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A Britain in chaos; I don't even know where I'd start but in the future I'd like to do something along these lines. Say the London Riots of 2011 continue and get worse, and then the political riots start as left-wing groups take to the streets over (insert political issue here). Far-right groups, Britain First etc, start making 'street patrols' and clashing with the rioters. The government uses emergency powers to invoke curfews, ban large groups of people meeting etc

Eventually the government deploys the Armed Forces to deal with the riots and it escalates from there. Somebody makes a mistake, and rioters get shot. It's a mistake, nobody meant for it to happen, but it happens nonetheless. Cameron is forced to resign, and there is a chaotic leadership election but somebody on the fringe right of the Tory Party comes to power. The government insures that nobody is prosecuted for the shooting, thus leading to a new wave of protestors, which turn to rioting.

Later on, a major terrorist attack takes place with several hundred dead. The Army is on the streets still. New anti-terror measures are enforced. Another attack takes place, this one almost as bad. The government believes it has no choice but to invokve even harsher emergency legislation. More riots, more terrorism (mostly lone-wolf attacks) - the cycle goes on. The far-right joins in and some lunatic shoots up a Mosque in revenge. Numerous arrests are made of those in far-left and far-right groups that may be orchestrating the violence, and some argue that these are political prosecutions.

A confidence motion occurs and the government loses as the LibDems vote against the Tories. Shortly before the new election, a third terrorist atrocity occurs on a large-scale. Troops are outside polling stations in response to a terror threat. The election still occurs and the Tories, surprisingly, win the election on a law-and-order ticket.

But, after that, things really get out of hand. Some event triggers a large-scale protest march in Trafalgar Sqaure; with the threat of a terrist attack, the police go in hard. Nobody gets shot or anything but lots of people are badly beaten. There are strikes across multiple industries despite the legalities of this. The Army is needed to break the strikes and yet again troops are on the streets. Riots, protests, strikes - pandemonium. Opposition figures in Parliament call for members of the government to be prosecuted for various actions. People start getting arrested under anti-terrorism legislation, and the military Chiefs of Staff resign in protest. International calls come for the government to back down. An Army unit somewhere refuses to obey orders to fire on protestors, and the Monarchy may be forced to take some sort of action...

Not very plausible at all. Fun to write though.

That would be a bloody fight.

The last capital

It's 2022. Charlottetown is the capital of Prince Edward Island, and right now it is a city of fear and uncertainty. Why? 41 nuclear weapons found targets in Canada 12 hours ago. However, Charlottetown has a problem. A TU-95 sized problem.

So would there be one lone Canadian CF-18 operating out of a airfield somewhere on Prince Edward Island that would save that day.

The premise is that an organisation exists that controls and monitors magical artifacts and creatures called demihumans. Over time that organisation has gotten increasingly corrupt and racist now looks down on ordinary people as “lesser beings” who are unable to take care of themselves. In response a group of reformist has appeared who want to tear the whole organisation down and rebuild it in their image. The fight between the two factions get more and more out of hand until the human nations decide to intervene and launch their own surprise attack.
But while the attack was a success and many strongholds and VIPs were captured, most of the hardliners were able to escape. And then there are magical creatures that were previously kept in check.
This is a world on the brink, where magical terrorist launch suicide attack in crowded street has become a regular occurance, where a new arms race dominates international politics and where the danger of what goes bump in the night is a very real. This is a world where only constant vigilance can avert the threat of mutants, demons, and worse.

Based on a concept of what if a bad fanfiction had been rewritten to actually become good, I thought that this would make more an interesting world to explore. Kind of a more grimdark Version of sdarkshade's Dark Earth Universe.

Iran would join the party, as well as China.