Subj : Re: Yes, Minister To : alt.tv.farscape From : Jim Larson Date : Sat Sep 24 2005 05:08:53 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape weirdwolf wrote: > Jim Larson wrote in > news:Xns96DACE17D6A973v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: > >> I feared that my memory had built this up to be more than it was. It >> hadn't. I've watched 5/6 of the first DVD, and it rocks mightily. >> >> Somehow, I'd forgotten that Jim Hacker wasn't a complete idiot and >> that he managed to hold his own on a few occasions. It's very >> satisfying to see that happen. >> >> (Now someone explain to me what the hell a shadow cabinet is all >> about.) >> > > Well the party that is in opposition, i.e. not in power, takes various > of it's own M.P.'s and makes them responsible for the different cabinet > posts. For example you would have a shadow minster for health and a > shadow foreign office minister, The idea being that they both look for > mistakes made by the "real" minister and that they get the training > required if and when their party gets into power that they need to hold a > ministerial position. (Thanks. I had some vague notion that this is what it was. Don't think I ever bothere to look it up before.) -- Jim .