I'm 30 minutes in and I can't tell whatsoever if it's being genuine, or is like some absolutely masterfully constructed satire - But i've searched up a few names, and they're real people - Is this just absolutely genius british subtle comedy? or a sincere documentary with some flavourful elements. I love that it's impossible to tell, some of the things the ministers say here is laughable
This is British High Society. This is what's left of the Imperial mindset. These people are horrifically wealthy and many of them were predestined to take up office. This is why someone likened their job to playing a rough game of cricket.
I second what @jimweights said.... While the parade of very expensively educated, middle aged scions of Britain's ruling families with connections to the government, law, journalism, the military, academia and industry going back generations may well have given the impression of being as it were, a real life parody of Spitting Image, in fact what you saw was representative snapshot .... That is EXACTLY who our politicians were at least until the new millennium - indeed, diversity was definitely not a thing back then. And while they WERE easy to make targets of - whether as rubber puppets on that scurrilous and highly enjoyable just-mentioned show - or on the front page of one of the cheaper red tops, while not everyone agreed with everything they did, it is interesting, isn't it how supremely confident, wily, humorous, eloquent and, quite simply, authoritative, they appear now in hindsight? I shall say what I'm sure in most quarters would be considered rather old fashioned today - but seeing these old school retired Cabinet Ministers and Whitehall mandarins gliding about the magnificent gilded corridors in their bespoke Savile Row suits - being reminded of their faces and the sound of their smooth, cultured voices and 1950s BBC Received Pronunciation - well, it reminded me of more confident times. While others choose to self flagellate about the Empire and screech about perceived injustice - usually professors of the "science" of critical race theory (which within the next couple of decades will be totally debunked as cod-science in the same way we no longer believe in religion, astrology, homeopathy, physiognomy, thaumaturgy and our futures as predicted by tea leaves. And while earnest (if rather one-track, strident and repetitive) students and environmentalists think it's right that all our statues are pulled down, that we should pay out hundreds of billions in reparations and we should go out in the streets with no shoes and having donned sackcloth and ashes - well excuse me for disagreeing. I think 99% of those sorts of noisesome demands are made by people - who like everyone else - don't just want to be like us, to emulate us - they want to BE us! Of course Rule Britannia's no longer a thing. Of course we no longer send battalions of soldiers all over the world to impose Imperial will. But Britain's pervading influence is still to be felt absolutely all over the globe - and that's not because they're forced to - it's because they WANT to. Yes it so happens that the uncompromising Thatcher was in power at the time - but the Falkland islanders unanimously wanted to stay under British rule - and not because some dictator's heavies are standing in the shadows telling them to say that or holding a gun to their head when responding to pollsters - incidentally just like the Gibraltarians did - TWICE - in the 1960s and 80s. Britain's still a a great countyl and we should be proud of it - I don't see queues of people lining up to become North Korean, Chinese, Russian, Iranian, Afghan, Congolese, Ugandan, Angolan, Pakistani, Albanian, Kosovan, Turkish, Malian, Liberian, Libyan, Nicaraguan, Haitian, Colombian, Venezuelan, Syrian, Iraqi, Lebanese or Sri Lankan - do you? People WANT to be British - or American - or Canadian or Australian. When was the last time we heard of anyone making a desperate bid to illegally cross into Mexico - or Kamchatka - or Indonesia??? We're all so highly trained not to express such sentiments these days. But I won't be told to say something I don't believe and which I can perfectly well still see with my own eyes.... Let me end this not as a hurrah for old Blighty - but as a rallying call to any waverers here or abroad who are being all on the fence and wishy washy over aid to Ukraine. Please, Brits and non Brits alike - yes we have our faults but are we like Russia or China? We need to send a clear message to those places and give the opportunity for the people living there to feel the same freedom we do. Long live the King! God Save America! Vive la France! And down with all the grotty shit holes and their awful despot Emperors.....
