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Peace in Our Time! - A TRO Inspired Franco-British Union Quest

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[X] Plan Expanding the National Service
-[X] Centralize the NHS and abolish means-testing around life-threatening procedures, dentures, chronic prescriptions and glasses.
-[X] Offer National Service amnesties for well-grading students in nationally important fields such as the sciences or defense industries and guaranteeing veterans premium treatment for them and their families at the NHS.
-[X] Establish and offer a non-military track of National Service in the form of applying as Reserve Construction Workers, Clerks, and other entry-level positions in the civil service deemed essential.
-[X] Standardize the curriculum, use this to enforce bilingualism as well as imperial measurements along with offering scholarships for the sciences - with strict grading requirements! and a general budget increase towards public schooling.
-[X] Begin a programme of food stamps and maternity leave for lower-income families, along with rent subsidies depending on family size.
-[X] Build new public housing and mixed-use buildings with at-cost rents.
-[X] Repeal the restrictions set by the Trade Disputes and Union Act 1927 upon Trade Unions
-[X] Decriminalize homosexuality.
-[X] Start establishing Advisory Parliaments within the Overseas Territories with limited local powers, and a separate building in London for them to bug MPs, as well as as well as offering scholarships in the administrative sciences for Overseas Citizens, with the caveat of them returning home once their study is over.
-[X] Extend the National Service towards Overseas Citizens, with Veteran benefits towards them being subject to means-testing and merit.
-[X] Nationalize natural monopolies, as well as the defense industry, that would be profitable as a new source of revenue while giving owners minor non-controlling shares.
-[X] Enact a Progressive Tax and Land Value Tax.
-[X] Set up an explicit Military Veterans Benefits programme with generous benefits including free tertiary education and unemployment benefits as well as disability payments, couple this with the establishing of new Veteran Community Centres.
 
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I apologize, but I overlooked a policy plank made in foreign policy about the colonies. This one specifically:

-[] Our holdings in Africa is one of our greatest tools of negotiation with the Americans, we can not surrender it all on the table for them. Begin the formations of Joint Economic Zones of Influence in the Middle East and parts of Africa such as the Congo, whereupon there will be reduced regulations or wage minimums for companies operating within them.

I've rectified it by editing in the following passages into Eden's Colonial Results post, and posted below for ease of reading.

The situation became more cluttered as Congo was turned into a 'joint economic zone' that allowed limited investment from other countries directly into the colonies. There were taxes and duties levied on any company doing it, including profit sharing schemes with London. That limited enthusiasm somewhat, but as the administrative chaos set in a miniature mineral rush began in Central Africa. The reorganization of colonial borders, coupled with firing much of the staff to replace them with proxies and local elites created conditions where nobody was quite sure who answered to who or who was even authorized to answer to anyone. In stepped private companies with backing from America, Canada, Australia, and South Africa, all looking to get their cut, despite the cost of entry. Many established jointly owned companies with French, Belgian, and British executives looking to help foreign companies find their footing in Africa. Corruption skyrocketed to an all time high as former civil servants signed and sealed documents for cash under the table, veteran bureaucrats fearing that their jobs were on the line, and locals fortunate enough to know the right people their cut for acting as liaisons.

Unsightly developments like private security forces began popping up in Central Africa. They were little more than hired thugs meant to look tough and beat workers into line, while any actual fighting was handled by the colonial garrisons. They were small in numbers in the grand scheme of things, but soldiers of fortune never looked good for an empire. Eden's government was less than pleased by the news, deciding to downplay it. The revenues generated from investments and taxes was certainly well received, even if the growing corruption wasn't.
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The joint economic zone in the PAE (Protectorate of Arab Emirates) went much smoother than it did in Central Africa. The local emirates were more than happy to take foreign money in exchange for drilling rights, though very soon Franco-British companies began to feel annoyed by the incursion of American oil companies into their perceived territory. The high barrier of entry and revenue paid to London and British executives mollified them only somewhat. It was fortunate that the PAE was a less interesting market to Americans than Saudi Arabia or Iraq. It was easier to grease palms with the independent kingdoms than bother jumping through London's hoops. The emirates without known oil deposits across the PAE desperately offered drilling rights in the hopes that they'd strike it rich too. There were no major discoveries as of yet. They were in a stronger position than the Congolese to negotiate actual returns on the looting of their nation.
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We need to rebuild our Navy then tell the Japanese Empire to shove their reparations, spending a little money on rebuilding our naval industry and prestige (and employ a huge number of veteran sailors) will pay off in the long run and make up for our humiliation in Calcutta. The Japanese are the weakest link in this cold war, we ought to focus our fire on them.
 
