JUDGE WILSON
It comes to then the question of whether what they were doing falls within the political or the personal aspect.  You can be given instructions and then you can twist those instructions to suit your own wishes, and you will not then, although you claim to be acting, you will not in fact be acting on instructions, you will be taking advantage of the opportunity given by the instructions.  It all links in with whether if one, how much regard one has to possible personal motives in a matter which otherwise would be political.