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Social Reforms NOW!!!
The Disraeli government has brought the Republic to the brink of disaster. Only a Labour Victory can now save Britain.
The Disraeli government has brought the Republic to the brink of disaster. Only a Labour Victory can now save Britain.
Did you even read my post? I just argued for moderation, against an uprising and against bloody repression. Ergo, let's achieve a better life, let's avoid killing people.
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If it had not been for the Liberal's tax policy, none of this would have happened. Do not believe the lies of the socialists my friends, the NCP are the true victims of this term.
The Election of 1878
With Europe in the midst of Revolution and Britain poised to join the continent the election of 1878 marked a final opportunity to try to bring a halt to the coming conflict. The NCP hoped it would provide a mandate for the implimentation of the German Method, the Liberals hoped a victory would give credince to their words for everyone to just put down their arms and get along, Labour wanted more and radical reforms and the Socialists wanted to go through with their plans of building working class power.
The stakes had never been higher.
National Conservative Party (Tories)
With Disraeli's retirement the NCP has fallen fully into the hands of the radical wing. With events in the country spiralling out of control the party calls for a swift, shart and temporary largescale crackdown in the hopes of avoiding revolution.
Party Leader: Field Marshal Robert Napier
As Alexander Milne began to fade Robert Napier rose to become Britain's most important political-military figure. Having commanded British troops in various colonial wars before taking charge of the British Army in France during the Great War he had an almighty military pedigree – pictures dipicting his march into Paris at the head of the British Army would be a staple of his election campaign. As a response to the internal troubles in Britain he proposes the full implimentation of the German Method in Britain. He also supports the idea of assisting both the French and Germans in their own battles against socialist revolution.
Policies
Economic:
In order to tackle our economic difficulties and the high unemployment the state should use its funds to provide a strong injection into industry. Subsidies should also be provided to ensure factories can remain open. We need to provide assistance so that the economic conditions that caused these miraculous circumstances are never repeated again.
We propose a flat tax regime. The Liberal regressive tax bears a strong wieght of the burden of responsibility for the current crisis. Let all law abiding members of society share the burden of taxation.
Social spending should remain as high as possible.
Tariffs shall be used to raise funds and to protect native industries.
Reforms:
Complete and full implimentation of the German Method.
A state of temporary Martial Law.
The Socialist Party is to be banned. Any members of Parliament elected are to be expelled. The leaders of the party are to be placed under arrest. If they openly call for violent revolution then they are to be executed.
Any and all participants in violent action against the government are to be executed.
The RFB is to be made illegal and any and all participants are to be arrested. If they resist arrest with violence they are to be executed.
Any members of the armed forces who do not follow their orders are to be executed.
All socialist Trade Unions are to be made illegal.
Strike action is to be banned – temporarily.
Large scale gatherings and public protests are to be banned – temporarily.
We cannot allow division at this cruicial stage and we shall therefore expand the censorship laws to include all publications that openly attack the governments policies in dealing with the socialist bandits. This is a temporary measure.
The Labour Party is to remain legal. However, its members are to be under close surviellance – if any of them support the communist insurrection then they are to face arrest and if they are members of Parliament they are to be expelled.
The Dail in Dublin is to be temporarily closed due to its status as a hotbed for Irish nationalist and socialist agitation against the legitimate rule of the British Republic in Ireland. The state of martial law is to be extended to Ireland and all limitations on socialists extended to Irish nationalists and the Irish Parliamentary Party.
From henceforth, all political parties aiming to destroy the Republic are to be made illegal – participation in such organisation is punishable with imprisonment.
The foreign emigre rebels – expelled from their own countries for troublemaking – have already begun to leave Britain (no doubt for some cess pit in Vienna) all those who remain are to be forced to leave immediately.
These measures shall not be easy my friends. But they are the only way to avoid socialist revolution.
Foreign Policy:
Let us build a united front with the Kaiser in Berlin and the Republican government in Paris against our internal revolutions. Once order is restored it shall be our duty to throttle these 'revolutionary states'.
In Quebec we must immediately provide aid to the forces of Order under Prince Francois as he battles against communism.
Once Britain is fit again we should look to unite with the Germans, French and even the Russians in crushing the socialist states in Austria and Turkey. Let us throw this vile ideology upon the fire and let it burn away into the forgotten chapters of history.
