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As a distraction, permanent secretary Sir Humphrey (Nigel Hawthorne)
has made his minister, Jim Hacker (Paul Eddington) responsible for
local gouvernment ... but he is appalled to hear that the minister
actually plans to do anything about it, like introduce preset failure
standards and the like on a local level ...
So Humphrey has to distract Hacker's attention from that idea and
persuade him to turn instead to national defense and civil fall-out
shelters (just in case the French attack) ... and once the minister
is at it, Humphrey sets him a trap to say something on TV that needs all
of Humphrey's political weight (or so he says) to make unsaid again ...
And when Hacker sees what a mess he has gotten himself into (ignorant
of course to the fact that it was all Humphrey's doing), he quickly loses
all interest in local gouvernment again and abandons the ideas of preset
failure standards ...
Not as ingenious as the first episodes of the series, this is still
well-played, well-written political satire.
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