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Sir Humphrey?
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Yes, Bernard.
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Sir Humphrey?
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Yes, Bernard.
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I wondered if I could have a word...
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Yes, Bernard.
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...with both of you?
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Yes, what about?
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St George's.
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What now?
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Well, the PM seems to be completely in the dark.
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Good.
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Excellent.
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Thank you.
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Anything else?
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Well, I wondered if there was anything he doesn't know.
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Well, I hardly know where to begin, Bernard.
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No, I mean anything important.
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Well, he has the Foreign Secretary to tell him.
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Yes, I know, sir, but he seems to think the Foreign Secretary doesn't know the whole story either.
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I should hope not.
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Bernard, are you implying that the Prime Minister ought to know what's happening?
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Well, he is the Prime Minister.
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Yes, Bernard, but it's simply too dangerous to let politicians become involved with diplomacy.
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Diplomacy is about surviving until the next century.
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Politics is about surviving until Friday afternoon.
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There are 157 independent countries in the world.
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We've dealt with them for years.
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There's hardly an MP who knows anything about any of them.
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Show them a map of the world.
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Most of them have a job finding the Isle of Wight.
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Surely politicians can't be that ignorant.
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Well, sit down, Bernard.
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Where is the upper vaulter?
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What's the capital of Chad?
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What language do they speak in Mali?
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Who's the president of Peru?
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What is the national religion of Cameroon?
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Erm...
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Bernard?
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Huh?
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You should stand for Parliament.
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Oh, no, what I mean is, if it's a democracy, shouldn't people sort of discuss things a bit?
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Of course, full discussion.
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And shouldn't they have the facts?
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Of course not.
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They don't want them.
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Facts complicate things.
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All that the press, the people
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and their elected leaders want to know is who are the good and who are the baddies.
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The problem is that the interests of Britain, nearly always involved It always involves doing deals with people that the public think of the bad.
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And not helping the goodies occasionally when it doesn't help us.
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So we avoid discussion of foreign affairs.
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Or rather we keep all discussion inside the Foreign Office.
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Then we produce one policy for the Foreign Secretary which represents our considered view.
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And he can act upon it.
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No options?
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No. No alternatives?
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No. What if he's not satisfied?
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Well if pressed we look at it again.
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And come up with a different view?
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Of course not.
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We come up with the same view.
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But what if he demands option?
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Well, it's obvious, Bernard.
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The Foreign Office will happily present him with three options, two of which are, on close inspection, exactly the same.
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Plus a third, which is totally unacceptable.
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Like bombing Warsaw or invading France.
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Better still, we occasionally encourage the Foreign Secretary to produce his own policy.
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Then we tell him that it will inevitably lead to World War III, perhaps within 48 hours.
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I see.
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I'm sorry to appear stupid.
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Oh, perish the thought, Bernie.
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But in my experience, Ministers are somewhat concerned about the effect of policy on domestic political opinion.
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Now, our system doesn't seem to allow for that.
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Of course not.
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We take the global view.
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We ask what's best for the world.
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Most ministers would rather you ask, what's the Daily Mail leader going to say?
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Oh, Bernard, we can't have foreign policy made by jobbos like Fleet Street editors or backbench MPs.
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Or cabinet ministers.
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Or cabinet ministers.
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We take the right decisions and let them sort out the politics later.
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Yes?
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Excuse me, sir.
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Yes, come in, Mrs Whitmore.
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Thank you.
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And if the Foreign Secretary still won't accept the Foreign Office view...
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Well, it's free country, he can always resign.
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...treat the Prime Minister like this.
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Surely he's right to worry about St George's.
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After all, it is a democracy.
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Not for long.
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This is a flash telegram the East Yemen are preparing to invade in support of the Marxist guerrillas.
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That's awful.
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Yes and no. It's moderately bad news for the government of St George's, but it's very good news for the Guerinners.
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What about the Islanders?
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Bernard, you're reacting like a politician.
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I'm sorry, but what are we going to do to help them?
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Nothing.
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But what if St George's appeals to us?
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Well, we give them every support short of help.
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What if the Prime Minister insists we help them?
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Then we follow the four-stage strategy.
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What's that?
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What's that?
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A standard Foreign Office response in a time of crisis.
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In stage one we say nothing is going to happen.
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Stage two we say something may be going to happen but we should do nothing about it.
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Stage three we say that maybe we should do something about it but there's nothing we can do.
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Stage four we say maybe there was something we could have done but it's too late.
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