Red and Blue Parties

Politics within the space controlled by the nobles of House Lionheart including elections to both the House of Aristocrats and the House of Commons include the Red Party and the Blue Party, both dominated by Lionheart aristocrats. The Red Party is more representative of traditional Lionheart policies. The Reds want to preserve the economic domination of the Cartels, maintain the traditional prerogatives of the Prince and Princess, and are extremely anti-Mantis Lord. The Blues represent a more diverse lot ideologically. Some Blues (but not all) want to abolish the Cartels to allow more free enterprise. Most of the Blue Party (yet again, not all) want to reduce the Prince and Princess to ceremonial figureheads. The Blues are divided over the question of granting more rights (especially regarding representation in the House of Commons) for A.I. machines, and on their noble body's traditional hostility toward the Mantis Lords. On the issue of whether the United God Movement should be disestablished as the official religion, Blues divided over disestablishment while the Red Party is sharply in favor of retaining an state-sponsored faith.