Alfie Morgan
MP for Morganville North
"A Morgan in Morganville. The height of originality."
- Pundit and political humorist David Leati, after Morgan's election in 2009.Name: Alastair Henry Evander "Alfie" Morgan
DOB: August 10, 1969 (age 49)
Party: National
Family: Wife Sefina, two kids
Seat: Morganville North
Occupation: Businessman
Born the eldest child of shipping-and-shipbuilding executive and former MP Archibald Irving Morgan (1943-) and educator Charlotte Eleanor (nee McKinnon, 1946-), Alfie Morgan is only the latest rising star in a long, storied genealogy of businessman and politicians tracing back to Alfie's great-grandfather, eccentric millionaire industrialist and Scottish transplant (as well as namesake of both Morganville and Alfie himself) Alastair Cormag Morgan (1886-1977). With a childhood and adolescence shaped in equal parts by his deeply traditionalist Anglo-Scottish upbringing and his bearing witness to the advent of modern Lamarna almost at firsthand, his political conscience developed earlier than most and evolved, ever slowly but ever appreciably, into an idiosyncratic political philosophy combining the stiff patriotism and conservative sensibilities of his family with the visionary optimism endemic to the very core of the free Lamarnan spirit.
Though his name remained ever-present in the background of his father's business and political careers, Alfie Morgan only truly began forging a national profile for himself after taking over his father's shipping business in 2006, following the elder Morgan unexpectedly being diagnosed with a benign, but debilitating spinal tumor. Three short years thereafter, having spent his stint as chief executive of Pacific Horizon Industries modernizing both the company's fleet and its business practices, Morgan sought and won his first term in Parliament, representing his family's ancestral home in Morganville North and once again succeeding his father.
In the years since, he has spent both his breathtaking wealth and his not-inconsiderable political clout advocating for his unconventional species of Lamarnan ultranationalism, winning public trust through his personal philanthropy (most noteworthy being his substantial donations to urban development in the shipping districts of Morganville), incisive wit, and ceaseless belief in Lamarnan greatness and potential for Pacific dominance.
Political PositionsRefugees: Right-wing. Morgan is a very firm believer in, and advocate for, stiff non-intervention on the international scale, and this belief is what informs his stance on the ongoing situation in the Philippines. He has advocated for a complete shutdown of the refugee program, emphasizing what he sees as insufficient vetting on the part of the government, and has been quoted as suggesting that, "the Filipinos ought to be trusted to fight Filipino fights."
Immigration: Right-wing. Though he doesn't take the especially extreme anti-immigration tack that some on the National fringe have adopted, Morgan is an advocate for immigration quotas and thorough vetting of immigrants from especially dangerous areas of the world, considering it a matter of both public safety and preservation of Lamarnan jobs.
Healthcare: Center-left. Though he emphasizes the need to allow private insurance for those who would prefer it, Morgan is an advocate for a single-payer healthcare system broadly similar to those in Europe and has suggested a need for an expansive program aimed at modernizing Lamarna's rural hospitals and clinics. "We are on the precipice of becoming a dominant force in industry and energy production," he has said. "We have the potential for naval dominance as well. If we can excel in those areas, we must also recognize the need to excel in healthcare."
Energy: Left-wing. Accounting both for the explosion of Lamarna's urban centers and the nation's boundless potential for an energy economy independent of foreign petroleum exports, Morgan has gone on record as advocating for, in his own words, "another groundbreaking revolution in Lamarna - this one green." He is among the National Party's highest-profile supporters of offshore wind and solar farms - Lamarnan-made and Lamarnan-owned, of course - as a means to exploit the energy resources most ubiquitously abundant in the region. "It cannot be accomplished overnight," he has said, "but it can be accomplished."
Poverty: Center-right with a populist flavor. Blending traditional business philosophy with the economic populism endemic to the mid-to-late 2010s, Morgan has advocated for an economic plan that combines a complete withdrawal from what he has called "industry-crippling, job-destroying globalist trade agreements" with government programs incentivizing upstart Lamarnan businesses and a stiff tax levied against companies that practice outsourcing. In the meantime, he is a soft supporter of the universal basic income, but has emphasized the "dire urgency of making it so that our people no longer need it."
LGBT Rights: Center-right. Catholic by birth and upbringing, Morgan supports the current ban on same-sex marriage.
Mālno Issues: Left-wing. Somewhat unconventionally, at least for a National Party politician of exclusively Anglo-Scottish descent, MP Morgan has made a point of discussing what he has called "the indelible importance of the Mālno to Lamarnan culture and history." Having married a Mālno woman himself, Morgan supports the teaching of Mālno history and language in non-Mālno schools, as well as programs to aid struggling Mālno villages on more rural islands. "The Mālno are Lamarnan just as you and I," he has said. "Proud and true. They are our equals and our partners in creating a better, stronger Lamarna, and we must not allow them to be left behind."
Military: Right-wing isolationist. Again running to the core of his nationalist philosophy, Morgan is a vocal advocate for the development of the Lamarnan Armed Forces, in particularly the Navy, for the sole purpose of building Lamarnan strength and military independence. He is a staunch opponent of military intervention done on behalf of foreign powers and has stood opposed to all attempts to bring Lamarna into international defense treaties.
