Re: Sir John Redwoods Reaction Yesterday to No Deal
No, those who protect your country from the whim of the day of politicians.
Bernard, I have served eleven governments in the past thirty years. If I had believed in all their policies, I would have been passionately committed to keeping out of the Common Market, and passionately committed to going into it. I would have been utterly convinced of the rightness of nationalising steel. And of denationalising it and renationalising it. On capital punishment, I'd have been a fervent retentionist and an ardent abolishionist. I would've been a Keynesian and a Friedmanite, a grammar school preserver and destroyer, a nationalisation freak and a privatisation maniac; but above all, I would have been a stark, staring, raving schizophrenic.
Sir Humphrey Appleby:*Government isn’t about morality.
Minister Jim Hacker:*Oh I see, what is it about then?
Sir Humphrey Appleby:*Stability. Keeping things going. Preventing anarchy. Stopping society falling to bits. Still being here tomorrow.