The Three R's
Copyright© 2021 by Freddie Clegg
Introduction
In Britain under the New Order government, men have come to accept rule by women. Sponsorship – a system where a woman takes responsibility for a man in return for attachment of his assets and tax benefits.– is promoted by the government as a way of establishing social cohesion and gives women unprecedented powers over the men in their lives.
Positive discrimination in favour of women is common in the workplace, with men becoming increasingly marginalised and employed in menial jobs where decisions are not needed. Women seek to avoid the risks of Male Dominated Decision Making that New Order believe led to the current decline in the nation’s fortunes. The government’s “Respect Agenda” requires men to treat women as their superiors. Women act as sponsors to help improve men’s behaviour and the government’s Department of Sponsors Affairs (DOSA) exists to help them. Regulations governing men’s behaviour are enforced with enthusiasm by a part of the police dedicated to ensuring men comply with rules: the Male Control Force. There are plenty of regulations for men to fall foul of. The concept of enforcing male chastity is gaining ground as a way of reducing what women claim is men’s inability to focus on anything except their own sexual gratification, so called SAID ; sexually-driven attention inadequacy disorder.
In spite of their popular following and their substantial majority in parliament, not everyone is on-board with the government’s view of how society should function. Some people think that there might be alternatives.
It used to be that the ‘Three R’s’ were reading, (w)riting and (a)rithmetic but in New Order Britain for some groups, they are coming to have another meaning.
Part of this story is set around the East End of London, near the financial centre at Canary Wharf and London’s City Airport. Mudchute, contrary to what you might think, is a real place.
Norm Hailman, who we meet in Chapter One of this tale, originally appears in the story “Year One: A New Order Diary”. If you haven’t read it yet it won’t hurt your enjoyment of this. On the other hand there are a few references in this story to the attempt in May 2022 to blow up the Prime Minister at a meeting in Fordswell. If you’d like to know what happened to that you might be better of reading that story first!
