Yes, Minister The Greasy Pole

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Yes, MinisterThe Greasy Pole

• An introduction
• Yui-Wah (Clement) Lee, PhDApril 26, 2007

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Key characters
Jim Hackerthe Minister of Administrative Affairs
Sir Humphreythe Permanent Secretaryof
Administrative Affairs
A politician Votes, votes, votes! Popularity Grand
ideas
A civil servant Status Quo! He thinks he is
the real master
BernardThe Personal Secretary
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Some background for this episode

• Sir Wally is the Chairman of BCC, British
  Chemical Corporation, which wants to build a
  chemical plant that involves an inert chemical
  call meta-dioxin, which sounds very close to
  dioxin (???), a toxic chemical.
• Ms. Joan Littler, an MP (member of parliament)
  for Liverpool Southwest does not want the plant
  to be built in their backyard.

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Some background for this episode (contd)

• Professor Henderson is charged to write a report
  studying the safety aspect of meta-dioxin.
• Number 10 (The Prime Minister) wants the plant
  plan be stopped, because it us hugely unpopular.
• What can Jim Hacker (the Minister of
  Administrative Affairs) do?

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Because it is there.

• George Leigh Mallory (1886-1924), a British
  mountaineer who first climbed Mount Everest.
• Reporter Why climb Mount Everest?
• Mallory Because it is there.

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