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by Runr Theratasisio » Fri Jan 08, 2021 12:45 am
by Emazia » Fri Jan 08, 2021 12:47 am
Runr Theratasisio wrote:I'm not a brit but this looks fun. can I be the queen? If not, i'd still like to play as someone, I may need a little guidance.
by Runr Theratasisio » Fri Jan 08, 2021 12:50 am
by Emazia » Fri Jan 08, 2021 1:26 am
Runr Theratasisio wrote:Emazia wrote:No, and that's what we're here for. Which country are you from and what do you need help with?
America. I don't know if this is for me tho, I'm not too politically inclined when it comes to other countries. I found it cool that the house of commoners gets to yell at eachother and yell ORDER with wigs and gavels. I may just watch for a lil bit before I decide to join.
by Agarntrop » Fri Jan 08, 2021 1:53 am
Uan aa Boa wrote:
NS Nation Name: Uan aa Boa
Character Name: Amanda Ferguson
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 50
Character Height: 1.50m
Character Weight: 50kg
Character Position/Role/Job: First Minister of Scotland, Leader of the Scottish National Party
Appearance: (Image)
Character Cons. of Origin: Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch
Character Cons. of Residence: Glasgow Pollok
Character Party Affiliation: SNP
Main Strengths: A popular leader who has led her party to consecutive landslide victories in both Scottish and UK elections. Seen as capable and relatable. Has benefited from a lack of credible opposition in Scottish politics since the collapse of Labour in 2014/15,
Main Weaknesses: A tendency to twist any situation so as to obsessively talk about independence, on which topic she is haunted by her 2014 statement that the vote was a once in a generation event. Has to deal with consistent hostility from most of the media. Political difficulties to do with failures of PFI funded new hospitals and controversy about educational standards. Troubled by association with allegations of sexual assault against her predecessor and mentor,
Biography: (Minimum 2-3 paragraphs)
Ferguson grew up in a small Highland town. Her mother was a nurse and her father a carpenter. Educated at the local state school she went on to study law at Glasgow University. She was politically active from an early age and as a student held senior positions in the youth wings of both CND and the SNP. Graduating in 1992 she went on to complete her training as a solicitor with a Glasgow law firm before taking up work in a non-profit legal advice service in a deprived part of the city.
Ferguson stood unsuccessfully for the SNP in the 1992 and 1997 general elections. In 1999 she was elected to the first Scottish Parliament on the party list for Glasgow (i.e. not representing a single constituency). She advanced quickly through the ranks as a shadow minister and was elected as deputy leader of the party in 2004. With the leader at the time holding a seat at Westminster she was effectively leader of the opposition in the Scottish Parliament from 2004-07. In 2007 the SNP formed a minority Scottish government after beating Labour by a single seat and Ferguson was appointed Cabinet Secretary for Health and Well-being. In this post she was seen as distinguishing herself in the response to the 2009 flu pandemic.
In 2014 Ferguson played a major role in the campaign for the referendum on Scottish independence. The prospects for independence initially seemed small but during the campaign the polls shifted significantly and the final result was 55% to 45% in favour of the status quo. Immediately afterwards the First Minister resigned and Ferguson was elected unopposed as party leader and First Minister. Following the vote there was a huge surge in SNP support and in the 2015 general election the party dominated, winning 50% of the Scottish vote and 56 out of 59 Scottish seats.
Ferguson strongly opposed Brexit in the 2016 vote, speaking in favour of EU membership in UK level debates. In the referendum voters in Scotland backed Remain by a margin of 2-1, meaning that Ferguson didn't have Labour's problems of "respecting the result" as she was able to portray Scotland as being dragged out of the EU against its will. She immediately began demanding a second referendum on independence, arguing that this situation represented "a material change of circumstances" that prevented the 2014 vote from being binding. Opinion polls continue to put support for independence at 45-50%.
Ferguson describes herself as a feminist, opposes nuclear weapons and is a strong critic of austerity.
Other Info: Ferguson is married to the SNP chief executive, but successfully keeps her personal life out of the public eye. She has revealed that she is unable to have children following a miscarriage.
I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: Uan aa Boa
Do Not Remove: 84721
by Agarntrop » Fri Jan 08, 2021 2:04 am
Greater Arab State wrote:(Image)
Character Information Sheet
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NS Nation Name: Greater Arab State
Character Name: Victoria Millington
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 45
Character Height: 5' 4"
Character Weight: 154 lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: First Secretary of State (2019-Present), Home Secretary (2019-Present) , 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 (2005-2010), Member of the Home Affairs Select Committee (2001-2005), Member of Parliament for South Northamptonshire (2010-Present), Member of Parliament for Daventry (2001-2010), Councillor for the Brackley Division of Northamptonshire County Council (1997-2001)
Appearance:
Character Constituency of Origin: South Northamptonshire (Born in Lower Saxony, West Germany)
Character Constituency of Residence: South Northamptonshire
Character Party Affiliation: Conservative
Main Strengths: Strong record of experience, holds weight amongst former Brexiteers and traditionalists, strong on issues of law and order and defence.
Main Weaknesses: Seen as being out-of-touch on account of personality and upbringing, controversial Ministerial career, could have limited appeal amongst Northerners and voters outside of England.
Biography:
Victoria Millington (née Horton) was born on the 14th of February, 1974 in the small West German town of Rinteln. The only child of then-Major Geoffrey Horton and his German wife, Martha (née von Richter), who he had married the previous year following the tragic death of his first wife in 1969. Spending a large part of her youth in the nearby town of Hamelin, the young Horton developed the beginnings of what was to be a staunchly conservative worldview from the outset, having been raised with a respect for the social order and primacy of the nation state.
However, her infancy saw Victoria develop a somewhat lonely personality on account of the poor relationship between her and her half-siblings, the result of their acrimonious views regarding their father's re-marriage. Soon after, in 1979, the sole Horton daughter left the continent for the small village of Brackley in South Northamptonshire.
The young Victoria performed exceptionally well in her academic studies, influenced by the competitive streak she fostered which saw her attempt to out-match her half-siblings, spending the large part of her education at the single-sex Wycombe Abbey School, Horton soon developed a reputation as being as an extraordinarily high performing student both in her studies, with her being amongst the highest performers at both the IGCSE and A-Level, as well as the extracurricular, being a member of the schools debating society as well as Schoo, Captain in her final year.
