When the government's fuel expert Professor Quail announces that supplies of North Sea oil will soon run out, causing an economic depression, B'stard is charged with running a snap election, his efforts putting the Conservatives out in front. Then he is told he was meant to fail so that the party in power when the oil dries up will get the blame. Consequently other parties start to run rubbish campaigns so that they will lose but the election is cancelled when the story is leaked to the press. In fact there was no crisis, it was another of B'stard's scams, in league with Professor Quail, to drive oil companies' stocks to a very low price, whereupon B'stard would buy them in anticipation of their value rising again.
—don @ minifie-1