Last Man in London, page 16
Attitudes among the public have been taken seriously and monitored carefully since the 1960’s when the original peace movement was gathering pace. Since then there have been no other co-ordinated and mass protest against government on such a scale. Business needs to know how ordinary people are thinking and the Vanishing Voter Study has revealed that, as of now, 75% of the people don’t even know when there is an election going on. Instead, most ordinary people already believe it is all collaboration between big business involving rich contributors and their chosen political leaders. In most cases they believe that the public relations industry prepare chosen candidates to say meaningless things, that most people do not understand, in an attempt to win a few votes. In this respect we are ahead of target.
Studies also conclude that most people vote against their own interests and do that consciously. Because they already realise that it doesn’t matter much. So they choose the candidate they feel most comfortable with and who they think they can trust. But in terms of policy those candidates are trained to make it hard for people to work out where they actually stand on serious issues. This policy has worked so well that 80% of voters now do not fully understand their candidate’s position on the real political issues that would affect them. And they do not seem to care.
Issues where the elite and wealthy hold very strong views and the general public have the polar opposite view in their favour are never brought up during national elections. These issues are always unmentioned by any of the political sides. Public opinion has been irrelevant now for decades and so the time is right to lead them towards what we shall call Professional Management. We have been able to discredit most high profile political players with the use of our news feeds and now research shows the public are ready for a structured take over of democracy, only not in the name of the Eiderberg Group.
We will continue to promote sport, arrange world tours of the most popular musicians and performers and at the lowest level of society they should continue to have new and even bigger reality television spectacles. The target for that will be a worldwide talent show that focuses on the losers in the early stages and makes international stars of the winners. A global competition will keep the lower orders occupied and give them something to pay attention to that doesn’t matter at all.
After fifteen years of war we are now weaker at every strategic level than we were when it began. And that is because we cannot fight and defeat an enemy we do not understand. Islamic Ideology remains a mystery and in many cases we cannot even identify who they are until they strike first. We are relying on our intelligence operations too heavily. It has come to the stage where we keep on having to be lucky. But they can strike at will and will continue to do so in increasing numbers right here, in the heart of our western communities. This should be allowed to continue in a controlled manner. The culture of fear is one we still need to promote wherever possible.
Our investigations reveal that the vast majority of people do not believe in God, despite what many of them say when surveyed. Nowhere is this hypocrisy more apparent than in America and this demographic may be the hardest to convince that religion should be banned for the benefit of the future. Television Evangelists should continue to be discredited in a high profile manner. A godless future is the only hope for western civilisation. The forces of Islam will prevail unless we completely eradicate religion.
Finally, the failure of the education system is on schedule. Each year student loan costs rise and teaching standards fall. Annually the government figures confirm an improvement in exam results but the actual exams are steadily becoming easier. Within a decade graduates will not even be able to tell you who Winston Churchill was, or where Cornwall is. Most of them leave their full time education not knowing whether to look at the stars through a telescope or a microscope. Academically gifted children are no longer challenged and there is no chance of having an inquisitive younger generation.
The clever ones will be occupied by sport or the promise of a steady job in a law firm or marketing agency. Or they will be encouraged to start their own small businesses which will keep them on our side by committing them for life to our financial institutions. The rest will be distracted by reality television idols. There is now little chance of anybody from that generation noticing a changing society.
Report by DA
‘They are already running the Western Empire and this is five years before Incorporation,’ George noted.
‘And what is this big deal about religion’ asked Tibha. ‘It is all they seem to be talking about in those days.’
’These are very dangerous people,’ said Hugo, ‘very dangerous indeed.’
‘Not any more they are not,’ replied George. ‘They are all dead. But they appear to have made major changes to society back in their day and I, for one, would not want to live in a world that was described by all those Sunday Globe reports last night. Well, that we read last night.’
‘Me neither,’ said Tibha. ‘The world we live in is a much nicer place. And what was going on with those reality television celebrities?’ She laughed.
‘Who cares about them,’ said George. ‘What I want to understand is now that we know the Eiderberg Group were behind the Incorporation, the wealthiest and most influential men of their generation, who wanted war to end and religion to be eradicated, then why did they also want to reduce the population? You saw how much money they made out of the international karaoke thing they produced. Why would they want to stop that? It doesn’t make any sense.’
’No, it doesn’t,’ agreed Hugo. ‘Perhaps they didn’t have a choice.’
And they probably didn’t have a choice. By the year 2015 of the old calendar there were enough examples in western history of people killing each other over their religious differences. The Corporation didn’t need to be reminded of that. And they didn’t need to be reminded that democracy in the West was even founded as a Polyarchy. America certainly was. It meant that the primary objective of government had always been to protect the interests of the wealthy few. They were the leaders and their respected dynasties. In other words, they were the winners. It was how western democracy was designed. It meant that the fundamental principal, when it came to shared decisions, was that their own interests, individually and collectively, were considered equally. And that was the cornerstone of the Eiderberg Group principles.
