Yes Minister

 When Antony Jay first had the idea of showing off what really happens up top, I wrote to him and said.
" You realize that this exposure will make it even harder for us to do our job! While it's awfully fun serious to come home to see this on the TV, the fact is , that he will watch it too and can be expected to make our jobs much harder.

The rest of this note is fiction but in his long letter back to me, the wonderful Antony did address the dilemmas of telling the truth in that context.  His letter is better than any award or recognition I could have received for quietly doing my public service job for over 3 decades. 

"I mean Hacker will be alerted that he is really dumb and doesn't really know what he is doing. Far better perhaps to have him think he is God, without him realizing that he is not? KCMG   GCMG and all that !!
Hacker is always at his worst when he learns/sees the next step out of kindergarten.
Even after tutoring him many times in baby steps, it still seems the public are better off when we spoon feed him. Hacker is so prone to going off half cocked!
God help us make sure he does not realize what is really happening. 

Its diplomacy yes, but it's a lot more than that, We only stay in the job if we can prosecute the public good. ( The tragedy of our time in May 2023 is that there seems no place for us).   In my case, the job was the public good in relation to the hardworking soil water plants animals and sometimes, sadly, the less predictable but still to be dealt with freeloading "vermin ".

I am writing this mainly today as Prince Charles is about to become our figurehead of servitude ...... because there is a great new series on Netflix called "THE DIPLOMAT ".  Watch it !


You have a good day now and pray that our children will continue to be wise as serpents; finding ways to be really good at what they do; finding the substance and the substantial amongst the sentimental ( being good scientists, reporters and people persons) in spite of the fact that they have to work amongst wolves. 

The job: ( Please tell your children it's still available -- if not the most dangerous job in the world ) 
 To be as clever as they can be in prosecuting peace and the truth; flying and landing like doves . Almost invisible power agents in the crushing world of those grasping at power . ( also in film now like LINE OF DUTY and tough for today stuff like HAPPY VALLEY .

Labels: The Diplomat

 If you the leader want to really feel at home in politics, remind yourself to not expect too much
1. If you are wise, you will take advice from me, ( I feed you)
2. If you are really wise,  you will always come back to me ( I need to spoon feed you ) 
3.If you are really really wise with the press and the the public,  you need to spoon feed them with stuff i spoon feed you.

Taken from the Emperors Academy guide for all wannabes of whatever age . 
By Sir Humphrey

  Rowan    How can a party that allows a shallow inexperienced ideologue like Malcolm Turnbull become Prime Minister / I thought they were tougher than that 

Mache : It's what all parties have to do to appeal to the margins.
Have a nice looking bloke who talks simplicities but knows nothing and can be pushed around when the election is over, when realism takes over again .  

Rowan  So how did all these other wolves in sheep clothing get into the party?(Rebels who resisted the adoption of the religious Discrimination Bill 10th Feb 2022 )  Haven't the left got the numbers to do what they like ? Why do these people who think themselves progressive have to work amongst conservatives ? 

Mache   yes they have numbers , but they don't have the intellectual grip.   They don't really know what they wanna do . The people can sometimes smell a dead end like they have with the Greens and their other worldly agendas .  Remember they are reactionaries;  they seldom  have a view of how to construct things 

Rohan  Doesn't say much for the Libs though-- allowing the single minded disingenuous into the fold . Many of its adherents are big picture thinkers and know a bit about how to construct and create.
Too busy to get involved with the world of unreality that seems to envelope the talkfests? 

Mache I think the poverty of both parties has developed /eroded their substance under the influence of the ignorant and ephemeral desires of those at the margins . http://thiselection.blogspot.com

The people  have no confidence in politicians;; that's the key.  The reality of not standing up straight all the time --to watch those Premier' s play dice with covid numbers is enough to remind us that the children are indeed ,in charg. 

Rohan  yes  which  is all the more reason Morrison needs to stand up and confess that the only way forward is working together.  No back foot reactionary stuff.
No more koalas and soft concession  stuff 
Morrison  needs to State his commitment to realistic energy supply problems and top it off with MORE
--we are unlike Labor , going to review education support so that our children learn to be confident and not the products of easy cynicism  A vote for Labor is a vote of no confidence in their approach to economia (oikonomics)- funding whatever children feel like . see my notes on a STEM education that works.

