This morning’s news on the BBC has emphasised a new proposal from the Health Minister that the government end its program offering free milk to under-fives at nursery. It has, that is, until just this moment when the breaking news bulletin advises that “the plan to scrap free milk for under-fives has been abandoned” (nothing to link to, yet; I’ll put a link in as soon as it hits the Net).
It is greatly to the credit of Armando Iannucci that we can now visualise this conflagration almost exactly, complete with bumbling ministers, dithering aides, and profanity-shouting press officers.
Well, except that Yes Minister did the job pretty well too thirty years ago, and which is burned much more indelibly in the British psyche…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister
and a classic clip on youtube:
http://bit.ly/bO7drc