3:04 "Don't we ever get our own way with the French? "Well... sometimes" "When was the last time?" "Battle of Waterloo, 1815" I love the long view that Humphrey has of these things. From a long-term historical perspective, Britain and France have of course fought each other for far longer than they've been allies of any sort. He also said Britain's nuclear defense strategy was first and foremost to protect them against the french, not the Soviets.
"Stimulating". Ah yes, one of Sir Humphrey's insults, along with "refreshing" and "bold and imaginative" when describing Hacker's more off-beat approaches to an issue. Of course, he reserves "courageous" for Hacker's really hare-brained ideas.
Humphrey had experience with Jim's handling things himself when both were at the DAA. To his credit, it was usually Humphrey who had to step in and sort things out because Jim's ideas were often ill-conceived and ill-considered. To his debit, Humphrey is generally opposed to change. Sometimes, however, Humphrey doesn't necessarily oppose change but wants to see it implemented in a careful and method manner. After all, he's been in government service long enough to see the same policies proposed, adopted, and implemented, only to see them repealed when they fall out of favor.
@@Mnogojazyk True...yet the VERY best episodes (IMO) are when they team up to confront an "external" threat... those are gold. To stray into the real world for a moment.. the wonderful book "Eggs or Anarchy" about the Minister of Food in WW2 Britain (and his Ministry of course) reminded me immediately of those episodes. (He started somewhat at odds with his PPS... but by the time he moved on to other responsibilities their relationship was not just strong..but very warm as well...)
@@sihollett Also with the mobile phone signal. Leaving Britain, you can still connect to O2/EE/Vodafone all the way under the sea. Leaving France, you continue to use a roaming network until Dover.
This show still continues to amaze me at just how well written, superbly acted, and how relevant sadly it still is today. Hard to believe this is nearly 40 years old.
This program is a bit misleading it portrays Jim as the protagonist despite being a spineless politician with no real firm opinions or real convictions while pretending to be Churchill the exact opposite. On the other side Humphrey is seen as the bad or the antagonist the civil service foot dragging quasi corrupt burocrat. This crates the illusion to an impressionable suffice that all politicians are by and large good people would be able to get along to do the right thing if the civil service was not in the way. When the reality is politicians do more harm than good and sometimes it’s up to the burocrats to pick up the pieces of their ministers cockups and keep everything running despite being obnoxious self serving inefficient foot dragging unelected unaccountable buerocrats.
@Jenny Radcliffe You do realize that exiting only makes the international issues *more* complicated when you no longer have a common set of laws to agree on?
@@razgrizdefias He even stands and poses like Churchill in some scenes. It's a shame that Paul Eddington never got an award for this. Nigel Hawthorne is the quintessential Sir Humphrey, but Eddington really is the perfect Hacker too.
John & High are right, they all do it, Boris is terrible for it. The modern political class are like reckless little boys roleplaying at being the great leaders of old. And when somebody uninterested in roleplaying comes along, they're deemed "boring" or "lacking presence".
The frontier is in the middle, the railway uses French systems and rules. The trains are under the jurisdiction of the destination country and there are control zones at Dover and Calais that are under jurisdiction of the French and British respectively and act as border crossings. There is also a special provision that if the jurisdiction is uncertain, it falls under the jurisdiction of the country that discovered the issue first.
There's a movie in my country for which the triggering event is that a corpse is found right on the border between the provinces of Quebec and Ontario, so the police authorities of both jurisdictions have to cooperate in the investigation despite their misgivings.
@@princevesperal In Germany there was the joke that on their side of the German-Swiss border, two Swiss border guards come across some guy with a rope around his neck, dangling from a tree. "He's dead. What shall we do?" "Don't report. Too much paperwork, too much hassle. Let's cut him down, carry him over, let him dangle on the German side." So they do. Later, the German border guards come along. "Hey Hans, look. The corpse is hanging there... again!"
"The other question is, given that the Brits drive on the left and the French drive on the right and we're building two tunnels, which tunnel should the trains to France use and which should the trains to Britain use?" "Well, why don't both countries use their own method?" "That might work once, at least partways."