 

Rohan     Conservative party advisor to the PM   The talk is that you have failed in your duty to provide leadership for the country in a crisis.  Instead of grabbing the opportunity to lead under the security powers of the constitution  ( like you can use for Biosecurity issues)   you have let the Shires do there own thing ,

You let the locked down closet bureau run that dumb easy precautionary principle PP  to the point where no-one leaves home and no-one takes any risks . ( except party faithful)  their method works --but its not right and not real world management . Children's class , They have been doing this for decades. 

Bern   it just stops the bureau and the bosses from  being accused  of being careless . That's whose interests the PP is protecting. The fact that most people in the meeting have no real experience of managing a crisis doesn't change the governments view that" it knows what it is doing" .   


Rohan Now most  people can't even travel around the country and the making and braking of rules  made by these tin pot powers is a deep running sore with the people. They trusted us and now they see attention seekers everywhere running for cover . 

The people are smart enough to eventually see that any pretend parent who keeps making or changing the rules is unfit for governing and has lost control already .

As for writing the prescription to control the next pandemic - no-one will know there is a new crisis because they will be too busy having meetings to decides how and when its likely to start .
And by the time the sacred information source committees  give the order to start the trucks rolling the evil thing will have again escaped and be running like wildfire -- just as it does with all the new emerging  emergency agencies (EA's)  now growing and  sitting around waiting for something to happen 
 

Cameraman  (  to himself ) These "teams " are also going to lose competency and morale , breaking ranks leaving us with an even more moribund bureau and ignorant group of compliant plants up top  ,No need for a corruption agency  when these twits cultivate  their own,  

PM  what's a mere man like me supposed to do . This is a real crisis . Not somethin
g we the party or the press drummed up so we can close it down and win points with the people. 

Its a real threat  or it seems to be. American's don't usually worry about things that are ephemeral???  And when the crisis originates in a foreign country whom we don't trust , we load our guns -automatically like in the good old days
Greg Sheridan  The great Aussie cringe  or is it something about too much sun and the  binge ? 

Bern to himself  We say we think for ourselves but really we don't trust ourselves to do anything properly ,

Alec ( another advisor )  don't you mean the shires start loading their guns 
I  mean you have that gun slinging mad lot down south just about to confess panic and misguided targeting based on testing the thin air  writing the rule book .
Surely YOU ( the Commonwealth) should be writing the revisions to biosecurity ay act not these clowns   See below how their SIRH has managed to make their ORDERS right whatever they say 
 
PM  Well I did ask my own CMO ' should he not to take charge' ,but he claimed he wasn't responsible. He insisted on retiring .
 My string of advisors I mostly  got from Turnbull who trained them to only act  when it looked good and wasn't too hard to do .
 
Bern  He didn't have any idea of what was hard to do - he just wanted to do it !

SirH    Perfect greenlabor man !

Alec he may have claimed that but  what he really should have said is that he didn't FEEL he could carry the burden ,
And YOU  could have told him  that  he didn't need to 
The CMO's job is to coordinate,  and the higher that coordination goes the less crap , big noting and confusion crawls into the system.( heads nodding around the room ) get rid of some of your ministers who only think they know things  and show some backbone - you have the constitution and right process on your side. 

PM  Well what can i do     NOW!!!!!!
Alec Not much . you have let the silly attention children have their way . Eventually the people will see that that is what has been happening  - maybe after Christmas they will see the game more clearly . 

 Maybe you can foreworn the public of Fed move to review the states and your attempts to mange the crisis  in the new year . You are not just confessing you are showing realism - no-one knew exactly what to do . 

Sir H    That way the people will also see the haste that makes for waste and the many mistakes that these quick fix merchants have now put into law .
Eventually the same old worry warriors and their attendants will be seen to be who they really are  

Bern I wonder whether the Deep South group asked experienced epidemiologists whether  the emperor's  last capture methods were any better than his first .  
Sir H   if you look at this Well being bill   it seems 0to just e about the size of the prison - nothing about what the prisoners and the free can  do to help themselves ..   Governance that provides paying jobs for public servants . . 
Bern    And someone might dare to ask the cost benefit of all the testing tracing and forever chasing  of one evil object -  that what what epidemiologists were all ways telling us - That CV ' variants s were always something we have to live  . 

