SillyOliColF

Sylvia Oliver "SillyOliColF" Colson (born 7th November 1990) is a MP in the National Assembly, Foreign and International Development Minister and prominent member of the Communist Party. She was elected MP in the January 2021 legislative elections. She had previously been elected as a member of the Hoovsted City Council from the 6th District and worked as a State school teacher in the city.

Early Life
Sylvia Colson was born on November 7th, 1990 in Fenna Tudor Hospital, into a working class English-Dogger family. Her father, Roger Colson, was a dockworker and shop steward. Her mother, Reagan Colson, was a International Socialist Party activist and writer for its party newspaper Red Star. Her family's role within the party and the United Dockworker's Union got Sylvia interested in politics at a fairly young age. After a fairly successful school career, with the exception of maths, she was able to attend the University of Steibo and study History and Politics before spending a year there qualifying as a teacher.

She qualified as a teacher in 2012 and began working as a NQT at Ebert Road College, teaching History there. She quickly joined the National Educators and School Workers' Union (NESWU) and eventually became her school's Union representative. She would spend a lot of time in her local union branch and building her party's presence among the school stuff.

Colson recalled in a 2021 interview during her senate campaign that the nickname SillyOliColF originated from a lesson about the Soviet Union. She had mentioned in passing the Comintern and the Cominform. A student asked about the names, and she said that they were ways of shortening the names "Communist International" and "Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers' Parties". To further explain, she said her name would be SylOliCol under this system. Another student joked that it would be SillyOliColF, referencing when she had told the class that she got a F on her maths mock exam results and was called a "silly girl" by her teacher for it. It caught on around the school and Colson increasingly used it as a nickname going forward.

In 2018, her party would nominate her to run for the 6th District of Hoovsted City Council. She won the seat after comfortably beating the Reform, Justice and LWP candidates. This result wasn't greatly surprising, as the district had voted for the ISP since 2006.

Hoovsted City Councillor
In her final week as City Councillor, Colson mostly concentrated on her party's National campaigning, writing most of the "Revolutionary Values" section of its January 2021 Manifesto and producing a number widely seen posters. She was ranked 4th on the party's National List and won a seat. She resigned on the 29th, triggering a by-election that saw the victory of the Communist candidate Lisa Salisbury.

First Term
Almost Immediately after being elected, SillyOliColF and other Communists were able to negotiate a confidence and supply agreement with Forward!, allowing for the formation of a stable left-wing government. She had little involvement in the drafting of the National Constitution of Doggerland other than voting for and against particular motions and voting for Zebra to be Speaker. Colson spoke strongly in favour of the Socialist Reform Bill, including its controversial legalisation of "Closed Shops". She also voted in favour of Evergreen's Peace Act and Kenson's Unchained Act.

She voted against the 17th February Electoral Proposals and voiced her option to the creation of a Senate. When Speaker Zebra showed his distain towards opposition to the measures that Moose had helped write, Colson reacted with "CHOP" and waved a small French flag before being joined by 4 other Assembly members. When the King was informed of this humorous call for his execution, he replied "Come and get me".

On 19th February 2021, she proposed the Transgender Rights Act and Language Services Act (the latter of which was also written by TheOneAndOnlyGod).

She played a larger role in writing her party's manifesto and producing its posters during the February 2021 Doggerland legislative elections and was again 4th on the party's national list. She kept her seat but found the overall results, and specially the collapse of the ULPP's vote, very disappointing and unfortunate. She later stated that she believed the ULPP vote fell because their traditional supporters were "smelly" and didn't vote because they didn't want people to smell them, urging ULPP members to shower more regularly.

Second Term
The day after the election and while the incoming government was taking shape, Colson proposed and became heavily involved in negotiating an Opposition Coalition between the Communists and ULPP (and later the Anarcho-Garfieldist Party). After days of discussion, the Shadow Cabinet was announced on 25th February and Colson was appointed Shadow Minister for Justice and Equalities.

Meanwhile, she joined the Anti-Monarchy Alliance and wrote and proposed the Declaration of the Republic Act with cross-partisan support.

Colson also launched a Senate campaign in her native 3rd District on 24th February, campaigning on abolishing the senate and implementing many other points of the Communist Party's agenda but with a particular focus on investment in the district itself. She took part in a debate of all major candidates on the day of voting for the first round. A strawpoll soon afterwards showed 19% polled believed the she preformed the best, putting her tied second with the FSA's Pequod and 16% below ATS' Beady. In a surprising result (considering District 3's more Centre-Left leanings and traditional support for the LWP), Colson came second in the first round by receiving 28.5% of the vote and thereby made it into the second round, 14.3% behind the Liberal's Nixon. Despite endorsements from the FSA and Beady, Colson narrowly lost the second round to Nixon.

Briefly before the results of the second round, Slyvia Colson was promoted to Acting Deputy Leader of the Communist Party while Marius Hawyee left to fill the vacant top spot. She ran to keep the position in the leadership elections that followed and won it unopposed.

She vote against privileging the National Bureau of Investigations Act and for the Committees and Caucuses Act. On 17th March, she voted for the Motion of No Confidence in the government and was made Foreign Affairs and International Development Minister in the new Alliance for National Stability government. She also joined the alliances Abolish the Monarchy and Planet Alliance during this time.

On 21st March, she was instructed to attend talks with the European Union on Doggerland's EU integration. The talks ended with generally positive results for Doggerland, although considered fairly disappointing and lackluster by most. In a tweet soon after, Colson said "Back from Brussels. Great waffles but disappointed that their Technocrats weren't willing to invest more in Doggerland after our people took a chance on them. Sad!"

Communism and Socialism
Sylvia Colson has consistently supported a Communist society, to be achieved through rapid nationalisation of all major industry, transfer of the control of those industries to workers and economic planning done by a Workers' state run by Soviets. Colson supports the Leninist theory that the state will "wither away" once the lower stage of Communism is achieved and the Trotskyist conception that a international revolution must succeed for Socialism to be established. Colson claims that the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China and other Soviet-aligned states were not Socialist but State Capitalist.

Colson supports the United Front tactic in fighting Racism, Fascism, Neoliberalism and Climate Change and works with other Communists within the Communist Party.

Colson was a passionate supporter of the Socialist Reform Bill and defended it in the Assembly before voting for it.

Foreign Affairs
SillyOliColF is a non-interventionist and opposes Dogger involvement in offensive wars.

Colson has expressed opposition to settler colonial states such as the United States, Israel and Australia. She supports the recognition of a Palestinian State and sanctions on the State of Israel until 1948 borders are re-imposed, occupation of the West Bank ended and rights for Palestinian refugees to return to their homes given. She recognises Nicolás Maduro as President of Venezuela and has criticised western intervention in the country. She has also attacked Chinese policy in Tibet and Xinjiang, calling China's actions there "cultural genocide".

Colson describes herself as a "Bennite Eurosceptic" and says she voted against joining the European Union in the 2021 referendum on joining the European Union, but has emphasised her opposition to Xenophobia.

Colson also opposes Dogger membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, believing the organisation to be "militarist, expansionist and an arm of American Imperialism."

Social Rights
Colson is generally described as a "social libertarian", supporting the legalisation of all drugs, same-sex marriage, gender self-identification, the decriminalisation of sex work, civil rights legislation, legal multilingualism, abortion, contraception, secularism and even rights for Italians and French People.

Immigration
Colson supports Free movement of People and the rights of refugees.

Climate Change
SillyOliColF has supported a legal Net 0 Emissions target for Doggerland by 2030 and a rapid shift from fossil fuels to renewables. She has given critical support to Extinction Rebellion and Fridays for Future.