3:30 I was almost expecting for the Tower of London to revert to its former role as a place of execution given what was been said up to this point - they seem to indulge in some very dark humour regarding the Home Office
14:2819:0456:06 бюст Шоу 25:2101:05:38 01:21:18 вот кто с разных должностей нам посадил Вышенкова: один габитус 29:01 верхняя губа двигается, а у предыдущего нет. 56:51 габитус актёра Збруева 59:19 2 часть МИД 01:44:40 самая большая глава про Суэцкий канал и Насера
H.E. General Sir Jang Bahadur Kunwar Rana (1817-77), Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of Nepal. Oil painting by Bhaujaman Citrakar, 1849 (Foster 36)
1:36:20 being Irish myself, having always liked her, Mrs Thatcher was far the best British Prime Minister the U.K. ever had - and both she and our Taoiseach Charles Haughey became best friends - as an Irish Catholic Patriot in the U.K. myself, she had the real measure of the IRA and Sinn Fein and she knew how they had betrayed the Irish people long before anyone else did - she would have reacted much better to immigration, Brexit, Covid and the globalists - I honestly do not believe that we will ever see a Prime Minister like her in my lifetime
Thank God that we will never see one. Cause if it is, he/she will build their majestic castle by stealing the materials to build it from the houses of the working class, coal miners, and school kids 😊
29:13 the only way that the Home Office can effectively run is if all the existing civilian staff are replaced and if a clear Millitary chain of command is established - there needs to be a milltary government put in power and it needs to be run according to military principles
Well, there USED to be a chain of command that led to one very important person. But democrats seems to think a King is not suitable for governance and a bunch of tictokking underqualified miscreants are better for us all.
What a load of utter bollocks. A military government? Head to Burma and let me know how you get on (given the ban on social media access you won’t be able to)
@@fod1855 well are we assuming clean information? See the last word you used there: misinformation. All forms of information can be misused, misappropriated, misconceived and/or misremembered. The propaganda is within the rhetoric of the politicians been interviewed. All their sympathies for the home office supports the idea that terrorism is a bogeyman, rather than properly deliberating and adapting to the situation. This is exactly what anti-terror propaganda looked like back then and it was weaponised to deceive western voting publics into voting against their own interests.
Yes Minister was even more real than one can ever imagine.
God I hope not...
Absolutely… and here, in the US it would make one wonder how ANYTHING gets done
just add more fraud, sex scandals and many, many more people out of touch with reality. 🤣 Spitting image was a bit closer. 👍👍
I'm 30 minutes in and I can't tell whatsoever if it's being genuine, or is like some absolutely masterfully constructed satire - But i've searched up a few names, and they're real people - Is this just absolutely genius british subtle comedy? or a sincere documentary with some flavourful elements. I love that it's impossible to tell, some of the things the ministers say here is laughable
This is British High Society. This is what's left of the Imperial mindset. These people are horrifically wealthy and many of them were predestined to take up office.
This is why someone likened their job to playing a rough game of cricket.
The most American comment ever 😂
I second what @jimweights said.... While the parade of very expensively educated, middle aged scions of Britain's ruling families with connections to the government, law, journalism, the military, academia and industry going back generations may well have given the impression of being as it were, a real life parody of Spitting Image, in fact what you saw was representative snapshot .... That is EXACTLY who our politicians were at least until the new millennium - indeed, diversity was definitely not a thing back then.
And while they WERE easy to make targets of - whether as rubber puppets on that scurrilous and highly enjoyable just-mentioned show - or on the front page of one of the cheaper red tops, while not everyone agreed with everything they did, it is interesting, isn't it how supremely confident, wily, humorous, eloquent and, quite simply, authoritative, they appear now in hindsight?
I shall say what I'm sure in most quarters would be considered rather old fashioned today - but seeing these old school retired Cabinet Ministers and Whitehall mandarins gliding about the magnificent gilded corridors in their bespoke Savile Row suits - being reminded of their faces and the sound of their smooth, cultured voices and 1950s BBC Received Pronunciation - well, it reminded me of more confident times.
