God's Loving Embrace

Part Thirty

Stick or Twist

June 2025

Cabinet Meeting Agenda, June

Constituency boundary changes – objective plus forty two seats overall.

Family voting – outline proposal for discussion.

Proportional representation – alternative to above.

National service extensions – opt out proposal for discussion.

Guardian College – opening September, briefing documents.

Female driving ban – green rationale and safety benefits.

FIDs amendments – further unaccompanied travel restrictions, compulsory chip insertion

Merger of Church with Church of England – draft bill for discussion.

Increase in time between elections – ten year proposal.

Legislation timeline – discussion.

'Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.'

Proverbs 16:3

"Great Britain really is great again," Charles Fitzgerald said, his familiar persuasive voice speaking softly over a subdued version of Jerusalem, reaching out to his people. "For more than fifteen years, we have all struggled with the desperate aftermath of the collapse of the secular capitalist dream, a depression that demanded radical change. I was lucky enough to be given the task of implementing that change, and I am grateful for another clear mandate to finish that job. Prosperity is returning and we have never had so many men in jobs as we have now. Everyone can aspire to a better life. But our reduced majority suggests that there are some doubts. It would be wrong of me and my party if we did not pause to think about what you, the voters, are saying to us. We can never afford to stand still, because no one else does and we cannot afford to lose out to the competition from other countries. Change is not only inevitable, it is necessary to stay ahead of those competitors. I did not expect to be popular after changing our society in so many fundamental ways, and the result of the election is a sense check we all needed, to keep us focussed on what our masters, you the electorate, want for the future."

"I have often criticised the old political order for imposing their own beliefs on the country without winning support for it from the electorate. I think you know me well enough to know that is not my way and it never will be. But my job is to do what is best for the country and answer for my performance at the ballot box, and that is what we will do. In all honesty, the people have spoken...we perhaps lost our way a little at the end of the last parliament as we drew breath and allowed things to settle. That was a mistake. It is not a mistake I intend to repeat, and in the next few days we will be announcing a robust programme of legislation to revitalise the modern renaissance. You have given me your mandate, and I will use it for our mutual advantage. We have listened to you throughout the election campaign and now we intend to give you what you want...and need...as quickly as possible."

'All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.'

2 Timothy 3:16

HRH Victoria, Princess of York, was really quite used to obeying strict dictates from on high within the family firm, the comical nickname the royal family gave themselves, tongue in cheek, as if they were in anyway engaged in anything as common as commerce. She had changed schools in the middle of her exams because her school was linked to the Church of England, and the King really did not want to be seen as taking sides in the political row over women bishops. She had been banned from attending parties or doing anything remotely fun even with her annoying police protection team in tow, for fear of causing any embarrassment to the family, even though any embarrassment caused had either already been done big time by the previous generations or by her much rowdier cousins, normally the boys. Victoria was the exact opposite of her mother, for instance, who had partied for years before marrying and quickly divorcing Victoria's father, and then falling madly in love with a gentleman farmer and dedicating her life to producing free range eggs in the middle of nowhere. Victoria was fairly studious, if not the sharpest knife in the box, and interested in joining the firm when she finished her education, to continue the charitable traditions of her uncles, the Prince of Wales and the Duke of Cornwall, who in turn inherited the bug from their sainted mother, the most tragic posh party girl of all time, who Victoria's mother had always dismissed as 'that awful Diana Spencer'.