Here, like everyone else, because of Sunak’s promise to reestablish national service

@applejuice5272

Ай бұрын

Yep!!

@SpoopySquid

Ай бұрын

Guilty

@CarolinaPine

Ай бұрын

Of course!

@user-jf6kd4tz5g

Ай бұрын

of course hes sending his kids to usa so they wont go in the meat grinder

@jackdubz4247

Ай бұрын

@@user-jf6kd4tz5g Only the red wall plebs.

This has aged stupendously

@WoolyCaterpillar

Ай бұрын

Truly life imitating art lol

@lylegleep2236

Ай бұрын

Please Labour just make this a party political broadcast. No other commentary requiredd

@AngloTracks

Ай бұрын

Labour needs this to be every advert

@bobgom4915

Ай бұрын

Except for the part where the prime minister felt the need to tell his cabinet colleagues first.

@paulholland2087

Ай бұрын

Has it?.

And this sketch will be very relevant from today in the UK.

As a Psychology student, whenever we focus on Survey questionnaire and how they can mislead, I will present this in the class!!

@grease_monkey6078

2 жыл бұрын

it's a perfect example on how people can be easily manipulated. I think you made the right call to use this

@feuilletoniste

Жыл бұрын

I show it to my students for the same reason!

@paulgibbons2320

3 ай бұрын

He's a textbook sociopath.

@keith6706

Ай бұрын

I once showed it to a local politician who felt a survey presented by the territorial government couldn't possibly be right but couldn't figure out how. This showed him the questions to ask regarding the methodology of the survey.

@starguy321

Ай бұрын

Ipsos Mori did the poll this hear and found he was correct

I thought the Eurosausage moment would never be equalled. Rishi just had to pull the most hilarious "hold my beer" move on his way out.

@steve16384

Ай бұрын

I still remember the phrase 'High fat low protein offal tubing'. Classic.

Brilliant. The demonstration of how polls are manipulated is textbook material.

It's February 2024 and the reputable polling organization, Ipsos, just ran an experiment in which it asked Sir Humphrey's 2 sets of questions regarding national service to a representative quota sample of 2,158 adults. Half were asked the 1st set, the other half the 2d set. Ipsos found that the prior, leading questions yielded a 10% effect on the responses to the last question. These were phone interviews, so the Ipsos experiment does not take into account the additional effect of having a "nice young lady" at your door and the desire to avoid appearing inconsistent in front of said nice young lady

@Jman0163

Ай бұрын

we may never know the true effects of not wanting to look a fool in front of a nice polling lady...

@Nell-Hamilton

Ай бұрын

Looks like the pm saw the result without the context

@williambavington5392

Ай бұрын

Apparently this can be done with a single question, even when the wording has no obvious bias. According to the 'Interviews and Questionnaires' section of an American book I have on Systems Analysis, in 1940 pollster Elmo Roper asked different groups one of two questions: "Do you think the United States should forbid public speaking against democracy?" and got a 50% yes vote and to the other group "Do you think the United States should allow public speaking against democracy?" and got a 75% no vote. People apparently find different connotations or subtexts in the words 'forbid' and 'allow' which can sway their answers.

@leo_warren

Ай бұрын

@@williambavington5392 I see 'forbid' as taking away something someone already has (whether they do or not is irrelevant), where as 'allow' implies that it's not currently acceptable. It's far easier to not give something away than to take something back at a later date. "It's hard to put a leash on a dog, once you've put a crown on its head".

YM and YPM is still the gold standard for intelligent and timeless comedy writing and acting.

@twigrose69

Ай бұрын

I thought it was a documentary?

@ianakers8012

Ай бұрын

But it was and remains gobsmackingly accurate.

@polymath9372

Ай бұрын

It is fascinating just how many comedy programmes end up later, in "real life"! Yes Minister, The Thick of It, W1A, and so on...

Ah Rishi, I thought I'd seen your episode before...

