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TheLegion , who’s the current CP of UK. Comments have been made by 
ArchDukeJohn , as I could find anyone else that would like to comment. ArchDukeJohn is a presidential candidate himself. I encourage you all to go read all the three presidential candidate articles that have been published, and vote for who you believe will be the best to rule the country!
I initially had some questions on
TheLegion ’s past and basic questions, though they filled up and above the character limit for an article. Therefor, I’ll be bringing this directly into some more political questions. Trying to get around all topics was a little challenge, though I’d say it turned out alright.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
What alliances or relations are you trying to create/improve?
What I am trying to create/improve is the relationship between UK and some of our neighbours. I will try to gain allies in nearby countries and preferably in Europe to stabilise that front. I want to either secure our western borders or eastern ones (those that can be reached in North America, and those that can be reached in Europe). I will try to improve our relations with Poland and continue to work with them, but i have have been criticised for not working with, or even "abandoning" our friends Estonia and Sweden. So to answer your question, I am trying to improve the relations with Poland but will also focus on our friends Estonia and Sweden. I will try to create alliances with nearby countries and preferably in Europe and North America.
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TheLegion
Recently, an article written by
Raistlin quoted you, saying you’d like to cooperate with Turkey, if the desire is mutual. How has this cooperation evolved since?
Unfortunately we have not yet even started any real cooperation, and this is due to our major focus on diplomacy near us rather than far away. I still want to cooperate with Turkey and in the future there will most surely be cooperation if both sides agree to it.
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TheLegion
I think alliances should allow ourselves to expand our borders, so we can get resources and supplies better. This means, alliances need to be further away than our borders, so we do not limit ourselves.
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ArchDukeJohn
Ministry of Finance
How’s the current situation regarding supplies?
I would say that it is not very good, and I can actually blame myself on that one. The reason is that I have put a lot of my own focus and also my governments focus on diplomacy and to make profit so that we can invest in improvements of the government business and also to use for possible government programmes in the future. I mentioned supplies in my presidential candidacy article, but I must also say that I have not really done much about this, and it is a failure from my perspective and probably from others perspectives as well. Diplomacy and profit will again be our main focuses, but I will work for improvements of UK and establishment of government programmes.
What stocks do you aim to hit?
My goal to hit is to be able to give full supplies to those who work for UK Org, but also to be able to always provide supplies during events or wars, both our allies wars and our own. I will however have to do a lot of work for it to actually happen and I can't take much time away from my other duties as CP of the United Kingdom. This will probably take some times, might even take more time than this coming term if I am elected, but I will work for it and put my ministers on the case to work out a good system that can give those who work for UK Org full supplies and also try to always have a certain amount of supplies ready to be used in events and wars.
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TheLegion
Do you plan on rising some taxes?
My government, if I am elected might raise some taxes if we deem it necessary. Taxes will be raised if I or my MoF deem it necessary, though we will first be discussing it within the government before acting. On these kind of things we will have to rely on congress to vote for it, either willingly or through compromising with the government.
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TheLegion
It should always be aimed to be stable, so that we are prepared for wars, without needing to heavily rely on allies. Therefor we should have large supplies of most currencies, including gold enough to circulate, so that we can buy what we can’t produce ourselves, as well as raws and supplies.
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ArchDukeJohn
Ministry of Defense
Are we ready to defend our own or allied core regions in the case of an attack?
I will have to answer no on that question, both regarding our own and allied cores. The reason behind this is that we are not organised enough, we are not united and i would even say we are not stabile enough to actually defend our own or allied cores, at least not fully and not to make decisive damage for our allies as of now.
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TheLegion
What do you think of the possibility of a war with the Netherlands?
It wouldn't be entirely impossible and there is people who want us to attack NL ourselves. That option is always open if something was to change from how things are currently going. But before we would attack NL, we would have to talk to the people and make sure we have support. Then we must also include that the Netherlands is "vassalized" to Iran in the discussions in the country and hear peoples opinion about it, though it might be a good idea, not everyone takes this "vassalization" of the Netherlands seriously.
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TheLegion
Again, it is required that the MoF is able to sustain us with supplies and gold to upgrade and expand.
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ArchDukeJohn
Ministry of Internal Affairs
Aren’t you afraid, that more press activity might influence the voters decisions in future elections?
The very reason I want more press activity is to let people influence, that is because I believe that everyone have the right to influence things, then of course it depends on how they try to influence and such, but the main point is that even though it might influence the opinions of people and their decisions in a way that might be bad for me or even make people favour someone else rather than me, it is still the choice of the people what they want to do and it is not my responsibility to stop them from influencing. What is my responsibility however, is to keep UK stabile and try to avoid civil wars or similar.
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TheLegion
Are you happy with the current communication between citizens and the government?
No i am not, this is partially because of the lack of government articles, which I will try to change during either this coming term or the one coming after that. There will be a lot to do and the government might not have enough time to finish all the things we want to do, it might even take more than 1 or 2 terms to finish some things entirely. But i can say that the communications must be improved a lot between the government and the citizens of UK.
I can also take on the responsibility for the failure in communications, and this is most likely due to my focus on other things and therefore i have not been very active when it comes to improving the communications between the government and the people. My hope is that an increase in the amount of articles from both the government and the people will be a solution to the problem with communication and the government can also answer peoples articles regarding political matters, either through an article made by the government, or through the shouts.
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TheLegion
I believe there should be programmes that allow citizens to fund independent papers, and to get every org into use for papers, like the MoF should produce a report on finances bi-monthly, MoD should report on the state of defense etc.
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ArchDukeJohn
Elections
Another candidate for the election is
ArchDukeJohn . You’ve priorly been part of his government as Minister of Defense. What’s your relation with him nowadays?
My current relation to
ArchDukeJohn is probably best described as neutral. I do not have anything against him nor do I really "like" him, in my point of view he has done nothing that makes me like or hate him.
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TheLegion
Are you afraid, that you might lose your job as the president of the United Kingdom to any of the other candidates this election?
I I am a bit afraid of that yes, mostly because of our work, possibly even all of it might be ruined ot thrown away. I don’t know if ArchDukeJohn will make any good decisions, since I don’t entirely know his political agenda. Neither do I really know Bond007, especially as he hasn’t put up any real presidential candidate article.
My hope is of course that I will be elected. But if that’s not the case, we will first have to see what they will do before judging them entirely. We can of course judge and criticise their political agenda if they present it, just as people can judge mine and criticise it.
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TheLegion
Thank you for reading, feel free to vote and subscribe!
I wish the best of luck to the different candidates!
I hope this opens up for some debate as well as being thought-provoking.
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