Prospective President Gone AWOL
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Hassan Pesaran
Widdows9000, current Minister of Defence, official Party President of PCP and front-runner candidate to be the next President of the eUK has mysteriously gone missing for the last 5 days. His last visit to the eUK National Forums was on Sun Sep 21, 2008 7:36 pm. He gave no reason for his sudden absence, and I have spoken with PCP officials and it is reported he left no note that he would be gone.
It is curious and worrying to say the least. Widdows is highly respected in the eUK, and we hope that something bad hasn't happened to him.
If it is not related to his real life however, one wonders whether if we can't trust him to give reasons for sudden absences, whether we can trust him with running the Country?
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It would assume its an RL issue,lets be honest, I can\'t see him abandoning the game in the week he was odds on favourite to win presidency.
I would have thought so. I just think that it shouldnt go unnoticed.
I really hope he is ok, though
Even if he got Elected and goes AWOL. V1 we can impeach him. I doubt he is going to be away long anyway. I was Hospitalised during the last leg of my Presidency luckily I had a good Cabinet and VP in place to hold the fort together.
\"I just think that it shouldnt go unnoticed.\"
Thats perfectly understandable
I really hope Widds is OK. I havent seen him on MSN either.
I hate to burst your bubbles gentlemen, but Widdows is away and it was announced on the PCP forums.
This is the information we were given.
\"Widds is away until 5pm Sunday UK time\"
So no, he\'s not AWOL. It\'s an informed absence.
How are we supposed to know that you\'re not just making this up now to salvage your election campaign? Announcing it to one party isn\'t any good when he wants to lead the nation, is it?
No, 5PM Sunday was talking about last week. Sorry.
William, we wouldn\'t make something up like that. We don\'t want to elect an inactive president any more than you do, and you\'ll see that if he doesn\'t come back, we\'ll tell our members not to vote for him.
If the PCP really did act in such a non-partisan manner, for the good of the country, I might consider laying off you for a bit.
Give us one example of how the PCP has acted in a partisan manner.
I won\'t be voting for him unless his explanation is sufficient. Having his internet break or he bought a new game won\'t cut it.
Broken internet would suffice tbh, mY INTERNET stopped working for like 3 days in a row once tbh :/
Then again, i vote on manifesto 😃
\"Then again, i vote on manifesto\"
Don\'t you take anything else into consideration?
Do you consider – for example – whether or not, on previous form, the owner of the manifesto can be trusted to fulfil the commitments in it: rather than just use false promises about popular policies to achieve power, then use that power for their own purposes?
first Nick....Now Widdows...
Don\'t get me wrong. He has helped me a lot and I too hope he returns
I hope he returns: he\'s good for the defence of the Realm. I also hope, however, that he is not elected as some kind of absentee landlord.
\'If the PCP really did act in such a non-partisan manner, for the good of the country, I might consider laying off you for a bit.\'
For the good of the country being the key phrase.
\"Do you consider – for example – whether or not, on previous form, the owner of the manifesto can be trusted to fulfil the commitments in it: rather than just use false promises about popular policies to achieve power, then use that power for their own purposes?\"
Ego massaging over the good of the eUK.
Hope widdows is ok anyway.
\"I hope he returns: he\'s good for the defence of the Realm. I also hope, however, that he is not elected as some kind of absentee landlord.\"
Don\'t worry, since there\'s no war until V1, we won\'t need an MoD until then. I will probably be MoD next term if Widds doesn\'t show up, I\'ve been apprentice this month and I\'d like to think I know enough about war to run the country well. But yes, I do hope that he\'s okay.
\"\'If the PCP really did act in such a non-partisan manner, for the good of the country, I might consider laying off you for a bit.\'
For the good of the country being the key phrase.\"
Neither of you has managed to provide any evidence that the PCP or Widdows have ever done anything in a partisan manner or anything that wasn\'t for the good of the country. People will only think you\'re ignorant if you don\'t back up your points with evidence, especially when somebody\'s already asked you for it a while ago.
Nel, I think Flamur already heard about net café...
\'If it is not related to his real life however, one wonders whether if we can\'t trust him to give reasons for sudden absences, whether we can trust him with running the Country?\'
Hassan seriously stop trying to discredit him for your own purposes, as you say he is a highly respected person in the e-UK, he wouldn\'t be one if he pulled crap like this for fun. I agree that it shouldn\'t go unnoticed but to add the last comment was petty and beneath you or so I thought.
I hope he\'s ok, he\'s a great MoD and would definately be the best choice for next president in my opinion.
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I dont think it was trying to discredit him. It was merely speculation on the fact he hasnt been here for a week or so.
And when was the last time I posted an article like this? Never, I think is the answer.
But once again, I hope he\'s ok and I wish him the best of luck.
he was active yesterday, on the forums at least
For me it still says he wasnt on...
\"Neither of you has managed to provide any evidence that the PCP or Widdows have ever done anything in a partisan manner or anything that wasn\'t for the good of the country. People will only think you\'re ignorant if you don\'t back up your points with evidence, especially when somebody\'s already asked you for it a while ago.\"
The PCP are talking to an SO about giving part of the eUK away, I could bring up the strange happenings in that mayoral election....but I won\'t as at least a half reasonable excuse was given.
I don\'t think we\'re actually considering giving them Belfast unless the people of Belfast want to be part of eIreland. And if they do, it would be incredibly unfair for us not to give them away. But talking to them, listening to them, letting them know that we aren\'t idiots who just ignore people who say anything that we don\'t like... that\'s a good thing. Besides, it\'s not the PCP doing that, it\'s the government - and the government is separate from the PCP. And I can\'t think of anything partisan about that, or about the mayoral elections (where only one thing happened which the PCP cannot be held accountable for just as TUP is not held accountable for the AngelFeather incident).
\"...just as TUP is not held accountable for the AngelFeather incident.\"
Are you denying that Alain Bates was publicly declared to be a \"discrace\" now?
Aren\'t the majority of people in Belfast displaced Aussies?, wouldn\'t it be better to give them their country back?
And again I say the issue of Belfast shouldn\'t even be raised considering as in eRep Belfast has never been part of eIreland.
Anyone that joined eRep and signed up to Belfast yet want to be part of the country of eIreland should have just signed up to live in eIreland, this isn\'t a racist comment or am I saying I don\'t want them in the eUK, its just that if they joined with an RL agenda then they shouldn\'t be talked to and is basically against what I see as the spirit of the game, eRep was thew perfect opportunity to live the dream people can live where they want, I\'m not from the \'Leeds\' area yet I decided to live there.
William - at the time, yes, but after the incident I think everybody can agree that while it was a bad move, everybody makes mistakes.
I agree that the issue of Belfast should never have been raised, but it was and we can\'t ignore it for all the reasons I\'ve said many, many times. Everybody has the right to be talked to and given a reason for not agreeing with them. Just as you do, so does everyone else. That\'s the way things work.