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That video is brilliant and rings so true in all its cynical beauty.

• JonnieCache 13y ago
  Watch the rest of the programme. It's all like that. Yes minister is not so much a comedy as a documentary.
  • btilly 13y ago
    Indeed. They were greatly helped by having actual permanent secretaries as confidential sources. Real incidents gave rise to ideas like having bureaucrats get around the lack of alcohol during a reception a Muslim country by having a "communications room" that was well-stocked with hard liquor. Even where they did make things up, they mostly got it right. For instance wikipedia claims that in one episode they made up an empty hospital which was happily employing hundreds of bureaucrats. After producing the episode they found out that there were no less than 6 different hospitals or large wings of hospitals which operated as described.