The Bunch
The Bunch is a group of nine Democratic members of the Concordian Parliament. It was initially composed of four women elected in the 2020 Concordian Parliamentary elections:
They were later joined by 5 more members in the 2023 Concordian House of Representatives elections:
The Bunch has been well known to be the most progressive and left-wing members of the Concordian Parliament. The 9-man bunch have been well-known and were key figures in the rise of Prime Minister Robert Starkweather's rise to power in 2020. All were elected under the age of 50, having been supported by the Justice Democrats political action committee, and are on the left wing of the Democratic Labour Party.
The Bunch has been said to represent the advocacy of progressive policies by the younger political generation, such as Medics for All and the New Green Deal, which have often times clashed with the rest of the House of Representatives, as well as within the Concordian Parliament. Although Zamboni had called her group as the "Squad" in a Pictogramm post, their most staunch critique, Gallian Regent Lord Leon Thomas Theron has called them The Bunch of Karens, leading the 9 to be called as The Bunch by various Conservatives.
History
Neocon War
Ziyaadist Uprising
Views
Concordian Monarchy
During a speech in 2020 at Starkweather's inaguration, the Bunch have called for Concordia's abolition of the Concordian Monarchy and have strongly supported Starkweather's plans for replacing the monarchy into a Republican government. CAZ has called the Lucian Monarch as a 21st Century autocrat and has called out all members of the Commonwealth of Nations to ditch the Lucian Monarch, as well as calling out Lucians to replace the monarchy with a republic that would serve their people. She also blamed the Commonwealth for causing the divide that has grown within Concordia. Following Moss' replacement by Starkweather, CAZ remarked,
"Five years of peace, and Heimdallr and the Commonwealth gave us what? Five years of exploitation! Not to mention that they are the ones who cause the past divide and the devastating war in the first place. And that tempestuous Prime Minister should be removed, for he is an advocate."
Afterwards, CAZ made an address in front of the Rubrumian High Commission in Washington, ordering the Rubrumians to join them in a mass crusade against the opportunist and oppressive Monarchy, only to be dispersed by the Rubrumian Commissary Guards and the Royal Concordian Police Force.
In the lead up of events to the 2025 Concordian Republican referendum, Dulce Cahoun solidified the views of "the many" Concordians, voicing their demand that the Monarchy be abolished, with it having oppressed Amerigonna for a century.
"Concordia does not have need for a monarch. Why should we wait five more years for this current system of exploitation to be changed. It is an old form of government that should fade away. And you know what happened in the events leading up to the devastating war, so I will not explain further"
Critiques
Leon Thomas Theron
Of all of The Bunch's critiques, they were subjected the most to the harshest by Regent Lord Leon Thomas Theron, who had since served as Gallia's Paramount leader following the success of his removal to remove Prime Minister George Altobello, who had pro-Neocon views, leading him to be designated by Archduchess Cordelia as Regent Lord for life.
In 2025, Theron exposed Neocon plots to attempt to get closer to Heimdallr by means of influencing the Gallian Parliament, even going as far as plotting a coup to overthrow the Archduchess' rule and placing her under arrest to be liquidated later on. Theron discovered that The Bunch had been responsible for influencing Starkweather to make Gallia as a point of origin for infiltrating Heimdallr and destroying the council from within. Theron immediately ordered the arrest of all Concordian and Gallian activists within the country and even ordered the Alderney Holdings Inc.'s assets in Gallia to freeze, prompting the organisation to flee to Concordia. In a speech to the Parliament broadcasted worldwide, Theron remarked:
"If these kids think that what they have unleashed on Her Highness' land will work in their favour, they are sadly mistaken. These so-called "progressives" are too egotistic that they reveal their intentions too easily. I have made it clear that nothing in Gallia escapes from Me. My duty to Her Highness, and to my people are my priorities. Security is my biggest task as Regent Lord. Their plots against this government has only further ensured me that they will never get close to my people, and to Her Highness anymore."
When The Bunch attacked Theron's speech, he was interviewed by the LBC and replied:
"These kids call themselves Concordians... When they have no idea what being a Concordian means.... All I see are a bunch of unpatriotic and egotistic Karens."
In a 2030 interview by Geraldine Tran from The Wanderer, Regent Lord Theron has explicitly said,
"There is no one out there that tacitly exhibits the rise of "Woke" and Far-Leftist movements than The Bunch. They say that they have come to protect the world from the "oppressive" Heimdallr Council and have sought out to wipe the influences of the age of old for the sake of progressivism, but all I see are a bunch of teenagers with this sort of contingency plan to dictate world affairs to carry out their means of this Wokeism and Far-Leftism. You want to talk about the elite? Zamboni lives out her life in an extravagant mansion gifted to her by Starkweather while her supporters get arrested or die for nothing."
In 2041, just a few years prior to the Ziyaadist Uprising, Lakatos Dominik of Achilleoudis interviewed the Regent Lord and has said:
"Zamboni and her cronies are at it again. Their woke minds have been brainwashed too much to the point that they have developed a fanaticism for Ziyaad, thinking as if he's a saviour and a god, and owing to the fact that Ziyaad was responsible for giving these kids a large mansion through Starkweather for their loyalty. And now they are lambasting us, lambasting Me for interfering in world affairs, that I, alone, was responsible for making the lives of millions of Concordians miserable. I have tacitly ordered the new Concordian government to begin confiscating their properties in reparations for their roles in Starkweather's government, and as well as in Ziyaad's cockamamie schemes. I will have no quarter for this. So these kids better shut it or forever 'hold their peace'."