"We gave the architect a knighthood so that nobody would ever say that!"

@davidmouser596

2 жыл бұрын

Just googled the National theatre images, god what a dump.

@hidayatsatari1315

2 жыл бұрын

😀😀😀

@jonathanfraser321

2 жыл бұрын

The extreior is a concrete nightmare- the auditoria are pretty good

@rjjcms1

2 жыл бұрын

Several years before I first went there and clapped eyes on it and its concretre jungle surrounds,I read a magazine article that said it looked like a concrete carrot pulled half out of the ground.

@TerryTheNewsGirl

2 жыл бұрын

My favourite line ever!!

"Universities" "Both of them" One of the great lines from magnificent series

@mmuhsin400

2 жыл бұрын

i dont get it..

@edmckay8647

2 жыл бұрын

@@mmuhsin400 you obviously didn't go to Oxbridge University 😆

@MarkJohnson-ro1ed

2 жыл бұрын

@@edmckay8647 Cambridge is better!

@aaronleverton4221

2 жыл бұрын

@@MarkJohnson-ro1ed Whoosh!

@pathart8854

2 жыл бұрын

Most excellent . Never be confused between hystoctacy and hypocrisy sir

"British Democracy [...] is an aristocratic government machine tempered by occasional general elections" is a painfully accurate description

@clovermark39

6 күн бұрын

Yes scarily accurate even more so now!

"If the right people don't have power, do you know what happens? The wrong people get it!" This quote works on so many levels

@jonathanfraser321

2 жыл бұрын

Just lookat the Republicanparty in both HousesofCongress- even after Trump!

@catmonarchist8920

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanfraser321 Nobody has power in the US. You have to get everything through the house, senate, supreme court and presidency so everything gets watered down to the point nobody is happy and no party can get an agenda through. The Americans just fight wars over minute wedge issues as a result.

@markharlock6474

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonathanfraser321 Well I'm looking forward to the midterm elections in November with great excitement, the popcorn will be ready..!!

@cmm5542

2 жыл бұрын

The right people aren't power hungry of course! They just don't want the WRONG people to get the power 😁. Oh, it most definitely works.

@Mediatech492

Жыл бұрын

"The trouble with democracy is that they let folks vote for the guy I don't like." - Archie Bunker

I love how shocked and indignant Sir Humphrey sounds when he delivers the line about British democracy. Like he can't believe Bernard was naive enough to actually *believe* all that nonsense about how the power should lie with the voters.

@stevenredpath9332

2 жыл бұрын

Da Comrade. It lies with oligarchs.

@FIREBRAND38

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, please. The best model for democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting for what's on the dinner menu.

@cmm5542

2 жыл бұрын

@@FIREBRAND38 That is the funniest and most pertinent thing I ever heard.

"This is a *British* democracy, Bernard" - genius!

The greatest documentary about politics ever produced

@ZATennisFan

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly and it's not only about politics. The things they satirise are true of any large organization. Almost inevitabily the bureaucrats take over....

@craigfowler7098

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly why Margaret Thatcher was a fan.

@misacugarte6871

3 ай бұрын

I agree 😂

"Universities... Both of them" 🤣🤣🤣

@iggyzeta9755

2 жыл бұрын

My favorite line in the whole sketch!

@ahmadhasan8355

2 жыл бұрын

@@iggyzeta9755 can you please explain what he means by 'both of them'?

@spudskie3907

2 жыл бұрын

@Ahmad Hasan It is in reference to Oxford and Cambridge. All the other universities don’t matter.

@ahmadhasan8355

2 жыл бұрын

@@spudskie3907 Thanks a lot.

@kitty6720

2 жыл бұрын

@@iggyzeta9755 Definitely the highlight :-).

The look Sir Humphrey gives at the beginning is a textbook example of a "withering look". You literally see Bernard wither under this glare. :D

" months of fruitful work". Classic

Humphrey must have lost his mind when Tony Blair allowed Scotland and Wales to have their own parliaments.

@wiszak9370

2 жыл бұрын

Humphrey suicided when Scotland had a referendum.

@davidlewis726

2 жыл бұрын

Your comment brings to mind a few lines by Jeremy Hardy, when talking about Americans and alien abduction...''Have you ever noticed it always seems to be in the deep south? Just what any self-respecting extra-terrestrial expects to find up the backside of a deranged Texan.... Tony Blair, most probably.''

