I wonder if I might crave your momentary indulgence in order to discharge a by no means disagreeable obligation which has, in this, become more or less required as we approach the terminal period of the thread — in fact, not to put too fine a point on it, the second page of posts — and submit to you, with all appropriate deference, for your consideration at a convenient juncture, a sincere and sanguine expectation — indeed confidence — indeed one might go so far as to say hope — that in the fullness of time, at the end of the day, when all relevant factors have been taken into consideration, susceptible to being deemed to be such as to merit a final verdict of having Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister been seen as by no means unsatisfactory in its overall outcome and, in the final analysis, to give grounds for being judged, on mature reflection, to have been conducive to generating a degree of gratification which will be seen in retrospect to have been significantly higher than the general average.
