This is an alternative history novel set in the immediate past. What if the Labour Party had won the election in 2019 and ushered in a genuinely radical socialist government?
A wealthy celebrity chef Dominic Green is a dedicated Labour Party activist, which harks back to his time growing up in a mining village. He is an enthusiastic backer of the new government, yet his Spanish wife Rosa isn't so sure.
However, rapidly the Labour Party's radical socialist government mutates and changes into a frightening and vicious totalitarian Marxist state and Dominic finds himself an unwilling spokesman for the opposition as his house is confiscated and he and Rosa are sent to live in a dingy, faded council flat.
Children and young people are arrested, often on trumped up charges and taken away to mysterious re-education camps, including one of his own family members, and a brutal paramilitary force, the SNPS, enforce new, draconian and illegal laws and target Dominic as the government tags him as a terrorist, illegally incarcerating him with other dissidents.
With the leader of the Conservative Party on the run hunted down as an enemy of the people, with Dominic himself illegally incarcerated and the Royal family spirited out of the country into exile in Canada and the UK declared a socialist republic and with Rosa fleeing the country for her homeland, what can Dominic do? And where is his other son? Is he a part of a secret resistance group, attempting to free the political prisoners?
And what is the meaning of the republican government's terror control tactic, Urban Scarecrowing?
And out of his circle of friends who, exactly, can Dominic trust? Will he ever see any of his family members again? Will the opposition succeed in taking down the illegal republic?
And what will the international community do as a result of the fact that Britain has become a dangerous and illegal Marxist state?
It's a extremely well-written book that is a terrifying look at a dystopian past and future.
It's published by SilverWood Books at £12.99.
