Blackadder enters politics in an attempt to avoid Pitt the Younger from striking the Prince off the Civil List.
Pitt the Younger is young and precocious, and has just been elected Prime Minister. Determined to keep his campaign promises, he announces his intention to strike Prince George from the Civil List. More to save his own skin than the Prince's, Edmund Blackadder announces Baldrick's candidacy for a vacant MP post in order to stop him.—Murray Chapman