| The Right Honourable Paul McCartney | |
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| McCartney in 1983 | |
| 21st Prime Minister of Novanglia | |
| In office November 6, 1983 – November 6, 1999 | |
| Monarch | John IV Anne I |
| Governor General | Sir Paul Reeves Sir Bill Hayden |
| Preceded by | Doug Anthony |
| Succeeded by | P. J. Patterson |
| Leader of the Radical Civic Union | |
| In office April 17, 1979 – November 6, 2005 | |
| Preceded by | Cheddi Jagan |
| Succeeded by | Theodore Zhivkov |
| Personal details | |
| Born | James Paul McCartney 18 June 1942 (age 82) Hawkinsville, Novanglia |
| Political party | Radical Civic Union |
| Other political affiliations |
Labour (before 1977) |
| Spouse(s) | Linda Eastman (m. 1969) |
| Children | 5 |
James Paul McCartney (born June 18, 1942) is a Novanglian politician who served as the 21st prime minister of Novanglia from 1983 to 1999 and as the leader of the Radical Civic Union from 1979 to 2005. McCartney is known for being the first Prime Minister to win a federal election under the Radical Civic Union in over four decades, taking advantage of the widespread upset at Prime Minister Doug Anthony for his support of the Great Muqaddian War and poor management of the economy. After many years of popular opposing to it, McCartney finally abolished the Prefect's Commission on Electoral Activities that had been established by Joseph Peron during the independence of the Commonwealth. Following the economic decline of the past years, he established a series of important reforms known as the "Winding Road" that led to the so-called "Beetle coalition" made of his supporters. Holding the office at only 41 years of age, McCartney is up to this day the youngest person to ever be Prime Minister of Novanglia.
Born in the capital city of Hawkinsville to English parents that escaped the Mosley regime with the "Gates to Heaven" program, McCartney was initially interested in music, learning how to play the piano and guitar by a young age. Mostly inspired by his mother, McCartney decided to pursue a career as a lawyer in the University of New Chester, but he would eventually leave it in order to study political science, becoming a speech writer and activist during his early 20s. Coming from a family of Labour supporters, McCartney campaigned for Jack Lang as he was preparing for his second ministry, even getting the chance to meet him in what would become a remembered picture. Despite this, his support for the Labour Party started to fade away with the start of the Great Muqaddian War, one that the Labour parts of the parliament had unsuccessfully opposed. With their two close defeats to the Conservative George McGovern, McCartney considered the party to be inefficient in its ideas, turning to the returning Radical Civic Union. Since the extremely unpopular leadership of Isaac Isaacs, the R.C.U. was not able to win another election, leading to almost 44 years of the administration alternating between Labour and the Conservatives.
In 1979 and after some time at the party, McCartney became Leader of the Radical Civic Union with the clear objective to become Prime Minister. The end of the Great Muqaddian War helped the reputation of the incumbent PM George McGovern, but this wouldn't continue as the results of every election were getting closer every year, with the Comission on Electoral Activities being the clear factor of these results. The 1979 election seemed to be the turning point when Doug Anthony barely called the province of Wellstower by few votes. Four years later, McCartney defeated him and Labour in an unexpected landslide across all provinces. He then dedicated his ministry to get the economy back on track with the "Winding Road" and acknowledged the immigrant groups in Rangeland. A vegetarian himself, McCartney gave great importance to the environment of Novanglia. After retiring from the office, he remained politically active and finally decided to return to his passion for music.
Early life[]
Paul McCartney was born on 18 June 1942 at English Hospital in the city of Hawkinsville. Both of his parents descended from Ireland, but had lived in England most of their lives, until the rise of Oswald Mosley as Prime Minister started to slowly restrict liberties away from the family, making them take the difficult decision of moving to Novanglia with the "Gates to Heaven" program that brought political dissidents from Mosley's England to Novanglia. Despite his first name being James, his parents decided to start calling him Paul at a young age to avoid confusion since that was also the name of his father. Because of his mother, McCartney is part of the prominent catholic community in Novanglia, both him and his brother Michael would be baptised under that faith at a young age, but religion wouldn't be of much importance in their raising. In many interviews McCartney has stated that he has a very special relation with Hawkinsville and its people.
