When thuggish Marty visits his uncle, The Don, he witnesses a visit to the family business by the VATmen. So impressed is he with the power and authority they wield legitimately, he loses interest in a life of crime and decides to be a VATman.
Harold Kingsby visits Mrs Duvet at the Home Office to find out more about Open Government only to discovera mystifying wall of Whitehall bureaucracy and contradiction.
When Mrs Peabody asks her local councillor Mrs Johnson for help, she finds herwilling but unable: Whitehall and the quangos are running all the services.
When a tool box falls on Jeff Jarndyce 's head it sets in motion a battle for justice which will destroy his faith in the British legal system.
Young Frank believes, like Candide, that all is forthe best in this best of all possible worlds. He thinks that of all the provisions to protect the interests of the citizen, none is wiserthan the Royal Prerogative, which gives the prime ministerthe right to ignore parliament. Frank should have known better.
A politician for the Status Quo Party gives a television broadcast in which he makes a blistering attack on political change and those who advocate it. In spite of the remonstrations of the director and writer, he is unaware of the irony of what he is saying.