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Who owns all the oranges?
Literature & Fiction
Set in 2030, a journalist tries to explain to his 17-year-old daughter how Britain has ended up being ruled by politicians reluctant to give up their self-anointed positions of power. The media is controlled, opponents disappear and private security firms carry out the brutal needs of the government while the majority of the population struggle to survive.
Book Bubbles from Who owns all the oranges?
Britain, human rights and Europe
This section of the book deals briefly with Britain's relationship with the EU, mainly from a human rights aspect. The long-running and rancorous debate over Britain's membership of the EU and adherence to the European Convention on Human Rights may result in a reduction in the rights of citizens, dependent on who governs after 2015. The debate so far has rarely based itself in facts or acknowledged that the rights set out in the conventions Britain seems to want to rid itself of originated from the horrors of the Second World War. Strip away these rights and Parliament can legislate to treat people as they please.
A meeting at Cassie's school
The main character, a journalist, is called into his daughter's school to discuss his opposition to a teacher suggesting democracy no longer had a place in Britain. It sets the scene for the gradual removal of people's rights and freedoms as the rest of the book unfolds and the ideological education that becomes normal after the descent into authoritarianism.