The Socialist Party
With the workers of Europe up in arms the British proletariat seems poised to join their Comrades. The Socialist Party supports the immediate assumption of working class power and the fufilling of the Socialist Manifesto – or at least as much of the Manifesto as can be made law.
Party Leader: George Odger
George Odger was now an old man at 65. But the fire in his belly that had driven him first to Chartism, then to Labourism and then the Marxism remains has powerful as ever. Still greatly respected and still able and willing to help lead the working class to victory he sees these moments as the most important in Britain's entire history.
Policies
The Socialist Party supports the immediate implimentation of the Socialist Manifesto.
The Manifesto of the Socialist Party
''The Socialist Party shall fight tirelessly in the interests of the working class. We shall oppose any government that opposes those interests and we shall support any government's measures that strengthen those interests. We have no further interests beyond those of our class.
We Demand:
That the current minimal safety standards in factories be increased to acceptable levels. (Two levels of reform)
That pensions for those who ave worked throughout their lives be increased from the current trinkets thrown to elderly workers to an acceptable level. (Two levels of reform)
That our health service be improved further so that all citizens of the Republic shall have some sort of access to healthcare. (One level of reform)
That the minimum wage be raised. (One level of reform)
The institution of a heavily progressive tax system that shall turn the weak stream of wealth that flowed down to the workers under Labour into an unstoppable torrent.
The creation of low level working class democracy in the manner that the heroes of the Manhattan Commune created:
Workers' Councils are to be established throughout the Republic – these Councils shall be run by the local communities and shall allow the workers of a particular region to manner most of their affairs themselves.
Larger Regional Councils are to be created for entire cities or regions. In these Councils the delegates shall be elected representatives and shall be fully recallable.
Our political system must be restructured. Parliament shall be replaced by a Grand Council of the Republic. This Council shall be made up of delegates elected by the Workers' Councils themselves, all delegates shall be fully recallable. Elections for the Grand Council are to take place every 5 years.
That all land currently under the control of these wealthy land barons are to be seized by the farmers who work upon them and given over to these farmers so that they may own the land upon which they work.
That all inheritance rights are to be abolished – within a generation the old families of plutocrats and aristocrats shall finally have their booty, accumulated through the mass exploitation and murder of working men and women, wrenched from them.
That any property owned by emigrants or rebels is to seized by the state.
That any industries seized through this method, or through the abolition of inheritance, or through simple abandonment are to be turned over to the those who work in them to own and manage.
That all banking services are to be centralised under the banner of a national Bank – controlled by the state.
That the means of communication and transportation are to be turned over to the control of the state.
That the state shall be used to expand our industrial sector further and to provide financial support to struggling industries.
That the colonial holdings of the Republic be given their freedom – we must look to establish the same sort of working class democracy and control in these regions before granting them autonomy. However they shall retain our protection.
That all Women over the voting age be granted equal rights to voting as men.
That solidarity be shown between Britain and the workingmen of all other nations in their parallel struggles.
That Britain brings an end to its series of bloodthirsty wars for Imperial power that bring many thousands of young, working men to their deaths for the sake of a few thousand acres of jungle. No more!
That a new Workers' Republic be declared!''
We also promote the reinstitution of press freedom.
And that great idea, that golden idea, that the working man is capable of living without a master ruling over his head shall not die. It shall not die if the Socialist Party is destroyed and all its members executed. It shall not die if even the word ''Union'' becomes contraband. Napier cannot destroy it with his rifles, bayonets and cannons and Gladstone cannot destroy it with his policies of impoverishment for the working class.
We are entering what could be the most glorius chapter in human history. An age in which no man exploits another and everyone gets the benefits of what they produce with their own labour. Do not bow to reaction, do not accept rule by the sabre or by economic terrorism.
The Labour Party
Under the rule of Joseph Arch the Labour Party had once again turned left towards the workers. Now with a new brand of Christian Socialism that mixed the words of Jesus, Marx and Ricardo amongst many others into a new ideology. Part of this leftward shift involved a turning away from the percieved decadence and injustice of the Liberal Party and a closer relationship with the Socialists and, as ever, the Irish nationalists.
