The Unity Party

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The Unity Party
Social
President	Karacticus
Members	638 ▲
Country	UK
Attributes
Abbreviation	TUP
Political
Orientation	Center-Left
Ideology	Libertarian
Congress	14 seats (35.9%)
Links
Forum link	forum
History
Formation	January 15th 2008

Created in January 2008 under the name Now El313ct Winners, The Unity Party is the largest party by membership in the United Kingdom with over 600 members.

The party has produced five UK Presidents: Final Destiny, Malta_1990, Hassan Pesaran, GLaDOS and Mr Woldy, as well as supporting every successful candidate since April 2009. It has also contributed a large amount of Congress members and Ministers.

Although the party went through a slump in July 2008, the election of Hassan Pesaran in September proved to be a successful one and the party grew rapidly. Growing to the third biggest party in the UK behind UK Reform and the People's Communist Party, the election of Iain Keers as Party President in March prompted more reform and growth, overtaking the PCP and becoming the UK's second biggest party. Under the leadership of Karacticus the Unity Party finally overtook UK Reform to be the countries biggest party.

See the current Manifesto for October/November

Contents 1 Unity Party held Positions 1.1 President 1.2 Congress 1.3 Lords 1.4 Cabinet 2 Defining The Unity Party 3 The Council of Unity 4 The Committee of Unity 4.1 Members 5 History 5.1 March 5.2 April 5.3 May 5.4 June 5.5 July 5.6 August 5.7 September 5.8 October 5.9 November 6 List of Leaders

Unity Party held Positions

President

• Stefan1992

Congress

15 Members of Congress, 37.5% of Seats.

• DillTheDog
• busynurse1510
• Stefan1992
• Graham Fortune
• Smithie
• Miloman
• R-J C
• Dan Moir
• Final Destiny
• James Glover
• KiraQuest
• Mal_Reynolds
• Karacticus
• WelshRob
• Mahlak Dependus

Lords

• Malta_1990
• thehorseltd
• John Forseti

Cabinet

• Minister of Home Affairs: Nice Guy Eddie
• Minister of Finance DillTheDog

Defining The Unity Party

See the Constitution for more details

The Council of Unity

The Council of Unity was founded by former Party Leader Squiddy shortly after his third successive term running TUP, it has since been included in the constitution as a permanent Unity Party Institution. The reason behind forming the CoU was to primarily encourage new members to get involved. As well as this, the CoU also serves to ensure that TUP is maintained to a high degree of professionalism. It is now the central administrative and executive authority of the party.

• Party President: Karacticus
• Party Vice-President:
• Administrative Executive: Sir Graystar

Wiki Admin Team:

• Sir Graystar
• malta_1990
• Iain Keers

• Media Executive:

Media Team:

• Iain Keers

• Party Secretary to Congress:
• Chairman of the RUP Congress:

The Committee of Unity

Members of the Committee of Unity represent a general pool of experienced and working party members, their job is to assist the party leader and other executives in the execution of their duties. All party congressional candidates and current congressman must take up membership in the council if they are not in an executive position, the council also accepts party member volunteers. There is no set limit to the amount of council members at any one time. Current members of the Committee of Unity:

Members

• Luke Mitchell
• Wallyboy444
• Hethor
• BFSte
• Stephen Torrington
• Stefan1992
• Busynurse1510
• Mailak Kalan
• Count Drakula
• Captain Badass
• Jimbob Faste
• CBall

History

For earlier months, see article: History of the Unity Party

March

In March the Unity Party released the much awaited TUP March Congressional Manifesto, which outlined the party's goals for the parliamentary session. It also saw the beginning of the Unity Party-Advancement Party Accord, whereby BAP members were selected to run under a joint banner of left unity.

April

See also:TUP Manifesto for April 2009

In April Malta_1990 was selected by internal debate to run for President of the United Kingdom. Although TUP had never won a Presidential election solo, the huge changes in the party made this possible, and Malta won with 46% of the popular vote. His Manifesto can be found here.

The build-up to the party president elections was quiet, receiving little comment other than the fact that John Forseti was running against Iain Keers, as well as three outside candidates, yet the election itself was anything but. Receiving the highest total turn out of all parties at 111 votes, and largest by percentage of the top 5 at 30% the tally was so close throughout the day that the result could not be called until the end. It came down to just 3 votes between incumbentIain Keers on 54 and John Forseti on 51. Congress elections this month were fairly successful, with twelve members being elected. New congress members included Luke Mitchell (SW), Wallyboy444 (London), Hethor (NI), Stephen Torrington (Wales), Stefan1992 (SE), busynurse1510 (EM) and Mailak Kalan (EoE). In addition sitting congress members Iain Keers, John Forseti and BFSte, as well as old congress members Sir Graystar and Count Drakula were elected.