The absolute best BBC comedy ever without question

@EvilSean62

2 жыл бұрын

i`d like to support your theory but ...

@miraculixxs

2 жыл бұрын

Not sure it's actually a comedy series. Looks rather factual these days

@wildbikerbill6530

2 жыл бұрын

It's a comedy series precisely because the best jokes are based on fact. This is likely the best primer on how government really works you will ever get. And it is timeless precisely because the nature of people and bureaucracies remain largely the same.

@shotq8070

2 жыл бұрын

ohh now i could say yes or i could give my opinion and say blackadder

@mscott3918

2 жыл бұрын

Comedy? From my experience in the Foreign office in the seventies I'd say it's a training video.

You could reshoot this series and not change a word, it's all still relevant.

@DomWeasel

2 жыл бұрын

Sadly when they made the remake, they got everything wrong. From casting to dialogue.

@mighty-roman

2 жыл бұрын

@@DomWeasel TF did I just watch. Why did you have to mention this thing that I had to look it up?! I can't now unwatch this shit. And that's only the trailer. With that said, I'm someone who's always for good remakes but for some reason, I'm against it for this series. I think it would be an insult to the original cast if it was remade.

@DomWeasel

2 жыл бұрын

@@mighty-roman The three of them ARE their characters. Paul, Nigel and Derek were fantastic actors and embody their characters. I can't ever accept a Sir Humphrey who doesn't have Nigel's rather shark-like smile, a Hacker who doesn't have Paul's amazing range of facial emotion or a Bernard without Derek's twinkle. It just can't work. 'Reimagined' shows work very well but when they just try to remake a show by updating it... It never feels right to me.

@DerAlex86

2 жыл бұрын

Then why do a reshoot? Re-air is so much cheaper.

@bocchithean-cap3404

2 жыл бұрын

@@mighty-roman how bad did they made it Tldr me

Simply the best scriptwriting of any sitcom ever.

@Jerry-tg7zx

27 күн бұрын

That might actually go to Blackadder. A hard contender though, this one

I've run out of superlatives to describe just how brilliant the writing was for this series and the singular most perfect cast assembled.

@Murdorch

2 жыл бұрын

Well you seem to have the most perfect renewability rate for the superlatives, if you truly had ran out of them at the beginning of your sentence and regained one by the three-fourths of the same, previously mentioned sentence.

Excellent and so perfect for the situation after the Tory announcement yesterday about National Service.

When I was watching this a few years back I thought the idea of conscription coming back in Britain was unrealistic.

@lanccolboy

Ай бұрын

It is! Squishy Rishy will be in California by mid-July!

@br5380

Ай бұрын

It still is.

Ipos-MORI actually did this survey in 2024 and got exactly the result that Yes Prime Minister said.

I think of this scene any time I hear; "A new poll came out today".

@narendrapanse7844

10 ай бұрын

exactly!

this is so spot on now

2024 and it’s come true

@venmis137

Ай бұрын

Not just including Sunak, but IPSOS (a pollster) literally ran this poll (albeit without a "nice young lady") and found that it actually works.

This is not a sitcom. It's a bloody documentary!

Perfection. Rarely equalled. NEVER bettered.

@EvilSean62

2 жыл бұрын

politics ... never directly answer a question or reveal how much money you have whilst steadfastly enforcing the ideal of solution

Sir Humphrey is soooo good!

@adamhann7584

2 жыл бұрын

You are wrong. He was perfect!

Unbelievable that most of this brilliant comedy still is current

@K1lostream

2 жыл бұрын

If it was about VHS players, car-phones, or file-o-faxes, this would have dated, but it's about human nature, which doesn't change.

This is now the national debate. 😂

If only wine aged this well.

Nothing has changed in over 40 years this programme is completely relevant today and is just as funny

Still relevant today.

@ajs41

Ай бұрын

Very much so.