While others choose to self flagellate about the Empire and screech about perceived injustice - usually professors of the "science" of critical race theory (which within the next couple of decades will be totally debunked as cod-science in the same way we no longer believe in religion, astrology, homeopathy, physiognomy, thaumaturgy and our futures as predicted by tea leaves. And while earnest (if rather one-track, strident and repetitive) students and environmentalists think it's right that all our statues are pulled down, that we should pay out hundreds of billions in reparations and we should go out in the streets with no shoes and having donned sackcloth and ashes - well excuse me for disagreeing. I think 99% of those sorts of noisesome demands are made by people - who like everyone else - don't just want to be like us, to emulate us - they want to BE us!
Of course Rule Britannia's no longer a thing. Of course we no longer send battalions of soldiers all over the world to impose Imperial will.
But Britain's pervading influence is still to be felt absolutely all over the globe - and that's not because they're forced to - it's because they WANT to. Yes it so happens that the uncompromising Thatcher was in power at the time - but the Falkland islanders unanimously wanted to stay under British rule - and not because some dictator's heavies are standing in the shadows telling them to say that or holding a gun to their head when responding to pollsters - incidentally just like the Gibraltarians did - TWICE - in the 1960s and 80s. Britain's still a a great countyl and we should be proud of it - I don't see queues of people lining up to become North Korean, Chinese, Russian, Iranian, Afghan, Congolese, Ugandan, Angolan, Pakistani, Albanian, Kosovan, Turkish, Malian, Liberian, Libyan, Nicaraguan, Haitian, Colombian, Venezuelan, Syrian, Iraqi, Lebanese or Sri Lankan - do you? People WANT to be British - or American - or Canadian or Australian. When was the last time we heard of anyone making a desperate bid to illegally cross into Mexico - or Kamchatka - or Indonesia??? We're all so highly trained not to express such sentiments these days. But I won't be told to say something I don't believe and which I can perfectly well still see with my own eyes....
Let me end this not as a hurrah for old Blighty - but as a rallying call to any waverers here or abroad who are being all on the fence and wishy washy over aid to Ukraine. Please, Brits and non Brits alike - yes we have our faults but are we like Russia or China? We need to send a clear message to those places and give the opportunity for the people living there to feel the same freedom we do.
Long live the King!
God Save America!
Vive la France!
And down with all the grotty shit holes and their awful despot Emperors.....
You should watch The Thick of It
It’s genuine. This is what we are actually like. Not all of us to be fair.
Michael Cockerel is top notch.
I love his voice
To be fair Scrabble is a really engrossing game
The British are a fascinating people.
Alan Johnson lasted as Home Secretary for a whopping 11 months and 6 days.
And later appeared naked on Steph McGovern’s show.
My god does he sound clueless 😂
I wish I could find something like this for Canada.
3:30 I was almost expecting for the Tower of London to revert to its former role as a place of execution given what was been said up to this point - they seem to indulge in some very dark humour regarding the Home Office
Did the narrator say "Yobbery and violence"? 😂
'yobbery' is its own word, a 'yob' being a violent young person
It's backslang.
@@hath6617It means hooliganism.
@mgcocasa oh yeah....boy/yob 😂as an added bonus it rhymes with robbery Like chilDREN/NERD.
@@FrithonaHrududu02127 Yob is short for Yobbo. You could try Googling its definition and origin.
Man compare these leaders to what we have today, it's like a shocking fall into abscurity......😳
Was that one guy patting the guard dog as the others climbed the wall
I like how they manage to remove most of the vowels from the word secretary......skrtry
The stickers should have read "inaudible' 'invisible' 'incompetent'.
Thanks :)
48:35 457,000 cases outstanding. How many is it now?
