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- Order! Order! Order!
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- – Order! Order! Order!
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The Member for Bromsgrove!
The Member for Woolwich West!
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Bill! Oi, Bill! What's the bother?
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He's bloody going, isn't he?
Off to see the queen.
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– Oh, bollocks! Says who?
– Harrison.
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Walter? Oh, no.
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Some time this afternoon.
All we bloody need! A bastard election.
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Oh, shit a fucking brick! No!
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The Member for Rochester and Chatham.
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– Is it true?
– You should know, he's your leader, love.
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Oh, don't be like that. Terry!
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– The Member for Paddington South.
– Well?
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– Arse!
– It's true, then.
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Bloody typical! The Labour lot catch wind
of it first and we're in ruddy power.
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– Shows who your friends are. Christ!
– Look, the deputy.
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– Jack!
– Oh, good afternoon.
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Is it true, he's calling it today?
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– Look, I understand your concern.
– Concern?
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But rest assured, both of you,
when there's news, if there's news,
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it will announced
through the usual channels.
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The usual channels? Oh, come on!
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Walter Harrison's already
spreading it around like shit on a field!
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How can a Labour whip be announcing it
before the Tories?
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Hm!
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Jack?
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Bit of a to-do out there.
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– I imagine so, yes.
– Chief...
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– Just enjoying the calm before the storm.
– Right.
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The Member for Paddington South!
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– – Enter.
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I don't believe it, chief. Bloody hell!
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– I finally get my hands on one of these!
– There's a good chap, this really...
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I won't be coming back. The seat will
go red this time, you just watch.
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You just bloody watch!
It's anarchy out there.
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Blue-arsed flies!
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That's why they call it a snap election,
Nicholas.
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It isn't a 'bend slowly until it gives'
election.
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It isn't
a 'stir gently over a medium heat,
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'reduce to simmer and then serve'
election.
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It's a snap –
quick and painless, off like a plaster!
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–
– Painless? Ha!
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Whoever you are,
yes, it's true, clear your desk.
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A key component in the element of surprise
is the element of surprise!
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– – Come in.
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Oh. Damn it!
What a rotten bloody system this is!
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The whole thing! Christ!
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Oh, God. Cruel as it may seem,
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this 'rotten system', is one of the few
things this country has manufactured
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and exported that hasn't been sent back.
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Envied the world over for its simplicity.
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One person, one vote, sending one Member
to represent them in one house.
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And the party with more warm bodies
than any other governs.
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As one.
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And this mother of all parliaments,
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yes she's showing her age,
but like all good mums,
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she's showing it with dignity
and with grace.
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Hang on.
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This House serves to remind us
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that we are but its temporary trustees,
Nicholas, nothing more.
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This is mine.
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And when Parliament dissolves
at 5pm today,
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I am no longer the Member for Spelthorne,
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nor Jack here
the Member for Croydon North East,
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nor you the Member for Paddington South.
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But Paddington, sadly,
will go on without you.
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It is a lesson we all must learn.
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Hope to see you again, old friend.
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The Member for Bromsgrove!
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Oh, Jesus Christ!
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No, it's Bob actually,
but the likeness is uncanny.
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Saveloy?
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– Chief, what's going on?
– Look, I know as much as you do, Terry.
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Where the bleeding hell is Walter?
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– Wa-hay!
– Wa-hay!
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We're on our way back! Come on!
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– Where's the others? Where's Cocks?
– Michael? I dunno.
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It's all right for you, innit? You're not
defending a tiny majority, are you?
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What are you Walter, Wakefield?
Eh?
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I'd kill for Wakefield, bloody hell.
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Couldn't have given me
an effing mining town, could they?
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Mill town, salt of the earth.
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They've only gone and merged me with
Redditch. Redditch, for Christ's sake!
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– Bugger off! Redditch? It's manufacture.
– Oh, bollocks! Honestly, Walter.
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Needles! That's all they make.
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That's all they bloody well make
in Redditch, needles, that's it.
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–
– What's this, no mushy peas? Travesty!
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– Give over, mushy peas.
– Chaps...
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– Like having a bath with no bubbles.
– Do me a lemon, you uncouth northern...
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I'm being serious!
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– It's over. Why? Cos I stayed loyal.
– Do you ever look up at the sky, Terry?
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Do you watch the way birds move en masse?
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Their ability to survive lies in the fact
that they all instinctively turn together.
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On our own, we are nowt.
Now, that is the job of the whips.
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The job is to transmit in a way that is
undetectable to the eagles circling above.
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The job is to communicate
the instruction 'turn'.
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'Turn now! Turn all of us, together now
and we might make it.
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– 'We might just bloody well make it.'
– I hate birds!
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They shit on you from a great height.
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You'll be all right. And if not,
there's other elections, other seats.
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Oh, what's the point of it all, eh?
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Eh?
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What's the bloody...
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point?
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– Don't worry about him. He'll be OK.
– Yes.
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Although, no, he won't be, will he, but...
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– That's life.
– That's politics.
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– Ah, Walter, the man of the hour.
– Jack.
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I see you're off to inspect the troops.
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My, oh, my, look at this! That's new.
What is it, leather?
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– It's a bit big, though.
– Oh, do you think?
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I rather like it. Substantial,
plus the lines are not too thick.
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Here, look, see? Small and simple.
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Ah, yes, old reliable.
Well, it's not without its charms.
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Easily accessible, I suppose,
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but where's the sense of authority,
Walter, the weight of information?
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Members see a big fat thing like that,
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they thing you're compensating
for summat.
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Ah, well, yes. You believe what you like.
I must get on.
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So, will I be still be dealing with you,
do you think,
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after the big heave-ho,
the old switcheroo?
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I'll go where I'm put, Walter, of course.
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And 'switcheroo'? Come off it, you know
we're staying in. I mean, of course...
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– Staying in? Have you seen the polls?
– I have seen the polls, Walter.
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– We're in the lead in the polls.
– Only just. There's nowt in it.
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In dark times, the electorate sticks
with the devil it knows.
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Eh-up, they're only dark
because you can't keep the lights on!
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Surely, the most basic test
for a government
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is they can keep the blinking lights on,
Jack.
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Yes, well, perhaps after all this, you'll
finally get to be the chief whip now...
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– Deputy.
– Well!
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Maybe you will be your side, and all,
deputy.
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Oh, and, Walter.
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How did you find out so quickly?
The election?
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I don't kiss and tell.
You should know that about me by now.
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– Walter.
– Jack.
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About done are we, Mr Cocks? They'll be
coming up to turn the light off.
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Oh. Yes. No. Of course.
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– Ta for letting me, uh...
– That's all right.
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My predecessor, he left me a note.
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'Mr Cocks goes up the clock,
no questions asked.'
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I thought it were a nursery rhyme
at first.
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– What's the deal with the light, anyway?
– The Ayrton Light, above the clock?
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Well, it shines when Parliament is seated,
put out when it rises.
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Lots of funny rules and traditions here.
You'll start to learn.
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Londoner all me life, me. I never even
knew you could stand behind this thing.
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The most famous face in the world.
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Never stopped ticking, you know,
ever since it first, like...
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Even during the war, the blitz,
bombs raining down.
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Stubbornly, just kept on ticking.
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Yeah, well, it's only a couple ticks away
from the old, uh... So come on.
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This razor's edge election '74.
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If money talks in general elections,
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Mr Heath, at present,
is looking very much like Nijinsky...
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..now almost certain
that neither Conservative nor Labour
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will get enough seats
to have the overall...
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..seems to have been responsible
for the Conservatives' defeat...
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..16% swing to Labour.
Labour has gained...
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..the party believe that
it is in a position to form a government,
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if necessary a minority government,
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and to carry out workable policies...
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Oh, Humphrey, me old cocker!
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– Oh, don't start, Bob, all right?
– Start? Moi?
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Let's at least try
and conduct this transfer
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with a modicum of decorum, shall we?
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A modicum of decorum? Blimey what's that?
Odds-on favourite for the 2:15?
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That's a 'no' then, I take it.
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– You can leave that, if you like.
– Get your own.
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Gift from my wife, anniversary.
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Look, I'm sorry Humphrey,
genuine commiserations and all that.
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Politics is a cruel sport.
Second place gets you naff all.
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Yes, well, in... Haha!
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In your case Bob, first place
gets you 'naff all' as well.
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Four seats more than us?
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Labour may be the largest party,
but not a majority in the House.
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Yet here we are, swapping offices.
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A few small steps across the lobby,
but a giant leap for mankind.
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Bob, it's a hung parliament.
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– You've got no idea, have you?
– Oi!
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What's your combination for the safe?
I need to change it.
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– I'll inform the clerk, he can come...
– Oh, come on, Humphrey!
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– Just give me the bloody combination.
– No. Simply not.
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– Very grown-up, isn't it?
– It's about protocol, Bob, procedure.
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Fine. No hard feelings, eh?
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Listen, I mean this, because I like you.
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Oh, Humphrey, I like you too. Come here!
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We're going to get you,
so don't get comfortable.
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A minority government? No one gives you
more than a matter of weeks.
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You're going to fall, and fast, and hard.
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So, start finding things to land on.
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Wa-ay! Home, sweet home, chief.
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We're fucked. We're fucked, aren't we?
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–
– Wa-hay!
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– All right, Michael. Here we are, eh?
– I know.
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Quick, lock the door before they realise.
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–
–
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Bloody hell, Joe.
You joining the circus or what?
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Laugh all you want, chief, but you have
to treat me with a bit of respect now.
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I've just played a key role
in the Opening of Parliament.
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And that's not all.
Look at this – me white staff!
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I get to keep it forever, this.
The wife will go barmy.
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'Where d'you expect me to put that?'
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– – Wa...
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Hello.
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Looking for your office, love?
It is a bit of a maze...
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She's not looking for it, she's found it.
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This is Ann Taylor, new Member for Bolton.
She'll be joining our team.
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Oh, yes, of course.
Here, Ann, take a seat.
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Walter, she's a woman, not an invalid.
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– Well, just trying to be civil...
– No, that's fine, honestly.
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– Thank you, Walter.
– Art! I need art!
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- – Somebody get me some art.
- –
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– Oh, what's this?
– Your ministerial box.
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– It's black, not red.
– The chief whip's is black.
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– 'The forces of darkness and evil.'
– Do pack it in.
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Key. Opens from the bottom, not the top.
It's heavy, you'll get used to the weight.
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I know, I know.
I have done this before, you know.
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- – Strewth!
- –
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Lead surround.
Protects the contents from bomb blasts.
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What about my contents?
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They are not Parliament's concern.
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And can somebody get me some art?
Nothing with a yacht on it!
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Hey! Walter, look. Adjustable chairs!
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Never!
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All this time, them bastards!
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Bloody hell! I knew their poll ratings
had been up and down all year.
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I didn't know their arses had as well.
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Eh, you should see how comfy it is
in the back seat of my car.
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Oh, wait, didn't I mention
I get back my ministerial car?
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You smug little tart, chief.
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Right, let's stop mucking about, shall we?
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Now, I don't know if any of you lot
have read a newspaper this week,
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but apparently we, the Labour Party,
are now in power.
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– – With one big problem.
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It's a mathematical problem,
and one we definitely have to balance.
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301, us. Tories 297.
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Then we have the odds and sods.
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Liberals 14, Scots seven,
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Irish 11, Welsh two, others three.
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Meaning an opposition total of 334.
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In other words, we are all up shit creek!
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We've got the biggest boat,
but they've got more paddles.
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Or to put it a simpler way combined,
there are more of them than us.
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So, how do we survive?
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Answer – haven't got a clue.
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None us has any experience
of a hung parliament,
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so it's a learn-on-the-job type thing.
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But we are going to war, gentlemen,
so make no bones,
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on the other side of the lobby is a bunch
of vindictive fucking bastards –
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sorry, Ann –
already plotting our demise.
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The Member for Esher!
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– It stinks over here.
– No, it doesn't.
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Always has, this side.
Nasty ruddy odour. And it's colder.
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Was there anything
I could help you with, Colonel?
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My new office, don't like it.
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It's cramped and there's this ugly
painted thing in there.
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That's the Member for Gloucester,
Colonel, she's sharing your room.
258
00:15:37,360 --> 00:15:39,080
Mr Atkins? How do you do, I'm....
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Fred Silvester, new Member for Manchester
Withington, formerly of Walthamstow West.
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Welcome back. Nice to know we picked up
a few seats while haemorrhaging others.
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– You've been assigned to the whips.
– Manchester, you say?
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Godawful place, can't be doing with it.
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Either needs a good clean or a good fire,
I don't mind which.
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Colonel, Mr Silvester here will relocate
you to a new office this afternoon.
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– Yes, of course.
– Posture, man!
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People aren't afraid
of a man who slouches.
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Right, I'll be in the smoking room,
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Let me know when that banshee
is exorcised from my office.
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– You were in advertising?
– Yes. Well, sort of.
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– You either were or you weren't.
– I was.
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– Called to the bar, I see.
– Gray's Inn.
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He's right about your posture, you know.
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I'll work on it.
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– Do you prefer Fred or Frederick?
– Fred's fine.
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– What a bore, this whole thing...
– So I'm starting to realise.
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– Hello.
– Jack Weatherill, government...
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– Opposition.
– ...opposition deputy whip.
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– Fred Silvester of...
– Manchester Withington.
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– Formerly Walthamstow West, yes, hello.
– How do you do?
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– Gosh, what a fine suit, I must say.
– Thank you.
281
00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:53,520
Yes, Jack has many a fine suit.
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My family are tailors by trade,
little place up on Savile Row.
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00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:00,320
You should pop along.
I mean, not to imply that you need to.
284
00:17:00,440 --> 00:17:02,880
– No, of course.
– No, no, but um... you know.
285
00:17:06,200 --> 00:17:11,000
Fred was about to begin the annual game
of musical chairs, weren't you, Fred?
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Yes.
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Oh, right. Yes.
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Have fun.
289
00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:21,320
Well, he seems a good sort,
bit wet behind the ears.
