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POLITICAL PARTY SIGN UP THREAD
- Rules for the First Ransenari Tynwald Election
[u][b]Mandatory Election Sign Up Form[/b][/u] wrote:Name of Political Party/Movement/Faction:
Name of Leader:
Copy of Statement of Beliefs/Link to Published Statement of Beliefs:

Quiz on Ransenari Political Positions:
Issues
Binge Drinking
Internal Security
Healthcare
Jobs
Privatization
National Unity
Social Welfare
Drugs
Tax Reform

(Each policy position has a number, 1-5. One is considered the most hardcore left wing position. Five is the most hardcore right wing position.)

//Binge Drinking
1 - Nordic-style government monopoly to ensure responsible drinking.
2 - Encourage a more moderate drinking culture.
3 - Alcohol is a perfectly acceptable part of our society.
4 - Alcohol abuse is a serious problem. Deny drunks emergency medical treatment.
5 - Alcohol is a threat to our society. Restrict access to it.
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//Internal Security
1 - Roll back all internal security regulations; as they violate individual freedom and establish a police state.
2 - Scale back police powers and restore due process rights. We must defend our civil liberties.
3 - Security regulations are fine the way they are. Beef up the security services' budget and manpower.
4 - Make tough security measures permanent and crack down on terrorists and criminals.
5 - Establish martial law immediately and restore the death penalty to punish enemies.
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// Healthcare
1 - Replace current system with a single-payer health care system. Establish a Ransenari health service to employ doctors and nurses.
2 - Create a public health insurance program to cover the uninsured. Secure universal health care through public and private means.
3 - Achieve universal health care through mandatory purchase of competing private health insurers. Subsidize low-income, unemployed and pregnant patients.
4 - Increase tax incentives for people to buy insurance. Restrict medical malpractice lawsuits. Encourage private hospitals and clinics.
5 - Privatise all current public hospitals and clinics. Deregulate the health insurance market to promote competition.
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//Jobs
1 - Massive public works and welfare programs. Restructure companies into union-owned cooperatives.
2 - Preserve worker and union rights. Mandate a 35-hour workweek. Create regional infrastructure program.
3 - Inject a stimulus package to combat unemployment. Provide retraining programs for the unemployed.
4 - Relax dismissal protection. Protect public services from strikes. Create a welfare-to-work program.
5 - Outlaw strikes and crack down on unions. Repeal employment protection. Terminate unemployment benefits.
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// Privatization
1 - Support a large-scale nationalization programme to take over all private industries.
2 - It was a mistake to privatize manufacturing, transport, and finance. Re-nationalize them.
3 - Put a hold on privatization plans, but encourage competition in appropriate markets.
4 - More competition in markets. Privatize companies owned by the Comital Government through vouchers.
5 - Completely privatize all remaining public companies! Sell off these assets to the private sector.
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//National Unity
1 - Allow States full sovereignty with the right to secede
2 - Home rule for States that are active
3 - Strengthen Shirekeep's supremacy over State and territorial governments
4 - Reform to create a strong central government and oppose devolution
5 - Impose direct rule from Shirekeep with an iron fist
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//Social Welfare
1 - The state should take care of everyone from cradle to grave
2 - Introduce unemployment benefits and universal healthcare
3 - Establish social security and modernise hospitals
4 - No to welfare state expansion as it rewards the lazy
5 - Return to the old poor law system, reduce burdens on society
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//Drugs
1 - Prohibition has been a total failure. Pardon all prisoners. Legalize and regulate all currently illegal drugs.
2 - Focus on rehabilitation, harm reduction, and decriminalization. Legalize marijuana production and possession.
3 - Provide greater rehabilitation services for drug addicts, but crack down on dealers and cartels.
4 - Drugs are destroying our society. Toughen laws for illegal drugs, and increase enforcement.
5 - The Comital Government needs a war on drugs to eliminate this scourge. Unleash the armed forces upon the cartels.
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//Tax Reform
1 - Top income tax rate of 70% along with a negative rate for low incomes. Impose "wealth tax" on the wealthy and corporations.
2 - Top income tax rate of 50%. Enact a financial transactions tax. Close loopholes and crack down on tax evasion by the wealthy.
3 - Reduce income taxes for lower and middle income and for small businesses. Reduce VAT rate.
4 - Reduce income tax rates across-the-board by 5%. Reduce corporate taxes. Close some loopholes.
5 - Establish a flat income tax of 17% for individuals and corporations. Shift to indirect taxation.
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POLITICAL PARTY LEADER DETAILS
- Rules of the First Ransenari Tynwald Elections
Name of Political Party Leader:
Name of Political Party Led By Leader:
Positive Trait (Pick at least one):
Negative Trait (Pick at least one):
Background (Bio) Information:

