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Title: Luck Of The Draw

Series: Chronicle

Writer: P E Leody

SYNOPIS: BORED COUNCILORS SENSING A WAY TO MAKE A QUICK KILLING DECIDE TO PUT THEIR COUNTRY FORWARD FOR GLOBAL RECOGNITION. AND OH BOY DOES IT GET IT

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A desolate landscape. A congestion charge notice and a sign saying London. A tumble weed blows along alone

Caption: THEY SAID IT WOULD NEVER END, INFLATION, THE HOUSING BOOM, THIS MODERN LIFE. THEY WERE WRONG.


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A desolate shopping mall.

Caption: ENTERTAINMENT, SOCIAL INTERACTION THAT CHANCE TO DO BETTER THAN YOUR PARENTS. THEY SURVIVED THE HEAVY SWORD OF TAXATION, THE COMPLETION OF THE INTERWEB BUT COULD NOT COMBAT THE PETTY VINDICATIVE ALIENATION OF THE AUTOMOBILE.


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A town council meeting with posh people having a decent meal

COUNCILOR ONE: CONGRATULATIONS, WE HAVE MADE THE TOWNS FIT FOR COUNTRY FOLK AGAIN

COUNCILOR TWO: I ACTUALLY SAW A FOX IN MY THIRD HOME THE OTHER DAY

COUNCILOR THREE: SHAME THERE'S NO RIFF RAFF TO TAKE POT SHOTS AT


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A Councilor raises his glass of champers

COUNCILOR ONE: ACTUALLY I HAVE A PLAN, WE'RE GOING TO BID TO HOST THE ZEUSSIAN TRIALS

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A model of a proposed sports complex it is a raised relief

COUNCILOR ONE: HERE'S THE PLAN, WE SCHMOOZE THEN GET WORLD WIDE GRANTS TO BUILD THE SPORTS COMPLEX.


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The Councilor gesticulates

COUNCILOR ONE: THE RIFF RAFF MOVE IN, SOME WILL STAY, THEY CAN BE STAFF FOR THE FACILITIES WHEN EVERYONE ELSE LEAVES


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A wall chart

COUNCILOR ONE: AND WE GET MEDIA COVERAGE PLANET WIDE. TO ATTRACT LIKE MINDED COMRADES


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The relief mode upside down

COUNCILOR ONE: IF IT ALL GOES FOR A BURDEN, WE'LL TAKE THEIR PLANNING PERMISSION, TURN IT OVER AND SHIFT THE LAKE DISTRICT DOWN HERE FAIT ACCOMPLI

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A proposed plan for a sports complex for a rival country. A famous children's figurehead with an LCD screen over it's stomach is standing on top

COUNCILOR ONE: ONE COUNTRY TRIED TO APPEAL BY CAPTURING THE CHILDREN'S MIND. A VERY FAMOUS MASCOT WAS CENTRAL TO THEIR PRESENTATION. SOMEHOW THEIR LCD STOMACH STARTED SHOWING ADULT FARM YARD ADVENTURES DURING THE PRESENTATION


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Scantily clad couple playing twister on another presentation model

COUNCILOR ONE: ANOTHER HAD DESIGNED THEIR COMPLEX WITH COLOURED AREAS OF PEACE, HARMONY AND LOVE. SOMEHOW AN EXOTIC TROOP OF DANCERS PLAYED STRIPPED TWISTER DURING THEIR PRESENTATION


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A presentation with an island arrangement dotted with ancient crumbling monuments

COUNCILOR ONE: THE FAVOURITE PROSPECTIVE HOST DREW HEAVILY ON IT'S CULTURE AND HISTORY OF STARTING THE EVENT. SOMEHOW ALL OF IT'S ANCIENT CUSTOMS WERE VIEWED LIVE !

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The Councilors sitting on a beach sipping cocktails

COUNCILOR ONE: BETTER MAKE IT DOUBLE, DOUBLE. ALL GOOD THINGS ETC. THIS DECISION MAKING PROCESS IS LABORIOUSLY SLOW, BUT NOT SLOW ENOUGH. EVENTUALLY WE MUST RETURN HOME FACE THE ENDLESS SUMMER REPEATS ON TV


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The Councilors walk up the red carpet to the final meeting. The press are assembled either side

COUNCILOR ONE: THANKS YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT, AND KIND WORDS. I FEEL WE HAVE PUT OUR COUNTRY BACK ON THE COUNTRY MAP. YOU ARE ALL WELCOMED WE NEED SKILLED DOMESTIQUES OF ALL PERSUASIONS.


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Councilor on the phone

COUNCILOR ONE: YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS


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News reader reading the news

NEWS READER: AND WE ARE TO BE NEXT HOSTS OF THE ZEUSSIAN TRIALS. COUNCILORS WERE SO SHOCKED ONE ALMOST SPLIT HIS DRINK


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A Councilor drops his glass and it shatters and spills

SFX: KERUMBLE, KERUMBLE

COUNCILOR ONE: WHAT'S THAT NOISE

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The Councilor gasps

COUNCILOR ONE: WHAT'S HAPPENING, THE WHOLE BUILDING'S SHAKING


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The Councilor holds his hat

COUNCILOR ONE: IT'S NOT THE BUILDING IT'S THE TOWN


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The Earth moves off it's orbit, dragged mysteriously shrinking into the distance

COUNCILOR ONE: NO ACTUALLY IT'S THE PLANET, IT'S MOVING


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A huge hole appears

COUNCILOR ONE: WOW SOME INTERGALACTIC FORCE LIKED OUR PRESENTATION SO MUCH IT HAS REQUESTED OUR PLANET AS PERSPECTIVE GALAXIAN EVENT, AT LAST WE'LL GET OUT OF THAT GHASTLY GALAXY


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The Earth in a rack of similar shaped lottery balls, it has the number 42 on it

NARRATOR: CLOSE COUNCILOR BUT NO CIGAR, NOT UNLESS YOUR NUMBERS HAVE COME UP

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