There is a small island called Île aux Faisans, which sits in a river that marks the border between France and Spain. Because of its historical significance for both countries, the sovereignty over the island switches every six months between the two. That could be an idea for a tunnel, too.
@@Ruhrpottpatriot that could work if BOTH SIDES are willing to compromise. which is DEFINITELY NOT THE CASE for french and brits. for Germany and Belgium, it could work because it's clear who have more power between the 2 (that is, German). thus, should Germans willing to acquiesce/compromise, and Belgium don't push Germans too far, things could definitely work. Brits and French is basically similar in terms of power, thus the impossibility for one side to acquiesce without being condemned by their own people (and both sides are democracy too, therefore making people condemnation even more influential).
If a someone of another nationality chunders in the Chunnel, who claims it, France or Britain? Is it cleaned up with a British mop and a French bucket, or vica versa?
Depends on which way the chunderer is facing in the chunnel. He is assumed to be insulting the nation he is chundering towards and is arrest by their police when he leaves the chunnel
The Eurostar, not being a duplex train, makes the term Chunder redundant anyway. There is never anyone below you to shout the warning at. And not being subject to wave motion, (all of that is way above you, beyond the tunnel roof and the sea bed), vomiting due to sea sickness is therefore impossible anyway. Nor does either English Eurostar or French Eurostar feel the need to provide sickness bags, as do airlines. We should knock this one on the head now.
@@josephinebennington7247 I'm glad we are treating this with the seriousness it deserves, but you CAN have someone below you. Vehicles can be up to 4.2 meters, which is easily high enough for someone vomiting out of the cab to have a person below
If we negotiate and sign a deal for a tunnel can we then say 12 months later that the tunnel we wanted is now causing us great problems and then "demand" to cancel the tunnel or maybe have the tunnel start in a different country while knowing that this other country doesn't want a tunnel.
Or sign a contract for a tunnel to be built and designed in 5 years at 3 billion then have the French come back 3 years later and say it’s going to take 30 years and 10 billion; oh and we haven’t designed anything yet or started the building, but it’s the same contract and you just have to put up with it .
This was funny...the French Police let a bomb into London...the French President wanted to give a puppy to the Queen and the puppy was a progeny of the very dog that the Queen had first presented to the French President!! And 6 months quarantine law on dogs coming into the UK... Who thought of all that??
The two writers on the show have confirmed that the stories in each episode were based on real events and/or accounts from civil servants about what they experienced.
@@telectronix1368 that's not completely right, from memory, the writers said some stories were made up, and only after the episode/s were shown, people sent in even more ridiculous examples from real life. I think one was the new empty hospital that gained all the efficiency awards, because it had no patients or doctors [due to budget cutbacks].
To make sure that viewers understand that they are making jokes and not just plainly stating how things work in goverment. It is easy to mix these two things in Yes Minister
If an Englishman murders a Frenchman in a British train in the French part of the tunnel travelling towards England, and he is arrested by a French gendarme, which country has jurisdiction?
Simple: The French. Criminal jurisdiction as per international law is always handled by the state whose soil the crime was committed on. It doesn't matter who does it (else the UK would have jurisdiction over a murder by a Brit in Paris), nor on whose train it's on (else Poland would have jurisdiction over a crime that was committed with a truck from their country). The only problematic part is the gendarme who captures the criminal, after crossing the border he has no jurisdiction and the criminal would have to be captured by a UK policeman and then extradited to France. But that's really an academic problem, since you can automatically grant administrative assistance to both parties between Dover and Calais. And yes, I'm fun at parties.
The English, once a train has passed a border checkpoint it's legally in the other country. If it's in the tunnel and going to England it's in England. Which means they sort of went with Bernard's idea. It's also conveient because those are the ones who will be waiting for the criminal at the end of the tunnel.
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Ah, yes. British negotiation tactics. It doesn't matter the end result, as long as it appears that they gained the upper hand and got away with their demands in the negotiations.
No this is why you don't give decisions like leaving the EU to the general population, because they really don't have a clue about things like how difficult it will be and what the effects will be. The pro Brexit politicians were basically the pm here, but noone listened to Humphrey.
@@mavsworld1733 I don't think they are mutually exclusive. It really does take a special kind of talent (Boris Johnson) to make the worst of a bad situation (Brexit).
