The writings on the wall.
If anything we will have to think of something to make the public think kindly towards administration
because of the Europass. Quite...
Europass?? Europass??
European Identity Card. Well, Bernard, surely you've informed the minister of...
Minister, didn't you do your boxes last night. No, I was redrafting the redraft of the draft.
Briefly, Minister, Brussels is about to decree that there should be a new European Identity
Card to be carried by all the citizens of the EEC.
Good Lord... The Foreign Office is quite really to go along
with it as a quid pro quo for a deal over the butter mountain, the wine lake and milk
ocean... The lamb war and the cod stick... And quite obviously the Prime Minister wants
you to introduce the legislation. Me?
Yes, it's well known that you're pro-Europe, you see... And it would simplify our administration
enormously in the long run, so it's a good idea.
Good idea!? Good Idea!!??
GOOD IDEA!!!??? Not a good idea?
Political suicide! Trying to make British citizens carry compulsory
identification papers! They'll say I'm introducing a Police State
again! That's why we fought two World Wars for, Humphrey?
Well, Minister, it's really little more than a sort of a driving license.
It's the last nail in my coffin, that's what it is!
You might get away with it by calling it EuroClub Express...
Bernard, get out! Why do we have to introduce it?
Can't the Foreign Office do it? While in fact, that's the Prime Minister original
suggestion but the Foreign Secretary thought this was a Home Office matter and the Home
Office took the view that it was essentially an administrative matter and the prime minister
agreed. They are all playing pass the parcel!
Can you blame them when you can hear it ticking... Well, I'm afraid that the identity card bill
is planned to be the last action of this department... Wonderful ammunition for the anti-Europeans...
Does the Foreign Office realize what damage this will do to the European ideal?
I'm sure they do, that's why they support it.
But.. Surely the Foreign Office is pro-Europe, isn't it?
Yes and no, if you forgive the expression. The Foreign Office is pro-Europe because it
is really anti-Europe. The Civil Service was united in it's desire
to make sure the Common Market didn't work. That's why we went into it.
What are you talking about?! Minister, Britain has had the same Foreign
Policy objective for at least the last 500 years.
To create a disunited Europe! In that cause we have fought the with the
Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, With the French and Italians
against the Germans and with the French against the Germans and Italians.
Divide and rule, you see! Why should we change now when it has worked
so well! Ancient history, surely!
Yes, and current policy! We had to break the whole thing up so we had
to get inside. We tried to break it out from the outside
but that wouldn't work. No that we're inside we can make a complete
pig's breakfast of the whole thing! Set the Germans against the French, the French
against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch!
The Foreign Office is terribly pleased! It's just like the old times!
Surely we are all committed to the European ideal!
Really, Minister... If not, why are we pressing for an increase
in the membership? Well, for the same reason.
It's just like the United Nations in fact. The more members it has, the more arguments
it can stir up. The more futile and impotent it becomes.
Appalling cynicism... Yes... We call it diplomacy, minister.
Yes, Minister was on point
‘The Foreign Office is terribly pleased, it’s just like old times!’
one day I want to be able to speak like that.
Well this certainly aged like fine wine.
Brilliant
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I'll always love how quickly these posts devolve into "Britain was basically evil during ww2" and the ever-glorious "England only ever stabs France in the back!"
Sure lots of Dividing and Ruling going on.
And now they want to leave and make the EU more united than ever before. The foreign policy minister fuked up at the only thing it was good at.
Andcwe still want the UK in the EU.