Sophie White

Sophie White who was born Catherine Maria White lived from 1913-1974 was a politician and former Prime Minister of Sheaman from 1960-1974. Sophie White was known for her sense of establishment and very conservative stance in politics and is sometimes compared to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979-1990 Margaret Thatcher.

## Sophie White's Life 1913-2003

### Early Life 1913 - 1931

Sophie White born Catherine Maria White was born on the 13th of September 1913 by her mother Alice Maria and her father Jonathan White.

Sophie never had an interest in Politics while she was a child as her parents wanted her to be interested in other things. As she grew up she received private education for all her life and pursued higher education.

### ***Later Education and MP 1931 - 1939***

Sophie White would eventually leave school at age 18 and studied a lot into modern politics and ended up going to college where she completed Social sciences and law and then graduated at the age of 23. Sophie White would then join the LCSP in 1936 and would stand in the 1936 Parliamentary Election in which she won her seat in Cremalton and would very quickly climb up the political ladder eventually becoming leader of LCSP in 1938 which was seen as insane as it was a women who had become a leader. Joseph Jacks instead saw it as a milestone in social progress to see a women serving the role as party leader. White would criticize Jacks throughout the later part of 1938 and into early 1939 and was against Jacks' stance on the rise of Hitler. Before the 1936 Parliamentary Election Jacks' was very neutral between the Axis & the Allies but in 1935 changed his position and stood against Hitler after a meeting with him the same year. This is seen as the sole reason that he won and did so well in the 1936 Parliamentary election but when Jacks' announced a snap election in 1939 White quickly noted that Jacks' still intended to remain neutral if a war broke out and wouldn't invade Nazi Germany.

### World War II & UTSI 1939 - 1960

In 1940 when Joseph Jacks was imprisoned for crimes against Nazi Germany and parliament was abolished Sophie White would be a part of the mass of MPs that would back away from politics. In 1945 when the country was liberated and the government was restored Joseph Jacks was voted in as Prime Minister with a vote by parliament of 196 in favour and 189 not in favour of Joseph Jacks being Prime Minister. He would quickly call an election in 1945 and was very widely supported earning himself a super majority.

She also opposed the Sexual Offenses Act 1950 which aimed to create a new meaning of rape that would include women raping men. Sophie White claimed that only rape could be committed by a man. The bill was passed very successfully with minor opposition and Sophie White was discriminated against for opposing the act.

In 1951 a general election was called and Sophie White was re-elected as MP and served as Minister of Defense under the S&L-UTSI coalition from 1951-1955 until the 1955 general election when the coalition fell. In the 1955 general election she would once again win her seat and would do the same in 1958 and 1960.

### Prime Minister 1960 - 1974

#### 1st Term 1960-1962

On the 18th of June 1960 Joseph Jacks was tragically murdered and therefore was no longer Prime Minister. A snap election was quickly held with little to no time for campaigning. Sophie White had quickly created the Sophie White Liberal Democrats Party that was a right-wing party that quickly rose in the polls. Sophie White campaigned for the amendments to the Homosexuality Act 1929 by making it once again criminal for same-sex activities to happen. She also campaigned for a very popular issue which was to federalize the country by granting areas of the countries the status of a state.

She managed to win the election with 21.7% of votes but created a coalition with UTSI which had 13% of votes which together gave the coalition 34.7% of votes.

In 1961 after the States Act was passed that created seven new states, it officially made Sheaman a federation and would now be called the Federated Republic of Sheaman. The seven states would hold elections that same year and the Sophie White Liberal Democrats won in 4/7 of the states which made the Upper House called the Federal House have a majority once again.

In November 1961 Sophie White supported the Capital Punishment Bill 1961 that aimed to legalize capital punishment after its criminalization in 1956 which was supported by Joseph Jacks. The Bill managed to pass in parliament in February 1962 and officially became an act but amendments were made to prohibit capital punishment in some circumstances because much of the public were opposed to capital punishment entirely.

##### 1962 Parliamentary Election

Sophie White would call a snap election in April 1962 due to her extreme minority government and campaigned for a larger amount of government housing that aimed to be cheaper and adhere to the working class and middle class. Sophie White tried as hard as she could in the 1962 Parliamentary Election to resonate with the working and middle class to pull in voters from all sides. This action was taken as a surprise by hardcore capitalists who supported Sophie White's Laissez-faire stance on economics in the 2nd 1960 Parliamentary Election and more and more of those voters began voting for other free market MP candidates/parties. One other thing Sophie White promised to do was to improve the education system and create a middle school to replace later years of Primary School and early years of Secondary School. This manifesto promise was widely accepted and encouraged a larger population to vote for her.

