made comments that were supportive of the use of capital punishment for crimes deemed severe enough. This provoked a large amount of Parliamentary backlash with Morton-Howard being the subject of criticism by the New Labour government, featuring in their campaigning during the 2001 General Election. Despite this, Morton-Howard's position was unaffected and she was appointed as an assistant opposition whip in February 2002 under (Not Iain Duncan-Smith) and was was fairly successful in that role, with the exception of when a whip was placed on adoption by unmarried couples, which weakened both (Not Iain Duncan-Smith's) position and her's due to her position as assistant whip and her support for the policy during her time as a backbencher.

Morton-Howard's tenure as an assistant whip however, ended in May 2010 with the formation of a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition after which she was appointed Private Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of State for Immigration, a position through which she influenced the formation of the "hostile environment" policy of the Home Office, and a policy which she later was responsible for after being appointed Immigration Minister 2 years later in April 2012.

Ms Morton-Howard's tenure as Immigration Minister was rather fraught with controversy, with many placing prime responsibility on her for the adoption of the hostile environment policy which was accused of being racist, however, it also led to support for Morton-Howard amongst members of the working class and the Eurosceptic movement. In 2013, Morton-Howard published a book titled "Back to Basics: How the Conservative Party can change Britain for the better" which included within it proposals such as a withdrawal from the EU and the introduction of a points-based immigration system. The book was controversial with Morton-Howard almost being forced out of the Cabinet by the moderately Conservative Prime Minister, however public support forced him to retain her. In 2015 UKIP declined to stand a candidate against Morton-Howard in that years General Election due to her fierce Euroscepticism.

After the referendum was called on Britain's membership of the European Union, Isabel Morton-Howard, a lifelong Eurosceptic, almost immediately endorsed and joined the Vote Leave campaign, soon becoming one of the most well known figures of the campaign, to the irritation of the then Prime Minister. However, on the 24th of June it was announced that the United Kingdom had voted to leave the European Union, the reaction from Ms Morton-Howard was one of positive reflection, believing that now that Britain had voted to leave, it was morally correct to immediately start the process of leaving the EU and "Deliver upon Brexit". It was during that time that the Prime Minister resigned feeling that he could not lead the nation after the Remain campaign had been defeated.

Practically overnight, Morton-Howard began to be seen as a successor for the office. However, she announced shortly after that she would not be standing as a candidate and endorsed (Not Andrea Leadsom) for the leadership instead, who later withdrew leaving the then Home Secretary as the only candidate for the Conservative leadership and was appointed Prime Minister in July.
Soon after, Morton-Howard was appointed as the first Secretary of State for exiting the European Union, a position which allowed the government to have the support of Conservative Eurosceptics and Leave voters.

However, the result of the 2017 General Election soon led to her private resentment of the Government, in particular the Prime Minister who she previously had a good working relationship with at the Home Office, this was compounded by her view that the negotiations were tedious and obstructed the democratic will of the British electorate and feeling that the Prime Minister was appeasing the EU to too much of a degree, Isobel Morton-Howard ultimately resigned in July 2018 after the Chequers agreement was published, claiming that the Brexit envisioned by the government was "Not the one called for by the British people in the democratic referendum two years ago." This ultimately led to Morton-Howard supporting the vote of no-confidence in the Prime Minister in December 2018. However, with that having failed, the former Brexit Secretary is planning on frustrating the Prime Minister's withdrawal agreement and secure the keys to 10 Downing Street and deliver Brexit.

Other Info: 3 brothers, High Anglican, bilingual (English and German), member of the European Research Group, member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Business Brexit.
Married with 3 children:
Alice, 18 (Born November 2000)
Nigel, 16 (Born August 2002)
Hatty 12 (Born May 2006)
Political Positions:
Abortion: Staunchly pro-life, believes it should only be available when the mother's life is in danger.
Brexit: Favours a Brexit on WTO rules but willing to accept a deal that doesn't involve a permanently separate customs arrangement for Northern Ireland and a divorce payment by Britain.
Climate Change: Sceptical of the overall impact of human activity but realises the job opportunities available for the British economy post-Brexit.
Defence: Supports an increase in the Defence budget to 3.5% of GDP, originally supportive of British deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq but became opposed after the insurgency developed.
Energy: Opposes inland wind farms due to impact on rural communities, does support solar and off-shore wind power.
Veterans: Supports legislation preventing the prosecution of Northern Ireland veterans of historic offences.
Immigration: Supports a points based immigration system and comprehensive reform of British nationality law, supportive of specialist visas for areas in short supply.
Devolution: Opposed to Welsh or Scottish independence and Irish nationalism. Supports an English Parliament. Opposed to any further devolution of powers from the central government.
Northern Powerhouse: Moderately supportive, would support an English parliament in either the North or Midlands. Support the expansion of free ports in the UK to aid economic improvement in the North.
NHS: Privately supportive of privatisation but willing to publicly fund the NHS. Supports funding increases in social care.
Home Affairs: Made controversial comments supportive of capital punishment for certain severe crimes in her early backbench career but has remained quiet on the issue since then. Supports tougher sentencing for certain criminals who do not reveal details of their crimes.
International Development: Supports the Department for International Development being dissolved and its responsibilities divided between the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Trade.
Same-sex marriage: Opposed, voted against the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013.
I have read and accept the rules of the role-play: Greater Arab State
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[Gordano and Lysandus]

Finally got the Prime Minister's application done, as a further example, but not everyone should feel they need to write quite so much.

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Gordano and Lysandus
Character Name: Diana Naismith
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 62
Character Height: 5’1”
Character Weight: 166lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2017-), Home Secretary (2010-2017), MP for Woodspring/North Somerset (1997-), Avon County Councillor (1990-1996), Bank of England consultant (1985-1992), Banker (1977-1985).
Appearance:

Character Constituency of Origin: Exeter
Character Constituency of Residence: North Somerset
Character Party Affiliation: Conservative and Unionist

Main Strengths: Capacity for compromise allows for her to build a broad coalition across the One Nation and Brexiteer wings; methodical and details focused in her work, seen as a ‘safe pair of hands’; generally seen as a positive role model for women in politics.
Main Weaknesses: Capacity for compromise also causes the most liberal and most conservative Conservatives to be defiant and distrustful of her leadership; uncharismatic and weak on the campaign trail; health issues cause some questions from unsympathetic circles; Home Office record has opened her to criticism from the left.

Biography:
Diana Esmé Naismith (née Carpenter) was born in 1956, in Exeter, Devon, one of three daughters of Richard and Madeleine Carpenter. Her father was an army chaplain, whilst her mother worked as a secretary for the local Conservative MP. Receiving a modest education at first, she was an excellent student and managed to progress on first to a grammar school and from there qualified for a scholarship to Cambridge University, where she read Economics. It was at university that her own political instincts first came to the fore, with friends noting her ambition, and keenness to see more women represented in politics.

She would graduate second class in 1977, and then immediately transition into working for a major bank, and it would be whilst working for the Royal Bank of Scotland that she would meet her husband, Edward Naismith. They would enter their relationship with an understanding that it would ultimately be a childless one, with Diana’s genetic predisposition to asthma making her unwilling to bear children.

Her career would develop in 1985 when she moved into working with the Bank of England, working from their branch office in Bristol. It was at this time that she elected to move to the seaside down of Clevedon, not far from her new workplace. Further developing her understanding of economic and social issues, her political interests were revived. In 1990, she was selected in a council by-election to become a county councillor in Avon, in which she served for six years as an able and vocal member of the council.

