POLITICS

By AM, 10 December 2011

 

David C (DC) the longtime marshal of Labourville, Working Class Territory, throws in his badge and announces to the passive citizens of Labourville that he wants to replace the unpopular Mayor Phil G (PG) after PG was forced to resign and become a backbench small-farmer. Suddenly the town learns that David S (DS) - a ringer that the soon to be ex-Mayor used to fill a gap in his council - may well arrive on the 13 Dec noon train and take over the Mayoral seat, and the town, just as Labourville faces predations by the brash, confident and well-off neighbouring towns of Un Nationalisation, Blue Ribbon territory and Greenville, Midway territory.

 

DS had been sentenced by the UN to hang around the third world but was pardoned on an unspecified legal technicality. On public television he had vowed to become Mayor at Noon, 13 December and clean up the town and was not letting a lack of experience or plans or the marshal to get in his way. DS's gang members wait for him at the Labourville caucus room.

 

DC fears defeat but he refuses to stand down knowing that the DS gang will hunt him down wherever he tries to make his seat and what's more, the townspeople are running scared and need someone to stand up and fight the dark blue and deadly vapor of finance-capital privatisation and the green mists of Midway. DC re-claims his marshal's badge and scours the town for help, even interrupting Sunday church services, with little success. His deputy DP resigns and throws his lot in with DS because DC would not recommend him as the new marshal.

 

 

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