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

[Agarntrop]

This is not a signup form. I have some questions about this roleplay - albeit mostly minor.

1. I take it this is a reboot of LOHAG (given that Emazia "re-accepted" Sao Nova Europa/Charles Henderson's application but the history here appears to be independent of any past roleplay series).
2. Does this roleplay (ICly) begin on 1st January 2020, or any date between then and 7th January?
3. How long is a week?
4. What is physical acceptance, or does that need to be untypoed?
5. Rule 9 states that if one's character is "in a closed situation such as a debate, they are unable to cite specific statistics, for example." Any statistics, or just those relating to the real world?
6. Some people have "Political Positions" in their application; some do not (and it is not present in the offical signup form). Which is it, then?

1. Yep
2. Yep
3. 1 IRL week I assume
4. I think it's meant to be physical altercation
5. Generally anything a reasonable person wouldn't be able to memorise and have reason to memorise
6. It's your choice, some people embed it into their biography, others have a separate section.

I can stand by this statement

[Agarntrop]

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Character Information Sheet

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

Richardson became a member of the Labour Party Young Socialists in 1976, and took an active role in its Cheshire branch. He took a comparably moderate position to most of its members who supported the Militant Tendency group. This led to him eventually leaving the LPYS after he argued for Michael Foot to resign after the 1983 election result, calling him "useless" and "unelectable." He continued, however, to remain a member of the Labour Party, and strongly supported Neville Kirkbride's denunciation of the Militant Tendency at the 1985 party conference.

Starting in 1984, Richardson worked for the Cheshire County council, collecting and analyzing data for them. He was then nominated to stand for the Warrington District on the council and he accepted such nomination. He was then elected in 1988 to serve as part of the Cheshire labour party at the time, where he worked notably and tirelessly and was thus nominated by the party to stand for the solid labour seat of Warrington North in 1992, where he easily won with a labour majority of over 12,000.

Shortly after the election, Richardson was appointed as a Shadow Parliamentary Under-secretary for Health, and was loyal to the party whip. Richardson spent the first two years of his time in parliament advocating for increased funding for healthcare services across the board. He accused the Tories of 'routine underinvestment' in healthcare.

Richardson supported Tom Blake at the 1994 labour leadership election, and was promoted to shadow Minister of State for Health shortly after Blake took office. He once again argued for more spending on the NHS and an increase in hospital staff numbers.

He retained his seat with a stonking mandate at the 1997 general election, acheiving a majority of over 19,000. He then assumed a ministerial position and went about attempting to acheive what he had intended to achieve in opposition, and influenced Tom Blake to dramatically increase funding for the Department for Health.

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

He was a major figure on the Labour Party campaign trail in the 2001 General Election, during which he promised "huge investment in new staff for our great National Health Service" if labour were elected and also stated that these investments will "affect every inch of Britain" and that "no place will be left behind for as long as I am health minister."

Richardson retained his seat at the 2001 general election with a majority of 15,156. He set to work in his department, although after 9/11 he began to develop a rift with the Prime Minister, due to his emphatic support for (not-Bush)'s war on terror, which Richardson was sceptical of. However, at least for the time being, Richardson mostly ignored this rift as he "had more important things to focus on for [his] department, like delivering on our election promises and securing a ramping up of our healthcare system," which he succesfully did in 2002.

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

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

This led to him returning to the backbenches where he fiercely and furiously argued against the Iraq War and frequently rebelled against the government on foreign policy motions, but mostly kept in line when it came to other bills proposed by the government. He retained his seat at the 2005 General Election, with a majority of over 12,000. He attributed the labour party's majority being cut from over 150 to 66 at the election to the "catastrophe" of the Iraq War.

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

He was a major voice for the adoption of Keynesian monetary measures after the 2008 crash, claiming it had shown that "deregulation has failed us miserably" and that the world must seek a new and more interventionist economic apporach he described as "new Keynesianism."

In the 2010 general election Richardson retained his seat with a majority of 6,771. Richardson blamed labour's wider election loss on the party's "stubborn retention of the previous economic policy, which, as history has shown, is the worst possible response to an economic crash."

Richardson supported Ted Merriment for the labour leadership contest in 2010, and developed a close relationship with Merriment and supported his changes to the Labour party that shifted it away from Blakeism. Richardson's close relationship with Merriment resulted in him being appointed shadow justice minister in 2012, where he argued against "hypocritical" budget cuts to the prison system.

Richardson retained his seat at the 2015 general election with an increased majority of 8,923. He originally supported (not Burnham) at the 2015 leadership election, although pledged his "full support" to (not Corbyn) after he was elected, and was promoted to shadow secretary of state for justice after the election, where he advocated for an end to austerity in the prison sector, the complete removal and replacement of IPPs, and more community service sentences rather than prison sentences or fines.

Richardson campaigned to remain in the 2016 EU Referendum. He was emphatically passionate about the issue and allegedly criticised (not Corbyn) for his lack of enthusiasm for the matter. He described the ultimate defeat of the remain campaign as "crushing" and was accused of suggesting the leave campaign only won because they had the "establishment media" on their side, a suggestion he later denied.

Despite his emphatic support for remain prior to the referendum, Richardson almost immediately said that he would "respect the result of the referendum," and called suggestions for a second one so soon after the last one "bizzare and ridiculous." However, he rejected any proposition to leave the EU Single Market and the EEA, claiming that Vote Leave had promised to remain in such organisations after brexit and as a result it would be undemocratic and scheming of them to "abuse" the result to "push an extremist agenda the public didn't vote for."

Despite his alleged critical comments made back during the Referendum campaign, he defended (not Corbyn) in the 2016 labour leadership challenge and stayed on as a cabinet minister.