After Avon’s dissolution in 1996, she was selected as the Conservative candidate for the Woodspring constituency in 1997, following the elevation of the prior holder to the Lords after his decision to retire. Diana would take the Conservative safe seat handily, and would hold it to the present day (it would be renamed North Somerset in 2010).

Under Hayes and Dowding-Short, she would serve in the Shadow Portfolios first for Education, and then for Transport. In 2003, she would become the first female Chairman of the Conservative Party, and it was at that year’s Conservative Party Conference that she gave her infamous speech decrying the Tory Party’s image issues and calling out those members who would not accept blame. When Howell became the Tory leader later that year, she would be shuffled back to Transport.

When Daniel Campion became Tory leader in 2005, Naismith was made Shadow Leader of the House of Commons, a role in which she served capably, and it was expected that she would continue in the Government equivalent when the Conservative Party formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats after the 2010 election. To the astonishment of many, she was instead made Home Secretary in the new Campion Ministry.

As Home Secretary, she notably nixed Labour’s proposed ID card scheme (a hangover from the Blake government), and - with the help of junior Immigration Minister Morton-Howard - began the ‘hostile environment’ policy as part of a general frontier to bring down immigration figures. Whilst personally ambivalent on immigration, Naismith recognised the importance in confronting it as an issue for ordinary British people.

She would extend bans on narcotic substances, criminalising a number of ‘legal highs’, against the advice of some scientific bodies. With regards to policing, she also expanded police powers, and spoke with particular pride about the drop in crime during the Coalition Government, despite the cuts that had been made to the Home Office budget.

Concurrently whilst serving as Home Secretary, she also served as Minister for Women and Equalities. Whilst this was criticised due to her previous votes against expanding LGBT freedoms, she had - since the Civil Partnerships legislation in 2004 - become increasingly liberal on LGBT issues, and in fact would go on to champion them in her later Premiership.

After Campion resigned in 2016 following the Leave victory in the EU Membership Referendum, Naismith was urged by some colleagues to run - whilst she had campaigned for Remain, she had not done so enthusiastically nor gone to any lengths to belittle Leave voters, as some politicians had. Finding the majority of her support in the more liberal wing of the Party, she nonetheless achieved wide respect both on account of her long ministerial career (the Home Office had a tendency to ‘break’ politicians of any party) and her willingness to accept the referendum result and move forward on it.

Naismith’s last opponent in the leadership contest, (not-Andrea Leadsom), would withdraw on account of the vast disparity in support between them in the final ballot, allowing May to become the next Conservative Leader, and thus the next Prime Minister, without a full leadership election. She resisted initial calls to call a general election, feeling it inappropriate to do so just one year after the previous.

Upon taking office, she conducted a brutal cabinet purge, dropping several Campion Ministers including (not-George Osborne), who would appear to have a particular and continuing resentment against her for this. Her Ministry swung from strengths to weaknesses and back, moving forward expansions of civil rights whilst being assaulted by the left over matters of foreign policy, with Naismith’s willingness to do business with US President Donald Trump, and invitation for him to enjoy a state visit, were seen poorly, despite the practical matters involved.

Eventually, with Naismith’s authority stalling on account of her slender majority from the 2015 election, she would call an election in 2017. This would be a categorical disaster, losing her majority on the back of a weak manifesto that had been bodged by a mixture of her Downing Street SpAds and right wing elements of the Party, where her social care policies were denounced as a ‘dementia tax’ and the proposal for a free vote on fox-hunting never entirely left the news cycle. This forced Naismith to form a shaky confidence-and-supply arrangement with the DUP of Northern Ireland, leaving her vulnerable, lacking in authority and politically impotent to proceed with her Withdrawal Agreement, which was stalling on account of the Northern Irish backstop.

Barely surviving a leadership contest in December, on the back of a promise that she would resign after delivering Brexit, Naismith limps on, hoping to preserve her legacy and uphold good government, standing by her mantra that the Conservatives cannot afford to be seen as the Nasty Party.

Other Info: Diana is asthmatic. On account of her genetic predisposition towards asthma, she elected not to have children with her husband.

She is seen as One Nation, liberal Conservative.

Political Positions:
Abortion: Does not support change in abortion laws one way or the other, but would like to extend zones around clinics to protect women from harrassment.
Brexit: Whilst having campaigned on the basis of Remain, she kept her head low. After the result, she embraced delivering on Brexit with a comprehensive, positive deal - the hill on which her Prime Ministerial career died.
Climate Change: Has acknowledged the human causes of climate change and upheld and supported policies to make Britain greener. Has not, however, prevented her support for other energy projects (see Energy).
Defence: Has supported a strong defence stance, proud to have seen one of Britain’s new aircraft carriers launched in her premiership. Whilst wanting to expand the Forces, has lacked the political capital to do so. Joined US and France in conducting airstrikes in Syria.
Energy: Supports expanding UK energy production whilst reducing reliance on coal. Coal use has dropped radically during her two year premiership, whilst use of fracking has expanded, and nuclear projects have continued despite set-backs.
Veterans: Wants to apply ‘same standard’ to UK NI veterans as applied to former IRA to end prosecutions, but lacks political capital to do so. Has supported legislation to prioritise veterans in state employment and welfare services.
Immigration: Personally indifferent, but has grasped political impetus regarding immigration. Having acknowledged public attitudes on immigration, she endeavoured to bring raw statistics down whilst at the Home Office. Has committed to a ‘fair and equal’ system post-Brexit.
Devolution: Personally unsupportive of the devolved assemblies, politically she has remained relatively quiet on the subject, except with regards to Northern Ireland and has avoided legislating over NI to protect GFA. Vocally opposed to independence movements.
Northern Powerhouse: Supportive of northern local government initiatives and industrial expansion, has continued to support (not-Cameron) era infrastructure projects to improve northern economic potential.
NHS: Supporter of maintaining a free-at-the-point-of-use NHS through whatever means is most efficient on a case by case basis - private or public supplies. Wanted to increase contributions of the wealthy to social care but failed to do so.
Home Affairs: Highly critical of (not-Blair) period reforms, has embraced a tough on crime attitude. Has funded expansion of police and supported expansion of police powers. Has strengthened sentencing laws but has resulted in major issues with prison populations.
International Development: Remains committed to international development funding and the maintenance of a separate DfID.

I have read and accept the rules of the role-play: Gordano and Lysandus

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[Agarntrop]

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[Greater Arab State]

Finally got the Prime Minister's application done, as a further example, but not everyone should feel they need to write quite so much.

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Gordano and Lysandus
Character Name: Diana Naismith
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 62
Character Height: 5’1”
Character Weight: 166lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2017-), Home Secretary (2010-2017), MP for Woodspring/North Somerset (1997-), Avon County Councillor (1990-1996), Bank of England consultant (1985-1992), Banker (1977-1985).
Appearance:

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Character Constituency of Origin: Exeter
Character Constituency of Residence: North Somerset
Character Party Affiliation: Conservative and Unionist

Main Strengths: Capacity for compromise allows for her to build a broad coalition across the One Nation and Brexiteer wings; methodical and details focused in her work, seen as a ‘safe pair of hands’; generally seen as a positive role model for women in politics.
Main Weaknesses: Capacity for compromise also causes the most liberal and most conservative Conservatives to be defiant and distrustful of her leadership; uncharismatic and weak on the campaign trail; health issues cause some questions from unsympathetic circles; Home Office record has opened her to criticism from the left.

