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As those that know me will tell you, I do hate writing articles. In my first term as President, I had the amazing
Luke Warm as my Minister of Communication, whose sole job was to write my articles and announcements for me, or go over anything I’d wrote. It was a nice time. As for now however, you’ll have to put up with my generally poor writing style. 
Now a lot has been said so far by all parties regarding SIGMA’s break-up and the following new alliance discussions. I thought it was time for some back story to be given regarding the recent history of Sigma so people were aware of all of the facts, and not biased viewpoints.
Portugal and Sigma
I was deputy SG last month to
Snowball the Dinosaur , and frankly out job was undermined every time due to 
Khaled Ibrahim ’s continuing attempts to get Portugal into Sigma, even though he knew full well how other countries would take it, and that we needed time before anything could be pushed through. Further that, but Portugal were desperate for a high resource being Shannon. This wasn’t something UK were just going to give up, and we had no other place to expand to for resources. Alongside that, Khaled insinuates that we, the UK, wanted Spain to not expand.
[20:31] <~Smack[Away]> Now, here's the problem we need to sort out.
[20:31] <~Smack[Away]> PT want a high resource region.
[20:31] <~Smack[Away]> Spain deserve a high resource region.
It was one of my biggest aims to help Spain expand. They deserved a better high resource region, more than anyone else. I wanted them to have North of Brazil frankly, but until issues were resolved to satisfy Portugal, nothing could be done. Following that, Spain decided to ignore Sigma HQ’s request and order to wait (for just 3 days). They got aggressive, stubborn and insulting towards Sweden and UK, ignoring the fact that I was trying to help them.
Sweden, USA and Poland’s New Alliance
There is no longer denying this any more since it’s been leaked everywhere. Yes, there were discussions about a new alliance. Yes, UK were invited, albeit not initially. I can only thank our friends in Sweden for being as loyal as they are to us. I can safely call them brothers and know that I can trust them with anything. Sweden were initially invited to this new alliance, that also planned to invite USA and some other countries. Sweden were determined to only join if UK was invited too, and for that I can only thank them. This is a friendship that goes back since the start of the game, and we’ll always remember their friendship.
Knowing that USA would be invited, (a friendship that goes back to
Liquid HOMICIDE ’s term as President, before we offered to give them their first high region to help get their economy started again), and that Sweden and some other non-Sigma countries we consider friends were also invited, and the fact that dealing with Spain and the new Sigma HQ left a sour taste in mine and many of my cabinets mouths, it wasn’t as big of a deal for me to agree to this new alliance, pending USA’s agreement too.
Some of the key things that was discussed between myself,
Pfeiffer and 
essex , is that we won’t be throwing Spain under a bus, and we all spoke to Poland, at differing times, about keeping our MPP’s up and that we would defend Spain. While I may have a sour taste from recent actions, I haven’t forgotten the loyalty and determination Spain showed to Sigma when they first joined, and UK will repay that, no matter how long it takes.
For all UK citizens, I shall be creating a forum thread in General where you can ask any and all questions regarding Sigma and / or this new alliances, and I shall endeavour to answer as honestly as I can.
~ Smack
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