290
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– So were we all once. They dry out.
– Yup.
291
00:17:26,040 --> 00:17:29,600
Oh. The chairs! For God's...
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00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:33,800
I swear, Jack. This is but a temporary
situation. It'll be over by Christmas.
293
00:17:33,920 --> 00:17:37,640
'Over by Christmas.' Yes.
Where have I heard that before?
294
00:17:37,760 --> 00:17:40,200
Obviously, the Tories are gonna vote
against us every time,
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all the time, so what then?
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Michael?
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Uh... Well...
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Our only hope of getting bills
through the House
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is the odds and sods,
you know, drawing them over to our side.
300
00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:57,160
Now, Walter here, he's built up
the contacts, made the relationships...
301
00:17:57,280 --> 00:18:01,600
We all have to have those relationships
now. We can't just rely on Walter.
302
00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:04,800
And Michael's right – a rainbow coalition.
303
00:18:04,920 --> 00:18:07,920
And as you know, at the end
of the rainbow is a pot of gold.
304
00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:10,400
Oh, lovely, chief! Beautiful.
305
00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:13,920
That said, the world and his wife gives us
about as much chance of lasting the spring
306
00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:15,880
as an Austin Allegro climbing a hill.
307
00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:19,440
I've sold it, so fuck off!
308
00:18:20,960 --> 00:18:24,480
In fact, we might be the shortest
government that 'ere bloody lived.
309
00:18:24,600 --> 00:18:29,000
But we can lose votes in the House
and still survive, can't we?
310
00:18:29,120 --> 00:18:32,160
The only way we can get booted out
is by losing a vote of no confidence.
311
00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:36,400
Bingo! We lose a confidence vote,
our PM is forced to go to the queen.
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Historically rare, obviously, because
governments normally have a majority.
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00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:42,600
Well, we don't.
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00:18:42,720 --> 00:18:45,960
Naturally, there is a way for Parliament
itself to boot out a government
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and force an election,
and that's a no confidence.
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00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:54,800
If more than half the House join us
against them, we force them out.
317
00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,640
But to get to that point
is politically tricky.
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They have to be seen
to be incapable of passing bills.
319
00:19:01,000 --> 00:19:03,240
So, it's all down to
the odds and sods then, right?
320
00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:05,000
It's a tug-of-war.
321
00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:10,680
Look, I know traditionally we're more
averse to doing deals than Labour,
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00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:15,040
but I see no reason why Walter bloody
Harrison should have sole monopoly
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00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:17,280
on cross-party relationships in the House.
324
00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:20,960
I... I really think I could try...
shifting the balance.
325
00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:24,360
Very well, Jack, I release you
from your binds. Go forth and multiply.
326
00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:28,400
Or better still, make sure the odds
and sods can't be here in the first place.
327
00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:33,280
Because, well... Scottish school holidays
start a week before ours.
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00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:35,760
If we timetable a vote for then,
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any Scot Nat Members will be stuck
at home, along with Labour Scottish MPs.
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00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:43,120
My word! A strike above the bowler's head,
if ever I saw one. Bravo, Fred.
331
00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:46,640
All right, chaps,
the usual channels are now open.
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It's time to ride out into the field.
333
00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:55,240
And remember,
our one advantage is our, um...
334
00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:58,720
Oh, how do I put this
so that it won't sound...?
335
00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:01,800
I can't... our class.
336
00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,240
Labour whips are foul-mouthed,
brutish, trade unionist...
337
00:20:05,360 --> 00:20:09,040
..toffee-nosed, arse-licking,
dick-wanking wankers!
338
00:20:09,160 --> 00:20:10,440
Sorry, Ann.
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00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:14,320
With silver spoons in their mouths
and rods up their arses,
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full of baronets and major generals.
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00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:21,480
Their weakness is their inflexibility,
so exploit it.
342
00:20:21,600 --> 00:20:25,000
Speaking of which,
the aristo-twats will be on their way now.
343
00:20:25,120 --> 00:20:28,920
I just want Cocks and Harrison.
Newcomers, bugger off.
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00:20:29,040 --> 00:20:31,360
– Have fun, chaps.
– Walter, feet or arse?
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00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:33,840
Feet, I thought, arms folded.
346
00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:36,600
I say it's all in the chairs.
347
00:20:36,720 --> 00:20:39,000
Their mistake when we came over here
348
00:20:39,120 --> 00:20:41,720
was allowing us sit together
so we could pass notes.
349
00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:46,840
Look, let's perform the old Trafalgar, hm?
Split the fleet.
350
00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:49,800
Lean forward and all.
Atkins and Weatherill, they're recliners.
351
00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:52,200
They're like fucking
Jane Austen characters.
352
00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:55,720
I know, I'll do the old
'I'm busy, but good busy' at my desk.
353
00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:01,080
Keep 'em waiting.
354
00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:04,080
Walter, tell a joke.
355
00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:06,520
– Come in.
– Leeds United!
356
00:21:12,360 --> 00:21:14,080
Afternoon, gentlemen.
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00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:18,680
– How do, Humphrey? Jack, new lad.
– Shall we begin?
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00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:37,120
– OK. Would you like to kick off?
– No, that's OK, you start.
359
00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:40,320
Right, we were looking at this –
Rates Bill to open on the 17th,
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00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:42,480
Social Security the 20th,
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00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:46,520
– Health and Safety Bill the 21st.
– A-ha.
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00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,520
Yes, doesn't work for us,
Social Security.
363
00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:51,640
That last week of April
would be preferable.
364
00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:55,360
Harrison, wouldn't you like a chair?
Can't be doing your back any good.
365
00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,640
Few days before Easter, surely you're
worried about getting your Members in?
366
00:21:58,760 --> 00:22:00,960
No, actually, and it gives the bill
longer in committee.
367
00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:03,320
Shall we say the 26th, then?
368
00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:05,520
Wait, look.
369
00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:12,160
Oh. Scottish school holidays then,
so Scots MPs will struggle to be here.
370
00:22:12,280 --> 00:22:18,680
Oh, that's a shame. Still, can't revolve
around seven Scottish Nationalists.
371
00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:23,760
Yeah, well, we have Scots in our party,
too, as have the Liberals.
372
00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,920
I don't think we have any Scots
in our party, do we Jack?
373
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,320
Any Tory Scots?
374
00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:35,400
Do your private school kids break up
the same week as our state school kids
375
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:36,720
or is that different and all?
376
00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:38,840
Well done, Walter!
377
00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:43,520
Three minutes in and you've already played
the class card. I think that's a record.
378
00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,960
I take it 'the swearing' is due
to flow shortly as well?
379
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:50,680
Bollocks, bugger, piss.
380
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:52,360
How lovely!
381
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:53,880
You know, walking into here
382
00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,680
is like walking into a Noël Coward play,
isn't it, Jack?
383
00:22:58,440 --> 00:23:01,680
Michael, do you have to sit so far for...
384
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,960
Doesn't anyone from the north
know how to sit on a chair?
385
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:09,480
It's very simple, just imagine
it's like a hay bale or coal sack.
386
00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:11,760
It's exactly the same principle,
you'll get used to it.
387
00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:13,440
Oi, you, that's slander, that is.
388
00:23:13,560 --> 00:23:16,760
Right, that's it. Michael?
389
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:19,360
Take this down.
390
00:23:21,360 --> 00:23:24,120
- – Wa-hay!
- –
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00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:27,040
Adjustable chairs!
You kept them quiet, didn't ya?
392
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,800
All right, I think we all know
what's going on, so just come clean.
393
00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:33,600
What do you want?
394
00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:37,840
Three more opposition supply days
and Health to be on the 18th not the 21st.
395
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,760
Two supply days, yes to the 18th.
396
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,160
Done! Gentlemen, that was thrilling.
397
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:45,800
Nice try on the chair formation, too.
398
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,360
Big fan of Trafalgar, aren't you, Jack?
399
00:23:48,480 --> 00:23:52,760
Ta-ta, ladies!
Looking beautiful as ever, Jack.
400
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:56,880
Oh, Jack, look.
I've got a bit of a tear in my jacket.
401
00:23:57,000 --> 00:23:59,000
Would you mind sewing it up for me?
402
00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:02,720
I'm sorry, Michael.
I don't work with manmade fibres.
403
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:10,040
Right, time to haul in the odds and sods.
404
00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:11,800
Joe, you take the Scots.
405
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:13,840
– Walter, the Irish.
– Yup.
406
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:17,560
Ann, I want you to charm the Liberals.
I've got a gut instinct.
407
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:20,000
Michael, try the Welsh.
408
00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:24,600
The Welsh? All two of them?
409
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,640
Yes, all two of them,
as important as the rest,
410
00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:30,920
because as of today
we are in the business of making deals.
411
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:32,640
Hop it, the lot of you.
412
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:35,600
Ann, could you just wait one tick?
413
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,720
Here is your region card.
I've given you the North West.
414
00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:42,440
These are our MPs, Labour,
now your responsibility.
415
00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:44,520
They're the sheep, you're the shepherd.
416
00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:46,680
Don't ever bloody let on
that these lists exist.
417
00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,040
Members can't stand the idea
that they're ticked off like shopping.
418
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,120
If they're not in to vote when asked,
you're responsible.
419
00:24:53,240 --> 00:24:56,400
We'll only try and pair the sick
or ministers off on duty.
420
00:24:56,520 --> 00:25:01,080
Pairing, right, and that's used when
someone can't get to the House to vote.
421
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,720
– One of theirs sits out for one of ours.
– Or vice versa.
422
00:25:03,840 --> 00:25:07,600
It's sort of a gentleman's agreement,
pairing. It goes back, well, forever.
423
00:25:08,480 --> 00:25:11,360
Here is your screwdriver.
Keep it with you at all times.
424
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:14,320
– Screwdriver?
– Flushing, take the top corridor north.
425
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,360
– Top what?
– Toilets. Flushing.
426
00:25:16,480 --> 00:25:18,280
When a vote's called
and the division bell rings,
427
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:20,680
you've eight minutes
to get Members through the lobby.
428
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,400
Each whip takes a toilet.
429
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:26,480
Go in, try and work out if the feet
in the cubicle are Labour or not.
430
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,720
If they are, flush 'em out!
431
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,360
Everything else all tickety-boo?
432
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:42,320
Well. I suppose I was wondering...
why me?
433
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:47,560
Why not? Quick up the party ladder,
only 26, already made waves.
434
00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:50,320
– I'm not as daft as I look.
– I suppose I'm just wondering...
435
00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:54,360
It's obviously all quite...
well, macho in here.
436
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:55,600
Well, thank you.
437
00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,680
And I just didn't want to feel like...
438
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:02,240
Oh, well, look, you know what?
..the token girl.
439
00:26:02,360 --> 00:26:04,800
Well you are, though. What?
440
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:10,680
I'm the token Cockney geezer.
I get on side the other Cockney geezers.
441
00:26:10,800 --> 00:26:14,800
Walter Harrison, he's a Yorkshire bruiser.
He gets on side the Yorkshire bruisers.
442
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,200
I've got Lancashire good cops,
East Midland bad cops,
443
00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:19,560
what I ain't never had is a one of you.
444
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,080
Politics is representation,
end of the day, eh?
445
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:26,000
Fine, just don't feel
you have to tone it down.
446
00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:29,360
Sod that! A bird in the office?
We'll be cranking it up.
447
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,920
– Do you like football?
– Bolton Wanderers.
448
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:33,680
That's a no, then.
449
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:40,280
The Members for Belfast West,
Belfast North, Armagh and Fermanagh!
450
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:41,440
Bar tender!
451
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,960
The thing is, Walter, I hope you know
what you're asking us to do here.
452
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:47,080
If I'd known there were so many bars
in Parliament,
453
00:26:47,120 --> 00:26:49,560
I'd have stood for election
years ago, you know?
454
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:54,560
I mean asking us, us, me, to blindly
support you, the British Government.
455
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:58,000
Well, you know,
the 'sort of' Government, bless yers.
456
00:26:58,120 --> 00:26:59,920
I hope you know
what you're actually asking.
457
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:05,320
I'm happy to consider an arrangement,
Walter, but it's got to be give and take.
458
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,120
– We've got to get something back.
– Like the boundary changes.
459
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,640
– And the pipeline.
– Ah! The pipeline!
460
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:13,160
I can promise our door
will always be open.
461
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:16,480
Nothing is off the table to our friends.
462
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:19,240
Most of us signed up
to abstain on bloody everything.
463
00:27:19,360 --> 00:27:23,200
Abstaining we can handle, just don't walk
through the lobby against us.
464
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,720
Er... So, let me get this straight.
465
00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:30,200
You want us to do nothing,
as soon as possible?
466
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,200
– – All right, done.
467
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:38,520
I'll tell you what, nationalist though
I may be, I'm still a labour man at heart.
468
00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:41,560
I can't see how you keep your prices
so low. What are your margins?
469
00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,480
Would you stop your jabbering?
I'm talking politics here.
470
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,440
Yeah, but there's a time and a place,
you know?
471
00:27:50,120 --> 00:27:56,000
What I'm saying is, for asking so nicely,
I'll vote with you, for now,
472
00:27:56,120 --> 00:27:58,880
– and we'll see how we go. OK?
– Yes! Smashing!
473
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:02,000
And, eh-up, look, I know it's a bugger,
travelling over here, leaving the family,
474
00:28:02,120 --> 00:28:05,640
so remember, you get flights
and hotels for the missus.
475
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,720
We can bring' em over to stay
three times a year.
476
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:11,480
Don't you fuckin' dare!
477
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,120
It's what makes our job so hard,
478
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,720
it's about flesh and blood
at the end of the day.
479
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:20,440
You vote with your body.
480
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:25,320
You can't phone a vote in from China,
you can't send it through the post.
481
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,880
Unless you put one foot in front
of the other and pass through the lobby,
482
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:30,400
you don't count.
483
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:36,800
It's archaic, it's old-fashioned,
it's bollocks – but somehow, it works.
484
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,360
The Member for Western Isles.