Which platform showcases this old TV series? I’ve checked Apple TV, Amazon and Netflix but cannot find this series listed under any of these platforms.
Why not seperate the tracks by direction? Incoming traffic is yours, outgoing is theirs. You get a small customs point on the other end under your authority to check things. After that it is your problem...
This is basically how France behaves to everyone though, they always think they are the most important party in the room regardless. Charles De Gaulle was rescued, sheltered in Britain, allowed a platform to communicate with Free French and given every realistic courtesy considering the circumstances while in the UK during the war. Despite his country's and government's capitulation and occupation he still thought HE should be directing the war effort in France lel. He got put in his place by Churchill for Yalta and Potsdam when he tried to sit at the table with Stalin and Roosevelt. Secondary power and not important enough.
@@alioshax7797 Britain still has a bigger economy and more global influence. France wishes it was as globally influential and relevant as the UK. France wishes more people spoke and learnt French, but it's English and Anglo Saxon culture all the way. Napoleon lost, we still feel it now and it still hurts for the French I guess
@@jimpydee4729 Indeed, but by a slight margin. So much for a former global power. Also, if English is the language of international communication today, it has little to do with the UK, and a lot to do with the US. You don't account for much in "Anglo-Saxon culture" in 2023. But anyway, with the UK out of the EU, I'm still looking to see this "vast influence". Both the UK and France are declining medium-tier powers today, but one of them can use the combined influence of 26 other countries. The other cannot.
Much like the Danish claim Hans Island, just off the coast of Canada, because it's within 20km of Iceland (but still closer to Canada). The claim is easily dismissed with a single question, "if Hans Island is part of Denmark, then how many German troops occupied it during WWII?" I should be Minister of Foreign Affairs.
None of Greenland was occupied by Germany during WW2, though. However, the British Channel Islands *were* occupied along with France during the same war. Does that make them French?
Before Brexit there was a French custom post on the British side (which you basically strolled through) and nothing on the French side (off the train and go on your merry way) while the British custom post on the French side grilled you to within an inch of your life and then there was another British customs post on the British side that did the same. So it was the British that were obsessed with frontier authority rather than the French who barely cared. I don't know how it works now post Brexit. When I lived in Italy you could buy a ticket from a machine at Termini and go virtually any where in Europe on a whim. The only people that seemed to care about borders are us and the Swiss.
I know this was solved in reality (the tunnel exists), but, at this point in time, couldn't they just put the EU in charge of everything, as a neutral party?
What leo said. Plus, giving an international organization jurisdiction would have wide-ranging consequences, e.g. the EU would have to establish criminal tribunals to prosecute those who committ crimes abroad. This would, even today, be outside the scope of the Union's competences. (Not to mention that giving the EU jurisdiction would have been no less controversial than e.g. giving France full jurisdiction. Ref #Brexit)
Plus the EU wasn't what it is today and didn't have sovereignty in any meaningful sense and no set legal jurisdiction, until of course the later treaties in the 90s and 2000s
Depends if you are talking about events of Frensh soil , Nutritional soil or indeed English soil. If you are talking about English Soil you would need to look at The Norman Conquest even then The French left a good few behind. I always say the only thing wrong with France as a country is It's full of Frensh people lol. But you do have to hand it to The French they are the most hospitable people in the world lineing all the roads to Paris with trees so The German soldiers could marcch all theway un to Paris in the shade how hospitable is that lol. I believe France translates in to English as Door Mat lol.
Surely its irrelevant? if its a foreign citizen in another country ,obviously you are subject to their laws.a regular citizen or company cant claim diplomatic immunity😁
Imagine letting Hacker do the Brexit negotiations...of course that could not arise now ...with such able politicians like B , May ,Foster , or Geoffrey.
The quality of the writing of this show is unsurpassed even after all these years.
It truly is amazing 👍
Art predicting the future, well strange.
Yes true I cannot get over the mindset of these Whitehall mandarins, the dialogue here will simply never be replicated on tv again.
I agree but to add that the acting and the casting of the actors was spot on also.
@Tony B I agree. This show is timeless.
3:04 "Don't we ever get our own way with the French?
