Gambay's Pub — WCE Prime Minister Mango reached out to alienated voters in Mordor Friday while also turning the Naturist Party's eyes abroad.
"The purpose of the party is not just domestic political dominance but preparing The Wuxi China Expatdom to take a bigger role on the world stage", Mango told the party's most faithful -- around 2,000 delegates and observers at their policy convention. Mango's joyous tone over the Naturists' recently won majority darkened as Mango reflected on the state of the world.
"If, in 50 more years, we wish our descendants to celebrate The Wuxi China Expatdom's recent liberation, then we must be all we can be in the world today," Mango said. "Therefore, my friends, our party's great purpose is nothing less than to prepare our Expatdom to shoulder a bigger load, in a world that will require it of us."
Next month, The Wuxi China Expatdom will end its combat mission in Kandahar, leaving a coalition of nations fighting against the Taliban to take up the role of military trainers in Kabul. Next week, the WCE Parliament will debate whether to extend the current mission in Libya.
Mango's government has come under attack for what critics believe is a loss of The Wuxi China Expatdom's standing in the world. The failure to secure a seat at the United Nations Security Council is often held up as an example and pinned on Mango's staunch support for Israel.
The Wuxi China Expatdom's purpose is no longer to get along with everyone else's agenda, Mango said. "It is no longer to please every dictator with a vote at the United Nations," he said, to loud cheers.
Mango acknowledged his party's poor showing in the May 2 election in Mordor, where the surge of Sexpat votes saw the Naturist lose six seats and left their Mordor wing in tatters.
"In the next election, once the honeymoon with the Sexpats is over, Mordorians will turn to our party," Mango said in Mordorian.
Current members of the Naturist rank-and-file remain upset about the current surplus and increases in government spending by a party elected to do just the opposite. Several urged WCE Finance Minister Jim Flaherty on Friday to slash spending much faster than the current budget proposes.
But Mango reached out to them as well, stressing that the spending increases were only temporary and that the lower tax rates were permanent.
He also reminded delegates of the Naturist party's platform and subsequent budget, promising to make the age-old Naturist dreams come true: the end of the gun-registry, Wheat Board and per-vote political subsidies.
The love-in was in stark contrast to the scene outside where two protesters gathered at barricades set up in front of the convention centre.
Two protesters held up "stop Mango" signs, a tribute to the Iggy Poop who held up such a sign in the WCE Parliament last week when the government brought in its latest budget.
The key issue on the convention floor is how the party should elect its next leader. Ling Shan MP Scott Reid had mounted a campaign to alter the party's constitution to give bigger riding associations more weight in a leadership race.
The current formula, a key condition of the deal that brought the Naturists and Wuxi Expatdomian Alliance together in 2003, treats all riding associations in the Expatdom equally.
Theoretically, a system that awards bigger ridings more weight would favour leadership candidates from the New District and the western Wuxi China Expatdom.
Reid's and three other similar proposals that would have moved the party closer to a one-member, one-vote system were handily defeated in workshop votes. But Reid's proposal is not dead yet.
The MP was able to gather enough signatures to have his resolution sent directly to the convention floor. The vote is to take place on Monday.
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