Upon the conclusion of her A-Levels, Horton read History and Politics at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, during which she continued to further her own personal drive through her academic achievements, frequently being amongst the highest performing and skilled students, as well as through the extracurricular, being actively involved in the Cambridge University Conservative Association, culminating in her election as Deputy Chairwoman in 1993. It was also during this period that Victoria Horton first encountered Quintin Millington, a student of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic who was a year her senior. The two would soon after develop a strong personal relationship, that culminated in marriage by 1997.
It was also in this year that the now Mrs Millington, in her final year of undergraduate study, stood for election in the reliably conservative Brackley Division of Northamptonshire County Council. Despite her relative youthfulness and inexperience, Millington was elected with 38% of the vote, down from the previous councillor. Victoria’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. Shortly thereafter, Victoria returned to Cambridge to read Modern European History as a MPhil before graduating in 1999. Whereupon she returned to Wycombe Abbey School to teach History.
However, the 2001 general election saw Victoria Millington selected as the Conservative candidate for the seat of Daventry. Standing on a platform of Euroscepticism and a focus on the issues of law and order meant that Millington was elected as the Member of Parliament for Daventry with 47% of the vote, one of the few Conservative successes that election.
Upon entering the Commons, Mrs Millington soon developed a reputation as a staunch traditionalist on constitutional matters as well as a staunch advocate for law and order. However, it was largely Millington firm loyalty to the party line that was noted by the leadership, culminating in her appointment as an assistant opposition whip in the May of 2002 under the leadership of (Not-Iain Duncan Smith) and was largely successful in the 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.
However, Millington's tenure as an assistant whip ended in May 2010 with the formation of a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition. It was also during the 2010 election campaign that Millington stood as the candidate for the newly created seat of South Northamptonshire which she resided in. The formation of the coalition saw Victoria 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.
Millington’s tenure as Immigration Minister was fraught with controversy, with many placing prime responsibility on her for the adoption of the hostile environment policy which was accused of xenophobia, however, it also led to support for Millington amongst members of the working class and the Eurosceptic movement. The political backlash received by the government almost led to Millington’s dismissal from the Cabinet by the moderate 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 on account of her ardent Euroscepticism.
After the referendum was called on Britain's membership of the European Union, Victoria Millington, 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 (24th of June?) it was announced that the United Kingdom had voted to leave the European Union, the reaction from Mrs Millington 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.
With support for her fellow Brexiteer, Brian Hansen climbing rapidly following the results of the referendum. Millington began to prepare the beginnings of a leadership campaign for her newfound ally. However, it was not to be, with Hansen ruling himself out as a candidate, and so, Victoria backed the campaign of her fellow traditionalist (Not-Andrea Leadsom) who later withdrew leaving the then-Home Secretary, Diana Naismith, as the only candidate for the Conservative leadership and was appointed Prime Minister in July. Soon after, Morton-Howard (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.
(I imagine her hostile environment stuff would have led to her being involved or exposed in the Windrush scandal, so could you add a section about that?)
However, the result of the 2017 General Election soon led to her private resentment of the Government, in particular the Prime Minister who Victoria had possessed 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, Victoria Millington 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 Millington supporting the unsuccessful vote of no-confidence in the Prime Minister in December 2018.
With her attempt to unseat Naismith having failed, Millington sought to frustrate the government by being amongst those MPs voting against the withdrawal agreement, culminating in Millington and a small group of equally staunch Brexiteers being labelled as “the Spartans” by elements of the media. The summer of 2019 saw Millington achieve her aim of forcing the Prime Minister’s resignation following the total route faced by the Conservatives in that year’s elections to the European Parliament. As the leadership election soon got underway, Millington acted as one of Hansen’s closest allies, acting as his campaign manager within the parliamentary party. Thus, Victoria Millington returned to the cabinet as both First Secretary of State and Home Secretary after Hansen’s accession to Downing Street in the July of 2019.
Thus far, Millington’s tenure in government has proven to have been largely stable following the resounding success of the Conservative Party in the 2019 general election, enabling the Home Secretary the opportunity to implement many of the policies she had argued for as a junior minister in the days of the coalition and (Not-Cameron) governments. Notably the introduction of a points-based immigration system as well as increases in the number of police officers employed.
Other Info: 3 half-brothers, High Church Anglican
Married with 3 children:
Alice, 18 (Born November, 2000)
Arthur, 16 (Born September, 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. (I don't think a sitting home secretary could get away with holding this position in public. Possibly privately)
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, instead supporting 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, Irish nationalism and any further devolution of powers from the central government.
NHS: Privately supportive of an extent 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.
Constitutional Affair: Opposed to Lords reform, privately supportive of repealing the House of Lords Act 1999
I have read and accept the rules of the role-play: Greater Arab State
Do Not Remove: 84721
by Ideal Britain » Fri Jan 08, 2021 2:10 am
by Emazia » Fri Jan 08, 2021 2:13 am
Ideal Britain wrote:NS Nation Name: Ideal Britain
Character Name: Muhammad Khan
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 28
Character Height: 6 feet tall
Character Weight: 140 LB
Character Position/Role/Job: Member of Parliament for Ealing Central and Acton
Appearance: Tall and muscular with light brown skin, hazel eyes and jet black hair, Muhammad Khan is the stereotype of a young Pashtun male.
Character Cons. of Origin: Ealing Central and Acton
Character Cons. of Residence: the same
Character Party Affiliation: Labour
Main Strengths: Intelligent, hard-working, charismatic and protective of women
Main Weaknesses: too honest (providing constant ammunition for the process, especially the Tabloids) and overly idealistic
Biography: Born in Ealing to an Afghani bus driver as his father and a Pakistani Pashtun women as his mother. He studied law and became a barrister (advocate) specialising in human rights cases.
