The best Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister episodes are the ones where Hacker gets one over on Humphrey.
I was lucky enough to find a few episodes on iPlayer recently and the quality of acting is just great. Hacker and Humphrey can both sell lines with just facial expressions.
Is there anywhere else you can watch it legally?
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The best Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister episodes are the ones where Hacker gets one over on Humphrey.
I was lucky enough to find a few episodes on iPlayer recently and the quality of acting is just great. Hacker and Humphrey can both sell lines with just facial expressions.
There was a documentary about it where, evidently, as they got further on in the series they'd just leave some space in the script to let Paul Eddington improvise around lines like that because they knew he'd manage it so well.
I don't think we know who started trying to blame Cummings for these leaks, but he did make the mistake of having a messy break up with a guy who knows where all the bodies are buried.
Dominic Cummings has launched a blistering attack on his old boss Boris Johnson, questioning his "competence and integrity".
The former top adviser denied leaking text messages sent between Mr Johnson and businessman Sir James Dyson.
And he claimed Mr Johnson once had a "possibly illegal" plan for donors to pay for renovations of the Downing Street flat.
No 10 said ministers had always obeyed codes of conduct and electoral law.
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In his blog, Mr Cummings also claimed Mr Johnson had considered stopping the inquiry [into the source of the leak about the second lockdown].
He wrote that he recalled a meeting between Mr Johnson and the cabinet secretary at the time, after an inquiry had been launched, at which the cabinet secretary allegedly said "all the evidence definitely leads to Henry Newman and others in that office".
At the time, Mr Newman was a special adviser at the Cabinet Office. He took up a role in Downing Street earlier this year.
Mr Cummings claims that, in a conversation he had with the PM afterwards, Boris Johnson said: "If Newman is confirmed as the leaker then I will have to fire him, and this will cause me very serious problems with Carrie [Symonds - the PM's fiancee] as they're best friends… [pause] perhaps we could get the cabinet secretary to stop the leak inquiry?"
In response to Mr Cummings' claims, a Downing Street statement said: "The prime minister has never interfered in a government leak inquiry."
The words "Did you threaten to overrule him?" just came into my head, I have no idea why.
Count Binface is running for London Mayor and used to be Lord Buckethead.
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And what is it with Count Binface and Lord Buckethead. Exactly what are they protesting?
Nothing in particular, they're just comedy candidates/protest votes
A large part of it is the opportunity to create a situation where the serious candidates have to stand on a stage with a person in a ridiculous costume while the returning officer reads the results, which is why lord buckethead stood for parliament in Theresa May's constituency while she was prime minister
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So wait he “allegedly” used improper campaign donations to renovate an apartment that he doesn’t own? And he gets 30,000 pounds for repairs and improvements every year. That seams like a really dumb thing to do. I can think of all sorts of ways to do that renovation and have it be fine. Just takes a bit of planning.
At least in the U.S. when we misappropriate money for renovations, it’s to a house we actually own.
Also, there is some amusement to be had from the fact that UKIP candidate Peter Gammons, and far right crank Laurence Fox, are polling identically to a person with a bin on their head
Count Binface is running for London Mayor and used to be Lord Buckethead.
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The one without a title challenged his Lordship to a head-cuttin' duel and destroyed him and forced him into wearing a trash receptacle.
But I'm happy to see that the Count is dedicated to up holding a fine British tradition, in the spirit of that great 18th century figure Ivar Jest-Ye-Not-Madam Biggun (Standing In the Back Dressed Stupidly and Acting Stupid Party) who sought the MPship of Dunny-on-the-Wold.
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Count Binface is running for London Mayor and used to be Lord Buckethead.
Copyright issues?
The one without a title challenged his Lordship to a head-cuttin' dual and destroyed him and forced him into wearing a trash receptacle.
But I'm happy to see that the Count is dedicated to up holding a fine British tradition, in the spirit of that great 18th century figure Ivar Jest-Ye-Not-Madam Biggun (Standing In the Back Dressed Stupidly and Acting Stupid Party) who sought the MPship of Dunny-on-the-Wold.
Ah yes, I seem to recall his flagship policies as being the compulsory serving of asparagus at breakfast, free corsets for the under-fives and some extremist nonsense about abolishing slavery.
Oh, says here he only put that last one in for a joke.
Also, there is some amusement to be had from the fact that UKIP candidate Peter Gammons, and far right crank Laurence Fox, are polling identically to a person with a bin on their head
The best Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister episodes are the ones where Hacker gets one over on Humphrey.
I was lucky enough to find a few episodes on iPlayer recently and the quality of acting is just great. Hacker and Humphrey can both sell lines with just facial expressions.
Is there anywhere else you can watch it legally?
Amazon Prime has it.
It's on Britbox if you can stand getting another streaming service.
I realise that almost nothing sticks to him, but if there's an audio recording of this then Johnson is surely completely fucked.
