An excellent third episode.
Doddering Sir Stephen Baxter is Chairman of the Campaign For Moral Regeneration, an anti-pornography crusade. Piers asks Alan to join, but he sneers at the very idea: "When you get old and decrepit, you can't do it any longer so you try and stop others doing it!". However, one of Baxter's constituents - Lady Virginia Imrie ( Isabelle Amyes ) shows up at the Commons, and mistakes B'Stard for her M.P. She has written a pamphlet entitled 'Sex Is Wrong'. B'Stard, seeing a chance to make some cash, arranges to have the pamphlet published, with hard-core porn photos included to illustrate its points. Copies go on sale at the Tory Party Conference...
This is hilarious to those of us who recall the ill-fated 'Back To Basics' campaign of the mid-'90's. Though not intended as a moral crusade, it was treated as such by the press, effectively making John Major's Government a laughing stock, as M.P. after M.P. got caught either with his hands in the till or with his trousers around his ankles ( and, in some cases, both! ). Alan is not only contemptuous of poor people, but other Tories as well. Sir Stephen, despite his senility, seems a decent 'One Nation' Tory, yet he is despised by B'Stard.
Interesting to see attendees at the Tory Conference purchasing Jeffrey Archer books. So that's who's been buying them.
Funniest moment - Alan turning his Conference speech into a sales pitch for the 'Sex Is Wrong' book. Throwing back his hair, he declares "When I saw the picture on Page 17, I had to ring the R.S.P.C.A.!".
Second funniest moment - the final scene. Lady Virginia has been so impressed by his speech it has awakened her sexually, so she goes his hotel room to have her wicked way with him!
Doddering Sir Stephen Baxter is Chairman of the Campaign For Moral Regeneration, an anti-pornography crusade. Piers asks Alan to join, but he sneers at the very idea: "When you get old and decrepit, you can't do it any longer so you try and stop others doing it!". However, one of Baxter's constituents - Lady Virginia Imrie ( Isabelle Amyes ) shows up at the Commons, and mistakes B'Stard for her M.P. She has written a pamphlet entitled 'Sex Is Wrong'. B'Stard, seeing a chance to make some cash, arranges to have the pamphlet published, with hard-core porn photos included to illustrate its points. Copies go on sale at the Tory Party Conference...
This is hilarious to those of us who recall the ill-fated 'Back To Basics' campaign of the mid-'90's. Though not intended as a moral crusade, it was treated as such by the press, effectively making John Major's Government a laughing stock, as M.P. after M.P. got caught either with his hands in the till or with his trousers around his ankles ( and, in some cases, both! ). Alan is not only contemptuous of poor people, but other Tories as well. Sir Stephen, despite his senility, seems a decent 'One Nation' Tory, yet he is despised by B'Stard.
Interesting to see attendees at the Tory Conference purchasing Jeffrey Archer books. So that's who's been buying them.
Funniest moment - Alan turning his Conference speech into a sales pitch for the 'Sex Is Wrong' book. Throwing back his hair, he declares "When I saw the picture on Page 17, I had to ring the R.S.P.C.A.!".
Second funniest moment - the final scene. Lady Virginia has been so impressed by his speech it has awakened her sexually, so she goes his hotel room to have her wicked way with him!
