The New Statesman

The New Statesman was an award-winning British sitcom, aired between 1987 and 1992. The program was a satire on the Government of the conservative party from that period. The series is written by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, at the request of lead actor Rik Mayall. The show can be seen as a continuation on the political satire Yes Minister and on The Young Ones (this last set was also with Mayall).

Mayall played the far-right politician Alan B'Stard (pun on bastard), whose sole purpose in life amassing as much money and power is. He is in favour of again locking up of Nelson Mandela and performs a Bill in for the reintroduction of slavery, that he has stolen by Victor Crosby, his rival for the title of ' most right-wing Member of Parliament '. B'Stard is extremely corrupt and unscrupulous switches his opponents out, or buy them to if that fails. In his spare time he hoereert especially with escort ladies; He is suffering from satyriasis and is constantly busy with sex. B'Stard doesn't care about his constituency and his constituents would also not common: he despise the common man. As a politician he is otherwise very incompetent and falls during television interviews arranged by the basket. Its politics is openly populist, and he also makes advertising in theHouse of Commons.

He has a political advisor, Norman, whom he met in secret. Norman is transgender and changes over the course of the series in Norma. He is a very crafty strategist, and in return for his services charged B'Stard his gender surgery.

B'Stard is married with the nymphomaniac Sarah, who pursues all hurdles there lovers, her husband remains with him just for financial reasons and abhors.

His sidekick is the frumpy Piers Fletcher-Dervish, which is constantly terrorized by B'Stard. To his immense annoyance is Piers knighted and he gets a great heritage; in a certain episode he goes there likewise with his wife off. Piers has hours to reach orgasm, while B'Stard brags that he can do five times in ten minutes.

B'Stard hates the Labour Party. This is mainly represented by Bob Crippen, a trade unionist from the old battle. In some episodes for Margaret Thatcher comes itself; her face is usually hidden, or they will be shown in the dark.

In the last episode of the first series is B'Stard gone too far; He has among other Piers ' teddy bear on fire. The series ends with the murder of him. In a subsequent episode, it is revealed that he survived the attack; in the last series is a member of the European ParliamentB'Stard, bizarrely for a electoral district in Saxony. He gets an Office in Brussels, which he shares with a politician of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. He, with his own party, ' The Patriotic Party ', the Conservatives of his, in which he declared himself Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, echoing cries.

B'Stards political ideas include: doing away with the National Health Service, women's suffrage, rolling back the reintroduction of slavery and the creation of a large electrified fences between England, Scotland and Wales. B'Stard works also in neo-Nazi circles. The parents of his wife Sarah have Adolf Hitler still known. He has also several illegitimate children.

In the early series is Margaret Thatcher, for whom B'Stard feels a great sexual attraction; in the later, when John Major was in power, was to him frequently as ' Prince of greyness ' referred. After the end of The New Statesman in 1992 appeared for a few special episodes in which Tony Blair B'Stard took up against it among other things. Rik Mayall as Alan B'Stard regarded the character as timeless, there will exist at any time, malice. ===Intro[ Edit] === The music is an arrangement by Alan Hawkshaw of part of the Promenade from pictures at an exhibition by composer Modest Mussorgsky. ==Cast[ Edit] ==
 * Rik Mayall as Alan B'Stard
 * Michael Troughton as Piers Fletcher-Dervish
 * Marsha Fitzalan as Sarah B'Stard
 * Rowena Cooper as Norman/Norma Bormann
 * Charles Gray as Roland Gidleigh-Park
 * Vivien Heilbron as Beatrice Protheroe
 * Steve Nallon as Mrs Thatcher
 * John Nettleton as Sir Stephen Baxter
 * Nick Stringer as Bob Crippen
 * Berwick Kaler as Geoff Diquead
 * Terence Alexander as Sir Greville McDonald