A MAYOR
The Town Hall clock struck eight and the New Town Assembly slowly filed out onto the balcony led by Henry Horne with Bill Rory at the back, as if he was making sure that none of them would run away. As they stepped into the light from the huge lanterns that had been hung from the roof, the whole crowd could see that they all wore bright blue uniforms! They gasped. Up until now the only sign that someone was an Assembly Member had been a small badge they wore on their lapel. No-one wanted Assembly members to think themselves more important than they were, (which was just to represent the wishes of the people and nothing else), and they certainly didn’t need uniforms to prove anything!
“They’re in uniforms!” said Sam “I don’t believe it.”
“And what a horrible kind of blue too,” si
