PSPermanent Secretary for Health
It would be different if the Government were a team, but in fact they're a loose confederation of warring tribes.
“The Smoke Screen” · Season 1, Episode 3
In this episode: James Hacker (3), Sir Humphrey Appleby (2), Bernard Woolley (1)
The statistics are irrefutable...
Statistics? You can prove anything with statistics.
Even the truth.
Yes... No!
Notwithstanding the fact that your proposal could conceivably encompass certain concomitant benefits of a marginal and peripheral relevance, there is a countervailing consideration of infinitely superior magnitude involving your personal complicity and corroborative malfeasance, with a consequence that the taint and stigma of your former associations and diversions could irredeemably and irretrievably invalidate your position and culminate in public revelations and recriminations of a profoundly embarrassing and ultimately indefensible character.
Perhaps I can have a précis of that?
He’s got to learn to come to heel. He’s got to learn to 'co-operate'.
What do you mean 'co-operate'?
I mean obey my commands! That's what 'co-operate' means when you're Prime Minister.
...
Sir Humphrey's waiting to see you outside.
Send him in, at once!
Yes, Prime Minister. Your word is my 'co-operation'.
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