This is so fresh, it's still got morning dew on it

@EvilSean62

2 жыл бұрын

and yet ... soooo old the learning process so rare these days

Something tells me the Tories have done one of these polls.

Love watching this show great acting and very funny you can’t beat the oldies.

Absolutely superb comedy, reflecting true politics, and as ever ALWAYS relevant no matter what the current situation!!

What a brilliant clip of Yes Prime Minster even the dvd Box Set is worth buying

My favorite scene from this series. A cautionary tale for us all.

Spot on.

I never watched it in my early twenties when it came out… now I’d watch allll of it! Amazing. I heard it said it was the number one show in Russia at one point

@voland6846

Ай бұрын

British comic writing was certainly popular in the Soviet Union, they had excellent TV and film versions of things like _Three Men in a Boat, Charlie's Aunt,_ and _She Stoops to Conquer._ Later, in the post-collapse 90's & 00's, I know the localized version of ITV's _Jeeves & Wooster_ was immensely popular, but as far as I know neither YM nor YPM were ever translated.

I show this to my argumentation and debate class every semester.

Sometimes it's difficult to comprehend That Paul, Nigel, and Derek are no longer with us..... 💔

@stephenmcinerney9457

Жыл бұрын

...sadly so... but their legacy sure is.

Brilliant script-writers, brilliant actors. How do you improve on perfection?

Before there was a 'West Wing' there was 'Yes, (Prime) Minister' and it was simultaneously funny and depressing.

All hail the algorithm

Good algorithm 😂

When this was first broadcast (more accurately, when its predecessor "Yes, Minister" was first broadcast), it was very quickly said to be the favourite programme for just about everyone connected with Parliament because it was uncannily accurate. And, of course, it was flipping hilarious!

Very apt for our times!

I love this show so much. Amazing work.

Poor Neville Chamberlain was so very keen on peace

@marcvesper

2 жыл бұрын

Sometimes I wonder if we never give Chamberlain a break. The mess of WW1 was comparable in closeness to him with e.g. 9/ 11 to many people now, its psychological and cultural effects still vivid. It's not like the biased sentiment towards peace was wildly misplaced or unpopular. Not enough people understood the sophisticated savagery of Hitler's ambitions before it was too late, globally.

@sophiejasmine1829

2 жыл бұрын

100% agree. He had the very best intentions and any ordinary person would never have seen the holocaust. It just happened that Churchill was not really normal or sane lol

@neilhenderson5581

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcvesper I would go further and say WW1 was much bigger in impact - on the European psyche at least - than 9/11 was. It lasted something like 5 years, with hundreds of thousands of soldiers being killed in the meat-grinder of trench warfare every day for most of it.

@kiwitrainguy

2 жыл бұрын

The French referred to Chamberlain as "J'aime Berlin".

@GoldenSunAlex

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcvesper Nowadays, Chamberlain is reckoned to have delayed the war by a couple of years - giving us enough time to rearm and defeat the Germans...Which we had done before the French essentially switched sides and gave the exhausted German Army all of their tanks, ammo, supplies, etc.

Sir Humphrey, Master of Darkness

@martyncook4528

2 жыл бұрын

Yes…the lighting often creates dark areas where his eyes are, adding to the gentle suggestion of menace.

As funny and insightful, and true, as this undoubtedly is, it is also, on reflection, terrifying. And likely happening as we speak...

@warrenookland8169

Жыл бұрын

"Yes"

@cathalhaughey2214

Ай бұрын

Unfortunately it may be if the tories get their way

FYI (almost all) pollsters in the UK, certainly all those anyone cares about, are members of the British Polling Council and have signed up to rules including, among other things, publishing all questions asked in the order they're asked, and complete methodology. So this doesn't actually happen IRL (e.g. with YouGov, Ipsos, etc.) though it's ofc very funny and a masterclass in how to conduct a disreputable poll!

