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• July 21, 2010
• 8:13

  Economy Slowly Awakens from Government Inertia

   » ‎ The Genevan Arrow
  

  The Imperial Central Bank Building (left) in Geneva

  The Economy has slowly begun to emerge from the inertia that effected every level of Government recently.

  Yesterday, payments were made to all those in Government employ for their services up to the end of the last Parliament. Discussions in the ICB’s corridor indicate that soon the San Martin Stock Exchange (SMSE) will be up and running after many months of delay which have inhibited economic growth.

  In addition to the good news emanating from the Imperial Central Bank there is also talk of a possible change in the Imperial Government’s stance on membership in the Micran wide Small Commonwealth Unified Economy. The SCUE member nations have recently been meeting to discuss removing the organisation from the Small Commonwealth, which had always been a major roadblock to Alexandrian involvement. With this now almost certainly to be agreed upon, the Imperial Government may consider a review of its stance to not integrate completely into the wider micronational economy.

• 7:52

  Parliamentary Reform faces Tough Scrutiny

   » ‎ The Genevan Arrow

  A blistering row has broken out in the Speaker’s Parliamentary Offices regarding proposed reforms the Speaker intends to see through. Yet despite this publication’s views that such opposition would come from the Conservative Party, it has instead come from within the Speaker’s own party, the Liberals.

  The Speaker’s reforms, none of which are concrete at the time of print, involve making Parliamentary procedure more efficient as well as introducing a set of standards for legislative draftsmanship. Yet what the dissent seems to taking offence to is the seemingly British slant such reforms will take.

  The two new Liberal members in the Parliamentary Party, Mssr. Carlos Petrassi and His Grace the Duke of Breisenlau, have both objected to the Speaker’s use of existing Parliamentary procedures and his basic ideas on how to improve Parliament. Criticism from His Grace has been relatively demure on the floor of the Parliament, asking the Speaker to reconsider introducing aspects of Westminster as a result of their own peculiarities. Mssr. Petrassi, meanwhile, has pursued the argument into the Speaker’s Office itself challenging the Speaker’s preference for Westminster procedure. In one instance, Mssr Petrassi even accused the Speaker of a “breech [sic] of conduct.”

  While many have looked at the ongoing intellectual battle with a certain degree of awe, political hacks have been taking decidedly different views. Conservative supporters have been touting the argument as a sign of the Liberal Party’s inability to govern with First Consul Alejandro Castillo declining to enter into the fray or stop it. Liberal Party Strategists are known to be in dismay at the public argument engulfing two senior members of their party. The fact that the argument has originated between two new Liberal MPs against a stalwart of the Carmichael administrations may just be a sign of Jean Carmichael’s Liberal legacy beginning to ebb away.