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18-10-2020, 09:22 PM
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Those on the public payroll are subservient and naturally expected to be loyal.
You better watch Yes minister! again.
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The enemies within.
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The enemies within.
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.
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19-10-2020, 09:23 AM
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Re: Sir John Redwoods Reaction Yesterday to No Deal

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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.
Can't argue with that Solasch....
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So Sollasch has to quote a scene from a sitcom to support his views? Nothing to do with reality though, perhaps?
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Re: Sir John Redwoods Reaction Yesterday to No Deal

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So Sollasch has to quote a scene from a sitcom to support his views? Nothing to do with reality though, perhaps?
Nothing ever is for him.
 
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