by Narrator » Fri Sep 22, 2017 11:32 pm
Francis Dashwood had a wikipedia page! That was a good place to start.
The Dashwood family line was an old and notable one. From Buckingham and Oxford, they had a long and storied history in politics and government affairs. Dashwoods had been granted peerages; Dashwoods had been the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Dashwoods had served in both the House of Commons and the House of Lords at various points in history.
The current Francis Dashwood (as, as you often get in these important families, names had been passed down through the generations) was a landowner and businessman. He was on the board of directors of the Wellcome Trust, a biomedical research charity and one of the largest providers of non-governmental funding for scientific funding in the world, lingering only behind the Gates Foundation. He had endowed the foundation with quite a bit of his own personal fortune, which had been put to good use -- Dashwood was often seen in internet photos shaking hands with scientists working on Ebola cures or a fix for diabetes and things of that nature, often handing over novelty-sized checques.
There were also rumors on the internet that he had given quite a bit of funding to politicians opposed to the UK's version of the Mutant Registration Act, which had died in committee. These were just rumors, however, as that would technically be illegal under UK election law.
The website for the Brotherhood Party was very modern in style; shaded with purples and reds, discussing who the party was and what their goals were. The front page held a YouTube clip of Dashwood's speech from earlier that week.