Land of Hope and Glory, a UK-based political RP (OOC)

[Elbren]

Pro-business=pro-people

[Agarntrop]

Pro-business=pro-people

What are you doing here

[Agarntrop]

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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?

Well, it turns out she was indeed exactly like Michael Foot, except her own destruction had been borne by the Labour establishment, at least in her eyes. Despite her personal opinion against a second referendum, the Remainers had won in the party conference. And so, she had nothing to do but march to her own death. It works well, as she was able to keep down a possible Lib Dem surge through her alienation of the moderate wing and their placation...At least from what she felt, anyway. Despite the victory of Brian Hansen in the Conservative leadership election, she felt strong. And with the rising tide of Henderson and the splits of the Conservative Party, she got ready...

...And then suddenly, Henderson had declared a pact with the Conservatives, effectively merging their votes and leaving Labour double digits behind. And on top of that, amidst controversies of anti-Semitism and a general maligning by the media, the Liberal Democrats had faced a surge, cruising above Labour in many polls. Despite Henderson's pact returning some supporters to her, she had faced defections of voters to the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives, and while the Liberal Democrat surges were small enough to hold onto Southern seats, the Conservative swing had been enough to deliver Labour to a crushing defeat in December.

She stands disgraced, and weak...Completely in an unenviable position.

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

Considering this is a copy from the previous iteration with some new additions, accepted.

[Jedi Council]

Tag; Thinking of applying for either Foreign or Defence Secretary. Will have an app up soon

[Emazia]

Tag; Thinking of applying for either Foreign or Defence Secretary. Will have an app up soon

You should apply for Defence, I'm taking Foreign.

[Jedi Council]

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Jedi Council
Character Name: Sir Alexander "Alec" Mitchell
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 63
Character Height: 6'2
Character Weight: 175 lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: Foreign Secretary (MP for Cities of London and Westminster)
Appearance: WIP
Character Cons. of Origin: North East Somerset
Character Cons. of Residence: Cities of London and Weatminster
Character Party Affiliation: Conservative
Main Strengths: Well connected, intelligent, charming, eloquent, wealthy, politically moderate with a reputation for honesty.
Main Weaknesses: Classic posh Tory, viewed as elitist, disliked by the right/far right, establishment, lacks a common touch.
Biography: WIP
Other Info: WIP

I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: (Your Nation's Name Here)

Do Not Remove: 84721

[Jedi Council]

Tag; Thinking of applying for either Foreign or Defence Secretary. Will have an app up soon

You should apply for Defence, I'm taking Foreign.

Just writing my app for Foreign at the moment tbh.

[Emazia]

You should apply for Defence, I'm taking Foreign.

Just writing my app for Foreign at the moment tbh.

Hang on, let me ask the other admins about that. However, I do want to note that a political moderate probably would not survive in this climate under the Johnson/Hansen ministry.

[Agarntrop]

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Jedi Council
Character Name: Sir Alexander "Alec" Mitchell
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 63
Character Height: 6'2
Character Weight: 175 lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: Foreign Secretary (MP for Cities of London and Westminster)
Appearance: WIP
Character Cons. of Origin: North East Somerset
Character Cons. of Residence: Cities of London and Weatminster
Character Party Affiliation: Conservative
Main Strengths: Well connected, intelligent, charming, eloquent, wealthy, politically moderate with a reputation for honesty.
Main Weaknesses: Classic posh Tory, viewed as elitist, disliked by the right/far right, establishment, lacks a common touch.
Biography: WIP
Other Info: WIP

I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: (Your Nation's Name Here)

Do Not Remove: 84721

Emaz is taking foreign.

[Greater Arab State]

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Jedi Council
Character Name: Sir Alexander "Alec" Mitchell
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 63
Character Height: 6'2
Character Weight: 175 lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: Foreign Secretary (MP for Cities of London and Westminster)
Appearance: WIP
Character Cons. of Origin: North East Somerset
Character Cons. of Residence: Cities of London and Weatminster
Character Party Affiliation: Conservative
Main Strengths: Well connected, intelligent, charming, eloquent, wealthy, politically moderate with a reputation for honesty.
Main Weaknesses: Classic posh Tory, viewed as elitist, disliked by the right/far right, establishment, lacks a common touch.
Biography: WIP
Other Info: WIP

I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: (Your Nation's Name Here)

Do Not Remove: 84721

Unfortunately, the constituency of the Cities of London and Westminster has already been apped for and accepted in the application of the Prime Minister.

