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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Absolutely. May and the Tories need to GTFO.
It's about to happen. It's about to become official. Cons about to lose their majority.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-interactive/2017/jun/08/live-uk-election-results-in-full-2017
Killdash
This is so true.
Andromitus
Ayyyyy lmao I got 99 problems but a hung parliament ain't one! #JeremyCorbynIsMyFavouriteUncle
a. It's early where you are. Go back to bed.
b. It looks like a hung parliament to me, no?
c. Didn't you vote Lib Dem? They did slightly better than before.
d. As a Brit, what you're opinion on a coalition with the DUP? Is that entirely unheard of?
Yukona
Yuk to his mother:
"Mom, why does everyone hate Uncle Jeremy?
"Because he makes sense and doesn't back down, Yuk."
Seriously, I'm extremely impressed with how he's still in politics and fighting for equality despite being treated so badly for years.
I did vote for the Liberal Democrats but anything to keep May's hands off my government. She's a melt, she is going to abuse our human rights in the name of counter-terrorism (a job she should have done something about whilst Home Secretary), she would have pushed for hard Brexit, increased austerity, etc.
The Democratic Unionist Party? Eh, I dunno man, there's been no reason for it before and it was probably piss off the SNP, I think best-case scenario is May will resign and Corbyn will work with a new leader and hopefully keep them in check. But as far as I know it is unheard of, I've never seen that being suggested.
Red Jez's Socialist Flying Circus came to town with great success
And it bloody worked look at that 15% Tory swing in Scotland
Yukona
Oh, I'm not a fan either. Even though I lean slightly right (as much as a fairly moderate libertarian can), I still can't fathom her awfulness continuing. I hoped for a Tory minority with the Lib Dems to create a coalition government, but with May doing the honourable thing and resigning because she very clearly didn't get what she had hoped for by calling the election.
I asked about the DUP because everyone was talking about a coalition with the Lib Dems being a possibility, but also the SNP which seemed strange given the Tory-SNP priorities. As they had nearly the same amount of seats as the Lib Dems, I was wondering if the Tories would ever consider a coalition with them to hang onto power. Or, at the furtherest, a Tory-Lib Dem-DUP coalition if it became necessary.
I'm just not used to so many parties! In Canada, we have the big three; four if you count our token Green seat.
Yukona
They could well do, I don't know - but Liberal Democrats have said that they're not going to coalition with Labour
Dont blame me, I voted SNP!
Vista Major, Yukona
The Sister Region Referendum has passed 12 - 6 - 4. Ambassadors shall sign the agreement soon.
Killdash, Andromitus, Oelesa
I think what I am going to do is have the PLR be a Hermit Empire of some sorts similar to that of the NK. I want it to appear as though the outside has little to no information as to what life is like in the inside of the PLR and for those that wish to visit and tour must do a government sanctioned and sponsored program that you only see what we allow for you to see. Yeah this means I will probably have little to no allies but that is okay. So yeah, I think the PLR internationally will be a hermit
Nuremgard, Magnatronia
Fecking Hell my semester has officially started. T_T
Lüser mine just ended :P
[spoiler=Today is June 9 and today are:]
Today is June 9 and today are:
- Anniversary of the Accession of King Abdullah II (Jordan)
- Autonomy Day (Åland Islands, Finland)
- Coral Triangle Day
- La Rioja Day (La Rioja, Spain)
- Murcia Day (Murcia, Spain)
- National Career Nursing Assistants Day (United States)
- National Donald Duck Day (United States)
- National Earl Day (United States)
- National Heroes' Day (Uganda)
- National Strawberry Rhubarb Pie Day (United States)
- Ryan Moran Day
- World APS Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 411 BC The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.
- AD 53 The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia.
- AD 68 Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer's Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors.
- 721 Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
- 747 Abbasid Revolution: Abu Muslim Khorasani begins an open revolt against Umayyad rule, which is carried out under the sign of the Black Standard.
- 1311 Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
- 1523 French Parliament fines Simon de Colines for publishing the Biblical commentary Commentarii initiatorr in quatuor Evangelia by Jacques Lefèvre d'Étaples.
- 1534 Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the Saint Lawrence River.
- 1667 Second Anglo-Dutch War: The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in the worst ever defeat of the Royal Navy.
- 1732 James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of the future U.S. state of Georgia.
- 1762 British forces begin the Siege of Havana and capture the city during the Seven Years' War.
- 1772 The British schooner Gaspee is burned in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.
- 1798 Irish Rebellion of 1798: Battles of Arklow and Saintfield.
- 1815 End of the Congress of Vienna: The new European political situation is set.
- 1815 Luxembourg declares independence from the French Empire.
- 1856 Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa for the Mormon Trail.
- 1862 American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic; his tactics during the campaign are now studied by militaries around the world.