"Well... sometimes"
"When was the last time?"
"Battle of Waterloo, 1815"
I love the long view that Humphrey has of these things. From a long-term historical perspective, Britain and France have of course fought each other for far longer than they've been allies of any sort. He also said Britain's nuclear defense strategy was first and foremost to protect them against the french, not the Soviets.
"Stimulating". Ah yes, one of Sir Humphrey's insults, along with "refreshing" and "bold and imaginative" when describing Hacker's more off-beat approaches to an issue. Of course, he reserves "courageous" for Hacker's really hare-brained ideas.
The writing on this show was and still is all of the above.
Never forget "novel" and "imaginative" for working papers
I love that exchange about conscription Hacker has with Bernard:
"Er, isn't conscription a rather courageous policy, minister?"
[terrified] "is it?"
I'm getting a lot of Jeeves from Humprey's stealth-insults
"Courageous would lose an election" lol
Humphrey's face when Hacker said he was going to sort it out himself was absolutely priceless.
Humphrey had experience with Jim's handling things himself when both were at the DAA. To his credit, it was usually Humphrey who had to step in and sort things out because Jim's ideas were often ill-conceived and ill-considered. To his debit, Humphrey is generally opposed to change.
Sometimes, however, Humphrey doesn't necessarily oppose change but wants to see it implemented in a careful and method manner. After all, he's been in government service long enough to see the same policies proposed, adopted, and implemented, only to see them repealed when they fall out of favor.
‘Stimulating Approach’ - thats almost a ‘courageous decision, Minister’
@@Mnogojazyk True...yet the VERY best episodes (IMO) are when they team up to confront an "external" threat... those are gold. To stray into the real world for a moment.. the wonderful book "Eggs or Anarchy" about the Minister of Food in WW2 Britain (and his Ministry of course) reminded me immediately of those episodes. (He started somewhat at odds with his PPS... but by the time he moved on to other responsibilities their relationship was not just strong..but very warm as well...)
Bernard's home and away idea isn't actually all that terrible, come to think of it. Who has jurisdiction? Depends which way the train is pointing.
But then who has jurisdiction over the service tunnel, the one in the middle for maintenance, emergencies, etc?
Which way you are going is what they did with the border. You go through border checks to enter the other country before you board the train.
@@sihollett Also with the mobile phone signal.
Leaving Britain, you can still connect to O2/EE/Vodafone all the way under the sea.
Leaving France, you continue to use a roaming network until Dover.
@@rebmcr so that's the other way around (departure country, not arrival country through the tunnel) but yes.
@@rebmcr yep, 3 are the sodding bas7ards with still zero coverage in the channel tunnel
This show still continues to amaze me at just how well written, superbly acted, and how relevant sadly it still is today. Hard to believe this is nearly 40 years old.
It may as well have been written last week.
It's hard to imagine President Brandon speaking this eloquently...
This is one of those times where Sir Humphrey had an extremely valid point.
not only that but he was trying to help jim instead of manipulating him.
This program is a bit misleading it portrays Jim as the protagonist despite being a spineless politician with no real firm opinions or real convictions while pretending to be Churchill the exact opposite.
On the other side Humphrey is seen as the bad or the antagonist the civil service foot dragging quasi corrupt burocrat.
This crates the illusion to an impressionable suffice that all politicians are by and large good people would be able to get along to do the right thing if the civil service was not in the way. When the reality is politicians do more harm than good and sometimes it’s up to the burocrats to pick up the pieces of their ministers cockups and keep everything running despite being obnoxious self serving inefficient foot dragging unelected unaccountable buerocrats.
@@internetpleb4854 interestingly, the few times jim actually wins it's a bad thing he achieved.
Not really. None of these things are insurmountable issues. I'm guessing he has an ulterior motive.
@@blaze4111 I find that very hard to believe.
I remember this in the 80's but i was too young to appreciate it. I'm 52 now and catching on all the episodes, it is just fantastic. 😂
as a former law student, I confirme that International law issues are very very difficult to settle
Care to help solve the post Brexit problems?
We don't have that problem in Australia, because nobody takes our politicans seriously. Including us.
