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| | BBC - Comedy Guide - Yes Minister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | That is the job of the civil servants, and it is his solemn duty to uphold the status quo and, at the same time, feather the bed of his kind by ensuring that few civil servants, if any, ever lose their jobs as a result of government actions. |
 | | To Sir Humphrey and his colleagues there is a right way of doing things - their way - and a wrong way, and that is the end of the matter. |
 | | But while, in their initial encounters, Sir Humphrey was easily able to outmanoeuvre Hacker, without ever seeming insubordinate, the writers permitted the minister to becomes more confident as the series progressed, giving him the occasional victory over his adversaryer, colleague. |
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