@BlueAxeRacer

2 жыл бұрын

No he was jumping for joy, for it just meant even more jobs for civil servants and more ways to maintain the status quo. Regional parliaments are the definition of controlled opposition.

@andyrob3259

2 жыл бұрын

The thing is Blair thought he was being clever and they would forever thank Labour. Instead like the Tories those areas don’t give a flying f about Labour. Instead of unity we have division. No wonder it’s easy to push the British around.

@ChartreuseDan

2 жыл бұрын

Humphrey must have lost his mind shortly before he entered the civil service.

Is it wrong that the longer I'm a civil servant the more this makes sense? County Councils really are utter amateurs when it comes to getting stuff done correctly

@capcompass9298

2 жыл бұрын

The smaller and less powerful the council, the more tyranically they hold on to their power.

@onehairybuddha

2 жыл бұрын

Is there some level of government that can get stuff done correctly?

@ChartreuseDan

2 жыл бұрын

That's exactly why budgetary decisions were devolved to local councils

@Spinnermist

2 жыл бұрын

@@capcompass9298 indeed less responsibility and less power means you get people volunteering who are just looking for the appearance of power "John Smith, member of the council" - empty titles.

@catmonarchist8920

2 жыл бұрын

Devolution of power is a siren song because these people are rarely held accountable. People vote for who they like in Westminster mostly rather than performance and people blame Westminster whatever goes wrong so they have a blank cheque (NI assembly elections excluded)

What Sir Humphrey is trying to say, in his usual roundabout, upper class way, is that bureaucrats like Bernard and himself need to be kept _"gainfully employed!"_ 😂

@LordOfLight

2 жыл бұрын

No he isn't. You missed the point. They need to be employed in order to retain power.

@tobys_transport_videos

2 жыл бұрын

@@LordOfLight I think you'll find that goes with what I said.

@Spinnermist

2 жыл бұрын

@@LordOfLight It can be all things - Humphrey justfies keeping himself being employed to retain power to prevent "the rabble" taking over. - of course he'll only admit, even to himself, to being purely driven by the last. Humphrey has only part of a point of course - you have to preserve stuff because when it's gone it's gone, but you also need to look at what needs changing for the future, as well as being pragmatic about what's happening right now.

@cmm5542

2 жыл бұрын

@@Spinnermist Yes, I like your point. Part of the delight and humour of Yes Minister for me is that Humphrey is almost never COMPLETELY wrong. He always had 'part of a point.' The joke came in because he was also almost never completely right. If he'd just been completely wrong all the time, it would have gotten boring. The grains of truth consistently turned on their heads and inside out made for the most priceless comedy ever.

@garthreid7114

3 ай бұрын

Ha ha ha, that was so funny, I think I'm going to choke on my own vomit, you just crack me up, honestly, that was an incredible comment I, I, I, just can't bear it😂😂😢😢😅😅😅🤣🤣😭😭😭😂😂😂😭😀🤣

This may be the most philosophical moment of the entire series. And in the light of how politics has changed in a generation hence (partly in reaction to what Yes Minister has taught politicians to do), it’s incredibly poignant.

Absolutely epic, no words can describe it. And even more ironically, still valid today.

@edmckay8647

2 жыл бұрын

More valid than ever

@Synthonym

2 жыл бұрын

I do find it deeply upsetting that you could air this series again in it's totality, changing absolutely nothing, and it would still be relevant. Literally nothing has changed in thirty years

@edmckay8647

2 жыл бұрын

@@Synthonym thats how the establishment want it and that's how it stays

@victorhung6204

2 жыл бұрын

@@Synthonym Imagine you still find empty hospitals in 2020, other than the phone I am using, not much changes at all....... Very ironic........

@seanjosephhayes

2 жыл бұрын

@@Synthonym The politician and the nature of power and subsequent corruption never change.

….the Royal Opera House into a bingo hall!!! Hahaha 😅😅!!!

"tempered by occasional general elections" xD.

"...the Universities.. both of them" HAHAHAHAHAHA

Best political show the UK ever made. Too much truth and humour.."They will want more power"

I consider the "I voted for Kodos" bit from the Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror" the best piece of political satire that ever came out of the USA, and this clip is the best piece that ever came out of the UK. Masterful writing and acting.

@emjackson2289

7 ай бұрын

Well I do believe I'll vote for a third party!

