FOR 1984, READ 2010

He was the first to march. His placard read: I AM A POLICY. Within a week of his debut protest, he was 154 strong. They called themselves THE PERSONs. The press called them The Breakthrough. They denounced the riots in Trafalgar Square and came to calm them after the riot police failed. Within a year, one ninth of Britain had joined THE PERSONs. Before the incumbents had served their term, they resigned. From that day forth, the nation became the world’s first wholly co-operative government with citizen rule. As political parties gave way to self-parliament, the class system collapsed and tax became fair for all. With nothing to rail against, the country was renamed New Switzerland and slowly depopulated, until the last man standing, a Mr Eric Blair, finally past away, a bachelor.

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