Biography:
Diana Esmé Naismith (née Carpenter) was born in 1956, in Exeter, Devon, one of three daughters of Richard and Madeleine Carpenter. Her father was an army chaplain, whilst her mother worked as a secretary for the local Conservative MP. Receiving a modest education at first, she was an excellent student and managed to progress on first to a grammar school and from there qualified for a scholarship to Cambridge University, where she read Economics. It was at university that her own political instincts first came to the fore, with friends noting her ambition, and keenness to see more women represented in politics.

She would graduate second class in 1977, and then immediately transition into working for a major bank, and it would be whilst working for the Royal Bank of Scotland that she would meet her husband, Edward Naismith. They would enter their relationship with an understanding that it would ultimately be a childless one, with Diana’s genetic predisposition to asthma making her unwilling to bear children.

Her career would develop in 1985 when she moved into working with the Bank of England, working from their branch office in Bristol. It was at this time that she elected to move to the seaside down of Clevedon, not far from her new workplace. Further developing her understanding of economic and social issues, her political interests were revived. In 1990, she was selected in a council by-election to become a county councillor in Avon, in which she served for six years as an able and vocal member of the council.

After Avon’s dissolution in 1996, she was selected as the Conservative candidate for the Woodspring constituency in 1997, following the elevation of the prior holder to the Lords after his decision to retire. Diana would take the Conservative safe seat handily, and would hold it to the present day (it would be renamed North Somerset in 2010).

Under Hayes and Dowding-Short, she would serve in the Shadow Portfolios first for Education, and then for Transport. In 2003, she would become the first female Chairman of the Conservative Party, and it was at that year’s Conservative Party Conference that she gave her infamous speech decrying the Tory Party’s image issues and calling out those members who would not accept blame. When Howell became the Tory leader later that year, she would be shuffled back to Transport.

When Daniel Campion became Tory leader in 2005, Naismith was made Shadow Leader of the House of Commons, a role in which she served capably, and it was expected that she would continue in the Government equivalent when the Conservative Party formed a coalition with the Liberal Democrats after the 2010 election. To the astonishment of many, she was instead made Home Secretary in the new Campion Ministry.

As Home Secretary, she notably nixed Labour’s proposed ID card scheme (a hangover from the Blake government), and - with the help of junior Immigration Minister Morton-Howard - began the ‘hostile environment’ policy as part of a general frontier to bring down immigration figures. Whilst personally ambivalent on immigration, Naismith recognised the importance in confronting it as an issue for ordinary British people.

She would extend bans on narcotic substances, criminalising a number of ‘legal highs’, against the advice of some scientific bodies. With regards to policing, she also expanded police powers, and spoke with particular pride about the drop in crime during the Coalition Government, despite the cuts that had been made to the Home Office budget.

Concurrently whilst serving as Home Secretary, she also served as Minister for Women and Equalities. Whilst this was criticised due to her previous votes against expanding LGBT freedoms, she had - since the Civil Partnerships legislation in 2004 - become increasingly liberal on LGBT issues, and in fact would go on to champion them in her later Premiership.

After Campion resigned in 2016 following the Leave victory in the EU Membership Referendum, Naismith was urged by some colleagues to run - whilst she had campaigned for Remain, she had not done so enthusiastically nor gone to any lengths to belittle Leave voters, as some politicians had. Finding the majority of her support in the more liberal wing of the Party, she nonetheless achieved wide respect both on account of her long ministerial career (the Home Office had a tendency to ‘break’ politicians of any party) and her willingness to accept the referendum result and move forward on it.

Naismith’s last opponent in the leadership contest, (not-Andrea Leadsom), would withdraw on account of the vast disparity in support between them in the final ballot, allowing May to become the next Conservative Leader, and thus the next Prime Minister, without a full leadership election. She resisted initial calls to call a general election, feeling it inappropriate to do so just one year after the previous.

Upon taking office, she conducted a brutal cabinet purge, dropping several Campion Ministers including (not-George Osborne), who would appear to have a particular and continuing resentment against her for this. Her Ministry swung from strengths to weaknesses and back, moving forward expansions of civil rights whilst being assaulted by the left over matters of foreign policy, with Naismith’s willingness to do business with US President Donald Trump, and invitation for him to enjoy a state visit, were seen poorly, despite the practical matters involved.

Eventually, with Naismith’s authority stalling on account of her slender majority from the 2015 election, she would call an election in 2017. This would be a categorical disaster, losing her majority on the back of a weak manifesto that had been bodged by a mixture of her Downing Street SpAds and right wing elements of the Party, where her social care policies were denounced as a ‘dementia tax’ and the proposal for a free vote on fox-hunting never entirely left the news cycle. This forced Naismith to form a shaky confidence-and-supply arrangement with the DUP of Northern Ireland, leaving her vulnerable, lacking in authority and politically impotent to proceed with her Withdrawal Agreement, which was stalling on account of the Northern Irish backstop.

Barely surviving a leadership contest in December, on the back of a promise that she would resign after delivering Brexit, Naismith limps on, hoping to preserve her legacy and uphold good government, standing by her mantra that the Conservatives cannot afford to be seen as the Nasty Party.

Other Info: Diana is asthmatic. On account of her genetic predisposition towards asthma, she elected not to have children with her husband.

She is seen as One Nation, liberal Conservative.

Political Positions:
Abortion: Does not support change in abortion laws one way or the other, but would like to extend zones around clinics to protect women from harrassment.
Brexit: Whilst having campaigned on the basis of Remain, she kept her head low. After the result, she embraced delivering on Brexit with a comprehensive, positive deal - the hill on which her Prime Ministerial career died.
Climate Change: Has acknowledged the human causes of climate change and upheld and supported policies to make Britain greener. Has not, however, prevented her support for other energy projects (see Energy).
Defence: Has supported a strong defence stance, proud to have seen one of Britain’s new aircraft carriers launched in her premiership. Whilst wanting to expand the Forces, has lacked the political capital to do so. Joined US and France in conducting airstrikes in Syria.
Energy: Supports expanding UK energy production whilst reducing reliance on coal. Coal use has dropped radically during her two year premiership, whilst use of fracking has expanded, and nuclear projects have continued despite set-backs.
Veterans: Wants to apply ‘same standard’ to UK NI veterans as applied to former IRA to end prosecutions, but lacks political capital to do so. Has supported legislation to prioritise veterans in state employment and welfare services.
Immigration: Personally indifferent, but has grasped political impetus regarding immigration. Having acknowledged public attitudes on immigration, she endeavoured to bring raw statistics down whilst at the Home Office. Has committed to a ‘fair and equal’ system post-Brexit.
Devolution: Personally unsupportive of the devolved assemblies, politically she has remained relatively quiet on the subject, except with regards to Northern Ireland and has avoided legislating over NI to protect GFA. Vocally opposed to independence movements.
Northern Powerhouse: Supportive of northern local government initiatives and industrial expansion, has continued to support (not-Cameron) era infrastructure projects to improve northern economic potential.
NHS: Supporter of maintaining a free-at-the-point-of-use NHS through whatever means is most efficient on a case by case basis - private or public supplies. Wanted to increase contributions of the wealthy to social care but failed to do so.
Home Affairs: Highly critical of (not-Blair) period reforms, has embraced a tough on crime attitude. Has funded expansion of police and supported expansion of police powers. Has strengthened sentencing laws but has resulted in major issues with prison populations.
International Development: Remains committed to international development funding and the maintenance of a separate DfID.

I have read and accept the rules of the role-play: Gordano and Lysandus

Do Not Remove: 84721

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[Gordano and Lysandus]

I'm just posting my app here in order to provide an example to potential applicants of what a finished app would look like and so I can have it posted and saved on the thread.