The unity party constitution was also amended this month, the amendments proposed by John Forseti received no debate and were welcomed by president Iain Keers, they passed at conference with 100% support.
At the end of the month the party underwent somewhat of a re-branding. A new logo was created by Sir Graystar, and is now being used by all TUP organisations and articles. There was a feeling that an update was in order, rather than a replacement, as the old logo was very popular but looked somewhat dated. The font was changed and the logo was given an overall more attractive and modern look. The Unity Post announced this change on April 27th.

May

See also: TUP Manifesto for May 2009
In the May presidential elections, The Unity Party backed the UKRP candidate SaraDroz. She ended up winning by a large margin, hardly surprising since TUP now had over 400 members and were quite a lot bigger than the second largest party, The People's Communist Party.
The Party President elections were fought out between John Forseti (who had been very close to winning last month) and Teh User. In the end John Forseti won by a considerable margin, and took over the presidency from Iain Keers, who had decided not to run for a third term due to him setting up Camelot. John immediately set about appointing position for the Council of Unity.
The May congress elections was a somewhat disappointing one for TUP, as the party only managed to get 9 seats. This was their worst result since September 2008.

June

June was a comeback for TUP. The Party backed coalition candidate Kumnaa, who won by a narrow margin, beating the UK Reform candidate JerryGFL. Kumnaa moved from PCP to TUP mid-way through his term. Later in the month the party scored another victory as it reclaimed its past glories gaining 12 seats in the congressional election.

July

See also:TUP Manifesto for July 2009
July began with TUP member and candidate Hassan Pesaran winning the Presidential elections by a comfortable margin, beating UK Reform candidate Dishmcds with the help of the PCP. Later in the month the party exceeded all hopes in winning a massive eighteen seats in the congressional elections, receiving more votes than any other party and winning a near majority of congress. Combined with the PCP there was now a significant left wing majority in congress.

Over the month one of the most prominent battles in congress was the debate over the implementation of nationalised Q2 grain companies to combat rising prices. The 57% left wing majority was the elephant in the room throughout the debate, with the UKRP forming a strong opposition to the move. This was one of the clearest left-right divides in the recent history of the UK.

August

August saw TUP member and country President Hassan Pesaran win with a huge landslide victory. Hassan won with 588 votes, four hundred more than second place candidate Dodgy Dude, standing as the BEP candidate. UK Reform surrendered their chance at the Presidency by backing the indomitable Hassan, who has one of the highest approval of any President in eUK history. He stood on an honest platform- to continue the work he had been doing. You can find his manifesto Here.

On the 15th, Mr Woldy Was elected a second time as Party President, and in the following congress elections The Unity Party maintained its position as the largest party in congress.

September

See also: TUP Manifesto for September 2009
September saw TUP member GLaDOS take the reigns from Hassan Pesaran as Country President. The results were GLaDOS 502 votes, Necrosis (UK Reform, Free Democratic Party, Vanguard) 378, Widdows9000 (People's Communist Party, Radical Freethinkers Alliance, British Capitalist Party) 318. 502 votes, without any non-party backing, and running against all other major parties, is the highest result in know history. The huge victory over UKRP and the other top 5 parties cemented the TUP's position as the most powerful party in the UK.

On the 15th of September Party Veteran Mr Woldy stepped down as Party President. Karacticus, an up-and-coming UK star, was duly elected with the largest number of votes.

October

See also: TUP Manifesto for October 2009
October began with TUP member Mr Woldy Winning the Presidency from party defector GLaDOS by over two hundred votes. He received 798 votes, the biggest landslide victory in UK history to date.

After the victory Karacticus was re-elected as TUP PP. He recieved 250 votes and turnout was a prophetic 313 votes. The Party went on to win 15 seats in the Congressional election, co-ordinating with the People's Communist Party to ensure a large number of left wing seats.

November

November began with the re-election of TUP member Mr Woldy as Country President. He won with over fifty percent of the vote, and although turnout was down the percentage of the vote held by the The Unity Party-PCP alliance increased.

List of Leaders

Note: Party Presdient elections are on the 15th of each month (10th in BETA).