@Jenny Radcliffe
You do realize that exiting only makes the international issues *more* complicated when you no longer have a common set of laws to agree on?
@Jenny Radcliffe Classic briton individualism.
@Jenny Radcliffe U ain't welcome.
This is one of my favorite Yes, PM episodes right here. One of the few times where Jim and Sir Humphrey BOTH emerge victorious.
You want to unite two Brits? Pit them against the French
I like how he sounds like Churchill when he gets carried away.
It's one of the great jokes that is present through the whole series, Jim loves to think of himself as the modern Churchill.
@@razgrizdefias He even stands and poses like Churchill in some scenes.
It's a shame that Paul Eddington never got an award for this. Nigel Hawthorne is the quintessential Sir Humphrey, but Eddington really is the perfect Hacker too.
They all try to sound like Churchill, some inadvertently. It’s part of being PM. Even Blair and Brown did it.
@@razgrizdefias Boris Johnson tries that.
John & High are right, they all do it, Boris is terrible for it. The modern political class are like reckless little boys roleplaying at being the great leaders of old. And when somebody uninterested in roleplaying comes along, they're deemed "boring" or "lacking presence".
Favourite episode, all three of them working together to defeat the French.
Hacker "the French are our trusted allies". Sir Humphrey "the French are our mistrusted allies"
Pretty sure all the episodes were about them working together to defeat the French.
I sorely miss the more than well-suited trio. May you all riposare in pace!
‘Yes, thank you Bernard’ 😂
He taught me everything I know
Cannot imagine how insufferably boring a person you must be to LARP as a politician you dislike on social media.
What are the actual answers to these questions now that the tunnel has been operating for almost 30 years now?
The frontier is in the middle, the railway uses French systems and rules. The trains are under the jurisdiction of the destination country and there are control zones at Dover and Calais that are under jurisdiction of the French and British respectively and act as border crossings. There is also a special provision that if the jurisdiction is uncertain, it falls under the jurisdiction of the country that discovered the issue first.
@@stensoft 😯 wow thanks.
@@stensoft good thing Jim left the negotiation of such matters for the likes of lawyers and foreign secretaries
@@stensoft Sounds like it came straight out of the mouth of Sir Humphrey.
@@stensoft Thank you, that's very informative.
It's also kinda amusing when read in Sir Humphey's voice. ;-)
What if they found a body cut in two in the middle of the tunnel? Send for Saga Norén!!
Watched the first episode on the train - hooked me in!
Unfortunately the free WiFi didn’t include any other episodes :(
Fire up the Porsche
There's a movie in my country for which the triggering event is that a corpse is found right on the border between the provinces of Quebec and Ontario, so the police authorities of both jurisdictions have to cooperate in the investigation despite their misgivings.
@@princevesperal In Germany there was the joke that on their side of the German-Swiss border, two Swiss border guards come across some guy with a rope around his neck, dangling from a tree. "He's dead. What shall we do?" "Don't report. Too much paperwork, too much hassle. Let's cut him down, carry him over, let him dangle on the German side." So they do. Later, the German border guards come along. "Hey Hans, look. The corpse is hanging there... again!"
@@DerAlex86 Ha ha ha! Good one!
Simply brilliant!
Well they could have the Belgians manage it.
ah, yes, a "compromise", when everybody is equally unhappy about the outcome!
I agree. Any crime that occurs on a train in Europe should be solved by Hercule Poirot.
It actually is. Belgium is part owner of Eurostar and Thalys.
@@gcolman7714 Eurostar is not Eurotunnel, though ;)
@@barvdw indeed. But it goes through it.
The politics is still bang on even for today.
Utterly brilliant and hilarious.
"The other question is, given that the Brits drive on the left and the French drive on the right and we're building two tunnels, which tunnel should the trains to France use and which should the trains to Britain use?"
"Well, why don't both countries use their own method?"
"That might work once, at least partways."
French railways are rule of the left,so no problem.
As long as there are no two trains using the same track, coming from opposing directions, there´s no problem.
That´s for traffic control to sort out.
There is a small island called Île aux Faisans, which sits in a river that marks the border between France and Spain. Because of its historical significance for both countries, the sovereignty over the island switches every six months between the two. That could be an idea for a tunnel, too.
