English Customs - Yes, Minister - BBC

excuse me Effendi but I could not help overhearing your conversation about valuing the gift perhaps I can help oh well that would be yeah do you have any idea how much of course an original 17th century rosewater jar is very valuable oh dear you are not pleased yes and no you see if it's too valuable the minister won't be allowed to keep it and I was rather hoping it wasn't well as I will say an original 17th century rosewater jar is very valuable but this copy though accent is not all the same all good about how much I would be interested to hear your guess well a little under 50 pounds brilliant and you would sign evaluation certificate but of course your English customs are very strange you are so strict about a little gift and yet your electronics company pays our finance minister a million dollars for his cooperation in securing this contract is this not strange you don't mean of course I work for the finance minister I got my share of the money for keeping my mouth shut I I see would you excuse me for a moment you may speak freely oh there was a message for you in the communications room the VAT man you're 69 retains VAT 69 yes I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion burnin that the ministers had almost as many urgent messages as he can take I just found out the most terrible things are Humphrey Oh dear me this contract was obtained by bribery of course all contracts in Qumran are obtained by bribery everybody knows that it's perfectly all right as long as nobody knows shouldn't we tell the minister certainly not but if everybody knows everybody else do not let a minister know what everybody else knows bad ah Lawrence of Arabia what happened to communication who is it Napoleon

Channel: BBC Studios

Views: 928,588

Keywords: BBC, Yes Minister, Comedy, English, Customs

Id: bbTfR64PArU

Length: 2min 44sec (164 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 07 2012