Party Leader: Joseph Arch
A radical preacher man from the Midlands Arch's rise to political note had been remarkably swift. After leader a successful largescale industrial action amongst the agricultural labourers he was elected to Parliament and propelled to the leadership of an ailing Labour Party that had lost 3/4s of its vote in the space of just two elections. Reinvigorating the party with a new found radicalism and links to the Christianity Arch believed that in the past the British left had alienated many workers through their rigid secularism and at times their atheism. Rather than a block to the revolution Arch viewed the Gospels as a book of potent egalitarianism and a call to arms of the workers, in Arch's own words ''Christianity is not a road bloc on our path to liberation, it is the guiding light that leads the workers towards the earth envisioned by our Lord Jesus Christ. It is not just the will of the people to be free and enjoy a fair world, it is the will the God''.
Policies
Economic:
A strongly progressive tax system that will create a great flow of income form the bourgeiosie to the working families of this nation.
We shall use the state to support industries and expand them so that all men shall be granted work.
It is the mission of the Labour Party to create a more economically equal society. This cannot be secured through armed revolution, He teaches us that such is not the path of the faithful. Let us our legitimate institutions to secure equality on this earth.
And now a warning from Him, to the likes of the Liberals and National Conservative party:
''Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you. '' James 5:1-6
Reforms:
The Labour Party proposed a range of sweeping reforms.
We demand a raising of the minimum wage. (One level of reform)
We call for better safety standards in factories. (One level of reform)
We support the creation of greater pension provisions. (One level of reform)
We should make all publications legal once more. Let there be press freedom!
We call for the creation of low level worker run council and for them to be given a significant amount of local power in managing their own affairs. This low level democracy shall be our basis as we build towards socialism on earth.
And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need - Acts 2:44-45
Foreign Policy:
We should seek fraternal ties with the new socialist Republics – especially the Swiss Republic that institutes socialism in the same democratic and peaceful manner in which the Labour Party intends to. We should condemn the Kaiser's bloody bludgeon and all who have supported his ''German Method''. Likewise, we should call for peace and elections in France.
The drive for emancipation and freedom across the Ocean in America is coming to an end and we should do everything to build a close and happy relationship with the Liberator, Lincoln.
The Liberal Party
The Liberal Party seemed ill suited and out of its depth in the crisis that had emerged over the past year. Whilst condemning the German Method touted by the NCP and lambasting the reform programs of both Labour and the Socialists they had struggled to find an alternative that stood between reforms that would satisfy the anger of the working class and force that would send them back to work. In the end the party seemed to retreat to its high Whig morality – broadcasting the importance of liberty, market freedom, social cohesion and peace at home.
Party Leader: William E. Gladstone's
Gladstone seemed to be a shadow of the man who had almost single handedly taken the Liberal Party from oblivion to Downing Street. Many said that the past 9 years had aged him by more than 20 as the 69 year old seemed, slower, less adept, less dominating and lacked that certain impact he had had back in 1869. The pressures of office has been one thing, war another, coalition a further stress but it had been the seeming collapse of the system he had worked so hard to build in both the economic and social field that had finally broken him. But with no one willing to challenge the man whom most of the Liberal Party idolised he had remained in office.
Policies
Economic:
We should retain the current tax system that encourages private enterprise and market freedom in a manner that no other system can. We accept that the system has some flaws, but put simply, if we do not use this tax regime then the only way to keep our economy flowing (and decrease unemployment!) is to expand the already bloated and state further into people's lives. Interferring with their way of living and tell them what they can and cannot do. We shall not allow that!
No tariffs!
Leave the economy to the market – they are the experts afterall.
Reforms:
Offer fruits and carry a big stick.
We should try to create a system in which the working class have an opportunity to raise themselves out of the mud. We should do this by raising funding for education by 10%.
We should also protect the essential freedoms of the Republic. Although the current limits on the press are to stand until the current violence has come to an end. Removing the restrictions now would cause a volley of volatile material to enter into a situation that is poised on the brink of violence. We should remove the restrictions, but once things have calmed.
But the workingmen may continue to protest as they wish, organise Unions etc.
That is the fruit.
But we cannot expect our freedoms, our private property, to be protected without the big stick. The Army should be placed on high alert and all strike action is to be responded to with force. It is not a freedom to use violence in order to force an employer (the man who has given these people work in the first place!) to give concessions at the barrell of a gun or with one's fist. These affairs must be handled peaceably.
