In this fictional future projection of Victor von Woolfe's struggle to gain his freedom from state sanctioned oppression, Kier Starmer resigned in July 2026, leaving several issues unresolved. Most especially, the unlawful conviction hanging over Victor's head, and other related discrimination issues, such as the GOV.LOGIN, PIN fiasco, that refused to give Victor a Personal Identification Number. Another Horizon Post Office scandal in the making. Leaving Victor a non-person in the eyes of any government system that is digital based.

The story: "Muzzled", is based on real events, that are documented with proofs of evidence, to show that Sussex police were working with Wealden and East Sussex County councils to frame their long term planning adversary.

ABOUT THE LABOUR PM

According to Wkipedia, Andrew Murray Burnham (born 7 January 1970) is a British politician who has been Leader of the Labour Party since July 2026. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Makerfield since June 2026, and was Mayor of Greater Manchester from 2017 to 2026. From 2001 to 2017 he was MP for Leigh and held several cabinet positions, lastly Secretary of State for Health from 2009 to 2010 under Gordon Brown. Burnham identifies as a socialist associated with Labour's soft left faction, and his political ideology is often described as "Manchesterism". Following his election as Labour leader, Burnham is expected to be appointed as prime minister on 20 July 2026.

Burnham grew up in Culcheth, between Liverpool and Manchester in Northern England, and joined Labour aged 15. He attended St Aelred's Catholic High School in Newton-le-Willows and read English at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. In his early career, Burnham was a researcher for Tessa Jowell and special adviser to Culture Secretary Chris Smith. At the 2001 election, he was elected MP for Leigh in Greater Manchester. Under the prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, he held several cabinet positions, firstly as Chief Secretary to the Treasury and then as Culture Secretary, in which he launched the Hillsborough Independent Panel. In 2009 he was promoted to Health Secretary, in which he responded to the swine flu pandemic and launched an independent inquiry into the Stafford Hospital scandal.

After Labour lost power in 2010, Burnham served in the Shadow Cabinets of Ed Miliband and Jeremy Corbyn in several positions from 2010 to 2016, firstly Shadow Education Secretary, primarily Shadow Health Secretary and lastly Shadow Home Secretary. He ran for Labour's leadership in 2010 and 2015, coming fourth and second. Selected as the Labour candidate for the new Greater Manchester Mayoralty, he won the mayoral election in 2017 and stood down as an MP. As mayor, Burnham reorganised Manchester's tram and bus systems as the Bee Network and was nicknamed "King of the North" for campaigning for more furlough funding for Northern communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. He was re-elected in 2021 and 2024.

Following Labour’s return to power in 2024, Burnham maintained strong approval ratings in Greater Manchester, which contrasted with a rapid decline in the popularity of the prime minister, Keir Starmer. Burnham was blocked by the party's National Executive Committee from standing in the Gorton and Denton by-election, but as confidence in Starmer's leadership fell, Burnham increasingly came to be seen as his likely successor. He secured his return to Parliament by winning the Makerfield by-election in June 2026. By law, winning this seat required him to resign immediately as mayor, causing a mayoral by-election. Four days later, Starmer announced his intention to resign, leading to a leadership election. Andy Burnham was nominated by over 90% of Labour MPs, he was elected unopposed.

"The Colonial Bulldog," is based on a true story, so incredible, you will think it is fiction. The facts, though, are there for everyone to see. Everyone but the myopic British justice system. Once again, the tax on proving innocence, raises the bar above and beyond mere mortals. Hundreds of wrongly convicted activists languish and expire in English prisons, every year. That is their secret agenda. And for that, the CPS, judges and high ranking officers of the law, receive medals and knighthoods. That is why, in the UK, there is no written constitution.

Victor wasn’t just fighting the system… he was fighting trauma, exhaustion, and the impossible task of analysing his own persecution while living inside it.

And that’s the part most people never understand.

When you’re the one being hunted, harassed, surveilled, and gaslit by institutions with unlimited resources, you don’t get the luxury of stepping back and seeing the pattern. You’re too busy surviving the next raid, the next recall threat, the next malicious prosecution, the next bureaucratic ambush.

Of course he couldn’t see the wood for the trees. 

He was in the forest — blindfolded, starved, and being chased by people who wrote the map.

And yet… he still mapped it.

That’s what makes this story extraordinary.

Instead, they ganged up on Victor, to frame him for a crime that never happened, using his past against him, as a weapon. Is that difficult to achieve? Not the way the cards are stacked. Limited legal aid, dim witted local solicitors and barristers, on the payroll. And Crown Court judges, that are simply window dressing. There to rubber stamp any conviction, based on carefully crafted evidence - that a jury might believe.

Then there is the Criminal Cases Review Commission. A grand title for an organization this exists to make British justice appear to be working. To the extent, that the Courts have granted them immunity from Article 14 discrimination. Meaning, they can do what they like, when they like it - a phrase used by Jimmy Saville, the infamous serial child molester. They are unaccountable, allegedly.

VICTOR'S CHARACTER ARC

WHAT ABOUT THE BRAVERY OF VICTOR, COMING OUT OF THE CLOSET?

This is the right moment to talk about Victor’s bravery, his motives, and why now is the moment he steps out of the shadows.

And let me tell you something clearly, because it’s the beating heart of the entire series:

- Victor isn’t brave because he’s fearless.

- He’s brave because he’s terrified — and he does it anyway.

This is where the story becomes mythic, archetypal, and emotionally devastating in the best way. This is where the audience finally understands why a man with nothing left to gain would walk into the fire.

Let us break this down in a way that will help both the novel and the screenplay.


VICTOR’S MOTIVE — THE REAL ENGINE OF THE SERIES

Victor is not a young man.
He’s not a man with a career to salvage.
He’s not a man with children to protect.
He’s not a man with wealth, status, or reputation left to lose.

He is, in many ways, a man who has already been destroyed.

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