G'day BBC greats, no country can surpass the British when it comes to comedy. There are some excellent comics from all countries but you people are the best 😂👍🇦🇺.

This is probably the greatest piece of theater ever!!!

Some of the greatest dialogue, scripting, acting and tv.

Humphrey and Bernard 🤣🤣🤣

@peterbassey9668

2 жыл бұрын

Sir Humphrey to you, if you would.

I can't help it. The older I get the more find I agree with Humphrey 😅

@georgebuller1914

2 жыл бұрын

Me too! LOL

@LordOfLight

2 жыл бұрын

And me. Look what happens when the "ordinary voter" gets power. Brexit.

@atulvaibhav5376

2 жыл бұрын

@@LordOfLight Look what happens when "experts" have power : 2008 global financial collapse.

@atulvaibhav5376

2 жыл бұрын

@@LordOfLight What you said is entirely unfair and statistically incorrect. One 'bad' result can't nullify all the good aspects of a system.

@LordOfLight

2 жыл бұрын

@@atulvaibhav5376 Which "experts" had the power? Bankers? You can hang the lot of them for all I care. The 2008 crisis was certainly an indictment of the way things are done now, but this in no way implies that things would be better if power were more devolved. A passing acquaintance with human nature will tell you that. And it should be clear that I don't condone Sir Humphrey's view on account of Brexit alone - you know what an "example" is, right?

"Do you know what happens when the right people don't have power? *THE WRONG PEOPLE GET IT!"* History has shown that the man is absolutely correct on this point, even if context muddies it a bit.

@edpatel713

2 жыл бұрын

You got that right 100%.

@emizerri

2 жыл бұрын

Humphrey and Bernard are the wrong people.

@cmm5542

2 жыл бұрын

One of the best lines in the series. I agree with Humphrey here undoubtedly, but I'm not entirely sure he qualifies as the 'right' people. Don't tell him I said that, please 😄

Months of fruitful work 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Thanks for uploading! Genius script!

@dubey_ji

2 жыл бұрын

You from Vietnam ?

I was way too young to appreciate (or even watch) this back in the day. But I enjoy watch these clips immensely. I should download entire episodes...

This is priceless, absolutely priceless.

If Sir Humpery heard Radio 1 today he'd completely lose it

Imagine the BBC having genuinely talented and funny writers!!!

@patricklamshear1806

2 жыл бұрын

Never happen,the BBC is a law on to themselves. 🇬🇧🇬🇧

@atulvaibhav5376

2 жыл бұрын

Back when not everything was seen through the lens of DIE : diversity inclusion and equity.

@libtardsrus7823

2 жыл бұрын

@@atulvaibhav5376 or in other words totally unwatchable!!!

@mrbojangles8133

3 ай бұрын

talented writers, remember those, they used to be quite popular back in the day

"This is a british democracy!" lol that has never not been true

This is british comedy to the best!

I loved this show! I guess I’ll have to pay somebody so I can watch the reruns. It was friggin hilarious!

@darreng745

2 жыл бұрын

DVD is for sale at Asda if you are in the UK

@solarwind907

2 жыл бұрын

@@darreng745 thanks, not in the UK but there’s probably somewhere in the US I can get access.

@danielandries3240

2 жыл бұрын

All episodes are on boo tube.

So bloody true.

Brilliant pertinent and timeless

At least i think i did... That is I am not wholly against it.. Athough there are many convincing and some may say conclusive evidence against it.. Turned that around like a pro dear Bernard 😅

Timeless.

T H I S I S A B R I T I S H D E M O C R A C Y

@user-se6rv5rr6i

2 жыл бұрын

Analogous to British sausage. (Xmas special: party games)

@colonelx185

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-se6rv5rr6i Aka the H I G H F A T O F F U L T U B E

@cmm5542

2 жыл бұрын

It is indeed, sir.

Masterpieces that will never be obsolete.

Truly frightening...what's next, "local" Gloucestershire cheese being sold in Chipping Norton? It'll be anarchy!

Fantastic scene! So much truth in it

Priceless

"Months of fruitful work!"

My parents were both public servants. This was their favourite comedy of all time. Mine, too. 🇨🇦

"months of fruitful work" :DDDD

Watching from Auckland New Zealand 🇳🇿

@neville132bbk

2 жыл бұрын

Ah yes.....Mr Goff under close scrutiny..and don't even mention racially based "authorities".

