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Re: Luthori & Aloria's at loggerheads

Postby mrcricketer » Sat Jul 24, 2021 11:29 am

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Aloria's illegal removal from International Monarchist League needs to be justified.
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Re: Luthori

Postby Edmund » Sat Jul 24, 2021 11:40 am

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                    An heir to the throne born: a daughter

                    January 4972

FORT WILLIAM, ORANGE — Her Majesty The Empress was delivered of a daughter this morning, having unexpectedly gone into labour a week or so earlier than had been predicted last night, though both are reported to be in good health. The Imperial Household announced the name of the emperor's newborn daughter to be Elswith Violet Audrey, her second and third names after his late mother and grandmother respectively.

Numerous foreign heads of state offered their congratulations to the emperor on the birth. In the event His Majesty were to have no male children, her succession would see Luthori's first empress regnant from without the Hutorian line since the Empress Mary's death in 2610.
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Re: Luthori

Postby Edmund » Sat Jul 24, 2021 12:00 pm

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                    Foreign Secretary: Aloria 'a rogue state'

                    January 4972

FORT WILLIAM, ORANGE — Foreign Secretary Ardelm Robertson has hit back after Alorian president and self-proclaimed 'king' Alex Williams declared all Luthorian citizens and businesses would be banned from Aloria, and threatened to kill Luthorians in Aloria.

Although initial correspondence had been with International Monarchist League official of Luthorian citizenship Irwin Abberton, Mr Williams mistakenly believed that he was in contact with Prime Minister Ethelwin Paglesham, threatening war between Aloria and Luthori and to "attack each member country of the International Monarchist League", displaying a shocking lack of knowledge as to the organisation's workings. The International Monarchist League has had no member states since the treaty providing for such membership fell into disuse sometime in the 44th century, six hundred years ago.

Mr Robertson said that President Williams had "demonstrated his complete unfitness for office." "While before today we would have been a bit more diplomatic about it, Mr Abberton's contention that the Alorian president is really just a jumped-up tin-pot dictator is entirely accurate. I am sure he is entirely aware of the consequences if he decides to follow through with his pitiful threats to murder innocent civilians out of anger at a private organisation's recognition that he belongs on no throne. Aloria under his rule is nothing but a rogue state, and he a dangerous animal."
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Aloria issues sanctions on Luthori ,Bans Luthori Citizens

Postby mrcricketer » Sat Jul 24, 2021 12:45 pm

Link to bill - http://classic.particracy.net/viewbill. ... lid=646895

This is second time this has happened. No plans of going to war with Luthori said Karl Fisher, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Aloria.

Link to previous sanctions on Luthori by Aloria-

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Re: Luthori

Postby Edmund » Sun Jul 25, 2021 1:26 pm

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                    Attridge dead at 100

                    July 4972

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                    ▲ Mr Attridge being interviewed by the Inquirer this June

FORT WILLIAM, ORANGE — Former prime minister Ernie Attridge died yesterday, less than a month after his 100th birthday on the 20th of June. The cause of death was given by his family as simply 'old age': "He had a good, long run, and he died peacefully at home," said his son, George. Attridge served as prime minister from 4927 to 4936 in coalition with the National Movement, in the last year leading a caretaker government, having led the Luthorian Workers' Party from its founding in February 4913. He resigned his party's leadership following the inauguration of the Communist-Peoples' Revolution coalition with Conservative and Country support, succeeded by Tommy Brewer at party conference that July.

Attridge had been interviewed by the Inquirer shortly before his birthday.

"It's disappointing that there's not a patriotic, working-class party in this country anymore. You've got the left, the Solidarity bunch that formed last year, but they're all a bunch of loonies. When the princess was born back in January, they were out there protesting about it - the birth of a child, for goodness sake," he had said. When asked if he planned to get back into politics and solve that, he laughed. "If I were just a few years younger, maybe."

"Unlike a lot of people, and this might come as a surprise, I think Brewer made the right choice in splitting with the National Movement. They threatened to drag us back into the wilderness with them, and ditching them to stop the communists and Pirates getting in was a good move. The last conference and what happened there was and is besides it: everyone knew the party was over by that point. What really put the party on the path to that, I think, was that Brewer made a terrible mistake when he tried to widen the party's base and rebrand as 'Ord'. We were the Luthorian Workers' Party for a reason, representing the working class in the Diet was our mission. When the party abandoned that, that was it."

His thoughts on the Prime Minister? "I don't like Paglesham. There's something of the night about him."
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Re: Luthori

Postby Liukupukki » Mon Jul 26, 2021 8:55 pm

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Fort William, Orange
March 24th 4973

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Michael Pierson has been an inspiration to many Hosian Luthorians with his campaigns for a strictly Hosian Empire and a powerful leadership of the church. After his public denouncement of former ULHC leader Jonathan Keeper he has gained a ton of support, even from supporters of the government.

Pierson's numerous campaign posters can be seen throughout Fort William, and many of the biggest cities.
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One of Pierson's many campaign posters

Some sources say that Pierson has spent over a million LPD into his campaigning for the ULHC, but the estimates are inaccurate as Pierson himself hasn't given any statement on this.

