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BBC - Whigs and Federalists Issue Statements - Thunderer - 07-11-2020

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Whigs and Federalists Issue Statements
NEW LONDON - We have been waiting for the promised statements by the newly formed Whig Party and the Social Democratic Federation about yesterday's dissolution of Parliament by Prime Minister James Hacker. MP Robert Bailey of the Federalists posted a statement on the Bretonian Neural Net, which we will summarise for you here, and MP Wesley Melbourne agreed to speak with us directly.

Bailey wrote that the dissolution was indeed constitutional, but that the fact that "the Commons have no say in foreign affairs, which concern every Bretonian, is outrageous for a system supposed to be parliamentary and no say in external policy is what costed us billions of lives on Leeds". Bailey promised that the Federalists will, should voters grant them enough MPs, be able to expand the authorities of the Commons. Further, Bailey condemned the BBC's article on the Sprague protests, naming it "false tidings" and calling the BBC "biased". We in the BBC believe it obvious that, if the BBC was indeed biased, we would not care to keep the public informed about the protests at all -- let alone help Bailey spread his statement to all of Bretonia.

Continuing, Bailey announced that MP Harriet Green, a member of the Social Democratic Federation and MP for Port Jackson on Exeter, will not be allowed to candidate herself again for a member of parliament as also a member of the SDF, because "it has been discovered that she was a Royalist agent" within the SDF, "no doubt under the influence of the staunch Royalist, former MP for Port Jackson and now Governor-General of Exeter Elizabeth Hall". Bailey finished more optimistically, stating that this is "the first time since 816 that the Federalists have any likelihood of establishing a majority in the Commons". He added that the Federalists would consider the idea of forming a coalition with the Liberal Party, should it be necessary, because "the opposition must unite now that the ruling party is divided".

MP Wesley Melbourne of the Whigs spoke to us with somewhat less ardour, but equal confidence. He described both the Royalists and the Federalists as "a bit too extreme" and that his party aims to find a compromise between the two opposing tents. He stated that the Royalists' "imperialistic adventurism might be all exciting and noble, but it is disregarding what Bretonia truly needs, and that is a breather". Melbourne added that he opposes the ideas of the Federalists and the Liberals "because they would slow down economic and industrial recovery for the sake of comfort, indulgence and excuses for plain simple laziness."

He confessed us that the Whigs do not have the ambition for a majority in the Parliament, but "merely enough to soften the two extremes", but said that he is confident that Bretonians "have preserved their ancient core values thanks to which Bretonia ruled the space in the past, such as compromise and stoicism", and added that "hot tea is only pleasant to a cool head".

When we asked Melbourne whether he would be willing to form coalitions, he told us that "those who crave for power enough to sell their core values had better not have it". He added that, even if he wanted a coalition, "it would only be possible with the Federalists or the Liberals, who seem to be making one of their own, and reuniting with the Royalists this early would be both comical and inconceivable -- because I don't know a single Whig that they don't see as a traitor who stabbed them in the back, especially myself."

Early polls show a tie between the Royalists, the Whigs, and the SDF and the Liberals together. If this trend continues, the parliamentary elections will be a rather tense affair.

The BBC will continue to cover this subject as it develops. Stay tuned.

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