Apolemurian People's Party

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

perhaps mrbaggins should be contracted for the newspaper as a comedian, well, at least if we want a stupid and reactionistic newspaper like the sun in england, "bild" in germany and i'm quite sure there are ones like those in all countries represented in this dg

[Devil of Truth]

I’ll put my weight behind Zaphod for Burro Master. Both candidates would make great leaders IMHO, but we need to get this party rolling. If my maths hasn’t gone the way of disco, 3 votes should secure a victory (since we have only 5 members.)

We really need to get organised here. The war party is dominating this game, and I think we can all agree that their particular brand of bloodthirsty strategy would be the end of all of us.

So allow me to make suggestion/resolution/proposal/submission APP001:
We need to put this party’s mission/vision/party line into words. Do we believe in peaceful expansion, or aggressive development? Is it peace above all else, or just until diplomacy fails?

Suggestion/resolution/proposal/submission APP002:
We must nominate an APP member for every election. From the presidency to stable keep (for the donkeys, obviously. ) Even though the war party dominates the political scene at the moment, losing to them by one vote in IW’s MoD campaign holds promise . Let’s get ourselves a list of members, and debate who’ll be nominated for what.

Suggestion/resolution/proposal/submission APP003:
Let’s get some figureheads on our team. If we can sway Locutus etc. to join our merry band, it could definitely work in our favour.

Any thoughts?

[Tamerlin]

You are right on both point Devil of Truth.

I won't have any time until tonight so I must leave, but I will think about a kind of vision/goals (I knwo I have already said this).

[medio]

I believe these are our members:
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Tamerlin
Devil of Truth
Immortal Wombat
medio

Zaphod, it appears you won the election though you do not want the job of chairperson. Do we have another election or will you appoint a replacement?

We have 5 members, there are 11 names on the WP list.

Fencesitters:
Locutus
Jbytheway
H tower
Martin Guhrmann

These are all heavy hitters. It would be a real coup if we could get a couple on our side of the aisle. Perhaps one of our senior members can approach someone(or two).

5 app + 11 WP + 4 fencesitters= 20.
There were however 25 votes cast in the MoD election so I am obviously missing at least 5 citizens.

power to the people

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by medio
I believe these are our members:
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Tamerlin
Devil of Truth
Immortal Wombat
medio

I think the count is good.

5 app + 11 WP + 4 fencesitters= 20.
There were however 25 votes cast in the MoD election so I am obviously missing at least 5 citizens.

power to the people

We are five but we have gathered 7 more votes, it would be interesting to know who. I think Locutus is leaning towards the WP and that Martin would be closer to us. I might be wrong.

[J Bytheway]

Not guessing at my stance, eh? I think that's probably a good thing .

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

oh, i already won? time is passing by *g*
of course i accept the job, and would be glad if tamerlin would accept being my delegate, especially since i won't have much time before around sunday according to my current rl-schedule

[Tamerlin]

Originally posted by Zaphod Beeblebrox
oh, i already won? time is passing by *g*
of course i accept the job, and would be glad if tamerlin would accept being my delegate, especially since i won't have much time before around sunday according to my current rl-schedule

I would be honored to be the delegate of our Prime Secretary Zaphod Beeblebrox.

[Tamerlin]

I have bad news to report dear brothers and sister (I dare not use the plural) of the Apolymurian People's Party, war is imminent.

A Lemurian army has been moved close to the border of our Austrian friends and the warmongers are already pulling the swords out of their scabbard.

But all is not lost, we the people must choose between war and peace as our constitution requests a poll before a war can be declared.

We must focus our energy against this foolish project and gather all the people of good will around the banner of peace.

On the good side, though it furthers the goals of the bloodthirsty War Party, a peace treaty quickly followed by a non-trespass agreement have been concluded with the germans and this will perhaps save our land from utter destruction. All our production, to the detriment of our citizens' welfare, has already been changed to offensive units. These news are of bad omen.

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

sister? we have women in our party? *g*

[Devil of Truth]

Originally posted by Zaphod Beeblebrox
sister? we have women in our party? *g*

Nope. He’s just addressing MrBaggins, in case he drops by.

[Zaphod Beeblebrox]

oh bugger, and i just thought we might have an additional advance in contrast to the testosterone driven war party

[Frozzy]

[Devil of Truth]

Originally posted by medio
I believe these are our members:
Zaphod Beeblebrox
Tamerlin
Devil of Truth
Immortal Wombat
medio

Fencesitters:
Locutus
Jbytheway
H tower
Martin Guhrmann

Medio, your counts are right. Good work . We need to grow these numbers.

I believe there are a number of "sympathisers" lurking out there that feel at least somewhat positive towards our cause. (Using your numbers and the MoD election as a yardstick, there should be about 9 people). I think they haven’t signed up for membership because they want to remain free to choose and change as they wish.

That’s fine.

These are the people we should focus our attention on. Not to get them to join necessarily, but to get them to at least consider our proposals. The war party is too bloody-minded to listen to reason, trying to get them to tone down their "blood shall run" attitude is like asking our donkeys to stand on their hind legs and dance the can-can. We need to position ourselves as a viable alternative to the fight club. We should be a party of the people (as opposed to soldiers and tyrants). Let them concentrate on their petty squabbles while they lose focus of the bigger picture.

Any thoughts who our sympathisers may be, and how we could reach them?

[Devil of Truth]

Please don’t forget to vote on the war against Austria. The thread is here.

Vote NO!