Other Info: he is a devout Muslim who is deeply sensitive to social justice issue (including workers rights) and is very caring to his wife (a final year law student who is also a devout Muslim)
I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: (Ideal Britain)
by Agarntrop » Fri Jan 08, 2021 2:17 am
Kargintinia wrote:
NS Nation Name: Duh
Character Name: Joseph Brian De Van Hansen usually known as simply "Brian Hansen"
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 54
Character Height: 6'2"
Character Weight: 205 lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2019-present)
MP for Sutton and Cheam (2015-Present)
Mayor of London (2008-2016)
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (2016–2018)
Appearance:
Character Cons. of Origin: Born in Japan, raised in Brent Central
Character Cons. of Residence: Cities of London and Westminster
Character Party Affiliation: Conservative
Main Strengths: Arguably the powerful man in the United Kingdom, massive parliamentary majority, charismatic, humorous
Main Weaknesses: Allegations of sexism, racism and corruption, stubborn, hated by remainers, elitist and cronyist
Biography: Joseph "Brian" was born in 1966 in Tokyo as his father worked at the UK Embassy to Japan. His father was a former RAF crewman and Suez Crisis veteran and his mother a painter. Only a few months after he was born his parents returned to London where he spent his childhood years. His father attended Doctoral school and his mother spent most of her time taking care of him. When he came of age to attend school Brian was a shy and timid boy. He and his siblings where encouraged into "highbrow" activities from young ages and at age 6 stated his goal was to one day be "world king".
Hansen was sent to boarding school in East Sussex with his siblings after his mother suffered a debilitating panic attack at 11. He excelled in ancient languages but was terrified of the teacher's usage of physical beatings as punishment. His parents' relationship started to fail, with his father turning to the bottle and his mother being nearly perpetually hospitalized for mental health issues.
He earned a Queen's Scholarship to attend Westminster School. Hear he began to grow out of his shy child shell and turn into the current humorous personality he wields. He decided to abandon the Church of England that his parents were members of, becoming a Catholic despite attending an Anglican school, mostly to spite his anti-Catholic father. He also ditched his first name of Joseph for Brian, which he is generally referred to as now. The school teachers soon came to hate him and often described him as lazy and tardy but he generally popular. He got onto the school debating team as well as excelling in English and Classic studies. After graduating he took off a year to teach at a boarding school in Canada.
He then received a scholarship to read Literae humaniores at Balliol College, Oxford. He ended up joining a group known as the Bullingdon Club, a group known for it's poor behavior which he later regretted. He also edited for the school magazine and attempted to be elected President of the Oxford Union. He received a upper second-class degree, deeply disappointed he did not receive a first. He married his first wife shortly after graduation, giving birth to three children from 1988 to 1991. Their marriage was ended in 1994.
Brian managed to land a job for the Daily Telegraph in 1993. He was turned down on his request of being a war reporter and instead quickly established himself as one of the paper's most popular writers, and it's only well-known Eurosceptic as he was sent to Brussels to report on the European Commission. Word had it that Hansen was in fact one of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's favorite journalists. He was accused of bigotry during his time as a writer, praising colonization of Africa and using homophobic slurs (this wouldn't have been socially acceptable by the 1990s for a telegraph journalist. This isn't the daily express he's working for. He would have been fired if he did this). His outspoken opinions on the European Union mirrored that which was causing a rift in the Conservative Party, resulting in their disastrous defeat in 1997. He himself was defeated in a run for MP for his home constituency of Brent Central that year, later being elected for Henley in 2001 (this isn't detailed in the initial character info. Please put it in).
Despite initially following the Tory Party line, he later started to side with the more liberal side on certain issues, voting yes to the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and supporting a repeal of Section 28. In 2003 he voted yes to joining the invasion of Iraq and visited Baghdad in April, only to support the failed impeachment (Impeachment is not a thing in the UK. Our equivalent is a vote of no confidence, which Tony Blair wasn't even subjected to) attempts against Prime Minister (Not-Blair). In 2004 Hansen was shortly appointed to (Not-Howard)'s shadow cabinet but was dismissed due to tabloids revealing a several year long affair that resulted in two aborted pregnancies. Hansen was re-elected in 2005 and backed the successful bid of Daniel Campion to become party leader.
In 2008 Hansen successfully ran for Mayor of London. He defeated incumbent (Not-Livingstone) and became Mayor. He went through a notable leftward trend during his first term, putting into place new environmental regulations and allowing amnesty for illegal immigrants (London mayors do not have the powers to give illegal immigrants amnesty, not like that is a popular or realistic move for a tory anyway). He supported the London Living Wage as well as banning London buses from displaying posters for the Christian group Core Issues Trust, an organization that views homosexuality as a mental illness. He retained projects from (Not-Livingstone) such as the 2012 Olympic Games and the Crossrail, even being accused of taking credit for them. He was re-elected over (Not-Livingstone) in 2012.
His second term was focused much more on the "Vote Yes" (it was known as 'vote leave') campaign and efforts to get the UK to leave the EU. In 2015 he ran for election to the position of MP for Sutton and Cheam while still serving as mayor. He won election and campaigned heavily for the successful vote to leave the EU in 2016. Hansen became Foreign Secretary in 2016 under Prime Minister Diana Naismith. During this time he backed a more aggressive policy toward Russia. He returned to backbench in 2018. In 2019 Brian was successful in the Conservative Party leadership election, thus becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Shortly after becoming PM he announced the UK would leave the EU by the end of the year with or without a deal. As the October 31st deadline for a deal approached and Parliament prepared to extend EU membership until January 30th, a desperate Hansen had parliament prorogued in September, sparking fury from remainers who launched a supreme court case and won. A new Parliament voted for an extension, which the Prime Minister promptly refused to sign. However, in order to avoid being found in contempt of Parliament, the PM sent an unsigned letter to the EU asking for an extension accompanied by a signed letter urging EU negotiators not to accept.
In December the UK had another election, with Hansen and the Tories winning a landslide victory and one of the largest parliamentary majorities in history. He now awaits to finish the process of exiting the EU and the rest of his next term.
Other Info: Married with 6 children, One-Nation Conservative and Eurosceptic. No longer religious.
I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: Nah (I know this is a joke, but it is required you say yes)
Do Not Remove: 84721
by Agarntrop » Fri Jan 08, 2021 2:17 am
Emazia wrote:Ideal Britain wrote:NS Nation Name: Ideal Britain
Character Name: Muhammad Khan
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 28
Character Height: 6 feet tall
Character Weight: 140 LB
Character Position/Role/Job: Member of Parliament for Ealing Central and Acton
Appearance: Tall and muscular with light brown skin, hazel eyes and jet black hair, Muhammad Khan is the stereotype of a young Pashtun male.
