Men from the Ministry

1960s British radio comedy series

Fictional General Assistance Department was created to help other ministries with often trivial problems. Incompetent civil servants that are running it get into trouble everytime they try to do their job. But most of the time they just try to look like they are doing any job.

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Men from the Ministry quotes

Sir Gregory Pitkin:
[after Richard Lamb sabotaged the computer] Computers makes no mistakes! It’s the man behind it!
Richard Lamb:
There’s a man behind it? This box must be bigger than I thought...

Mrs Livingstone:
We must fight those counselors who want to pull down our older buildings.
Deryck Lennox-Brown:
Mind you, some of them are crumbling and rather dirty.
Mrs Livingstone:
Then they shouldn’t be on the council!

narrator:
The Civil Servants are always ready and willing - few are ready to work and the rest is willing to let them.