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Back in 1962, the UK's governing Conservative Party was deeply unpopular, and in an attempt to reverse his fortunes the Prime Minister of the time, Harold Macmillan, decided to sack a third of his cabinet. It became known (rather distastefully) as "The Night of the Long Knives" and became known as the greatest act of political betrayal and backstabbing of recent times. The title of the thread is a quite from the Liberal politician Jeremy Thorpe, and sums up the general feeling of disgust at someone who would throw his colleagues under a bus to save his own skin.
Which is all well and good, but what's it got to do with Lapithos?
This week, the Knights Council received a proposal from B.D. Legion. They wished to merge their top 40-50 players into us, "absorbing" the smaller players. They wanted a Founder role, and 3 leader's positions.
When the laughter died down, all that was left was outrage. Outrage that they would be prepared to throw their own smaller players to the wolves - in fact be the wolves themselves - and expect us to do the same. I said in Council that our smallest player was worth more than all their bigger players, and was swiftly corrected - THEIR smallest player is worth more than all their bigger players. We play the game a certain way; with honesty and honour at the heart of it. Some may scoff at that, thinking that you need to be dishonest and underhand to succeed at this game, but it's not a view we share, and it's clearly successful enough, given how we're doing in general, and how we're doing in our war with BDL in particular.
Our Council's decision was unanimous, with every member saying the same thing, in a variety of different words: how could we possibly work with people who would turn on their own alliance members like that, and expect us to do the same?
So thanks, BDL, but no thanks: practically, it made no sense anyway as we're doing very nicely in our war and will probably take many of the cities we were being offered for ourselves, but morally, it was quite unacceptable. At the end of the day, we know you're prepared to do anything to save your skins, and even more for the No 1 spot, but we're not prepared to sacrifice honour - or fun - for that.
Which is all well and good, but what's it got to do with Lapithos?
This week, the Knights Council received a proposal from B.D. Legion. They wished to merge their top 40-50 players into us, "absorbing" the smaller players. They wanted a Founder role, and 3 leader's positions.
When the laughter died down, all that was left was outrage. Outrage that they would be prepared to throw their own smaller players to the wolves - in fact be the wolves themselves - and expect us to do the same. I said in Council that our smallest player was worth more than all their bigger players, and was swiftly corrected - THEIR smallest player is worth more than all their bigger players. We play the game a certain way; with honesty and honour at the heart of it. Some may scoff at that, thinking that you need to be dishonest and underhand to succeed at this game, but it's not a view we share, and it's clearly successful enough, given how we're doing in general, and how we're doing in our war with BDL in particular.
Our Council's decision was unanimous, with every member saying the same thing, in a variety of different words: how could we possibly work with people who would turn on their own alliance members like that, and expect us to do the same?
So thanks, BDL, but no thanks: practically, it made no sense anyway as we're doing very nicely in our war and will probably take many of the cities we were being offered for ourselves, but morally, it was quite unacceptable. At the end of the day, we know you're prepared to do anything to save your skins, and even more for the No 1 spot, but we're not prepared to sacrifice honour - or fun - for that.