Minister Rejects His Own Petition | Yes Minister | BBC Comedy Greats

well i don't follow you say that you're out to stop bugging and phone tapping and now you get this petition two and a quarter million signatures a terrific boost for your case and you won't even give me a quote saying you welcome it what about a promise to implement its main recommendations well it's not quite as simple as that walter why not well there are security implications there always were okay i think i'm making an even bigger story minister rejects his own petition no no hold on are you accepting it or rejecting it no my editor wants me to ask if being on the freedom army death list has altered your views on phone tapping in any way but i also like to explain this sudden change of tune no no no change of tune uh cancer humphrey have a moment i'm free what can we do for you well would you excuse us yes i'm so sorry i won't be a minute i'll wait out there thank you so much well did you have a good weekend minister marvellous just me and annie and half of the special branch oh yeah those romantic roses smith and wesson's under their armpits unforgettable ah the burdens of office this can't go on humphrey i'm glad you said that minister because it isn't going to we've just heard from the special branch that your protection is being withdrawn oh now wait a minute i i i i didn't mean that why well the police have suffered an acute personnel establishment shortfall never they're short-staffed so they can no longer continue protecting you short stopped it's because of a much more real and dangerous threat to the soviet premier at the chequers meeting tomorrow but he's russian i'm british well [Music] the uh special branch have reason to believe that the threat to your life has been diminished how do they know surveillance they overheard a conversation what did it say oh i don't think it's of anything i'm humphrey i have a right to know well it was a conversation to the effect that um in view of the somewhat nebulous and inexplicit nature of your remit and the arguably marginal and peripheral nature of your influence on the central deliberations and decisions within the political process that there could be a case for restructuring their action priorities in such a way as to eliminate your liquidation from their immediate agenda they said that that was the gist of it what does it mean in english well it means that they don't think that you're really important enough for it to be worth assassinating you oh now i don't agree with them of course oh you mean right you mean they should assassinate no no no you mean you don't think i'm important enough no i mean you are important enough but they shouldn't assassinate you anyway well that's marvellous isn't it not that i was ever really worried you

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Length: 3min 45sec (225 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 17 2020