Less
14:28 19:04 56:06 бюст Шоу
25:21 01:05:38 01:21:18 вот кто с разных должностей нам посадил Вышенкова: один габитус
29:01 верхняя губа двигается, а у предыдущего нет.
56:51 габитус актёра Збруева
59:19 2 часть МИД
01:44:40 самая большая глава про Суэцкий канал и Насера
“.. seceteries” Johnson 5:00
Sounded like he was talking about gardening using secateurs
1:20:22 what is the name of that painting?
H.E. General Sir Jang Bahadur Kunwar Rana (1817-77), Prime Minister and
Commander-in-Chief of Nepal.
Oil painting by Bhaujaman Citrakar, 1849 (Foster 36)
@@linesided Thank you!
These are really good... but they do use the word "mandarins" too much.
Teaws of Wage and not of Sowwow.
Everyone whom in power will have something in hot water to get criticms at. It is normal
48:50....and 14 years on? Regarding asylum seekers....lol
The old ‘tens of thousands’ mantra vs tens of millions reality. A million a year gross, less 300k fed up Britons departing.
The way the press do their thing is disgusting. I was all for them until I see how they behave on this doc.
🏰
1:36:20 being Irish myself, having always liked her, Mrs Thatcher was far the best British Prime Minister the U.K. ever had - and both she and our Taoiseach Charles Haughey became best friends - as an Irish Catholic Patriot in the U.K. myself, she had the real measure of the IRA and Sinn Fein and she knew how they had betrayed the Irish people long before anyone else did - she would have reacted much better to immigration, Brexit, Covid and the globalists - I honestly do not believe that we will ever see a Prime Minister like her in my lifetime
Your more British then the British themselves.
Thankfully, she's long gone 😃
Take your head out of the clouds …..u sound like a complete 🤡
Thank God that we will never see one. Cause if it is, he/she will build their majestic castle by stealing the materials to build it from the houses of the working class, coal miners, and school kids 😊
What a load of………🤡
The draft, first group prisoners of fighting age not serving life sentences. One to five years to start.
O MI5 tem o .esmo método da cia. Dependendo do departamento. Int3ressante.
Johnson Joseph Martin Michael Young Angela
Money is decided by the non Govt private City of London Corporation independent , criminal & lawless.
Military service does much for prison
It's all just managed decline ffs.
29:13 the only way that the Home Office can effectively run is if all the existing civilian staff are replaced and if a clear Millitary chain of command is established - there needs to be a milltary government put in power and it needs to be run according to military principles
beg your pardon?
Well, there USED to be a chain of command that led to one very important person. But democrats seems to think a King is not suitable for governance and a bunch of tictokking underqualified miscreants are better for us all.
What a load of utter bollocks. A military government? Head to Burma and let me know how you get on (given the ban on social media access you won’t be able to)
We'd be as laughable as the yanks currently are
Their a not friendly
wow this is drenched in antiterror propaganda. Was Thick Of IT written after this series aired?
How can antiterror information be propaganda? A word that implies bias or misinformation…
@@fod1855 well are we assuming clean information? See the last word you used there: misinformation. All forms of information can be misused, misappropriated, misconceived and/or misremembered.
The propaganda is within the rhetoric of the politicians been interviewed. All their sympathies for the home office supports the idea that terrorism is a bogeyman, rather than properly deliberating and adapting to the situation. This is exactly what anti-terror propaganda looked like back then and it was weaponised to deceive western voting publics into voting against their own interests.
Thick of it was mostly before this.
@@fod1855 which word implies bias? I mean I spoke of propaganda, I didn't mention information, you did. Perhaps your comprehension skills are bias?
What? Do I really have to explain my comment...?@@dobbersanchez1185
".....and you're suddenly in the Mouse Drum."🤔🤔🤔🫢😁MAELSTROM not Mouse Drum!
Reichsfuhrer SS? Oh i'm sorry i mean Chancellor of the Exchequer
Mesmo estilo cia. Explosões de carros. Não são terroristas não, mi5 kkkk