- 1863 American Civil War: Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
- 1885 Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam most of present-day Vietnam to France.
- 1900 Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies in a British prison of cholera
- 1915 William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
- 1923 Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
- 1928 Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
- 1930 A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
- 1934 Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
- 1944 World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks.
- 1944 World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
- 1948 Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO.
- 1953 The FlintWorcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
- 1954 McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
- 1957 First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.
- 1959 The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine.
- 1965 The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quát, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyễn Cao Kỳ.
- 1965 Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war.
- 1967 Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.
- 1968 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
- 1972 Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage.
- 1973 In horse racing, Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown.
- 1978 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men.
- 1979 The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney (Australia) kills seven.
- 1999 Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
- 2008 Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people.
- 2009 An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan.
- 2010 At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1595 Władysław IV Vasa, Polish king
- 1640 Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1672 Peter the Great, Russian emperor
- 1781 George Stephenson, English engineer, designed the Liverpool and Manchester Railway
- 1812 Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer and academic
- 1843 Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1891 Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter
- 1915 Les Paul, American guitarist and songwriter
- 1916 Robert McNamara, American businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Defense
- 1961 Michael J. Fox, Canadian-American actor, producer, and author
- 1961 Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter, producer, and playwright
- 1963 Johnny Depp, American actor
- 1978 Miroslav Klose, German footballer
- 1981 Natalie Portman, Israeli-American actress, director, and producer
- 1982 Christina Stürmer, Austrian singer-songwriter
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Quote of the day
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
- Mother Theresa -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Vista Major, Andromitus, South Hyder
How dare you! To use our nice German umlauts to transport such coarse message. :P jk
Nuremgard, Vista Major, Friedensreich, Andromitus
How did it go for you?
Penguania And Antarctica
¡I dü not nü vhat yü äre talkïng äbaüt!
heeeeeeeeehhhhhhh; I think it generally went well, but my school was less then capable of handling a pregnant math teacher, so I was being transferrd between 6 different math teachers who didn't know what to do because they were never given enough time to get to know us and our abilities as students, and they sort of gave us the wrong final exam review packet and only told us a day before the test....
So I'm thinking low A's, high B's and a most definite C :-/
Penguania And Antarctica
Yeahh
That's not how German works. *smh*
Friedensreich, Andromitus, Oelesa
OH REALLY! I thought i was fluent
Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, United Continental States
*I
Oelesa
Well apparently I can't speak English or German :-/
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
Post self-deleted by Penguania And Antarctica.
Mei Inglisch ist werry gut. Ei auch kan speaken Deutsch. :P
Vista Major, Andromitus, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona
Sie sind unsinnig, wenn das dein Deutsch ist
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Das Haus ist ein Kristen Stewart, und mein mutter is mein hunde. Aber, ich bin ein pretzel.
Vista Major
...just no
Yukona
A disappointing night for the SNP, especially since they lost 2 bigwigs (Salmond and Robertson) but they still have a majority. I think this will give the party a kick up the backside to up its game and get more aggressive with its rivals.
The Tories won their cluster of Scottish seats because of sheepshaggers in the North East and southern snobs who might as well be English given their proximity to the border and their general attitude. I hope they are proud of themselves. I just hope they are the first and longest to suffer under Kim Jong May's regime.
Okay Cersei, dial it back :P
But I hear you- not a strong election for the SNP. And May should resign. Cameron resigned because a referendum passed that he did not support, which I thought was honourable save for the fact that it allowed May to come to power. If that were the precedent in Canada, Mulroney would have had to have resigned in 1992 with the failure of the Charlottetown Accord.
Anyways, if you call an election to garner a stronger majority to implement a foreign policy initiative but end up with a minority government and a much stronger opposition as a result, I'd say that it's the right thing to do to step aside.
May is too arrogant to stand down. Thinks too highly of herself. Although she looks like a right stupid bitch going from a Tory majority to a minority government propped up by unionist arselickers in Britain's unwanted appendage, Northern Ireland.
Your government now depends on a bunch of bigots stuck in 1690, Theresa. Well done. Very strong and stable.
I was able to understand most of that somehow.
The United Providences Of Perland
Oh, is she entering a coalition with the DUP, or a supply and confidence agreement? Or just informally relying on them not to shoot her down given that the alternative is Corben?
The less contentious choice, I would think, would be the Lib Dems. But they tried that back in 2010 and, I believe my boyo told me, May referred to that as the "coalition of chaos" or something.
Informal agreement. The DUP will demand some concessions in exchange for them keeping the government afloat. Labour, SNP and Lib Dems joining together could not have stopped the Tory-DUP alliance.
What could have stopped it would have been if Sinn Fein decided to take their seats and sided with the progressive alliance of Labour, SNP and Lib Dems. But they wont take their Westminster seats under any circumstances.