Two page out of the legislation . 
The premier  can be wrong but any other logic cannot be right 
The French revolution - the greatest documentary ever  shows how the decision making of someone who doesn't know what he doesn't know , can eventually end up with a police state . 

Scene    PM Secretary's office 

 Bernard  
Some times I think it would be better if I said nothing . This bloke is so desperate for ideas and so prone to runoff half cocked that I think it would be better if I never gave him any direction whatsoever .
Once he gets some simple something in his  head, he runs off with it . Next thing we are untangling him from the fence .  

SirH Exactly ..  That is why we must manage every moment of his life . He won't have time to think of anything but what we have told him .In a more effective world , we should be aiming to change his mind but even that looks and is on the edge of impossible . 

Bern but this boring stuff is NOW my life  .We are in the midst of the important, but lost in games . I don't want to hang around till he gets an idea . It  means we have to be here and around him just to make sure he doesn't just quickly  get ideas and try to move on them.   

SirH  Yes we share that pathetic duty to play parents and minders and not admit it  .  You think its bad that you have to wake me up in the middle of the night  but its me that has to stop the baby running out on the street and getting run over during the day
( to himself) I just wish you too wouldn't have ideas either cause  all these suggestions for solutions just create noise -- just like most chatter on the internet 

I told the PM he should not allow the Premiers  to run off and find their own solutions in a national crisis. 
Bern  But has he got the power and the expertise?   
SirH  He has the power ( sect of constitution eg  Biosecuriiy act .what  he doesn't have is the expertise -that is within the states . His role ( our role ) is to ensure that the right people talk to the right people  so that all the leaks don't sink the ship
The point is you don't let everyone do and say what they like to whoever they like ( well maybe at Christmas ) but NOT in a crisis and not for good governance generally .

Cameraman What a mess the West world is in now that they no longer  follow that particular child ( The urgent need for Jesus in our world - Greg Sheridan ) 

Bern What about those many times when he doesn't  want to listen to us  - when he insists on a second opinion . You know what's it like . rather than rely on your authority as parent you get some other person to say what you would say , 
I mean like that bloke who writes to us all the time .He clearly knows you need to spoon feed the minister  or he will go off the rails . ( that's why he writes so often and to the point of the day ) Its rare to have such ally .Why don't we get someone in like Modi  when we need to convince him to listen to us?  
SirH  you are right of course . I do use his advice ,but I never tell Modi or the meddler. We all of us are frightfully short of wisdom about how to do things.
And you think Modi will always have the ear of the PM ?  No even he knows that  and he knows from his own limited  students when he trying to educate / guide corral fence them that

the more he names the street names , the more street naming his eager quick fix students too will do before they really know what they are  doing or where they really expect to end . That the important thing - a good if still imperfect end

Bern  that isn't back where we started?  You mean all  we ever do is name streets ? 

Sir H   Pretty well 

Bern  Well for the longevity of us all,  why don't we have Modi on staff ?    

S\ir H    We could , but he is too involved and committed to  real adults making real investments in the field with the limited money we leave them productive types out there. He likes effectiveness and efficiency,  whereas our lot are lost in a losing game of trying to be more efficient .
Bern  As if we were made in the image of machines 
Sir H  yes  
The last thing he wants to do is run kindergarten classes and spend his life holding  hands. 

He lives in a different world . His demons aren't wearing him out on  a treadmill of his own minds making  He knows just how conservation works and rests in the peace of its wonder glory power and productivity 

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Bern  but you don't think it would be at least wise , consdering his distrust of us , to  tell the PM that you are consulting widely . 

