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Would you want to spend your life packed in with 600 other squawking(吵鬧),smelly?

creatures,unable to breathe fresh air,unable to move,unable to think?

-Centaily not,that's why I never stood for Parliament.

★★conclusive? 令人信服的

Once you create genuinely democratic local communities,it won't stop there.

Once they get established, they insist on more power.And the politicians will?

be too frightened to withhold(抑制) them, so you'll get regional government.

What happens at the moment if there is some vacant空閑的 land in,say ，Nottingham

and their rival proposals for its use,you know,hospital,college,airport?

-We set up an inter departmental committee.Department of health,department of education,

Transport,environment.Ask for papers,hold meetings,propose,discuss,revise,report?

back,redraft.

--Precisely. Month of fruitful work.Leading to a mature and responsible conclusion結(jié)論.

But if you have regional government,they decide it all in Nottingham!Probably in a?

couple of meetings!Complete amateurs!

-It's their city.

--And what happens to us?

-much less work.

--Yes,so little ministers might be able to do it on their own,so we'd have much?

less power!

-If the right people don't have power,do you know what happens?

The wrong people get it!Politicians,councillors,ordinary voters!

--But aren't they supposed to in a democracy?

-This is British democracy,Bernard!

--How do you mean?

-British democracy recognises that you need a system to protect the importance of life?

and keep them out of the hands of the barbarians(化外之民/異族人)!We run a civilised,

aristocratic高貴的 government machine,tempered調(diào)節(jié) by occasional general elections.

Since 1832, we have been gradually excluding排除 the voter from government.Now, we've

got them to a point where they just vote once every five years for which bunch of?

buffoons小丑 will try to interfere with OUR policies and you are happy to see?

all that thrown away??

You said local government was corrupt and incompetent.

-So it is,Bernard.So corrupt and incompetent that even ministers recognise it.

Which means that thay centralise.they gave all the responsible jobs to us,

we, are the flower of government. Local government may be a dunghill屎山...

but it grows beautiful roses. But if we try to clean up the dunghill,and lose our balance...

Hacker's just grasping at straws.(抓救命稻草)

If a politician lives or dies by his media image,then his survival depends on the Civil?

Service publicity machine helping him with his fatuous愚笨的 speeches and articles?

and photo opportunities.Politicians are dependent on us. A thousand press officers to?

publicise their little triumphs, the Official Secrets Act to conceal掩蓋 their?

daily disasters.

The only way to reform Civil Service system is to reform the political system.No?

government's going to reform the system that put it into power.

If they were know to all their constituents or their committee representatives,then?

whether MPs will get reelected would be nothing to do with party backed them or not,

it would depend on whether the constituents felt they were doing a good job.

-So ,if the MP wasn't depend on his party machine,he could actually vote against?

his own party and get away with it.

前方高能！

To put it simply,certain informal discussions took place involving a full and?

frank exchange of views,out of which there arose a series of proposals which on?

proved to indicate certain promising lines of inquiry, which,when pursued,led?

to the realisation that the alternative courses of action might, infact, in certain?

circumstances,but susceptible of discreet modification,leading to a reappraisal境遇

of the areas of difference and pointing the way to encouraging possibilities

of compromise and cooperation which, if bilaterally雙方的? implemented will?

appropriate give and take on both sides, might, if the climate were right,

have a reasonable possibility,at the end of the day,of leading,rightly or wrongly,

to a mutually satisfactory resolution.

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★★★ controversial 有爭議的

Actors and actress are usually nice to politicians.They live on? flattery奉承,

as eagerly as they lap it up.他們喜歡拍馬也喜歡被拍馬

It's to be to a hostile有敵意的 audience of posturing,theatrical drunks.

-The House of Commons,you mean?

Plays criticising the government make the second most boring theatrical evenings ever invented."

-What are the most boring?

Plays praising the government.

Artists always crawl towards the government on their knees,shaking their fists.

-Beating me over the head with begging bowls!

--I'm sorry to be pedantic咬文嚼字/學(xué)究式的,they can't beat you over the head if they're?

on their knees,unless they've got very long arms.

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grip 緊握 抓牢

The education system does all most parents require of it.Keeps children out of?

mischief調(diào)皮搗蛋 while they're at work.

It's to get rid of class distinction in the teaching profession(避免教師的階級差異)

.Improve the living standard of teachers not the educational standards of children.

