#Jim Hacker

[partywithponies]

One of my favourite things about Yes (Prime) Minister is that to me it always feels like Humphrey does genuinely really like Jim, but Jim never realises because half the time he can't tell what the hell Humphrey is actually talking about and the other half of the time Humphrey's compliments end up sounding like insults, and they're both completely clueless about the whole thing.

[gaylittlebillionaires]

yes, minister 2.03 the death list

[urban-cheesemaker]

Hello chaps! I am going quite insane actually! :))

[laceandsteelgirl]

those two guys in yes minister have enough sexual tension to power a space station. unfortunately this is countered by them being british politicians and therefore nothing interesting ever happens between them

[her-ladyship-ariadne]

I love Bernard he’s such a little dweeb. was watching the writing on the wall today and jim said something like “we’ve got it in the bag, this will really rock the boat” and you can just hear the RAGE in Bernard’s voice, like he’s gritting his teeth, when he says “you don’t put boats in bags”. adore this man.

[georgefairbrother]

An important message from the government...

[gluttonyedits]

prompt from @edelweiss-edits: favourite media Yes Minister protagonists layouts No doubles for Bernard.

[couldtheycatchkira]

[spamuelsonofspamothy]

Rewatching Yes, Minister and thinking about Sir Humphrey in "The Whiskey Priest". Upon being told that, if he doesn't care about morality in government, he's going to hell, the man grins. When asked about whether the Civil Service should believe in the government's policies, Sir Humphrey lectures us about how that would mean holding several contradictory views whose net effect would be to drive any man mad. And for all his amoral cynicism, he is sort of trying to help Hacker out: telling the PM what he knows would at best make Hacker a martyr for embarrassing the government (and leave him unable to help anyway) and at worst bring down the whole cabinet, PM included. An interesting episode, all around.

[carnivore-ivy]

[lifewithaview]

Yes Minister (1980) The Right to Know

Once again, the Minister, Jim Hacker and the permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby, clash over the Minister's role in running the Department.The Minister instructs his senior civil servant to keep nothing from him and he is promptly flooded with everything under the sun. For Sir Humphrey, the Minister's meeting with constituents concerned about saving a local den of badgers is exactly the kind of work he should be doing. When he learns that Hacker's daughter will stage a nude protest over her father's decision on the badgers, Appleby must come to the rescue.

[gaylittlebillionaires]

rewatching s1+2 of the thick of it and yes minister simultaneously makes it so obvious that hugh abbot is basically just jim hacker but in 2005

[daydreamerwonderkid]

*Girls Just Wanna Have Fun playing in the background*

Meme reference below cut

[her-ladyship-ariadne]

Jim Hacker: You mean to tell me that when the chips are down, you’re on my side, not Humphrey’s?

Bernard Woolley: Minister, it’s my job to see that the chips stay up.

[gluttonyedits]

HEADCANONS : Jim Hacker (General)

His father was a Liberal Party counsellor for a county council, which would set his views and interest in politics.

I see him as an MP of a much more successful Liberal Party. Ideologically wise, he is a social liberal. While his biggest political hero is Winston Churchill, William Beveridge comes a close second.

Everyone in the department has been warned several times against buying him drinks for Christmas or birthday presents. Mainly because he tends to get drunk at the office. His favourite alcoholic beverage is claret.

Normally when he's drunk he either delivers a very staggered speech or makes fun of recent things that have happened. No one is particularly amused.

Most of his hours at home consist of dealing with red boxes, writing letters and reading newspapers while listening to Radio 1. If he and Annie do anything, then it's playing board games.

Private Eye has given him the simple nicknames of "Jim Hacking" and “Jim Hackless” because of his position as Minister for Administrative Affairs. “Hacking” is used when he destroys red tape, “Hackless” is used when he doesn’t.