The New Statesman Complete Box Set
In May 1987 Alan Beresford B’Stard was elected, aged 31, as the Conservative MP for the North Yorkshire constituency of Haltemprice. His majority of 26,738 - the largest in the House of Commons - is not unconnected to the head-on car crash involving his two principal election opponents.
So begins The New Statesman, in which Rik Mayall played the most unscrupulous, wickedest, greediest, nastiest politician of all time - a man for whom the phrase ‘ political sleaze’ could have been invented.
Screened at a time when the Conservative government was free to indulge its whims by virtue of a three-figure parliamentary majority - and about to make a comeback - The New Statesman provided a necessary slice of biting satire to British political life.
Wednesday 29 Mar 2006 | Paul | DVD, TV Series