[Jedi Council]

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Jedi Council
Character Name: Sir Alexander "Alec" Mitchell
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 63
Character Height: 6'2
Character Weight: 175 lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: Foreign Secretary (MP for Cities of London and Westminster)
Appearance: WIP
Character Cons. of Origin: North East Somerset
Character Cons. of Residence: Cities of London and Weatminster
Character Party Affiliation: Conservative
Main Strengths: Well connected, intelligent, charming, eloquent, wealthy, politically moderate with a reputation for honesty.
Main Weaknesses: Classic posh Tory, viewed as elitist, disliked by the right/far right, establishment, lacks a common touch.
Biography: WIP
Other Info: WIP

I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: (Your Nation's Name Here)

Do Not Remove: 84721

Emaz is taking foreign.

Foreign and Opposition Leader?

Seems a bit much imo but I can change it I suppose

[Agarntrop]

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Jedi Council
Character Name: Sir Alexander "Alec" Mitchell
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 63
Character Height: 6'2
Character Weight: 175 lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: Foreign Secretary (MP for Cities of London and Westminster)
Appearance: WIP
Character Cons. of Origin: North East Somerset
Character Cons. of Residence: Cities of London and Weatminster
Character Party Affiliation: Conservative
Main Strengths: Well connected, intelligent, charming, eloquent, wealthy, politically moderate with a reputation for honesty.
Main Weaknesses: Classic posh Tory, viewed as elitist, disliked by the right/far right, establishment, lacks a common touch.
Biography: WIP
Other Info: WIP

I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: (Your Nation's Name Here)

Do Not Remove: 84721

Unfortunately, the constituency of the Cities of London and Westminster has already been apped for and accepted in the application of the Prime Minister.

I thought he was Sutton and Cheam?

[Kargintinia]

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Jedi Council
Character Name: Sir Alexander "Alec" Mitchell
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 63
Character Height: 6'2
Character Weight: 175 lbs
Character Position/Role/Job: Foreign Secretary (MP for Cities of London and Westminster)
Appearance: WIP
Character Cons. of Origin: North East Somerset
Character Cons. of Residence: Cities of London and Weatminster
Character Party Affiliation: Conservative
Main Strengths: Well connected, intelligent, charming, eloquent, wealthy, politically moderate with a reputation for honesty.
Main Weaknesses: Classic posh Tory, viewed as elitist, disliked by the right/far right, establishment, lacks a common touch.
Biography: WIP
Other Info: WIP

I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: (Your Nation's Name Here)

Do Not Remove: 84721

Unfortunately, the constituency of the Cities of London and Westminster has already been apped for and accepted in the application of the Prime Minister.

No that’s not his constituency that’s just where he lives in 10 Downing Street

[Agarntrop]

Emaz is taking foreign.

Foreign and Opposition Leader?

Seems a bit much imo but I can change it I suppose

This rp is new, plus hes an admin that i can trust.

I have absolutely no knowledge of your experience or skill, but you can still take a cabinet post as this RP is young and new

[Agarntrop]

Unfortunately, the constituency of the Cities of London and Westminster has already been apped for and accepted in the application of the Prime Minister.

No that’s not his constituency that’s just where he lives in 10 Downing Street

Yeah, his cons is Sutton and Cheam

[Emazia]

Emaz is taking foreign.

Foreign and Opposition Leader?

Seems a bit much imo but I can change it I suppose

Bennett is a placeholder, she's just there for PMQs and stuff for the first month of the RP so Labour can have some leadership while they're off campaigning to try and replace her.

[Agarntrop]

Foreign and Opposition Leader?

Seems a bit much imo but I can change it I suppose

Bennett is a placeholder, she's just there for PMQs and stuff for the first month of the RP so Labour can have some leadership while they're off campaigning to try and replace her.

More than a month, leadership election is in April

[Jedi Council]

Foreign and Opposition Leader?

Seems a bit much imo but I can change it I suppose

Bennett is a placeholder, she's just there for PMQs and stuff for the first month of the RP so Labour can have some leadership while they're off campaigning to try and replace her.

Ohhhhhhhhhh sorry I entirely misunderstood.

Perhaps I'll make a Labour Leadership candidate then if that is the case.

Foreign and Opposition Leader?

Seems a bit much imo but I can change it I suppose

This rp is new, plus hes an admin that i can trust.

I have absolutely no knowledge of your experience or skill, but you can still take a cabinet post as this RP is young and new

I've had alot; mainly sci fi but I was in LOTF for a while.

[Agarntrop]

Bennett is a placeholder, she's just there for PMQs and stuff for the first month of the RP so Labour can have some leadership while they're off campaigning to try and replace her.

Ohhhhhhhhhh sorry I entirely misunderstood.

Perhaps I'll make a Labour Leadership candidate then if that is the case.

This rp is new, plus hes an admin that i can trust.

I have absolutely no knowledge of your experience or skill, but you can still take a cabinet post as this RP is young and new

I've had alot; mainly sci fi but I was in LOTF for a while.

You were in lotf? Who did you do?

[Jedi Council]

Ohhhhhhhhhh sorry I entirely misunderstood.

