2024 in Esthursia

2024 in Esthursia

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2024 in Esthursian politics and government

Events from the year 2024 in Esthursia.

Incumbents

• Monarch – King Arthur VI
• Co-Premiers - Valter Belgræv (Liberal) and Hrefna Bløndal (Green-Left)
• Forethane – Harold Osborne (Social Democrat)
• Allmoot – nth (23 September 2022 – present)

Events

January

• 1 January
  • Esthursia officially joins the Association of Nations as a founding nation.
  • Period products become fully state-funded from this date.
  • Work begins on the GSI12 railway line in Cordane, following years of delays. It is planned to be completed by 2030.
  • The national auditor NTCA announces a crackdown on tax evasion by those who make extra cash from "side hustle" websites, particularly for second-hand sales.
• 2 January
  • Former Reeve Lester Pall dies, aged 108. He was the last surviving minister from the first Olsen ministry, in the 1940s, being Reeve for Thoroughfare from 1945.
  • Jowan Perran announces he intends to run for Moderate party leader, after weeks of speculation that he would be the torchbearer for the Manningite faction of the party, and states his intention to "support the open arms, open borders" policy to "move on from the last few months."
• 4 January
  • Westway finalises its pay deal with striking workers following a year and a half of industrial disputes.
• 5 January
  • Polls for the Moderates' leadership campaign, following the resignation of Rosemary Manning, show right-wing Willard "Will" Dagnall, continuity candidate Jowan Perran, free-market liberal Edgar Tanoth Thrupp (formerly EsthursAir CEO) and progressive liberal Mildred Valwood leading with over 5%, and progressive candidate Dagny Leven announces she would be "happy to work with Mildred [Valwood] come election-time". Dagnall currently leads Perran 8% to 7%, but most are undecided. 13 total candidates have declared their candidacy.
• 7 January
  • Rosemary Manning speaks on ENBC Breakfast, urging the party to "maintain unity" amid large policy divides between the populist right, neoliberal, centre and left wings of the "new broadchurch party." The Moderates currently trail the incumbent Social Democrats by 18 points, though this is more moderate than the 24 point deficit recorded in December by EsthurElects.
• 8 January
  • Esthampton receives a small amount of sleet and snow, for the first time in 10 years. Temperatures in Esthampton are colder than in Weskerby, hundreds of kilometres north of it.
• 9 January
  • Economists say that funding the public university system in Esthursia is expected to cost the Government upwards of ʃ100 billion a year by 2030, amid considerations inside the government of transitioning to a graduate tax. Over half of young Esthurs attend university, and tuition fees are not imposed on them.
  • The Martha Grantham Foundation opens a new UHCS hospital in Dunworth, the final hometown of the former Forethane.
• 10 January
  • Helmark's Astjórn and HNU party leader, Iðunn Þórsenn, announces a review in Helmark into full decriminalisation of recreational drugs and partial decriminalisation of prostitution.
  • Several right-wing Moderate leadership candidates, including Will Dagnall, Garrick Mase and Vera Caradec, release a joint statement calling for a "holistic review into post-2011 social reforms", which would include same-sex marriage, self-ID for transgender people and the third legal gender on passports, drawing criticism from the Forethane and from more liberal candidates such as Jowan Perran, Edgar Tanoth Thrupp, Mildred Valwood, Dagny Lewen and Balder Privett. Mase did not sign onto the part that called for a cap on migration, and has made pro-immigration comments in the past.
• 11 January
  • Storm Glenn: Flooding in the southwest of Osynstry, Ezhonyth and Merthing claims the lives of 8.
    • A landslide thirty kilometres west of Rennezh, Ezhonyth causes a major route between two towns in the north of the riding to fall into the sea.
    • Evacuations of residents along the west coast have taken place in areas at risk of landslide.
    • Lightning at the Southall First School has left a dozen children and a teacher with mild burns from electric shocks. Evacuations took place.
    • Ricky Tilborough, 6, was admitted to Denewent King's Infirmary (DKI) with severe burns following a lightning strike.
    • The River Dene burst its banks, causing a new housing estate on the suburbs of Hancroft to flood.
    • Three fishermen are missing following strong winds and waves in the Perran's Channel, south of Strantglade.
    • The Ereway Islands declared a state of regional emergency following intense winds of up to 130km/h and two months' rainfall in one night. Electricity has yet to be restored in 10% of cases, while the cruise ship Charenbost has been evacuated following its breaking off its moorings and hitting a smaller fishing ship, leaving passengers stranded in a powerless Yonderby port terminal for hours.
    • Strong waves off the shore of Helston, Merthing, have caused damage to the shorefront "adding up to the tens of millions."

Predicted and scheduled events

• second week of April – Local elections are scheduled to take place for wapentakes, aldermen and police and crime commissioners in Esthursia. This includes the Alderman of Weskerby's election.

Deaths

January

Lester Pall in 2011

• 2 January
  • Lester Pall, 108, Workers' Union politician and Reeve for Thoroughfare (1946-1952)