Character Cons. of Origin: Ealing Central and Acton
Character Cons. of Residence: the same
Character Party Affiliation: Labour
Main Strengths: Intelligent, hard-working, charismatic and protective of women
Main Weaknesses: too honest (providing constant ammunition for the process, especially the Tabloids) and overly idealistic
Biography: Born in Ealing to an Afghani bus driver as his father and a Pakistani Pashtun women as his mother. He studied law and became a barrister (advocate) specialising in human rights cases.
Other Info: he is a devout Muslim who is deeply sensitive to social justice issue (including workers rights) and is very caring to his wife (a final year law student who is also a devout Muslim)
I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: (Ideal Britain)
Looks like a good start, but should probably expand his biography and political stances.
by Agarntrop » Fri Jan 08, 2021 2:22 am
Puertollano wrote:Puertollano wrote:
NS Nation Name: Puertollano
Character Name: Barbara Stellar
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 60
Character Height: 1.5m
Character Weight: 60kg
Character Position/Role/Job: MP for Chestershire (1992-Current)
Appearance: (Image)
Character model, for personal note: Victoria Treadell
Character Constituency of Origin: Hartlepool
Character Constituency of Residence: Chestershire
Character Party Affiliation: Labour
Main Strengths: Popular local member, symbiotic with working class.
Main Weaknesses: Past criticism over treatment of staffers, tenuous relationship with National Executive Committee.
Biography: Barbara Rhiannon Fairway was born in 1959 to her parents in a small council home in Hartlepool. Her father was a labourer at the port in Hartlepool, where he would unload shipments coming into the town. Her mother was a stay-at-home wife, like many women during that period. Both of her parents were both committed labour members, and also staunch socialists. This radical upbringing helped shape her beliefs that she continues to hold today. Barbara attended the local state-funded school, where she took up an interest in nursing and medicine. Following her initial years of schooling, Barbara went off to do nursing, where she found her passion. This took her to Chestershire, where the mining communities there were in need of more nurses, Barbara accepted and transferred to a hospital in Chestershire.
Although having been a member in the union (GMB), Barbara had never been much of an activist until she really settled into Chestershire. There she took part in union campaigns in 1982 against the Tory Government. It was during this same time span that Barbara met Nicolai Stellar, a Romanian-born miner in Chestershire. She first met him when he arrived at the hospital following a mining accident, where he fell over and broke his leg. Barbara was responsible for nursing him back to health. In a later interview, Barbara admits that she fell in love with him during that period, and so did he with her. Nicolai's family had escaped Romania during World War Two and he was brought up in an immigrant, working-class family. That working class background brought them together further. Together, they married in 1985. She took on his last name.
Feeling like she wanted a change of pace, Barbara convinced Nicolai to run for Council District election as a Labour candidate. He was successfully elected as one of the Labour councilors in Chestershire North West in 1987. She campaigned fervently on his behalf and Nicolai served as a socialist-leaning Labour councilor for many more local elections to come. Convinced as to her own campaigning capabilities, Barbara believed it was time she tried to run for political office. In 1991, at the age of 32, Barbara ran for the same council seat that her husband held after he retired at the end of two terms. Based off the political clout of her last name in the local area, as well as her strong union and nurses connections, she won. But her reign as councilor did not last long. Concerned with the direction of the country as a whole, Barbara ran for the riding of Chestershire. Despite a few pundits questioning her ability to win as a woman in a more socially conservative-minded seat, she was elected comfortably on a nation-wide Labour swing in 1992.
During her time in parliament, Barbara was known as a fiercely pro-worker candidate and a traditional working-class socialist. In 1994, Barbara came under some fire for the treatment of staffers in her office and many local newspapers used this information in an attempt to discredit her. According to sources in her own office, Barbara would sometimes burst into fits of rage over issues whether they be small or large. Although nothing was specifically noted, apparently her local office would also have to purchase new office chairs because they were broken. One staffer also told the media that she was concerned of 'New Labour' infiltrators into her office during and after the 1997 General Election. This would often lead to the sacking of many staffers for supposed allegiances to the right of the party, those who strongly supported Tom Blake.
This skepticism of New Labour brought her head-to-head with the Labour National Executive Committee, people she blasted as "yuppie conservatives". She would often vote against the government on some of the more neoliberal measures of the Tony Blair government, including voting against the Iraq War. Barbara was very supportive of Bennett (we haven't established who (not Corbyn) is in this universe)being elected Labour leader in 2015, often going on national television on the lead up to the vote championing her cause. Due to this, she is considered one of her closest allies in the Labour Party. Barbara campaigned to leave the European Union in 2016 and has stringently opposed a second referendum at all costs. As of late, her bullish nature granted her the nickname of the "Babushka of Chestershire", but she is still very popular among her constituents.
I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: Puertollano
Do Not Remove: 84721
Updated accordingly
by Agarntrop » Fri Jan 08, 2021 2:23 am
Runr Theratasisio wrote:Emazia wrote:No, and that's what we're here for. Which country are you from and what do you need help with?
America. I don't know if this is for me tho, I'm not too politically inclined when it comes to other countries. I found it cool that the house of commoners gets to yell at eachother and yell ORDER with wigs and gavels. I may just watch for a lil bit before I decide to join.
by Ideal Britain » Fri Jan 08, 2021 2:31 am
Ideal Britain wrote:NS Nation Name: Ideal Britain
Character Name: Muhammad Khan
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 28
Character Height: 6 feet tall
Character Weight: 140 LB
Character Position/Role/Job: Member of Parliament for Ealing Central and Acton
Appearance: Tall and muscular with light brown skin, hazel eyes and jet black hair, Muhammad Khan is the stereotype of a young Pashtun male.
Character Cons. of Origin: Ealing Central and Acton
Character Cons. of Residence: the same
Character Party Affiliation: Labour
Main Strengths: Intelligent, hard-working, charismatic and protective of women
Main Weaknesses: too honest (providing constant ammunition for the process, especially the Tabloids) and overly idealistic
Biography: Born in Ealing to an Afghani bus driver as his father and a Pakistani Pashtun women as his mother. He studied law and became a barrister (advocate) specialising in human rights cases which won him the respect of many in his diverse community but also the ire of right-wing tabloids due to some of his immigration cases. He married another Pakistani Muslim after an arranged introduction by his parents though he also fell in love with her.