485
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,640
It feels funny, us seven wee Scots Nats
486
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:47,200
getting all this romantic attention,
all of a sudden.
487
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:52,960
Before the last election, I was
the only one here. I had to whip myself.
488
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:01,360
And I still couldn't always get
the bugger into the lobby!
489
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:05,560
It's a manifesto pledge
to vote on Scottish devolution,
490
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:09,960
and you know full bloody well a Tory
government would never put that forward.
491
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:12,040
If we make it through the summer,
492
00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:15,720
everything points to us calling
another election and getting a majority.
493
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:20,880
Once that happens, we can start getting
stuff done, the big stuff, together.
494
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,280
If you promise
to make devolution a priority,
495
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:29,840
we'll promise not to join a coup
against you, OK?
496
00:29:29,960 --> 00:29:32,920
The Members for Merioneth
and Caernarfon!
497
00:29:34,680 --> 00:29:37,200
No Bob or Walter today?
498
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:41,080
The big guns aiming
at the big targets, then, are they?
499
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:43,880
The big..? No, no, no.
500
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:49,120
I, I wanted... Well, we wanted
to make the Welsh voices heard, see?
501
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:52,960
Like a couple of mice
singing in the cats' choir!
502
00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:59,960
I've never liked the Thames.
It looks... diseased.
503
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:03,720
All right, look, go back to your bosses,
504
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:05,560
tell them this can be
like a rolling thing.
505
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,640
What do I mean?
Like a case-by-case basis, OK?
506
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:10,960
You happy with that?
507
00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:13,120
All right, there you are.
508
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,160
All right? New for you this, is it?
509
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:19,240
Well, it's new for everyone.
510
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,120
Remember, authority is an abstract.
511
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:27,560
Convince people you have it,
then you have it, OK?
512
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,120
The Member for Western Isles.
513
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:31,240
Now, er...
514
00:30:33,840 --> 00:30:38,440
No doubt, the Labour lot will be trying
to woo you as well, but for our part...
515
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,920
They already have. They got here first.
516
00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:44,280
They...? Right, I see.
517
00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,680
Look, Jack, you know I respect you.
518
00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:49,840
Everyone respects you,
it's nothing personal.
519
00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,920
We're not walking
down the aisle with them,
520
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:55,960
but we're not leaving
in the middle of the ceremony either.
521
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,800
Well, not yet anyway. Sorry.
522
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:02,680
The Member for Roxburgh,
Selkirk and Peebles!
523
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:06,320
I'm sorry, I didn't mean
to interrupt your...
524
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,360
I didn't know you were praying.
525
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,400
I'm not praying! I'm thinking.
526
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:13,480
It's a bit creepy down here, isn't it?
527
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,680
We all need somewhere to go.
528
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:20,200
You know, this chapel
is over 450 years old.
529
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:25,160
I find clarity in the dignified silence
of old things.
530
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:27,760
Centuries worth of human endeavour
531
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,960
helps put one's own troubles
into a kind of... context.
532
00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:33,960
I find.
533
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:36,640
– So, Miss Taylor...
– Mrs.
534
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:39,360
Let us be clear.
535
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:41,880
We won't be advising our Members
to do anything
536
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,360
but uphold the principals
of the Liberal Party.
537
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:49,000
If they happen to coalesce with yours,
then fine and dandy.
538
00:31:49,120 --> 00:31:51,920
If the Tories call a vote
of no confidence, would you support it?
539
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:57,440
Well, we don't currently
not have confidence in you.
540
00:31:57,560 --> 00:31:59,400
Spoken like a true politician.
541
00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:02,560
How would you know?
You've barely been one for a day.
542
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:05,960
Can I give you a bit of advice?
543
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:11,120
The observations of a third party
in a two-party system?
544
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,360
A Conservative government
always eventually falls
545
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,360
because they believe themselves
entitled to power.
546
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:23,640
And Labour governments always fall
because they don't.
547
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:25,840
Just a thought.
548
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:29,280
The Members for Merioneth
and Caernarfon!
549
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:33,400
Look, Labour would give us
and the Scots devolution, come on.
550
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:37,640
Help us bring them down and you'd get
an election, swell your ranks a bit.
551
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:42,200
Nah, it's too risky. I'm sorry, Jack.
552
00:32:42,320 --> 00:32:44,880
I'm floating on
my back down the Thames,
553
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:47,400
underneath Lambeth, I suppose,
Lambeth Bridge.
554
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:49,360
I got Blyth with us tonight!
555
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:50,920
Ssh. Listen.
556
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:54,480
I see that that
the Houses of Parliament are on fire
557
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:56,960
and the Thames turns into blood...
558
00:32:57,080 --> 00:32:59,960
– Who the bloody hell's that?
– It's Walsall North!
559
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,480
A tape someone sent us. Anonymous.
560
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:06,080
Then I see the bodies,
hundreds of MPs.
561
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:09,840
They're flowing out of the palace,
face down in the blood...
562
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:11,000
Enough!
563
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:14,440
What is it?
Some kind of therapy session, what?
564
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:16,760
What's his history,
Walsall North, he's...?
565
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,280
Businessman. Investments.
Married, three kids.
566
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,360
Loyal, right, far as we know?
567
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,760
His last question in the House
was about drowning statistics.
568
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,040
We need to contain this. We don't want
to be losing bloody seats cos of nutters.
569
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:28,840
– Cocks, you call him in.
– Me?
570
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:33,640
Ann, go round his missus, have a cup
of tea. And his secretary too, uh...
571
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:35,560
– Sheila!
– Sheila.
572
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:37,240
Don't shoot me a look, all right?
573
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:40,760
It's not cos you're a woman,
you're just the nicest.
574
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:42,480
– – Yes, chief.
575
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,920
– Ann Taylor.
– Right, tonight's big vote, chief.
576
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:47,680
Social Security. It's tight.
There's only a couple in it.
577
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:50,840
If we pass this one
we prove we can govern.
578
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:55,040
Right, pairing.
Joe, it's your time to shine.
579
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:59,080
John. It's Michael Cocks.
Would you mind popping down?
580
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,640
– Right, thank you.
– Ann, time to see some pairing in action.
581
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:04,240
We've got one off sick, Batley,
and a minister away.
582
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:09,000
Remember, if we don't cancel out
our absentees, we're down by two.
583
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:10,600
Right, Fred, pairing.
584
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,719
We have actually got two of our chaps
struggling to make the vote,
585
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,520
but let that lot show their hand first.
586
00:34:16,639 --> 00:34:18,679
Act like it's no bother to you
whether you find a pair or not.
587
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:20,000
– Off we go.
– Right.
588
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:26,560
And in the red corner,
Joe 'Hard Man' Harper!
589
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,840
And in the blue...
590
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:31,960
I can't. I'm so sorry.
591
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:35,440
All right, Harper.
Let's get this over with.
592
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:39,240
Yes, well, right, as you know,
the Foreign Secretary's at the summit,
593
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:43,640
so courtesy dictates you take one
of your boys out when a minister's away.
594
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:46,080
That's of course fine.
We'll send one of our boys home.
595
00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:48,399
Right, and another pair.
596
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:50,960
Member for Batley, ill at home,
I'm afraid.
597
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:53,480
Any of your boys needing to slip away?
598
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:57,320
Well, poor Batley.
Fine, we'll pair him, too.
599
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:59,840
And may the best men win.
600
00:34:59,960 --> 00:35:01,280
No, no. Don't do that.
601
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,920
The Member for Walsall North!
602
00:35:06,720 --> 00:35:09,920
John, come in. Take a seat.
603
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,280
But not too far, though.
604
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:16,040
Not too...?
605
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:19,280
The seat. Don't take it too...
606
00:35:19,400 --> 00:35:20,960
Cos we'll need...
607
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,520
It doesn't matter. It's, um...
608
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:31,120
So, um... how, er...
609
00:35:32,240 --> 00:35:33,640
You know.
610
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:36,000
..are you?
611
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,440
I'm...
I'm fine, thank you.
612
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:41,160
How are you?
613
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:45,480
Business all right, hm?
All your... different businesses?
614
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:47,280
Why? Has someone...?
615
00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:52,560
Oh, no, no, no. I'm just asking.
We've got you down for the vote tonight.
616
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:57,280
Such an odd feeling, isn't it? I mean,
what are we now, getting on to ten.
617
00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,720
May very well be here
till, what, one? Two?
618
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:02,960
Making the laws of the land,
619
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:06,360
while the land we're doing it for is dark,
popped off to bed.
620
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:08,280
Unaware. Silence.
621
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:10,560
Bar the sound of the river.
622
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:17,080
Well, um... Ignorance is bliss, eh?
You know, all of that.
623
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:19,280
Yes, that's...
624
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,720
Ever wonder why
they built it on the river?
625
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:28,160
Sort of floating, like an ark,
626
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:30,320
to save us all when the flood comes.
627
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:35,280
People often say the sea makes them sad,
but it's not the sea, is it?
628
00:36:36,720 --> 00:36:38,320
It's the beach.
629
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,680
When you're out at sea,
it's actually extraordinarily peaceful,
630
00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:44,160
but on the beach,
looking out at the sea,
631
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:48,680
one can't help but suddenly feel
so, um... mortal.
632
00:36:50,400 --> 00:36:52,040
Course you know why, don't you?
633
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:55,680
It's because the sound of the tide
is the sound of breathing.
634
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:04,440
That's what we're listening to
as we stand on the edge of the world,
635
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:06,800
having come as far as we can go –
636
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,080
our own mortality.
637
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:11,520
Ebbing away.
638
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,600
The saddest sound in the world.
639
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,040
Have you ever been to Blackpool beach?
640
00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:30,320
They... they've got the illuminations,
you know, the golden mile.
641
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:34,280
It doesn't have that...
that, er, you know... feeling.
642
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:36,760
– Donkey rides as well.
– Really? Donkeys?
643
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:40,680
For children. Yeah.
Just going back and forth.
644
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,000
Back and forth?
645
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:47,200
Yeah, the... the donkeys.
Along the beach.
646
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:51,840
Donkeys.
Back and forth, along the beach.
647
00:37:58,160 --> 00:37:59,920
Well, cheers, John.
648
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,200
The Member for Barking!
649
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:07,520
I'm just not sure
it's in the interest of my constituents.
650
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:12,480
Perhaps if I had... Oh, I don't know.
..a nice easy chair in my office,
651
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:14,560
it might make me feel
a bit more comfortable.
652
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:16,240
– An easy chair?
– Yeah.
653
00:38:16,360 --> 00:38:19,000
- – Right, easy chair.
- –
654
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,120
The Member for Woolwich West!
655
00:38:22,240 --> 00:38:26,120
So, that's one new carpet and we'll see
about a place on the Science Committee?
656
00:38:26,240 --> 00:38:28,760
- – Deal.
- –
657
00:38:28,880 --> 00:38:30,920
The Member for Coventry North West!
658
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:32,800
Maurice, you voting?
659
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:34,800
– Agh! Yes. Agh!
– Good.
660
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:42,440
The question is that the Social Security
Amendment Bill be now read a second time.
661
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:44,800
As many as are of that opinion say "Aye".
662
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:45,920
Aye!
663
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:47,640
– Of the contrary "No".
– No!
664
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:49,560
Division. Clear the lobby.
665
00:38:56,840 --> 00:38:58,680
Come on, come on.
666
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:04,320
Lock the doors!
667
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:28,080
Ayes to the right, 282.
668
00:39:28,760 --> 00:39:31,160
Noes to the left....
669
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:32,920
280.
670
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,360
The ayes have it! The ayes have it!
Unlock!
671
00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:38,840
People are pretty understanding
of the nation's problems...
672
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:42,520
..Mr Wilson has today been
prompted to call a general election
673
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,440
in a bid to secure his mandate
to govern...
674
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:47,480
..people
are calling it election fatigue...
675
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,440
..Mr Wilson is calling
for a united country...
676
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:53,960
..Mr Harold Wilson is back
tonight at 10 Downing Street,
677
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:57,040
but with an overall majority
of only three.
678
00:40:04,160 --> 00:40:06,400
Oh, Jack, I'm glad I caught you.
Listen...
679
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,640
I wanted some new curtains for us office.
680
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:11,480
You couldn't stitch me up a pair,
could you?
681
00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:13,880
Maybe some doilies
and a little cushion, you know?
682
00:40:15,240 --> 00:40:19,360
You know, they say that humour is often a
way of masking deep insecurities, Walter.
683
00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:23,840
Is that what they say? Oh, right.
Ha! Insecurities? Us lot?
684
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:27,000
We've just gained a majority
in the House, mate, home and dry.
685
00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:29,960
Home and dry, yes –
with a majority of three.
686
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:33,000
What of heavy traffic?
687
00:40:33,720 --> 00:40:35,360
What of children's violin recitals?
688
00:40:35,480 --> 00:40:38,520
What of births and deaths
and twisting your ankle?
689
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,320
Three MPs can disappear
from a vote like that.
690
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:45,280
– You may as well be hung.
– I bet we're in for the full five years.
691
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:46,960
Don't be...
692
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:51,400
– You're not serious?
– Tenner says I'm right.
693
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:54,720
That's the easiest money I've ever made.
694
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:58,200
The Member for Bromsgrove
and Redditch!
695
00:40:58,320 --> 00:40:59,800
Arse!
696
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:03,400
– Sorry.
– No, that's quite all right, chief.
697
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,920
– Emotions running high and all that.
– Calm, Hal. Try and go slow.
698
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:10,040
Oh, it's your maiden speech!
You'll be fine.
699
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:12,520
All right for you lot.
700
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:14,640
As whips, you're banned
from speaking in the House.
701
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:16,600
Oh, yes, you won't hear our names called.
702
00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:18,960
Christ, I hadn't even expected to be here.
703
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:22,160
I was only standing in Redditch
cos they told me it was a no-hoper.
704
00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:24,320
They bloody well lied.
705
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:27,920
Needles everywhere, you know that?
Half the world's needles...
706
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:30,520
Oh, blast it all! I really did think
we'd have them out by now.
