https://padlet.com/km256/o342nsu20ivjv310 For The Next Five Years scenario planning session en-us 2020-09-26 16:06:24 UTC 2020-09-27 13:26:15 UTC hello@padlet.com km256 https://padlet.com/km256/o342nsu20ivjv310/wish/781490733 The game environment is Redacted-on-Sea, a seaside town in the North West of England. Tourism once allowed it to flourish but it now has high levels of deprivation. The national government is Conservative and the local administration is Labour, but is currently not very dynamic. The population is 22, 304.]]> 2020-09-26 16:07:12 UTC https://padlet.com/km256/o342nsu20ivjv310/wish/781490733 km256 https://padlet.com/km256/o342nsu20ivjv310/wish/781491041 - Local Working Men's Club
Strength: Strong community links/space
Weakness: Works poorly with "outsiders"

- Local radical trade union
Strength: Direct Action
Weakness: Perceived as "outsiders" (poor local links?)

- Local mutual aid group (emerged during CV-19 pandemic)
 Strength: Reputation of recent success in the community means they can persuade in campaigns. (big tent)
 Weakness: Depoliticising (bad at specifically political actions)
 
 - Evangelical megachurch
Strength: Strong grounding in the migrant community
Weakness: Socially conservative (difficulty working with 'radical' groups)

- Consortium of local small business owners (including local football club owner)
Strength: Inroads into local government
Weakness: Strongly self-interested (won’t work against their business interest)

- Local Labour Council Group/candidates
Strength: Institutional presence (good at press)
Weakness: Unwilling to break the law

- Local Environmental Collective
Strength: Links to larger outside groups who can bring support (global)
Weakness: No class consciousness (work poorly with unions/worker's groups)

- Migrant Workers
Strength: Nothing to lose (willing to undertake more radical action)
Weakness: Anti-trade union (difficult to work with)]]> 2020-09-26 16:07:38 UTC https://padlet.com/km256/o342nsu20ivjv310/wish/781491041 https://padlet.com/km256/o342nsu20ivjv310/wish/782284750 A hurriedly agreed post-Brexit trade deal between the UK and the US proves highly disadvantageous to British agriculture. The combination of the removal of EU farm subsidies and being thrown into competition with large US agro-companies who have much lower health and safety standards devastates the local agricultural community forcing many of the farms near the town out of business.
Mutual Aid
Small Business owners 
Set up community growing and distribution in some form on bankrupt farms.
Dice roll = 6 + 2 for co-operation = 8
Partially successful but the mutual aid groups and the farmers eventually fell out.

]]> 2020-09-27 11:23:22 UTC https://padlet.com/km256/o342nsu20ivjv310/wish/782284750 https://padlet.com/km256/o342nsu20ivjv310/wish/782288334 Taking advantage of low land prices, a big fracking company buys up large amounts of land near the town and begins preparations to begin fracking on the site it identifies as most promising. The company have a license from the national government but the decision is very unpopular in the town.
Environmental Collective: Direct Action, blocking roads.
Radical Trade Union: set up a strike fund to support the direct action and do solidarity actions in workplaces.
Dice roll = 6 + 1 = 7 
The road bocking direct action worked for a while with support from outside the town. However, although the trade union action convinced some people, workers tbhought there might be more jobs if fracking started up and local support dwindled. The envirnomental collective activists ended up in prison, unavailable for next go.

]]> 2020-09-27 11:29:17 UTC https://padlet.com/km256/o342nsu20ivjv310/wish/782288334 https://padlet.com/km256/o342nsu20ivjv310/wish/782288392 As climate change continues to accelerate it produces different effects around the world. A very wet and stormy winter is capped by a super storm which hits the town causing severe damage to the sea front including substantial flooding.
Local Council work in a Preston Model way to create a new tourist industry based on rewilding of the sea front in collaboration with the small business owners.
+1 for good likely outcome
+2 for collaboration
Dice roll 7 = 10
Unqualified success. This action has the effect of re-establishing tourism, making local people more aware of the issues around climate change, and having a sense of pride in their town.

]]> 2020-09-27 11:29:23 UTC https://padlet.com/km256/o342nsu20ivjv310/wish/782288392 https://padlet.com/km256/o342nsu20ivjv310/wish/782320748 The opening of a large logistics centre near the town attracts an influx of people looking for work. A lack of affordable housing in the town causes the establishment of a squatter’s camp on the outskirts. The camps inhabitants are a mix of migrants and those with British citizenship. Attitudes towards the camp in the town are mixed leaning to hostile.
Local Labour Council gets resources from the logistics company to build good social housing.
Mega Church organises a programme of outreach to support community cohesion and integration of the newcomers into the already existing community.
+1 for Labour Council action
Dice roll: 9 + 1 = 10
Unqualified success. Massively raises the profile and popularity of the Labour Party and the councillors, and the newcomers are absorbed effectively into the community. However, there is quite a political difference between the community around the church and the increasingly radical Labour council.

]]> 2020-09-27 12:25:24 UTC https://padlet.com/km256/o342nsu20ivjv310/wish/782320748 https://padlet.com/km256/o342nsu20ivjv310/wish/782330513 Severe austerity measures imposed by the national Conservative government demands huge cuts in local services. The Labour led local council mainly goes along with these cuts and gets the blame. The remnants of the local branch of the EDL runs an anti-cuts campaign and states their intention stand in the local elections to take over the council.
Labour Council candidates work with the Working Men's Club to stand anti-austerity  candidates in the next selection of candidates to replace centrist Labour candidates who have supported cuts. Not by setting illegal budgets but by coming up with creative solutions that centrists couldn't imagine.
+2 for  co-operation of two groups
+1 because of the profile of the LP and the successful work with migrants.
Dice roll: 7 + 3 = 10
Unqualified success! Now the town just has to deal with the fracking.

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