Jim Accidentally Closes The City Farm | Yes Minister | BBC Comedy Greats

mrs. Philips Minister those mrs. Philips the warden of the city farm you visited yesterday haha she pleased with the publicity I got a father well she doesn't seem too pleased why not she's just heard the farm has been closed mister the lease is up at the end of the year she just has been turned into a car park for Inland Revenue inspectors what will they say about this children and animals evicted by taxman Minister goes back on TV pledge stand there do something bill what idiot authorized that oh you did Minister the administrative order you signed yesterday giving government departments power to take over local authority land section 7 some significant fresh this is on his way Minister and I'm afraid mrs. Philips is waiting in the private office as the last person I want to see this is the greatest disaster this century Bernhard there were two world wars fighting on the beaches is one thing evicting cuddly animals and children to make room for text inspectors cars it's quite another league what treats never mind about television what's this about the city farm being closed oh yes well the Treasury acting on it suddenly stopped well unfortunately it is a Treasury decision and beyond our jurisdiction I shall revoke the order well unfortunately that is impossible or very difficult we're highly inadvisable or would require legislation one of those in any case it could not invalidate an action taken while the order was in force so I dudas the supporters must see that our lease is renewed I'm afraid it's not within the minister's mr. hacker you have given your word are you going to keep it well of course I shall leave no stick no stone and every avenue on it is humanly possible you mean no no let me yes I mean no no yes I mean well definitely not no yes I mean no don't say I haven't warned you my husband is deputy features editor of the Express tomorrow morning your name will be manure you will be roasted alive by the whole of the National Press well it falls to few people to be within the space of 24 hours both son Francis and some Joan something must be done to stop this farm closing otherwise we shall look at complete yes apparently sir Desmond Glazebrook sir he want I can't imagine here same to me after all this is opened at the department of administrative affairs I just happened to be passing I've had an idea if you were to give us permission for an extra nine stories on your EOS give us six oh yes but if you were to give us nine extra stories yeah we could postpone phase three for seven years that would leave this site vacant well well I was reading this morning in the in the Financial Times about your visit to a city farm I thought it was a jolly good wheeze then do you see our phase three side isn't it 200 yards from it so you could use it to extend the farm or if they had to move for any reason it's actually a bit larger we thought of calling it the James hacker cuddly animal sanctuary nine stories really isn't very much James hacker animal sanctuary hmm you know Humphrey I think government has got to be awfully careful about throttling small businesses the bank isn't actually a small business would be if we throttled it Burma you

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Length: 4min 18sec (258 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 28 2020