I prefer the bit when Sir Humphrey talks about the the press getting hold of a copy due to the large quantity of them and Hacker going “oh dear!”. Still hilarious though 😄

Or David Horton looking through the Bible for a passage to justify him not spending money to get a local bus service for Dibley.

I read the rest of that sentence in Hackers voice too 😆

I know this comment is old, but it made me laugh like a honking goose.

@@ciaranhagen thank you, sir!

At this point Humphrey knows exactly what Hacker would do.

Before becoming an MP and Minister of the Crown Hacker was a journalist.

Unfortunately yes. But perhaps the greatest genius of them on, Sir Arnold Robinson, continues to live on in our world in the form of John Nettleton at the age of 92.

@@SamvedIyer Diana Hoddinott who played Annie Hacker is alive and may be Neil Fitzwiliam who played weasel sorry Weisel

@@gbalaji2023 Fitzwilliam may well still be alive, but he suffered brain damage in a car accident over 30 years ago.

Peter cellier i think is alive too (sir frank)

@@SamvedIyer But this was one occasion when Humphrey and Hacker united to beat even Sir Arnold.

That's how the EU does it as well. If there is a trade war, the EU does not impose tariffs on big important products. Instead, they have a look at the companies that have an influence on the policy makers, and target their products instead. No big impact, but it piles a lot of pressure on those politicians.

Hacker's fussy, distracted manner often led one to underestimate his shark-like political instincts.

@@danieldickson8591 As Sir Humphrey himself puts it, Hacker does have "the killer instinct".

😂😂😂

Let's ruin it.

*apalled groan*

I've replayed that part at least 40 times now, but I'm still laughing.

In India we had a political satire movie in 1982 They actually plan a skyscraper by removing a Christian cemetery

@@anuradhajoshi7389 Was it mostly Britons buried there?

Heck, he's even surprised by how ruthless Hacker is being to make damn sure this proposal is shot down.

I reversed my tricycle into our pond - my mum was greeted by the sight of a sopping wet toddler on the back doorstep!

@@applejuice5272 Yes ... Hacker does that often enough as well.

About the same i think

@@Andrew81au1 LOL you're right !

Definitely when they work together. It's not as bad when things don't change. That's normal. When things change, that's when people are affected...

well, when they argue nothing is achieved. when they work together they are virtually unstoppable. you do the math.

This is government in a nutshell.

Pressing the nuclear button and education are favourites of mine though to be fair there was never a single bad episode of Yes (Prime) Minister.

Genius doesn't occur too often.

Or alternatively, despite the wonderful overview and summary from leopold, one could actually watch it for oneself.

@@davidelliott5843 My all time favorite is Who Reads the Papers.

Humphrey in fact at some points seems taken aback at how ruthless Hacker is willing to be to make this utterly unacceptable

What book could it be?

@@irix5093 It was Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

@@musmus-culus Missing Conrad's sarcasm is a pretty widespread problem. Maybe we ought to teach "Secret Agent" instead for a few years, I feel like that's got Gen Z relevance

@@musmus-culus To be fair, it's a rather difficult book for a modern audience, although I would expect college students to be old enough to get through it. But IIRC I read it in high school and could barely understand what was going on.

PointyTailofSatan surreal.

Indeed!

Yes, genius level.

Possibley one of the best things the bbc has done in a long time

YES YES YES

Unbelievable. I remember playing the Simcity 2000 edition when I was watching this.

Wouldn't it be great if SimCity had an actual political system?

@@Dayvit78 You mean every time you try to do something, you get a message why it cant be done, while the AI plays the game by itself all the time?

@@dalemrgh1819 I don't understand? I meant, having elections with different voting patterns in your city. Basically, like Tropico, but for a 1st world country.

Abe Lincoln , no less, was once accused of being 2faced. He replied if that were true do you think I would have chosen this one-something for Biden to use against trump!

same for Lincolnshire stupid as hell, most working ppl need a car to get home after work and yet they want more ppl to take public transport.

Kru Ploppy Dorset? Hm, never heard of it - is it anywhere near Wessex? Also, buses isn’t a thing that ever actually existed; it was only a concept drawing of Leonardo da Vinci's, sorta like his helicopter drawing except in this case it never materialised. Although now that I think about it, there was mention of a soup-powered multi-person vehicle called ‘avtoboos’ (after the Russian “автобус”, I imagine) in a low-rent steampunk novel I once read. Can’t recall the title, unfortunately.

Everything ends at 6.30pm in Shropshire!

Well just anywhere outside the M25 really

I used to live in shropshire in 2008/2009 and I can attest that the bus timetables for the villages were terrible even back then

Blackbrooke boom boom

Yeah. Fuck politicians.

Because you don't have transport supremo? 😁

It works in the Netherlands. Attain arrives in a station and bless me thee is a bus waiting

They haven't asked the Dutch how to do it

@@sailormanoyster1849 It is a British democracy, after all. 😉

Sir Humphreys

That’s the true brilliance of the writers’ insight into West Minster Politics, it’s as true now as it was when it was written and will continue to be for decades to come

YM and YPM are timeless, as is human nature and the intoxicant of power

It could all have been written any time.

or tomorrow

@@francesbecker1755 2235 KZfaq algorithm recommended it to the public video list in the constituency where it was happining. After a good laugh there were riots. After riots we drank tea.

Or yesterday

Nah, way too civilized. These days it's more like "The New Statesman."

This series is based entirely as a form of satire commentary on exactly how the government and the civil service operate

Margaret Thatcher called this series a documentary.

@@db417 she would

As the other commentators have noted, very much the other way around.

