2024 in Esthursia
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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 (17 December 2019 – 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-2010 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.
Predicted and scheduled events
- 1 February – It will become a criminal offence to own an American XL Bully dog in England and Wales unless the owner has successfully applied for the dog to be exempt.[1]
- 2 February – Two teenagers are scheduled to be sentenced following their conviction for the murder of Brianna Ghey.[2]
- 2 March – The 2024 Brit Awards will take place at London's O2 Arena.[3]
- 6 March – Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is scheduled to deliver the 2024 United Kingdom budget.[4]
- 1 April – The cost of a TV licence will increase by £10.50 from £159 to £169.50.[5]
- 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
- 2 January
- Lester Pall, 108, Workers' Union politician and Reeve for Thoroughfare (1946-1952)
- ↑ "American bully XLs added to list of banned dogs in England and Wales". BBC News. BBC. 31 October 2023. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
- ↑ Hirst, Lauren; Moritz, Judith (21 December 2023). "Teenagers who murdered Brianna Ghey to be named". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 21 December 2023.
- ↑ Grein, Paul (26 September 2023). "Here's the Date of the 2024 Brit Awards". Billboard. Retrieved 31 October 2023.
- ↑ "Treasury says 2024 Budget to be held on 6 March". 27 December 2023 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
- ↑ McIntosh, Steven (7 December 2023). "BBC funding: TV licence fee to rise by £10.50, government says". BBC News. BBC. Retrieved 7 December 2023.