This is why the UK needs rid of Northern Ireland. Half the province sends unionist c*nts who lick the Tory anus and the other half vote in MPs who wont even sit in the damn Parliament.
Oh, Sinn Fein refuses to attend the legislature. Interesting. There was a time back in the 90s when the Bloc Quebecois, our Quebec separatist party who at the time attended legislature only sporadically and with the purpose of trying to stir up mayhem, was elected as Canada's official opposition.
Oh, how it must have killed their party leader to swear allegiance to the English (language, not country) Queen so as to become leader of Her Majesty's Official Opposition.
That's why Sinn Fein wont take their seats. They wont take the oath of allegiance to the Queen and they do not see Westminster as a legitimate power in Northern Ireland.
Do they not need to meet a minimum attendance record? In Canada our MPs and Senators have to be present for at least one day per session. Which is a ridiculously low standard, given that a single session can last years.
I don't think so. They don't ever sit in Parliament but they do conduct constituency business and meet with ministers.
There's an episode of American Dad where Steve says, "Au revior, les enfants. That means 'fvck you'!". I imagine their meetings with ministers ending much the same way.
Nuremgard
Steve and Sinn Fein got sass. I hope someday soon we Scots can also say "au revoir, les enfants" to Westminster.
The United Providences Of Perland
I was joking. I am a native speaker of the German language.
Awful.
Peoples Liberation Republic, The United Providences Of Perland, Magnatronia
Hatred towards the English intensifies don't worry Red Jez's purges will leave you alive
I don't hate the English. I hate southern Scots who basically try to be English. And I hate English Tories.
What do you mean try to be English? Are you suggesting that being right wing =\= English? Red Jez will not be happy when he hears about this comrade
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No, I mean they speak with such Anglicised accents that they sound more English than Scottish. They tend to be affluent and Tory so vote more like the English. Many English also settle in the south. They are also very unionist and generally just behave more like English people than Scots. That's why I say they might as well just declare themselves part of England.
Do you consider English immigrants a bad thing? And I see, the same has happened to parts of England with other nationalities of Britain, so I don't count yourself lucky. Red Jez shall spare you for now.
Of course I don't consider them bad but I do detest the "we know best, we must not let Scotland get above its station" mentality that some English people have, both north and south of the border.
What's with the Red Jez stuff, Yuk? Annoyed that Corbyn did well?
No, I'm incredibly pleased, anything to keep May out - I voted Liberal Democrat but am pleased that Red Jez is going to purge parliament and there will be a second election where he consolidates his power and creates a utopia of students and progressives.
Friedensreich
Sounds like sarcasm to me.
It's not? Do you want me to prove it to you ay lmao
What do you think about Northern Irish unionist Neanderthals keeping the government afloat?
Hello! This is Hyderbourg, the previous President of Libertatem, I wanted to move a nation to this region and see how I fared. I'm really excited to get involved in aspects of this region that aren't existent in Libertatem, especially the aspects of Direct Democracy and Roleplay. Hopefully, you guys can welcome me and show the ropes.
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Tserra, Yukona, Magnatronia
I think it's stupid and that they're just UDF-lite and are just going to hold the balls of the Tory party even firmer in the hands of Conservative back benchers as they and the DUP have the same M-O as in 'I hate gay people and abortion'. How May is going to please both the ultra right fringes of her party and a solid Labour opposition is beyond me.
The bitch needs to go. She's not fit to be PM. The knives will be out for her. Her party will stab her in the back just like they did to Thatcher.
Yukona
Alright, welcome aboard. First step, submit yourself to me.
Penguania And Antarctica, South Hyder
....just no
Friedensreich, Penguania And Antarctica
Yes this is the first thing that you should do next is to submit yourself to me
Penguania And Antarctica, South Hyder
Anyone else...?
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
All in favour for a federalised and de-centralised United Kingdom a long with a new English Parliament as well as a SNP-Labour government say "aye", or if you're Scottish "yes please, my dear fellow".
Nuremgard
Welcome, and prepare to get entangled in the complete insanity that is our RP's Geopolitics
Just join Ædenism and those primitive and feeble concepts such as "Rulers"
Penguania And Antarctica
Hey we laid eyes on him first he's ours!
Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia
Will never happen. And even if it did, I'd still want independence.
Fµcks sake why can't I type
Now think for a moment, has the "I found it first" argument ever stopped me before?
Penguania And Antarctica
Oh, so you resigned? Even though you could prove that it was because you and a classmate both using your school's broadband and that's why you were booted from the WA and had the mods get kinda inappropriately involved in your region's politics?
Kind of a shame. But, glad you're here!
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, South Hyder
Noo...*Arms ICBM's* but lets start now.