Apparently it has led to a huge increase in the power of political "advisers" (like Dominic Cummings), because thanks to "Yes Minister", politicians don't trust the Civil Service any more and have shredded the power of "mandarins" like Sir Humphrey.

Of course they're also good at making jokes. You can be an expert at something and lack the ability to joke(in fact most experts lack an effective sense of humor).

If science guys write science fiction it would be boring trust me on this one

@@dubey_ji You haven't read a lot of Arthur C Clarke.

They had people on the inside who told them stories. In fact, most of their stories either really happened or were extrapolations of things that happened. For some they even wondered if the public would believe it could happen even though it did (like the booze in the communications room).

@@PointyTailofSatan I have come to my senses I was wrong .

Tru dat!!!!

In 2023 all these white men would be replaced with 240 pound black they/them scumbags

He... HACKED teh elekshon! (Please ecuse me)

@@barbarajoseph-adam8337 You're excused

@@walesdoesntsuck6635 I agree. That pun wasn't the best of puns, but it was not too shabby either.

Yeah, there's a good reason for that. The government owned the parks. They did not own the houses and businesses and would have to etiher eminent domain or negotiate to gain the use of that land. It's just common sense to build new things on land you own rather than land you have to go to a lot of trouble and possible legal hassle to obtain.

Hans Gruber Love how Hans Gruber says this

Mr. Beetleman And in the late great Alan Rickman’s voice too, whom I miss as much as I miss these three brilliant actors! *sobs brokenly*

I have used his rhetoric, so many times. It just befuddles people.....not to mention me. I adore the whole series.

He probably already had a scheme in mind, hence why he was already having dinner with the editor of the paper.

Heck this is one of the few times he seems genuinely taken aback by Hacker’s political instincts given his moments of surprise if not shock at what Jim suggests

The covered the EEC (EU) just as well.

Although I agree wholeheartedly, I have lived and witness what life was like, living in an environment where the politicians seats are cemented and democracy, not tyranny, is used a boogeyman. If they want to build something, they could come in and evict you in a blink of an eyes. Infrastructures cover the sky but nothing is done to improve the life of the people in the neighbourhood. There’s no quiet zoning areas where children can run around their neighbourhood, there’s only shops next to residential and everyone live in constant noise. We give up certain things for another.

valicourt - Heathrow should not be expanded due to many reasons, one of which is that it’s rather silly having people travel by land long distances to get to an airport. A proper study should be done to look at how regional existing airports could be better used. A private airfield within three miles of a large city not far from me closed (sold by the owner) and is likely to have houses built on it. A shame, as it could handle all the large passenger aircraft. Oh, and it’s literally right next door to a railway line, so it would have been easy to built a proper exchange terminal. Most of the U.K. airspace is strictly reserved for the military, so often a ‘direct’ flight is not very direct... No technology currently exists to make any significant difference to the carbon dioxide emissions from aircraft engines, so no government should be encouraging an increase in air traffic. The railways, as well as metro and underground systems have been underfunded for political reasons for many, many years. And apart from line of route and structures (bridges, tunnels, station buildings etc.) there is very little left of the so called ‘Victorian’ railway. The rails, sleepers, signalling systems, telecommunications network, electrical supply systems have all been renewed/replaced since then. However, governments can find money when they want to, to fund and build new roads, including motorways. And to add a fourth/fifth lane under the so called ‘smart’ motorway scheme (and never mind about the safety of the unfortunate motorists who break down where the hard shoulder has been replaced by an extra lane... So as is normal in politics, the politicians blame everyone but themselves as they only look after people who they think will back them, or donate to them/their party.

I'll bite. What do you do about narrow roads? Knock down huge numbers of houses and other buidlings to make room to widen them?

@@jamespotter4010 According to OECD, the UK is among the countries with the highest road traffic densities in the world. So the roads may be fine but certainly are more crowded than elsewhere - nothing to do with the daftness of drivers, really.

Both a bus and a train coming out of the same workshop

And also 'Yes, Prime Minister'

Have you heard the tragedy of Darth plagueis the wise?

I was thinking the same!

Voice From the Mist As Bernard said, "It's the ultimate compliment."

Actually it’s that Hacker is a politician that makes him so dangerous here in combination with Humphrey, he’s immediately aware of how badly received some things will be that Humphrey doesn’t expect (ie cancelling commuter discounts) while Humphrey is able to send a few less obvious but equally “courageous” ideas his way.

"He's a pleasure to work with."

They probably watched the episode and thought "good idea!".

I never had the sense Hacker was stupid, just out of his depth in terms of dealing with the Civil Service - especially one as capable as Humphrey.

A few, though at the same time it's kinda clear that Hacker being a politician opens him up to ideas that don't occur to Humphrey because he's worried about votes whereas Humphrey doesn't have to be.

"First rule of trust, never trust anyone who says 'trust me'."

Roads are paid for by a fuel tax aren't they?

@@rowancrouch4789 You'll find most taxes and duties go into a general taxation pool, so it's quite difficult to discover who is paying for what...this gives rise to a lack of accountability to any potential widespread (ie ordinary folks) lobby that ministers seem to find appealing...besides it allows business or other potentially valuable corporate lobbies more unobstructed access...

In most European countries, people owning cars pay special taxes, not to speak of the incredible over taxation of fuel (100+x% tax), which are rarely only used on related costs. So, no, motorists get the butt end of the deal.

@@rowancrouch4789 No, roads are paid for via general taxation, so everyone pays to maintain them whether they drive cars or not.

That on another...lower...level.

@@neville132bbk if it is, it's not much lower

Yep, now Finchley and Golders Green

that’s where I’m from 😀

Boris Johnson's is in northwest London. Jeremy Corbyn's is in north london too. Tha'ts why both left and right savour it and both have lots of trains tubes and bus services.