2029 Labour Workers Party Leadership Election

Apples Clarke
A civil servant, then tech-start up mogul before entering politics, Clarke has had a meteoric rise through the LWP and the government since entering politics 4 years ago. First a backbench MNA, then minister for digital affairs, he gained a reputation as being a paragon of vigor in cabinet famed for its lethargy. Commended by the PM for "exemplarly service" throughout the budgetary crisis of 27', Clarke was promoted to Cabinet Secretary. From then on, it became commonplace for political tabloids to "reveal" that he was in-fact the secret puppetmaster behind every proceeding cabinet reshuffle. Initially smeared as a Crypto-Marxist on account of having held communist party membership during his youth, his legislative activity quickly marked him as a pragmatist and a moderate - often voting to the right of party leadership on fiscal issues. His detractors within the party label him as an opportunistic liberal, while those without say he has no principles. His supporters (mainly the young, the highly educated, and the wealthiest of LWP voters) espouse him as an outsider, and innovator, a dynamo who can get things done.

Melvin Bradley Jr.
Son of a deeply controversial former PM and LWP leader, Bradley still largely sits in his fathers shadow. Working as a state proseuctor for most of his adult life, Bradley Junior did not enter politics until several years after Seniors retirement, when in 2022 he ran for his father old riding. At first welcomed with great hesitance by a party leadership which had worked hard trying to distance itself from the Bradley name, his place in modern politics was ensured after winning this first election in a landslide victory against an LWP incumbent. With this proof that the voters had forgiven or forgotten the myriad sins of his father, he was reluctantly accepted into the LWP-fold. After two years as a backbench MNA, there began a growing concern over some of Bradley(a devout Calvinist)'s remarkably conservative social policies, and an even greater concern over the seemingly enthusiastic reception given to these stances by much of the LWP base. The PM appointed him minister of Foreign Affairs, in a bid to keep him as far away from domestic politics as possible. This ploy was successful, and while Bradley's ministerial tenure has been widely esteemed, he's spent most of the past 5 years out of the public eye - negotiating (mundane) treaties and making (unremarkable) foreign visits. Bradleys fiscal stances arently clearly known, and many speculate that he holds economic views markedly to the right of his father. His bid for leadership has nonethless seen greatest success amongst lower class union workers - the LWP's traditional core electorate. His appeal is particularly evident with the eldest of the parties voters, pensioners or men nearing retirement, who tend to be diehard Bradley Sr. supporters engaging in nostalgia politics, or else christians who feel alienated by the LWP's fervent turn towards progressive social policy.

Avery Wagers
Veteran parliamentarian and long time LWPer, Avery Wagers is the incumbent in this race. Despite having won the last two leadership elections unopposed, in came as no suprise to pundits and politicos when Wagers was challenged in this years contest for the big hat. Stagnating electoral results, ever increasing dissent from party MNA's, and most recently an exceedingly dismal senatorial result have all contributed to rising criticisms of Wagers' leadership. Originally championed as the figure to revilitilaze the LWP, Wagers was the second person to lead the party since the toppling of M.B. Sr., and suceeded far more then her predeccesor in restoring the parties tarnished reputation. It was once thought that Wagers would eventually bring the LWP back to its place as natural governing party of doggerland, but not even she could break the ULPP's now decade-long dominance over the political left. Wagers has taken up the role of the middle-man between the old-school-lwp elements, and the new wave faction which has rapidly taken shape over recent years. Her legacy as one of Doggerlands most accomplished statesmen is of frighteningly little relevance now, when the challenges ahead center more around controlling discordent wings of a party than governing the country.