Sirh  bsoltley not eranard . He only has to havea name and he would have him on line all he time  have in my job . No it msut come through me .as churchill said deemocacrymaybe full a leaks but  as long as there is no real crisis  it works wlle enough when we have their heads to make people think its  that head that is working 
  And wehn there is areal crisis ?
Sirh well thats the real glory of  this inherentance . It wors well enough in a crsis to make people feel comfoatable

Bern so why do so mnay wanna change it   to build back better 
Sir h  Well its true it still  doesn't work well and peoplecan see the cracks in it. this can happen when tehleader fooilshly hands around responsibilities to  premiers whena  anational crsiiso s on  > 

why would he do that ?
 Dont ask me The head is spinning we presume and the chilfren in a crsis are sreaming for immmediate action and the wannabes have suddenly got someproblem to solve and thgooge assiatant to help them 

yes thats all millios of them  

bern  You mean th elaeaks ?
Srh Spot on  whan the  leaks show is that there ia lot of bnoise , sidtaust and disconnection whn everyone jumps into soleve a real theat -- like COVID . 


so why wouldn't Modi 's advice be taken and win te cofidenec of the people .

The problem is for him is that he is not here , He can't hold the PMs hand throgh every aspect of solution imleanation . 

bern because it bot about th eanswers name but how the answer is prcatically put ( teh How) 

spot on again  If Mdi is not here ghe can't ensue that jhis a good idea is not bacdly impleeted . Take  Co2 reductions , The only CO2 stoge that works is under tebsea  or intimber ( which is no alllowed to burnt by nature ) 
Ber I get it because rooting and bushfres are natura but timberharvsting is not 

SH  Diversions after star 

 Only human beings could be so far into denial that they think they are talking to the truth when then they are in complete denial of it ,
Net Zero carbon dioxide emissions is not only impossible, its uneccesary ,What is heartberaking is the lengths the public purse will be stretched to try accomodate the nonsense of soil sequestration and alternative energy storage theories amngst othersin the 20page ads last weeks

.The targets on show are EMPTY Guilt driven cul de sacs that cost our children their freedom to invest  .
Glascow shows that  our own government have no idea of what  is possible and until they listen to those who know how the world can best work , no Western power will take our children from the impasse we have made it to a sound future of sistainability that is still within our grasp .  No more false hopes please . Other countries won't wander around in the dark despair like our current leaders do . 

If you should dare to want to know more,  please contact me . 

 Sir Humphrey and Bernard aplogise for not being here today . The truth is they are sick of telling you the public whate you should have known and done something about decades ago . Not that we will ever get rid comepletely of wannabes who would drown in their own  mess if they had to pay for it . 
Good luc to all truth tellers  - whateverthe cost  . 
make sure you watch real history too 

 " The french revolution - the greatest documentary ever ." Netflix-- based on Cartlye's account 

If  you want a brief summary of the science start here 

Hacker 
I have to be the first to solve the problem here OR I am not interested. 
I personally will get on my horse and chase the nasty virus down and lick it.  You will help , the people will help and I thank them 

(See "How to become a Tyrant "on Netflix )

I am sick of hearing people make estimates and talk numbers  but we all know they are just guessing . Nobody knows who is going to die so  I will assume all could die. 
I am a leader and I will lead 
Cameraman  He just gets lost with numbers --full stop 

Hacker 
Lets aim at Zero . Like we have done with everything else  Zero growth, Zero emissions, zero cases .
People only get confused if you keep talking numbers .
We are purists here !  Evil is evil and we will exorcise it ! 

Cameraman  As religious as anybody in previous ages 

Bernard  Feb 2020 
But cases testing may just tell you much only a bit about where it spreading and growing fast at a moment in time .( Cost benefit should concern you!) 
Many experts say you are chasing snow balls in a blizzard. Your view of evil agent is limited  because the correlations  are complex  100 yrs of working with coronaviruses  demonstrates that they keep changing and we may have to live with them . 
You probably need randomize testing and correlation with actual levels of sickness and death . the context ,the coomordities, the etiology and the other biome factors on site . 
Cameraman   There are no deaths so they can't can't talk deaths . well not until they find a few people who died from complex lung function complications. 

More here 

 



People in power get desperate when they face a real world problem.

You only realize how incompetent we all are when a real crisis hits . And then now with our media in a fanatical frenzy to try and survive the internet  ,we have the cocontentation of the interests of all wannabes ( that's a lot of us if we let it be )