In other news:
Trial of former priest and former leader of ULHC Jonathan Keeper's trial is ongoing, and is expected to give his testimony soon
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Re: Luthori

Postby Liukupukki » Tue Jul 27, 2021 2:00 am

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Fort William, Orange
April 30th 4973
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In an attempt to normalize foreign Hosians has Pierson appeared on television accompanied by a black priest, reading quotes from the Hosian Bible about equality before God. After which Pierson asked a question: "Which one is less of a servant of God, Me, the priest, or him, the priest who has a different skin colour? Or is it you, who is judging the book by its covers? Why should we forbid servants of God, like this faithful person here from living normal lives? Why is he forced to live under different circumstances than me? All who believe in the almighty one should be welcome in Luthori. Vote for Pierson means equality for Hosians."
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Pierson's campaign has definitely been a very public one, but many of the people have been strongly against it, mostly because of the government's acts to disallow different nationals from mixing with Luthorians. Pierson has called this "humbug" and claims that as long as people are servants of God, they should be welcome to the country.

Pierson has campaigned for equality in the Imperial Diet too, proposing an act to remove the nationality quotas, and replace it with a more progressive qualification-based quota system, which could be sped up with proper Hosian beliefs.

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Jonathan Keeper sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment
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Re: Luthori

Postby Edmund » Wed Jul 28, 2021 5:08 pm

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                    Realm in mourning

                    July 4973

FORT WILLIAM, ORANGE — Today Luthori mourns in horror: the Emperor’s motorcade, and he and his wife the Empress, fell victim to a car bomb yesterday evening while entering the Fort William slum of St. Richard’s, where the Emperor was raised long before he knew of his imperial connections. The purpose of the visit was to attend the launch of a new charity for the area, and to announce the Emperor’s one-year-old daughter the Princess Imperial – who was at the palace and is unharmed – as the charity’s patron. Countless other innocents were killed in the attack, and many more injured, among the injured being former prime minister Tommy Brewer, who was travelling with the emperor to attend the event in the constituency he served before his retirement from politics.

Police and the security services descended upon houses throughout the city throughout the night, with more than fifty arrests being made. The government identified the Luthorian Anarchist Federation, which has hitherto failed in its much-publicised assassination attempts on Government members of the Imperial Diet, as the organisation behind the attack, and the group appeared to claim responsibility in a statement made early this morning. “We will stop at nothing to track down the vicious murderers responsible for this treasonous act of terror,” said Home Secretary Enmond Buckenham. “And we will not rest until they are brought to justice.”

With the ascension of the young Princess Imperial to the throne as the Empress Elswith, the government has announced the necessary formation of a regency council for the duration of her minority.
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Re: Luthori

Postby jellybean » Wed Jul 28, 2021 11:02 pm

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Agrarian Populist Party stages rally, flouts law ahead of elections
April 4974

FORT WILLIAM, ORANGE — At its largest public appearance yet, the Agrarian Populist Party staged a campaign rally less than a month before the party's first election. APP Chair Alban Thorn delivered a fiery speech criticizing the Alliance-National Movement government for "gross violations of civil rights," "heinous racism," and more. Although most of the Party's rally was calm, Thorn's speech was in flagrant violation of Luthori's strict laws that forbid any criticism of the government. Thorn was met with scattered cheers from the crowd, while others left the throng, apparently in fear of a crackdown. As the rally ended, Party Vice-Chair Elaine Pearce expressed her confidence that the APP would see an "excellent showing" in the election and "help to bring a new era for the people."

Although Thorn and other APP officials were allowed to disperse peacefully, the government could still be planning to press charges. Will Paglesham's administration risk alienating potential future partners, or will Luthorian laws be enforced to the full extent possible?

(OOC: Edmund should take this post as permission to arrest or otherwise prosecute Thorn for breaking the law if he chooses. :D )
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Re: Luthori

Postby Edmund » Wed Jul 28, 2021 11:58 pm

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                    Election 4974: the minnows

                    March 4974 [post-dated]

FORT WILLIAM, ORANGE — This election can be said without exaggeration to be Luthori’s strangest in centuries. Even as everyday life returns for most of the country – eight months after the cowardly and despicable attack that claimed the lives of the Emperor, the Empress Consort, and 107 others – official, or ‘court’ mourning, which politicians are expected to observe, will not end until a week after the anniversary of the attacks in July of this year. Campaigning, where it exists at all, will take on a form utterly alien to Luthori; rallies and celebrations will be completely absent from the major parties’ campaigns. Even still, there are those who will be able to maintain more familiar campaigns: the minor parties, whose lack of dietary representation renders more activist than political.

The Agrarian Populists, having benefitted considerably from the agricultural recession of recent years, are able to masquerade as more rural advocacy group than political party, and is set to make significant gains in such areas. Where the traditional opposition has both been constrained by mourning expectations and laws harshly restricting political demonstrations, they have been able to prosper, organising through co-operatives, mutual aid associations, and education programmes.

As for Solidarity, their prospects are mixed. While the party might have previously hoped to make inroads with the working class, the assassination has brought their record of fervent anti-monarchism to centre stage and the exclusion of all else.

Where a year ago it could have perhaps been overlooked by many in favour of material interests, both the story of the “lad from St. Richard’s” who unexpectedly became Emperor and ill-advised comments from sneering, middle-class students on his death – and that of several dozen working-class men and women who were brutally cut down in the attack on the motorcade they lined the streets to see pass by – have dominated the narrative. They will now be falling back on their student core, which has in recent years markedly turned to the left after overwhelmingly supporting the Monarchist Tory “professors’ party” at elections past.
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