Yes Minister

[jgw1]

Am I being unreasonable to start a thread just for this post I wrote a little while ago imagining how Humpherey and his Minister might deal with the Lineker situation?

Humpherey: Minister we have a bit of a situation.
Minister: What is that?
Humpherey: Gary Lineker has tweeted comparing us to 1930s Germany.
Minister: Who?
Humpherey: Gary Lineker - the footballer.
Minister: Oh that's ok no on listens to footballers anyway.
Humpherey: He presents one of the BBC's biggest programmes and has 7 million twitter followers.
Minister: Oh. Something must be done.
Humpherey: That is why I came in to ask what you would like doing.
Minister: Get the BBC on the phone I must tell them that they must tell this footballer that he is a very naughty boy and they must well I don't know sack him or at least make him apologise.
Humpherey: Very good Minister.
Some time later.
Humpherey: Minister the situation has developed somewhat.
Minister: What situation?
Humpherey: With Gary Lineker's tweets.
Minister: Well I told the BBC to tell him off, they did that?
Humpherey: Yes they did.
Minister: So the situtation has been solved.
Humpherey: Well Minister not exactly.
Minister: Why not exactly the BBC did sack him? We cannot have people saying we are Nazis.
Humpherey: The BBC have suspsended him from tonight's show.
Minister: Good.
Humpherey: Not exactly. Everyone to do with football at the BBC has walked out.
Minister. Good, no one likes football.
Humpherey: Many voters do. Remember you had to go and watch a match to pretend to be like the people.
Minister: I thought Manchester Town played very well. Is that who Lineker played for.
Humpherey: You watched Manchester City, and no Lineker played for Leicester and England.
Minister: Oh. What is the situation anyway.
Humpherey: More people are talking about how we are behaving like 1930s Germany.
Minister: What do they mean? Gassing people know.
Humpherey: Not that was in the 1940s Minister. They mean things like silencing people because they disagree with the government and stoking hatred to futher thier own ends, telling broadcaster what to say and so on.
Minister: Well we would not do that. We are British. That is the sort of thing that goes on in other countries. We are a bastion of democracy and free speech.
Humpherey. I will ring the BBC and tell them not to sack Lineker then.
Minister: Why?
Humpherey. Because you said we are a bastion of free speech and don't silence people.
Minister: Oh.

Brilliant! 😂
They need to bring that series back, it would be more relevant than ever!

Thank you.

They wouldn’t be allowed to, too mocking of the current Government

So much of Yes Minister is still relevant to today

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It would be a courageous decision

Presumably the government have also banned HIGNFY.

I do wonder why Mock the Week was cancelled

My DH watched the whole serious recently (too young to watch it first time around) he claimed it was more of a documentary than fiction 🤣

He's a civil servant.

It is and it is referenced often in my CS circles😉

No wonder since they keep throwing us under the bus

Yes Minister was one of the programmes that the PREVENT task force identified as extremist material

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11764775/Yes-Minister-flagged-beleaguered-counter-terror-Prevent-scheme.html

It really wasn't

It was one of the programmes along with films that people who were identified as more likely to be referred to Prevent were recommended to watch, along with classic British films such as Dambusters etc. All part of being seen as being British. Like a reading list of classic British media

Aww what an amazing series that was, brings backs lots of memories. Yes, they don’t make them like that anymore.

I think Yes Minster will always be relevent !

I worked at the BBC. So is W1A…

It's one of my favourite ever programs.

I was a Lady Humphrey in a former life. It is absolutely true to life.

Hacker was actually very into football - there is a whole episode where he tries to save his local football club and Humphrey argues it's more important to subsidise opera

I found the scene

Fantastic OP 😂

Thank you.

I suppose if I was trying to be true to current Ministers, the Minister should have shouted abuse at Humpherey at some point and bullied him.

@OP, you are a genius.

In fact, the genius of YM/YPM is that even now, any episode picked at random will have resonance with current affairs.

The original writers are the geniuses. I am just an immitator of their wonderful creation.

I bet that would go viral if you stuck it on FB.

@jgw1 don't underestimate yourself

If you want to share it elsewhere please do.