Yes Minister is a very funny show where you are rooting for out of touch and snobbish civil service to stop Jim Packard’s savage neoliberal cuts.
It’s leftist counterpart - a very British Coup is insanely good if not completely utterly depressing.
I remember the army not wanting to train “ruffians” or something snobbish like that too.
I think they have his daughter with a trot guy, against development or something
I’m not sure if he was a trot, but they were in a nude protest