A thought provoking episode that works better as how impressionable young people can get radicalized.
Vince is an agitator who also publishes radical left wing rag. He lives a hand to mouth existence trying to sell Marx, Mao and Trotsky to the workers. A less funny and charming version of Citizen Smith.
Janet is his girlfriend ho has a bit of money and shares his principles. The real prize is Giles. A naive student fresh into radical politics. His father Rupert Robinson is an industrialist, in short a wealthy asset stripper.
The episode starts with all three protesting outside a factory that Giles's father has closed down. Vince as always gets other to put up a fight.
When Giles drops out of university, Rupert brings Frank Marker in to find him. He has been recommended by Percy Firbank.
Only by now Giles has been cajoled to plant bombs in department stores, he thinks they are fakes to generate publicity for their cause.
Of course this is an era of actual bombs planted by the IRA in Britain.
There are a few groans. Giles had to be a sociology student. Like all radicals just have to study that subject.
The good pit was to show Vince as just unprincipled. After persuading Giles to plant bombs, he then blackmails his father for £5000. Vince just saw Giles as someone who he could sponge off, get one big payday from a rich kid who is playing student politics and has a rich daddy.
Vince is the type of lefty radical who consistently delivers Conservative election victories such as the one for Boris Johnson in 2019.
I felt the ending was unsatisfactory. Frank does reveal just what Vince is like to Giles. The final scenes felt more like a stage play.
Vince is an agitator who also publishes radical left wing rag. He lives a hand to mouth existence trying to sell Marx, Mao and Trotsky to the workers. A less funny and charming version of Citizen Smith.
Janet is his girlfriend ho has a bit of money and shares his principles. The real prize is Giles. A naive student fresh into radical politics. His father Rupert Robinson is an industrialist, in short a wealthy asset stripper.
The episode starts with all three protesting outside a factory that Giles's father has closed down. Vince as always gets other to put up a fight.
When Giles drops out of university, Rupert brings Frank Marker in to find him. He has been recommended by Percy Firbank.
Only by now Giles has been cajoled to plant bombs in department stores, he thinks they are fakes to generate publicity for their cause.
Of course this is an era of actual bombs planted by the IRA in Britain.
There are a few groans. Giles had to be a sociology student. Like all radicals just have to study that subject.
The good pit was to show Vince as just unprincipled. After persuading Giles to plant bombs, he then blackmails his father for £5000. Vince just saw Giles as someone who he could sponge off, get one big payday from a rich kid who is playing student politics and has a rich daddy.
Vince is the type of lefty radical who consistently delivers Conservative election victories such as the one for Boris Johnson in 2019.
I felt the ending was unsatisfactory. Frank does reveal just what Vince is like to Giles. The final scenes felt more like a stage play.
