The empty hospital - Yes Minister - BBC comedy

Thank You Brown oh good morning Berlin just two points Minister the Cuban political refugees so not that again it looks as if there's a row blowing up over our refusal to do any more forward well it's not my fault it's the Treasury yes quite you can't meet the Treasury murmured I should just say nothing oh yeah one more public humiliation and I shall become a political refugee myself hold out the point well you asked me to find out about that alleged empty Hospital in North London who yes well as I warned you Minister the driver's network is not wholly reliable Roy has got it wrong thank heavens for that how did you find out through the private secretaries Network and uh well in fact there are only 342 administrative staff at the News nedra's hospital the other 170 are Porter's cleaners laundry workers gardeners cooks and so forth and how many medical staff Oh none of them none no better we are talking about stainless Hospital oh yes it's brand-new was completed 15 months ago and fully staffed but unfortunately at that time there were government cutbacks so consequently there was no money left for medical services brand-new hospital with over 500 non-medical staff and no pitch no there is one patient what yes the deputy chief administrator fell over a piece of scaffolding afraid yeah thank heavens I haven't asked about this in the house why hasn't it got out well actually I think it's been contrived to keep looking like a building site and so far no one's realized its operational oh you know scaffolding skip still there the normal thing the normal thing like I better go and have a look at this before the opposition does yes it's surprising the press haven't found out by now isn't it fortunately Berna most of our journalists are so incompetent that have the gravest difficulty in finding out that today is Wednesday it's actually Thursday you

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Length: 2min 1sec (121 seconds)

Published: Wed May 30 2007