Or do it like Germany and Belgium do with a certain bridge: Both have sovereignty.
@@Ruhrpottpatriot Germany and Luxembourg. There's no river border between Belgium and Germany, but there is one with the Mosel river.
@@Ruhrpottpatriot that could work if BOTH SIDES are willing to compromise. which is DEFINITELY NOT THE CASE for french and brits. for Germany and Belgium, it could work because it's clear who have more power between the 2 (that is, German). thus, should Germans willing to acquiesce/compromise, and Belgium don't push Germans too far, things could definitely work. Brits and French is basically similar in terms of power, thus the impossibility for one side to acquiesce without being condemned by their own people (and both sides are democracy too, therefore making people condemnation even more influential).
October 2021, the French and British are arguing about sausages, again.
If a someone of another nationality chunders in the Chunnel, who claims it, France or Britain? Is it cleaned up with a British mop and a French bucket, or vica versa?
I suppose it depends on the content of the outpour, ale or wine?
Depends on which end the train emerges.
Depends on which way the chunderer is facing in the chunnel. He is assumed to be insulting the nation he is chundering towards and is arrest by their police when he leaves the chunnel
The Eurostar, not being a duplex train, makes the term Chunder redundant anyway. There is never anyone below you to shout the warning at.
And not being subject to wave motion, (all of that is way above you, beyond the tunnel roof and the sea bed), vomiting due to sea sickness is therefore impossible anyway. Nor does either English Eurostar or French Eurostar feel the need to provide sickness bags, as do airlines.
We should knock this one on the head now.
@@josephinebennington7247 I'm glad we are treating this with the seriousness it deserves, but you CAN have someone below you. Vehicles can be up to 4.2 meters, which is easily high enough for someone vomiting out of the cab to have a person below
Looking forward to seeing a remake with Bojo should be fun to watch.
If we negotiate and sign a deal for a tunnel can we then say 12 months later that the tunnel we wanted is now causing us great problems and then "demand" to cancel the tunnel or maybe have the tunnel start in a different country while knowing that this other country doesn't want a tunnel.
Or sign a contract for a tunnel to be built and designed in 5 years at 3 billion then have the French come back 3 years later and say it’s going to take 30 years and 10 billion; oh and we haven’t designed anything yet or started the building, but it’s the same contract and you just have to put up with it .
French or British Menus? LOL :) Timeless writing about the need for ongoing Franco-Anglo negotiations!
you mean Anglo-Franco ... I'd bet they had a difference on that too :P
0:41 Priceless
the best of the best x3
the writing in this and yes minister were so close to the truth, Margaret Thatcher thought it possible that there were moles in the cabinet
This along with Blackadder were the greatest
'Only fools and Horses' is pretty funny as well (but yes, no 'political' nonsense).
This was funny...the French Police let a bomb into London...the French President wanted to give a puppy to the Queen and the puppy was a progeny of the very dog that the Queen had first presented to the French President!!
And 6 months quarantine law on dogs coming into the UK...
Who thought of all that??
The two writers on the show have confirmed that the stories in each episode were based on real events and/or accounts from civil servants about what they experienced.
@@telectronix1368 that's not completely right, from memory, the writers said some stories were made up, and only after the episode/s were shown, people sent in even more ridiculous examples from real life.
I think one was the new empty hospital that gained all the efficiency awards, because it had no patients or doctors [due to budget cutbacks].
Why did they have a laughing track backing this documentary ?
To make sure that viewers understand that they are making jokes and not just plainly stating how things work in goverment. It is easy to mix these two things in Yes Minister
It was filmed in front of a live audience.
Yes, I'm aware you were making a joke. ;-)
Because reality is a joke.
Filmed in front of live audience,, the same as The Good Life!
@@iglidor really?! I thought this series aws a documentary?
If an Englishman murders a Frenchman in a British train in the French part of the tunnel travelling towards England, and he is arrested by a French gendarme, which country has jurisdiction?
The americans ofcourse!
Simple: The French. Criminal jurisdiction as per international law is always handled by the state whose soil the crime was committed on. It doesn't matter who does it (else the UK would have jurisdiction over a murder by a Brit in Paris), nor on whose train it's on (else Poland would have jurisdiction over a crime that was committed with a truck from their country).
