Yes, Prime Minister

The National Education Service

Season 2, Episode 7, Aired 1/8/88

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Sir Humphrey faces a conflict of interest when Hacker devises a plan to improve educational standards by abolishing the Department of Education and Science. ''

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Nigel Hawthorne

Sir Humphrey Appleby
John Nettleton

Sir Arnold Robinson
Paul Eddington

Rt Hon James Hacker

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- Jim Hacker: Do you think I could? Grasp the nettle? Take the bull by the horns? Bernard Woolley: Prime Minister, you can't take the bull by the horns if you're grasping the nettle. Jim Hacker: Oh, really, Bernard? Bernard Woolley: All I meant was, if you grasp the nettle with one hand, you could take the bull by one horn with the other hand, but not both horns because your hand isn't big enough. And if you did take the bull by one horn, it would be rather dangerous, because (he acts out a bull butting out at someone). Well, it was just a mixed metaphor and since we were discussing education, I, I just... (phone rings) Thank God. Edit
- (Sir Humphrey has just proven that, despite what the Prime Minister says, he still knows Latin.) Sir Humphrey Appleby:Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses. Jim Hacker: What does that mean? Sir Humphrey Appleby: If you'd kept your mouth shut, we might have thought you were clever. Jim Hacker: I beg your pardon?! Sir Humphrey Appleby: Oh, not you, Prime Minister. No, that's the translation. Bernard Woolley: No one would ever have thought Sir Humphrey was saying that about you. Sir Humphrey Appleby: Go away, Bernard, please. Edit
- (Discussing ways to reform the education system) Jim Hacker: No, the DES would block it. Dorothy Wainwright: Fine, get rid of them. Jim Hacker: What? Dorothy Wainwright: Get rid of the Department of Education. Jim Hacker: I don't understand you. Dorothy Wainwright: Get rid of it! Abolish it! Remove it! Expunge it! Eliminate it! Eradicate it! Exterminate it! Get rid of it! Jim Hacker: Get rid of it? Edit
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