Policy PoliceVolume 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…

So we just have to wait?

Until the election’s

over.

Is there nothing we can do?

It’s our bad luck to be involved in

something so public.

And contentious.

The time, sponsored

by,,,

We just can’t risk

making them look good.

But they’re

assholes.

Can’t we just make them look bad.

Bad is just the wrong

kind of good.

Huh?

Good news for the

other guy.

I guess everybody at

the Agency has a stake in the way things are.

How many will vote to muss with their

orderly lives?

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.

Did he get away with it?

Do you think I’d give up in the face of a little thing like that?

That’s what I told him, anyway

The Agency’s getting like the

Hydra…

…only its growing heads

before they get chopped off.

I wonder which Heads those’ll be.

Would youvote away your own

job?

If I thought I was doing

enough harm by carrying on.

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

Then somebody else would do it.

True…

If it’s harmful enough,

abolition is the only way.

But trying to abolish your job by voting

is a bit… imprecise.

And you could take a lot of

innocent bystanders with you.

…the nuclear option

I wonder if Kowalski has a

vote.

To be continued…

At least one, I’m sure.