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While Jim Hacker (Paul Eddington), Minister for Administrative Affairs,
& Sir Humphrey (Nigel Hawthorne) are still fighting over the
redraft of a redraft of a draft for a report to slim down civil service,
they have to learn from the PM's political advisor Daniel Hughes (Daniel
Moynihan) that the PM is thinking about closing down the Department for
Administrative Affairs itself to slim down civil service ... & all of
a sudden, Hacker & Humphrey - who normally oppose each other oer every
single issue - realize they are in the same boat & actually have to
work together ... & not only that, Humphrey even suggests to
get the help of Hacker's political advisor Weisel (Neil Fitzwiliam), whom
he normally tries to get rid of or at least insult on every occasion. But
neither the three of them nor Bernard (Derek Fowlds), the minister's
private secretary, knows any advice, & then they learn that Hacker, as
his last action in office, has to introduce the Europass, a pan-EEC (as
the EU was called back then) compulsory identity card, which is highly
unpopular in Britain & would mean political suicide for Hacker (&
everyone else involved). The situation seems to be hopeless, until they
hear of the PM's aspirations to win the Napoleon award (an award given out
every five years to an outstanding NATO-statesman) ... & if the
Department for Administrative Affairs would leak out information about
Europass too soon, this would ruin the PM's chances. Confronted with a
possible leak, the PM's political advisor suddenly sees everything the
Minister's & Humphrey's way, & the department is saved, for better
or worse ... I might be repeating myself when reviewing Yes
Minister, but this episode is another great piece of political
satire. The best part is probably when Humphrey suggests that Britain has
only entered the EEC (later EU) to make sure it won't work.
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