Labour Party

The Labour Party, also known as the Labourites and informally oversimplified as "the Reds", is the left-wing political party in Game City which players can vote for or join. The Labourites don't believe in a specific branch of the left, as the Party represents a broad spectrum of leftist ideologies, including social liberalism, social democracy, progressivism, and socialism.

The Labour Party was the first political party to be elected by the people, first being in power from 2015 to 2017 under Game City's first-ever President, JaimeGamer99.

Their main rivals are the Conservatives.

They are the biggest party in the Government and are currently in power, led by President Handduken and Vice President ToastIsBestFrozen.

The Labour Party is represented by the colour  red .

The founding of the party.
In spring of 2015, the city's mayor JaimeGamer99 would attempt to introduce measures to modernize the city and develop more urban areas, but was almost always met with the disapproval of King Aston I. The constant vetos of the King would only motivate the young mayor even more, which would lead him to create a political party to represent the working class of the then small town of Game City. This would come to be known as the Labour Party, a socialist progressive faction which would serve as a pressure group for reform (this in response led to the nobility creating the Conservative Party).

One warm May morning in 2015, the Labourites marched to King Aston's residence demanding urgent change and more representation for the people. Wishing to not anger his citizens, the King came to an agreement with JaimeGamer99 and announced the celebration of elections, in which the citizens of Game City would vote for one of their own to represent them as the second-most powerful person in the Government Monarchy. Later that May of 2015, JaimeGamer99 won and became the first-ever President of the Government, selecting his running mate Canderi12 as his Vice President.

Minority years (2017-2021).
The success didn't last forever though, because even though JaimeGamer99 was a great revolutionary, he wasn't a great statesman, and his policies proved highly inefficient. With his popularity dropping, JaimeGamer99 announced his intention to not run again in 2017, nominating his Vice President canderi12 to run in his place. Labour lost to the Conservatives, to such an extent that Labour was without a leader for years after canderi12 resigned.

Handduken and "New Labour".
In 2020, the architect and businessman Handduken decided to join the Labour Party, becoming its leader by default. He believed that hard socialism was not the way forward, and moved Labour further towards the political centre, making it more moderate and embracing some capitalist ideas in order to attract a wider audience and not stay stuck in the past. This move proved to be popular, and Handduken won the 2021 elections, the first red victory in 4 years.

Beliefs

 * They want to nationalize all services (which means to put services such as the hospital and the railways in the hands of the government instead of companies).
 * They want to introduce taxes in order to improve the maintenance of the city.
 * They want more modernization, less tradition; preferring to focus on progress, improving the general quality of living and making Game City more democratic.
 * They believe in a softer and less harsh criminal justice system.
 * Their target voters are the working class and the poorer citizens.
 * They are anti-weapons, and have insisted many times in the past that the Weapon Store should be closed down and repurposed.
 * They want to limit the power of the King and make Game City a proper constitutional monarchy. There is even a very small republican minority, but Labour in general takes a neutral to positive stance on the monarchy.



Partido Laborista