During his early years, McCartney developed a strong interest in music, including instruments like the piano and guitar, going as far as practicing songwriting. His father Jim was a trumpet player and pianist who had been part of a band in the 1920s, constantly encouraging his song to look for more professional ways to learn how to play, but Paul always preferred to learn from listening rather than taking classes.
Paul and his father Jim McCartney
Education[]
When McCartney was 14 years old, tragedy would hit his family as his mother in a complication of surgery for breast cancer. Shortly before this event, Paul and Mary had a conversation about political subjects of the time such as the then-incumbent Joseph Perón, which inspired him to pursue a career as a lawyer. Since both of his parents were helped by Peron himself to escape England, McCartney was drawn into the Labour Party from the beginning. Although experiencing some doubt from his father, McCartney would attend the University of New Chester for 2 years with intentions of becoming a lawyer, but he eventually left this career path and instead turned to political science.
Political career[]
Early political career[]
Right after graduating, McCartney started to look for ways to start his political career, including a failed run for the Parliament in 1965. He got the opportunity to meet Prime Minister Jack Lang in person, with a photo of the two of them later becoming iconic in Novanglian politics for its symbolism. After losing his opportunity to join the Parliament, McCartney got his first politically-related job as a speechwriter for Sir Rohan Delacombe, a former military officer and the Governor of New Oxford. According to an interview, McCartney wrote a speech for Lang himself during his last year in the ministry, but it is unknown if it was ever used.
In 1967, he joined the movement against the Conservative George McGovern, which turned out unsuccessful as he was ultimately elected Prime Minister by a comfortable margin. The ongoing Great Muqaddian War rapidly became the most important issue on McGovern's administration, taking aggresive measures against the invading nations. McCartney, although a fierce opposer of the conflict, supported Lang's involvement in it, but did not approve some of McGovern's ideas on how to continue the war process. The re-election of McGovern came only months before the end of the war, making most think that it would be his last term in the office, however, he ran for a third ministry in 1975 and barely won with a slight majority. The re-election of McGovern was one of the first turning points for the political leaning of McCartney, considering that Labour had proven its incapacity to either oppose the policies of McGovern or simply defeat him in an election.
Leader of the R.C.U.[]
A colorized picture of McCartney in the early 70s
The battles between the Aymara Rebellion and the Novanglian Army finally made him change parties, officially joining the Radical Civic Union in 1977. The R.C.U. had for years been considered a "dead" political affiliation for its bad perfomance since the independence, but many people (most of them around his age) agreed with McCartney in the fact that the Labour Party would not stop the political domination of the Conservatives. McCartney became Leader of the Radical Civic Union in 1979, giving a famous speech in which he blamed the Prefect's Commission for the state of the nation, making clear his intentions to run in the next election. He became popular all around the world, even going to the United States to appear in the TIME magazine with the title of "The Next Novanglian PM?"
With enough pressure from many different sides, the Parliament approved the dissolution of the Commission on Electoral Activities, making the 1983 election the first to be realized without it. As a result, McCartney won with the second biggest margin of any Novanglian election, only surpassed by Joseph Peron. He is the youngest person to ever be elected to the office.
Prime Minister[]
Winding Road[]
Under Doug Anthony, the Novanglian economic entered a period of decline and stagnation sometimes compared to that of the 1920s, making the economic issues of vital importance to McCartney's reputation as Prime Minister. On his first month at the office, he announced his economic plan nicknamed "The Long and Winding Road" (in honor of a famous line from his speech) as according to him it would take some time to recover. The Winding Road was rapidly successful getting Novanglia back on top of the Muqaddian records, coinciding with the decline of the Cosimano oil industry that put them on top. Complementary of the Winding Road was the transition to more clean manners of production and the compensation to many fossil fuels-powered car industries; being a vegetarian himself, McCartney cared deeply about the environment and global warming.