That "Bafoon" sounds like it was directed at Johnson and company. Lol

I’ve never come across better comedy writing.

Gosh!

23y11y40 years is still good

This still very relevant and that's horrific soild show way ahead of its time

@knititwearit

2 жыл бұрын

No it’s all in Ecclesiastes. Nothing new under the sun

@cmm5542

2 жыл бұрын

@@knititwearit I've been trying to remember that exact verse while reading the comments here! Thanks for putting it up.

It's 2023, I'm nearly 40, and I wish there were more Humphreys in politics.

"This is a *British* democracy!"

It's a pitty Tony Blair didn't have Sir Humphrey as his Cabinet Minister

😎😎😎👍🙏🎉🎉🎉🔥🔥🔥🔥ahh,volcano happiness!...

Which season and episode is this?

This sums up why the Tories hate the fact London has regional power and other places around the country are slowly getting it.

"You see once they get established they will insist on more power. And the politicians will be too frightened to withhold them so they will get regional government." Tbh this sounds pretty good to me.

I think the only problem with this is, I live in the United States... We actually have a lot of regional power, Europeans often don't understand how much individual control a state has, and in my own state of Kentucky how much individual power a county or city has. I remember when people were calling for justice for breonna taylor? Europeans for like why doesn't the president just step in. An Americans were like why doesn't the governor just step in. The fact of the matter is the governor basically did everything he could, it fell down to individual local law. Finally it did get passed up to the state, but only after protests. But even then it fell to the attorney general, in the state of Kentucky that's an elected official. The governor is actually his big rival. The attorney general is a very avid supporter of police, and America that translates to me there are in favor of large scale incarcerations and lack of a police accountability. Now yes technically the president actually could have done something, they could have launched a full scale investigation into the investigation. Oftentimes States throw that up to the federal government just out of fear, if they get caught doing something wrong even accidentally it's all over. But Trump didn't do that, and Biden did issue an investigation but not a lot has come from it. I'm just saying hyper local government does have some problems. It falls victim to the local autocrats / plutocrats... Basically the local politicians are the flunkies of the old Rich families or the police unions or whatever

@Spinnermist

2 жыл бұрын

Can't the state abolish the city laws on core stuff, or make the police state funded? Policing is 150 years old, and so are these institutions - with modern communications it makes no sense for every little town to have its own police department with no oversight, and it depends on the individual sheriff + police who are a law unto themselves.

@matthewdeepblue

2 жыл бұрын

@@Spinnermist just it they legally cannot. Now for instance during the civil Rights movement there were sheriffs who actively engaged in illegal activity which violated federal law which gave the federal government the right to come in and arrest them and temporarily shut down the county government, well at least the county Police department. However that is all. People are surprised I think just how much individual state power each state has. It's a lot like the European Union. You understand the European Union was literally invented by the United States. I mean after the second world war we quite literally created it. The same way the European Union can't step in and push out governments, so it is in the United States. Also if you're wondering why Germany and are large economic powers, it's because after the second World war the United States was able to, because they were the enemy Nations, come in and draw up there economy exactly how they wanted it to be. They decided that Germany and Japan, two countries which are nearly entirely economically controlled by the United States to this day, would become the economic.

@matthewdeepblue

2 жыл бұрын

@@Spinnermist I do want to say that there are actually State Police in every single state. There are state police, county Police, sometimes City police too, and federal police. There are actually different types of federal police. But now the state cannot abolish any local law enforcement agency. Some states have more regulatory power over them than others but many states have virtually no regulatory Powers unless they are actively and often openly breaking the law in which case they can send in State Police to arrest them.

@merrymachiavelli2041

2 жыл бұрын

Well, it kinda depends what scale you are looking at? US States have roughly equivalent populations and sizes to European countries. If you are comparing US states to European countries, and the US to the EU, then European 'regions' have a lot more power than US 'regions', in the sense that European countries are a lot more independent relative to the EU (especially, obviously, non-members). Equally, European countries are a _lot_ more culturally dissimilar to each other than US states. Even if you are looking at an intra-sovereign level, some European countries are internally quite federated, with Switzerland being the most extreme example. Even larger states which are formally unitary governments (like the UK and Spain) do have a quite considerable devolved powers, which would in-practice mean that things like policing issues would be handled by devolved governments (although in the UK it's notably asymmetrical, England is governed directly by the UK government, whereas Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (when Stormont is working...) have their own governments with varying amounts of power, and The Isle of Man, Channel Islands and Gibraltar are almost-entirely independent) With very small countries what local government even means gets strange. Like San Marino is an entirely independent country with a population of 34,000. I'm not disagreeing with your overall point, it is true Europeans might misunderstand, it's just a bit of a frame-of-reference issue.

