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Your Country Needs You

Sleaze, corruption and conceit have been the hallmarks of successive elected governments and the Queen has had enough!

Convinced that ordinary citizens selected at random by a new computer nicknamed RADO - Random Automatic Democratic Order - can run the worlds fourth largest economy just as effectively, she abolishes parliament as we know it. Can a hundred and two (one per county) men and women "Good and True" possibly do any worse than the overpaid and overrated career politicians they replace?

Thus the story traces the action of a national draw and subsequent life of the new parliament. Has the queen made a huge mistake?

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You couldnt make it up, but author Mark Harland did exaclty that - made it up!

When mark finished writing his first book, Your Country Needs You last year, he could not have anticipated todays political quagmire. With the book and its sequel, published by Shaffron Publishing and due out in July, here is an author watching current events catch up with his work.

About the Book

Your Country Needs You is the first of three controversial new novels from author, Mark Harland. The book is a topical and timely warning to corrupt politicians and governments everywhere. The writing is witty, wicked and full of hidden agendas. How many of us have not imagined, in this year of sleaze, ditching our career politicians with their noses deep in the trough, convinced that we can run our country better?

Political satire at its very best!

Essex Girl is new MP

'Shop worker is our new MP' so ran the headline in the Essex Gazette

The member for the County of Essex was one of the first to be declared just before midnight last night. She is eighteen year old Chloe Ledger, an assistant at WH Smiths in Chelmsford. She was the first MP to be interviewed on live TV. When asked by the interviewer how she would cope with her change of job the paper quoted her words verbatim:

'Dunno, really. S'pose so. 'I haven’t had time to think yet.'