 Normal procedure would have been to refer the matter of the song upwards in the management hierarchy, but this was not done.The objective of the programme, the idea of David Dimbleby, was to analyse the first year in opposition of the Labour Party after their six years in government under Harold Wilson.The historian Jon Lawrence has commented though that "the programme was widely viewed as a deliberate attempt to undermine the folksy, down-to-earth image of Wilson and his fellow Labour ex-ministers by presenting them as driven above all by money and personal ambition."