Luthori

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It seems that the 5660 campaign has become a lot more intense, following the unfortunate demise of longtime Liberal Party leader, Patricia Holmes, political parties stopped their respective campaigns in a rare moment of unity within this cruel environment. But today, as the funeral passed on and Mrs. Holmes is dead and buried, the campaign went on, with both the Labour and Conservative parties delivering their respective manifestoes in large rallies, one in the working-class and traditionally leftist Principality of Orange and the other in the more conservative-friendly territory of Northriding, where the Tories are projected to suffer losses at the next election cycle.

On one hand, there was the Labour Party’s delivering its manifesto from the Francis Kensington Stadium in Downtown Fort William, the atmosphere was ecstatic, with thousands of Labour supporters cheering from the stadium’s terraces in support of party leader, Kathy Miles, who was delivering a fiery speech addressing the last years of Conservative governance over Luthori, which, for her part, described as being “disastrous”. Mrs. Miles stated in her speech that the Tories had “made Luthori weak by inaction”, stating that over 10% of Luthori’s population was living below the poverty line.

She moreover stated that the “inequality present in our nation is a stain in our nation’s conscience”, vowing that Luthori “needed a bold action plan, not words, but action, something that hasn’t been delivered by two Conservative governments in the last 20 years”, the manifesto of the National Labour Party calls for the following policies to be enacted during a possible Miles Administration:

• Reforming the Constitutional and Supreme Courts, combining them into one single judicial court tasked with reviewing bills passed by Parliament.
  
• Reforming the Senate into a more representative body of the Luthorian population - aims at removing the right for hereditary peers and archbishops of the Holy Luthori Church to sit in the Senate.
  
• Increase the hourly minimum wage from £10.5 per hour to £13.25 per hour.
  
• Enact a bold environment-friendly program called “the Green Pact”, promises to pass a Bill in Parliament to invest £200 billions into renewable energies over a period of 15 years.
  
• Enacting a complete ban on the opening of new coal mining pits and vowing to close all operating coal mines by 5675.
  
• Pass an euthanasia bill, providing government help to people in need and wishing for an euthanasia, and providing legal guidelines to secure the legal practice of euthanasia.
  
• Reinvigorate Luthorian state-owned corporations by providing sweeping government investments to help their long-term recovery.
  
• Pass an infrastructure bill that would dedicate £300 billions in infrastructure building and renovation throughout the nation.
  
• Invest over £500 billion over reinvigorating the dying Luthorian industry, through providing subsidies to failing companies and grants for the construction of more factories throughout Luthori.
  

These policies are widely considered as being “radical” and “out-of-touch” by numerous economics, who warn about the “reckless spending” supported by the Leader of the Opposition during her address, economics argue that such spending might lead to an explosion of the debt ceiling “beyond recognition", although others are much less worried, stating that the Luthorian debt has “historically” been very low and that even with £1 to 1.5 trillion invested in both industries, green energy and infrastructure renewal might “not lead to the economic catastrophe that numerous economists are foreseeing”, but even as the experts bickered among themselves, in general, the populace loved the message of the National Labour Party, even though some communities such as minorities and farmers felt to have been “swept under the rug” by the Labour leadership, although the Opposition Leader vowed that “every community shall be represented under a Miles Administration”.

Meanwhile, in the Conservative Party, in a sharp contrast to the buzzing and ecstatic crowds that were cheering Mrs. Miles during her speech delivering Labour’s manifesto, the Prime Minister delivered the Tories’ manifesto for the 5660 general election, called “A Safe, Secure and Reliable Future”, before a panel of high-ranking scientists, economists, journalists, students and Tory supporters at the University of Northminster. Prime Minister Windbury stated that “Luthori’s prosperity was only assured through continued Conservative governance”, while the Labour manifesto was considered by many as being “bold”, “hopeful” and “yearning for change”, the Conservative manifesto was mostly remarked as being "unimpressive", “economically moderate” and “tired down from 20 years of uncontested governance”. The Tories’ manifesto included things like:

• An enactment of a full nuclear revision and renovation program in hopes of increasing security in Luthorian nuclear power plants.
  
• Empowerment of the Federal Nuclear Operations Agency through a reassessment of its objectives and a clear reform being laid out in Parliament.
  
• Restore effectiveness in Luthorian social services and state-owned corporations through investment packages and increased subsidies.
  
• Restore Luthorian economic growth through increased subsidies towards corporations, and aim at cutting corporate tax by 2.5% by 5675.
  
• Increase national combat abilities through a “reflection” on the state of Luthori’s armed forces and increase the military budget by 3% by 5675.
  
• Enhance productive relations between the Federal Government and the Provincial Governments through a series of “round table talks” between the Prime Minister and Minister-Presidents where matters of high importance to the Provinces could be discussed.
  
• Cement the independence of the Bank of Luthori through law, by removing the Prime Minister’s ability to advise the Emperor on the nomination of the Chair of the Bank of Luthori.
  
• Investing heavily into infrastructure works to provide new job opportunities for numerous Luthorians.
  
• Invest £50 billion into an “Agricultural Saving Plan”, aiming at reinvigorating the Luthorian agriculture industry by 5675.
  

Political columnists agreed that, while this plan is typically what the Conservatives would propose in average general election, this wasn’t your average general election, Labour is currently ahead in every polls, and every metric points out at an exclusion of the right from government after the next election cycle, this manifesto lacked purpose, it lacked the unity needed for the Tories to rally the right-wing vote fully behind them.

Other political parties are currently in the process of releasing their own manifestoes during the week, with the Liberal, Communist and Nationalist Parties projected to deliver unto their manifestoes during this week.