“What I was complaining about up to tonight has just been a mild prelude,” Jim complained as he watched the election results on his stretch. “It’s like 1930s Germany all over again but without the swastikas. Does anyone believe anyone other than Roberts orchestrated the Valentine’s m******e so he could declare his state of emergency?”
“It’s astounding how everything collapses,” Ben Kumar agreed. “What has happened to our country? To the unions? But, you know, the police have had the power to detain without charge for decades.”
“Yes, but they’ve never used those powers to arrest so many people before,” Elijah Brown chipped in. “And now Roberts has the Crown Prosecution Service in his pocket. There has been a wave of arrests of his opponents, claiming they were inciting violence. They are
