January 2021 Anti-Government Protests

Brit, Sealand and Harold prepare for a speech outside of parliament on Day 2 of the Protests.

### Causes

- Unpopular Laws- Unstable Government- Political Instability

### Result

- End of the CentreCo Government- End of the NPA- Snap elections

## Overview

The January 2021 Anti Government Protests were a series of Anti Government protests lead by Britannia against the ROP government. They were broadly left wing originally but received occasional backup and counterprotesting from right wing groups like the Wolters Party and Liberal Front. The protests went on for 3 days and were one of the biggest protest events in Polynesian History.

### **Goals**

- New Economic Laws

- Debate between LeftCo and CentreCo Leaders

- Cabinet Changes

### **Result**

- Resignation of Bee

- January 2021 Snap Elections

## Timeline of the Protests

### **Day One**

The first day of the protests involved Brit leading Socialist, Labour and Respect Party activists into the parliament in which they then declared a protest in, following a brief stand off between federal police and the protesters the protest ended. The Government refused to respond to it as it was short but the Opposition considered it a massive win for the protesters especially as the day had large turn out.

### **Day Two**

The Second Day of protetsing gained the protesters much news coverage as the day had more involvement, The turn out was higher and this time Wolters Party members were involved in a small street fight between protesters near the capital. This day of protests lead Fred and Sealand to run into parliament and edit signs to annoy government members Whilst Labour Party activists promoted their own party leading Respect and SP activists to become disillusioned with the protests.

Following Labours self advertisement at the protests Socialist activists destroyed the streets of parliament using a loophole in the law and ruined the roof of parliament with large swarms of black concrete, For this reason the independent news station declared the protests a "joke".

Following the attacks on parliament counter protesters arrived in swarms and cleaned it up, occasionally the protests would continue throughout the day in small bursts and vandalism but for the most part the situation was over and the government began to recognise the protests. The Government announced a complaining session the following day to calm the protesters.

### **Day Three**

The 3rd day of the Protests saw the Complaining session organised the government. The LeftCo chose Sealand of the Socialist Party, Brit of the Labour Party and Fred of the Respect Party to ask questions. Brit and Sealand asked detailed and some questions that were deemed unfair by critics such as Sealands question about the economy which was fiery and emotional was heavily critised for a lot of the issues mentioned being admin issues. Bee was unable to handle the session and briefly left the game leaving people online at the time confused. The protests were agreed to be over by Brit, Sealand and Fred whilst they waited for Bee to come back, They agreed that their actions had been a success and were glad to have formed their own coalition together and showed a new left wing critique of the CentreCo. From the CentreCos perspective the session organised by the government had been used by the opposition to Bully Bee into submission and force her to quit the server. The CentreCo lead a huge campaign against the LeftCo who apoligised to Bee for any unitentional harm caused but maintained that they were simply critisicing the governments actions. Bee would resign and call for snap elections after the session. The results were intense toxicity from both sides and although the LeftCo would win the election with relativley large popularity, Bees experience with the LeftCo at the session would leave a sour taste in the mouth of many.