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Character Information Sheet
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NS Nation Name: Greater Arab State
Character Name: Isabel Grace Morton-Howard
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 45
Character Height: 5' 4"
Character Weight: 154 lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (2016-2018), Minister of State for Immigration (2012-2016), Private Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of State for Immigration (2010-2012), Assistant Opposition Whip (2002-2010), Member of the Home Affairs Select Committee (1997-2002), Member of Parliament for Stone (1997-Present), Councillor for Moulton Division of Northamptonshire County Council (1993-1997)
Appearance:

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Character Constituency of Origin: Daventry (Born in Lower Saxony, West Germany)
Character Constituency of Residence: Stone
Character Party Affiliation: Conservative
Main Strengths: Strong record of experience, holds weight amongst Brexiteers, fairly appealing social background, strong on law and order.
Main Weaknesses: Could have difficulty appealing to Remainers, controversial Ministerial career, could have limited appeal amongst Northern and Scottish voters.
Biography:
Isabel Grace Morton was born on the 22nd March 1973 in the city of Hanover, West Germany. The only daughter and 3rd child of a British Army Officer. Raised in a lower-middle class family meant that Isobel was raised in fairly comfortable conditions, even if some had it better. As a student studying at Southfield Girls School, Morton excelled at her studies, achieving 9 GCSE's before then going onto achieving A Levels in Politics, History, English Language and Sociology.

Isabel Morton then went onto study Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham in 1991, where she was an active member of the University Conservative Association, later becoming its President. It was during her University education that Morton met Richard Howard, a law student, whom she would shortly after begin a relationship with.

However, in 1993 Morton stood, whilst still as a student for the Moulton division of Northamptonshire County Council. Despite her relative youthfulness and inexperience, Morton was elected with 38% of the vote, down from the previous councillor. Isabel's time spent as a councillor was predominantly spent supporting rural communities, ensuring that wind turbines were not erected within her council division for which she received immense support from her constituents.

However, 4 years after being elected, Morton was selected for the newly-recreated seat of Stone, standing on a platform of Euroscepticism and a focus on the issues of law and order meant that Morton was elected as the Member of Parliament for Stone with 45% of the vote, one of the few Conservative successes that election. Soon after, Isabel Morton married Richard Howard, now a practising Immigration Lawyer.

Upon entering Parliament, Morton-Howard almost immediately began to develop her career, quickly placing herself on the Tory right. As a result of her focus on Home Affairs in both her campaigning and maiden speech, Morton-Howard was placed on the Home Affairs Select Committee. During this time, Morton-Howard made comments that were supportive of the use of capital punishment for crimes deemed severe enough. This provoked a large amount of Parliamentary backlash with Morton-Howard being the subject of criticism by the New Labour government, featuring in their campaigning during the 2001 General Election. Despite this, Morton-Howard's position was unaffected and she was appointed as an assistant opposition whip in February 2002 under (Not Iain Duncan-Smith) and was was fairly successful in that role, with the exception of when a whip was placed on adoption by unmarried couples, which weakened both (Not Iain Duncan-Smith's) position and her's due to her position as assistant whip and her support for the policy during her time as a backbencher.

Morton-Howard's tenure as an assistant whip however, ended in May 2010 with the formation of a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition after which she was appointed Private Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of State for Immigration, a position through which she influenced the formation of the "hostile environment" policy of the Home Office, and a policy which she later was responsible for after being appointed Immigration Minister 2 years later in April 2012.

Ms Morton-Howard's tenure as Immigration Minister was rather fraught with controversy, with many placing prime responsibility on her for the adoption of the hostile environment policy which was accused of being racist, however, it also led to support for Morton-Howard amongst members of the working class and the Eurosceptic movement. In 2013, Morton-Howard published a book titled "Back to Basics: How the Conservative Party can change Britain for the better" which included within it proposals such as a withdrawal from the EU and the introduction of a points-based immigration system. The book was controversial with Morton-Howard almost being forced out of the Cabinet by the moderately Conservative Prime Minister, however public support forced him to retain her. In 2015 UKIP declined to stand a candidate against Morton-Howard in that years General Election due to her fierce Euroscepticism.

After the referendum was called on Britain's membership of the European Union, Isabel Morton-Howard, a lifelong Eurosceptic, almost immediately endorsed and joined the Vote Leave campaign, soon becoming one of the most well known figures of the campaign, to the irritation of the then Prime Minister. However, on the 24th of June it was announced that the United Kingdom had voted to leave the European Union, the reaction from Ms Morton-Howard was one of positive reflection, believing that now that Britain had voted to leave, it was morally correct to immediately start the process of leaving the EU and "Deliver upon Brexit". It was during that time that the Prime Minister resigned feeling that he could not lead the nation after the Remain campaign had been defeated.

Practically overnight, Morton-Howard began to be seen as a successor for the office. However, she announced shortly after that she would not be standing as a candidate and endorsed (Not Andrea Leadsom) for the leadership instead, who later withdrew leaving the then Home Secretary as the only candidate for the Conservative leadership and was appointed Prime Minister in July.
Soon after, Morton-Howard was appointed as the first Secretary of State for exiting the European Union, a position which allowed the government to have the support of Conservative Eurosceptics and Leave voters.

However, the result of the 2017 General Election soon led to her private resentment of the Government, in particular the Prime Minister who she previously had a good working relationship with at the Home Office, this was compounded by her view that the negotiations were tedious and obstructed the democratic will of the British electorate and feeling that the Prime Minister was appeasing the EU to too much of a degree, Isobel Morton-Howard ultimately resigned in July 2018 after the Chequers agreement was published, claiming that the Brexit envisioned by the government was "Not the one called for by the British people in the democratic referendum two years ago." This ultimately led to Morton-Howard supporting the vote of no-confidence in the Prime Minister in December 2018. However, with that having failed, the former Brexit Secretary is planning on frustrating the Prime Minister's withdrawal agreement and secure the keys to 10 Downing Street and deliver Brexit.

Other Info: 3 brothers, High Anglican, bilingual (English and German), member of the European Research Group, member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Business Brexit.
Married with 3 children:
Alice, 18 (Born November 2000)
Nigel, 16 (Born August 2002)
Hatty 12 (Born May 2006)
Political Positions:
Abortion: Staunchly pro-life, believes it should only be available when the mother's life is in danger.
Brexit: Favours a Brexit on WTO rules but willing to accept a deal that doesn't involve a permanently separate customs arrangement for Northern Ireland and a divorce payment by Britain.
Climate Change: Sceptical of the overall impact of human activity but realises the job opportunities available for the British economy post-Brexit.
Defence: Supports an increase in the Defence budget to 3.5% of GDP, originally supportive of British deployments in Afghanistan and Iraq but became opposed after the insurgency developed.
Energy: Opposes inland wind farms due to impact on rural communities, does support solar and off-shore wind power.
Veterans: Supports legislation preventing the prosecution of Northern Ireland veterans of historic offences.
Immigration: Supports a points based immigration system and comprehensive reform of British nationality law, supportive of specialist visas for areas in short supply.
Devolution: Opposed to Welsh or Scottish independence and Irish nationalism. Supports an English Parliament. Opposed to any further devolution of powers from the central government.
Northern Powerhouse: Moderately supportive, would support an English parliament in either the North or Midlands. Support the expansion of free ports in the UK to aid economic improvement in the North.
NHS: Privately supportive of privatisation but willing to publicly fund the NHS. Supports funding increases in social care.
Home Affairs: Made controversial comments supportive of capital punishment for certain severe crimes in her early backbench career but has remained quiet on the issue since then. Supports tougher sentencing for certain criminals who do not reveal details of their crimes.
International Development: Supports the Department for International Development being dissolved and its responsibilities divided between the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Department for International Trade.
Same-sex marriage: Opposed, voted against the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013.
I have read and accept the rules of the role-play: Greater Arab State
Do Not Remove: 84721

Accepted.