Any violent groups and uprisings will be quelled without hesitation. This government will have no qualms with responding to militant violence with the appropriate force.
We support the illegality of the RFB and the arrest of its members.
We will crush any rebellion. But we shall not strike first.
Foreign Policy:
We must resolve the problems in our own backyard first before bothering with the continent again. But once peace is restored we must look to strike against the socialists with force.
Across the sea we should congradulate the men of the North and look to rebuild ties with America. The loss of Quebec from their sphere of influence will have undoubtedly angered Washington. They could be an ally in our war against the Illigitimate Left.
The election is now open!
Every reader has one vote and may only vote once per election.
You may vote for:
Liberals
Socialists
National Conservatives (you may all write NCP or Tories or similar variation)
Labour
Please either bold your vote or place it in a separate post to make it easier for me to count them.
Polls shall close at 9 AM on Saturday.
Good Luck!
With Europe in the midst of Revolution and Britain poised to join the continent the election of 1878 marked a final opportunity to try to bring a halt to the coming conflict. The NCP hoped it would provide a mandate for the implimentation of the German Method, the Liberals hoped a victory would give credince to their words for everyone to just put down their arms and get along, Labour wanted more and radical reforms and the Socialists wanted to go through with their plans of building working class power.
The stakes had never been higher.
National Conservative Party (Tories)
With Disraeli's retirement the NCP has fallen fully into the hands of the radical wing. With events in the country spiralling out of control the party calls for a swift, shart and temporary largescale crackdown in the hopes of avoiding revolution.
Party Leader: Field Marshal Robert Napier
As Alexander Milne began to fade Robert Napier rose to become Britain's most important political-military figure. Having commanded British troops in various colonial wars before taking charge of the British Army in France during the Great War he had an almighty military pedigree – pictures dipicting his march into Paris at the head of the British Army would be a staple of his election campaign. As a response to the internal troubles in Britain he proposes the full implimentation of the German Method in Britain. He also supports the idea of assisting both the French and Germans in their own battles against socialist revolution.
Policies
Economic:
In order to tackle our economic difficulties and the high unemployment the state should use its funds to provide a strong injection into industry. Subsidies should also be provided to ensure factories can remain open. We need to provide assistance so that the economic conditions that caused these miraculous circumstances are never repeated again.
We propose a flat tax regime. The Liberal regressive tax bears a strong wieght of the burden of responsibility for the current crisis. Let all law abiding members of society share the burden of taxation.
Social spending should remain as high as possible.
Tariffs shall be used to raise funds and to protect native industries.
Reforms:
Complete and full implimentation of the German Method.
A state of temporary Martial Law.
The Socialist Party is to be banned. Any members of Parliament elected are to be expelled. The leaders of the party are to be placed under arrest. If they openly call for violent revolution then they are to be executed.
Any and all participants in violent action against the government are to be executed.
The RFB is to be made illegal and any and all participants are to be arrested. If they resist arrest with violence they are to be executed.
Any members of the armed forces who do not follow their orders are to be executed.
All socialist Trade Unions are to be made illegal.
Strike action is to be banned – temporarily.
Large scale gatherings and public protests are to be banned – temporarily.
We cannot allow division at this cruicial stage and we shall therefore expand the censorship laws to include all publications that openly attack the governments policies in dealing with the socialist bandits. This is a temporary measure.
The Labour Party is to remain legal. However, its members are to be under close surviellance – if any of them support the communist insurrection then they are to face arrest and if they are members of Parliament they are to be expelled.
The Dail in Dublin is to be temporarily closed due to its status as a hotbed for Irish nationalist and socialist agitation against the legitimate rule of the British Republic in Ireland. The state of martial law is to be extended to Ireland and all limitations on socialists extended to Irish nationalists and the Irish Parliamentary Party.
From henceforth, all political parties aiming to destroy the Republic are to be made illegal – participation in such organisation is punishable with imprisonment.
The foreign emigre rebels – expelled from their own countries for troublemaking – have already begun to leave Britain (no doubt for some cess pit in Vienna) all those who remain are to be forced to leave immediately.
These measures shall not be easy my friends. But they are the only way to avoid socialist revolution.
Foreign Policy:
Let us build a united front with the Kaiser in Berlin and the Republican government in Paris against our internal revolutions. Once order is restored it shall be our duty to throttle these 'revolutionary states'.
