Well, I like it, and I'm curious where you're going with this.
I'm intrigued, but because I have little beyond that to add, i tend not to post. So if it keeps you going, more I say
Thanks for the posts of support.
I'm with everyone else here. So dar we have some big adn meaty broad sweep of people and events so I'm facinated to see how it will all tie up. For myself I would like to hear more about the interaction with the higher reaches of the civil service and the military in the 70's as my feeling was always that without them the UK was never likley to make a swing to either of the political extremes. Anyway, keep the excellent work and hope to see more posts very soon.
Again, it'll be a while before we get any big NF event happening.
As usual its a great update, but I am tempted to say that too much mystery is perhaps not a good thing as it only confuses readers as to what went on. I realise that this is what you want though.
It is becoming pretty clear that all the cards about the world as we know it have been massively reshuffled. South Africa is obviously a rather powerful nation and it seems likely that the white population is now over ten million at least if not more. The reference to the Boer enemy alongside the mulatto, black and others is very intriguing, does it mean that some Afrikaners went up in arms against a massive immigration of white refugees, possibly.
For France to become utterly unstable by now, something big must have happened. Methinks that France ended up on the same side as Britain during one of the conflicts, but that unlike Britain it never turned its back on extremists.
Benjamin Zephaniah as opposition leader means a lot just by itself, I had to look up the man on wikipedia. But it is becoming rather obvious to me that politics is a lot more polarized in TTL world. The right is rather more right wing, possibly because "only strong nations survive" in this world. But the left on the other hand seems a lot more pacifist, anti-racist and such compared to OTL as a reaction of the war. This would translate into a nasty and very confrontational political culture everywhere.
When you're trying to have a good Dystopia, it's better that things are vague until we get to the really bad bits.
The SACP is strongly against Separatism which is what the Boer community supports along with the remnants of the NF and the Boer community isn't popular due to perceptions of them trying to get out of the Federation when things got tough along with a revenge fantasy against the lobby that wanted them to stay in the holding camps that were referred in Medvedev's speech.
Told you France was going to be in trouble.
He's going to be part of a strong anti-NF lobby in Canada as very soon places like Canada and Sierra Leone become seen as safe havens from the fierce political hatred that engulfs many countries.
I'd say more but the joy of a Dystopia is in the surprise.