Potter ran as a Labour candidate in the 1964 General Election,and this political experience serves as the basis for Vote, Vote, Votefor Nigel Barton. Barton is a youthful idealist, always mindful of hisworking-class upbringing. His Oxford education makes him increasinglysuspicious of empty campaign rhetoric foisted on him by his party.Potter interrupts the story with direct addresses to the audience byBarton's cynical strategist, Jack Hay, so that the audience will not beallowed "the comfort of thinking that what was so obviously beingshot right at them like a poisoned dart was objectively 'true.'"Potter's scornful attitude toward the political system was the reasonfor a six-month delay in broadcasting Vote, Vote, Vote. During thattime, Potter wrote and saw broadcast the companion drama, Stand Up,Nigel Barton.