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Reminds me of "Yes Minister" | 234 comments | Create New Account
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Alsup would not have stood for it n/t
Authored by: cjk fossman on Wednesday, November 07 2012 @ 08:41 PM EST

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8,000 pages!!?? Hogan could wiz thru that in a couple of days! - n/t
Authored by: Gringo_ on Wednesday, November 07 2012 @ 10:33 PM EST

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Reminds me of "Yes Minister"
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, November 08 2012 @ 07:13 AM EST
Where the civil servants would give the Ministers huge boxes
of boring documents and hide the controversial or
undesirable stuff somewhere around page 380. The Minister
would almost invariably sign off on the box of papers as
approved (to keep his sanity), and the civil servants would
then be able to use the approved controversial documents in
some way to benefit their agenda or as leverage over the
Minister for some purpose.

Actually it isn't funny when you try to explain it, but the
series (and "Yes Prime Minister") is well worth a look,
especially for Brits, or people with a broad understanding
of how British politics works (or who just want a basic
crash course in how the powers-that-be can manipulate things
to suit their agendas.) "The thick of it" and "In the Loop"

are a more modern treatment of similar issues but with more
swearing.

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