@grease_monkey6078

2 жыл бұрын

Also Europeans dont understand the meaning of 'The United States of America' they are United but not all governed the same, each state has their own set of local laws and prohibitions that the federal governmemt cant infringe.

Yes, a Parliamentary Democracy.

It is funny because it is true. Which of course also makes it sad if you think deeper.

Writing this good - really not sure I’ll live long enough to see it again 😩

Populism is almost universally regarded as a bad thing, which is essentially what he argues against.

Haha

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Does everybody who watched these series and found them very funny ( as I did ) also realise that it’s basically the truth about western society masquerading as comedy ?

@MajorSkrewup

2 жыл бұрын

I wish, sir Humphrey as self serving as he was was a brilliant bureaucrat. Wont find his competence today for the most part.

@colleennobbs7218

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, it’s almost as good as Shakespeare. Very close really….. a descendant!

@knititwearit

2 жыл бұрын

Yes we see it

@BicyclesMayUseFullLane

2 жыл бұрын

@@MajorSkrewup See, we pay them too little that they fled into private practices, and all that's left are the idiots. Efficiency, eh? Respecting taxpayers' money, you see?

@cmm5542

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yes, we do.

Coming from a country that applies the Westminister system of parliamentary democracy, I can relate with this scene especially at 2:43 - 3:04

“Regional government…” Prescient.

"if the right people don't have power, the wrong people will get it. Politicians!"

Sorry but Humphrey is right….again.

@dubey_ji

2 жыл бұрын

Only after the selling of arms

@cmm5542

2 жыл бұрын

Isn't he usually? 😄

Sir Humphrey: If the right people don't get power, the wrong people get it! Simon Phoenix: You can't take away people's right to be an @$$hole!

Connor, Sir Humphrey is very snobbish about universities. He's an Oxford man and considers Oxford and Cambridge the only universities of any consequence. Hence "both of them".

Britain controlled most land in the early days so we all have a very British democracy

An ancient philosopher once said “The people who believe that they live in a democracy make the best slaves”. We’re taxed heavily, but given just enough to keep us all compliant.

This is too close to the truth. I wonder who the mole in the civil service was that gave the writers all the information?

2 жыл бұрын

There are documentary clips here (and maybe the full documentary, I can't really recall what exactly I watched) about the show, and they had two "informants" they explicitly name there. Oh, and one of the writers and creators of the show wrote speeches for the Conservatives (including the Iron Lady).

So what happened in 1832 (or the year he was mentioning)

@zomer5569

Жыл бұрын

I think it references the reform act of 1832

In my experience, there are more corruptions in local goverments. Local rich people, old rich families have great influence on the local goverment, and they quickly get control of it. There should be a balance with the local and central goverment. It is very difficult to get it right.

Ahh docudrama..lol

If someone wants to study political science they should watch the whole TV series "Yes minister" and "Yes Prime Minister".

@supertoyg

2 жыл бұрын

It's very very focused on the anglo system though. Some of the elements, like the untouchable administrative body Humphrey heads, are not present elsewhere - typically in "less stable" systems where a lot of the top civil servants are politically nominated and so they change often. It also occasionally trivializes some real tensions in democratic systems.

@cmm5542

2 жыл бұрын

Amen to that!

The snp

Both of them meaning Oxford and Cambridge…. Just to clear the doubt of some people…..

Nothing more to say.

'months of fruitful work'

Sir Humphrey could make a systematic democratic dictator. Or is it the other way around? I can see him being a dictator, a VERY BRITISH DEMOCRATIC DICTATOR... 😂

W

The advert there if this works why not just tell them it sounds to me they just want your money

I think Humphrey would be firmly in the BrExit camp.

@cmm5542

2 жыл бұрын

He was pretty pro-EU in the series . . . But of course, he might have seen a great opportunity to grab control either way in today's political arena. Since Brexit came through in the end, I imagine he would find a way to make it look like it had been his idea and he'd been in favour of it all along!