707
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:35,080
I was holding out for Cheam, or Chester.
708
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:39,320
A 'ch' place –
a nice little English 'ch' place.
709
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:42,680
Not Redditch, listen to that.
It's not a name, it's a fucking noise.
710
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:46,040
What is it, anyway? Redditch?
711
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:50,080
– Sounds like a frog vomiting.
– You're up, Hal.
712
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:53,520
And they told me it
was Worcestershire. Another lie!
713
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,040
– It is Worcestershire.
– Oh, Humphrey, it's Birmingham.
714
00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:58,720
Listen to the sodding accent!
715
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:03,120
I imagined meadows
and steeples and farmyards and haystacks.
716
00:42:03,240 --> 00:42:05,400
Do you know what?
Shall I tell you something?
717
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:08,320
You can't find a haystack in Redditch
cause of all the fucking needles!
718
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:19,840
I can see why he's getting so worked up,
all that ceremonial stuff.
719
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:23,280
I wish we could just do away with it
and modernise the place,
720
00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,920
make it more professional, less... less...
721
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:31,200
I sympathise, Fred, I do, but remember,
we are gloriously unique, this country,
722
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,000
in not having a written constitution.
723
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:39,080
What we do have are traditions,
gentleman's agreements.
724
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:43,640
They help us do what we do best –
muddle through.
725
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,880
There's only three in it, chief.
726
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:49,400
Block some of their big stuff
and call a confidence vote.
727
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:52,640
And how do we block them?
Our lot will be bored and demoralised.
728
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:55,960
It's going to take all we've got to keep
them coming in for votes all the time.
729
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:59,720
And the other side seem to have
successfully seduced the odds and sods.
730
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,440
I'm... I'm working on that, too.
731
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:07,240
You like that, Fred? Bit of alliteration –
successfully seducing the sods!
732
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:09,240
Actually, I believe that's assonance.
733
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:11,080
Or perhaps not.
734
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:13,640
The Member for Chelmsford!
735
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:18,080
Norman, do come in.
Look, we'll get straight to it.
736
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:21,920
You're getting a call from Ted.
He wants you round his table.
737
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:24,400
Oh? Oh, well! Smashing!
738
00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:26,560
The Member for Plymouth Sutton.
739
00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:29,080
– You rang, m'lords?
– Ah, good evening, Alan.
740
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:30,480
Everything all right?
741
00:43:30,600 --> 00:43:32,160
It's Education.
742
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:34,240
– Education?
– Oh, well done, old cock.
743
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:39,880
Oh, thanks, Alan. I... I suppose I was
interested in Foreign, that's all, but...
744
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,440
Right, well, what have you got for me,
then, eh?
745
00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:44,720
A complaint from the Serjeant at Arms.
746
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:47,520
Well, try to look surprised
and above all pleased, won't you?
747
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:48,880
Complaint? What about?
748
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:51,520
Apparently, you now have three cars
in the underground car park.
749
00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:52,600
Oh, come on.
750
00:43:52,720 --> 00:43:54,840
All academic I suppose, anyway.
751
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:58,000
Come on, Alan, there's a good chap,
three cars, all parked here?
752
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:01,280
Well, the other Friday, I had a drink
didn't I, for the... that thing,
753
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,400
and got a taxi home.
754
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:06,760
Which meant I had to drive in
a new car on Monday.
755
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:08,880
Right. And the third car?
756
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,520
Well, because I ruddy well had a drink
last Friday, didn't I?
757
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:13,840
So I had to drive in with a different car
this Monday!
758
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:16,320
If anyone can think of a better way
to get around, then...
759
00:44:16,440 --> 00:44:18,600
Right, so this is just going
to keep happening
760
00:44:18,720 --> 00:44:21,480
until the car park becomes
your sort of showroom, is it?
761
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:26,720
I suggest you use the car park beneath
Church House. That always has more space.
762
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:29,760
No, of course, I'll leave the house
five minutes earlier every morning
763
00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:31,720
just to park further away, shall I?
764
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:33,080
Wonderful!
765
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:38,560
Norman, what did you mean just then?
All academic anyway. What does that mean?
766
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:43,560
Well, you know, this is all assuming
that Ted stays as leader, isn't it?
767
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:47,560
Am I to gather that this is an assumption
not everyone in the party is making?
768
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:50,160
Oh, come on, don't give me that, Humphrey.
769
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:55,200
Another election loss,
wind knocked out of the party's sails.
770
00:44:55,320 --> 00:45:00,560
– There's bound to be talk, isn't there?
– Is there?
771
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,600
We have absolutely no interest
in any rumour or hearsay
772
00:45:03,720 --> 00:45:05,640
regarding the leadership, Norman.
773
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:08,360
Perhaps if everyone were more focused
on Labour instead,
774
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:10,880
it wouldn't be the shadow cabinet
you'd be stepping into.
775
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:16,360
Educatio est clavis libertatus.
776
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:25,120
Let's head this off at the pass, shall we?
777
00:45:25,240 --> 00:45:27,200
Yeah. Oh, God!
778
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:31,440
It wasn't assonance, was it?
779
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:33,000
Er, no.
780
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:34,840
Oh, good.
781
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:37,040
No, it was sibilance.
782
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,240
The Member for Abingdon!
783
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:50,000
Really, couldn't we have gone for a walk
around St James's Park, like the old days?
784
00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,480
'The seagulls fly south, ' all that.
785
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:56,200
Who are you and Taunton trying to get
to challenge Ted for the leadership?
786
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:57,880
Someone from the right.
787
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,440
– We're guessing Leeds North East?
– Why, do you think he would win?
788
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:03,080
– Yes.
– Huh! That's not very loyal, is it?
789
00:46:03,200 --> 00:46:05,800
Airey, the job of the whips
is not to favour one man over another,
790
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,800
but to try and orchestrate a fair
and bloodless contest
791
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:10,560
that won't damage the party.
792
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:15,720
You think I..? Oh, come on, chaps.
I don't want to damage the party.
793
00:46:15,840 --> 00:46:19,120
Damage is being done to the party,
to the country.
794
00:46:19,240 --> 00:46:22,920
It's time to wake up from this...
this slow lurch to the left
795
00:46:23,040 --> 00:46:26,040
we've been sleepwalking into since
the end of the war, no questions asked.
796
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:28,520
This country is being kept alive
on aspirin
797
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:30,960
when what it needs
is electric bloody shock therapy.
798
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:35,840
Look, who are you putting up to stand?
Is it Leeds North East?
799
00:46:37,640 --> 00:46:38,960
Finchley.
800
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:43,040
– Finchley?
– Oh, I see. You sly dog!
801
00:46:43,160 --> 00:46:46,640
So, you're sending in
some cannon fodder to test the ground,
802
00:46:46,760 --> 00:46:48,560
a lamb to the slaughter.
803
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:51,640
Lamb? Don't make me laugh.
Have you spent any time with her?
804
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:54,360
She'll lose,
805
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:57,440
but the challenge will weaken Ted enough
to get the generals over safely,
806
00:46:57,560 --> 00:46:59,320
finish him off – who?
807
00:47:00,240 --> 00:47:06,320
Lowestoft. Leeds North East.
East Surrey. Perhaps Yeovil.
808
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:09,080
Right. Well, we'd better start
canvassing opinion, hadn't we?
809
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:10,760
You're not going to tell Ted, are you?
810
00:47:10,880 --> 00:47:14,240
Well, wouldn't you prefer to know
you were about to kick the bucket?
811
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:16,160
So, gives us a bit of breathing space.
812
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:19,520
Means we might be able to start getting
our bigger stuff through,
813
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:23,880
starting with a referendum on staying in
or getting out of Europe.
814
00:47:24,720 --> 00:47:28,000
And then the big one –
Scottish and Welsh devolution.
815
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:31,040
Devolution?
Try and pass something that big?
816
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:35,960
– Our Members are unenthusiastic at best.
– Well get them enthusiastic!
817
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:38,640
We need to keep the odds and sods happy,
don't we?
818
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:42,840
You've got your lists, charm them,
make them feel loved.
819
00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,840
The Member for Batley and Morley.
820
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:47,960
- – Evening, all.
- –
821
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:50,760
It's the doc! We love the doc.
822
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:52,600
Oh, hello there, young lady...
823
00:47:52,720 --> 00:47:55,120
Ann, this is Doc Broughton,
Member for Batley.
824
00:47:55,240 --> 00:47:57,640
– Doc, this is Ann, Bolton.
– Nice to meet you, Doc.
825
00:47:57,760 --> 00:48:01,120
– How you keeping?
– Oh, well, fair to middling.
826
00:48:01,240 --> 00:48:04,320
Walter, that's what I wanted
to talk about.
827
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:08,400
I've, er... I've got this
hospital thing tomorrow.
828
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:11,120
– There's a train...
– Don't you worry about it.
829
00:48:11,240 --> 00:48:14,960
Get yourself gone.
Channel Tunnel Bill's home and bloody dry.
830
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:17,440
– We'll pair you up, eh, Joe?
– Aye, will do, Walter.
831
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:19,120
I'm a dab hand now.
832
00:48:19,240 --> 00:48:22,520
Can't have you popping your clogs here,
can we? After all...
833
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:25,120
Nobody dies
in the Palace of Westminster!
834
00:48:25,240 --> 00:48:27,920
–
– Oh, come on. Sit down.
835
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:31,520
What does that mean, 'nobody dies'?
836
00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:34,840
Oh, it's just this silly old rule.
Nobody's meant to snuff it here.
837
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:36,800
Even if they do,
they won't be pronounced dead
838
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,440
until they're halfway across
Westminster Bridge to St. Thomas's.
839
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:42,600
Nobody's ever died here, technically.
It's just a thing.
840
00:48:42,720 --> 00:48:46,040
Ay, well, thing or not, look...
841
00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:49,080
Another time, another place, obviously,
842
00:48:49,200 --> 00:48:53,960
but if we could get round to having that
little chat about me moving on this term.
843
00:48:54,080 --> 00:48:56,840
Oh, Doc, we just don't want
to see you go, that's all.
844
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:58,960
Oh, don't play soft!
845
00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:02,680
Look, I held Batley for you
at the last election, as promised.
846
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:08,240
But now it looks like
we're home and dry, numbers wise,
847
00:49:08,360 --> 00:49:11,560
well, happen it's time
I hung up me boots, as it were.
848
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:15,720
Seat's as safe as houses, you'd hold it
in a by-election, no trouble.
849
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:19,040
Doc, if that's what you want,
we'll sort summat out, I promise.
850
00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:21,440
Now, come on. Let's get you that taxi, eh?
851
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:28,120
– You all right, Ann?
– Yeah, fine.
852
00:49:28,720 --> 00:49:30,320
I think.
853
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:33,160
I'm not sure what I'm meant to be
judging my performance by,
854
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:35,480
except getting everyone on my list in
when we need them.
855
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:39,360
And the job, hm? The life? This place?
856
00:49:39,480 --> 00:49:41,960
I've stood in front of a classroom
and taught a pack of kids.
857
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:43,560
It's the same principle.
858
00:49:44,680 --> 00:49:48,880
It does take a bit of getting used to
being away from home, Sunday to Thursday,
859
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:52,920
– week in, week out, you know.
– An empty London box room
860
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:55,760
while your kids
are growing up without you.
861
00:49:55,880 --> 00:50:00,000
Something like that. I shouldn't wonder
if people had an opinion of that. Me.
862
00:50:01,240 --> 00:50:05,480
Let 'em!
Of course, it's harder for us, this side.
863
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:08,200
Half of them lot live in London anyway.
864
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,600
It's funny now, but I imagined
865
00:50:13,720 --> 00:50:18,160
it would feel like being a rock star
or something when I started.
866
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:20,880
Like being away on tour.
867
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:23,800
But it's... you know...
868
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:26,600
..not.
869
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:30,000
No wonder they all prop up the bars
till the early hours.
870
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:33,360
How do you do it? Wife, family, home?
871
00:50:33,480 --> 00:50:35,080
I don't know, Ann.
872
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:41,160
It's enough to stay alive, then,
do you reckon? Three?
873
00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:46,880
Oh, well, technically, yes.
Just so long as it don't go down.
874
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:49,840
The Member for Walsall North!
875
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:55,040
♪ Time takes a cigarette
876
00:50:56,880 --> 00:50:58,520
♪ Puts it in your mouth
877
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:04,040
♪ You pull on your finger
then another finger
878
00:51:04,160 --> 00:51:06,160
♪ Then your cigarette
879
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:09,320
♪ The wall-to-wall is calling
880
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:13,000
♪ It lingers, then you forget
881
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:16,680
♪ Oh, oh, oh
882
00:51:16,800 --> 00:51:19,360
♪ You're a rock 'n' roll suicide
883
00:51:20,720 --> 00:51:23,120
♪ Oh, no, love, you're not alone
884
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:27,760
♪ You're watching yourself
but you're too unfair
885
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:33,560
♪ You got your head all tangled up
but if I could only make you care
886
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:37,480
♪ Oh, no, love you're not alone
887
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:40,440
♪ No matter what or who you've been
888
00:51:40,920 --> 00:51:43,560
♪ No matter when or where you've seen
889
00:51:44,240 --> 00:51:47,080
♪ All the knives seem
to lacerate your brain
890
00:51:47,200 --> 00:51:51,080
♪ I've had my share
I'll help you with the pain
891
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:53,200
♪ You're not alone
892
00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:59,880
♪ Just turn on with me
Cos you're not alone
893
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:06,120
♪ Let's turn on and be Not alone
894
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:12,760
♪ Just gimme your hands
Cos you're wonderful
895
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:18,880
♪ Gimme your hands
Cos you're wonderful
896
00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:24,760
♪ Just gimme your hands
Cos you're wonderful ♪
897
00:52:31,720 --> 00:52:36,320
Just his clothes left,
strewn along on the bloody beach.
898
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:39,640
Miami! Christ!
899
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:43,000
And there was no...
no body or a note?
900
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:46,800
Mad bugger! Should have known.
