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Bernard Woolley:
It makes me feel rather downcast. If it's our job to implement Government Policies, shouldn't we believe in them? Sir Humphrey Appleby:
What an extraordinary thing to say. Bernard Woolley:
Why? Sir Humphrey Appleby:
Bernard, I have served 11 Governments in the last 30 years, if I believed in all their policies, I would have been passionately commited to keeping out of the Common Market and passionately committed to going into it, I would've been utterly convinced of the rightness of Nationalising Steel, and of denationalising it, and renationalising it. On Capital Punishment I would have been a fervent retentionist and an ardent Abolitionist, I would have been a Keynesian and a Friedmanite, a Grammar School Destroyer and Preserver, a Nationalisation Freak and a Privatisation Maniac, but above all, I would have been a stark, staring, raving Schizophrenic!
It makes me feel rather downcast. If it's our job to implement Government Policies, shouldn't we believe in them? Sir Humphrey Appleby:
What an extraordinary thing to say. Bernard Woolley:
Why? Sir Humphrey Appleby:
Bernard, I have served 11 Governments in the last 30 years, if I believed in all their policies, I would have been passionately commited to keeping out of the Common Market and passionately committed to going into it, I would've been utterly convinced of the rightness of Nationalising Steel, and of denationalising it, and renationalising it. On Capital Punishment I would have been a fervent retentionist and an ardent Abolitionist, I would have been a Keynesian and a Friedmanite, a Grammar School Destroyer and Preserver, a Nationalisation Freak and a Privatisation Maniac, but above all, I would have been a stark, staring, raving Schizophrenic!
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Makes me feel rather downcast
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If it's our job to carry out government policies shouldn't we believe in them
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Oh what an extraordinary idea
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Why Bernard
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I have served 11 governments in the past 30 years If I'd believed in all their policies
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I'd have been passionately committed to keeping out of the Common Market
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and passionately committed to joining it
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I'd have been utterly convinced of the rightness of nationalising steel
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and of denationalising it and renationalising it
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Capital punishment I'd have been a fervent retentionist and an ardent abolitionist
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I'd have been a Keynesian and a Friedmanite a grammar school preserver and destroyer
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a nationalisation freak and a privatisation maniac
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but above all I would have been a stark staring raving schizophrenic
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Movie Summary
The Right Honorable James Hacker has landed the plum job of Cabinet Minister to the Department of Administration. At last he is in a position of power and can carry out some long-needed reforms, or so he thinks.
Actors
Bernard Woolley
Sir Humphrey Appleby
