Pratique du Shadowing: Yes Minister | The Whisky Priest | Civil Moral Vacuum - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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With respect, Minister, we have to do nothing.
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What do you mean?
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The sale of arms abroad is one of those areas of government that we do not examine too closely.
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Well, I have to, now that I know about.
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But you can say you don't know.
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You're suggesting I should lie?
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Oh, not you, Mr. No. Well, who should lie?
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Sleeping dogs, Minister.
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I'm going to raise this.
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No, Minister, I beg you.
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A basic rule of government is never look into anything you don't have to.
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Never set up an inquiry unless you know in advance what its findings will be.
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Please, we're talking about good and evil.
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Our Church of England problem.
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No, Humphrey, our problem.
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We are discussing right and wrong.
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You may be, Minister, but I'm not.
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It would be a serious misuse of government terms.
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Selling arms to terrorists is wrong.
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Can't you see that, Humphrey?
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No, Minister.
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Either you sell arms or you don't.
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If you sell them, they will inevitably end up with people who have the cash to buy them.
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But not terrorists.
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Well, I suppose we could put some sort of government health warning on the rifle, Burks.
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This gun can seriously damage your health.
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It's all very well to take this lightly, Humphrey.
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But we cannot close our eyes to something that is as morally wrong as this.
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Very well, Minister.
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If you insist on making me discuss moral issues, may I point out to you that something is either morally wrong or it isn't.
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It can't be slightly morally wrong.
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No, don't quibble, Humphrey.
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Government isn't about morality.
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Really?
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What is it about?
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What is it about?
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Stability.
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Keeping things going.
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Preventing anarchy.
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Stopping society.
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Falling to bits.
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Still being here tomorrow.
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What for?
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What is the ultimate purpose of government if it isn't for doing good?
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Minister, government isn't about good and evil.
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It's only about order or chaos.
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And it's in order for Italian terrorists to get British bombs. And you don't care?
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It's not my job to care.
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That's what politicians are for.
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My job is to carry out government policy.
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Even if you think it's wrong?
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Well, almost all government policy is wrong, but...
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Frightfully well carried out.
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Humphrey, have you ever known a civil servant to resign on a matter of principle?
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I should think not.
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What's an appalling suggestion?
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For the first time, I fully understand that you are purely committed to means and not to ends.
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Well, as far as I'm concerned, Minister, and all of my colleagues, there is no difference between means and ends.
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If you believe that, Humphrey, you will go to hell.
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Minister, I had no idea you had a theological bent.
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You are a moral vacuum.
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If you say so, Minister.
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It's time for your lunch appointment, Minister.
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You're keeping very quiet, Bernard.
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What would you do about all this?
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I would keep very quiet, Minister.
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Sir Minister, may we drop this matter of the arms sales?
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No, we may not.
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I'm going to tell the Prime Minister personally.
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Make an appointment for me, would you, Bernard?
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This is just the sort of thing that the Prime Minister wants to know about.
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I assure you, Minister, this is just the sort of thing the Prime Minister desperately wants not to know about.
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We shall see about that.
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Indeed, we will.
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What's the matter, Bernard?
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Oh, nothing, really, Sir Humphrey.
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You look unhappy.
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Well, I was just wondering if the Minister was right, actually.
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Very unlikely.
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What about? About ends and means.
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I mean, will I end up as a moral vacuum, too?
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Oh, I hope so, Bernard.
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If you work hard enough.
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Makes me feel rather downcast.
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If it's our job to carry out government policies, shouldn't we believe in them?
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Oh.
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What an extraordinary idea.
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Why?
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Bernard, I have served eleven governments in the past thirty years.
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If I had lead in all their policies, I would have been passionately committed to keeping out of the common market and passionately committed to going into it.
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I would have been utterly convinced of the rightness of nationalising steel and of denationalising it and re-nationalising it.
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Capital punishment, I'd have been a fervent retentionist and an ardent abolitionist.
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I would have been a Keynesian and a Friedmanite, a grammar school preserver and destroyer, a nationalization freak and a privatization maniac,
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but above all, I would have been a stark-staring, raving schizophrenic.
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So what do we believe in?
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At this moment, Bernard, we believe in stopping the minister from informing the prime minister. But why?
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Because once the prime minister knows, there will have to be an inquiry, like Watergate.
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The investigation of a trivial break-in led to one ghastly revelation after another and finally the downfall of a precedent.
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The golden rule is don't lift lids off cans of worms.
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No, Sir Humphrey.
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Everything is connected to everything else.
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Who said that?
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The Cabinet Secretary.
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Nearly right.
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Actually, it was Lenin.
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So how do you stop a Cabinet Minister talking to a Prime Minister?
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Now, that is a very interesting question you tell me.
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I don't know.
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Well, work it out, Bernard.
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You're supposed to be a high flyer.
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Or are you really a low flyer, supported by occasional gusts of wind?
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Well, you can't stop the Minister seeing the PM, can you?
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I can't, no. Nor can the private office at number 10.
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Correct.
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So it has to be someone pretty high up in government.
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Getting warmer.
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Someone close to the PM, someone who can frighten the minister.
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The chief whip?
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Oh, excellent, Bernard.
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You've learnt a lot.
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So, how do you crack the whip?
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I'm sorry?
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How do you mobilise the chief whip?
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Well, the minister's asked me to phone the PM's private office for an appointment appointment
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so if you had a word with the cabinet secretary
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and he had a word with the diary secretary
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and they all had a word with the Whip's office then
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when the minister arrived the chief whip could meet him
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and say the PM was rather busy and had asked him to have a word with the minister instead.
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Excellent Bernard.
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You should have taken a degree in engineering.
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What are you doing?
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I I thought you wanted to talk to the Cabinet Secretary, sir.
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I do indeed.
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Now, do you, Bernard, as the Minister's private secretary, feel obliged to tell the Minister of this conversation?
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What conversation?
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Well done, Bernard.
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You'll be a moral vacuum yet.
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