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Poor Martin

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Scene   Cabinet secretaries room   Sir Hum . Do the press ever get anything I get him to say right ?  Arnold      You do OK mate !     Even without my help    Think of Poor Martin  Luther He started a worldwide word led whirlwind, and his only helpmate was a woman!!   Plus ,she , like him, had taken vows of poverty and had heaps to do looking after all the people who wanted to talk to her mate.  Bern What about their house?-it was a mansion.  Sir H   Those were the days before this dumb blinkered era when we measure everything by the value our houses.God help us !  It was public property, as it often should be  and like all those who lived in it , only theirs while they made it work ! He had lectures to give as well as lead two churches one of which was the resident Lord's . Both churches are still there  as is this picture and words of Luther in the foyer .     Sir H   ...
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Lock em up -- will we be next ?

  Bern Is it ever possible for the public to realize how pathetically incompetent the leaders of the house are?  Sir H not if they keep offering jail terms to those who ignore or disobey them. Locking things up works and always look like a solution  to some simpletons.   Bern   But then the jails are full, people are cancelled and thinking people have the sense that we are not seriously avoiding quick fix .  Sir H    Very good question, If the leaders have a scapegoat for all their meddling in managing people and things (real ecomanagement is too hard much like hard work for them ), they can distract the easily distracted screen watchers .     The thing that keeps them live is to always, when past solutions fail, is to offer the public a new way out of jail. One that doesn't involve yet another sacrifice by the audience personally.  A distraction. A cancelling.  Bern    Local government agencies are ca...
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The best original idea that Ministers ever copied

  Please read this first    Muddied Waters: Warm water taxes It makes you look like you are ahead of the game . It looks like a natural advantage. Its appeal with the party and the people is almost astronomical in nature.  How does it work ?                      It capitalizes on the public's vulnerability to advertising                                                               I t provides a self-righteous idea that you are an early adopter                                                                It provides a reaso...
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They are all mad

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  Number 10 discusses  Number  8     They are all mad  SirH  yes  but they are always were..... Bernard . Here in England and over there in The States  Bern   But I mean Trump simply doesn't make sense , does he !  He's dangerous  Sir H   they are all very dangerous ! you know that  SirH   well  at least his content is predictable  And it's NOT  as bad as it seems to the fear driven public . These leaders  are bits of puppets remember ? Bern    reminders of just how childish we are ?  Sir H He is at least appealing to a certain sector of the community who have legitimate concerns about the overly comfortable ruling class. Look at all the readjustments between them and us in our own history  He will be corralled by Parliament. Bern You didn't even feed the king or his army , let alone listen to him   ,   Sir H  Dear Bernard - you worry too m...
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A comforting thought from Sir Humphrey

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 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 ...
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Kindergarten

 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
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Play up to the margins,the children the guilty the dying . or dare to set sail for the future ?

   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...
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