In this episode essentially what Hacker and Sir Humphrey were given was a poisoned chalice in trying to come up with a national transport policy. A job nobody else wanted because of issues with civil service departments and the unions. They were working together to get themselves out of this job.
Felipe - Sir Humphrey's end goal is to maintain the status quo. In the USA, as I understand it, when a regime changes the support staff changes with it. Here, not so. The Civil Service is nominally there to support whichever regime is in power but is also protective of it's own position. There is also the class issue. Members of Parliament may not have been to the same schools and universities as those who are supposed to be their servants, like Sir Humphrey, a highly articulate product of public school and Oxford and/or Cambridge. Hacker went to the LSE, highly reputable but with no tradition.. And God knows where he went to school!
The end game is to remind the PM that he is not in control, the electorate are. Sometimes it's good to remind MPs they are the servants, not the master.
Hello Felipe. I used to watch this at university in fits of laughter with the first person I had met and befriended. He is now a UK minister. I often wonder how he gets on with the civil service. The end goal is that we laugh as we believe this is what goes on. Best wishes to both of you.
Well, you might have gone to University with a future Minister but I spoke,** albeit, briefly, with ITV Weather Presenter: Sally Williams at Trafalgar Square yesterday which, clearly, trumps that. ** I say spoke. Actually I told her a quick anecdote and she sent me on my way with "Well Done Mate!"...
@@Isleofskye You have the advantage of not being a couple of hundred miles from London. It sounded like party town on the news, for those of us who feel like we have been in hibernation for two years.
Hi Alan. If you mean The Isle Of Skye then 641 miles :) HOWEVER, I AM a very proud South East Londoner first, South Londoner Second, Londoner 3rd, Englishman,4th Brit 5th and European 6th :) My nomenclature is a long story but suffices to say 67 years ago I was born 2 miles from Central London and now have lived in this house on the very edge of S E London/Kent for 38 wonderful years and every day is party time just 11 miles from where I lived before :)
@@Isleofskye Very good. I assumed you were in London. I was actually remembering how I used to come to work meetings near Parliament in Westminster many years back, a trip of a couple of hundred miles down M1. My friend did ask me to come see him when first elected, but it is not quite like popping down the road, so I never got to go, just the odd e-mail. Driving down to work in Hastings once a week when much younger would be as near as I came to your neck of the woods.
Deliberate leaking can be even more devious than just gauging the public reaction. What is intentionally leaked is often more extreme than the actual policy proposed, so that when the real announcement is made the position feels fairly moderate and reasonable, but in fact the boundaries of what people will accept had been psychologically shifted in the preferred direction of travel. The politicians can also safely deny and dismiss the accuracy of the leak and claim that they are, of course, listening to the people.
The sweary British political comedy written by comedic genius Armando Iannucci ( Producer and Director of Alan Partridge ) THE THICK OF IT is for you (maybe not with Lilian and children though ) and The American political comedy VEEP is fantastic and again heavily involved Armando Iannucci....
The policy was to amalgamate (bring together) the trains, buses, taxis all together. But it was so difficult to do they were trying to put the Prime Minister off.
I'm just starting out with your channel, Felipe. It's nice to see that you share the same humor with your audience. I, too, am a very big fan of Yes, Minister/Prime Minister.
Good Reaction, as always but I STILL do not understand why, even good reactors, reveal their thought immediately, like you did at the start, thus ruining any surprise element as to whether they were going to like it or not :)
Hi Felipe, your channel was mentioned on another channel today. It was noted that you don't seem to be posting these days. Have you stopped or just taking a break? We will be sorry to see you go.
That is like saying THe Sun is pretty warm. It's only the third USA Series I have liked in my 67 English years and I have watched all episodes of each series, at least twice and still missed much, no doubt,,,:)
There’s a lot of chair noise and heavy breathing in this video which is distracting from the sketch. Might be a good idea to turn down your mic during the running of the sketch.
I understand you left TH-cam but why did you have to delete all your Harry Enfield reactions? I used to really enjoy watching them. That was unnecessary.
Terrible video for a masterpiece tv show. I had to stop due to the loud breathing, squeaking and the sense that the person reacting wasn't getting the material. It's the first (and last) video I tried to watch on this channel, so I apologize if after the first few minutes some or all of the things I mentioned improved. I couldn't make it past 2 minute 20.
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Quite a lot of heavy breathing going on in this video..... are you feeling frustrated due to Lilian's absence? lol :)
Are YOU wearing leather trousers again????? All I could hear on this post was YOUR trousers!!!
In this episode essentially what Hacker and Sir Humphrey were given was a poisoned chalice in trying to come up with a national transport policy. A job nobody else wanted because of issues with civil service departments and the unions.
They were working together to get themselves out of this job.
Run the flag up the pole and watch who salutes.
The scriptwriter was Peter Jay and yes he was an insider.
Correction i meant Anthony Jay no insult intended to anybody named Peter Jay.
Great sitcom. Creaking chair not so. 😁
Felipe - Sir Humphrey's end goal is to maintain the status quo. In the USA, as I understand it, when a regime changes the support staff changes with it. Here, not so. The Civil Service is nominally there to support whichever regime is in power but is also protective of it's own position. There is also the class issue. Members of Parliament may not have been to the same schools and universities as those who are supposed to be their servants, like Sir Humphrey, a highly articulate product of public school and Oxford and/or Cambridge. Hacker went to the LSE, highly reputable but with no tradition.. And God knows where he went to school!
