Yes Minister Paints Scarily True Picture ; Your Article (Wmn, October 22) Shows Only Too Clearly How This Country Is Run - or Perhaps Not Run - by Both Labour and Tory. It Was Headed 'Yes Minister' Which, of Course, Was a Television Series That Actually Illustrated the Way Our Country Is Run.

Western Morning News, The › October 29, 2008

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Your article (WMN, October 22) shows only too clearly how this country is run - or perhaps not run - by both Labour and Tory. It was headed "Yes Minister" which, of course, was a television series that actually illustrated the way our country is run.

So the Eden Project has submitted a planning application to Restormel Borough Council for a single two-megawatt, 412ft wind turbine at the northern side of the site (WMN, October 21). According to project leaders, the turbine would generate a clean and secure electricity supply, covering Eden's needs across the year.

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Yes Minister Paints Scarily True Picture ; Your Article (Wmn, October 22) Shows Only Too Clearly How This Country Is Run - or Perhaps Not Run - by Both Labour and Tory. It Was Headed 'Yes Minister' Which, of Course, Was a Television Series That Actually Illustrated the Way Our Country Is Run.

We have nominal figures known as ministers. I say nominal because, so far as I know, they do not have to pass any test of knowledge before being appointed.

Effectively the country is run by a civil servic...

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