Climate change is a hoax /sKaptaan Jack@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.world – 815 points – 1 years ago107Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent commentAh yes, the standard Foreign Office response in a time of crisis. The tactic does not get old.THANK YOU! I was trying to remember where my brain dug this up from and I couldn't pinpoint it. Bernard Woolley : What if the Prime Minister insists we help them? Sir Humphrey Appleby : Then we follow the four-stage strategy. Bernard Woolley : What's that? Sir Richard Wharton : Standard Foreign Office response in a time of crisis. Sir Richard Wharton : In stage one we say nothing is going to happen. Sir Humphrey Appleby : Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it. Sir Richard Wharton : In stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there's nothing we can do. Sir Humphrey Appleby : Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it's too late now. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751831/characters/nm0001329 1 more...1 more...
Ah yes, the standard Foreign Office response in a time of crisis. The tactic does not get old.THANK YOU! I was trying to remember where my brain dug this up from and I couldn't pinpoint it. Bernard Woolley : What if the Prime Minister insists we help them? Sir Humphrey Appleby : Then we follow the four-stage strategy. Bernard Woolley : What's that? Sir Richard Wharton : Standard Foreign Office response in a time of crisis. Sir Richard Wharton : In stage one we say nothing is going to happen. Sir Humphrey Appleby : Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it. Sir Richard Wharton : In stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there's nothing we can do. Sir Humphrey Appleby : Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it's too late now. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751831/characters/nm0001329 1 more...1 more...
THANK YOU! I was trying to remember where my brain dug this up from and I couldn't pinpoint it. Bernard Woolley : What if the Prime Minister insists we help them? Sir Humphrey Appleby : Then we follow the four-stage strategy. Bernard Woolley : What's that? Sir Richard Wharton : Standard Foreign Office response in a time of crisis. Sir Richard Wharton : In stage one we say nothing is going to happen. Sir Humphrey Appleby : Stage two, we say something may be about to happen, but we should do nothing about it. Sir Richard Wharton : In stage three, we say that maybe we should do something about it, but there's nothing we can do. Sir Humphrey Appleby : Stage four, we say maybe there was something we could have done, but it's too late now. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751831/characters/nm0001329 1 more...
Ah yes, the standard Foreign Office response in a time of crisis. The tactic does not get old.
THANK YOU! I was trying to remember where my brain dug this up from and I couldn't pinpoint it.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751831/characters/nm0001329