AVBC is a sort of dystopian dream of what might be in British Politics.
Like The West Wing and The Contender do for the US political system, it takes the opposition party in British and presents a vision of how it might be if people finally voted for change; including the inevitable backlash from the unelected shadow-rulers of the military and aristocracy.
Harry Perkins is the great socialist hero of the small screen - motivated purely by his will for political change and entirely sleaze-free: "I now sublimate my sexual urges into enacting the will of the people, and I have a signed letter from Mr Freud in Vienna to say so." The supporting cast is fantastic, there are no weak links in this film as far as performances go, and in particular Sir Percy is the epitome of aristocratic indignance and despotism, at times frankly scary.
In the real world of course, the left were forced to achieve political power by becoming more right-wing than the rest. But dramas like this give us the chance to continue dreaming of a time when a real government of the people might come to power, and the rulers of our nation might become accountable for their decisions.
We must keep dreaming. If you keep dreaming it, it will come to pass.
Like The West Wing and The Contender do for the US political system, it takes the opposition party in British and presents a vision of how it might be if people finally voted for change; including the inevitable backlash from the unelected shadow-rulers of the military and aristocracy.
Harry Perkins is the great socialist hero of the small screen - motivated purely by his will for political change and entirely sleaze-free: "I now sublimate my sexual urges into enacting the will of the people, and I have a signed letter from Mr Freud in Vienna to say so." The supporting cast is fantastic, there are no weak links in this film as far as performances go, and in particular Sir Percy is the epitome of aristocratic indignance and despotism, at times frankly scary.
In the real world of course, the left were forced to achieve political power by becoming more right-wing than the rest. But dramas like this give us the chance to continue dreaming of a time when a real government of the people might come to power, and the rulers of our nation might become accountable for their decisions.
We must keep dreaming. If you keep dreaming it, it will come to pass.