Sedan - an entertainment - the part one

Sedan is the first part of a trilogy about England in the future, after the ‘big war’ that no one won and the subsequent slump. Fossil fuels have run out. The Sedan chair is the only means of transport carried by Legits (pronounced ‘leg its’). Legits wear clogs. New Lablair have been elected to its 11th consecutive term as government of HAM (the androgynous monarch). Is there revolution in the air? Too true there is as Una Uevera leads the Sedanistas (known as SODS) in their struggle to overthrow the state and make England a pleasant land.

‘This is blasphemy of the highest order.’ (Rev. Ebenezer Jones – outraged cleric of Goole, East Yorkshire)

‘The depiction of such depraved sexual practices amongst the monarchy is outrageous.’ (Amy Clinton-Busby-Strundle, Royal Correspondent Monarch Forever)

‘I laughed so much I was really glad of the incontinence pads.’ (78 year-old Sybil H. – full name withheld by the request of the care home manager in Durham)

‘This sort of thing, this sort of vitriolic rubbish, gives politics, and more importantly, politicians a bad name.’ (Parliamentary candidate for the Whip)

‘Phil tells it like it will be.’ (Recently deceased clairvoyant of Abingdon)

‘It’s all very well for you, you’re just a market researcher, we have to live in the same village as this, this …’ (Enraged neighbour)

Phil says he is not surprised by the controversy – and giggles – that were caused by the publication of the first edition of Sedan. He hopes that now that Kindle readers all over the world are able to easily access this satire then they too will be suitably outraged and amused.