Question- Please pardon my ignorance...

(I realise this is a year late, but oh well...)

I don't know if it was specifically based on a particular speech, nothing springs to mind, but the "Don't break into my car" monologue is a broad parody of a particular type of British politician banging on about law and order. Those politicians who are happy to hack away at the budget for services or policing in low-income areas where people are suffering day in, day out, from the effects of crime, because those in government don't feel the effects of it...the same ones who will make speeches pontificating on the downfall of society, hooliganism, youth violence, steadfastly denying any possibility that crime could ever be linked to the negative effects of their policies.

Or, basically, the kind of idiot for whom crime is Someone Else's Problem until someone breaks into his car, and then Something Must Be Done to halt the decline of society.

There really isn't that much direct topical stuff in ABOF&L that I recall - they weren't really interested in using comedy to skewer the establishment. Most of the topical stuff can be pretty well understood just in broad terms - you don't need to know who Sir William Rees-Mogg is (was?) to understand that the "Bitchmother Come Light My Bottom" sketch is poking fun at censorship.

There are a very few straight parodies (like the Countdown one) that I can only imagine must be utterly bewildering unless you have actually watched Countdown. But for the most part, they're gently bouncing off stereotypes rather than specifics.

Oh, yes, if a pig comes by Castle Dracula on a Tuesday, playing a banjo…