He retained his seat at the 2017 general election, with a majority of over 9,500. He described the election result as "a message that the established order is about to go, and that a new kind of politics will take over." He also declared that "we have beaten the establishment for the first time since they took a stranglehold on power in 1979." He was later questioned as to why he served in Tom Blake's cabinet when he was clearly implying Blake's vision and views were no different to that of the conservative party in this declaration.

However, by new year 2018, Richardson began to become at odds with (not Corbyn) as he took an indecisive Brexit stance and began to lean towards a second referendum, something Richardson has always been opposed to. He also privately disagreed with (not Corbyn) over "unnecessary and hypocritical" cabinet firings.

He resigned as shadow secretary of state for justice in September 2018 after the labour party conference voted to support a second referendum, stating "it is too difficult for me to work in an indecisive shadow cabinet that one minute adopts a policy and sacks shadow ministers for supporting a contrary one, and then literally weeks later decides to adopt the contrary policy it has sacked shadow ministers for and then decides it will hound out shadow ministers who still support the original policy. It is almost as if one side thinks X will happen, the other side thinks Y will happen, and Mrs Bennett decides on Z."

After returning to the backbenches, Richardson furiously criticised both Diana Naismith and Brian Hansen. He controversially described Naismith as 'in political terms, somehow more dead than a rotting corpse,' sparking anger from those who considered it an offensive and graphic remark. He later went on to rail against Brain Hansen, who he labelled an 'aspiring despot' and 'poundshop Milosevic,' over his prorogation of Parliament.

Richardson campaigned determinedly in the 2019 General Election, however came close to losing his seat when the Tory landslide results came in. He called upon (not Corbyn) to resign, and criticised the Labour campaign for having an 'out of touch attitude' to voters living 'north of Milton Keynes.' He has now floated the idea of running for the Labour party leadership.

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

Married with 2 children:

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

Political Positions:

Abortion: Supports the current relatively lenient laws in place for abortion in Great Britain, and believes they should be extended to Northern Ireland
Brexit: Despite originally opposing Brexit, supports "upholding the will of the people" and carrying it out following the referendum, but still favours UK membership of the EEA and Single Market.
Climate Change: Believes that the UK should convert to renewables fully and be carbon neutral by 2040.
Defence: Generally opposes millitary interventions (although exceptions can be made for the NATO operations in Bosnia in 1995 and military interventions in Sierra Leone) and privately supports cutting the defence budget to 2% of the GDP.
Energy: Supports completely phasing out fossil fuels by 2030, and recognises nuclear energy as a "potential solution."
Immigration: Supports keeping freedom of movement with the European Union, but is opposed to expanding it.
Devolution: Supports giving greater autonomy to devolved parliaments, but opposes Welsh or Scottish independence and Irish nationalism.
Northern Powerhouse: Hugely Supportive and believes should be a top priority for the Government to focus on.
NHS: Supports reducing privatisation of and increasing funding of the health service to at least 10% of the GDP.
Justice: Supports focusing the prison system towards rehabilitation over punishment for minor offenders, although recognises the need for a "strong deterrent" for severe offenders.
Same-sex Marriage: Supports strongly and voted for in 2013

Used Arab's template for part of my app.

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

Do Not Remove: 84721


Also, Emaz, the UK's defence budget was 2.1% when this was made. It has since been reduced to 1.7% because of covid.

[Emazia]

Ripoff Mitt Romney's brother

Accepted

[Agarntrop]

Ripoff Mitt Romney's brother

Accepted

How is he mitt Romney's brother

[Agarntrop]

OH BECAUSE HES A RICHARDSON

[Kargintinia]

Who has the PM?

[Agarntrop]

Who has the PM?

Nobody yet

[Kargintinia]

Who has the PM?

Nobody yet

Fuck it why not

[Agarntrop]

Nobody yet

Fuck it why not

Bare in mind he has to be at least partially based on BoJo with a few changes.

Think a Trump-Wolf situation.

[Elbren]

I like strong economy.

[Agarntrop]

I like strong economy.

Do you plan to app?

[Kargintinia]

What is a Shadow Minister?

[Emazia]

What is a Shadow Minister?

In the UK, the opposition party appoint shadow ministers for each ministerial post to hold the government accountable on those posts. It's sort of like being the ranking member of a Congressional committe.

[Agarntrop]

Any updates on Hansen?

[Kargintinia]

Any updates on Hansen?

Working on it

[Meelducan]

Tagging. Might apply at a later date.

Any positions needed?

[Sao Nova Europa]

Tagging. Might apply at a later date.

Any positions needed?

Could use another guy at Brexit Party.

[Agarntrop]

Tagging. Might apply at a later date.

Any positions needed?

Welcome

We need a not-Corbyn figure really

[Irona]

Wait so you won't have an election in the game until RL 2024?

[Agarntrop]

Wait so you won't have an election in the game until RL 2024?

Probably not nationally. But there will still be by-elections, local elections and elections to the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and northern ireland, which will involve some campaigning.

[Irona]

Wait so you won't have an election in the game until RL 2024?

Probably not nationally. But there will still be by-elections, local elections and elections to the devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales and northern ireland, which will involve some campaigning.

I might make a less rubbish (not)Len McCuskey

[Uan aa Boa]

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Character Information Sheet

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:
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

[Greater Arab State]

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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

[Kargintinia]

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Character Information Sheet

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)
MP for Henley (2001-2008)
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. . 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.

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 later speak against the war and the Prime Minister. 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 become Mayor. He went through a notable leftward trend during his first term, putting into place new environmental regulations. 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" 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.

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Character Information Sheet

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 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.


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