mike carlow has made millions exploiting the selfishness, greed and corruption at the heart of the british establishment. following his breakdown and indiscriminate sacking of staff at his company, carlow mason, his preoccupation with power and money ends in his beautiful investment broker wife, laura, leaving him, and geoff mason, his business associate of twenty years, coercing him into applying himself and his millions to the task of changing the system by which britain is governed.
the book is essentially english. It had to be.the author makes no secret of the fact that it was born out of many years of sadness and a growing sense of despair.
a system of government that hands the keys of the asylum to arrogant, demented megalomaniacs and political, parties, that by their very structure and behaviour encourage cynical bigots, too many of them corrupt, to indulge in ludicrous, puerile games and farcical posturing at the taxpayers’ expense, to say nothing of holding sway over our lives—ought not to exist, never mind prevail.
the power to truly act on our behalf, however, is vested in this archaicsystem and that same group of people. that this is true is clear. and yet their conduct is rarely seriously questioned or challenged in a meaningful way by our supposedly free press, which continues to collectively demonstrate its unwillingness to highlight our concerns by displaying a vast, vested interest in maintaining the status-quo.
the ballot box thus measures nothing but our impotence, leaving successive generations of the british people powerless to intervene.
wilder’s women is therefore a necessarily fictional account of how mike carlow—a millionaire many times over—is coerced by his business partner into exploiting the pursuit of self-interest at westminster—to say nothing of using our news-media which by their dereliction of duty, support it—to make an eleventh hour bid to rid the united kingdom of political wastrels and an archaic system of government that will inevitably destroy it.