If you’re not following this excellent “Britain covered like a developing country” series, you’re missing a real treat

Written by a Financial Times journalist, Joseph Cotterill‏ has used all his skill to write about the UK as if it was a developing county or Russia.

Massively revealing. And chilling.

A transcript if all that screengrab is too narrow to read on mobile (you can always pinch and zoom):

THIS JUST IN: Tensions are running high in the capital as the country’s premier, beset by regional unrest, prepares a significant statement.

Some analysts speculated that the ruling party could announce early elections to tighten its grip on power and crush a divided opposition.

(Kremlinologists noted the lack of an official state seal on the premier’s podium as a coded signal towards early elections.)

In calling the election, the premier attacked splittist forces causing divisions in the country’s sclerotic legislature.

Some analysts believe this reflects a plebiscitary turn in the country’s politics as stresses mount on its ramshackle constitution.

(Breaks fourth wall) So I called it the English People’s Congress to tweak idea it may end up England’s de facto ruling party, indefinitely.

(As well as it being far from primacy in the other nations, with interesting implications for managing the integrity of a composite state.)

Come June 8th, it may actually achieve that status, & if the UK really was covered like Somewhere Else, those implications might be of note.

(EPC name also to reflect factional strife & revolutionary sovereigntism taking over from a gradualist heritage. Anyway, on with the show.)

A liberal opponent of the premier within the ruling party stepped down as a legislator. He will retain editorial control of a mouthpiece.

LOCAL COLOUR: A journalist association in the capital hailed the state supreme leader as a “beacon of stability”.

The premier railed against foreign interference by western governments in elections widely expected to rubber-stamp her hold on power.

Regime rhetoric – allegedly crafted by a western PR firm – has been promoting a personality cult around the “strong and stable” premier.

Analysts say this latest heightening of tensions has come after regional leaders called on the country to honour its financial obligations.

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