[X] Plan: Bevanite Sweep
-[X] Rationing: Reintroduce price controls for basic necessities, ensuring every family may have egg, poultry and fish on the dinner table every day. Enforce harsh anti-price gouging laws alongside increasing food subsidies. As a bone to the right, turn a blind eye to labor law malpractice in the colonies.
-[X] Healthcare: No payments, no prescription fees. Abolish means-testing for the NHS. Nationalize the entire healthcare sector and introduce national standards for treatment to streamline the entire process.
-[X] Nationalization: Go further and nationalize the defense, educational and water sectors as well. Legalize and recognize all unions, radically expand labor laws, including but not limited to right to strike, negotiate and anti-scab legislations. Agree to Radical Party demands, creating wholly French subsidiaries in French territories.
-[X] Education: Introduce a new national standards board, emphasizing student freedom and subject qualities, and get rid of the silly patriotic education classes. Focus government funding on poorer schools, expand benefits for students from poorer households.
-[X] Housing: Implement Bevan's housing plans in full, building houses for comfort rather than the lowest cost. Raise land value tax on private landowners and enforce rent-control in the FBU core territories.
-[X] National Service and the Overseas Territories: Move to abolish mandatory National Service for French and British citizens, while extending it to the new citizens of the overseas territories. British and French volunteers will be fast-tracked to leadership over the new citizens of the FBU.
-[X] Veteran Benefits: Government-sponsored higher education for all veterans, increased healthcare benefits, pensions as well as low-interest loans for business ventures.
-[X] Welfare: Post-War Consensus all the way, further offload costs to the wealthy and the colonies. Expand all civil servant benefits.
-[X] Voting Reform: Implement proportional voting, abolish the House of Lords.
-[X] Measurements: Fully standardize to the metric system.
-[X] Turing: Decriminalize homosexuality.
 
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Cbman said:
We need to rebuild our Navy then tell the Japanese Empire to shove their reparations, spending a little money on rebuilding our naval industry and prestige (and employ a huge number of veteran sailors) will pay off in the long run and make up for our humiliation in Calcutta. The Japanese are the weakest link in this cold war, we ought to focus our fire on them.
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1. We're hardly in the mood for Adventures at the moment after eating this L, give it a decade or two of revanchist stoking

2. Budget.

3. Doing this by ourselves and without at least some amount of american involvement is unwise, what's the point of the alliance otherwise. Wait for a more bellicose administration on both sides of the Atlantic
 
Astra Myst said:
1. We're hardly in the mood for Adventures at the moment after eating this L, give it a decade or two of revanchist stoking

2. Budget.

3. Doing this by ourselves and without at least some amount of american involvement is unwise, what's the point of the alliance otherwise. Wait for a more bellicose administration on both sides of the Atlantic
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The glory of the Franco-British Union renders such meaningless squabbles like "budget" irrelevant, while we sit back on a our haunches and waste time improving the lives of our people, there are former subjects out there in Asia getting their wealth sucked dry and crying out for us to liberate them from their Japanese oppressors so we can rightfully suck them dry of money ourselves.
 
Cbman said:
The glory of the Franco-British Union renders such meaningless squabbles like "budget" irrelevant, while we sit back on a our haunches and waste time improving the lives of our people, there are former subjects out there in Asia getting their wealth sucked dry and crying out for us to liberate them from their Japanese oppressors so we can rightfully suck them dry of money ourselves.
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Sir, the Foreign Office is to your left, this is the Labor Party Headquarters :V
 
