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BREAKING: House of Delegates Votes to Defund Burgundian War Effort
The scenes on the floor of the House of Delegates were grim as Green Party Delegate Harry Clarke, over a five-minute speech granted to him by Speaker Harry Colton, listed the name and ages of all two hundred and ninety-seven soldiers killed in the Ouistreham Bombings while also showing several graphic photos of extensive injuries suffered by survivors. His speech turned into a screaming match as he had to continuously yell louder to drown out the angry responses from the galleries and the Delegates themselves.The Ouistreham Bombings have taken the country by storm as news outlets have not ceased to show the harsh images of the ancient Burgundian city reduced to rubble and the hordes of civilians who were killed or injured in its wake. For the Treaty Lands, 297 men and women were killed in the bombings and 657 were injured. As a result, the attack has become the single greatest loss of life since the Civil War back in 1873.
General Alistair Haywoode, leader of the Treatyfolk forces in Bourgogne, officiated the report back to Palmerton, stating that nearly a fifth of the entire deployment had been taken out of combat as a result of the attack – calling it a “devastating blow” to the country’s war effort. As a result, the General requested a sizeable surge to not only replenish the forces lost but to ramp up an offensive campaign to eliminate Bourgogne’s ability to strike at such a level again.
However, the House of Delegates had a different plan in mind. The unprecedented scenes on the floor of the famously calm body preceded an unprecedented vote introduced by Delegate Clarke that called for the immediately cessation of funds to the war effort that are appropriated, in any way, to the “transport and mobility of additional wartime assets.”
The House tried a similar measure several months back where it attempted to cut the budget of the Commonwealth Security Council to the same amount that it had agreed to spend on the Thaumantic Alignment Committee in revenge for the decision to go around the House to establish it. Whereas that vote failed, this vote succeeded by a bipartisan, veto-proof majority of 228 – 106. The bill, which not only represents a major defeat for Governor-General Sinclair, brings up a wide range of legal questions and carries significant consequences that can gravely affect the troops on the ground.
General Counsel to the House stated that the House “needs the approval of the Commonwealth Security Council to affect an appropriation made in either the revenue or expenditure packages that make up the annual budget. However, the expenses incurred by the war in Bourgogne are not part of the regular budget and are instead emergency monies that the Commission for the Treasury is spending with the consent of the House of Delegates. The Treaty very clearly grants the House the power of the purse – therefore the vote today to not provide authorization to the Commission for the Treasury to continue spending money for the war is legal and well within the exclusive right of the House.”
While Governor-General Sinclair announced she would veto the bill immediately, it passed with enough votes to override her veto. As a result, the Governor-General’s Office immediately appealed to a Commonwealth Supreme Court Judge to place an emergency stay on its implementation, stating that “the legal framework being suspect to challenges and the emergency nature of the situation at hand, the implementation of the bill would result in a disastrous effect that will most definitely cost a significant number of lives.”
While the bill’s implementation was not immediate, the Court did grant an immediate stay until such a time that it could evaluate the legality of the measure. The event, having never happened in the history of the country, left many legal experts with varied opinions on what the outcome would be.
At any rate, despite however this ends, it cannot be seen as anything less than a stunning rebuke of Governor-General Sinclair, the Burgundian War, and the Thaumantic Domain at large.