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obvious than to grant these
gatherings law-making powers? The Holy Order was
announced at the weekly Wembley Stadium Faith Festival.
These were the celebrations at which charismatic believers
from all over the capital convened to share their heartache,
rejoice in the Love and testify to their faith. The stadium
held 250,000 people and so it was decreed that any
gathering of that number who could be seen to speak with
one voice should be able to make a law.
    Since it was only the Temple who were in a position
to stage such events and also the Temple which controlled
the New New Wembley Stadium, the only venue that
could hold so vast a crowd, it followed that the
Temple would henceforth make the laws and government
would become merely an organ of administration. This
development, besides being solid common sense, was also legal in every way, even under the old laws. For even in the
time of ignorance BTF, it had been a crime to incite
religious hatred and what could be more calculated to
incite religious hatred than to deny the will of the faithful?
    The first Wembley Laws passed were inevitably the Faith
Laws and the most important Faith Law of all was the one
that made it illegal to have no faith. This statute also drew
legitimacy from the old laws BTF, for even then it had been
an offence to denigrate another person's religion. The
Temple simply argued that if a person had no faith
themselves then clearly that person did not believe in
the faith held by others, and if you did not believe
in something then how could you possibly respect it? A
person must therefore, by law, have faith.

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    The one thing about Fizzy Coff days that Trafford loathed
with a passion was the Gr'ug. The Gr'ug, or Group
Hug, was a compulsory part of the communal working
experience. Trafford tried to avoid them as often as
possible by being absent on little office errands or
feigning sickness in the lavatory, but he had to be careful:
repeated absences could provoke severe censure and even
denunciation at Confession. Therefore on the majority of
occasions the Gr'ug had to be faced.
    'Gather round, everybody,' a cheery voice shouted.
    It was Princess Lovebud. Princess Lovebud always
initiated the Gr'ugs, though she had no specific authority
to do this since there were no ranks or degrees of
seniority among Trafford's immediate colleagues.
    Officially hierarchy was kept to a minimum in government
workplaces in order to avoid damaging people's self-esteem
and making them feel uncomfortable. Personal aspiration
was of course statutory. It was a Wembley Law.
    Any person who is prepared to dream the dream can be
whatever they want to be. By law.
    This law was one of the many inconsistencies of life that
Trafford noted every day and which troubled him deeply.
Just as it was against the law to denigrate a person's faith,
it was also illegal to doubt or deny the practical reality of
their ambitions and aspirations, or 'dreams' as they were
popularly known. Trafford could not understand this.
Everybody he had ever met wanted to be hugely rich and
famous and yet not one of them had ever become so. In
fact, as things got progressively harder, hotter and more
crowded in the city, people's lives were quite clearly getting
worse. Nonetheless the concrete certainty that each person
could have everything they ever wanted simply by wanting
it was a statutory human right.
    Trafford could see that reality contradicted official
dogma every day and in every way. Yet still people believed
(or claimed to believe) that dreams could and would come
true and it was legally required of Trafford that he believe
in their belief. Something simply wasn't making sense.
    To Trafford's mind, nothing made sense, particularly
God. Once he had heard a woman shouting on a street
corner. She had insisted that if God, the Love, the Creator,
the Supreme Being, cared so much about kiddies, why
were so many of them dying in pain? She had been
holding a baby to her lactating breast as she spoke