There may have been many more of them in 2014 than there were when democracy was first established in the West, but the protection of their own interests remained defined. There had been a few dissenters along the way and a few little victories were had by the people and so society was not as bad for them as it had been two or three hundred years earlier. But, elections had always been rigged or even stolen and the public generally didn’t care anyway. It was never a big issue for them. They had jobs, or the Welfare State, or the football at the weekend, or the internet. Or they had their reality television programmes every evening and could dream of becoming famous. And fame was such an empty house.
‘I think we should look at this one,’ said Hugo pointing to filed marked ‘Human Rights and Government Abuse.’
Are European Governments Guilty of Human Right’s Abuses?
A new report by the Council of Europe has implied that human rights have suffered as a result of the economic downturn over recent years. In response to the financial crisis the austerity policies implemented by most European governments has led to cuts in public spending, aggressive tax increases on the lower wage earners, pension cuts for the elderly, benefit cuts for those out of work, higher unemployment and reduced job security.
The whole range of human rights from access to justice, freedom of expression, accountability, the right to a decent wage and adequate standard of living have been compromised. Vulnerable and marginalised groups have been affected the most as democratic values slide further backwards. People can make complaints to the European Court of Human Rights, who can make decisions that governments are bound, by law, to abide by. But nobody can afford to do so since massive cuts in Legal Aid took effect last year. The European Social Charter ruled these cuts violated people’s basic human rights by limiting their access to justice.
Bail out programmes to countries with bankrupt economies relies upon the agreement of the International Monetary Fund and the financial community. The flourishing corruption by government officials has been identified in fifteen member states and the European Union has called for this to be addressed before any further financial bailout funding will be authorised. The ordinary people of those countries will be affected the worst during this coming winter with food and fuel shortages predicted on a wide scale.
Reports reveal that Romania and Bulgaria are the worst performers with regard to democracy and mentions that ‘given the histories of these countries that is hardly surprising.’ The countries displaying the sharpest declines in democratic values are Greece and Hungary. High unemployment in both countries has lead to civil unrest and the rise in extremism. There is no appetite for democracy in either country and a New Social Order has been strongly recommended. The people would welcome it.
Johnas Sogoda, a member of the European Parliament for Croatia, claims the report reveals significant problems for Europe. He has been quoted as saying ‘There are a growing number of countries where the native people are calling for foreign minorities living in their neighbourhoods to be removed. This kind xenophobic characteristic, or this policy of not accepting foreigners or minority religions, is something that is particularly worrying. It is completely opposed to the idea of one common European Community.’
The European Union is being encouraged to apply democracy throughout its member states but is warned of resistance among those with leaders who believe they are being unfairly treated in terms of financial assistance.
DR for the EG
’Who was DR?’ asked George.
‘No idea,’ Hugo replied. ‘But does it matter? Everything is so secretive and yet so clear. The people of the Western Empire had no idea what was really going on did they? And as for the virus. It sickens me to think that such a small group of people could make huge decisions that affected so many people in only a few generations. How could they reduce the population by such a large number, so deliberately?’
‘We know how,’ George told him. ‘I still want to know why. It’s obvious why they wanted to remove religion from society. That did nothing but harm, even though I am still not certain what it was. And I can understand why they would want to reduce the population of their enemies. But why their own?’
The real Main Board, the former members of the Eiderberg Group, were clearly lunatics, even though their main aim was not anarchy and destruction. It was social stability and peace. Mass murder was never on the agenda, as it had been for other European lunatics during the previous century. Men like Josef Stalin and Adolph Hitler. But the Main Board’s program for totalitarian control was, in many ways, much worse. The simple idea that a small group of people could control the entire West, right from the very point of deciding who would be allowed to propagate the human race and who would be removed from the overall gene pool, was a disturbing one.
This policy was totalitarian in the extreme but it was now far too late to do anything about it. Even making the fertility injection freely available to everybody would be too late for those social groups who had already been left to become extinct. George and Hugo did not know that the fertility treatment was freely available to everybody living on the West Isle, the Department of Security, twenty-five years before any expected military conflict with other rival Empires such as China, or Russia. Or if a planned invasion of the Middle and Far East was scheduled. Like any major corporation, or industry, the Main Board had long term plans and could even create an army of any size they needed if they had twenty-five year’s notice.
‘I am going to read this one before talking to granddad,’ said George. ‘He may have answers and he certainly knows something about religion. I shall take him his favourite fifteen-year-old whiskey and get him talking.’ George then clicked on the file that was called;
Report on democracy throughout the world in 2016.