Foreign policy[]
McCartney is considered to be part of the so-called "Tsongas wave" or the "Tsongas effect" which is the period between the mid-80s and early 90s in which, following the election of Paul Tsongas as President of the United States, many liberal or progressive politicians also took power in other regions of the world. Tsongas and McCartney shared very good relations and both of them had interesting in continuing the Western Sisterhood, which was the attitude the foreign policies of both nations adopted since the independence of Novanglia.
With the Communist Bloc going through reforms, he showed interest in building diplomatic relations with nations like Germany, Italy and Sweden. In Europe, he visited English Prime Minister Eric Blair and gave him his support in the reconstruction of England posterior to the fascist regime of Mosley. While in Muqaddas, McCartney especially focused on the neighbouring nation of Antartique, that had fought alongside with Novanglia in the Great Muqaddian War, and Puelmapu, an eternal rival that was now going through democratic reforms.
Media personality[]
McCartney was known for his fashion picking, including a famous pink outfit.
Over his years in office, McCartney was actively involved with the Novanglian society, constantly making speeches across the nation, being considered a media personality not only for his charisma, but also for his iconic accent from Hawkinsville, that made his manner of speaking easily recognizable. To add up, he was constantly known for using excentric suits in the regard of their color with his pink suit as the most remembered one, but including too green and purple, which he mostly used for special occasions. On May 27 (the day of independence), he appeared as a guest in the show of Diana Spencer. Among his famous experiences with the general population was his visit to a town with the name "Shit, Novanglia" that was named that way in the mid 1840s over a pronunciation error, and somehow remained untouched until the 1980s, when McCartney appeared without announcement and renamed the town to "Schent" (as it was originally named for the founder of the settlement) something strongly approved by the people of the town. Years later, McCartney revealed in an interview that: "I honestly feel regret for doing that, if you told me today I would have probably kept it that way."
Second ministry[]
His second ministry is considered to be the most important of his 16 years in office, as it oversaw many important events for the modern history of Novanglia. During the 1987 election, McCartney formed the "Beetle Coalition" that allowed him to take the victory in similar margins as the past election, this coalition remains important to this day. The Winding Road was now fully functioning, and the nation faced its most economically prosperous year since 1963. Around this time, McCartney legalized the use of marihuana in the country under private, controlled circumstances and for personal consumption, something that angered the conservative base but not enough to meaningfully go against him. Following this, many other countries shared this new regulation of the drug, even taking it to the LTEP.
He dedicated more time to the culture of the nation, opening cultural museums and appreciating both old and current art. McCartney acknowledged the Slavic community living in Rangeland, descended from Bulgarians and Rhomanians who escaped the Hungarian domination of Southeastern Europe.
Funeral of John IV[]
On February 15, 1991, King John IV, who had ruled in the Henrylandic Commonwealth since 1940 passed away, in what would become the most viewed televised funeral in human history. As sitting Prime Minister, it was McCartney's duty to assist the event, meeting with figures such as the soon to be crowned Queen Anne I, President Tsongas, Richard Nixon and Jacqueline Onassis.
Later life[]
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McCartney in 2021
McCartney left the ministry on November 6, 1999, going through a little phase of retirement in which he didn't appear much publicly, despite still being the Leader of the Radical Civic Union. The Beetle Coalition lost the subsequent election making Labour candidate P. J. Patterson his successor. By the early 21th century, McCartney decided to return to his long past passion for music and launh an album named Let It Be in honor of a phrase his mother used to tell him, becoming a worldwide success and making him continue through the rest of the 2010s. He appeared more times in the show of Diana Spencer, becoming a recurring guest.
Politically, he has shown his support for all the R.C.U. candidates since his departement, and was present in the inauguration of Columbian President Stefan Löfven. McCartney declared intentions to run for another non-consecutive term in 2011, but eventually declined to do so when he learned that Dennis Skinner would also seek another term. In the last Novanglian election, the Radical Diane Morgan defeated the incumbent Conservative Tony Abbott in a situation very similar to the original election to McCartney in the 80s, for which he showed his support to her during the election.