I read Queendom Come by Ellen Galford, a satirical novel which is almost as relevant today as when it was published in 1990. 6/eventually 7

On privatisation and selling assets owned by the nation, and on polluting our waters:
"'It would make a superb site for a marina. And the Americans are very interested in quarrying the hill...'
[...] 'But what about the flasks, ma'am?"
'What flasks? Oh, those. They're buried miles offshore...'
'But what if they really are leaking?'
[...] 'Stop fussing! When we write the description of that site in the auction catalogue, we simply make sure to mark the lot As Seen. That covers everything. Besides, it's only going to be some foreigner who buys up the site. Who else has that sort of money to throw about? Caveat emptor is what I say. It's the law of the market.'"

For comparison see recent news stories about toxic waste dredged up then re-dumped to enable the Conservative's Tees Freeport sell-out, which appears to be causing mass deaths of sea life that the government first claimed were caused by an algal bloom nobody noticed and then a new disease nobody has been able to find: "Hartlepool fisherman Stan Rennie, chairman of Hartlepool Boat Owners’ Association and a leading player in the industry’s campaign for a full investigation into the die-offs, said the government did not want to carry out a full investigation because it feared it would prove the die-offs were caused by toxic dredge spoil and jeopardise the Tees Freeport project."

https://fishingnews.co.uk/news/outrage-as-defra-closes-file-on-die-offs/

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I read Queendom Come by Ellen Galford, a satirical novel which is almost as relevant today as when it was published in 1990. The protagonist is a doctor in a privatised NHS hospital. 5/eventually 7

Water privatisation: "I'm faced with thousands of agitators stirring up hysteria about the contamination in Standard Class tap water. As if they weren't perfectly free to pay the higher charge and opt for Premium Grade. You pay your money and you take your choice, we tell them."

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I read Queendom Come by Ellen Galford, a satirical novel which is almost as relevant today as when it was published in 1990. 4/eventually 7

On media manipulation (and the Duchess of DeadCatShire): "The resulting bluster and ballyhoo succeeds in pushing an inconvenient collection of gas, radiation and security leaks right off the front pages. The tabloids, by Prime Ministerial diktat, make much of her. Everybody loves a Royal."

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I read Queendom Come by Ellen Galford, a satirical novel set in Scotland, which is almost as relevant today as when it was published in 1990. 3/eventually 7

On Scottish history: "the Regimental band of the Countess of Sutherland's Own Displaced Highlanders"

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I read Queendom Come by Ellen Galford, a satirical novel which is almost as relevant today as when it was published in 1990. 2/eventually 7

On censorship (the current Online Safety Bill comes to mind): "the entire all-star cast of the banned crypto-feminist musical comedy Pigs Will Fly, who have finished their prison sentences for contravening the Official Viewpoints Act."

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I read Queendom Come by Ellen Galford, a satirical novel which is almost as relevant today as when it was published in 1990. The protagonist is a doctor in a privatised NHS hospital. 1/eventually 7

"We are in the third decade of the Blue Reich, [....] Parliament has been busy doing its mistress's bidding. The latest in its sequence of mould-breaking legislation is the new Sexual Normality Bill, passed this very night by a House full of adulterers, voyeurs, fetishists and secret spankers. The leaders of the various Loyal Oppositions, for once, have little to say on the matter. The issue is not a vote-getter."

Note, 1988: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_28

A New Labour type claiming he speaks for "ordinary working people", lmao, but update the spin from "gay" to "trans": "That whole gay rights thing is still a hot potato. Really blew it for the Left in the old days.... No offence, mind, but you have to understand it's a real turn-off for ordinary working people..."

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