The only problematic part is the gendarme who captures the criminal, after crossing the border he has no jurisdiction and the criminal would have to be captured by a UK policeman and then extradited to France. But that's really an academic problem, since you can automatically grant administrative assistance to both parties between Dover and Calais.
And yes, I'm fun at parties.
@@Ruhrpottpatriot Lol(the last line)! German are you?
The British... or the French. :P
The English, once a train has passed a border checkpoint it's legally in the other country. If it's in the tunnel and going to England it's in England. Which means they sort of went with Bernard's idea.
It's also conveient because those are the ones who will be waiting for the criminal at the end of the tunnel.
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the ONE thing that Australian federal politicians could agree on was this show was brilliant.
Surely the respective customs at either end, and the jurisdiction for any crimes be to the country that is closest to where the crime is committed?
Spot on analysis of the French, there.
Ah, yes. British negotiation tactics. It doesn't matter the end result, as long as it appears that they gained the upper hand and got away with their demands in the negotiations.
This is Boris Johnson negotiating Britain's exit from the European Union. If only he had Jim Hacker's humility...
Except he gave it to Frost not to the lawyers
"Humility", aka indecisiveness and "argh give them the lot"... no thanks we had a PM like that... weakest and wobbliest besom ever -_- .
No this is why you don't give decisions like leaving the EU to the general population, because they really don't have a clue about things like how difficult it will be and what the effects will be. The pro Brexit politicians were basically the pm here, but noone listened to Humphrey.
@@mavsworld1733 I don't think they are mutually exclusive. It really does take a special kind of talent (Boris Johnson) to make the worst of a bad situation (Brexit).
@@jm15xy Definitely, I think that Boris can screw up even the best of ideas.
So why is it really that Sir Humphrey doesn't want him to go to France?
Which platform showcases this old TV series? I’ve checked Apple TV, Amazon and Netflix but cannot find this series listed under any of these platforms.
In 2021, wondering if these issues have been resolved yet?
Hunphrey’s only bias: France
What about football and the LSE
Why not seperate the tracks by direction? Incoming traffic is yours, outgoing is theirs. You get a small customs point on the other end under your authority to check things. After that it is your problem...
This is basically how France behaves to everyone though, they always think they are the most important party in the room regardless. Charles De Gaulle was rescued, sheltered in Britain, allowed a platform to communicate with Free French and given every realistic courtesy considering the circumstances while in the UK during the war. Despite his country's and government's capitulation and occupation he still thought HE should be directing the war effort in France lel. He got put in his place by Churchill for Yalta and Potsdam when he tried to sit at the table with Stalin and Roosevelt. Secondary power and not important enough.
France is a harsh mistress.
@@ambergris5705 France is a snooty cow that’s past her prime.
And today, Britain is even more secondary than France. History has irony, doesn't it ?
@@alioshax7797 Britain still has a bigger economy and more global influence. France wishes it was as globally influential and relevant as the UK. France wishes more people spoke and learnt French, but it's English and Anglo Saxon culture all the way. Napoleon lost, we still feel it now and it still hurts for the French I guess
@@jimpydee4729 Indeed, but by a slight margin. So much for a former global power. Also, if English is the language of international communication today, it has little to do with the UK, and a lot to do with the US. You don't account for much in "Anglo-Saxon culture" in 2023.
But anyway, with the UK out of the EU, I'm still looking to see this "vast influence". Both the UK and France are declining medium-tier powers today, but one of them can use the combined influence of 26 other countries. The other cannot.
40 yrs on, the French are still doing what the French do best…..
Toast?
Fuck*ng over the British !
It's a joke. We love you rosebeefs.
And yet the tunnel is there now without any problems.
maybe .europol with crime case.
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knotting twine is a weavers "hobby"
You'd think they could adopt the same rules as exist with airplane travel
Avion or aeroplane travel, surely. Why complicate matters by bringing Americans into this?
@@bobblehat6603 aeroplane and/or aéroplane!
so who is responsible if events happen on the train?