He has a three year daughter and has outspoken views on women’s rights and child protection, his harsh views on the punishment of child abusers are controversial within his left-wing party but earn him respect from the average voter. He courted controversy in feminist circles for re-tweeting an article about chivalry in Islam and was branded a “benevolent sexist.”
Other Info: he is a devout Muslim who is deeply sensitive to social justice issue (including workers rights) and is very caring to his wife (a final year law student who is also a devout Muslim)
The new, improved application
I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: (Ideal Britain)
by Agarntrop » Fri Jan 08, 2021 2:35 am
Ideal Britain wrote:Ideal Britain wrote:NS Nation Name: Ideal Britain
Character Name: Muhammad Khan
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 28
Character Height: 6 feet tall
Character Weight: 140 LB
Character Position/Role/Job: Member of Parliament for Ealing Central and Acton
Appearance: Tall and muscular with light brown skin, hazel eyes and jet black hair, Muhammad Khan is the stereotype of a young Pashtun male.
Character Cons. of Origin: Ealing Central and Acton
Character Cons. of Residence: the same
Character Party Affiliation: Labour
Main Strengths: Intelligent, hard-working, charismatic and protective of women
Main Weaknesses: too honest (providing constant ammunition for the process, especially the Tabloids) and overly idealistic
Biography: Born in Ealing to an Afghani bus driver as his father and a Pakistani Pashtun women as his mother. He studied law and became a barrister (advocate) specialising in human rights cases which won him the respect of many in his diverse community but also the ire of right-wing tabloids due to some of his immigration cases. He married another Pakistani Muslim after an arranged introduction by his parents though he also fell in love with her.
He has a three year daughter and has outspoken views on women’s rights and child protection, his harsh views on the punishment of child abusers are controversial within his left-wing party but earn him respect from the average voter. He courted controversy in feminist circles for re-tweeting an article about chivalry in Islam and was branded a “benevolent sexist.”
Other Info: he is a devout Muslim who is deeply sensitive to social justice issue (including workers rights) and is very caring to his wife (a final year law student who is also a devout Muslim)
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by Puertollano » Fri Jan 08, 2021 2:44 am
Puertollano wrote:
NS Nation Name: Puertollano
Character Name: Barbara Stellar
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 60
Character Height: 1.5m
Character Weight: 60kg
Character Position/Role/Job: MP for Chestershire (1992-Current)
Appearance: (Image)
Character model, for personal note: Victoria Treadell
Character Constituency of Origin: Hartlepool
Character Constituency of Residence: Chestershire
Character Party Affiliation: Labour
Main Strengths: Popular local member, symbiotic with working class.
Main Weaknesses: Past criticism over treatment of staffers, tenuous relationship with National Executive Committee.
Biography: Barbara Rhiannon Fairway was born in 1959 to her parents in a small council home in Hartlepool. Her father was a labourer at the port in Hartlepool, where he would unload shipments coming into the town. Her mother was a stay-at-home wife, like many women during that period. Both of her parents were both committed labour members, and also staunch socialists. This radical upbringing helped shape her beliefs that she continues to hold today. Barbara attended the local state-funded school, where she took up an interest in nursing and medicine. Following her initial years of schooling, Barbara went off to do nursing, where she found her passion. This took her to Chestershire, where the mining communities there were in need of more nurses, Barbara accepted and transferred to a hospital in Chestershire.
Although having been a member in the union (GMB), Barbara had never been much of an activist until she really settled into Chestershire. There she took part in union campaigns in 1982 against the Tory Government. It was during this same time span that Barbara met Nicolai Stellar, a Romanian-born miner in Chestershire. She first met him when he arrived at the hospital following a mining accident, where he fell over and broke his leg. Barbara was responsible for nursing him back to health. In a later interview, Barbara admits that she fell in love with him during that period, and so did he with her. Nicolai's family had escaped Romania during World War Two and he was brought up in an immigrant, working-class family. That working class background brought them together further. Together, they married in 1985. She took on his last name.
Feeling like she wanted a change of pace, Barbara convinced Nicolai to run for Council District election as a Labour candidate. He was successfully elected as one of the Labour councilors in Chestershire North West in 1987. She campaigned fervently on his behalf and Nicolai served as a socialist-leaning Labour councilor for many more local elections to come. Convinced as to her own campaigning capabilities, Barbara believed it was time she tried to run for political office. In 1991, at the age of 32, Barbara ran for the same council seat that her husband held after he retired at the end of two terms. Based off the political clout of her last name in the local area, as well as her strong union and nurses connections, she won. But her reign as councilor did not last long. Concerned with the direction of the country as a whole, Barbara ran for the riding of Chestershire. Despite a few pundits questioning her ability to win as a woman in a more socially conservative-minded seat, she was elected comfortably on a nation-wide Labour swing in 1992.
During her time in parliament, Barbara was known as a fiercely pro-worker candidate and a traditional working-class socialist. In 1994, Barbara came under some fire for the treatment of staffers in her office and many local newspapers used this information in an attempt to discredit her. According to sources in her own office, Barbara would sometimes burst into fits of rage over issues whether they be small or large. Although nothing was specifically noted, apparently her local office would also have to purchase new office chairs because they were broken. One staffer also told the media that she was concerned of 'New Labour' infiltrators into her office during and after the 1997 General Election. This would often lead to the sacking of many staffers for supposed allegiances to the right of the party, those who strongly supported Tom Blake.
This skepticism of New Labour brought her head-to-head with the Labour National Executive Committee, people she blasted as "yuppie conservatives". She would often vote against the government on some of the more neoliberal measures of the Tony Blair government, including voting against the Iraq War. Barbara was very supportive of (Not-Corbyn) being elected Labour leader in 2015, often going on national television on the lead up to the vote championing her cause. Due to this, she is considered one of her closest allies in the Labour Party. Barbara campaigned to leave the European Union in 2016 and has stringently opposed a second referendum at all costs. As of late, her bullish nature granted her the nickname of the "Babushka of Chestershire", but she is still very popular among her constituents.