The end game is to remind the PM that he is not in control, the electorate are. Sometimes it's good to remind MPs they are the servants, not the master.
Tru Say, Mi Sistren. Tru Say...
"How to Replace a PM" Quite relevant right now.
...and still the shiitshow rolls on...
I hope you are back to more videos soon.
He'd been given a new role of reorganizing transport in the country, and didn't want it.
thinking about trying out yes,prime minister?
boris is mulling over the issue too,if his better half ok's it
lol
Hello Felipe. I used to watch this at university in fits of laughter with the first person I had met and befriended. He is now a UK minister. I often wonder how he gets on with the civil service.
The end goal is that we laugh as we believe this is what goes on.
Best wishes to both of you.
Well, you might have gone to University with a future Minister but I spoke,** albeit, briefly, with ITV Weather Presenter: Sally Williams at Trafalgar Square yesterday which, clearly, trumps that.
** I say spoke. Actually I told her a quick anecdote and she sent me on my way with "Well Done Mate!"...
@@Isleofskye You have the advantage of not being a couple of hundred miles from London. It sounded like party town on the news, for those of us who feel like we have been in hibernation for two years.
Hi Alan. If you mean The Isle Of Skye then 641 miles :)
HOWEVER, I AM a very proud South East Londoner first, South Londoner Second, Londoner 3rd, Englishman,4th Brit 5th and European 6th :)
My nomenclature is a long story but suffices to say 67 years ago I was born 2 miles from Central London and now have lived in this house on the very edge of S E London/Kent for 38 wonderful years and every day is party time just 11 miles from where I lived before :)
@@Isleofskye Very good. I assumed you were in London.
I was actually remembering how I used to come to work meetings near Parliament in Westminster many years back, a trip of a couple of hundred miles down M1. My friend did ask me to come see him when first elected, but it is not quite like popping down the road, so I never got to go, just the odd e-mail. Driving down to work in Hastings once a week when much younger would be as near as I came to your neck of the woods.
Cheers Felipe , always good to hear your thoughts.
Deliberate leaking can be even more devious than just gauging the public reaction. What is intentionally leaked is often more extreme than the actual policy proposed, so that when the real announcement is made the position feels fairly moderate and reasonable, but in fact the boundaries of what people will accept had been psychologically shifted in the preferred direction of travel. The politicians can also safely deny and dismiss the accuracy of the leak and claim that they are, of course, listening to the people.
Unlike the barbarism of the SCotUS
The sweary British political comedy written by comedic genius Armando Iannucci ( Producer and Director of Alan Partridge ) THE THICK OF IT is for you (maybe not with Lilian and children though ) and The American political comedy VEEP is fantastic and again heavily involved Armando Iannucci....
The end goal was shown in the sequel Yes Prime Minister Felipe and it didn't work out that well for Jim Hacker
Nice review. You need a quieter chair though.
The policy was to amalgamate (bring together) the trains, buses, taxis all together. But it was so difficult to do they were trying to put the Prime Minister off.
I'm just starting out with your channel, Felipe. It's nice to see that you share the same humor with your audience. I, too, am a very big fan of Yes, Minister/Prime Minister.
Thanks
Oh look, a park
Felipe is everything okay its been 3 months 👍🏻
my favorite show
Hiya Filipe and Lillian, I hope you starting vlogging again soon, I really do miss you, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumberland, England
Have you seen any documentaries by Adam Curtis? ' The Century of the Self ' is presently on YT. His latest series is on iPlayer, I think.
It's a great show to watch wasted, eh Felipe?
That’s a brilliant sitcom. Great actors, shame it’s ended
No choice. They're all dead.
@@staticcentrehalf7166 how sad.
Sadly, now but that was all decades after their brilliance on here...
@@Isleofskye doesn’t time fly 👍
Indeed it does, my friend.
At 67 years old in London I can testify to that :)
Good review.
Good Reaction, as always but I STILL do not understand why, even good reactors, reveal their thought immediately, like you did at the start, thus ruining any surprise element as to whether they were going to like it or not :)
just leaking a bit
Hi Felipe, your channel was mentioned on another channel today. It was noted that you don't seem to be posting these days. Have you stopped or just taking a break? We will be sorry to see you go.
Yes , a shame as I enjoyed Felipe’s wry humour …
Veep's pretty good!
That is like saying THe Sun is pretty warm.
It's only the third USA Series I have liked in my 67 English years and I have watched all episodes of each series, at least twice and still missed much, no doubt,,,:)
There’s a lot of chair noise and heavy breathing in this video which is distracting from the sketch. Might be a good idea to turn down your mic during the running of the sketch.
Mute button, just a thought! :-)
Its more Like the art of backstabbing in laymans terms.
Vicious but Fair with a pleasant demeanour..:)
Scriptwriting at it's best.
With Christmas coming up, you should really do a reaction to this from Yes, Minister. th-cam.com/video/vShJa6GobFQ/w-d-xo.html
Why have these guys disappeared off the face of the earth?
Yeah, their last video was "a year ago" apparently...😕
Jesus christ,can you get a quieter chair
That's Felipe's chair, not Jesus Christ's chair... he had nowhere to lay his head!
I understand you left TH-cam but why did you have to delete all your Harry Enfield reactions? I used to really enjoy watching them. That was unnecessary.
Terrible video for a masterpiece tv show. I had to stop due to the loud breathing, squeaking and the sense that the person reacting wasn't getting the material. It's the first (and last) video I tried to watch on this channel, so I apologize if after the first few minutes some or all of the things I mentioned improved. I couldn't make it past 2 minute 20.