Split it between the tracks length ways
Much like the Danish claim Hans Island, just off the coast of Canada, because it's within 20km of Iceland (but still closer to Canada). The claim is easily dismissed with a single question, "if Hans Island is part of Denmark, then how many German troops occupied it during WWII?" I should be Minister of Foreign Affairs.
None of Greenland was occupied by Germany during WW2, though.
However, the British Channel Islands *were* occupied along with France during the same war. Does that make them French?
@@EmmettMcFly55 no you fool, it makes them German like the rest of the British Royal family!
Within 20 km of Iceland? Don't you mean Greenland?
@@EmmettMcFly55 The Channel Islands are Baliwicks of The Crown , not part of the United Kingdom.
@@highpath4776 That may be technically true, but it's not relevant here.
Are these issues sorted yet?
Before Brexit there was a French custom post on the British side (which you basically strolled through) and nothing on the French side (off the train and go on your merry way) while the British custom post on the French side grilled you to within an inch of your life and then there was another British customs post on the British side that did the same. So it was the British that were obsessed with frontier authority rather than the French who barely cared. I don't know how it works now post Brexit. When I lived in Italy you could buy a ticket from a machine at Termini and go virtually any where in Europe on a whim. The only people that seemed to care about borders are us and the Swiss.
I know this was solved in reality (the tunnel exists), but, at this point in time, couldn't they just put the EU in charge of everything, as a neutral party?
What leo said. Plus, giving an international organization jurisdiction would have wide-ranging consequences, e.g. the EU would have to establish criminal tribunals to prosecute those who committ crimes abroad. This would, even today, be outside the scope of the Union's competences.
(Not to mention that giving the EU jurisdiction would have been no less controversial than e.g. giving France full jurisdiction. Ref #Brexit)
@@StianOby Isnt the EU one of the guarantee parties for the Good Friday Agreement ?
Plus the EU wasn't what it is today and didn't have sovereignty in any meaningful sense and no set legal jurisdiction, until of course the later treaties in the 90s and 2000s
The EU has no Civil Law and no police. Law enforcing isn't one of their competences (appart from very specific cases).
"We've always had problems with the french" how very prophetic.
Prophetic? He's refencing the past 1000 years.
I think it's more Agincourt than Waterloo
Sluys? Crecy? Poitiers? Yom Kippur....?
Depends if you are talking
about events of Frensh soil ,
Nutritional soil or indeed
English soil.
If you are talking about
English Soil you would need to look at The Norman Conquest even then
The French left a good few behind.
I always say the only thing
wrong with France as a country is
It's full of Frensh people lol.
But you do have to hand it
to The French they are the most hospitable people in the world lineing all the roads to Paris with trees so The German soldiers could marcch all theway un to Paris in the shade how hospitable is that lol.
I believe France translates in to
English as Door Mat lol.
@@marcokite I see no possible way to refute Yom Kippur as I am laughing too much.
Everyone knows Waterloo was purely defensive until the Prussians turned up!
Surely its irrelevant? if its a foreign citizen in another country ,obviously you are subject to their laws.a regular citizen or company cant claim diplomatic immunity😁
I would say let them both have jurisdiction in the tunnel. It's stupid that either police could not make an arrest.
But then would you bring them to France or the UK for judging? Knowing the UK negotiators that point alone would take years.....
@@peterhuys2413The country they committed the crime in.
And anyone that has traveled Eurostar you know how this ended. 🙄🙄
The sad thing is our country probably runs like this to some degree lol
Substitute Boris Johnson for Jim Hacker and that was how Brexit was negotiated.
chutney hehrem
(bugger off I'm important.)
The Battle of Waterloo reference is comedic gold. The Brits had they're way with the French 20 times over..
Home and away 😂😂😂
Xo
Imagine letting Hacker do the Brexit negotiations...of course that could not arise now ...with such able politicians like B , May ,Foster , or Geoffrey.
Concorde - The “e” stands for “England”
Humphrey is such a loathsome toad.
In 2021, we have to rename this ”Eurotunnel” to something more suitable.
Brixhit-tunnel, perhaps?
The tranquil toad hemperly manage because step-grandmother comparably thaw than a fantastic connection. aromatic, male ex-husband