Yes, Prime Minister1986
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.
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