I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: Puertollano
Do Not Remove: 84721
by Greater Arab State » Fri Jan 08, 2021 2:56 am
Greater Arab State wrote:(Image)
Character Information Sheet
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NS Nation Name: Greater Arab State
Character Name: Victoria Millington
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 45
Character Height: 5' 4"
Character Weight: 154 lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: First Secretary of State (2019-Present), Home Secretary (2019-Present) , 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 (2005-2010), Member of the Home Affairs Select Committee (2001-2005), Member of Parliament for South Northamptonshire (2010-Present), Member of Parliament for Daventry (2001-2010), Councillor for the Brackley Division of Northamptonshire County Council (1997-2001)
Appearance:
Character Constituency of Origin: South Northamptonshire (Born in Lower Saxony, West Germany)
Character Constituency of Residence: South Northamptonshire
Character Party Affiliation: Conservative
Main Strengths: Strong record of experience, holds weight amongst former Brexiteers and traditionalists, strong on issues of law and order and defence.
Main Weaknesses: Seen as being out-of-touch on account of personality and upbringing, controversial Ministerial career, could have limited appeal amongst Northerners and voters outside of England.
Biography:
Victoria Millington (née Horton) was born on the 14th of February, 1974 in the small West German town of Rinteln. The only child of then-Major Geoffrey Horton and his German wife, Martha (née von Richter), who he had married the previous year following the tragic death of his first wife in 1969. Spending a large part of her youth in the nearby town of Hamelin, the young Horton developed the beginnings of what was to be a staunchly conservative worldview from the outset, having been raised with a respect for the social order and primacy of the nation state.
However, her infancy saw Victoria develop a somewhat lonely personality on account of the poor relationship between her and her half-siblings, the result of their acrimonious views regarding their father's re-marriage. Soon after, in 1979, the sole Horton daughter left the continent for the small village of Brackley in South Northamptonshire.
The young Victoria performed exceptionally well in her academic studies, influenced by the competitive streak she fostered which saw her attempt to out-match her half-siblings, spending the large part of her education at the single-sex Wycombe Abbey School, Horton soon developed a reputation as being as an extraordinarily high performing student both in her studies, with her being amongst the highest performers at both the IGCSE and A-Level, as well as the extracurricular, being a member of the schools debating society as well as Schoo, Captain in her final year.
Upon the conclusion of her A-Levels, Horton read History and Politics at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, during which she continued to further her own personal drive through her academic achievements, frequently being amongst the highest performing and skilled students, as well as through the extracurricular, being actively involved in the Cambridge University Conservative Association, culminating in her election as Deputy Chairwoman in 1993. It was also during this period that Victoria Horton first encountered Quintin Millington, a student of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic who was a year her senior. The two would soon after develop a strong personal relationship, that culminated in marriage by 1997.
It was also in this year that the now Mrs Millington, in her final year of undergraduate study, stood for election in the reliably conservative Brackley Division of Northamptonshire County Council. Despite her relative youthfulness and inexperience, Millington was elected with 38% of the vote, down from the previous councillor. Victoria’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. Shortly thereafter, Victoria returned to Cambridge to read Modern European History as a MPhil before graduating in 1999. Whereupon she returned to Wycombe Abbey School to teach History.
However, the 2001 general election saw Victoria Millington selected as the Conservative candidate for the seat of Daventry. Standing on a platform of Euroscepticism and a focus on the issues of law and order meant that Millington was elected as the Member of Parliament for Daventry with 47% of the vote, one of the few Conservative successes that election.
Upon entering the Commons, Mrs Millington soon developed a reputation as a staunch traditionalist on constitutional matters as well as a staunch advocate for law and order. However, it was largely Millington firm loyalty to the party line that was noted by the leadership, culminating in her appointment as an assistant opposition whip in the May of 2002 under the leadership of (Not-Iain Duncan Smith) and was largely successful in the 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.
However, Millington's tenure as an assistant whip ended in May 2010 with the formation of a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition. It was also during the 2010 election campaign that Millington stood as the candidate for the newly created seat of South Northamptonshire which she resided in. The formation of the coalition saw Victoria 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.
Millington’s tenure as Immigration Minister was fraught with controversy, with many placing prime responsibility on her for the adoption of the hostile environment policy which was accused of xenophobia, however, it also led to support for Millington amongst members of the working class and the Eurosceptic movement. The political backlash received by the government almost led to Millington’s dismissal from the Cabinet by the moderate 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 on account of her ardent Euroscepticism.
After the referendum was called on Britain's membership of the European Union, Victoria Millington, 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 Mrs Millington 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.
With support for her fellow Brexiteer, Brian Hansen climbing rapidly following the results of the referendum. Millington began to prepare the beginnings of a leadership campaign for her newfound ally. However, it was not to be, with Hansen ruling himself out as a candidate, and so, Victoria backed the campaign of her fellow traditionalist (Not-Andrea Leadsom) who later withdrew, leaving the then-Home Secretary, Diana Naismith, as the only candidate for the Conservative leadership and was appointed Prime Minister in July. Soon after, Millington 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 Victoria had possessed 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 whilst feeling that the Prime Minister was appeasing the EU to too much of a degree. Furthermore, it was also during Millington's tenure as Brexit Secretary that the controversy surrounding the Windrush scandal soon became widely reported in the media. With Victoria's tenure as Immigration Minister being amongst the most controversial aspects of the scandal that was reported on, furthering damaging the Brexit Secretary's standing within the government.
Victoria Millington 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 Millington supporting the unsuccessful vote of no-confidence in the Prime Minister in December 2018.
With her attempt to unseat Naismith having failed, Millington sought to frustrate the government by being amongst those MPs voting against the withdrawal agreement, culminating in Millington and a small group of equally staunch Brexiteers being labelled as “the Spartans” by elements of the media. The summer of 2019 saw Millington achieve her aim of forcing the Prime Minister’s resignation following the total route faced by the Conservatives in that year’s elections to the European Parliament. As the leadership election soon got underway, Millington acted as one of Hansen’s closest allies, acting as his campaign manager within the parliamentary party. Thus, Victoria Millington returned to the cabinet as both First Secretary of State and Home Secretary after Hansen’s accession to Downing Street in the July of 2019.
Thus far, Millington’s tenure in government has proven to have been largely stable following the resounding success of the Conservative Party in the 2019 general election, enabling the Home Secretary the opportunity to implement many of the policies she had argued for as a junior minister in the days of the coalition and (Not-Cameron) governments. Notably the introduction of a points-based immigration system as well as increases in the number of police officers employed.
