Daily Dialogue — April 19, 2018

Sir Humphrey Appleby: Prime Minister, I must protest, in the strongest possible terms, my profound opposition to a newly instituted practice which imposes severe and intolerable restrictions upon the ingress and egress of senior members of the hierarchy and which will in all probability, should the current deplorable innovation be perpetuated, precipitate a constriction of the channels of communication and culminate in a condition of organizational atrophy and administrative paralysis, which will render effectively impossible the coherent and coordinated discharge of the function of government within Her Majesty’s United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland!
PM Jim Hacker: …You mean you’ve lost your key?

— Yes, Prime Minister (1986), written by Anthony Jay and Jonathan Lynn

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Technobabble.

Trivia: Every episode ends with Sir Humphrey and/or Bernard saying, “Yes, Prime Minister.”

Dialogue On Dialogue: The appearance of technobabble extends to television, even in the U.K.. Here Sir Humphrey engages in some politically tinged babble in an attempt to saver his arse regarding a lost key.