The results would be final and out of the 188 seats in Sheaman (the 188 seats were established for the 1st 1960 Parliamentary Election) the SWLDP won 101 of those seats securing a majority for her party

#### 2nd Term 1962 - 1974

In the 2nd Term Sophie White would take her promise of better education by creating a middle school for those aged 10-13 and reconstructed the school system almost entirely. Primary Schools used to be for those aged 6-12 but was now for people aged 5-10, Middle school was now for people aged 10-14, and Secondary School was for people aged 14-18. The bill, which was called the Primary, Middle & Secondary Education Bill passed through parliament in February 1963 and established a new school system.

In the School Reformation Bill 1963 which aimed to replace the School Reformation Bill 1951 it changed many aspects of education between Primary, Middle and Secondary School including removing free school lunches for poor families meaning all school lunches had to be paid for. Primary education would no longer include sexual orientation education which was controversially added in the School Reformation Bill 1951. Middle School and Secondary School would also no longer see sexual orientation education in school and the bill would make sure to not allow staff to talk about sexual orientation to minors under 18. The Bill introduced a new, more flexible school curriculum that would focus more on the school's ideals. The curriculum included things like the introduction of Home economics for both boys and girls (as the 1951 Bill never included boys in home economics), the curriculum would raise the age of learning sex education from 14 to 16 and it would now exclude homosexual sex education. Languages would no longer become compulsory in Primary School which was a controversial change but it would now become compulsory in Middle School and remain so in Secondary School. Arts & Design would no longer remain compulsory in Primary, Middle and Secondary education as well as music. Many centrists and leftists would very openly oppose the bill and the public opinion towards the education was also mixed as shown by the table below.

These polls which were organized by SheamanPolitics showed that 42.8% of people did not support the new Bill but the bill was passed in parliament by 97 - 91 with some SWLDP MPs going against the bill. Once the bill was passed it became an Act that same year and many changes came about from that Act and education changed forever because of it.

In 1964 the Nationality Bill 1964 was introduced to parliament by MP Sarava Jenn Sophie White expressed her support for the bill. The bill wanted to tighten up nationality as a Sheaman by disallowing any new applications to become Sheaman by foreigners, it wanted to disallow marriage applications to become Sheaman and also wanted to tighten security checks and decrease stay time in the country for visitors. The bill aimed to "solidify what it mean to be Sheaman and make sure the nation doesn't become anything else." The bill eventually passed through parliament with 99 - 89 MPs supporting it. It then officially became an Act that same year.

In late 1964 after some time people began criticizing the government for its nationalist and reformist educational stances. Opinion polling in October 1964 saw for the first time ROSP surpass SWLDP in opinion polls. Sophie White had also been criticized for so far not even starting the housing plans and was beginning to see massive protests against her government. So in 1965 she introduced the Housing Plans & Affordability Bill 1965 which was passed by 112 - 76 in parliament. This however did not change the mood of the people and her polling went up and down until November 1965 which was the last time the party was ahead in the polls.

##### Controversy & Economic Issues 1966 - 1970

In 1966 amidst the terror Sophie White issued a statement to parliament saying that she wanted to extend the next election to 1970 instead of 1966 due to fears of losing the election to the far-right ROSP party. Her motion was rejected by the Speaker of the House who called it unconstitutional in this circumstance. Thus MPs really wanted her out of office at this point and instead MP Mark Driseldon called for a vote of no confidence which was accepted by the House Speaker and 133 - 55 voted in favour of a vote of no confidence thus the 2nd vote would happen between the party's MPs. In her own party which had now lost 8 MPs since the election (93 MPs now) 48 - 45 voted against the vote of no confidence and thus the vote of no confidence failed and she remained Prime Minister for the time being. This vote was considered an outrage by the press and Sophie White continued as Prime Minister even after all of that.

In June 1967 Local elections would be held due to large public demand to not postpone them but instead of a good turnout for the SWLDP the party only won around 30% of seats overall which was considered a massive failure for the SWLDP.

In late 1968 an inflation crisis led towards rise in income tax by 3% which was barely supported in Parliament. As well as that Sophie White who was a Christian had filed for Divorce in January 1969 and was an alleged abuser which led to an investigation that came out indecisive. Opinion polls by January 1969 had reached 30% and the party was no longer able to properly manage itself with 3 MPs becoming independents which would eventually increase to 8.

Since 1966 the political party ROSP or the Restoration of Sheaman Party which was a far-right political party in Sheaman had formed the SNRP Faithful Army that planned on overthrowing the government. The army remained pretty private for some time until June 1969 when the Army officially opened its recruitment to the newspapers. The news of the ROSP party taking this action as a serious threat to the country led to parliament trying to strike down the party for being unconstitutional to the law but when it failed it was sent to court. Court took action and temporarily banned the party for 1 year and to disband its military. The party promptly dissolved but the army never did so and thus those that saw it as an unfair treatment of the party joined the army. After this most ROSP MPs created a new party called National Restoration and others became Independents. As well as that two Independents that previously were a part of the SWLDP had joined the party as well and so did five SWLDP members whom left the party due to the "unfair "treatment" of the party. The SWLDP was now a minority government and had many problems in parliament due to this and this only helped the