Should have fucking, sorry Ann, known.
901
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:50,240
Oh, Jesus! His last question in the House.
Remember? Drowning statistics.
902
00:52:50,360 --> 00:52:52,280
– Oh, holy...
– Yeah, he said.
903
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:55,520
– I mean, what more could you do...?
– Nothing! You couldn't do nothing.
904
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:59,440
Not our fault people of this country
vote in frigging lunatics, is it?
905
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:04,360
We just have to make sure
we don't bloody well lose any more of 'em!
906
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:07,240
Two! Two in it! No more!
907
00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:10,360
No, I understand, Ted.
908
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:14,200
I can only apologise
that our numbers were a bit off.
909
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:16,680
Everything pointed towards
you scraping through.
910
00:53:16,800 --> 00:53:18,800
The Member for Abingdon.
911
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:21,640
Well, that's very gracious of you. Ta-ta.
912
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:25,200
Well, there you go, Airey.
913
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:29,120
Looks like your stalking horse
has accidentally arrived home first.
914
00:53:29,240 --> 00:53:32,120
130 to 119.
915
00:53:32,240 --> 00:53:33,720
Congratulations.
916
00:53:34,720 --> 00:53:37,680
Seems everyone thought everyone else
would vote for Ted.
917
00:53:37,800 --> 00:53:42,040
So no harm in registering a little
protest. Funny how things work out, eh?
918
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:44,600
She's going to surprise you, you know.
919
00:53:44,720 --> 00:53:47,880
I was, I mean, I admit,
this wasn't as I'd...
920
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,160
or any of us had...
921
00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:52,600
But she's going to surprise you!
922
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:59,400
Yes, well, I suppose we'd better go
and pay her a visit.
923
00:54:00,400 --> 00:54:04,040
A handful of our lot off ill for your
Trade Union amendment, I'm afraid.
924
00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:06,920
– Member for Batley again.
– The Doc? Still?
925
00:54:07,040 --> 00:54:09,360
Emphysema. Leeds hospital.
926
00:54:09,480 --> 00:54:14,320
Other Members off sick, Member for St
Helen's, Glasgow Garscadden and Thurrock.
927
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:17,400
Some might wonder why on earth we should
be taking so many of our boys out.
928
00:54:17,480 --> 00:54:21,000
They might, but then they wouldn't be
people of honour, would they?
929
00:54:21,120 --> 00:54:22,880
Upholding an age-old tradition.
930
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:24,880
All right, keep your braces on.
931
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:28,040
One of ours has got a boat show
he's trying to get to.
932
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:29,800
Huh!
933
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:32,560
We pair him off, he'll be loyal for life.
934
00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:35,600
Say, this stuff about Thorpe.
935
00:54:35,720 --> 00:54:37,920
Didn't come from your lot, did it?
936
00:54:38,040 --> 00:54:40,720
Complete nonsense, of course. Must be.
937
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:44,760
Before I came into politics, Frederick,
I would have agreed with you.
938
00:54:46,400 --> 00:54:48,920
Woolwich West has snuffed it.
939
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:51,840
Which takes us down to one!
940
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:53,840
Bloody one in it. Oh, that's it.
941
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:56,200
Tories can smell blood now, oh, yes.
942
00:54:56,320 --> 00:54:57,800
Odd and sods are restless,
943
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:01,440
asking what they're getting in return
for their support. It's becoming harder...
944
00:55:01,560 --> 00:55:04,040
It's about to become
a whole lot fucking harder.
945
00:55:04,160 --> 00:55:05,800
Michael, put that a-fucking-way.
946
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:09,160
Joe, put the fucking phone down now,
please.
947
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:12,040
Ann, sorry about all the fucking swearing.
948
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:14,680
– It's all right, chief!
– This don't leave the room.
949
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:17,200
Only Cabinet Secretary and me
knows this, right.
950
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:20,000
– Even Walter's in the bleedin' dark!
– Walter?
951
00:55:21,040 --> 00:55:25,000
– The PM, he's going in the spring.
– You what? No?
952
00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:27,120
He never intended to see out a full term.
953
00:55:27,240 --> 00:55:32,240
With Finchley bringing a surprising amount
of unity and energy to the opposition,
954
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:34,760
he felt like it was the right time.
955
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:37,040
Or the worst possible time – Jesus!
956
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:40,480
He's just old, Joe.
We're all just bloody old.
957
00:55:40,600 --> 00:55:43,160
Now with Thorpe on the Liberal side
facing arrest,
958
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:45,640
on the charge
of attempted murder no less,
959
00:55:45,760 --> 00:55:47,920
that's three new leaders
in the space of months,
960
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:51,040
which means our alliances
are shaky at best.
961
00:55:51,160 --> 00:55:54,560
A three-way changeover in one Parliament?
That ever happen before?
962
00:55:55,240 --> 00:55:58,080
What does it matter? It's happening now.
963
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:00,280
And it doesn't get more fragile
than that, does it?
964
00:56:00,400 --> 00:56:03,360
If Paisley and Ayrshire follow through
with their threat of jumping ship,
965
00:56:03,480 --> 00:56:06,600
– we are back to hung again.
– Huh! Has that ever happened before?
966
00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:11,160
Joe, I'll save you some time.
967
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:14,200
Just assume that, in this Parliament,
all bets are off.
968
00:56:15,480 --> 00:56:18,680
Right, first things first,
all of you, go to your lists.
969
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:21,080
We need to subtly,
subtly, start working out
970
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:24,040
who the frontrunners are
for his replacement.
971
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:25,600
Go on.
972
00:56:27,240 --> 00:56:29,680
Walter? You already knew, didn't you?
973
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:31,320
No.
974
00:56:32,240 --> 00:56:33,360
Yes.
975
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:36,680
What?
976
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:39,560
You are having a laugh.
977
00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:50,720
He's alive!
978
00:56:51,720 --> 00:56:54,040
He's only a-bloody-well-live!
979
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:56,600
The Member for Walsall North!
980
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:03,040
You look worse than I do, and I'm dead.
981
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:10,760
Hello, Michael, nice to see you again.
I am sorry for the undue... everything.
982
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:14,440
– Where is this?
– The old prison cell.
983
00:57:14,560 --> 00:57:17,240
– Base of the clock tower.
– No prying eyes.
984
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:20,360
What was it, John?
Just the business, or...?
985
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:22,360
Oh, I suppose just everything, really.
986
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:24,840
I knew the police would catch up
with the fraud.
987
00:57:25,480 --> 00:57:29,480
I was having these dreams, too.
Really... Really quite...
988
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:32,000
– Oh, and I fell in love, of course.
– With Sheila.
989
00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:36,880
Yes! She told me you'd been asking
questions. Whoopsie-daisy, you.
990
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:40,400
We hear you're looking
at maybe six months.
991
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:44,840
– Not bad for... how many counts?
– Uh, 21, I think.
992
00:57:45,920 --> 00:57:48,720
Yeah, forgery, falsifying accounts, uh...
993
00:57:48,840 --> 00:57:52,160
Oh, faking my own death of course,
that's a big one.
994
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:56,880
How is it, by-the-by,
good old Walsall North?
995
00:57:57,000 --> 00:57:59,280
I suppose it's not my problem now, is it?
996
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:03,760
– You bet your bottom dollar it is, mate.
– Hm?
997
00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:06,960
Oh, don't think in any other situation
you wouldn't be out on your bloody bum,
998
00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:09,720
but we can't, not yet,
majority's too thin.
999
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:14,240
With a suspended sentence you can stay on
till we're out of the danger zone,
1000
00:58:14,360 --> 00:58:16,240
and then piss off.
1001
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:21,160
No. I can't stay in the House!
I'll resign.
1002
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:25,600
Can't resign, John.
No MP can resign, only booted out. Fact.
1003
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:28,080
Oh, yes, I can.
1004
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:31,000
'The Crown Steward
and Bailiff of Chiltern Hundreds.
1005
00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:35,560
'An MP who accepts an office of profit
must resign.'
1006
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:39,400
First used by John Pitt in 1751.
1007
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:42,320
– So there. I'm sorry...
– You're bloody well staying, right?
1008
00:58:42,440 --> 00:58:46,160
– You are staying here!
– Can't you feel it? It's creaking!
1009
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:50,320
Enough of that, John! We know you're
bullshitting the loony bastard stuff!
1010
00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:55,880
It's diseased, the whole thing.
Let it die! You have to let her die.
1011
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:57,560
Arsehole!
1012
00:58:58,560 --> 00:59:03,680
Walsall North's going. We should assume
he won't keep his seat either.
1013
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:05,200
Bollocks!
1014
00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:10,440
How's the leadership looking.
1015
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:13,680
Close call between Ebbw Vale and Cardiff.
1016
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:17,560
I reckon there's more support for Bristol
South East than folk are letting on.
1017
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:20,560
Benn? Jesus!
1018
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:24,360
This is what I'm talking about,
divisive candidates...
1019
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:27,040
Careful, chief! Neutrality and all that.
1020
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:29,960
I am bloody neutral, I'm just saying.
1021
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:32,800
I can see the road ahead.
1022
00:59:32,920 --> 00:59:37,920
I've seen it before. Nobody does
that self thing better than Labour.
1023
00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:39,840
– Self what thing?
– You know, with the...
1024
00:59:40,720 --> 00:59:42,960
And you hit yourself over the...
1025
00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:45,960
Oh, it doesn't matter.
1026
00:59:46,080 --> 00:59:49,200
Go on, get off into the lobby.
See you there.
1027
00:59:58,920 --> 01:00:00,160
It's Bob.
1028
01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:04,040
I just wondered
if you were around at all later.
1029
01:00:05,240 --> 01:00:06,840
Somewhere private.
1030
01:00:08,120 --> 01:00:14,160
I've got some numbers and, well, I wanted
to pledge my own personal support.
1031
01:00:18,360 --> 01:00:22,080
Oh, what's up, Walter?
Trouble at t'mill?
1032
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:25,200
Nothing to worry
your pretty little head over, Jack.
1033
01:00:25,320 --> 01:00:28,280
It's a risky business this,
you know, change of leader.
1034
01:00:28,400 --> 01:00:31,280
Takes a crack team of whips
to achieve it calmly and smoothly.
1035
01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:34,680
Oi! Don't teach your gran
to suck eggs, you.
1036
01:00:34,800 --> 01:00:36,800
We'll be stopping in for the full five.
1037
01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:39,520
You can be smug all you want, Walter,
all it means is that you're in power
1038
01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:42,080
as the economy worsens
and the blame can be on you.
1039
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:46,920
Still, not long now till the profits
from North Sea oil start pumping in,
1040
01:00:47,040 --> 01:00:49,640
and we'll take over
just in time to spend it.
1041
01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:53,920
– Poppycock!
– All right. Double the bet.
1042
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:58,200
– 20.
– 20? Bloody hell!
1043
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:01,040
– 50.
– Done.
1044
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:04,280
– – Well, they're scared.
1045
01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:07,920
Halfway across the tightrope having
to change poles. Could go either way.
1046
01:01:08,040 --> 01:01:13,240
Good. So, we just have to sit back
and let them do what they do best –
1047
01:01:13,360 --> 01:01:15,680
tear themselves apart.
1048
01:01:15,800 --> 01:01:18,080
It's the best way to hunt,
you know, Jack-my-lad.
1049
01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:21,240
Let the target come to you.
1050
01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:26,800
I don't know why I'm not down here
more often.
1051
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:29,120
– Very relaxing.
– Careful, they're trying to get rid of it.
1052
01:01:29,240 --> 01:01:32,960
Sits incongruously inside a modern
political establishment, apparently.
1053
01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:37,520
Ha-ha. Really? I would have thought it
entirely in keeping.
1054
01:01:40,320 --> 01:01:43,920
I-I don't... Bob, it doesn't make...
1055
01:01:44,040 --> 01:01:46,840
I mean, Jesus! Why?
1056
01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:50,840
I backed the wrong horse, didn't I?
Ebbw Vale. You play your cards...
1057
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:55,680
What were you doing backing the horse?
You always said we had to be neutral!
1058
01:01:55,800 --> 01:01:58,640
I'm right, you should be. I-I just...
1059
01:01:59,560 --> 01:02:01,640
Oh, I don't know, Michael.
1060
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:07,520
I just got sick of this,
being at the heart of the bloody kitchen,
1061
01:02:07,640 --> 01:02:10,840
cleaning up the mess, doing all the dirty.
1062
01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:18,480
I just wanted a seat round that table,
maybe, as an equal.
1063
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:22,760
Not as the bloody whipping boy,
one who makes them laugh
1064
01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:26,560
with his cheeky, cockney rhyming,
bloody, docker's son, fucking...
1065
01:02:27,160 --> 01:02:28,640
Sorry, Ann.
1066
01:02:28,760 --> 01:02:30,680
Oh, she's not here.
1067
01:02:30,800 --> 01:02:34,640
You can't leave, hm?
This is the most critical...
1068
01:02:34,760 --> 01:02:38,240
– I'm not saying Walter's not up to it...
– Not Walter, you.
1069
01:02:40,400 --> 01:02:41,680
Me?
1070
01:02:41,800 --> 01:02:45,440
But I'm the... Hey, Bob, I'm not...
1071
01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:47,920
I know you're not, that's the point.
1072
01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:51,240
It's not true?
1073
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:53,240
You're not going,
you're not bloody going?
1074
01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:55,800
– Walter, it's fine...
– Oh, what is this?
1075
01:02:55,920 --> 01:02:59,760
When we're hanging by a thread?
'How can Jim do this?' Shit the bed, man!
1076
01:02:59,880 --> 01:03:02,360
Oi! PM's right to.
1077
01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:05,160
You need your chief whip
to take a bullet for you,
1078
01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:07,720
and I stuck my neck out for the other guy.
1079
01:03:08,720 --> 01:03:12,600
Jim needs someone he can trust.
He needs...
1080
01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:15,960
He needs Michael.
1081
01:03:18,160 --> 01:03:20,080
Give us a minute, will ya?