@IsaacIsaacIsaacson

Ай бұрын

Sure, they can publish all that info - but the newspapers don't report on them. Methodology of statistics bores tabloid readers.

@aliciaf1055

Ай бұрын

The polling organisations might have to, but do the newspapers that write about it, or the organisations that commission them, have to mention it?

@Mankster23

Ай бұрын

Horseshit

I love it when hacker becomes the cynical one

Who is here some 40 years after this clip and the government is still at it? 🤣

You see guys; what governments have known for ages, it’s not the answers you get but the questions that invite them and still the mind games go on…….but with added buffering & bluster! 😂

@kiwitrainguy

2 жыл бұрын

"It's not how the votes are cast, but how they are counted" - Joseph Stalin

Satirical genius of the highest order ✌️

My household members have today each received a survey to complete from the current incumbent PM presumably as a pre-election sweetener to persuade us that he actually cares what the plebs think. I have sent this clip to them all in the hope they will see what the real motive is.

It's happening again...

The power of suggestion you see

We have ALL the series of Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister and to say it was years ago it fit the bill today …

Possibly the best bit of video ever.

Brilliant!

Absolutely brilliant😂😂😂

So accurate

As it was when first broadcast all those years ago apposite and brilliant. Surprised they don't repeat this. It is much better written and acted than the dross on mainstream TV today.

I would like to think, and see no reason why not, that Lynn & Jay's lines will still be quoted as relevant many years from now, in the same way that Shakespeare is quoted. Damn fine writing, performed by damn fine actors.

Masterful!

Brilliant writing.

I like how this was recommended 😂😂

This clip has given me a good example to look for in regards to Statistical fallacy

Even more true today

awesome

This needs to be shown again on the BBC before 4th July! Trouble is that the BBC’s current management won’t do so!

@marionbayley1351

Ай бұрын

Thinking about it - it needs to be on as many streaming services as possible! Not even I watch the Beeb very often - except for special events!

Such a clever series, would be great to see a well done remake

@iandavies6474

Ай бұрын

🤨 Bot...

Hgreed. Spot on

Well well well, if irony were a video

I can't believe how relevant this has become. But then, this is 2024 we're talking about.

This is the Conservative plan for the next election lol 😂

Superb comedy 😂👍😂

The power of the yes set..

It's all in the facial expressions........... Les Griffiths

Did Britain's premier un-elected oligarch, Rishi Sunak, who has never done a day's hard work in his life, watch this episode?

@MKPoosh

Ай бұрын

Muppet

I use a series of opposite questions to my son in order for him to say no and why his request is a bad idea :)

As relevent today as it was then.

Genius

"Not the reputable ones" For those wondering, its Gallup, among others.

Sunak should watch this

@jacksmith-mu3ee

23 күн бұрын

He did . He is trying to bring conscription

Love reading the comments. Watched this when I lived in UK and was into politics .. but all ilrevelent now come July 4th independent MPs could form a government of a certain political persuasion.

Someone at the BBC should be watching this show while looking at their own organization... and Gov't.

@polymath9372

Ай бұрын

"W1A" and "The Thick of It" are what you need!

Humphrey giving a masterclass in how to achieve ones desired political answer by the use of polls.

Dry dated political British humor not sure I would like this… Watches show… This is freaking brilliant!

He is what i imagine Mycroft holmes is

This was first time I realized what a push poll is.

The series inspired by Richard Crossman's diary.

Lol

Looking forward to 4.7.2024!

Penny Mordaunt 😊😂

1987 or 2024?

There is an episode for Rishi's smoking ban as well. It's liking he's channelling Jim Hacker whilst ignoring Bernard and Humphrey. That or he is being pranked by one of his advsers.

YM/YPM are public service announcements on politics.

Brilliant back then and maybe even more so today. This scene may have been edited out of some U.S. broadcasts since I don't remember it.

I'd forgotten about this episode. The writers didn't miss a thing...

So depressing how nothing has changed

Yes. National service.