Britain in 2019 is a broken and divided society, but the division is no longer dominated by the traditional differences in class, wealth or party politics, so much as by the emergence of an unbridgeable chasm between those who seek to regain the Nation's right to self-determination and those who are committed to ceding sovereignty and control in a relentless drive towards complete European Federalisation. In considering the implications for his beloved democracy, mild-mannered economist Jonathan Shawcross comes to realise that Brexit has simply been the catalyst, that the real cause of the problem lies much deeper. He realises that our democracy is a sham, just a way of keeping people happy and therefore under control. The twin systems of personal capitalism and state control are designed to work together to discourage the people from rising up against the state because they have too much to lose. He sees that `The man who has everything risks losing everything - the man who has nothing, has nothing to lose.' His faith in the system is destroyed and, via a chance meeting with his old university tutor, he is drawn into the murky world of rebellion and terrorism in pursuit of restoring true democracy - the will of the people.