1082
01:03:24,480 --> 01:03:28,880
Listen to me, Walter Harrison,
you are a bloody-minded Yorkshire bastard,
1083
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:32,400
but I love you, OK?
1084
01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:39,520
And you are the best deputy whip
this building has ever bloody seen.
1085
01:03:40,240 --> 01:03:45,760
And that's why – that's why you still
will be the best deputy.
1086
01:03:48,320 --> 01:03:52,120
You're the one they're either afraid of
or actually like and come to for help.
1087
01:03:52,240 --> 01:03:54,040
The chief, he can't be those things.
1088
01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:57,960
The chief has to be above it all,
and above it all, you'd be wasted.
1089
01:03:58,920 --> 01:04:02,160
It's you're own fault
for being so bloody indispensable.
1090
01:04:03,600 --> 01:04:08,800
Michael, he's smart, considered,
he collects stamps, for fuck's sake!
1091
01:04:10,360 --> 01:04:13,520
We need someone with that level
of patience, clear thinking,
1092
01:04:13,640 --> 01:04:15,800
to navigate through this.
1093
01:04:15,920 --> 01:04:17,440
But he'll need help, Walter,
1094
01:04:17,560 --> 01:04:20,040
– someone to keep him cool, calm... What?
– Bob?
1095
01:04:20,160 --> 01:04:22,680
Oh, no, let's not make
a song and dance about it.
1096
01:04:22,800 --> 01:04:25,760
The Members for South Ayrshire
and Paisley.
1097
01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:28,640
– We're sorry to barge in, Bob,
– I told you to wait outside!
1098
01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:31,720
– Rumour says you're off.
– Bang-on, old son, so out my way.
1099
01:04:31,840 --> 01:04:33,560
– Talk to Michael there.
– Michael?
1100
01:04:33,680 --> 01:04:35,200
Yeah, he is the chief now.
1101
01:04:35,320 --> 01:04:37,880
Bob, we've come to formally resign
the whip.
1102
01:04:38,720 --> 01:04:40,280
We can no longer in good conscience
1103
01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:43,680
act as Members of Parliament
for the Labour Party, I'm sorry.
1104
01:04:43,800 --> 01:04:48,480
- – You pair of disloyal bastards!
- –
1105
01:04:48,600 --> 01:04:50,680
Don't talk to me about loyalty, Bob,
you hear?
1106
01:04:50,800 --> 01:04:53,160
What's loyal about giving the voters
a promise on devolution
1107
01:04:53,200 --> 01:04:55,280
and not bloody well delivering?
1108
01:04:55,400 --> 01:04:59,160
How are we meant to deliver on something
as big as dividing up the kingdom, Jim,
1109
01:04:59,280 --> 01:05:00,600
with a majority that big?
1110
01:05:00,720 --> 01:05:03,440
You're not delivering on anything!
On anything!
1111
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:07,640
This isn't a government. Governments
have powers, make decisions, rule.
1112
01:05:07,760 --> 01:05:10,640
This isn't a Parliament.
It's a fucking purgatory.
1113
01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:19,120
– My pocket's...
– Come here.
1114
01:05:19,240 --> 01:05:20,680
No, it's fine, Ann.
1115
01:05:21,560 --> 01:05:23,120
Thank you.
1116
01:05:26,440 --> 01:05:29,320
Oh, shit! The car.
1117
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:33,600
I don't have the car any more.
1118
01:05:33,720 --> 01:05:36,040
– It's yours, Michael.
– Bob, take the car!
1119
01:05:36,160 --> 01:05:38,320
It's fine. I just need to jog me...
1120
01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:43,040
It's, er... the Circle.
1121
01:05:44,080 --> 01:05:45,200
No.
1122
01:05:46,120 --> 01:05:49,280
District line, eastbound.
1123
01:05:50,600 --> 01:05:52,880
You see, I got it. I'm fine.
1124
01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:56,920
Don't... Don't let 'em win.
1125
01:05:57,040 --> 01:05:59,680
You're halfway there.
1126
01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:02,480
Don't let the bastards win.
1127
01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:20,600
So, um...
1128
01:06:20,720 --> 01:06:28,280
Well, with Paisley and Ayrshire gone,
we're back to hung again.
1129
01:06:28,400 --> 01:06:30,280
So, that's it, then.
1130
01:06:30,400 --> 01:06:33,240
No, Joe, no. That is NOT it!
1131
01:06:33,360 --> 01:06:37,200
No, we draw the odds and sods
back over to us.
1132
01:06:37,960 --> 01:06:41,440
Well, why not? We've done it before,
we can do it again.
1133
01:06:42,720 --> 01:06:44,120
No, we can. We...
1134
01:06:44,240 --> 01:06:45,520
We...
1135
01:06:46,640 --> 01:06:48,440
Well, Walter can.
1136
01:06:49,360 --> 01:06:52,960
Look, the next bill is
Aircraft and Shipbuilding, hm?
1137
01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:55,800
It's a classic ideological one.
1138
01:06:55,920 --> 01:06:58,760
We want to invest.
Tories want to cut.
1139
01:06:58,880 --> 01:07:02,480
And if they beat us,
well, they sort of call a no confidence.
1140
01:07:02,600 --> 01:07:06,600
And if we lose that,
then w-we're out, we're finished.
1141
01:07:09,480 --> 01:07:11,960
But if we win... Hm?
1142
01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:17,640
If we win,
well, then, we get to fight another day.
1143
01:07:19,240 --> 01:07:21,040
And then another.
1144
01:07:21,160 --> 01:07:25,120
And then another and another and another –
1145
01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:26,720
all the way to five years!
1146
01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:32,920
Walter?
1147
01:07:41,480 --> 01:07:43,280
All right, chief.
1148
01:07:44,400 --> 01:07:46,440
Let's see what we've got.
1149
01:07:46,560 --> 01:07:50,680
– ♪ The people's flag is deepest red
Order!
1150
01:07:50,800 --> 01:07:53,960
– ♪ It shrouded off our martyred dead
– Order! No, don't encourage it.
1151
01:07:54,080 --> 01:07:56,320
♪ And 'ere their limbs grew stiff and cold
1152
01:07:56,440 --> 01:07:59,640
–
– ♪ Their heart's blood died in every fold
1153
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:03,160
– ♪ Then raise the scarlet standard high
–
1154
01:08:03,280 --> 01:08:06,240
♪ Beneath its folds we'll live and die
1155
01:08:06,360 --> 01:08:12,400
♪ Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
We'll keep the red flag flying here... ♪
1156
01:08:17,200 --> 01:08:23,320
Cheats! Bunch of double-crossers!
Can you believe it? They broke a pair!
1157
01:08:23,439 --> 01:08:27,479
- Yeah! Come on! Bloody try it!
- Gentlemen, please!
1158
01:08:27,600 --> 01:08:31,960
Try to act like Honourable Members
of this House and not football hooligans!
1159
01:08:32,399 --> 01:08:37,079
I've already suspended the session for
20 minutes so that everyone can calm down.
1160
01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:41,520
I have Commons policemen pulling people
apart in the lobby and fighting,
1161
01:08:41,640 --> 01:08:44,040
fighting, in the House of Commons chamber!
1162
01:08:44,160 --> 01:08:46,520
– I've never in my life...
– That song, they were singing!
1163
01:08:46,640 --> 01:08:50,360
That bloody commie song
after they robbed us of the vote!
1164
01:08:50,479 --> 01:08:52,039
Heseltine, just put a sock in it!
1165
01:08:52,160 --> 01:08:54,840
I don't care about the bloody vote!
1166
01:08:55,399 --> 01:08:58,719
I do care about you removing
the parliamentary mace
1167
01:08:58,840 --> 01:09:02,360
from its sacred position
and using it to threaten ministers!
1168
01:09:02,479 --> 01:09:05,119
Mr Speaker, they broke a pair,
they must have done.
1169
01:09:05,240 --> 01:09:07,080
They paired someone with one of our chaps
1170
01:09:07,200 --> 01:09:09,400
then bought him into the lobby
for their vote!
1171
01:09:09,520 --> 01:09:11,160
Cheats! Cheaters!
1172
01:09:11,279 --> 01:09:14,199
That mace dates back to Charles II and...
1173
01:09:14,319 --> 01:09:17,999
– I know. Look, I'm very, very sorry...
– Are you listening?
1174
01:09:18,120 --> 01:09:22,440
..symbolises the royal authority
under which the Commons sits.
1175
01:09:22,560 --> 01:09:25,400
Interfering with it constitutes
gross misconduct.
1176
01:09:25,520 --> 01:09:27,840
The Serjeant at Arms, here,
has the authority
1177
01:09:27,960 --> 01:09:30,160
to take you to the cells and imprison you.
1178
01:09:30,279 --> 01:09:35,279
Only I am allowed to place and remove
the mace, do you understand? Me!
1179
01:09:35,399 --> 01:09:38,039
– I'll apologise!
– No, no, no.
1180
01:09:38,160 --> 01:09:40,000
I'm going over there to sort this out.
1181
01:09:40,120 --> 01:09:44,640
The House cannot reconvene for business
until the mace is placed back properly,
1182
01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:47,240
and you put it back the wrong way round.
1183
01:09:47,359 --> 01:09:49,959
Oh, don't... What?
1184
01:09:50,760 --> 01:09:55,280
Parliament is not lawfully authorised
to meet unless the mace is in place,
1185
01:09:55,400 --> 01:09:57,720
and you put it back
the wrong way round!
1186
01:09:57,840 --> 01:10:03,280
Both of you, both of you,
go with the Serjeant at Arms and replace...
1187
01:10:04,760 --> 01:10:07,520
– ..the mace.
– Oh, for God's sake!
1188
01:10:07,640 --> 01:10:09,720
– Are you all right?
– Ah, ponces!
1189
01:10:09,840 --> 01:10:11,680
They couldn't throw a decent punch... Ow!
1190
01:10:11,800 --> 01:10:16,800
All right, Joe, talk. Did we slip someone
back in who was meant to be paired off?
1191
01:10:16,920 --> 01:10:19,880
No, we agreed on six pairs
and we gave them six pairs.
1192
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:21,800
It was the Agriculture Minister, chief.
1193
01:10:21,920 --> 01:10:25,880
After the first vote tied, we found out
Agriculture was delayed in Denmark
1194
01:10:26,000 --> 01:10:27,440
and hadn't told us!
1195
01:10:27,560 --> 01:10:30,880
Hadn't told us, exactly, which meant
we actually had seven, seven off.
1196
01:10:31,000 --> 01:10:33,880
Them lot had only asked for six,
so we brought one of the others back in,
1197
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:36,160
took our numbers up by one,
we can't help that, can we?
1198
01:10:36,240 --> 01:10:38,960
– Hey presto, done. We won.
– That's not what we agreed!
1199
01:10:39,080 --> 01:10:42,080
Michael, Walter, someone explain
where your extra man come from.
1200
01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:44,720
This is the Government Whips' Office.
Did you knock on the door?
1201
01:10:44,840 --> 01:10:47,760
– Who took your tally up...
– Did you knock on the door?
1202
01:10:47,880 --> 01:10:51,600
– ..to 304?
– Did you knock on the door?
1203
01:10:53,640 --> 01:10:55,960
Right, I'll knock. Bloody hell.
1204
01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:02,560
– Who is it?
– Oh, for heaven's sake, Walter!
1205
01:11:02,680 --> 01:11:05,720
Oi, you bugger. I'm sorry, right?
We can sort this out.
1206
01:11:05,840 --> 01:11:07,840
This is really serious, right?
1207
01:11:07,960 --> 01:11:10,760
Now, the vote on our amendment
was tied, 303 each.
1208
01:11:10,880 --> 01:11:12,240
– We do agree on that?
– Jack...
1209
01:11:12,360 --> 01:11:15,000
On, the following division, the vote
on your bill, the numbers were different.
1210
01:11:15,120 --> 01:11:17,960
It was us 303 and you, 304.
1211
01:11:18,080 --> 01:11:20,320
Which means someone who hadn't been there
for the first division
1212
01:11:20,440 --> 01:11:22,560
was there for the second,
now how can that be?
1213
01:11:22,680 --> 01:11:26,400
The Agriculture Minister, Jack. He's in
Denmark, right, and he wasn't paired.
1214
01:11:26,520 --> 01:11:29,080
Right, so he wasn't paired.
Did you ask for a pair?
1215
01:11:29,200 --> 01:11:30,800
Did you ask Fred for a pair?
1216
01:11:30,920 --> 01:11:34,000
Look, it was you lot! You asked
for six pairs, and we gave you six!
1217
01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:39,200
Fred, the Agriculture Minister was away,
did you pair him?
1218
01:11:39,320 --> 01:11:42,400
- – No, he wasn't one of them...
- –
1219
01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:44,200
Bloody listen, Jesus!
1220
01:11:44,320 --> 01:11:46,920
We agreed pairs,
six of ours for six of yours.
1221
01:11:47,040 --> 01:11:50,440
With Agriculture not getting back in time,
we realised we actually had seven out.
1222
01:11:50,560 --> 01:11:53,000
So, even if I did chuck
the Member for Stalybridge and Hyde
1223
01:11:53,120 --> 01:11:55,200
– back into the lobby to vote...
– Pendry was paired!
1224
01:11:55,280 --> 01:11:57,720
..we still had six of our lot sitting out,
as agreed.
1225
01:11:57,840 --> 01:12:00,160
If we'd have known earlier, we'd have
had Pendry in from the beginning.
1226
01:12:00,280 --> 01:12:02,840
– Cheats! Liars!
– Oh, knock it off, Carol!
1227
01:12:02,960 --> 01:12:05,240
The extra vote of your chap
who went in is void.
1228
01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:08,880
Mr Speaker, I demand, demand you void
that extra vote and declare it tied.
1229
01:12:09,000 --> 01:12:11,000
Hold up, it isn't tied, we won!
1230
01:12:11,120 --> 01:12:13,400
That bill will become law
and that's an end to it.
