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The Minister for Administrative Affairs Hacker (Paul Eddington), takes
much pride in a project brought on the way by gouvernment in cooperation
with big business ... so much pride in fact that he boasts about it on
public television. The department's permanent secretary Humphrey (Nigel
Hawthorne) however, one a great supporter of the project, suddenly feels
less enthusiastic, since the main private financier went bancrupt.
However, his pried prevents him from telling this to the minister, instead
he secures the financing of banker Sir Desmond Glazebrook (Richard
Vernon), but in exchange promises him the chairmanship of the Industry
Co-Partnership Commission.
Only eventually does Hacker find out the deal abut his pet project go
bust, & of all people a union man, Joe Morgan (Richard Davies), tells
him, but wants money for his union in exchange for his silence.
Later, Hacker, ignorant of Humphrey's dealings with Sir Desmond, tries
desperately to get him off the chairmanship of the Industry Co-Partnership
Commission (choice dialogue "... he is a blathering idiot !" -
"Yes, and an excellent chairman."), but when Humphrey
reluctantly discloses the real motives of his choice, Hacker suddenly not
only agrees, but - much to Humphrey's enjoyment - suggests Joe Morgan for
the commissin as well ...
Only Hacker's political adviser Weisel (Neil Fitzwiliam) is shocked, as
when becoming minister, it was Hacker's intention to put a stop to the
enormous amount of quangos for party friends & the like the
last gouvernment has left behind. However, suddenly Hacker & Humphrey
seem to speak withthe same tongue, as they offer Weisel to become head of
a super quango, a quango controlling the work of the other quangos, &
before he realizes he has been had, Weiel gladly accepts ...
This may not be the best episode of the series (but it's at no means
bad), but with this one, the first series of Yes Minister
comes full circle: It started out with the minister & his advisor
wanting to shake down the rotten apparatus that is gouvernment in the
first episode, Open
Gouvernment, but by this one, episode 7, not only has the minister
given in to the whole corrupt system & has learned to speak in exactly
the same language as his plotting permanent secretary, he even buys out
his own advisor without blinking a blink of the eye ... & the advisor
seems to fall for it as well --- great political satire.
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