Episode 8, in which the3 general election gets in the way

1. Policy Police
Volume II. Number 8.
Up Close and Personalised. Episode 8.
Purdah.
That special time in
the life of a
government when time
weighs heavily.
And the state
snoozes…

2. So we just
have to
wait?
Until the
election’s
over.

3. Is there
nothing we
can do?
It’s our bad luck
to be involved in
something so
public.
The time,
And sponsored
contentious. by,,,

4. We just
can’t risk
making them
look good.
But Can’t we just
they’re make them
assholes. look bad.

5. Bad is just
the wrong
kind of good.
Huh?

6. Good news
for the
other guy.

7. I guess
everybody at
the Agency has
a stake in the
way things are.
How many will
vote to muss
with their
orderly lives?

8. Though I’ve
seen plenty of
people acting as
if the game’s
up already.
One director fled
into the Gents to
avoid signing a
contract.

9. Did he get
away with it?
Do you think I’d
give up in the
face of a little
thing like that?

10. That’s what I
told him,
anyway

11. The Agency’s
getting like the
Hydra…
…only its
growing heads
before they get
chopped off.

12. I wonder
which Heads
those’ll be.

13. Would you
vote away
your own
job?
If I thought I
was doing
enough harm by
carrying on.

14. But then you’d
just pack it in,
wouldn’t you?

15. Then
somebody else
would do it.
True…

16. If it’s harmful
enough,
abolition is
the only way.

17. But trying to
abolish your
job by voting
is a bit…
imprecise.

18. And you could
take a lot of
innocent
bystanders
with you.

19. …the nuclear
option

20. I wonder if
Kowalski has a
vote.
At least one,
I’m sure.
To be continued…