1231
01:12:13,520 --> 01:12:18,200
Wait, look, according to all precedents,
yes, in a tied vote, as Speaker,
1232
01:12:18,320 --> 01:12:21,440
– I'd have to vote against the motion...
– It isn't tied! We won by one!
1233
01:12:21,560 --> 01:12:26,440
But there's nothing in Erskine May
that recognises pairings.
1234
01:12:26,560 --> 01:12:31,520
That's a gentlemen's agreement
between yourselves. I can't call a recount.
1235
01:12:31,640 --> 01:12:35,320
Oh, you, that's it! You bastards!
You've bloody had it!
1236
01:12:35,440 --> 01:12:39,200
I'm suspending the House for the night,
so you can all go home!
1237
01:12:39,320 --> 01:12:41,520
You think this is dirty? You wait.
Just you wait.
1238
01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:44,360
– No more pairing!
– Don't talk rubbish!
1239
01:12:44,480 --> 01:12:47,800
I mean it! Pairing's off,
and the usual channels are closed.
1240
01:12:53,040 --> 01:12:54,800
Oh, bloody hell!
1241
01:12:54,920 --> 01:12:57,040
Chief, there's uproar amongst
the odds and sods.
1242
01:12:57,160 --> 01:13:00,400
The Liberals, Welsh, all of them saying
they won't be voting with us again –
1243
01:13:00,520 --> 01:13:02,760
they can't be associated with cheats!
1244
01:13:03,920 --> 01:13:07,320
Oh, well, that's... That's... Well...
1245
01:13:07,440 --> 01:13:11,360
- Well... Well...
- Thank you very much, you lot
1246
01:13:11,480 --> 01:13:14,320
Michael, calm, chief.
1247
01:13:14,440 --> 01:13:16,240
With the odds and sods gone, eh?
1248
01:13:16,360 --> 01:13:17,960
With our numbers?
1249
01:13:18,080 --> 01:13:19,960
If we can't pair...
1250
01:13:20,080 --> 01:13:22,200
If we can't pair...
1251
01:13:22,920 --> 01:13:24,920
Oh... Fuck it!
1252
01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:34,880
Walter, you need to go and see Jack now,
repair the damage.
1253
01:13:36,680 --> 01:13:40,280
Oh, 'I need to', is it? 'I bloody need'?
1254
01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:43,560
– And who the hell are you, Ann, eh?
– What?
1255
01:13:43,680 --> 01:13:46,400
Can't take it from someone with boobs
and no bollocks?
1256
01:13:46,520 --> 01:13:50,480
Piss off, giving me that. You got bigger
bollocks than anyone else here, Ann.
1257
01:13:50,600 --> 01:13:53,000
I'll tell you something,
if there were more of us in there,
1258
01:13:53,120 --> 01:13:55,400
there wouldn't have been scenes
like that tonight.
1259
01:13:55,880 --> 01:13:58,240
We'd knock you're bloody heads together!
1260
01:14:07,720 --> 01:14:10,600
– Jack, would you hold on a minute?
– Sorry, Walter. There is nothing I can do.
1261
01:14:10,720 --> 01:14:13,760
I just want to talk about this.
Christ! It's nothing you wouldn't do.
1262
01:14:14,560 --> 01:14:16,320
Or haven't done.
1263
01:14:16,440 --> 01:14:18,680
Nothing that I wouldn't do?
1264
01:14:18,800 --> 01:14:20,760
No, you cheated, Walter.
1265
01:14:20,880 --> 01:14:23,800
I don't care about the technical
this and that, you bloody cheated!
1266
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:26,440
God, look at you.
1267
01:14:27,160 --> 01:14:28,600
You're scared.
1268
01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:31,080
Walter Harrison!
1269
01:14:31,200 --> 01:14:33,960
– I think we've got you, haven't we?
– It's a centuries old system.
1270
01:14:34,080 --> 01:14:36,440
You can't just stop pairing.
You don't have the right.
1271
01:14:36,560 --> 01:14:39,760
'Centuries old', 'thousand years old',
'can't do this', 'must do that'!
1272
01:14:39,880 --> 01:14:41,320
Christ!
1273
01:14:43,240 --> 01:14:47,040
Westminster Hall, right?
Oldest part of parliament.
1274
01:14:47,160 --> 01:14:51,880
The stuff those rafters have seen, eh?
Look at that, just over there.
1275
01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:54,600
It's where they set up the trial
for Charles I.
1276
01:14:55,160 --> 01:14:58,600
God's representative on Earth. God.
1277
01:14:58,720 --> 01:15:01,160
For thine is the Kingdom,
the power and the glory...
1278
01:15:01,280 --> 01:15:04,040
But we said, 'No.'
From now on, we would rule ourselves.
1279
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:07,560
And off went his head.
1280
01:15:08,600 --> 01:15:10,880
'Oh, no. We can do it better, ' we said.
1281
01:15:12,120 --> 01:15:14,480
God! Do you know? Sometimes I just...
1282
01:15:16,080 --> 01:15:17,760
Um...
1283
01:15:18,640 --> 01:15:20,760
No, I'm sorry, Walter.
No more cooperation.
1284
01:15:20,880 --> 01:15:23,840
The usual channels are closed,
and you heard him, no more pairing.
1285
01:15:23,960 --> 01:15:24,960
– Jack...
– Walter.
1286
01:15:25,080 --> 01:15:27,560
You want help with your sick
and your dying? Forget it.
1287
01:15:27,680 --> 01:15:30,920
You'll have to get them into the lobby
your bloody self from now on.
1288
01:15:33,120 --> 01:15:34,800
The best of British to you.
1289
01:18:41,120 --> 01:18:42,720
Order! Order!
1290
01:18:43,840 --> 01:18:46,520
Order! Order! Order!
1291
01:18:51,320 --> 01:18:54,840
Order. We are now in session.
1292
01:18:56,800 --> 01:19:00,800
Oh, come on! You must have an idea.
1293
01:19:00,920 --> 01:19:02,920
How long are we talking?
1294
01:19:03,040 --> 01:19:05,800
Well, it's never happened before, has it?
1295
01:19:05,920 --> 01:19:08,800
Far as we know, there aren't even
any drawings or plans
1296
01:19:08,920 --> 01:19:10,920
to help us fix the bloody thing.
1297
01:19:11,040 --> 01:19:14,040
– What was it?
– The speed regulator.
1298
01:19:14,160 --> 01:19:18,240
Torsional fatigue. It's been going
over 100 years, gave up the ghost.
1299
01:19:18,920 --> 01:19:21,320
Gonna be summer, earliest, I reckon.
1300
01:19:21,440 --> 01:19:26,120
Summer? Oh, please tell me it'll be
up and running for the jubilee!
1301
01:19:26,720 --> 01:19:31,240
It's a clock, Mr Cocks.
They break. What's it matter?
1302
01:19:32,760 --> 01:19:34,200
What's it ma...?
1303
01:19:34,320 --> 01:19:37,960
Oh, yeah, yeah. No, you're right.
No, it's not important, eh?
1304
01:19:38,080 --> 01:19:40,280
No, it's not a symbol of anything
1305
01:19:40,400 --> 01:19:42,560
It doesn't mean anything
1306
01:19:42,680 --> 01:19:48,200
It's only carried on ticking through
all the bloody... The great wars, hm?
1307
01:19:48,320 --> 01:19:53,120
The biggest crises! Any time our backs
were against the wall! Oh, yeah.
1308
01:19:53,240 --> 01:19:57,400
And you're telling me now that,
for no reason, it just stopped?
1309
01:19:57,520 --> 01:19:59,520
It'll just take time, Mr Cocks.
1310
01:19:59,640 --> 01:20:03,160
Oh, right.
Yeah, the one thing we no longer have!
1311
01:20:03,280 --> 01:20:05,800
The Member for Batley and Morley!
1312
01:20:05,920 --> 01:20:08,680
I'm sorry it's come to this,
but they aren't pairing still.
1313
01:20:08,800 --> 01:20:11,320
I'm afraid it's all Members,
all the time, no exception.
1314
01:20:12,240 --> 01:20:15,280
Oh, you're preaching
to the converted here, Walter.
1315
01:20:15,400 --> 01:20:18,080
He'd crawl through the lobby dead
if he had to.
1316
01:20:18,200 --> 01:20:19,680
I'm the one trying to hold him back.
1317
01:20:19,800 --> 01:20:23,200
We've turned the Member for Greenock's
office into a makeshift bedroom for you.
1318
01:20:23,320 --> 01:20:24,920
Yours was too tiny.
1319
01:20:25,040 --> 01:20:28,920
Oh, God! What a pain in the...!
I hate being such an awkward bugger.
1320
01:20:29,040 --> 01:20:31,400
Oi! He didn't mind swapping.
It's no bother.
1321
01:20:31,520 --> 01:20:36,560
Well, at least we don't have to worry
about toing and froing for a while, eh?
1322
01:20:36,680 --> 01:20:40,720
Gosh, kipping in the House of Commons!
1323
01:20:40,840 --> 01:20:43,320
We'll make it nice and cosy, though, eh?
1324
01:20:43,440 --> 01:20:46,080
Though no funny business, Dr Broughton.
1325
01:20:46,880 --> 01:20:49,400
All right, Burton and Taylor, knock it off.
1326
01:20:49,520 --> 01:20:52,000
First bill tonight is about 10:15.
1327
01:20:52,120 --> 01:20:54,240
Doc, you won't even have to walk
into the lobby.
1328
01:20:54,360 --> 01:20:55,840
As long as you're in the grounds,
1329
01:20:55,960 --> 01:20:58,840
I'll come up with one of the aristo-twats
to 'nod you through'.
1330
01:20:59,720 --> 01:21:03,920
Eh, this Big Ben business is causing
a bit of a ding-dong, isn't it?
1331
01:21:05,320 --> 01:21:07,080
- – A bit of a what?
- –
1332
01:21:08,600 --> 01:21:12,360
– Ding-dong, yeah.
–
1333
01:21:12,480 --> 01:21:16,240
No, no. Don't make me laugh.
1334
01:21:16,360 --> 01:21:19,840
Press are having a right old time with it.
It's a good distraction, if you ask me.
1335
01:21:19,960 --> 01:21:25,440
Radio 4 not quite the same –
all pips and no bongs.
1336
01:21:25,560 --> 01:21:29,080
Oi! Don't try and fool anyone
you listen to Radio 4, Doc.
1337
01:21:29,200 --> 01:21:32,920
Oi! Ooh, where do we order room service?
1338
01:21:33,040 --> 01:21:34,640
Up my bloody arse!
1339
01:21:36,480 --> 01:21:40,840
Defence Secretary, Member for
Mansfield, he's stuck in bloody Belfast.
1340
01:21:40,960 --> 01:21:43,320
There's no flights for at least an hour.
1341
01:21:43,440 --> 01:21:48,440
So, I've spoken to the PM
and he's getting the RAF to lay on a jet.
1342
01:21:48,560 --> 01:21:50,120
No, Hunter jet's off.
1343
01:21:50,240 --> 01:21:53,680
But the RAF can strap on
an extra fuel tank to a helicopter
1344
01:21:53,800 --> 01:21:57,200
at the base 14 miles from the minister,
that might get him here, just.
1345
01:21:57,320 --> 01:22:00,640
Ann, get on the phone
to the Ulster Constabulary.
1346
01:22:00,760 --> 01:22:04,600
I want all traffic lights fixed
in his favour to get him to the base.
1347
01:22:04,720 --> 01:22:06,640
No reds, all greens.
1348
01:22:06,760 --> 01:22:09,600
It's gonna be close,
and them lot over there won't be happy.
1349
01:22:09,720 --> 01:22:13,160
– Tough! Every vote counts.
– Every vote counts.
1350
01:22:15,520 --> 01:22:18,920
Mr Weatherill!
All all right your end, is it, all OK?
1351
01:22:19,040 --> 01:22:21,440
We'll have every single one of ours in
once again, tonight.
1352
01:22:21,560 --> 01:22:23,640
By hook or by crook, I take it.
1353
01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:28,440
Oh, I hear you're placing beds in offices
now, wheeling in the sick.
1354
01:22:28,560 --> 01:22:30,960
Proved we can though, eh?
Against the odds.
1355
01:22:31,080 --> 01:22:33,040
Pride cometh before the fall, Walter.
1356
01:22:33,160 --> 01:22:35,920
And 50 nicker cometh my way, presently.
1357
01:22:36,040 --> 01:22:38,360
Three years down, mate, two to go.
1358
01:22:38,480 --> 01:22:40,960
The Member
for Liverpool Edge Hill.
1359
01:22:41,080 --> 01:22:42,680
You'll be fine, don't you worry.
1360
01:22:42,800 --> 01:22:44,600
Come on. In.
1361
01:22:44,720 --> 01:22:46,640
Here, sit.
1362
01:22:47,720 --> 01:22:50,480
It stings a bit.
1363
01:22:50,600 --> 01:22:55,200
We're very grateful, obviously.
This won't be forgotten.
1364
01:22:55,320 --> 01:22:59,360
The doctor really did think I should stay
another night, you know, Michael.
1365
01:22:59,480 --> 01:23:03,160
I mean, removing an appendix,
it's not like taking your shoes off.
1366
01:23:04,800 --> 01:23:07,160
The Member for Welwyn and Hatfield.
1367
01:23:07,280 --> 01:23:10,200
– Chief Whip, we have a bit of a problem.
– No, there's no problem...
1368
01:23:10,320 --> 01:23:13,520
Oi, oi! Helen! What the bloody hell?
Bringing a crying baby in here?
1369
01:23:13,640 --> 01:23:17,120
– I'm afraid there's been a complaint.
– Complaint? Who from, what?
1370
01:23:17,240 --> 01:23:20,320
The Honourable Member, here,
was seen engaging in...
1371
01:23:20,440 --> 01:23:23,160
– She was reportedly...
– For God's sake! Just say it.
1372
01:23:23,280 --> 01:23:26,200
Breastfeeding in the Lady Member's Room,
1373
01:23:26,320 --> 01:23:29,400
to the consternation
of other female Members
1374
01:23:29,520 --> 01:23:31,560
who observed the said event taking place.
