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Voting has now ended.
Good evening everyone,
The vote is finally upon us! Voting is now open from today until 11pm on the 14th January, with results either on that day or the day after.
As a reminder here are the candidates for Speaker of the House of Commons and their respective manifestos:
/u/HaveADream had to withdraw as a candidate due to personal cirumstances, so they cannot be voted on.
I wish to stand for Commons Speaker.
Why? I am a good manager, I ran the MBBC, I co-ran the Liberal Democrats, I have managed communities before and I know what works and I know that the current system is not sustainable if we wish to continue to grow and develop our community. If you elect me to represent you as your Commons Speaker, I will bring around constitutional changes that will be outlined in my manifesto and bring less rigidity and more freedom to let the community stand by itself rather than be governed by a set strict of rules, rules are good, yes, but they must be an assistance, not a instrument of dependency of our community.
I am impartial, I have very little ties with anyone in MHoC and I want to expand the current game to include more with the press and ultimately devolve more powers to the users and groupings those users make, rather than letting the speakership having ultimate control, the only thing the speaker should have a control on is moderation, progression of the game and community, development of the userbase and growth, and crimes against our community.
I will not be doing any wild campaigns or having a campaign group with me, if you wish to support me, I will do my best to do what's best for you and the community as a whole, I will do my best to represent those of you that look elsewhere in a leader, and if I win, you can be sure I'd do my best to do this community proud.
I've made mistakes, as have all the candidates, but I'm asking you, I genuinely want to do this for you, and for the community regardless of what path that takes, so I'm available for any questions or queries.
MHOC - You are running out of options here. It looks likely that the successful candidate will either be inactive or at least not activly engage in parliamentary politics. From reading the accounts of what it is like to be speaker, it is made abundantly clear that whoever wins must expect to be hated by everyone. I don't see that being an issue, as as far as I am aware, I am already hated by everyone, and I am still here. Whether it was the 1 1 fiasco, or my time in the press, I have demonstrated my ability to shrug off quite a large variety of pretty personal attacks, if I might say so myself. I've been in many leadership positions on MHOC, and I have made a success of all of them. Policy wise, I'll make it up as I go along - that is to say I will listen to everyone, open grown up discussions with the other candidates and be pragmatic. This does not mean I intend to be a consensus option, but sombody who picks a route and sticks to it.
And here are the candidates for Speaker of the House of Lords and their respective manifestos:
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