[MB.]

Ingliz the fact is you are boring and the government you are running is also boring.

No one likes you.

[ingliz]

Government is boring but being the "lobby fodder" in Opposition must be much worse.

[MB.]

[My dictatorial authoritarian neo-communist] Government is boring

Wow you didn't even try there. Nice job.

[ingliz]

All good government is boring as most people prefer not to live in "interesting times"; they crave boring predictability. Of course, interesting things happening to other people is something else hence the popularity of 'reality' TV. It helps to spice up normal people's normally boring lives, vicariously.

[MB.]

Yah but this is a game.

[Doomhammer]

Games are supposed to be fun. Why don't we have fist fights in Parliament like South Koreans or Turks? Why don't we have a Prime Minister with controversial dealings. Why don't we have interesting legislature proposing that all pregnant women have to wear polka dot dresses?

[ingliz]

I thought it was a "simulation", silly me.

[MB.]

I thought it was a "simulation", silly me.

A simulation is a variety of a game, Ingliz. I would have suspected that someone of your intellectual caliber would have been totally aware of that fact.

[ingliz]

It has been agreed that good government is boring. "Simulation" is the act of imitating, I think the 'communists' have been doing a damn fine job of simulating good government.

Should my party set out to govern badly?

[Doomhammer]

"Simulation" is the act of imitating

simulating good government.

Good government is an oxymoron. There is no such thing. Also, how do you call it a simulation where nothing ever goes wrong, there are never any unanticipated consequences from government actions etc. It's not a simulation, it's a fantasy role playing game at best... a poorly narrated and boring one at that.

[ingliz]

This is odd, I posted the "amendment" in the history thread and the reply locked up and didn't appear. I posted it again and all was good. Now the first post is showing in the topic review but it still doesn't show up in the thread. Is it just me?

It's not a simulation, it's a fantasy role playing game at best... a poorly narrated and boring one at that.

That's true but what else could it be.

[ingliz]

The voting threads are now open for the;

Collective Agreements Act

Trade Unoin Balloting Act

Trade Union Training Leave Act

Trade Union Registration Act

Social Housing Act

Arms Ordinance

Please vote, thankyou

[ingliz]

The elections are being held on Sunday 12th July, next week.

At the moment two of the established parties, the LC and CA, have not registered their intention to contest but there is still time.

If you wish to register a party please do so by posting in the Naming of MP's thread before Wednesday 8, July 2:00 pm GMT.

All parties, new or old, can take part if they register.

If they do not register they will not be included on the ballot.

No exceptions will be granted

Please pop into the thread and make your parties' intentions known.

The election "rules";

1) Parties must register.

2) Eligible voters are those members of PoFo who meet two criteria:

i. They have more than 100 posts

ii. They have been a member of the PoliticsForum for a period of at least one month.

3) The vote will last 72 hours.


ingliz, Clerk of the House

[Sephardi]

*A crowd of people wait outside the Parliament*
*Sephardi approaches the Parliament with a microphone wearing an Agosto Pinochet shirt*
*Posters of Sephardi are being waved around*

CITIZENS OF THE REPUBLIC OF POFO.

We will stop this authoritarian menace! Down with ingliz!
*crowd cheers*

The Right-Wing Bloc will prevent this Communist government even if it takes the death of ingliz and the rest of those tyrants!
*crowd cheers*

We will defeat the Reds! There is no stopping us!

*the crowd chants "Liberty" and is weirdly similar to that Scarface scene for some reason*

*the RWB website is written on a protester's sign*
http://www.politicsforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=89&t=107415

[MistyTiger]

Elections are on July 12th buddy. Relax and sit tight.

[ingliz]

The voting thread for the Electoral Act is now open.

Please vote, Thankyou

[ingliz]

The RWB (Right-Wing Bloc) will also fund, and train, paramilitary anti-Communist guerrillas that will fight Communists and Anarachists and Socialists and anybody who votes for them. We will stage rallies, and if the Communists still beat us in the voting booth, we will work towards a Right-Wing revolution to set up a Nationalist government.

We are CIA-backed and are supplied by the United States

The Right-Wing Bloc will prevent this Communist government even if it takes the death of ingliz and the rest of those tyrants!

The Right-Wing Bloc – The Nationalist Guerrilla Forces Of Pofo

The Right-Wing Bloc is a political party and paramilitary organization. The party was created for the new elections, and hopes to include all Right-Wing and Anti-Communist parties within the Bloc, including the PNL, CA, and the LC. The RWB also runs a CIA-backed Nationalist paramilitary organization, which will participate in the destruction of Communism in our Republic of Pofo, and is skillfully trained and well equipped. The RWB hopes to create a platform that will be accepted by all Pofo Right-Wingers, because the RWB believes that all Nationalists and Conservatives and Libertarians need to unite under a common platform, as have the Communists and Socialists and Anarchists.

The Nationalists Guerrilla Forces of Pofo (NGFP) is the guerrilla organization that is under the control of the RWB, and has a growing amount of Nationalists, and Middle-Class members. The NGFP will do whatever it takes to stop the Communists from controlling the government, whether it’s in the voting booth, or whether it has to take place in fighting. We will not let the people of this great country fall under an authority that will abuse them, trick them, and leave them with nothing.

The NGFP and the RWB is supplied in weapons by the Pofo Defense Forces, the CIA, and is supplied in money by business owners in the Republic of Pofo. These business owners know that if the Communists take control, they will be killed, and those peasants know that if the Communists take control, they will not have any food or other supplies, because of the ruthless Communists who will take it away from them.

Other then that, the Communists will die, the Nationalist paramilitary organization will defeat you all

DIe you damn communist . We will fight till the last drop of our blood for our Rights and Liberties.

After the "coup" it was decided that all participating parties would renounce violence and embrace parliamentary democracy. The RWB are refusing to do so.

I am loathe to throw them out but I don't know what else can be done.

I have introduced an amendment to the Electoral Act

If this passes and the RWB do not renounce their ties to paramilitary forces by midnight GMT Wednesday July 8, 2009 they will be taken off the ballot.

ingliz, Clerk of the House

[ingliz]

Right Wing Bloc [RWB] is an illegal organisation and as it cannot be registered, as required by law, it is not eligible to contest Sunday's general election.
(Articles 1(a), 1(c), 2(b) of the Electoral Act as amended)


The party will not be listed on the ballot.


ingliz, Clerk of the House

[MB.]

Essentially, PoFo history will recall Ingliz' arbitrary rule for the incredible centralizing power he managed to manifest in the position he created, that being the so-called 'clerk of the house'.

While I still hold a seat and are thus still capable of posting in this thread (something almost all of you will not be 'allowed' to do after the end of the 'official' general election), I move that the title 'Clerk of the House' be renamed- more accurately; 'Fuhrer'.

[Doomhammer]

Aye.




Meh. Might as well post in this thread bceause I won't get to do so again, ever. After my MP title drops, my bludgeoned corpse will probably be found in a river somewhere.