https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSXIetP5iak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSXIetP5iak >Bernard: What if the Prime Minister insists we help them? >Humphrey:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSXIetP5iak https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSXIetP5iak >Bernard: What if the Prime Minister insists we help them? >Humphrey: Then we follow the four-stage strategy. >Bernard: What's that? >Richard: Standard Foreign Office response in a time of crisis. In stage one we say nothing is going to happen. >Humphrey: Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it. >Richard: In stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there's nothing we can do. >Humphrey: Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it's too late now.