In Quebec we must immediately provide aid to the forces of Order under Prince Francois as he battles against communism.
Once Britain is fit again we should look to unite with the Germans, French and even the Russians in crushing the socialist states in Austria and Turkey. Let us throw this vile ideology upon the fire and let it burn away into the forgotten chapters of history.
The Socialist Party
With the workers of Europe up in arms the British proletariat seems poised to join their Comrades. The Socialist Party supports the immediate assumption of working class power and the fufilling of the Socialist Manifesto – or at least as much of the Manifesto as can be made law.
Party Leader: George Odger
George Odger was now an old man at 65. But the fire in his belly that had driven him first to Chartism, then to Labourism and then the Marxism remains has powerful as ever. Still greatly respected and still able and willing to help lead the working class to victory he sees these moments as the most important in Britain's entire history.
Policies
The Socialist Party supports the immediate implimentation of the Socialist Manifesto.
The Manifesto of the Socialist Party
''The Socialist Party shall fight tirelessly in the interests of the working class. We shall oppose any government that opposes those interests and we shall support any government's measures that strengthen those interests. We have no further interests beyond those of our class.
We Demand:
That the current minimal safety standards in factories be increased to acceptable levels. (Two levels of reform)
That pensions for those who ave worked throughout their lives be increased from the current trinkets thrown to elderly workers to an acceptable level. (Two levels of reform)
That our health service be improved further so that all citizens of the Republic shall have some sort of access to healthcare. (One level of reform)
That the minimum wage be raised. (One level of reform)
The institution of a heavily progressive tax system that shall turn the weak stream of wealth that flowed down to the workers under Labour into an unstoppable torrent.
The creation of low level working class democracy in the manner that the heroes of the Manhattan Commune created:
Workers' Councils are to be established throughout the Republic – these Councils shall be run by the local communities and shall allow the workers of a particular region to manner most of their affairs themselves.
Larger Regional Councils are to be created for entire cities or regions. In these Councils the delegates shall be elected representatives and shall be fully recallable.
Our political system must be restructured. Parliament shall be replaced by a Grand Council of the Republic. This Council shall be made up of delegates elected by the Workers' Councils themselves, all delegates shall be fully recallable. Elections for the Grand Council are to take place every 5 years.
That all land currently under the control of these wealthy land barons are to be seized by the farmers who work upon them and given over to these farmers so that they may own the land upon which they work.
That all inheritance rights are to be abolished – within a generation the old families of plutocrats and aristocrats shall finally have their booty, accumulated through the mass exploitation and murder of working men and women, wrenched from them.
That any property owned by emigrants or rebels is to seized by the state.
That any industries seized through this method, or through the abolition of inheritance, or through simple abandonment are to be turned over to the those who work in them to own and manage.
That all banking services are to be centralised under the banner of a national Bank – controlled by the state.
That the means of communication and transportation are to be turned over to the control of the state.
That the state shall be used to expand our industrial sector further and to provide financial support to struggling industries.
That the colonial holdings of the Republic be given their freedom – we must look to establish the same sort of working class democracy and control in these regions before granting them autonomy. However they shall retain our protection.
That all Women over the voting age be granted equal rights to voting as men.
That solidarity be shown between Britain and the workingmen of all other nations in their parallel struggles.
That Britain brings an end to its series of bloodthirsty wars for Imperial power that bring many thousands of young, working men to their deaths for the sake of a few thousand acres of jungle. No more!
That a new Workers' Republic be declared!''
We also promote the reinstitution of press freedom.
Let me tell you a story about a place called Mouseland ….
[video=youtube;GEYwVb-6TeE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEYwVb-6TeE&feature=related[/video]
…. You can lock up a mouse, or a man, but you can't lock up an idea.
[video=youtube;GEYwVb-6TeE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEYwVb-6TeE&feature=related[/video]
…. You can lock up a mouse, or a man, but you can't lock up an idea.
And that great idea, that golden idea, that the working man is capable of living without a master ruling over his head shall not die. It shall not die if the Socialist Party is destroyed and all its members executed. It shall not die if even the word ''Union'' becomes contraband. Napier cannot destroy it with his rifles, bayonets and cannons and Gladstone cannot destroy it with his policies of impoverishment for the working class.
