Yes Minister was true!
December 30th, 2005 at 8:42 am by David FarrarMargaret Thatcher used to say that one of the reasons she loved Yes Minister was because how accurately it portrayed the civil service.
Now who remembers the episode called “A Victory for Democracy” (Yes PM, S1, E6) which has the Foreign Office portrayed as being totally anti Israel, voting to censure it at the UN even against the PM’s wish to abstain.
Well now read about how in real life “Foreign Office officials were so concerned about Margaret Thatcher’s pro-Israeli sympathies when she became Tory leader they wanted her to break off links with local Jewish groups”.
It gets better – “One official even suggested that she should give up her Finchley parliamentary seat in north London – with its large Jewish community – for somewhere more palatable to Arab opinion”.
Incredible. Explains so much though.
December 30th, 2005 at 9:51 am
“Now who remembers the episode called “A Victory for Democracy” (Yes PM, S1, E6)”
Remembers? It’s my favourite episode of the lot – “just an awful lot of goodwill” – classic!
Vote:December 30th, 2005 at 4:48 pm
Thatcher loved Yes Minister/Yes Prime Minister so much she wrote a YM skit (together with her press sec) and performed it with Eddington et. al. too. It was her favourite program.
Not just a great leader but a great judge of British comedy too.
Vote:December 31st, 2005 at 12:04 am
For sheer cynical comment, I enjoyed the first episode in Yes Prime Minister,I look back in deep agreement with the treatment of the Eor-Sausage fiasco, and the part it played in the selection of guess who as PM.
Thanks also for the comments on Thatcher. I did not know the story of her having helped write a skit on the series.
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