#yesministerkin

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My new goal in life is to get all my friends to watch or play the sources I like and hope one of them kinfirms. It's lonely but hey somebody's got to do it!

Anyway. I'm cursed to kin from all these shows about politics (What can I say? I watch them because of the special interest) but there's never any mediamates because let's face it, most kinfolk aren't going to watch some shows about British politics from the '80s and '90s. Which is a shame because that's where some of my highest kins come from! And I would probably kill to see my old friends and colleagues again.

Alas, I keep forgetting it's not a cup of tea for people. Oh well. If I get into politics in this life, as is my goal, it'll probably be worth it because I can make some new memories and new colleagues and spend my life helping people!

But I just wish I could see my friends again.

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Honestly my friendship of Dorothy was slightly unlikely but we ended up being the best of friends. I remember the first day I moved to the Cabinet's office and I was sharing an office with her for a while during the short period I was moving in with everyone else. She had a lot of difficulty with how her colleagues in there treated her and she assumed I was the same. I mean most of them were stuffy old men and I had already seen their sexism. It took a while and I think it was only after seeing a bit of how I interacted with Sir Humphrey that proved to her I was really different and since then we stuck together. I really wish she had a bigger role in the show. Hope she's okay wherever she is.

— Bernard Woolley (Yes Minister) #📺🎙💥

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Rewatching the show and then rewatching it straight after is giving me extremely mixed feelings. The worst part is the mixed loyalties. I mean the whole thing about my character was that I was divided between who I should be loyal to - my minister or my mentor. Even in this life I keep questioning my decisions and going “oh no wait he actually had a point there” or “hmmm did I really think that way?” What’s worse is the entirety of YPM since that's when Sir Humphrey starts to snap and become a bit more bad tempered from being thwarted so much. The episodes where that happens really hurts.

The final episode of the entire show I think in particular. Yes, my relationship with Sir Humphrey was very difficult. God knows even now I can’t define it. But I honestly don’t think I gave the minister the tape. I already saw the panic on his face and I wouldn’t have wanted to see him like that again.

I suppose thinking about it, I’m always going to be divided on my loyalty and never truly pick a side. Still, look on the bright side I suppose. At least I enjoyed my job and I had the friendships of two of the most intelligent men I’ve ever had the pleasure of working alongside in any canon similar to this current world.

— Bernard Woolley (Yes Minister) #📺🎙️💥

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I've tried to type this three times now but I don't think I can ever encapsulate my feelings. Sir Humphrey, maybe I'm talking into the void, god knows no one else would kin from a show about the civil service from the 80s but I feel like getting all this out so that maybe if you are out there you can read this, whether now or in a few years time.

I don't know if you had good intentions, or if you were manipulating me. I don't know if you ever actually cared for me like a son like I cared for you like a father. I don't know if we had a healthy friendship. All I know is that I hope that I was a good protege and that I made you proud.

You were a good man from what I remember if even a little stingy at times. You were a gentleman all the same. Don't forget that. I hope in some life we can be colleagues again.

— yours as sincerely as always, Bernard Woolley (Yes Minister) #📺🎙💥

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Once again sitting here head in my hands wondering if Humphrey really cared for me or if he just used me like a puppet. Memories stop being vague, please just let me know if the man I saw like a father figure and mentor treated me well but just didn’t know how to go about it or was just trying to use me for the sake of his own ambitions. I am on the floor crying.

— Bernard Woolley (Yes Minister) #📺🎙️💥

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To all other kins of politician characters out there, I’m holding your hand. Let’s go start a political party and get things right this time, okay?

— Jim Hacker (Yes Minister) #📺🎙️💥

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