London: 10 Downing Street
The UK Political RP
IC: https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=429151#p32948917
House of Commons: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=429170#p32951175
House of Lords: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=430204
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
Winston Churchill
The break from RL is June 23rd, 2016(the Brexit referendum date). "The Brexit referendum” happened on June 23rd, 2016. In a not so surprising result, the Remain campaign won by a score of 53% to 47%. A close referendum, but it was enough to be a solid win for remain. Still, supporting went down 14% from the 67% victory that remain scored in 1975, and it was clear that further European integration was not on the table for the United Kingdom, meaning that the chances of a multi-speed Europe remained highly likely. The turmoil the remain results brought the major political parties, however, were stunning.
Nearly 60% of Conservative Party voters from 2017 were supporters of Brexit, and the guns were out for David Cameron. On 30th of June, Boris Johnson launched a leadership challenge against the Prime Minister, and on July 30th, Boris Johnson was voted as the new Leader of the Conservative Party. With the party fully in turmoil, he appointed a number of Brexit supporters to the cabinet, though he kept remainers like George Osborne as the Chancellor and Theresa May as Home Secretary. His cabinet, however, was increasingly undisciplined. He lost a budget vote in October of 2016, therefore forcing an election. He led a divided Conservative Party, that was tearing itself apart over Brexit. Meanwhile, UKIP was gaining, and Labour was surging under new leadership in Jordan Bluestein, who had seriously resurrected Old Labour.
The election was called for on 8th of December, 2016. With a tough campaign, the divided Conservative Party was not able to defend its majority, and Bluestein, in a wave, swept into power. With the Liberal Democrats only winning 15 seats, Tim Farron resigned, and the whole leadership of the Conservative Party resigned, bringing the opportunity for them to have a new party leader, who would serve as the first Conservative Leader of the Opposition since 2010, when David Cameron served in the role facing Gordon Brown.
8th December 2016 Election Result - 650 total seats(326 seats needed for majority)
Labour- 330 seats(Majority Government)
Conservatives- 225 seats(Official Opposition)
Scottish National Party- 45 seats
Liberal Democrats- 15 seats
Plaid Cymru- 6 seats
Green Party of England & Wales- 3 seats
UKIP- 8 seats
Democratic Unionist Party- 10 seats
Sinn Fein- 8 seats(but Sinn Fein does not take their seats in Parliament)
Which gives Labour a majority of 10, or a working majority of 18.
Success for some is on the way, the fall of prominents is eminent. Politics is what you make of it. Join the system, whether you be a shrewd MP, a caring mayor, an intellectual pundit, a prolific journalist, an outspoken protestor, or a concerned citizen.
The Queen’s land is calling.
Rules
1. OP is God here - listen to his commandments. Listen to CO-OPs too.
2. No RL characters
3. No flawless characters. Most of the time, our leaders are society’s most flawed. Keep it real.
4. Respect your fellow players. ‘Nuff said - read site rules, no flaming, trolling, etc.
5. PG-13 - no explicit sexual references, some language is permitted but use sparingly.
6. No spite characters. Just because you might hate Tories or Lib Dems, doesn’t mean you create awful characters mocking them. You get the drift.
7. Keep OOC comments out of IC and no metagaming.
8. No research in closed situations - like debates, Parliamentary talks, etc. Do the research before.
Post at least once a week. Warn us if you can’t.
Have fun! Because that’s what politics is about, am I right?
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[b]Character Information Sheet[/b]
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Other Info:
PM: Jordan Bluestein: MP for Cambridge: Labour Party
Conservative Party Leader: Valerie Elizabeth Diane Brennan: MP for Beckenham: Conservative Party
SNP Leader: Owen Hamilton: MP for East Edinburgh: SNP
Chancellor of the Exquecher: Eddie Wilson: MP for Greenwich and Woolwich: Labour Party
Foreign Secretary: Marcia Hertz: MP for Stroud: Labour Party
Defense Secretary: Arran McIntyre: MP for South Edinburgh: Labour Party
Secretary of Health: Robert "Bobby" Cooke: MP for South Derby: Labour Party
Speaker of the House of Commons: Joe Drew: Labour Party
International Development Secretary: Julie Karim: MP for East Ham: Labour Party
Mayor of London: Eddie Redson: Labour Party
Shadow Home Secretary: Elizabeth Williams: MP for Chelmsford: Conservative Party
Shadow Foreign Secretary: Madeline Rosseau-Bryson: MP for the Cities of London and Westminster: Conservative Party
Shadow Defense Secretary: Ernesto De Jimera: MP for West Derby Liverpool: Conservative Party
Tegwen Bridget Llewellyn: MP for Ynys Mon: Plaid Cymru
Chief Minister of Gibraltar: Alexander Roderio: Liberal Democratic Party
Inspired by cool formatting of Washington RP.