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minus-squareDiplomjodler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·14 days agoSo, is she going to write a strongly worded letter?
minus-squareMelchior@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 days agoBernard: “What if the Prime Minister insists we help them?” Humphrey: “Then we follow the four-stage strategy.” Bernard: “What’s that?” Richard: “Standard Foreign Office response, in a time of crisis. In stage one, we say nothing is going to happen.” Humphrey: “In stage two we say something may be going to happen, but we should do nothing about it.” Richard: “In stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there’s nothing we can do.” Humphrey: “In stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it’s too late now…”
So, is she going to write a strongly worded letter?
Bernard: “What if the Prime Minister insists we help them?”
Humphrey: “Then we follow the four-stage strategy.”
Bernard: “What’s that?”
Richard: “Standard Foreign Office response, in a time of crisis. In stage one, we say nothing is going to happen.”
Humphrey: “In stage two we say something may be going to happen, but we should do nothing about it.”
Richard: “In stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there’s nothing we can do.”
Humphrey: “In stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it’s too late now…”