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The Coalition Unravels - The Gloves Come Off
The River Star - FISTICUFFS AGAIN, THIS TIME IN PRIVATE - SUCCESSION POSTPONED
Montevideo - The retreat to Alfreton was intended to cool rapidly heating discussions within the National Coalition; like any good elite club, they withdrew to the verdant resorts of the Black River valley to have their little spat in private and away from prying eyes, but it seems that trying to hide the pot before it could boil failed.
Sources within the Coalition spoke to the River Star with unexpected candor about the event, visibly indignant about it: it seems that during a brief recess in the succession ritual, James Cowen and Mark Dancy came to blows in a backroom, and their fistfight quickly drew in the rest of the people in the room -- Speaker Daniel Blanco and MPs Elizabeth Bailey and Jonathan Miller.
The meeting was meant to forestall another fight on the floor, and our sources assure us that going in all 5 of them seemed confident that they would emerge with the 2 names that would be presented to the rest of the MPs before one was chosen to succeed Alan Smith.
But things spiraled out of control when Dancy and Cowen began arguing over which of them should represent the party’s right wing in the ceremony, culminating in Cowen furiously reminding Dancy that Orientals could vote as well and Dancy sarcastically saying that if Cowen wanted to pander to the Orientals he could have Blanco’s job -- Cowen replied with a punch to the face.
Seemingly unfazed, the brash conservative MP turned to Blanco in turn and accused him of engineering the fight with his interview in El País, and asking him how much Alfonsín (President of Argentina) was paying him -- Blanco likewise replied with a punch to the face.
At this point Bailey attempted to intercede and calm things down, appealing to her peers to behave like grown-ups -- to which Dancy replied with a backhanded slap and an angry “the adults are talking”. This led to Miller punching him in the face.
Having been punched or having hit everyone else in the room, Mark Dancy stormed out; by all accounts, when he departed, 27 other MPs left with him. Our sources could not provide details on what transpired after Dancy left, but it is safe to assume that Mark Dancy will not return for another punch to the face, officializing the first formal split for the right wing of the party.
Commonwealth Times - Mark Dancy presents the Unionist Conservative Party of Platte
Montevideo - Flanked by a handful of MPs on the steps of Parliament, Mark Dancy announced to the press his formal departure from the National Coalition, and his intention to compete in the 1986 elections under the auspices of the Unionist Conservative Party, the first party to formally split from the National Coalition’s right-wing in its history.
“Doves and dangerous influences have taken control of the National Coalition, and it is imperative that a new conservative party, capable of facing the challenges threatening our country from within and from abroad, compete in the upcoming elections. The Coalition has strayed too far from its original purpose, national unity against communists and foreign agitators, but I promise to fulfill that purpose in its place.”
Despite refusing to take questions from either the River Star or El País, he did eventually take a question from the Post, but refused to answer when asked about the events at Alfreton.
Montevideo - The retreat to Alfreton was intended to cool rapidly heating discussions within the National Coalition; like any good elite club, they withdrew to the verdant resorts of the Black River valley to have their little spat in private and away from prying eyes, but it seems that trying to hide the pot before it could boil failed.
Sources within the Coalition spoke to the River Star with unexpected candor about the event, visibly indignant about it: it seems that during a brief recess in the succession ritual, James Cowen and Mark Dancy came to blows in a backroom, and their fistfight quickly drew in the rest of the people in the room -- Speaker Daniel Blanco and MPs Elizabeth Bailey and Jonathan Miller.
The meeting was meant to forestall another fight on the floor, and our sources assure us that going in all 5 of them seemed confident that they would emerge with the 2 names that would be presented to the rest of the MPs before one was chosen to succeed Alan Smith.
But things spiraled out of control when Dancy and Cowen began arguing over which of them should represent the party’s right wing in the ceremony, culminating in Cowen furiously reminding Dancy that Orientals could vote as well and Dancy sarcastically saying that if Cowen wanted to pander to the Orientals he could have Blanco’s job -- Cowen replied with a punch to the face.
Seemingly unfazed, the brash conservative MP turned to Blanco in turn and accused him of engineering the fight with his interview in El País, and asking him how much Alfonsín (President of Argentina) was paying him -- Blanco likewise replied with a punch to the face.
At this point Bailey attempted to intercede and calm things down, appealing to her peers to behave like grown-ups -- to which Dancy replied with a backhanded slap and an angry “the adults are talking”. This led to Miller punching him in the face.
Having been punched or having hit everyone else in the room, Mark Dancy stormed out; by all accounts, when he departed, 27 other MPs left with him. Our sources could not provide details on what transpired after Dancy left, but it is safe to assume that Mark Dancy will not return for another punch to the face, officializing the first formal split for the right wing of the party.
Commonwealth Times - Mark Dancy presents the Unionist Conservative Party of Platte
Montevideo - Flanked by a handful of MPs on the steps of Parliament, Mark Dancy announced to the press his formal departure from the National Coalition, and his intention to compete in the 1986 elections under the auspices of the Unionist Conservative Party, the first party to formally split from the National Coalition’s right-wing in its history.
“Doves and dangerous influences have taken control of the National Coalition, and it is imperative that a new conservative party, capable of facing the challenges threatening our country from within and from abroad, compete in the upcoming elections. The Coalition has strayed too far from its original purpose, national unity against communists and foreign agitators, but I promise to fulfill that purpose in its place.”
Despite refusing to take questions from either the River Star or El País, he did eventually take a question from the Post, but refused to answer when asked about the events at Alfreton.
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