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Would you want to spend your life packed in with 600 other squawking(吵闹),smelly 

creatures,unable to breathe fresh air,unable to move,unable to think?

-Centaily not,that's why I never stood for Parliament.

★★conclusive  令人信服的

Once you create genuinely democratic local communities,it won't stop there.

Once they get established, they insist on more power.And the politicians will 

be too frightened to withhold(抑制) them, so you'll get regional government.

What happens at the moment if there is some vacant空闲的 land in,say ，Nottingham

and their rival proposals for its use,you know,hospital,college,airport?

-We set up an inter departmental committee.Department of health,department of education,

Transport,environment.Ask for papers,hold meetings,propose,discuss,revise,report 

back,redraft.

--Precisely. Month of fruitful work.Leading to a mature and responsible conclusion结论.

But if you have regional government,they decide it all in Nottingham!Probably in a 

couple of meetings!Complete amateurs!

-It's their city.

--And what happens to us?

-much less work.

--Yes,so little ministers might be able to do it on their own,so we'd have much 

less power!

-If the right people don't have power,do you know what happens?

The wrong people get it!Politicians,councillors,ordinary voters!

--But aren't they supposed to in a democracy?

-This is British democracy,Bernard!

--How do you mean?

-British democracy recognises that you need a system to protect the importance of life 

and keep them out of the hands of the barbarians(化外之民/异族人)!We run a civilised,

aristocratic高贵的 government machine,tempered调节 by occasional general elections.

Since 1832, we have been gradually excluding排除 the voter from government.Now, we've

got them to a point where they just vote once every five years for which bunch of 

buffoons小丑 will try to interfere with OUR policies and you are happy to see 

all that thrown away? 

You said local government was corrupt and incompetent.

-So it is,Bernard.So corrupt and incompetent that even ministers recognise it.

Which means that thay centralise.they gave all the responsible jobs to us,

we, are the flower of government. Local government may be a dunghill屎山...

but it grows beautiful roses. But if we try to clean up the dunghill,and lose our balance...

Hacker's just grasping at straws.(抓救命稻草)

If a politician lives or dies by his media image,then his survival depends on the Civil 

Service publicity machine helping him with his fatuous愚笨的 speeches and articles 

and photo opportunities.Politicians are dependent on us. A thousand press officers to 

publicise their little triumphs, the Official Secrets Act to conceal掩盖 their 

daily disasters.

The only way to reform Civil Service system is to reform the political system.No 

government's going to reform the system that put it into power.

If they were know to all their constituents or their committee representatives,then 

whether MPs will get reelected would be nothing to do with party backed them or not,

it would depend on whether the constituents felt they were doing a good job.

-So ,if the MP wasn't depend on his party machine,he could actually vote against 

his own party and get away with it.

前方高能！

To put it simply,certain informal discussions took place involving a full and 

frank exchange of views,out of which there arose a series of proposals which on 

proved to indicate certain promising lines of inquiry, which,when pursued,led 

to the realisation that the alternative courses of action might, infact, in certain 

circumstances,but susceptible of discreet modification,leading to a reappraisal境遇

of the areas of difference and pointing the way to encouraging possibilities

of compromise and cooperation which, if bilaterally双方的  implemented will 

appropriate give and take on both sides, might, if the climate were right,

have a reasonable possibility,at the end of the day,of leading,rightly or wrongly,

to a mutually satisfactory resolution.

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★★★ controversial 有争议的

Actors and actress are usually nice to politicians.They live on  flattery奉承,

as eagerly as they lap it up.他们喜欢拍马也喜欢被拍马

It's to be to a hostile有敌意的 audience of posturing,theatrical drunks.

-The House of Commons,you mean?

Plays criticising the government make the second most boring theatrical evenings ever invented."

-What are the most boring?

Plays praising the government.

Artists always crawl towards the government on their knees,shaking their fists.

-Beating me over the head with begging bowls!

--I'm sorry to be pedantic咬文嚼字/学究式的,they can't beat you over the head if they're 

on their knees,unless they've got very long arms.

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grip 紧握 抓牢

The education system does all most parents require of it.Keeps children out of 

mischief调皮捣蛋 while they're at work.

It's to get rid of class distinction in the teaching profession(避免教师的阶级差异)

.Improve the living standard of teachers not the educational standards of children.