There have been major gains in the Middle East during the last year as a result of the growing popular movements for reform and freedom. However, some areas have experienced an increasing authoritarian response to these freedom movements. Whilst the number of countries who can be considered free and democratic has risen by three, there have been twenty-seven countries that have experienced significant declines. This is now the eighth consecutive year where there have been more declines in democratic freedom than there have been gains, worldwide.
A number of African countries including Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Lesotho have all shown improvements, as has Burma. Countries with noted declines in democracy include Kenya, Nigeria and the European nations of Turkey, Russia and Ukraine. The report also reveals there has been an increase in persecution by despots and dictators who are targeting independent news outlets and opposition organisations.
The number of elected democracies now stands at 118 out of the 200 recognised countries, worldwide, which is a net increase of only one. Nearly half of the world remains undemocratic.
The report also highlighted a notable increase in Muslim on Muslim violence which has reached horrifying levels in areas like Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran. Turkey has experienced a serious decline in civil liberties and the Persian Gulf States have all increased their so called repressive policies.
Western Europe and North America continue to have problems with the impact of the financial crisis and nationalist sentiment is on the rise in response to the increasing number of immigrants, although most nations have faced these challenges without lowering their high regard for democratic values and civil liberties, so far.
‘So far’ being the operative word here,’ said George. ‘Let’s go and see what granddad has to say about all this.’
He reached for his hy-dev and tapped out a message. Moments later Edgar replied telling George he was away from the Complex but would be returning the following afternoon.
‘Well I suppose that’s it for tonight then,’ said Hugo. ‘I’m off; I will see you two in the morning.’
He winked at George, blew Tibha a kiss and pulled his coat tightly around himself. George and Tibha watched him leave as she leant forward and shared the rest of the wine evenly between the two remaining glasses.
‘What now then, Mr Dickens?’ she asked him.
George was staring into the fire but he gathered his thoughts, looked across at the wall clock and said, ’21.30. It’s still early. And I don’t suppose I will sleep much tonight. I will probably go home and open a bottle of whiskey. Why don’t you join me?’ he found himself adding. ‘Er, I mean, uhm I have some wine somewhere too.’ He stumbled.
Tibha laughed at him. ‘You don’t ask many girls out do you Mr Dickens?’
‘No.’ he admitted.
‘In that case I would love to join you for a nightcap. Finish this up and let’s go.’ George looked across at Tibha and smiled warmly at her. And then he remembered Mira, reached down into his trouser pocket and snapped a couple of diazepam from the tube. As they sat on the subway George started to feel a little less nervous and promised himself he would finally reply to Mira in the morning. He didn’t have any bad feelings towards her and was ready to help, if she wanted him to. He pulled out his hy-dev and tapped the icon that turned on his apartment lights and lit the fire.
‘Very nice indeed Dickens,’ Tibha said as she unwrapped her coat and sank into one of the big leather sofas in front of the fire. George tapped again into his hy-dev and the 24-hour news feed appeared on his wall screen. Tibha watched the latest reports as George opened a bottle of wine for her, poured himself a three finger measure of whiskey and settled into the chair opposite. She stretched out and then covered herself with a blanket before saying, ‘do you really understand any of this George?’
’Not fully,’ he replied. ‘I mean, most of it is obvious. The Main Board who initiated the takeover of society planned, and delivered, a better world for everybody. I am not sure the way they went about it was particularly pleasant, to say the least. Introducing a virus that would render virtually everybody sterile is kind of sinister, don’t you think?’
‘I am not so sure,’ Tibha looked out of the window at the western part of the Complex. ‘I mean, it doesn’t seem so bad to me that anybody these days can apply for a Family Marriage Licence, as long as they qualify. I don’t think it is so bad that a murderer, or a rapist, is never allowed fertility treatment and so that their genetic line is halted. And that anybody contributing to the Corporation, to our way of lives, is allowed to. What’s wrong with that?’
‘Nothing, I suppose.’ George was once again deep in thought and Tibha drifted off into a peaceful sleep. He studied her as she curled up on his favourite armchair and he felt a warmth growing inside, a happy feeling. She was beautiful, both inside and out. If only he had the courage. He covered her with a second blanket and poured himself another nightcap as he watched the dying embers of the fire that was projecting the last of its heat. Eventually he took himself off to his bed but lay awake, thinking about where to start with Edgar. What should he ask him? How much should he tell him? How much did he already know?
He reached across for his packet of diazepam and swallowed two with the last gulp of his whiskey. As he stared at the ceiling his attention was drawn to the door. Quietly, but purposely, Tibha was padding across the room and then sliding beneath the covers. ‘Hello, what’s this?’ asked George gently. ‘I’m cold,’ she replied. She buried her head into his neck and wrapped her arms around his body. ‘And I’m scared,’ she added. George was nervous and waited for her to make another move but it was soon obvious that she was sound asleep. He stroked her back and drifted off into an uneasy sleep himself.