[Aureumterra]

Damn there’s so many of these political RPs now, it’s almost like the great Roman Empire (Washington 2017) falling apart and being replaced with tons of smaller kingdoms

Might consider joining

[Gordano and Lysandus]

Damn there’s so many of these political RPs now, it’s almost like the great Roman Empire (Washington 2017) falling apart and being replaced with tons of smaller kingdoms

Might consider joining

Glad to see you're interested!

[Aureumterra]

Damn there’s so many of these political RPs now, it’s almost like the great Roman Empire (Washington 2017) falling apart and being replaced with tons of smaller kingdoms

Might consider joining

Glad to see you're interested!

I was about to make my own parliament type RP a few days ago as well, I just figured there were waaaay to many active right now for one to stay active

[Gordano and Lysandus]

Glad to see you're interested!

I was about to make my own parliament type RP a few days ago as well, I just figured there were waaaay to many active right now for one to stay active

Well, we've got pleeeenty of jobs that need doing! Including our (not-John Bercow) role, if you'd be open to taking it.

[Agarntrop]

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Agarntrop
Character Name: David Richardson
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 58
Character Height: 5' 11"
Character Weight: 185 lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: Shadow Attorney General of England and Wales (2016-2018), Shadow Secretary of State for Justice (2015-2016), Shadow Lord Chancellor (2015-2016), Shadow Minister for Justice (2012-2015), Secretary of State for Transport (1998-2003), Minister of State for Transport (1997-1998), Shadow Minister of State for Transport (1994-1997), Shadow Parliamentary Under-secretary for Transport (1992-1994), Member of Parliament for York Central (2010-Present), Member of Parliament for the City of York (1992-2010), Councillor for the Heworth Ward of York City Council (1988-1992).
Appearance:
Character Constituency of Origin: Beverley and Holderness.
Character Constituency of Residence: York Central
Character Party Affiliation: Labour
Main Strengths: Strong experience, appeals to both socialist and centrist sides of the Labour Party, intellegent, decisive.
Main Weaknesses: Makes frequent gaffes, makes contraversial and divisive statements on occasion, overall a somewhat difficult person.
Biography:
David Myles Richardson was born on the 30th October 1960 to a middle class family in a village in East Yorkshire near Beverley, where Richardson attended the local primary school. Richardson was noted by teachers to be intellegent but boisterous and unruly. Much to his discontent, Richardson's family moved from the village to the nearby city of York in 1968 due to Richardson's father's job as a consultant psychiatrist. Richardson, however, settled in to this environment soon enough and - despite being diagnosed with mild dyslexia - earned several O-levels and CSEs in maths, sciences and humanities, before earning A-levels in Politics, Engineering and Economics, and then completing a bachelor's degree at Durham University in Politics and Economics.

Richardson became a member of the Labour Party Young Socialists in 1976, and took an active role in its North Yorkshire branch. He took a comparably moderate position to most of its members who supported the Militant Tendency group. This led to him eventually leaving the LPYS after he argued for (not Michael Foot) to resign after the 1983 election result, calling him "useless" and "unelectable." He continued, however, to remain a member of the Labour Party, and strongly supported (not Neil Kinnock)'s denunciation of the Militant Tendency at the 1985 party conference.

Starting in 1984, Richardson worked for the City of York council, collecting and analyzing data for them. He was then nominated to stand for the Heworth Ward on the council and he accepted such nomination. He was then elected in 1988 to serve as part of the City of York labour administration at the time, where he worked notably and tirelessly and was thus nominated by the party to stand for the marginal seat of the City of York in 1992, where he managed to win the seat for Labour for the first time since 1979, easily overturning the tiny conservative majority of 147 there achieved at the 1987 election.

Shortly after the election, Richardson was appointed as a Shadow Parliamentary Under-secretary for Transport, and was loyal to the party whip. Richardson spent the first two years of his time in parliament advocating for better and more energy-efficient public transport links for the United Kingdom, particularly the north of England where he held his seat. He was also sceptical of (not John Major)'s privatisation of the railways.

Richardson supported (not Tony Blair) at the 1994 labour leadership election, and was promoted to shadow Minister of State for Transport shortly after (not Blair) took office. He once again argued for more spending on and the electrification of rail routes in the north of England, and emphatically supported a "long overdue" proposed tram system in Leeds.

He retained his seat with a stonking mandate at the 1997 general election, acheiving a majoriy of over 20,000 in what was, less than 20 years before, a seat held with a tory majority of over 3,500. He then assumed a ministerial position and went about attempting to acheive what he had intended to achieve in opposition, and influenced the Department for Transport to increase investment in mostly northern and forgotten communities.

His pivotal role in this respect resulted in him being upgraded to Secretary of State for Transport in 1998, when he became increasingly constrained by finances and bureaucracy, so had to temporarily set aside most of his ambitious plans, but still set about increasing investment in especially historically downtrodden communities.

He was a major figure on the Labour Party campaign trail in the 2001 General Election, during which he promised "huge investment in ambitious plans for the entirity of our country when it comes to transport" if labour were elected and also stated that these investments will "affect every inch of Britain" and that "no place will be left behind for as long as I am transport minister."

Richardson retained his seat at the 2001 general election with a majority of 13,779. He set to work in his department, although after 9/11 he began to develop a rift with the Prime Minister, due to his emphatic support for (not-Bush)'s war on terror, which Richardson was sceptical of. However, at least for the time being, Richardson mostly ignored this rift as he "had more important things to focus on for [his] department, like delivering on our election promises and securing funding for the Leeds supertram scheme," which he succesfully did in 2002.

Richardson was "appalled" at plans to invade Iraq in 2002, claiming that it was "ridiculous to start a conflict that will ultimately take thousands of lives when there is a clear diplomatic alternative," and that "we should take the sensible stance of our French and German partners, we are strong allies with the USA, but that does not mean that we are their puppets."

His noticable difference in attitude to the PM on this matter led to increasing calls for him to resign, which he eventually did reluctantly in February 2003, after it being speculated that the PM was planning to fire him. His official reasoning was so he could vote against the Iraq War, and denied any claims that he had been pressured by any senior Labour figures to resign.

This led to him returning to the backbenches where he fiercely and furiously argued against the Iraq War and frequently rebelled against the government on foreign policy motions, but mostly kept in line when it came to other bills proposed by the government. He retained his seat at the 2005 General Election, with a majority of over 10,000. He attributed the labour party's majority being cut from over 150 to 66 at the election to the "catastrophe" of the Iraq War.

After the 2005 election, he published a book entitled "English Nationalism: The Superiority Complex," criticising nationalists for assuming a false sense of British superiority and power rather than engaing in sensible and logical decisions. He also began to criticise the tabloid newspapers, especially after the phone hacking scandal of 2011, calling them "corrupt" and "manipulative," and was seen ripping up a copy of the Daily Mail, with the 'enemies of the people' headline, on a live TV interview in November 2016.


Other Info: 1 brother, Agnostic, member of the Centre-Left Grassroots Alliance.

