Westminster
The UK Political RP
"Throughout the world, change is the order of the day."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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The race for power will soon begin once more.
But before it does a lot can happen. The Conservative Party is scheduled to have a lengthy leadership process during which alliances and rivalries for years to come will be forged. In times of a great economic downturn and voter disenfranchment no leader is safe, perhaps not even those on the other side of the aisle. Controversial among his peers, Labour Party Leader Richard Thorpe, might have to stay vigilant, trying his best to stop any potential leadership challenges, before they can come to fruition.
But what will happen when the Conservatives and Labourers are done with their internal struggles and a snap election will finally have been called?
The Leader of the Labour Party will undoubtedly try to regain the Premireship for the party and himself after seven years in opposition. After seeing a major defeat less than two years ago the Liberal Democrats have to regroup and do their best to re-take as many seats as is possible for them. Despite winning the last year's referendum the United Kingdom Independence Party struggles to stay relevant after a major dip in the polls. Every party has their own motivations and ambitions.
But this election is not only about party politics, however. Whoever wins and moves into 10 Downing Street will have to face one of the biggest challenges a Prime Minister has faced in decades. Divided as ever the United Kingdom was recently hit with the biggest economic recession since the last decade. The reckless decision of the Japanese authorities to raise interest rates causing a local stock market crash and a global economic downturn as well as the strike of oil producers, workers and corporations around the world put the UK in a dificult economic situation. While the Dudley Strike which started the snowball effect of the previously mentioned protests was recently broken up after a decision taken by the American President mildly calming the economic situation world-wide the British Government was unable to take action to start their own recovery due to a parliamentary deadlock. Keeping the advanced age of Her Majesty the Queen in mind the United Kingdom migh witeness a large amount of political turmoil in the years to come.
More than ever in recent memory the Kingdom needs a strong an capable leader at the helm of it's government. It needs a great statesman very few of which it has witenessed in recent history. Land for political squabbles is more fertile than anyone could imagine in these trying times. The upcoming election will be the most important in generations, but will you be a spectator or a participant in this story? Will history remember you as a great statesman, so currently needed or a fool who through his egoism and hunger for power doomed the nation for eternity?
The application lies in front of you. The time to join the eternal struggle for power is now. It is up to you how you will use it.
Rules
1- OP is Lord and the Co-OP's are the princes. Their word is law. Follow it.
2- No RL characters Or at least no celebrities. There is no Nigel Farage here. On this note, RL politicians post-Thatcher do not exist, or have been replaced with generic stand-ins: those spots are yours to fill. Records and history are the same, including statistics, save in the places where player-characters have brought about a change.
3- Post when you can-warn us if you can't. A post per week is a good minimum standard, but we understand that real-life gets in the way. If you plan to leave, or you will be offline for some time, especially if you are interacting with someone, please try to let us know.
4-Make some IC effort. We are more lenient than most, here, but do try to put some effort into your IC posts. Try to keep one-liners to a minimum, though they are fine if in a conversation.
5- Respect your fellow players. Play nice. If you don't have friends, you won't have fun.
6- No Sue/flawless/perfect characters Give them some flaws. No one has fun when everyone is perfect. Everyone wants to be a young, tall, strong, charismatic superman. We'd like a little more depth than that.
7-No cheat-edits Once you've made an IC post, leave it. Tweaks to formatting are all right, but don't try to change what you've already put down, especially if it has already been responded to.
8- If you are not sure if something is legal, ask OOC first. Always better to check-and there is limited leniency for things that are obviously bad.
9-No assassination attempts. You can probably look for a loophole there-don't. In essence, no use of extreme physical force against another player, or anything like poison. If you and another both agree, contact an OP, and it will be discussed-unilateral action is strictly forbidden.
10-No research in closed situations-For the short version-no Googling in debates. You can do all the research you like in preparation, but while a debate is going on, no citing of outside resources is permitted. This is on the honor system-but if you start spouting off statistics to the fifth decimal place, we'll probably catch on. In short, when you're in a situation where your character can't be looking things up, you can't either. If you're not sure-ask an OP.
11-No spite characters. You may hate Conservatives, and want to make an MP who will have scandals on them-don't. Complex characters are fine, but having your character actively sabotage their own party/demographic out-of-character is forbidden.
12-No metagaming. This takes two forms-first, using OOC knowledge that you have but your character could not in the IC, and second, attempting to "engineer" a character specifically to do something in relation to specific aspects of another character or a situation. Hiccups aside, keep OOC and IC separate. Similarly
13-Keep OOC comments out of the IC. We have a whole thread set aside just for that reason. Putting and leaving OOC comments in parenthesis degrades the quality of the RP, wholly OOC posts in the IC are right out. Bring up any issues in the OOC, or TG the OP.
14-PG-13. The site has a PG-13 rule, and we follow it. Swearing is acceptable in-character, but do your best not to make a habit of it, and censor the harder language if you can. Explicit sexual reference are prohibited-if that ever becomes necessary, use euphemisms. The same holds true for gore.
14- Have fun! Misery is illegal.
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[b]Character Information Sheet[/b]
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Appearance: (Photo preferred, not required)
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Other Info:
[u]I have read and accept the rules of the roleplay:[/u] (Your Nation's Name Here)
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Royal Family Members
National-Level Politicians
Local-Level Politicians
Non-Office-Holding Politicians
Non-Politicians
Passed Legislation
RP Primer - Read Before Joining
Planned timeline of events
Mid April-May - Conservative Party MPs decide on top 2 leadership candidates
June/July - Conservative members vote on party leader, Wyvern resigns
Early-mid November - General Election
Current IC Date Range
17th - 29th April 2017