August 2024 - August 2027: The UK is under a crumbling labour government. Heatwaves and droughts have made food much more expensive. A police killing of a young Syrian boy in 2025 sparked mass protests settling themselves in the centre of cities. The police - angry and underfunded - act on their own against these protests. The government had no ability to control them and so they disbanded the police and deployed the military. The UK is now kept in place by a military policing system based in London. In January 2027 the NHS was fully privatised. Again mass protests began, taking over hospitals and government buildings demanding a return of the welfare state. Disgruntled former police officers and far right radicals have joined to form several fascist groups. The largest of which being Freedom for England. In March 2027, an FFE terror attack on a hospital in Birmingham engulfed them and the protestors in tensions. The protestors with much experience from 2025 are able to retaliate with improvised weaponry. On August 14th 2027 the largest fight yet between FFE and hospital protesters in Leeds happens. Thirty-three are left dead including a Labour MP. August 15th 2027 then marks the date of the second English Civil War as Kier Starmer gives the go ahead for the military police to contain the situation "by any means necessary"