Day 21

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Here's today's prompt for you to post your updates and any excerpts and thoughts etc in comments.

Comments

[azdak.livejournal.com]

assuming the idea is for the government to survive, of course

The idea is always for the government to survive! It's like that episode of Yes, Minister where the MPs and the local councils all have bunkers so "essential services" can continue in the event of a nuclear attack, but none of the citizens have access...

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Joking aside, I've always wondered exactly what they think they'll have left to govern once they emerge from their bunkers. But there's definitely material for another story in which the civil servants direct the government to a closer bunker than the one they're going to, because no one's really that bothered whether the elected officials survive.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you could have one of those civil servants in your novel. :-)

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

Not in this one, but it's worth considering as a future idea.

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

That's a great idea! The gov. thinks it's getting a convenient luxury bunker, the civil servants offer to take the risk of the more distant one.

(And was it the German or British government that considered having a wartime govt. at Harrogate in the event of an invasion? Or is that one of those things in my head that isn't actually true.)

[stevie-carroll.livejournal.com]

The historical reference rings a bell, and may be what gave me the idea in the first place. Google is so far being unhelpful on the subject.