Yeah, cleared my name, but when I got to thinking about it there's no way to really clear your name after something like that.
Thought maybe it was best that I start over in the politics of another region, so here I am.
Penguania And Antarctica
This is what irony looks like.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_O0jrpl4tg-g/S8R4qeeTKDI/AAAAAAAABGw/oXIVuOqkbVE/s1600/dupposter+pic.jpg
Hey mate, there were a ton of us who never doubted you :D
Hope you have fun in our region.
Penguania And Antarctica, Tserra, South Hyder
:^)
Hehehe...You and I both know those puppies aren't operational let alone existent ;D
It's nothing personal, babe.
Well... Mag can you help here?!
I mean, you can have some depending on exactly what our criteria is.
If you mean those Hyper-Sonic missiles....no, but if you mean regular ICBMs, than I think that you could produce a somewhat limited number.
By the power invested in me as President of the Confederacy of Free Nations, I hereby sign the Sister Region Treaty, and authorize my delegate, [nation=short+noflag]Baxten[/nation], to do the same.
Yukona
Oh, ok.
I don't want you anyway :^(
Oh no I was talking about this:
[spoiler]"After much consideration the Christian Theocracy of the Cross and Davids Star has reluctantly decided to give up on its chemical weapons program and is sending chemical weapons to plants to await destruction. However, in doing so TCaDS has turned its eyes towards other means of defending itself and has now shifted and modified all factories which originally created chemical weapons to now create missiles ranging from short-range ballistic missiles to intercontinental ballistic missiles, giving the idea that TCaDS is now attempting to create a massive missile program. While nations such as Andromitus can breathe a sigh of relief due to the removal of chemical weapons they they may also face the threat of intercontinental ballistic missiles, though this is very much unlikely as TCaDS is currently undergoing major changes to its military. Relating news the Christian Theocracy is becoming more isolationist than before, communicating directly to nations in its inner circle, such as Magnatronia."[/spoiler]
When I said he didn't have ICBM's I meant that they were not physically present yet and will not be present for a long time :D
Your loss.
Only nerds read stuff
That's where you're wrong, traveller
This is just my two cents as an American who has studied a lot of The Troubles: Northern Ireland needs to stay British purely for the fact that if it goes to Ireland, you will see a rise in the IRA and PIRA again and you will see much, much bloodshed. Red Hand Commandos would turn into what the IRA was. It wouldn't be good for anyone.
You'll never have my firm Scots buttocks. I pity you.
Why would the IRA rise after a united Ireland? That was their aim. What you might see in a united Ireland is a hysterical unionist cohort resorting to violence because democracy has dared to go against them. If they do become violent, they will be swiftly dealt with. Ireland's future should not be held hostage by a bunch of bigoted Orange thugs.
The Royal Republic Of Kumania
It wasn't just about a United Ireland, it was Protestants vs. Catholics. That's where you'd see the rise again. An Irish version of the Black and Tans.
You wont have my money so it's a win-win :^))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) (inb4 salty "gladly, sassenach"
Sees American, sees Troubles, sees IRA - no.
So NI is to remain the UK's last colony because some unionists might shoot people? What a convincing argument. Just shows what a disgusting situation it really is.
Oooooh, honey. No. Don't go there.
The Royal Republic Of Kumania
I don't think it's really considered a colony, and also the Northern Irish still want to be apart of the U.K. Yes, it is a bad situation. It has been for a very long time. If they want to be there, then what's the issue with having them? It's like the one place that actually wants to be British.
....ermmmm I like being primitive
Lol they are deluded. They want to be British yet they live in another island in another country. (I know NI is part of the UK but you know what I mean.) They of course want to remain "British" because they know where their bread is buttered. They are spoon-fed by Westminster and don't want to cut the umbilical cord. So long as they have their wee union jack, Queen and Orange marches (plus plenty of British taxpayer cash) they are content to remain unwanted afterthoughts of the British state.
More power to them I say. As a Scots nationalist, I'm all for self-determination.
The Empire Of Handland
Well jokes on you, William Wallace, this Sassenach has 5 quick tricks on how to become rich quick and it involves setting up a colony in this place called New Caledonia. Although it might look like a pyramid scheme it is actually a loch scheme, very different.
Good luck, Marshall Wade.
I'll pretend I know who that is, Mike Myers.
You don't know who Wade is. Such a patriotic Englishman lol
Oh! Oh! Who can I be?!
Never said I was patriotic did I, swamp dweller
Terrance or Philip.
https://youtu.be/bOR38552MJA?t=21
Hey, I know Glasgow has its rough areas but calling it a swamp is a bit harsh!
This is mah swamp.
Regardless of that, I recognised the name, but World War I history is more my thing.
Oh, boyo. I didn't need a youtube link to get the reference :P
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