Married with 2 children:

Alfie (born 1998) - Age 21
Layla (born 2007) - Age 12

Political Positions:

Abortion: Supports the current relatively lenient laws in place for abortion in Great Britain, and believes they should be extended to Northern Ireland
Brexit: Despite originally opposing Brexit, supports "upholding the will of the people" and carrying it out following the referendum, but still favours UK membership of the EEA and Customs Union.
Climate Change: Believes that strong action is needed to prevent climate change.
Defence: Generally opposes millitary interventions (although exceptions can be made for the NATO operations in Bosnia in 1995 and military interventions in Syria) and supports cutting the defence budget to 2% of the GDP.
Energy: Supports completely phasing out fossil fuels by 2030, and recognises nuclear energy as a "potential solution."
Immigration: Supports keeping freedom of movement with the European Union, but is opposed to expanding it.
Devolution: Supports giving greater autonomy to devolved parliaments, but opposes Welsh or Scottish independence and Irish nationalism.
Northern Powerhouse: Hugely Supportive and believes should be a top priority for the Government to focus on.
NHS: Supports reducing privatisation of and increasing funding of the health service to at least 10% of the GDP.
Justice: Supports focusing the prison system towards rehabilitation over punishment for minor offenders, although recognises the need for a "strong deterrent" for severe offenders.
Same-sex Marriage: Supports strongly and voted for in 2013

Used Arab's template for part of my app.

I have read and accept the rules of the role-play: Agarntrop

Do Not Remove: 84721

[Gordano and Lysandus]

As a note, the Parliamentary arithmetic as of JANUARY 2019 is...

CONSERVATIVE AND UNIONIST PARTY: 317
LABOUR PARTY: 256
SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY: 35
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS: 11
DEMOCRATIC UNIONIST PARTY: 10
SINN FEIN: 7
PLAID CYMRU: 4
GREEN PARTY: 1
INDEPENDENT: 8

Moderators will allow some flexibility depending on constituency and the realism of your applying character being able to hold that constituency.

[Agarntrop]

As a note, the Parliamentary arithmetic as of JANUARY 2019 is...

CONSERVATIVE AND UNIONIST PARTY: 317
LABOUR PARTY: 256
SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY: 35
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS: 11
DEMOCRATIC UNIONIST PARTY: 10
SINN FEIN: 7
PLAID CYMRU: 4
GREEN PARTY: 1
INDEPENDENT: 8

Moderators will allow some flexibility depending on constituency and the realism of your applying character being able to hold that constituency.

man thats so nostalgic

[Gordano and Lysandus]

As a note, the Parliamentary arithmetic as of JANUARY 2019 is...

CONSERVATIVE AND UNIONIST PARTY: 317
LABOUR PARTY: 256
SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY: 35
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS: 11
DEMOCRATIC UNIONIST PARTY: 10
SINN FEIN: 7
PLAID CYMRU: 4
GREEN PARTY: 1
INDEPENDENT: 8

Moderators will allow some flexibility depending on constituency and the realism of your applying character being able to hold that constituency.

man thats so nostalgic

I am expecting GAS and I to have at least three breakdowns trying to calculate the 2019 results (if we even end up with a 2019 elex in LOHG).

[Agarntrop]

man thats so nostalgic

I am expecting GAS and I to have at least three breakdowns trying to calculate the 2019 results (if we even end up with a 2019 elex in LOHG).

wouldnt we just get the same results as irl?

[Gordano and Lysandus]

I am expecting GAS and I to have at least three breakdowns trying to calculate the 2019 results (if we even end up with a 2019 elex in LOHG).

wouldnt we just get the same results as irl?

Depends how good our next Tory leader, our LOTO and our minor party leaders are! A lot could change.

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: The World Capitalist Confederation
Character Name: Alexandra Bennett
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 66
Character Height: 155cm
Character Weight: 40kg
Character Position/Role/Job: Leader of the Labour Party (2015-), Leader of the Opposition (2015-), MP for Manchester Withington (1987-), Vice President of the Stop the War Coalition (2003-2015)
Appearance: Liz McInnes.
Character Constituency of Origin: Manchester Withington
Character Constituency of Residence: Manchester Withington
Character Party Affiliation: Labour and Co-Operative
Main Strengths: Organised and realistic, extremely popular amongst urban working-class voters in the North, will easily be able to hold off the Brexit Party, charismatic, inspires confidence within activists and is glorified by the left-wing of the Labour party.
Main Weaknesses: Very vulnerable to a "yellow wave" of the Lib Dems seizing seats in London due to his Northern heritage, soft eurosceptic, blasted as an anti-Semite by many, has attacked the media before and is generally seen as unpatriotic by Tory voters and even Labour centrists due to her role in the StWC and opposition to nuclear warfare.
Biography: Born in Manchester in 1953 to working-class parents, with her father being a miner and her mother being a seamstress, Bennett took her studies at Withington Girls' School, doing very well in her studies, and later studying Politics and Sociology at the University of Manchester, wherein she was recruited to the Labour Party and began to convert to more radical ideologies, feeling hatred for the people who had to make her eat only soup and bread for dinner, and generally feel a sense that the rich were parasites, living off people like her father, who came home with black hands and had constant back problems. She felt a sense of possibly misguided fervour, almost a feeling of young rebellion that would later dissipate as she became more calm with age.

After finishing her education, she finally began to enter politics, making strong speeches at her local Labour party, leading her to be selected as the candidate after the former candidate declared that he would be standing down due to "the utter collapse of the Labour Party at the hands of Mr. Callaghan.", allowing her to become candidate in 1983, but still lost by 1,790 votes. However, after a large breakthrough in the electorate in 1987 and a strong campaign by Bennett, she became the first ever Labour MP of Manchester Withington, pushing through a hard-left agenda, similar to that of Benn and of others before her. Her first main foray into national politics came when the Iraq War began. Thanks to her strong campaigning and her passion, she was selected as the Vice President, and as such she began organising heavily, helping to organise the massive rallies of the movement. She fell out of favour with the Prime Minister, actively pitting herself against him, hoping to gain the leadership if ever Labour fell out of government. She held her seat in 2005 and 2010 by effectively distancing herself with the [not-Blair] and [not-Brown] governments, saying that "I am a Labour candidate because I am a socialist, not because I support the current government. I might add to their majority, sure, but I'll be challenging them the way I have been ever since we went to the other side of the bench."

And so, as time went on, [not-Brown] was removed from office, and so she immediately raced for the leadership, increasing her name recognition across both the party and the nation, coming in second just behind [not-Miliband], mainly due to Blairite elements in the PLP. She continued to press herself as a successor to him, were they not to get into government. If [not-Miliband] was to gain power, however, she tried to angle herself for Chancellor as well. However, due to [not-Miliband]'s failure to obtain power, she began pressing herself for Labour leader immediately. She won, beating out both the Blairites and those at the centre of the Labour Party. She was voted in, and got to work immediately, secretly pushing for a more left-leaning party through covert means.

However, her first test finally came, namely in the shape of an EU referendum. She fought for remain, saying that "Britain would lead the charge to reform the EU in order to make it a more democratic institution in case of a remain vote.", hoping that she could convince Lexiters to switch sides, which was seen as an intelligent tactic that even her enemies applauded on live TV. But unfortunately, remain did not win, leading to widespread condemnation for this tactic due to "a reluctance to go all-in on the EU."

Many centrists in the party even tried to have her ousted after resigning from the shadow cabinet, but all that happened was Bennett casting them out as traitors and as hypocrites, constantly reminding the public of their praise on her strategy, leading to a Bennett landslide when the election came, allowing her to hold her ground, albeit with some kerfuffle from opposing factions.

She then, after consolidating her power further, saw that an election was coming and begun to, instead of going it short-term, build a slow infrastructure of alternative media to slowly undermine the right-leaning media of the UK whilst attempting to close the lead in on the [not-May] administration, just in case she could actually pull it off. She did 14-hour days, working day and night to plug any idea of a thumping majority. And so, unexpectedly to even her, she pulled it off, declaring an internal victory.