We used to say the same thing about Trump. 'Surely, this gigantic pile of shit will be the one to completely engulf and swallow him and his career!' And the only reason the orange-faced fuck isn't president anymore is because of an all-too-close election.
Never, ever underestimate the power of stupid people and those they vote for.
It just keeps coming in waves. Last night the guardian was reporting that BoJo met one of the super League managers at no 10 days before the official launch, starting rumours that he'd probably given it his blessing before the shit hit the fan.
They tried to pass it off as an unrelated random encounter but do football club managers usually wander about the corridors of no 10 for no reason? Even if there's nothing to it the lame excuses just make it look like there is.
Some people will agree with him, some won't care either way, and some will allow any awfulness so long as they think he'll conduct government in the way they want.
The key point I'm taking away is so much what he said so much as the paper's reporting on it. If the tabloids decide to go after him, that's a huge blow for him. It feels like we're moving past the 'support the PM in times of crisis' phase and on to the 'blame the PM for the crisis' one that always follows.
Some people will agree with him, some won't care either way, and some will allow any awfulness so long as they think he'll conduct government in the way they want.
Some people will agree with him, some won't care either way, and some will allow any awfulness so long as they think he'll conduct government in the way they want.
Call me cynical, but the BBC article reads a bit like damage control. Change the quote from "No more fucking lockdowns – let the bodies pile high in their thousands" to merely "could pile high". Changing that one word from "let" to "could" removes the very obvious intent when taken out of context. Likewise they soften the context from Johnson raging against lockdowns to "a heated discussion about lockdown".
Granted, this is up against the 'quality' jouranilism of the Daily Heil, so...
Francis Urquhart, 10 Downing's Street's very own Mr Clean.
It's been intetesting across the whole world to see the rhetorical tongue twisters deployed to try and avoid announcing another lockdown. Tiers and colour codes and circuit breakers and so on. All to avoid the pretty valid conclusion that the first (and/or second) lockdown was a failure.
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I was lucky enough to find a few episodes on iPlayer recently and the quality of acting is just great. Hacker and Humphrey can both sell lines with just facial expressions.
Is there anywhere else you can watch it legally?
Amazon Prime has it.
There was a documentary about it where, evidently, as they got further on in the series they'd just leave some space in the script to let Paul Eddington improvise around lines like that because they knew he'd manage it so well.
So Dom has been blogging after Number 10 decided to blame all the leaks on him.
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Hell hath no fury like a massive ego scorned.
Count Binface is running for London Mayor and used to be Lord Buckethead.
Copyright issues?
You know that laugh Jim Carrey has in Batman Forever when he's watching the TV? I'm having that exact feeling. The words "Did you threaten to overrule him?" just came into my head, I have no idea why.
And what is it with Count Binface and Lord Buckethead. Exactly what are they protesting?
Immediately gets asked, "But did a Tory donor give him that money first?", deflect, deflect, deflect.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56878223
Nothing in particular, they're just comedy candidates/protest votes
A large part of it is the opportunity to create a situation where the serious candidates have to stand on a stage with a person in a ridiculous costume while the returning officer reads the results, which is why lord buckethead stood for parliament in Theresa May's constituency while she was prime minister
At least in the U.S. when we misappropriate money for renovations, it’s to a house we actually own.
https://metro.co.uk/2021/04/21/laurence-fox-tied-with-count-binface-on-1-in-race-to-be-london-mayor-14450802/
The one without a title challenged his Lordship to a head-cuttin' duel and destroyed him and forced him into wearing a trash receptacle.
But I'm happy to see that the Count is dedicated to up holding a fine British tradition, in the spirit of that great 18th century figure Ivar Jest-Ye-Not-Madam Biggun (Standing In the Back Dressed Stupidly and Acting Stupid Party) who sought the MPship of Dunny-on-the-Wold.
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Ah yes, I seem to recall his flagship policies as being the compulsory serving of asparagus at breakfast, free corsets for the under-fives and some extremist nonsense about abolishing slavery.
Oh, says here he only put that last one in for a joke.
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Peter Gammons is a wonderful example of nominative determinism.
It's on Britbox if you can stand getting another streaming service.
Real genius move picking a fight with Cummings, guys. And just before the local elections as well. 90% of comedy is timing, after all.
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We used to say the same thing about Trump. 'Surely, this gigantic pile of shit will be the one to completely engulf and swallow him and his career!' And the only reason the orange-faced fuck isn't president anymore is because of an all-too-close election.
Never, ever underestimate the power of stupid people and those they vote for.
I can has cheezburger, yes?
They tried to pass it off as an unrelated random encounter but do football club managers usually wander about the corridors of no 10 for no reason? Even if there's nothing to it the lame excuses just make it look like there is.
all I need now is for Boris to quote Sun Tzu but misunderstand the content of it in an ironic way.
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"He didn't mean my body"
Leopards, faces, etc
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56890714
Granted, this is up against the 'quality' jouranilism of the Daily Heil, so...