Perhaps I'll make a Labour Leadership candidate then if that is the case.

I've had alot; mainly sci fi but I was in LOTF for a while.

You were in lotf? Who did you do?

Oh it was years ago with another nation, but I was Ray Ramirez, California Governor in the original iteration back in like 2016 or 17 if I'm not mistaken.

I jumped in as a Senator a while back as well but kinda dropped out after a bit

[Agarntrop]

You were in lotf? Who did you do?

Oh it was years ago with another nation, but I was Ray Ramirez, California Governor in the original iteration back in like 2016 or 17 if I'm not mistaken.

I jumped in as a Senator a while back as well but kinda dropped out after a bit

Oh that was Washington, before my time

[Emazia]

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Character Information Sheet

NS Nation Name: Emazia/WCC
Character Name: James Farrington
Character Gender: Male
Character Age: 60
Character Height: 175cm
Character Weight: 65kg
Character Position/Role/Job: Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (2016-), Secretary of State for Defence (2014-2016), Minister of State for Defence (2012-2014), Minister of State for Work and Pensions (2010-2012), Shadow Minister of State for Work and Pensions (2009-2010), MP for Chelsea and Fullham (2005-), CEO of Farrington Military Systems (1998-2005)
Appearance:

Character Cons. of Origin: Chelsea and Fullham
Character Cons. of Residence: Chelsea and Fullham
Character Party Affiliation: Conservative
Main Strengths: Extremely wealthy, strong business connections, able to toe the line between the moderate and the populist wings of the Conservative Party, popular in the wealthy parts of London and other big cities, has much internal power, close to the Prime Minister (Dominic Cummings-style), strong connections to the right-wing press, lots of foreign connections due to his business, has good interpersonal and managerial skills, has a youthful look for his age and is seen as new blood in the party.
Main Weaknesses: Business connections extend into foreign countries, particularly the US, which has been met with controversy over Farrington wanting to sell the country to the US, supported Remain in 2016, could lose many seats in the North due to being more economically right-wing and elitist, often considered uncharismatic and boring by more hardline Hansenites, more socially liberal than the Tory hard right.
Biography: (Minimum 2-3 paragraphs)
Other Info: Abortion: Generally pro-choice, believes that abortion should be limited to 18 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: Staunch Brexiteer due to his stances on immigration, and sees them all as lily-livered leftists who want to turn Britain into a European-style left-wing appendage of a United States of Europe. Sees the economic and social regulations of the EU as a hindrance on economic growth and weakening the sovereignty of Britain.
Climate Change: Sees primarily technological solutions, believes in subsidies to green companies and to help fossil fuel companies switch over to clean fossil fuels.
Defence: Update Trident, ensure Britain has a nuclear triad. Closer relations to NATO, hopes Joe Biden wins in 2020 to strengthen Anglo-American relations, believes in much more military funding and interventionism. Strong war hawk and believes that Britain needs to intervene in the Middle East. At the same time he understands the power of soft power, and realises that Britain needs to be more calm with diplomacy and rather than taking the Trumpian stance of fire and brimstone, he believes in a gentler, more effective and what he sees as a more intelligent form of diplomacy.
Energy: Staunch supporter of nuclear energy, but is fine with any form of energy as long as it's cheap. Supporter of clean fossil fuels.
Immigration: Strongly opposed, particularly from outside of the West. Would support strengthening immigration requirements in order to defend the UK.
Northern Powerhouse: Fully supportive, but believes the rewards of it should be given to the private sector and generally the entire levelling up project needs to be privatised in order to ensure that it is as efficient as possible. Supporter of HS2.
NHS: Privatise, privatise, privatise. Would ideally support a private healthcare system in the US style but understands it's public suicide.
Austerity: Restart it, continue cutting public services in order to make Britain more efficient.
Home Affairs: Privately supports bringing back the death penalty for extreme cases, believes that government must extend surveillance, fight against anti-British attitudes in the media and take a more active counter-terror strategy.
Same-sex marriage: Supports, but doesn't believe churches should be forced to do it.

I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay: (Your Nation's Name Here)

Do Not Remove: 84721

[Emazia]

Welcome neoliberal supreme

[Jedi Council]

Oh it was years ago with another nation, but I was Ray Ramirez, California Governor in the original iteration back in like 2016 or 17 if I'm not mistaken.

I jumped in as a Senator a while back as well but kinda dropped out after a bit

Oh that was Washington, before my time

Yeah different iteration.

I'll be editing my post in a little while to make a viable Labour Leadership candidate

[Emazia]

Oh that was Washington, before my time

Yeah different iteration.

I'll be editing my post in a little while to make a viable Labour Leadership candidate

I personally recommend that you do Defence Secretary as there's going to possibly be some interesting things on the defence front later in the RP, but if you want to do a Labour candidate you can choose to. It's all fine.