We are entering what could be the most glorius chapter in human history. An age in which no man exploits another and everyone gets the benefits of what they produce with their own labour. Do not bow to reaction, do not accept rule by the sabre or by economic terrorism.
Workingmen of all countries unite!
The Labour Party
Under the rule of Joseph Arch the Labour Party had once again turned left towards the workers. Now with a new brand of Christian Socialism that mixed the words of Jesus, Marx and Ricardo amongst many others into a new ideology. Part of this leftward shift involved a turning away from the percieved decadence and injustice of the Liberal Party and a closer relationship with the Socialists and, as ever, the Irish nationalists.
Party Leader: Joseph Arch
A radical preacher man from the Midlands Arch's rise to political note had been remarkably swift. After leader a successful largescale industrial action amongst the agricultural labourers he was elected to Parliament and propelled to the leadership of an ailing Labour Party that had lost 3/4s of its vote in the space of just two elections. Reinvigorating the party with a new found radicalism and links to the Christianity Arch believed that in the past the British left had alienated many workers through their rigid secularism and at times their atheism. Rather than a block to the revolution Arch viewed the Gospels as a book of potent egalitarianism and a call to arms of the workers, in Arch's own words ''Christianity is not a road bloc on our path to liberation, it is the guiding light that leads the workers towards the earth envisioned by our Lord Jesus Christ. It is not just the will of the people to be free and enjoy a fair world, it is the will the God''.
Policies
Economic:
A strongly progressive tax system that will create a great flow of income form the bourgeiosie to the working families of this nation.
We shall use the state to support industries and expand them so that all men shall be granted work.
It is the mission of the Labour Party to create a more economically equal society. This cannot be secured through armed revolution, He teaches us that such is not the path of the faithful. Let us our legitimate institutions to secure equality on this earth.
And now a warning from Him, to the likes of the Liberals and National Conservative party:
''Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you. '' James 5:1-6
Reforms:
The Labour Party proposed a range of sweeping reforms.
We demand a raising of the minimum wage. (One level of reform)
We call for better safety standards in factories. (One level of reform)
We support the creation of greater pension provisions. (One level of reform)
We should make all publications legal once more. Let there be press freedom!
We call for the creation of low level worker run council and for them to be given a significant amount of local power in managing their own affairs. This low level democracy shall be our basis as we build towards socialism on earth.
And all who believed were together and had all things in common. And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need - Acts 2:44-45
Foreign Policy:
We should seek fraternal ties with the new socialist Republics – especially the Swiss Republic that institutes socialism in the same democratic and peaceful manner in which the Labour Party intends to. We should condemn the Kaiser's bloody bludgeon and all who have supported his ''German Method''. Likewise, we should call for peace and elections in France.
The drive for emancipation and freedom across the Ocean in America is coming to an end and we should do everything to build a close and happy relationship with the Liberator, Lincoln.
The Liberal Party
The Liberal Party seemed ill suited and out of its depth in the crisis that had emerged over the past year. Whilst condemning the German Method touted by the NCP and lambasting the reform programs of both Labour and the Socialists they had struggled to find an alternative that stood between reforms that would satisfy the anger of the working class and force that would send them back to work. In the end the party seemed to retreat to its high Whig morality – broadcasting the importance of liberty, market freedom, social cohesion and peace at home.
Party Leader: William E. Gladstone's
Gladstone seemed to be a shadow of the man who had almost single handedly taken the Liberal Party from oblivion to Downing Street. Many said that the past 9 years had aged him by more than 20 as the 69 year old seemed, slower, less adept, less dominating and lacked that certain impact he had had back in 1869. The pressures of office has been one thing, war another, coalition a further stress but it had been the seeming collapse of the system he had worked so hard to build in both the economic and social field that had finally broken him. But with no one willing to challenge the man whom most of the Liberal Party idolised he had remained in office.
Policies
Economic:
We should retain the current tax system that encourages private enterprise and market freedom in a manner that no other system can. We accept that the system has some flaws, but put simply, if we do not use this tax regime then the only way to keep our economy flowing (and decrease unemployment!) is to expand the already bloated and state further into people's lives. Interferring with their way of living and tell them what they can and cannot do. We shall not allow that!
No tariffs!
