Jim and Annabel stayed at home to ‘experience’ the speeches on the fourth anniversary of Unity assuming power. They had ordered all the shops to close and, as it was cold outside, they tried to entertain Olivia with games indoors.
First up was Anderson, explaining how, under the alternative system, the real sovereigns were the people. Roberts focussed on the party’s reform of the school system. They will abandon the upper sixth, releasing students into the employment arena a year earlier and they will phase out foreign languages - everyone speaks English, anyway.
“Foresight guides us,” Roberts said in his most evangelical tones. “We act according to the will of the Almighty. No-one can make national or world history without the blessing of this foresight.”
He also spoke of the superior
