Yes,Prime Minister - 01

Why should the Russians annex(吞并) the whole of Europe?They can't even control Afghanistan.

If they try anything, it will be salami tactics,slice by slice.

A new deal for Britain Hacker's Grand Design, from time to time in our great island story,

it falls to one man...to lead his people out of the valley of the shadow and into the sunlit 

uplands of peace and prosperity.

★★★compliments 赞美 恭维

I can blow up the world,but not ask for scrambled eggs? (lol...)

What can I do to continue this run of success?

-Have you considered masterly inactivty?(无为而治)-No Humpy,a PM must be firm.

-Indeed. How about firm masterly inactivity? 

-No I shall be firm. I'll cancel Trident. Channel 50 billion into conventional forces 

and reintroduce conscription.At one stroke,we shall solve our defence, balance of payments,

unemployment and educational problems all at once.

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-But it's not fair.With Trident we could obliterate(扫除)the whole eastern Europe!

hahaha:

They probably certainly know that you probably wouldn't,they don't certainly know

that although you probably wouldn’t,there is no probability that you certainly would!

If you walked into a nuclear missile showroom,you would buy Trident!It's lovely,it's elegant,

it's beautiful! It's quite simple the best, and Britain should have the best. In the world of 

the nuclear missile,it is the Savile Row suit,the Rolls-Royce Corniche. It is the nuclear 

missile Harrods would sell you.

-Though that it costs 50 billion and we don't need it.

-Well exact about anything at Harrods.

I've come across(无意中发现) a Prime Minister with a bit of sense.

-Really? Where? Which is the lucky country?

We're an elite army,best in the world.Professional,tough,disiplined.WE can't bring in a 

mob of punks and freaks and junkies(吸du者) and riff-raff(乌合之众).A quarter of a 

million football hooligans?

All this equal opportunity nonsense,like America!They don't know if the troops 

posted to them are men or women util they're arrive.

-Sometime not even then. (有时候到了也不知道lol...)

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You have much less todo as Prime Minister. You no longer have a 

department of ypur own. Everything you've read about how hard a PM has to work

is a bit of a myth really.(lol......)

What is the purpose of our defence policy?

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It's to make people BELIEVE Britain is defended.It's for our simple,ignorant

people shuffling in and out of houses,buses,factories and the cabinet room.The 

aim of the defense policy is to make them feel secure...

-Bernard,we have a magic wand(魔杖) Trident.Nobody understands it,except it will cost 50billion,

which means it must be wonderful,magical.All we have to do is write a cheque and all relax,

but if people in government start talking about it,in the end they'll 

start THINKING about it. They will come to realise the flaws(缺陷漏洞) in the reasoning,the 

nation will get worried,agitation(动luan),questions,criticism...change. 

We find that if a sentence goes on over three lines,then by the time it gets to 

the end people will forget how it began.

Things don't happen just because PMs are keen on them.Neville Chamberlain was very keen on peace!

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Politicians are lik children,you can't give them what they want,that only 

encourages them.

Both of us keeping an agreeable tension between them,mistrust,hostility.(敌对)

-I think they'd manage that all right even without us.

Want something for nothing(就想天上掉馅饼)

He hasn't got much clout(影响力) in the Whitehall,has he?

-None at all(无足轻重),he's just a minister.

The Treasury doesn't work out what they need to spend and then think how to raise the 

money.

- They pitch for as much as they think they can get away with,then think what to spend 

it on.If you start giving money back because you don't need it,you 're breaking 

the centuries of tradition.

How do we get the Treasury to agree to tax cuts?

-By getting the Chancellor to agree.

How do we get the Chancellor to agree?

-By getting the Treasury to agree. (lol...)

He proposed the elimination of smoking.

-Hahah..by a campaign of mass hypnosis perhaps.

No man in his right mind could contemplate(深思) such a proposal.

It says here,"Smoking-related diseases cost the NHS 165 million a year."

-It has been shown that if those extra 100,000 people had lived to a ripe(成熟的) old age,

they would have cost us even more in pensions(养老金) and social security than 

they did in medical treatment.  So financially speaking,it's unquestionably better

that they continue to die at about the present rate.

But cigarette taxes pay for a third of the cost of the National Health Service.

We're saving many more lives than we otherwise could because those smokers who 

voluntarily lay down their lives for their friends. Smokers are national benefactors!

There is no smoke without fire.(无烟不起火)

It's totally beside the point.

I'm sure they'd be happy to, provided they could publicise the fact that they 

were doing it anonymously(匿名地).

If we do nothing in the next 10 years,in this country we'll have one million 

premature deaths.

-Yes,but evenly spread!Not just in marginal consituencies.

长难句预警！！！

notwithstanding(尽管) the fact that your proposal could encompass certain concomitant伴随的 

benifits of a peripheral次要的 relevance关联,there is a countervailing补偿的 consideration

of infinitely superior magnitude重要性,invloving your personal complicity串通 and 

corroborative确凿的 malfeasance不fa行为,渎职,with the consequence that the taint污点 

and stigma污名 of your former diversions多样的 could irredeemably无可救药地 and 

irretrievably不可挽回地 invalidate使无效 your position and culminate到达极点 in public 

revelations揭露出来的事 and recriminations相互指责 of a profoundly embarrasing and 

ultimately indefensible无法防御的 character.

I foresee all sorts of unforeseen prolems.

-such as ?

-If I could foresee them,they wouldn't be unforeseen.