Earn Your Honors | Yes, Minister | BBC

my modest wage did you say alas yes how're you get over 30,000 a year that's 7,000 more than I get yes but still a relatively modest wage relative to well Elizabeth Taylor for example pantry you are not relative to Elizabeth Taylor there are important differences mm-hmm indeed yes she didn't get a first at Oxford you do not retire into obscurity you take a massive index-linked pension and go after gum directors of oil companies and banks ah yes but very obscure directors minister you're in no danger of the SEC in industry if you screw things up you get the boot in the civil service if you screw things up I get the book very droll Minister now if you've approved the list you know I am NOT going to approve any honor for any civil servant in this department who has earned it what you mean earned it I mean earned it done something to deserve it but that's unheard of my new policy is to withhold all honors from all civil servants in this department who do not make a cut in their budgets of 5% per year I take it the jaw silence indicates approval you may not where did you get that preposterous idea it just came to me but it's ridiculous it's unheard of it's out of the question why but the whole idea is it strikes at the very roots of verb they do the dead look it's the beginning of the end the thin end of the wedge a beright solution where will it end the abolition of the monarchy absurd Humphrey there is no reason to change a system which has worked so well in the past that it hasn't but we've got to give the present system a fair trial oh yes I thought you might say that it may interest you to know Humphrey that the most noble Order of the Garter was founded in 1348 by King Edward the third I think perhaps it may be coming towards the end of its trial Tyrion now if you block honors pending economies you might create a dangerous precedent you mean that if we do the right thing this time we might have to do the right thing again next time which one had philosophy nothing would ever get done at all on the contrary many many things must be done but nothing was gone for the first what happening is that I am fully seized of your aims and of course I will do my utmost to see that they're put into practice work to that end I recommend that we set up an interdepartmental committee with fairly broad terms of reference so that at the end of the day we'll be in the position to think through the various implications and arrive at a decision based on long-term considerations rather than rush prematurely into precipitate and possibly ill-conceived action which might well have unforeseen repercussions you mean no

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Length: 3min 8sec (188 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 29 2010