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police and the army for example.”
“Now think of Worringfolk. All the good people in Worringfolk were moving out, and of course the police and army contained a lot of good people.”
“Some ordinary police officers decided to move. And ordinary soldiers. They crossed the nearest border. The new internal borders of the British Isles were becoming obvious. Some police and soldiers moved because their entire local communities were moving … to join the Peakies towards Derby, or the Pennites in what was once Yorkshire. Or they moved south to join the Potters around Stoke. Many of the people who lived in Worringfolk came here to Wolfland, and some went to Meirionydd.”
KristalClear listens intently and says, “this was never taught at school in history lessons! Nor in Civics! This is mass migration! This is a refugee crisis, right here, in the British Isles!”
“Yes!” says CandiCrush, “and do you know what a bunch of refugees looks like?”
“No!”
“The Garrison does. The Garrison is usually their first point of contact, and because there is nobody else doing refugee management, the Garrison is left to figure out how to care for them. Food, water, bedding and shelter.”
CandiCrush continues, “if the total refugee population was just 1,000 people, then 333 would be children. Each of them in need of protection! Sending them back where they came from would be inhumane.”
“What did the government do?”
“The central government in London was already collapsing. The Thames was flooding the city more often. Clean drinking water had become an expensive luxury. Like everybody else, government workers simply walked out of their jobs, literally walked, and they carried on walking in search of safe land, and safe drinking water.”
“I know more about Wolfland and Worringfolk than I do about London, so let’s focus on the local geography.”
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