To Labour(工dang),we explain that selective sducation is divisive and to the Tories(保守dang)

we explain that it is expensive.That way,we have a happy relationship with the NUT and?

we educate our own children privately.(給自家孩子私立教育)

"How many Afiacan children could be saved from starvation if the Ministry of Defence

abandoned nuclear weapons?".

-Taht's wasy.None.They'd spend it all on conventional常規(guī)的 weapons.（lol...）

Being bored stiff was an excellent preparation for work.無聊是他們謀生的必備技能

We didn't raise it so they'd learn more(提高畢業(yè)年齡不是為了讓他們多學(xué)),we raise

it to keep teenagers off the job market and hold down unemployment figures.

Get rid of it,abolish it,remove it,expunge it,eliminate it,eradicate it,

exterminate it!

前方吟唱:

They will give a urgent consideration and insist on a thorough and examination of?

the proposals allied聯(lián)合 to a detailed feasibility study and budget analysis, producing

a consultative可商議的 document for consideration and seeking comments and recommendations

to be included in a brief for a series of working parties who will produce individual

studies which will provide the background for a more wide-ranging document,considering

whether or not the proposal should be taken forward to the next stage.

-You mean they will block it.

★prosecute 檢舉 告發(fā)

hush it up 避免張揚(yáng)/閉嘴

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吟唱：

Although the answer was indeed clear,simple and straightforward,that is some difficult

in justifiably(言之有理地) assigning the 4th term you applied to the statement...in as?

much as the precise correlation相互關(guān)系 between information you communicated,and the fact?

insofar(在...的情況下) as they can be determined and demonstrated is such as to cause?

epistemological認(rèn)識論的 problems of sufficient magnitude重要性 as to lay upon the?

logical and semantic resources of the English language, a heavier burden than they?

can reasonably be expected to bear.

-What?

-You... told a lie.

=Apparently the fact you needed to know was not known at the time that the now-known to know?

was known. Therfore those needed to advise inform the Home Secretary perhaps felt that?

the information he needs to whether to inform the highest authority know the information?

was not yet known, and therefore was no authority for the authority to be informed because

they need to know was thought that time not known or needed.

-What?

--We could not know that you'd deny it in the House.

-Obvously I would if I didn't know and were asked.

--We did not know that you'd be asked when you didn't know.

-I was bound to be asked when I didn't know if I didn't know !

--You should not be aware because you've just denied it.

-It would've been helpful if I'd been aware before I denied it.

--On the contrary Prime Minister,If you had been aware before you denied it,

you wouldn't have denied it.

-But I needed to know!

--We do not always tell you about bugging when you need to know.

=You see,ai times ,Prime Minister,we need you not to know.

To decide to conceal information from you is a heavy burden for any official?

to shoulder,but to decide not to reveal information,to you is routin procedure.

The system works perfectly well,as long as the Prime Minister tells the Civil?

Service everything he's going to say before he says it.But if,precipitantly倒栽地

he says something without first clearing it with our official,he has only?

himself to blame.You must not say anything public without clearing it.

With respect,Prime Minister,you must learn discretion謹(jǐn)慎.

-I didn't know there was nothing to be discreet謹(jǐn)慎的 about!

In government there's always something to be discreet about.

Perhaps you could advise me,Prime Minister,particularly if the questions are?

aggressive.

-The more aggressive is the better,that puts listeners on your side.

Nonetheless不過,I may have to answer them.

Why? You never answer my questions. (lol...)

=Couldn't you've said a bit more special about unemployment?

-Such as?

=Well... the truth.

-Oh my dear Ludo,nobody tells the truth about unemployment.

=Oh?Why not?

-Well,because everybody knows you can halve減半 it in a few weeks.

=But how?

-Cut off all Social Security to any claimant提要求者 who refuses two job offers.

There's genuine真正的 unemployment in the north,but the south Englian is?

awash遍地都是的的 with layabouts懶漢,many of them graduates living off the?

dole救濟(jì) and housing benefit救濟(jì)金, plus quite a lot of cash they pick up?

without telling anybody.

=You mean moonlighting?不見天日的私活

-Well,sunlighting,really.Most employers will tell you they're short-staffed,

but offer the unemployment street sweeping job or dishwashing job, they'd

be off the register(拔腿就跑) before you could say "parasite".(罵他們寄生蟲

都來不及)Frankly,this country can have as much unemployment as it prepared

to pay for in Social Security. And no politicians have got the guts to do?

anything about it.

=Oh,I do wish you'd said that.

-I'm sure you do. (lol......)