She now, a year and a half on from the 2017 election, stands at a crossroads, seeing a collapsing government in her hands. Will she be able to bring the Labour Party into power, creating a government further left than even Attlee or end up in the annals of history, no more than a footnote?

Other Info:
Abortion: Generally pro-choice, believes that abortion should be limited to 22 weeks unless there are fetal defects, the life of the mother or baby is threatened or any other reason which would cause "injury or death" if the baby was born.
Brexit: Remain, but the EU really needs to work on being democratic and loosen rules on state aid. Should assemble an alliance of European leftists, and effectively march down to Brussels threatening to destroy the EU if they don't submit to making a democratic commission and ending rules on state aid.
Climate Change: Sees that full societal change must be done in order to end it. Blames large corporations and consumer culture for climate change. Supports nuclear power to stop climate change
Defence: End nuclear weapons. Retaliatory strikes only. Pull out of Syria once IS is dead, try to pull out of Afghanistan as fast as possible. Reduce violent interventionism.
Energy: Primarily nuclear and hydroelectric.
Veterans: More must be done in the way of housing and in treating PTSD.
Immigration: Research the effect of immigration on wages and on the NHS, hoping to vindicate immigrants and finally release the gates.
Northern Powerhouse: Fully supportive. Has a Northern identity and believes in more investment in the North.
NHS: Massive funding increases in both the NHS and in social care, for both the elderly and disabled.
Home Affairs: Focus on rehabilitation as opposed to punishment.
Same-sex marriage: Supports.
I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: The World Capitalist Confederation

Do Not Remove: 84721

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

I am expecting GAS and I to have at least three breakdowns trying to calculate the 2019 results (if we even end up with a 2019 elex in LOHG).

wouldnt we just get the same results as irl?

Definitely not. Bennett (my character and leader of the opposition) is a staunch working-class Northerner, so expect a yellow wave.

I'm recommending the Lib Dem leader for anyone who wants to get really involved, as my predictions are that Bennett's northern background and euroscepticism will effectively shut down the Brexit Party.

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

As a note, the Parliamentary arithmetic as of JANUARY 2019 is...

CONSERVATIVE AND UNIONIST PARTY: 317
LABOUR PARTY: 256
SCOTTISH NATIONAL PARTY: 35
LIBERAL DEMOCRATS: 11
DEMOCRATIC UNIONIST PARTY: 10
SINN FEIN: 7
PLAID CYMRU: 4
GREEN PARTY: 1
INDEPENDENT: 8

Moderators will allow some flexibility depending on constituency and the realism of your applying character being able to hold that constituency.

Oh btw, Bennett's constituency was technically Lib Dem in 2005 and 2010, but it was only a majority of around 500/1000 and the reason for it being Labour is explained in the bio.

[Greater Arab State]

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: The World Capitalist Confederation
Character Name: Alexandra Bennett
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 66
Character Height: 155cm
Character Weight: 40kg
Character Position/Role/Job: Leader of the Labour Party (2015-), Leader of the Opposition (2015-), MP for Manchester Withington (1987-), Vice President of the Stop the War Coalition (2003-2015)
Appearance: https://imgur.com/a/PjL1zL9
Character Constituency of Origin: Manchester Withington
Character Constituency of Residence: Manchester Withington
Character Party Affiliation: Labour and Co-Operative
Main Strengths: Organised and realistic, extremely popular amongst urban working-class voters in the North, will easily be able to hold off the Brexit Party, charismatic, inspires confidence within activists and is glorified by the left-wing of the Labour party.
Main Weaknesses: Very vulnerable to a "yellow wave" of the Lib Dems seizing seats in London due to his Northern heritage, soft eurosceptic, blasted as an anti-Semite by many, has attacked the media before.
Biography: Born in Manchester in 1953 to working-class parents, with her father being a miner and her mother being a seamstress, Bennett took her studies at Withington Girls' School, doing very well in her studies, and later studying Political Science at the University of Manchester, wherein she was recruited to the Labour Party and began to convert to more radical ideologies, feeling hatred for the people who had to make her eat only soup and bread for dinner, and generally feel a sense that the rich were parasites, living off people like her father, who came home with black hands and had constant back problems. She swore an oath to end what she saw as a corrupt oligarchy of Londoners, both for family and for country.

After finishing her education, she finally began to enter politics, making strong speeches at her local Labour party, leading her to be selected as the candidate after the former candidate declared that he would be standing down due to "the utter collapse of the Labour Party at the hands of Mr. Callaghan.", allowing her to become candidate in 1983, but still lost by 1,790 votes. However, after a large breakthrough in the electorate in 1987 and a strong campaign by Bennett, she became the first ever Labour MP of Manchester Withington, pushing through a hard-left agenda, similar to that of Benn and of others before her. Her first main foray into national politics came when the Iraq War began. Thanks to her strong campaigning and her passion, she was selected as the Vice President, and as such she began organising heavily, helping to organise the massive rallies of the movement. She fell out of favour with the Prime Minister, actively pitting herself against him, hoping to gain the leadership if ever Labour fell out of government. She held her seat in 2005 and 2010 by effectively distancing herself with the [not-Blair] and [not-Brown] governments, saying that "I am a Labour candidate because I am a socialist, not because I support the current government. I might add to their majority, sure, but I'll be challenging them the way I have been ever since we went to the other side of the bench."

And so, it did. After [not-Brown] was removed, she immediately raced for the leadership, increasing her name recognition across both the party and the nation, coming in second just behind [not-Miliband], mainly due to Blairite elements in the PLP. She continued to press herself as a successor to him, were they not to get into government. If [not-Miliband] was to gain power, however, she tried to angle herself for Chancellor as well. However, due to [not-Miliband]'s failure to obtain power, she began pressing herself for Labour leader immediately. She won, beating out both the Blairites and those at the centre of the Labour Party. She was voted in, and got to work immediately, secretly pushing for a more left-leaning party through covert means.

However, her first test finally came, namely in the shape of an EU referendum. She fought for remain, saying that "Britain would lead the charge to reform the EU in order to make it a more democratic institution in case of a remain vote.", hoping that she could convince Lexiters to switch sides, which was seen as an intelligent tactic that even her enemies applauded on live TV. But sadly, remain did not win, leading to widespread condemnation for this tactic due to "a reluctance to go all-in on the EU."

Many centrists in the party even tried to have her ousted after resigning from the shadow cabinet, but all that happened was their humiliation, as Bennett cast them out as traitors and as hypocrites, constantly reminding the public of their praise on her strategy, leading to a Bennett landslide when the election came, leading [not-Owen Smith] feeling very humiliated in her eyes.

She then, after consolidating her power further, saw that an election was coming and begun to, instead of going it short-term, build a slow infrastructure of alternative media to slowly undermine the right-leaning media of the UK whilst attempting to close the lead in on the [not-May] administration, just in case she could actually pull it off. She did 14-hour days, working day and night to plug any idea of a thumping majority. And she did, eliminating the majority of [not-May] completely.

