January 2021 General Election

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2021 January 25th General Election -> The 2021 January General Election was the second modern Virtual United Kingdom general election. During this election, there were new parties and many events that made this election the beginning of a new era of politics. This was also the first general election were VUK and Capital Parliament were merged, and as such, the first General Election in which VUK members participated (which resulted in 4 of the 7 party leaders being originally from VUK). It was an election to a Unicameral Parliament, and resulted in the Second Patel Cabinet being formed.

Events during the 1st VUK Parliament

In the lead up to the General Election, there was a significant amount of terrorism and politically fueled violence. These are mostly coming from two sources, Islamist radicals, and the Yorkshire Republican Army (YRA) and Yorkshire Party. The YRA and Yorkshire Party led a Yorkshire Independence movement that quickly radicalized and militarized, eventually, Priti Patel, a known sympathizer with the Yorkshire Party movement, had to ban radical Yorkshire independence party after violent and militant attacks against the country. The Islamic state also made considerable gains in the tenure of the First Parliament, capturing the city of Baghdad. Notable examples of YRA and Yorkshire Independence terrorism is the Hull bombings, killing 29 and blocking ships from leaving the port of Hull for months. John Peters, the Deputy Prime Minister when King Fraser ascended to power & Mariah Rose Faith, the then Leader of the Opposition had both refused to swear allegiance to him, causing riots for months in London and other cities, demanding they both resign. Both resign, John Peters is replaced with Jonathan Gullis (who later defected to form the FPP); Mariah Rose Faith was replaced with David Lammy as leader of the Opposition. Prime Minister Patel and Leader of the UKFP Donald Trump were both criticized for emboldening rioters by appearing at Monarchist protests, and feeding into extremist delusions of storming Westminster. The UKFP (United Kingdom First Party) were also criticized for merging with the Yorkshire Party before the election, seen as some as a betrayal of the values of unionism.

Controversy immediately after the Election

The Liberal Democratic leader Robert Rockstar decided to continue the Liberal Democratic coalition with the Conservatives, despite their avid criticism of the Conservative party & policies during the campaign period, and calls from the FPP and Labour to build a progressive alliance based mostly on Progressive social policy and fiscally responsible economic policy. The British government also immediately made well on the promise to hold a referendum on the United Kingdom's membership in the European Union. The FPP immediately fell into disarray as there leader, Jonathan Gullis, abandoned them in favor of the Labour Party, citing ideological reasons and a supposed duty to dismantle the government of the party that he was once a part of, and an avid supporter of.

The Conservative party in-between Nov 2020 and Jan 2021

After the original leader of the Conservative party, Donald Trump, won the November General Election he was ousted by the party, and replaced by the second modern VUK Prime Minister, Simon Fraser. They led the Conservative & Unionist party up until December 20th, when Priti Patel, along with many backbenchers, rebelled against the party and made Priti the first BIPOC Prime Minister of VUK and the second Indian Prime Minister of VUK. The VoNC in PM Fraser's leadership quickly succeeded, and Priti Patel quickly emerged as the clear leader of VUK. Simon Fraser then defected to the Liberal Democrats (along with many of their supporters) and revived the party as their leader, and on December 24th retired to become King of VUK.

Labour leadership in-between Nov 2020 and Jan 2021

Immediately after Labour's catastrophic defeat in the November General Election the Labour Party became more inactive in their opposition, and their leader Sir Alfred Ocelot was quickly voted out when VUK merged into Capital Parliament, and replaced with Garvin Neely in a decisive vote of the party membership. Garvin, however, did not actively participate in Parliament or opposition, and eventually, in a shock decision, defected to the Conservative and Unionist Party. After this, David Lammy, the runner up in the previous leadership election, won the election without any opposition at all. It's safe to say that the Labour leadership was incredibly unstable during the parliament.

Liberal Democratic Leadership in-between Nov 2020 and Jan 2021

After the November General Election the leadership of Koko was in question and he barely held on for dear life. When Fraser defected to the Liberal Democrats after a VoNC of his leadership of the Conservative Party. Simon Fraser then challenged and won the Leadership of the Liberal Democrats, and held on to that position until his retirement to become Monarch of the United Kingdom and was replaced by the Speaker of the House and Former Prime Minister, Robert Rockstar.

Free People's Party Leadership in-between Nov 2020 and Jan 2021

The Free People's Party was a splinter group from the Conservative & Unionist Party led by Jonathan Gullis, the then Deputy Prime Minister of the UK, who criticized the government of Prime Minister Priti Patel for being too moderate and too socially conservative, and insisted that the United Kingdom needed a 'truly libertarian' party and a socially moderate free market society. He later released a detailed manifesto of the FPPs policies [1 ] and, even though the FPP was relatively new and small in parliamentary members, turned into a major player in British politics with Sam Tarry's extensive campaigning allowed the FPP to skyrocket to fourth place and 55 seats.