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Again I'm publishing this article being one day late, sorry for that. Day 227 has been an exciting day, just like every day of our war, and there has been a debate in our community as well.
HOME DEFENSE
On day 227 Cork/Kerry has fallen(to Portugal), just like Western Ireland(to UK). Later the United Kingdom attacked their target region, Shannon. It became crystal clear that we cannot even win a campaign, not the war itself, so while the battle was going on our president,
rafor started negotiating with the British president, 
CBall (more in the DOMESTIC AFFAIRS column).
About the treaty
The treaty can be found HERE .
Our motivation is to avoid getting wiped off the map and to gain some gold for a region that would fall anyway. The UK wants peace with us because Portugal will attack them with alpha's support, so they don't want our RWs in their back too. But what was the public opinion about it?
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS
On day 227 there was a debate in our community, of course about the deal rafor made with the UK. There were some who supported the signing and some who were against it. A shoutwar broke out again, with no real arguments. Rafor says that without the treaty all the work of recent months' would vanish and Ireland would get wiped off while UK and Portugal fight on her regions. The treasury would empty and Ireland would stay wiped off just like Canada.
On the other hand
The Punisher 90 , with 
Sivert Hoyem and 
Hannesz blamed rafor with selling the country for nothing. Some false facts were used in the debate which was heated enough before those facts too, because rafor took a few BH this day, and some said that's not what a CP can do while his country is getting wiped off.
Xerox had his own point: Ireland should listen to both UK's and Portugal's offer before accepting one, which didn't really happen due to some misunderstanding between a few people (Rafor believed that Portugal turned our attempt to negiotate down, while he was just said that there was no negotiation). Rafor reacted with saying now there is no time to listen to any other offer because once the UK takes Shannon they withdraw their offer.
Rafor and me myself, just like Xerox tried to invite people to IRC or the forums to share their opinions, and finally some agreed to that.
ryshpash appeared on chat and many people shared their opinions on the forum (which now I can't read because thread was moved to Congress).
I think that this debate turned out to be useful, everyone was more or less listened, everyone had the chance to share his/her opinion, and the debate showed us that we have a lot of active players with their own opinions. I hope our CP will make a wise choice taking the result of the voting into account as well.
I personally think that if we cannot put a babyboom together the deal is very useful. It prevents our treasury from emptying, it preserves our MPPs(which cost a lot of gold) and gives us a chance to make advantage of UKs market. Hard and chaotic times are approaching with the war between Portugal and UK, noone can know what this will bring, but being wiped off between two stronger countries cannot serve our good (except of course if we can organise a babyboom, which seems a very hard task).
In the end I'd like to make an appeal to every Irishmen.
As I mentioned above a baby-boom is the only way to make Ireland rise and pay back to our enemies. Anyone who feels urge to help the country should try to bring new people into our community. It doesn't matter where they come from, eRep, Travian, Ikariam, WoW, LineAge or any other game you play, you can shout it to your favoruite Irish whiskey's Facebook page or an Irish football team's. You can search for Irish forums, real life Irish political parties, whatever. We NEED babies, and we need people who help them stay alive, who care about them. So I suggest that everyone who feels ready to help the country with organising a baby boom write it down in a comment, write down how exactly are you trying to do this. If there are enough men who tries to bring new people here I suggest the government set up a Ministry of Social Affairs which would be responsible for keeping the babies alive and making them active citizens.
I await everyone's opinion, if you have one, write it down in a comment!
WhippedCream
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