Hardliners in BRP leadership scuttle unity government over hated bill
The Bread and Roses Party, having ousted former party leader and noted moderate Alexi Kundratus from leadership after he failed to win Council Speaker in two election cycles, announced a new rotating leadership council for the party. Party Chair Alexis Dux, a noted radical steelworker and union organizer responsible for several wildcat strikes that shut down several mills before the BRP took power, set forth the party's agenda now that it has won a narrow majority in the Council of Free Workers.
"Well, right after the election, the UPM showed its true bourgeois colors by bringing to a vote the very bill that we'd already said was a red line for us. The bill reinstates large scale capitalism and dismantles the proletarian democratic state that we've worked so hard to build. The UPM's excuse that the bill wouldn't win is dumb. Whether a bill has a chance of winning is irrelevant. We can't work with a party that stands on the wrong side of the class war."
After the UPM brought the bill to a vote, the BRP pulled its support of a unity cabinet and brought a fully BRP cabinet up for a vote. Party leader Dux also said that "any discussion of constitutional changes is now over."
"If the UPM wants to work with us, it needs to re-evaluate its priorities. Until then, we consider them a hostile opposition."