The Ashes of Albion – 1984
It has been two years since the United Kingdom’s embarassing defeat in the Falkland Islands to the weaker country of Argentina. After the embarassing loss, Margaret Thatcher resigned in disgrace in early 1983, leaving behind a power vacuum that other political parties were eager to fill. In February 1983, the NRL (National Restoration Legion), a far-right authoritarian group, was founded by a former army officer named Sir Alistair Hargreaves. The party promised a ‘return to Britain’s glorious days when they were a force not to be reckoned with’. They promised to restore faith and national pride and show the world that the UK was not a laughing stock as everyone made them out to be. Against all odds, the party won in a landslide victory in the June 1983 general election. After this, Britain quickly turned into a neo-fascist authoritarian state. In a shocking and utterly outrageous move, the government began rounding up thousands of non-white, homosexual and disabled individuals and interring them. Freedom of speech and press was abolished and newspapers were often censored heavily and/or government controlled. Secret police ran rampant in the country to quell any sort of resistance or unrest. In February 1984, the United Kingdom, after bolstering its military capacity considerably, declared war on their neighbour the Republic of Ireland. Following the capitulation of the country, Britain’s former allies in NATO and the EU imposed heavy sanctions but despite this, Britain did not back down. In July 1984, in what they called Operation Retribution, the Royal Navy invaded the Argentine-controlled island of South Georgia, heavily shelling the entrenched Argentine positions. At the same time, the Royal Air Force (RAF) provided heavy bombardment on Argentine positions and important strongholds on the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) and were now preparing a landing at the capital in Puerto Argentino (formerly Port Stanley. In a show of force, the British defended their invasion believing they had an ‘inalienable right to protect Her Majesty’s rightful territories and use any amount of force to do so.’ As of September 1984, the war continues on as the world watches intensely while the conflict escalates to greater levels…
What happens now?
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