Supplementary question, please, estimat Túischac'h!

Can the Minister confirm that the lowest number on that list, the 59th Cosa, was the last time that the current Opposition parties were in power?

The mechanisms of harassment are not different, and the Túischac'h already has jurisdiction over Hopper threads (if they're not bullied into retirement). But a wider point is: if MZs had to ask the Túischac'h for permission to ask supplementaries, they might think twice about bullying them into retirement.

That said, the point that if supplementaries are restricted but Terps are not, you'll just get a forest of Terps is well taken.

Well, we've established that it's fine if you harass Talossans into semi-retirement as long as you don't tell them they're cute while doing so. Let me re-emphasise: the current Túischac'h has not been seen on Witt since the Big Bopper piled into him in that thread. Perhaps the Baron is fine with this because the CRL seat is, er, in "good hands". But no, I don't think non-sexual harassment which drives Talossans out of public life is okay. And I don't think it's politics either.

But seriously, a "Free-for-all" in the supplementaries is *not* how Parliamentary Questions work in any other country, and one of the issues in Talossa has always been USAmericans wanting to adopt the forms of a parliamentary system without being sure of how it works. In a civilised country, the Presiding Officer of the House maintains order. For those who think that bullying and (NOT sexual!) harassment is politics, of course a free-for-all where the presiding officer fears to step in is better.

Then I wonder how you would deal with the current problem of "supplementary questions" used, not to elicit information, but to make political speeches and to "bait" the Minister in question. Or the problem where it seems to have become a "tradition" - unsupported by law - that other members can also pile into the conversation to make political speeches and "bait" the Minister.

This measure also means the Presiding Officers have to take an interest in proceedings. We've already had a Tuischac'h harassed into semi-retirement by a "Terpelaziun" thread. I thought we didn't like harassment meant to cow and drive out Talossans, or is it okay if it's not sexual harassment?

Certification granted

FYI @Baron Alexandreu Davinescu @þerxh Sant-Enogat @PENorwood

I invite citizens to check out the first application made using the new form and confirm that it's providing enough information to properly assess the new migrant.

Can we take this to the CRL please

The Government is pleased to announce that we have anticipated the Royal Commission on Immigration in moving to streamline the immigration application form, given recent legislative changes. We have cut down the number of questions by about 1/3 and added more flexibility.

Something I noted that I didn't realise before was that we are legally required to collect a prospective's phone number, which I'm not sure is appropriate in the modern era.

We ready to take this to the CRL?

Fine. @Julian Da Silva if you're reading this, let me know if you still want to be a Talossan, and I'll approve it.

Quote from: Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be on August 24, 2025, 09:02:00 PMI believe this prospective citizen is now eligible, correct? Not sure if we need to start the petition over or not.

(I apologize again for throwing a bit of water on things to make sure we follow the law, but after the slew of false accusations regarding immigration levelled at the Government so far this summer I didn't see a need to add a credible one to the mix...)

I suggest we restart the petition, only to avoid the weird legal issue from Julian's petition re: whether I have to follow the old law or the new law.

What's funny here is that, when I mentioned creepy sex pests, a hit dog hollered.

In case our new friend @Julian Da Silva is wondering who is the creepy sex pest here, it was Brenéir Tzaracomprada, and an unopposed vote of the Ziu condemned him as such.

The King's objection to recruiting people who don't show real interest in Talossa simply as voting fodder is a real one which I share. But assuming that people will do that because it's in their party's best interests, what are you going to do to stop them? If these people are clearly devoid of shame, asking them nicely will only make them do the thing harder. You could bring in a higher bar of activity by legislation, and that will just drive the *other* opposition party absolutely bonkers.

The Government feels in a no-win situation here, and we would rather not allow the opposition parties to beat us up for anything that could be said to halt immigration. The stakes are lower for state officials who don't have an election coming up lol. Best for us to try to improve the cultural factors to encourage prospectives to take more interest (like, for example, stronger social sanctions on creepy sex pests).