Other Info: 3 half-brothers, High Church Anglican
Married with 3 children:
Alice, 18 (Born November, 2000)
Arthur, 16 (Born September, 2002)
Hatty 12 (Born May, 2006)
Political Positions:
Abortion: Staunchly pro-life, privately 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, instead supporting 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, Irish nationalism and any further devolution of powers from the central government.
NHS: Privately supportive of an extent 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.
Constitutional Affair: Opposed to Lords reform, privately supportive of repealing the House of Lords Act 1999
I have read and accept the rules of the role-play: Greater Arab State
Do Not Remove: 84721
by Agarntrop » Fri Jan 08, 2021 3:02 am
Puertollano wrote:Puertollano wrote:
NS Nation Name: Puertollano
Character Name: Barbara Stellar
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 60
Character Height: 1.5m
Character Weight: 60kg
Character Position/Role/Job: MP for Chestershire (1992-Current)
Appearance: (Image)
Character model, for personal note: Victoria Treadell
Character Constituency of Origin: Hartlepool
Character Constituency of Residence: Chestershire
Character Party Affiliation: Labour
Main Strengths: Popular local member, symbiotic with working class.
Main Weaknesses: Past criticism over treatment of staffers, tenuous relationship with National Executive Committee.
Biography: Barbara Rhiannon Fairway was born in 1959 to her parents in a small council home in Hartlepool. Her father was a labourer at the port in Hartlepool, where he would unload shipments coming into the town. Her mother was a stay-at-home wife, like many women during that period. Both of her parents were both committed labour members, and also staunch socialists. This radical upbringing helped shape her beliefs that she continues to hold today. Barbara attended the local state-funded school, where she took up an interest in nursing and medicine. Following her initial years of schooling, Barbara went off to do nursing, where she found her passion. This took her to Chestershire, where the mining communities there were in need of more nurses, Barbara accepted and transferred to a hospital in Chestershire.
Although having been a member in the union (GMB), Barbara had never been much of an activist until she really settled into Chestershire. There she took part in union campaigns in 1982 against the Tory Government. It was during this same time span that Barbara met Nicolai Stellar, a Romanian-born miner in Chestershire. She first met him when he arrived at the hospital following a mining accident, where he fell over and broke his leg. Barbara was responsible for nursing him back to health. In a later interview, Barbara admits that she fell in love with him during that period, and so did he with her. Nicolai's family had escaped Romania during World War Two and he was brought up in an immigrant, working-class family. That working class background brought them together further. Together, they married in 1985. She took on his last name.
Feeling like she wanted a change of pace, Barbara convinced Nicolai to run for Council District election as a Labour candidate. He was successfully elected as one of the Labour councilors in Chestershire North West in 1987. She campaigned fervently on his behalf and Nicolai served as a socialist-leaning Labour councilor for many more local elections to come. Convinced as to her own campaigning capabilities, Barbara believed it was time she tried to run for political office. In 1991, at the age of 32, Barbara ran for the same council seat that her husband held after he retired at the end of two terms. Based off the political clout of her last name in the local area, as well as her strong union and nurses connections, she won. But her reign as councilor did not last long. Concerned with the direction of the country as a whole, Barbara ran for the riding of Chestershire. Despite a few pundits questioning her ability to win as a woman in a more socially conservative-minded seat, she was elected comfortably on a nation-wide Labour swing in 1992.
During her time in parliament, Barbara was known as a fiercely pro-worker candidate and a traditional working-class socialist. In 1994, Barbara came under some fire for the treatment of staffers in her office and many local newspapers used this information in an attempt to discredit her. According to sources in her own office, Barbara would sometimes burst into fits of rage over issues whether they be small or large. Although nothing was specifically noted, apparently her local office would also have to purchase new office chairs because they were broken. One staffer also told the media that she was concerned of 'New Labour' infiltrators into her office during and after the 1997 General Election. This would often lead to the sacking of many staffers for supposed allegiances to the right of the party, those who strongly supported Tom Blake.
This skepticism of New Labour brought her head-to-head with the Labour National Executive Committee, people she blasted as "yuppie conservatives". She would often vote against the government on some of the more neoliberal measures of the Tony Blair government, including voting against the Iraq War. Barbara was very supportive of (Not-Corbyn) being elected Labour leader in 2015, often going on national television on the lead up to the vote championing her cause. Due to this, she is considered one of her closest allies in the Labour Party. Barbara campaigned to leave the European Union in 2016 and has stringently opposed a second referendum at all costs. As of late, her bullish nature granted her the nickname of the "Babushka of Chestershire", but she is still very popular among her constituents.
I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: Puertollano
Do Not Remove: 84721
Fixed
by Agarntrop » Fri Jan 08, 2021 3:04 am
Greater Arab State wrote:Greater Arab State wrote:(Image)
Character Information Sheet
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NS Nation Name: Greater Arab State
Character Name: Victoria Millington
Character Gender: Female
Character Age: 45
Character Height: 5' 4"
Character Weight: 154 lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: First Secretary of State (2019-Present), Home Secretary (2019-Present) , 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 (2005-2010), Member of the Home Affairs Select Committee (2001-2005), Member of Parliament for South Northamptonshire (2010-Present), Member of Parliament for Daventry (2001-2010), Councillor for the Brackley Division of Northamptonshire County Council (1997-2001)
Appearance:
Character Constituency of Origin: South Northamptonshire (Born in Lower Saxony, West Germany)
Character Constituency of Residence: South Northamptonshire
Character Party Affiliation: Conservative
Main Strengths: Strong record of experience, holds weight amongst former Brexiteers and traditionalists, strong on issues of law and order and defence.
Main Weaknesses: Seen as being out-of-touch on account of personality and upbringing, controversial Ministerial career, could have limited appeal amongst Northerners and voters outside of England.
Biography:
Victoria Millington (née Horton) was born on the 14th of February, 1974 in the small West German town of Rinteln. The only child of then-Major Geoffrey Horton and his German wife, Martha (née von Richter), who he had married the previous year following the tragic death of his first wife in 1969. Spending a large part of her youth in the nearby town of Hamelin, the young Horton developed the beginnings of what was to be a staunchly conservative worldview from the outset, having been raised with a respect for the social order and primacy of the nation state.