[X] Plan: Shock Labourization
-[X] Curriculum Standardization - Force the patriotism teachers to shape up, or ship out. That's the only real change, though - They'll be replaced with proper patriotism teachers, not 'abolished'.
-[X] Turing - Well, isn't this just a silly business - Use the lack of coherent opposition to simply decriminalize homosexuality legally. Problem solved. No need to follow up on anything else about it.
-[X] Healthcare - Direct control from London! The NHS shall be fully centralized and costs shall be removed from the British (and French, I suppose) taxpayer. Costs shall be shunted onto the colonies.
-[X] Nationalization - Well, this is a simple solution - Nationalize the key industries, the French can have their nationalized entities, and the British shall have theirs, and any in between shall be split fifty-fifty. We'll offer a pittance to their owners - Enough that they can live comfortably, but by no means the estimated value - They ought to be glad they're not being expropriated.
-[X] Welfare and Housing - The British (and French, I suppose) citizen shall want for naught. The FBU government shall make a commitment to care for its true citizens from cradle to grave, and all efforts must be made for this under the new Labour-Radical regime. Costs shall, of course, be pushed onto the colonies.
-[X] National Service and the Overseas Territories - Isn't it great when our problems can solve each other? Move to abolish mandatory National Service for true citizens of the FBU (AKA, the French and British), while extending it to our "new citizens" - And widen the net, too. British and French volunteers will be fast-tracked to leadership over the...newly valued members of the FBU community. Welfare for all who serve, of course - But it shall be adjusted appropriately for those of rank or who display leadership.
 
Cbman said:
The glory of the Franco-British Union renders such meaningless squabbles like "budget" irrelevant, while we sit back on a our haunches and waste time improving the lives of our people, there are former subjects out there in Asia getting their wealth sucked dry and crying out for us to liberate them from their Japanese oppressors so we can rightfully suck them dry of money ourselves.
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Back to the backbenches, Tory.
 
nachtingale said:
[X] Plan: Bevanite Sweep
-[X] Rationing: Reintroduce price controls for basic necessities, ensuring every family may have egg, poultry and fish on the dinner table every day. Enforce harsh anti-price gouging laws alongside increasing food subsidies. As a bone to the right, turn a blind eye to labor law malpractice in the colonies, allowing them to exploit as they wish.
-[X] Healthcare: No payments, no prescription fees. Abolish means-testing for the NHS. Nationalize the entire healthcare sector and introduce national standards for treatment to streamline the entire process.
-[X] Nationalization: Go further and nationalize the defense and educational sectors as well. Legalize and recognize all unions, radically expand labor laws, including but not limited to right to strike, negotiate and anti-scab legislations. Agree to Radical Party demands, creating wholly French subsidiaries in French territories.
-[X] Education: Introduce a new national standards board and get rid of the silly patriotic education classes. Focus government funding on poorer schools, expand benefits for students from poorer households.
-[X] Housing: Implement Bevan's housing plans in full, building houses for comfort rather than the lowest cost. Raise land value tax on private landowners and enforce rent-control in the FBU core territories.
-[X] National Service and the Overseas Territories: Move to abolish mandatory National Service for French and British citizens, while extending it to the new citizens of the overseas territories. British and French volunteers will be fast-tracked to leadership over the new citizens of the FBU.
-[X] Veteran Benefits: Government-sponsored higher education for all veterans, increased healthcare benefits, pensions as well as low-interest loans for business ventures.
-[X] Welfare: Post-War Consensus all the way, further offload costs to the wealthy and the colonies. Expand all civil servant benefits.
-[X] Voting Reform: Implement proportional voting, abolish the House of Lords.
-[X] Measurements: Fully standardize to the metric system.
-[X] Turing: Decriminalize homosexuality.
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For some reason, instead of reading "Bevanite SWEEP" I read "Bevanite SHEEP". Must be the damn Welsh screwing things up again!
 
[X] Plan: Bevanite Sweep

I'm not expecting the House of Lords to be abolished but the other parts of the plan are right up my alley. Can't wait to get to colonial affairs. I want to make the colonies profitable and get Britains to realize their luxury comes at the cost of maintaining said colonies. I don't want British youth caring about decolonization in the future!

Also next election cycle i'd like to focus on drawing the various dominions closer to us. Unless thats something we can still do in an upcoming vote.
 
[X] Plan: Bevanite Sweep

seems slightly unrealistic...

meaning its perfect for this quest.
 
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