Sir Charles Stands Down

William Soper has ambitions to succeed Sir Charles Mulligan as the MP for Surrey South – the sixth largest majority Conservative seat in the Country. However, he does not have membership of the Golf Club and he does not have very much money so he is reduced to spending his Sundays on the local park putting green with his friend Terry while they wait to break into the big time. Then there’s the fact he lives with an overbearing sister who is obsessed with Barn Dances. How can he escape the dreary confines of his limited world to lord it over everybody locally? Worse Sir Charles’s favourite pretender to his soon-to-be-vacated seat is nothing other than a woman studying for a law degree on the Open University. To further his ambitions and raise funds William enters into a strange association with local businessman Peter York who wishes to demolish a listed building in order to rejuvenate the town.