【Yse,minister】
Season one Episode five
The Writing on the wall
Jim Hacker(MINISTER):
When you give your evidence to the Think Tank ,are you going to support my view that the Civil Service is over manned and feather_bedded,or not?Yes or no?Straight answer.
Sir Humphrey(PERMANENT UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE AND HEAD OF THE DAA):
Well minister,if you ask me for a straight answer ,then I shall say that,as far as we can see,looking at it by and large,taking one thing with another in terms of the average of departments ,then in the final analysis it is probably true to say,that at the end of the day,in general terms,you would probably find that,not to put too fine a point on it,there probably was not very much in it one way or the other,as far as one can see ,at this stage.
Season one Episode five
The Writing on the wall
Jim Hacker(MINISTER):
When you give your evidence to the Think Tank ,are you going to support my view that the Civil Service is over manned and feather_bedded,or not?Yes or no?Straight answer.
Sir Humphrey(PERMANENT UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE AND HEAD OF THE DAA):
Well minister,if you ask me for a straight answer ,then I shall say that,as far as we can see,looking at it by and large,taking one thing with another in terms of the average of departments ,then in the final analysis it is probably true to say,that at the end of the day,in general terms,you would probably find that,not to put too fine a point on it,there probably was not very much in it one way or the other,as far as one can see ,at this stage.