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Right, let's get this shit on.
Name of Political Party Leader: Mo'lluk Hawthorne
Name of Political Party Led By Leader: Agrarian Party of Ransenar (APR)
Positive Trait (Pick at least one): Average Joe
Negative Trait (Pick at least one): Gaffe-Prone (think Rob Ford with more ale and less crack)
Background (Bio) Information:
Mo'lluk Hawthorne leads the biggest clan of farming families from the area immediately north of Tyrelwynn. He first came to prominence leading a campaign of machine-breaking by local unemployed farmhands, for which he was sentenced to a lengthy prison term. After a campaign by his supporters and lawyers, he was paroled on the condition that he would enter legitimate politics and disassociate himself from terrorist acts.
Stellus Ryabinevich Dolorvenuk Yastreb
- Count of Lunaris in the Duchy of Goldshire
Head of the House of Yastreb, honoured throughout history as follows: Member of the Order of the Dragon, recipent of the Silver Swan Award (Imperial) recipent of the Order of the Silver Orchid (Elwynn) Knight Comrade of the Order of Mischievous Intent (Yardistan) Arx-Piscator of the Piscatores Alexandrii (Brookshire) Knight of the Nishan-i-Liaqat (Babkha), Paranoid Narcissist (everywhere)

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WOOT! Perhaps you'd like to give more details about the APR? :doc:

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How did I not even see that.
Name of Political Party/Movement/Faction: Agrarian Party of Ransenar (APR)
Name of Leader: Mo'lluk Hawthorne
Copy of Statement of Beliefs/Link to Published Statement of Beliefs:
The APR promotes itself as the party of the common peasantry. It places a great emphasis on personal liberty and local rule. It considers state overreach and corporate market forces to be twin evils, and campaigns for an ideal of decentralised communal governance built around villages and clans. Many of the APR's policies are focused on a living wage for agricultural workers, a fair wholesale price for their produce, resistance to mechanisation, and generally protecting the the peasant life from destruction by either state collectivisation or corporate profit maximisation.

Political Positions:

Binge Drinking: 3
Internal Security: 2
Healthcare: 2
Jobs: 2
Privatization: 2
National Unity: 2
Social Welfare: 2
Drugs: 1
Tax Reform: 4
Stellus Ryabinevich Dolorvenuk Yastreb
- Count of Lunaris in the Duchy of Goldshire
Head of the House of Yastreb, honoured throughout history as follows: Member of the Order of the Dragon, recipent of the Silver Swan Award (Imperial) recipent of the Order of the Silver Orchid (Elwynn) Knight Comrade of the Order of Mischievous Intent (Yardistan) Arx-Piscator of the Piscatores Alexandrii (Brookshire) Knight of the Nishan-i-Liaqat (Babkha), Paranoid Narcissist (everywhere)

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(NB. This is just to make this election more interesting. I have no interest in declaring independence ;) )


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Name of Political Party/Movement/Faction: Buffalo Party
Name of Leader: "Wild" Bill Carter
Positive Trait (Pick at least one): Bulldog, Average Joe, Maverick
Negative Trait (Pick at least one): Gaffe-Prone, Loose Cannon, Wingnut
Background (Bio) Information: Bill has been the owner of a bar in rural Ransenar. He decided that "things are not right" in the county and that it is "time to wake them f*ckers up an' throw some honest truth into their smug faces". Bill is well liked by the locals for his ability to down an impressive amount of alcohol and is an active member of the local hunt.
Copy of Statement of Beliefs/Link to Published Statement of Beliefs: Bill summarises his beliefs as follows: "Any man should be able to defend himself, people should take care of their own and their folks. Nobody should bother anyone else and if you want to earn a decent livin' you should get a job. You should be an honest guy and treat other folks nice. The goverment should mind their own business and should leave the people be. The only thing the government should do is punish criminals and fight wars."

Quiz on Ransenari Political Positions:


Binge Drinking: 3 - Alcohol is a perfectly acceptable part of our society.
Internal Security: 4 - Make tough security measures permanent and crack down on terrorists and criminals.
Healthcare: 5 - Privatise all current public hospitals and clinics. Deregulate the health insurance market to promote competition.
Jobs: 5 - Outlaw strikes and crack down on unions. Repeal employment protection. Terminate unemployment benefits.
Privatization: 5 - Completely privatize all remaining public companies! Sell off these assets to the private sector.
National Unity: 1 - Allow States full sovereignty with the right to secede
Social Welfare: 4 - No to welfare state expansion as it rewards the lazy
Drugs: 4 - Drugs are destroying our society. Toughen laws for illegal drugs, and increase enforcement.
Tax Reform: 5 - Establish a flat income tax of 17% for individuals and corporations. Shift to indirect taxation.
1.Titus Morvayne, Prefect of Shirekeep, Count of the Skyla Islands
2.Eki Aholibamah Verion, Queen in the North
3. Ludovic Verion, Lord of Blackstone and Governor-General of the Iron Company
4. Jeremy Harwinsson Archer, super sleuth

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Registered Political Parties:
- Agrarian Party of Ransenar
- Buffalo Party

Thank you gentlemen for your submissions. :-D This will be open for 72 more hours, just wanted to let you guys know I've seen your party registrations and they're noted.