She now, a year on from the 2017 election, stands at a crossroads, seeing a collapsing government in her hands. Will she be able to bring the Labour Party into power, creating a government further left than even Attlee or end up in the annals of history, no more than a footnote?
Other Info:
Abortion: Generally pro-choice, believes that abortion should be limited to 22 weeks unless there are fetal defects, the life of the mother or baby is threatened or any other reason which would cause "injury or death" if the baby was born.
Brexit: Remain, but the EU really needs to work on being democratic and loosen rules on state aid. Should assemble an alliance of European leftists, and effectively march down to Brussels threatening to destroy the EU if they don't submit to making a democratic commission and ending rules on state aid.
Climate Change: Sees that full societal change must be done in order to end it. Blames large corporations and consumer culture for climate change. Supports nuclear power to stop climate change
Defence: End nuclear weapons. Retaliatory strikes only. Pull out of Syria once IS is dead, try to pull out of Afghanistan as fast as possible. Reduce violent interventionism.
Energy: Primarily nuclear and hydroelectric.
Veterans: More must be done in the way of housing and in treating PTSD.
Immigration: Research the effect of immigration on wages and on the NHS, hoping to vindicate immigrants and finally release the gates.
Northern Powerhouse: Fully supportive. Has a Northern identity and believes in more investment in the North.
NHS: Massive funding increases in both the NHS and in social care, for both the elderly and disabled.
Home Affairs: Focus on rehabilitation as opposed to punishment.
Same-sex marriage: Supports.
I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: The World Capitalist Confederation

Do Not Remove: 84721

On the whole it is a strong app but there are some thing that have been noticed:

1: You might want to add some of the foreign policy weaknesses that Corby had in order to reflect the role to a greater extent.

2: You might want to change the picture to reflect the age.

3: Overall, the tone of the app could perhaps benefit from some greater objectivity, particularly in the sections on the referendum and leadership contest.

[The World Capitalist Confederation]

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: The World Capitalist Confederation
Character Name: Alexandra Bennett
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 66
Character Height: 155cm
Character Weight: 40kg
Character Position/Role/Job: Leader of the Labour Party (2015-), Leader of the Opposition (2015-), MP for Manchester Withington (1987-), Vice President of the Stop the War Coalition (2003-2015)
Appearance: https://imgur.com/a/PjL1zL9
Character Constituency of Origin: Manchester Withington
Character Constituency of Residence: Manchester Withington
Character Party Affiliation: Labour and Co-Operative
Main Strengths: Organised and realistic, extremely popular amongst urban working-class voters in the North, will easily be able to hold off the Brexit Party, charismatic, inspires confidence within activists and is glorified by the left-wing of the Labour party.
Main Weaknesses: Very vulnerable to a "yellow wave" of the Lib Dems seizing seats in London due to his Northern heritage, soft eurosceptic, blasted as an anti-Semite by many, has attacked the media before.
Biography: Born in Manchester in 1953 to working-class parents, with her father being a miner and her mother being a seamstress, Bennett took her studies at Withington Girls' School, doing very well in her studies, and later studying Political Science at the University of Manchester, wherein she was recruited to the Labour Party and began to convert to more radical ideologies, feeling hatred for the people who had to make her eat only soup and bread for dinner, and generally feel a sense that the rich were parasites, living off people like her father, who came home with black hands and had constant back problems. She swore an oath to end what she saw as a corrupt oligarchy of Londoners, both for family and for country.

After finishing her education, she finally began to enter politics, making strong speeches at her local Labour party, leading her to be selected as the candidate after the former candidate declared that he would be standing down due to "the utter collapse of the Labour Party at the hands of Mr. Callaghan.", allowing her to become candidate in 1983, but still lost by 1,790 votes. However, after a large breakthrough in the electorate in 1987 and a strong campaign by Bennett, she became the first ever Labour MP of Manchester Withington, pushing through a hard-left agenda, similar to that of Benn and of others before her. Her first main foray into national politics came when the Iraq War began. Thanks to her strong campaigning and her passion, she was selected as the Vice President, and as such she began organising heavily, helping to organise the massive rallies of the movement. She fell out of favour with the Prime Minister, actively pitting herself against him, hoping to gain the leadership if ever Labour fell out of government. She held her seat in 2005 and 2010 by effectively distancing herself with the [not-Blair] and [not-Brown] governments, saying that "I am a Labour candidate because I am a socialist, not because I support the current government. I might add to their majority, sure, but I'll be challenging them the way I have been ever since we went to the other side of the bench."

And so, it did. After [not-Brown] was removed, she immediately raced for the leadership, increasing her name recognition across both the party and the nation, coming in second just behind [not-Miliband], mainly due to Blairite elements in the PLP. She continued to press herself as a successor to him, were they not to get into government. If [not-Miliband] was to gain power, however, she tried to angle herself for Chancellor as well. However, due to [not-Miliband]'s failure to obtain power, she began pressing herself for Labour leader immediately. She won, beating out both the Blairites and those at the centre of the Labour Party. She was voted in, and got to work immediately, secretly pushing for a more left-leaning party through covert means.

However, her first test finally came, namely in the shape of an EU referendum. She fought for remain, saying that "Britain would lead the charge to reform the EU in order to make it a more democratic institution in case of a remain vote.", hoping that she could convince Lexiters to switch sides, which was seen as an intelligent tactic that even her enemies applauded on live TV. But sadly, remain did not win, leading to widespread condemnation for this tactic due to "a reluctance to go all-in on the EU."

Many centrists in the party even tried to have her ousted after resigning from the shadow cabinet, but all that happened was their humiliation, as Bennett cast them out as traitors and as hypocrites, constantly reminding the public of their praise on her strategy, leading to a Bennett landslide when the election came, leading [not-Owen Smith] feeling very humiliated in her eyes.

She then, after consolidating her power further, saw that an election was coming and begun to, instead of going it short-term, build a slow infrastructure of alternative media to slowly undermine the right-leaning media of the UK whilst attempting to close the lead in on the [not-May] administration, just in case she could actually pull it off. She did 14-hour days, working day and night to plug any idea of a thumping majority. And she did, eliminating the majority of [not-May] completely.

She now, a year on from the 2017 election, stands at a crossroads, seeing a collapsing government in her hands. Will she be able to bring the Labour Party into power, creating a government further left than even Attlee or end up in the annals of history, no more than a footnote?
Other Info:
Abortion: Generally pro-choice, believes that abortion should be limited to 22 weeks unless there are fetal defects, the life of the mother or baby is threatened or any other reason which would cause "injury or death" if the baby was born.
Brexit: Remain, but the EU really needs to work on being democratic and loosen rules on state aid. Should assemble an alliance of European leftists, and effectively march down to Brussels threatening to destroy the EU if they don't submit to making a democratic commission and ending rules on state aid.
Climate Change: Sees that full societal change must be done in order to end it. Blames large corporations and consumer culture for climate change. Supports nuclear power to stop climate change
Defence: End nuclear weapons. Retaliatory strikes only. Pull out of Syria once IS is dead, try to pull out of Afghanistan as fast as possible. Reduce violent interventionism.
Energy: Primarily nuclear and hydroelectric.
Veterans: More must be done in the way of housing and in treating PTSD.
Immigration: Research the effect of immigration on wages and on the NHS, hoping to vindicate immigrants and finally release the gates.
Northern Powerhouse: Fully supportive. Has a Northern identity and believes in more investment in the North.
NHS: Massive funding increases in both the NHS and in social care, for both the elderly and disabled.
Home Affairs: Focus on rehabilitation as opposed to punishment.
Same-sex marriage: Supports.
I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: The World Capitalist Confederation

Do Not Remove: 84721

On the whole it is a strong app but there are some thing that have been noticed:

1: You might want to add some of the foreign policy weaknesses that Corby had in order to reflect the role to a greater extent.

2: You might want to change the picture to reflect the age.

3: Overall, the tone of the app could perhaps benefit from some greater objectivity, particularly in the sections on the referendum and leadership contest.

The thing about the referendum is actually true to IRL, as even Angela Eagle was praising Corbyn during the referendum and then tried to run against him in 2016.

[Alozia]

Tag.

I have an app in the works, should be able to post it today.