My wife and I like to listen to audio books and comedies in the kitchen and last night we found the original recording of Yes Minister. It seems as sharply written and acted as ever but half way through I had to stop listening.
The reason is simple, if you listen to Yes Minister now it sounds like the perfect justification for the far right and Liz Truss to claim that they have always been frustrated by the Blob.
Quangos abound, the Department for Administrative Affairs is a gammon’s wet dream, the civil service is self interested, obstructive and determined to maintain the status quo despite the democratic mandate of its political bosses.
No wonder it was Margaret Thatcher’s favourite show, it panders to ever right wing trope.
Yes Minister is taken by far too many people as reality. But the real problem is that many shameless politicians use that belief to pander to their core support, to blame dark forces for their inadequacy and failures, and push the idea that if it was not for the Blob they could introduce all their fantasies successfully.
But in fact they are impossible fantasies, always have been and always will be.
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
By Jonty Bloom Media
“The Great British Sausage” - surely a precursor to bojo’s banana nonsense. And allegedly 1 in 7 (according to the Independent) believe this crap - and they vote!!! FFS
Indeed so. And the characters appearing at the Horizon IT Inquiry. Alice Perkins, Paula Vennells. I found Susan Crichton’s testimony on her exchanges with Alice Perkins illuminating.