Leave the economy to the market – they are the experts afterall.
Reforms:
Offer fruits and carry a big stick.
We should try to create a system in which the working class have an opportunity to raise themselves out of the mud. We should do this by raising funding for education by 10%.
We should also protect the essential freedoms of the Republic. Although the current limits on the press are to stand until the current violence has come to an end. Removing the restrictions now would cause a volley of volatile material to enter into a situation that is poised on the brink of violence. We should remove the restrictions, but once things have calmed.
But the workingmen may continue to protest as they wish, organise Unions etc.
That is the fruit.
But we cannot expect our freedoms, our private property, to be protected without the big stick. The Army should be placed on high alert and all strike action is to be responded to with force. It is not a freedom to use violence in order to force an employer (the man who has given these people work in the first place!) to give concessions at the barrell of a gun or with one's fist. These affairs must be handled peaceably.
Any violent groups and uprisings will be quelled without hesitation. This government will have no qualms with responding to militant violence with the appropriate force.
We support the illegality of the RFB and the arrest of its members.
We will crush any rebellion. But we shall not strike first.
Foreign Policy:
We must resolve the problems in our own backyard first before bothering with the continent again. But once peace is restored we must look to strike against the socialists with force.
Across the sea we should congradulate the men of the North and look to rebuild ties with America. The loss of Quebec from their sphere of influence will have undoubtedly angered Washington. They could be an ally in our war against the Illigitimate Left.
The election is now open!
Every reader has one vote and may only vote once per election.
You may vote for:
Liberals
Socialists
National Conservatives (you may all write NCP or Tories or similar variation)
Labour
Please either bold your vote or place it in a separate post to make it easier for me to count them.
Polls shall close at 9 AM on Saturday.
Good Luck!
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Labour If the Socialists or NCP win the Republic is dead, and if the Liberals win they will just keep ignoring the plights of the working class. Labour is the only alternative.
It is clear that the so-called Liberals and the extreme right of the NCP alike have given up with the idea of democracy, with their support for censorship and various facets of sweeping brutality against their opponents. I am inclined to support the New Labour for their healthy mix of reforms, but I fear that their approach is to naïve when it comes to the threat of the reactionaries and their loyal "liberal" lap-dogs.
I will suport the Socialists for a new, democratic transformation within our republic, and for vigilance and strength in arms, should a reactionary government manage to intimidate its way into office. Just as the American Minutemen of the past, we should be ready to defend ourselves against tyranny.
However, should Labour reach the most votes, and such a government be respected by the far-right, I will be very happy.
I will suport the Socialists for a new, democratic transformation within our republic, and for vigilance and strength in arms, should a reactionary government manage to intimidate its way into office. Just as the American Minutemen of the past, we should be ready to defend ourselves against tyranny.
However, should Labour reach the most votes, and such a government be respected by the far-right, I will be very happy.
Oh God. The NCP has been taken over by the BNU crowd...sigh. I can't deny my faith and vote for Labour or the Socialists...<shudder>
So...<shudder>...
I...<shudder>...vote...<shudder>...
LIBERAL!
...and I urge all republican NCP members to vote the same. There is no longer a true conservative party in Britain, only reactionaries.
Perhaps, in time, we may restore a true conservative party (please, Attack, restore us a true conservative party!)...
So...<shudder>...
I...<shudder>...vote...<shudder>...
LIBERAL!
...and I urge all republican NCP members to vote the same. There is no longer a true conservative party in Britain, only reactionaries.
Perhaps, in time, we may restore a true conservative party (please, Attack, restore us a true conservative party!)...
Too true.
Yes, please.
I have to think carefully, but I can promise that, while the NCP keeps degradating itself (Salisbury, where art thee?), I shan't vote them anymore.
Meanwhile, I've to decide what to do with my vote. I don't want the Syndiez... er... the Socialists tearing down this Republic and the Liberals have proved to be an endless mistake, so, I've to think carefully.
Socialists!
Despite the mewling of the right to the contrary, the left is the only group interested in freedom now. A vote for the NCP is a vote for murder, dictatorship, and the destruction of the Republic along with everything we have worked for.
Despite the mewling of the right to the contrary, the left is the only group interested in freedom now. A vote for the NCP is a vote for murder, dictatorship, and the destruction of the Republic along with everything we have worked for.
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