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."
• 3 January
  • Esthursia hosts the Association of Nations' inaugural summit in Fjármagn.
• 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, 9, was admitted to Denewent King's Infirmary (DKI) with severe life-threatening burns following a lightning strike that hit him during an outside game of football.
    • 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."
• 12 January
  • Rowan Alcott joins the Moderate leadership race as a liberal, citing the recent "shamefully conservative discrimination espoused by the right flank", and promising to keep politics "above the belt and watertight."
  • Fjármagn experiences its coldest day in forty years, reaching a low of -37C overnight.
  • Blizzards off the coast of the far north of Esthursia, near Útvørður, kill three.
  • Tharbjorn Einarsson is hospitalised at Meresery Town Almshouse (MTA), following a bout of pneumonia. He is 83.
• 13 January
  • Channel 2 reveals that it is cutting the jobs of 10% of its workforce following lost competition to IBC and ENBC.
  • Merthing's Consence Liberal leader and First Minister speaks out against "illiberalism in the mainstream", threatening to break off her coalition with Moderates if "both a rightwing populist wins, and the Merthing Moderates fail to hold said populist to account."
  • Ezhoneg Kevredag set off a bomb inside a shopping centre in Vellys, southwest Rennezh. A prior warning meant that nobody was hurt, but damage is estimated in the tens of millions of shillings. Forethane Harold Osborne commented in an evening interview that "all forms of terrorism will lead to retributive action", and called for "communities not to be dragged into needless harm."
  • Statistics from November show the manufacturing sector PMI at 56.6, down from 57.1 in October and below expectations. Joblessness was estimated to be 3.7%, defying an expected 0.1% rise to 4.0%, making it the lowest since 2017.
  • Government sources release a statement expressing support for a "Borough of the Year", and "some degree of regional sporting competition", and confirms that bids from cities and councils have been proposed and are "in passive consideration."
  • Chancellor of the Landsfær Edelard Burnside meets with Ynogh! party leader Gale Østergard in Newbrough, Cordane; the two reportedly leave having "cemented clear common ground ahead of the upcoming infrastructure package," while speculation hints at a Cordane-specific funding stipend targeted at long-term development.
• 14 January
  • Rosemary Manning implicitly endorses Jowan Perran as new leader, but refuses to commit to "any leadership as one of continuity", expressing "concern over ideological radicality" as the final weeks of the campaign approach.
  • Twitchergate: Reeve for Education Algar Marbeck releases a statement "apologising fully and unreservedly for any offence caused by my clearly wrong and bitterly outdated statement" after social media comments by Marbeck from 2009 through 2014 resurfaced, which were "blatantly transphobic" according to his statement. Marbeck had voted in favour of self-ID laws, but had commented on Twitcher in a reply that "men in dresses can do whatever the f**k they want by my reckoning, I don't care."
    • Deputy SocDem Leader and Afterthane Jeremy Wilson calls on Marbeck to resign, stating he should "jump before he's pushed" on Twitcher.
    • Reeve for the Environment Cara Sterling states that the government is "investigating alleged transphobic conduct holistically."
    • Rosemary Manning calls on the government to "immediately show Marbeck the door" for his "insensitive comments."
    • Harold Osborne replies "when, not if" when asked outside Edmund House on whether Marbeck would face sacking. Marbeck resigned 25 minutes later, thanking the Forethane for his "opportunity to serve the country."
    • The Social Democrats release a statement calling Algar Marbeck's party membership into question, and bringing up the possibility of temporary suspension.

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)