@lenno15697

8 ай бұрын

@@cmm5542 He was anti-Europe but pro-Brussels.

Hard to believe Humpy acknowledges cambridge...

Hahaha, so "Silly"

This is why I support a system where a council has atleast one person from each level of government to decide on certain policies. Because frankly local governments may have an idea what the people wants and needs but is very easy for it to be taken over by corrupt individuals. While if everything is decided by a centralized authority it just creates loads of inefficiencies and bribery at just larger level. Power should be something that is hard to get and even harder to keep.

@cmm5542

2 жыл бұрын

That's a good idea. But I fancy it might take a few centuries to actualize it. (I work in the civil service.)

@wilfredpeake9987

2 жыл бұрын

@@cmm5542 I'm curious what ideas do you think we could implement right now that would be widely accepted right now

@cmm5542

2 жыл бұрын

@@wilfredpeake9987 For instance, taking two of the minor departments of the civil service (including my own) that both do the same thing in different ways and combining them into one. The work could then be done more efficiently with better communication - but fewer civil servants, and no one wants to take a job cut. In theory my idea isn't unpopular though.

@cmm5542

2 жыл бұрын

@@wilfredpeake9987 More directly connected to your original point, I've seen instances of attempted collaboration between local and centralized government. The central department lays out the general policy; the local governments adapt it to their circumstances. It sounds well enough in theory; in practice it leaves a lot unaccounted for and there is a great deal of miscommunication. I would say a better idea would be to have it done the other way around: the local governments propose policies that actually suit their local areas, and the central government can then focus on seeing to it that the programme is run efficiently and communication kept open between all the local governments with similar policies. The general government policy would then be forced to take everything into account that the local governments are dealing with, so neither side could get away with taking power over things thoughtlessly not included in the original policy.

Interestingly, a Chinese version of this show wouldn’t be remotely funny, and in fact would come off as quite menacing.

@BicyclesMayUseFullLane

2 жыл бұрын

Because people wouldn't find it as funny. After all, people might think: "isn't this how thing's supposed to be done?" I jest. However, China does have about 2000 years of bureaucratic tradition, so this isn't really anything new.

@conservativemike3768

2 жыл бұрын

@@BicyclesMayUseFullLane / How true. It’s a rather mundane topic after a few thousand years.

@sirloinofice

2 жыл бұрын

"Chairman Hacker declares war on Sparrows: Best Bits of Yes Chairman"

@conservativemike3768

2 жыл бұрын

@@sirloinofice / That’s an old reference very few non-Chinese will understand, but I appreciate it.

@freakonut

2 жыл бұрын

@@sirloinofice Only in a Yes Minister comment section would I be unsurprised by a Great Leap Forward referemce

"Both of them?" Since when does Cambridge count as a university? :)

@cmm5542

2 жыл бұрын

Not on my watch! 😆

@user-se3nx5yq4g

Жыл бұрын

humphrey only said this to show he‘s generous

Reminded me of “Communism with Chinese Characteristics”.

Yknow I'm pretty sure if they re-aired Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister with the laugh tracks removed we'd have an insurrection by the end of the month.

Dont talk smack about my Edinburgh university or St Andrews

Tory Pox....

This is exactly why term limits are needed to eliminate career politicians!

@dclark142002

2 жыл бұрын

All 'term limits' accomplishes is to give more power to the Party, not the politician. After all, if all politicians are amateurs, there is no one with the skill and heft to resist the party or the bureaucracy. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

@QuantumHistorian

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think your understood the sketch. At all. It's saying that politicians have no power, only the illusion of it to placate voter while the civil service actually runs the country.

@raistormrs

2 жыл бұрын

but they don't actually do anything anyway, as sir humphrey explained before, the job of a minister is, above all, to secure the departments budget in parliament... and leave the rest to the civil service.

@iggyzeta9755

2 жыл бұрын

No it's why we need limits on civil servants.

@cmm5542

2 жыл бұрын

As a civil servant, I'd say neither ministers or the civil service can get much done because all the parties are too busy arguing so no one has a thousand to one shot of making everyone or even a simple democratic majority happy.

He's not wrong. Humpy's not wrong. The world we live in is a consequence of power falling into the hands of barbarians.

@Spinnermist

2 жыл бұрын

...who shit themselves in Australian McDonalds?

@AFGuidesHD

2 жыл бұрын

Uh what? The "barbarians" haven't had power since 1660