However, her infancy saw Victoria develop a somewhat lonely personality on account of the poor relationship between her and her half-siblings, the result of their acrimonious views regarding their father's re-marriage. Soon after, in 1979, the sole Horton daughter left the continent for the small village of Brackley in South Northamptonshire.
The young Victoria performed exceptionally well in her academic studies, influenced by the competitive streak she fostered which saw her attempt to out-match her half-siblings, spending the large part of her education at the single-sex Wycombe Abbey School, Horton soon developed a reputation as being as an extraordinarily high performing student both in her studies, with her being amongst the highest performers at both the IGCSE and A-Level, as well as the extracurricular, being a member of the schools debating society as well as Schoo, Captain in her final year.
Upon the conclusion of her A-Levels, Horton read History and Politics at Peterhouse College, Cambridge, during which she continued to further her own personal drive through her academic achievements, frequently being amongst the highest performing and skilled students, as well as through the extracurricular, being actively involved in the Cambridge University Conservative Association, culminating in her election as Deputy Chairwoman in 1993. It was also during this period that Victoria Horton first encountered Quintin Millington, a student of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic who was a year her senior. The two would soon after develop a strong personal relationship, that culminated in marriage by 1997.
It was also in this year that the now Mrs Millington, in her final year of undergraduate study, stood for election in the reliably conservative Brackley Division of Northamptonshire County Council. Despite her relative youthfulness and inexperience, Millington was elected with 38% of the vote, down from the previous councillor. Victoria’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. Shortly thereafter, Victoria returned to Cambridge to read Modern European History as a MPhil before graduating in 1999. Whereupon she returned to Wycombe Abbey School to teach History.
However, the 2001 general election saw Victoria Millington selected as the Conservative candidate for the seat of Daventry. Standing on a platform of Euroscepticism and a focus on the issues of law and order meant that Millington was elected as the Member of Parliament for Daventry with 47% of the vote, one of the few Conservative successes that election.
Upon entering the Commons, Mrs Millington soon developed a reputation as a staunch traditionalist on constitutional matters as well as a staunch advocate for law and order. However, it was largely Millington firm loyalty to the party line that was noted by the leadership, culminating in her appointment as an assistant opposition whip in the May of 2002 under the leadership of (Not-Iain Duncan Smith) and was largely successful in the 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.
However, Millington's tenure as an assistant whip ended in May 2010 with the formation of a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition. It was also during the 2010 election campaign that Millington stood as the candidate for the newly created seat of South Northamptonshire which she resided in. The formation of the coalition saw Victoria 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.
Millington’s tenure as Immigration Minister was fraught with controversy, with many placing prime responsibility on her for the adoption of the hostile environment policy which was accused of xenophobia, however, it also led to support for Millington amongst members of the working class and the Eurosceptic movement. The political backlash received by the government almost led to Millington’s dismissal from the Cabinet by the moderate 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 on account of her ardent Euroscepticism.
After the referendum was called on Britain's membership of the European Union, Victoria Millington, 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 Mrs Millington 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.
With support for her fellow Brexiteer, Brian Hansen climbing rapidly following the results of the referendum. Millington began to prepare the beginnings of a leadership campaign for her newfound ally. However, it was not to be, with Hansen ruling himself out as a candidate, and so, Victoria backed the campaign of her fellow traditionalist (Not-Andrea Leadsom) who later withdrew, leaving the then-Home Secretary, Diana Naismith, as the only candidate for the Conservative leadership and was appointed Prime Minister in July. Soon after, Millington 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 Victoria had possessed 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 whilst feeling that the Prime Minister was appeasing the EU to too much of a degree. Furthermore, it was also during Millington's tenure as Brexit Secretary that the controversy surrounding the Windrush scandal soon became widely reported in the media. With Victoria's tenure as Immigration Minister being amongst the most controversial aspects of the scandal that was reported on, furthering damaging the Brexit Secretary's standing within the government.
Victoria Millington 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 Millington supporting the unsuccessful vote of no-confidence in the Prime Minister in December 2018.
With her attempt to unseat Naismith having failed, Millington sought to frustrate the government by being amongst those MPs voting against the withdrawal agreement, culminating in Millington and a small group of equally staunch Brexiteers being labelled as “the Spartans” by elements of the media. The summer of 2019 saw Millington achieve her aim of forcing the Prime Minister’s resignation following the total route faced by the Conservatives in that year’s elections to the European Parliament. As the leadership election soon got underway, Millington acted as one of Hansen’s closest allies, acting as his campaign manager within the parliamentary party. Thus, Victoria Millington returned to the cabinet as both First Secretary of State and Home Secretary after Hansen’s accession to Downing Street in the July of 2019.
Thus far, Millington’s tenure in government has proven to have been largely stable following the resounding success of the Conservative Party in the 2019 general election, enabling the Home Secretary the opportunity to implement many of the policies she had argued for as a junior minister in the days of the coalition and (Not-Cameron) governments. Notably the introduction of a points-based immigration system as well as increases in the number of police officers employed.
Other Info: 3 half-brothers, High Church Anglican
Married with 3 children:
Alice, 18 (Born November, 2000)
Arthur, 16 (Born September, 2002)
Hatty 12 (Born May, 2006)
Political Positions:
Abortion: Staunchly pro-life, privately 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, instead supporting 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, Irish nationalism and any further devolution of powers from the central government.
NHS: Privately supportive of an extent 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.
Constitutional Affair: Opposed to Lords reform, privately supportive of repealing the House of Lords Act 1999
I have read and accept the rules of the role-play: Greater Arab State
Do Not Remove: 84721
The application has now been revised.
by Agarntrop » Fri Jan 08, 2021 3:11 am
by Uan aa Boa » Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:40 am
by Agarntrop » Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:42 am
Uan aa Boa wrote:Thanks for the quick acceptance. So my character is not-Nicola Sturgeon and a member of the Scottish Parliament. Assuming nobody else wants to do it would I be able to occasionally RP SNP MPs in the House of Commons? It would allow me to take part in PMQs and votes. I have no doubt these MPs take their instructions from Edinburgh IRL.
by Agarntrop » Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:45 am
by Agarntrop » Fri Jan 08, 2021 5:45 am
Istoreya wrote:I'd be interested in joining but not entirely sure what sort of character I'd like to make. I am British so this should make more sense to me than the LotF, though, lol.
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