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[u][b]Mandatory Election Sign Up Form[/b][/u] wrote:Name of Political Party/Movement/Faction:
Name of Leader: William "Billy" Blightey
Background (Bio) Information: Billy Blightey was born in the rough end of Tyrelywnn and rose through the ranks from a street urchin to a gang boss. Often at the center of street battles in his youth, he made a name for himself when he saved Judge Dail from a car bomb mere seconds before it exploded. Blightey was arrested, but ultimately was brought to sentencing before Dail himself, who paroled him, giving him a second chance. The gesture jolted Blightey out of crime and he traded his guns for gavels and became a politician. He was essential to securing new industry for Tyrelwynn that helped bring about a stronger economy and ended years of gang fighting, eventually becoming Mayor of the city. Now he's set his sights on greater challenges and aims to get a seat on the Tynwald.
Copy of Statement of Beliefs/Link to Published Statement of Beliefs: Blightey is a firm believer that crime is a result of society, not people, and as such believes a strong economy for Ransenar will deliver it to prosperity. Encouraging of manufacturing and other big industry, his vision is one of a modern industrial state filled with happy workers.
Positive Trait (Pick at least one): Bulldog, Grassroots Organizer
Negative Trait (Pick at least one): Loose Cannon, Skeletons in the Closet


Quiz on Ransenari Political Positions:
Issues
Binge Drinking 3
Internal Security 4
Healthcare 5
Jobs 3
Privatization 4
National Unity 2
Social Welfare 3
Drugs 5
Tax Reform 3

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I like how all Ransenari politicians are chronic drunks and/or criminals. This is shaping up well. :drunk:
Stellus Ryabinevich Dolorvenuk Yastreb
- Count of Lunaris in the Duchy of Goldshire
Head of the House of Yastreb, honoured throughout history as follows: Member of the Order of the Dragon, recipent of the Silver Swan Award (Imperial) recipent of the Order of the Silver Orchid (Elwynn) Knight Comrade of the Order of Mischievous Intent (Yardistan) Arx-Piscator of the Piscatores Alexandrii (Brookshire) Knight of the Nishan-i-Liaqat (Babkha), Paranoid Narcissist (everywhere)

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Janus Eadric wrote:Registered Political Parties:
- Agrarian Party of Ransenar
- Buffalo Party

Thank you gentlemen for your submissions. :-D This will be open for 72 more hours, just wanted to let you guys know I've seen your party registrations and they're noted.
Adding the Billy Blightley Bloc to this list. (Does it have its own name? What should I name the movement officially?)
Stellus Yastreb wrote:I like how all Ransenari politicians are chronic drunks and/or criminals. This is shaping up well. :drunk:
I am loving it. It matches their Count being a thug. ;)

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And Goldshirian alcoholic pride.
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I'll drink to that :herman:
Stellus Ryabinevich Dolorvenuk Yastreb
- Count of Lunaris in the Duchy of Goldshire
Head of the House of Yastreb, honoured throughout history as follows: Member of the Order of the Dragon, recipent of the Silver Swan Award (Imperial) recipent of the Order of the Silver Orchid (Elwynn) Knight Comrade of the Order of Mischievous Intent (Yardistan) Arx-Piscator of the Piscatores Alexandrii (Brookshire) Knight of the Nishan-i-Liaqat (Babkha), Paranoid Narcissist (everywhere)

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Not that we'd be able to tell ;)
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Janus Eadric wrote:Adding the Billy Blightley Bloc to this list. (Does it have its own name? What should I name the movement officially?)
I guess you can just call it the Blightey Bloc. :herman:

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Orion wrote:
Janus Eadric wrote:Adding the Billy Blightley Bloc to this list. (Does it have its own name? What should I name the movement officially?)
I guess you can just call it the Blightey Bloc. :herman:
Perfect. Will do. :Court:

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Registrations have closed. The political parties and movements that will contest the first Ransenari Tynwald elections are:
- Agrarian Party of Ransenar
- Buffalo Party
- Blightey Bloc

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