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To: ohioman

How about a TV comedy series.
Maggie Thatcher’s favorite !

Yes Minister & Yes Prime Minister

The creator of the show - Jonathan Lynn while young was at Cambridge with all the later UK political windbags of the 1980s and decieded he didn’t want to end up being one. He wanted to make fun of them!

And where else can you watch a series where every episode is a theatrical display of public choice economics

The other creator Antony Jay made a statement supporting that fact!
“.........

The fallacy that public choice economics took on was the fallacy that government is working entirely for the benefit of the citizen; and this was reflected by showing that in any [episode] in the programme, in Yes Minister, we showed that almost everything that the government has to decide is a conflict between two lots of private interest – that of the politicians and that of the civil servants trying to advance their own careers and improve their own lives. And that’s why public choice economics, which explains why all this was going on, was at the root of almost every episode of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister.

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Anyway the show is incredibly hilarious!
And probably way too sophisticated for our current Rat windbags to understand!


37 posted on 06/20/2019 10:12:19 AM PDT by Reily
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To: Reily

Sir Humphrey was the real star.

Fairly Secret Army is another gem.


49 posted on 06/20/2019 2:37:59 PM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as intwerchangeable as spark plugs.)
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