To Labour(工dang),we explain that selective sducation is divisive and to the Tories(保守dang)

we explain that it is expensive.That way,we have a happy relationship with the NUT and 

we educate our own children privately.(给自家孩子私立教育)

"How many Afiacan children could be saved from starvation if the Ministry of Defence

abandoned nuclear weapons?".

-Taht's wasy.None.They'd spend it all on conventional常规的 weapons.（lol...）

Being bored stiff was an excellent preparation for work.无聊是他们谋生的必备技能

We didn't raise it so they'd learn more(提高毕业年龄不是为了让他们多学),we raise

it to keep teenagers off the job market and hold down unemployment figures.

Get rid of it,abolish it,remove it,expunge it,eliminate it,eradicate it,

exterminate it!

前方吟唱:

They will give a urgent consideration and insist on a thorough and examination of 

the proposals allied联合 to a detailed feasibility study and budget analysis, producing

a consultative可商议的 document for consideration and seeking comments and recommendations

to be included in a brief for a series of working parties who will produce individual

studies which will provide the background for a more wide-ranging document,considering

whether or not the proposal should be taken forward to the next stage.

-You mean they will block it.

★prosecute 检举 告发

hush it up 避免张扬/闭嘴

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吟唱：

Although the answer was indeed clear,simple and straightforward,that is some difficult

in justifiably(言之有理地) assigning the 4th term you applied to the statement...in as 

much as the precise correlation相互关系 between information you communicated,and the fact 

insofar(在...的情况下) as they can be determined and demonstrated is such as to cause 

epistemological认识论的 problems of sufficient magnitude重要性 as to lay upon the 

logical and semantic resources of the English language, a heavier burden than they 

can reasonably be expected to bear.

-What?

-You... told a lie.

=Apparently the fact you needed to know was not known at the time that the now-known to know 

was known. Therfore those needed to advise inform the Home Secretary perhaps felt that 

the information he needs to whether to inform the highest authority know the information 

was not yet known, and therefore was no authority for the authority to be informed because

they need to know was thought that time not known or needed.

-What?

--We could not know that you'd deny it in the House.

-Obvously I would if I didn't know and were asked.

--We did not know that you'd be asked when you didn't know.

-I was bound to be asked when I didn't know if I didn't know !

--You should not be aware because you've just denied it.

-It would've been helpful if I'd been aware before I denied it.

--On the contrary Prime Minister,If you had been aware before you denied it,

you wouldn't have denied it.

-But I needed to know!

--We do not always tell you about bugging when you need to know.

=You see,ai times ,Prime Minister,we need you not to know.

To decide to conceal information from you is a heavy burden for any official 

to shoulder,but to decide not to reveal information,to you is routin procedure.

The system works perfectly well,as long as the Prime Minister tells the Civil 

Service everything he's going to say before he says it.But if,precipitantly倒栽地

he says something without first clearing it with our official,he has only 

himself to blame.You must not say anything public without clearing it.

With respect,Prime Minister,you must learn discretion谨慎.

-I didn't know there was nothing to be discreet谨慎的 about!

In government there's always something to be discreet about.

Perhaps you could advise me,Prime Minister,particularly if the questions are 

aggressive.

-The more aggressive is the better,that puts listeners on your side.

Nonetheless不过,I may have to answer them.

Why? You never answer my questions. (lol...)

=Couldn't you've said a bit more special about unemployment?

-Such as?

=Well... the truth.

-Oh my dear Ludo,nobody tells the truth about unemployment.

=Oh?Why not?

-Well,because everybody knows you can halve减半 it in a few weeks.

=But how?

-Cut off all Social Security to any claimant提要求者 who refuses two job offers.

There's genuine真正的 unemployment in the north,but the south Englian is 

awash遍地都是的的 with layabouts懒汉,many of them graduates living off the 

dole救济 and housing benefit救济金, plus quite a lot of cash they pick up 

without telling anybody.

=You mean moonlighting?不见天日的私活

-Well,sunlighting,really.Most employers will tell you they're short-staffed,

but offer the unemployment street sweeping job or dishwashing job, they'd

be off the register(拔腿就跑) before you could say "parasite".(骂他们寄生虫

都来不及)Frankly,this country can have as much unemployment as it prepared

to pay for in Social Security. And no politicians have got the guts to do 

anything about it.

=Oh,I do wish you'd said that.

-I'm sure you do. (lol......)