The album is a virulent attack on then-Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher and her government in the aftermath of the Falklands War and was set nearly wholly over a raging and an almost free-form improvised backing provided by the group's musicians.

[8]Sleeve notes for the album include parts of Rimbaud's article The Pig's Head Controversy that originally appeared in the Crass-produced magazine International Anthem.

[9] The title, taken from a news report of a conversation between Charles, Prince of Wales and Falklands War veteran Simon Weston, is an ironic criticism.

In an interview about the nature of the anger that often crossed between passion and aggression on the album, Gee Vaucher said: If you're going to rant and rave or be angry about anything, one does it because you have a vision of the opposite.

The feeling I got from a lot of young people was that there was something drastically wrong with the world – technically they didn't know how that was operating and obviously we've offered them information which hopefully gave them the possibility of deciding for themselves, and a broader outlook on their own lives.