1375
01:23:31,680 --> 01:23:34,560
Well, I'm going to have to do it
somewhere, aren't I?
1376
01:23:34,680 --> 01:23:37,160
Well, it's all right.
Flipping 'eck, just do it in here.
1377
01:23:37,280 --> 01:23:39,560
What? Get your... In the Whips' Office?
1378
01:23:40,560 --> 01:23:44,160
It is against Palace rules
to expose oneself in...
1379
01:23:44,280 --> 01:23:46,640
– Oh, for the love of...
– ..in that manner!
1380
01:23:46,760 --> 01:23:49,640
And to permit non-Members
into the chamber during a sitting.
1381
01:23:49,760 --> 01:23:51,680
And that baby is not a Member!
1382
01:23:53,080 --> 01:23:55,960
Oh, but please,
he's got such good grasp of fiscal policy.
1383
01:23:56,080 --> 01:24:00,600
This is it! Look, no other mother has ever
had recourse to bring her child, a baby...
1384
01:24:00,720 --> 01:24:04,440
Well, I'm doing it now! Sod it! Sod it.
1385
01:24:05,360 --> 01:24:10,480
Barely a week out of hospital. I mean it,
Michael, if you can't slip me out as a pair
1386
01:24:10,600 --> 01:24:13,320
then I'm slipping these out as a pair,
here and now.
1387
01:24:15,880 --> 01:24:20,120
So, am I staying and doing my job,
or am I going home?
1388
01:24:20,240 --> 01:24:23,200
I'm going to have to tell the Commons'
Services Committee something.
1389
01:24:23,320 --> 01:24:24,800
– Serjeant.
– What?
1390
01:24:24,920 --> 01:24:30,880
Tell them she's getting her tits out
in here and they can all fuck off!
1391
01:24:35,320 --> 01:24:36,840
Thank you.
1392
01:24:38,080 --> 01:24:40,240
Jesus, would you look at it?
1393
01:24:40,360 --> 01:24:44,200
The Whips' Office turned into
a casualty-cum-day-care centre.
1394
01:24:53,800 --> 01:24:55,800
You all right there, Arthur?
1395
01:24:57,640 --> 01:25:00,160
– Arthur!
– No, it's fine. Nothing to, um...
1396
01:25:00,280 --> 01:25:02,080
You might get a blue plaque, Helene.
1397
01:25:02,200 --> 01:25:06,040
'Welwyn and Hatfield, at this spot –
first to breastfeed in Westminster.'
1398
01:25:06,160 --> 01:25:08,920
I don't want a blue plaque.
1399
01:25:09,040 --> 01:25:11,400
I don't want anything.
I'm not a flipping martyr.
1400
01:25:11,520 --> 01:25:15,120
I'm not flying any flags. I don't want
to be here, I want to be at home.
1401
01:25:15,240 --> 01:25:17,440
Michael, there'll have to be system,
a place where...
1402
01:25:17,560 --> 01:25:21,040
You're right. I'm sorry.
We'll sort something.
1403
01:25:21,160 --> 01:25:23,240
Bloody hell, Joe, you can turn around!
1404
01:25:23,360 --> 01:25:25,280
It's only nature.
You've got kids yourself!
1405
01:25:25,400 --> 01:25:27,520
Yeah, but I didn't do that bit, did I?
1406
01:25:27,640 --> 01:25:30,400
– – It's that time.
1407
01:25:30,520 --> 01:25:33,520
Joe, go do the nodding-through
with the aristo-twats.
1408
01:25:33,640 --> 01:25:36,160
Ann, can you help Arthur into the chamber?
1409
01:25:36,280 --> 01:25:38,840
Walter, get flushing.
1410
01:25:38,960 --> 01:25:40,760
The Member for St. Helens!
1411
01:25:40,880 --> 01:25:44,560
There he is, Fred, see. The Member
for St. Helens in the Palace grounds.
1412
01:25:46,360 --> 01:25:48,200
You have to nod him through.
1413
01:25:48,320 --> 01:25:51,800
Our staff are not best pleased
about this, gents, to put it mildly.
1414
01:25:51,920 --> 01:25:54,240
Hold on, I don't mean to be...
1415
01:25:54,360 --> 01:25:56,200
Hello? Is he even alive?
1416
01:25:58,280 --> 01:26:00,400
It doesn't matter, he's here.
1417
01:26:02,320 --> 01:26:05,880
And nobody dies
in the Palace of Westminster! Ha-ha!
1418
01:26:07,000 --> 01:26:11,280
No! Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
1419
01:26:11,800 --> 01:26:15,000
Or is it the Right Honourable
Member for Mansfield?
1420
01:26:15,120 --> 01:26:17,320
Oh, come off it, it can't be!
1421
01:26:20,160 --> 01:26:24,400
And he made it!
He only bloody well made it!
1422
01:26:25,400 --> 01:26:27,680
The Member for Batley and Morley.
1423
01:26:27,800 --> 01:26:29,680
Doc! Doc!
1424
01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:33,360
Doc, hold on. Don't you worry.
1425
01:26:34,760 --> 01:26:38,160
Doc! Oh, what you doing, man?
Where's the missus?
1426
01:26:38,280 --> 01:26:41,800
– Get... Get me to the lobby.
– Don't be daft, man! Fuck it!
1427
01:26:41,920 --> 01:26:44,760
– You've been nodded through, haven't you?
– No, I haven't. I've been in here...
1428
01:26:44,880 --> 01:26:48,120
– Forget it, we're going to the hospital.
– Get me to the bastard lobby!
1429
01:26:52,000 --> 01:26:56,720
The question is that the Dock Work
Regulation Bill be now read a second time.
1430
01:26:56,840 --> 01:26:59,400
Bit thin on the ground your side,
wouldn't you say, Michael?
1431
01:26:59,520 --> 01:27:01,360
Looks like this one's ours.
1432
01:27:01,480 --> 01:27:03,400
The Member for Liverpool Edge Hill.
1433
01:27:05,200 --> 01:27:07,200
The Member for Welwyn and Hatfield.
1434
01:27:09,000 --> 01:27:11,120
The Member for Batley and Morley.
1435
01:27:13,560 --> 01:27:15,720
The Member for Mansfield!
1436
01:27:32,720 --> 01:27:37,280
Ayes to the right, 310.
1437
01:27:38,560 --> 01:27:40,000
Noes to the left...
1438
01:27:41,520 --> 01:27:43,200
..308!
1439
01:27:43,320 --> 01:27:45,520
The ayes have it. The ayes have it!
1440
01:27:48,000 --> 01:27:51,680
Turns out, Belfast is actually
just north of Watford!
1441
01:27:51,800 --> 01:27:55,480
Using the resources of the armed forces,
Michael, for party political reasons?
1442
01:27:55,600 --> 01:27:58,320
Oi, it's his elected right
to vote on legislation.
1443
01:28:01,200 --> 01:28:02,600
Wa-hey!
1444
01:28:02,720 --> 01:28:05,320
Well, then! 'Nuther day, eh?
1445
01:28:06,520 --> 01:28:10,760
– You not drinking, chief?
– Oh, no... Ta, Walter.
1446
01:28:10,880 --> 01:28:13,800
Right, I'll just go
and tuck the doc in, then.
1447
01:28:15,400 --> 01:28:17,240
Oh, Ann. Eyelash.
1448
01:28:17,960 --> 01:28:19,440
Make a wish.
1449
01:28:24,560 --> 01:28:27,000
Joe, while we've got a sec.
1450
01:28:27,920 --> 01:28:31,760
– It's... It's slightly awkward.
– Oh, yeah?
1451
01:28:31,880 --> 01:28:34,680
I'm in receipt of some information about
a Member and I don't know what to do.
1452
01:28:34,800 --> 01:28:37,520
– Which Member?
– You, Joe.
1453
01:28:37,640 --> 01:28:41,560
Medical. Heard you've cancelled
an operation twice now, a big one.
1454
01:28:41,680 --> 01:28:43,000
How did...?
1455
01:28:43,120 --> 01:28:47,560
It's nowt, Ann, don't worry. Nowt serious.
It's more important that I'm here.
1456
01:28:47,680 --> 01:28:51,360
– You're allowed to be sick, you know.
– 100% voting record me, you know.
1457
01:28:51,480 --> 01:28:54,000
Every time that bell rings,
I've been in there and I will be in there.
1458
01:28:54,120 --> 01:28:56,600
– You've nothing to prove, you know.
– I know that...
1459
01:28:56,720 --> 01:29:00,480
Eh! Come on, you pair.
You must have homes to go to.
1460
01:29:02,680 --> 01:29:05,280
Look... Just keep it to yourself.
1461
01:29:09,240 --> 01:29:11,280
What did you wish for, hm?
1462
01:29:12,720 --> 01:29:14,760
Walter, just now.
1463
01:29:15,400 --> 01:29:16,840
Promise you won't laugh?
1464
01:29:17,560 --> 01:29:20,720
To be where you are one day,
first woman chief.
1465
01:29:21,400 --> 01:29:24,680
Well, it won't come true
if you say it out loud!
1466
01:29:26,360 --> 01:29:28,920
You've buggered it now!
1467
01:29:30,360 --> 01:29:31,680
Sorry, Ann.
1468
01:29:33,360 --> 01:29:36,880
Michael, would you mind not apologising
for swearing around me.
1469
01:29:37,000 --> 01:29:40,520
I know it's a running joke, but I'm trying
to fit in as one of the lads,
1470
01:29:40,640 --> 01:29:42,920
– and it just, you know...
– Oh, eh, eh.
1471
01:29:43,040 --> 01:29:46,760
Eh, Ann. Eh, I'm sorry. It's not...
1472
01:29:47,880 --> 01:29:49,880
It's just I'm trying...
1473
01:29:51,160 --> 01:29:55,080
Well, I'm trying to run
a different kind of ship,
1474
01:29:55,200 --> 01:30:00,840
and, well, truth be told,
I don't want you to be like the lads.
1475
01:30:00,960 --> 01:30:04,640
I want the lads to be more like you.
1476
01:30:04,760 --> 01:30:07,040
We've got to be more...
1477
01:30:08,360 --> 01:30:13,320
Look, this is the biggest fight
that any of us will have ever had, hm?
1478
01:30:15,000 --> 01:30:17,240
And it's going to get harder.
1479
01:30:17,360 --> 01:30:24,840
Our enemies? Oh, well, they're slick
and strong and we're...
1480
01:30:25,840 --> 01:30:28,680
Well, look at us, hm?
1481
01:30:28,800 --> 01:30:33,360
Joe left school, no qualifications.
Half his life down a mine!
1482
01:30:33,480 --> 01:30:36,360
Walter, an electrician by trade, and me?
1483
01:30:37,480 --> 01:30:41,160
Me, well...
Well, I'm the dumbest of the lot.
1484
01:30:41,280 --> 01:30:45,400
No, no, look. I... I just want us ready.
1485
01:30:45,520 --> 01:30:47,880
We will be. We are.
1486
01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:50,560
Right, that's done.
1487
01:30:50,680 --> 01:30:53,080
I am bollocksed!
1488
01:30:53,960 --> 01:30:58,640
Take my car, if you want.
I'll just kip here.
1489
01:30:58,760 --> 01:31:00,760
It's only a couple of hours
till I need to be here.
1490
01:31:00,840 --> 01:31:03,120
Are you sure? Thanks.
1491
01:31:05,760 --> 01:31:07,120
Walt?
1492
01:31:08,760 --> 01:31:12,600
How did you find out about the election
before any one else?
1493
01:31:13,440 --> 01:31:16,680
How do you find out about,
well, everything?
1494
01:31:16,800 --> 01:31:19,640
Oh, lots of ways.
Many fingers, many pies.
1495
01:31:19,760 --> 01:31:22,480
Name one, hm? One pie!
1496
01:31:30,920 --> 01:31:32,440
The drivers.
1497
01:31:33,360 --> 01:31:35,040
Ministers are stupid.
1498
01:31:35,160 --> 01:31:38,720
Once they're in the back of a car,
they reckon they're in a air-tight vacuum.
1499
01:31:38,840 --> 01:31:40,640
Well, they're not.
1500
01:31:40,760 --> 01:31:44,400
One thing drivers like more than an earwig
is a chinwag.
1501
01:31:45,520 --> 01:31:48,280
They meet down the Anchor and Hope
of a Sunday. I pop along.
1502
01:31:48,400 --> 01:31:50,720
You sly old dog!
1503
01:31:52,760 --> 01:31:54,720
– Woof.
–
1504
01:31:55,600 --> 01:31:58,320
Is the doc OK?
1505
01:31:58,440 --> 01:32:01,320
Is he going to... you know...
1506
01:32:03,240 --> 01:32:04,320
..last?
1507
01:32:06,120 --> 01:32:07,880
Yeah, he'll, um...
1508
01:32:08,920 --> 01:32:10,400
Oh, I don't know.
1509
01:32:11,840 --> 01:32:14,440
He shouldn't be here!
A lot of them shouldn't be here!
1510
01:32:14,560 --> 01:32:15,840
– It isn't fair!
– I know.
1511
01:32:15,960 --> 01:32:17,760
They're doing it because they're good men
and they're loyal,
1512
01:32:17,880 --> 01:32:19,720
but we shouldn't be having to ask them.
1513
01:32:19,840 --> 01:32:24,840
I mean, I wanna keep going just as much
as anyone, more, but how far do you go?
1514
01:32:24,960 --> 01:32:27,080
You to draw the line somewhere, Michael.
1515
01:32:27,200 --> 01:32:30,440
Yeah, well, when we get there,
we'll draw the line!
1516
01:32:30,560 --> 01:32:32,120
But until then, we...
1517
01:32:33,480 --> 01:32:35,280
Well, we plough on.
1518
01:32:37,000 --> 01:32:42,640
Do you ever think...
I don't know, but Walsall North.
1519
01:32:42,760 --> 01:32:45,360
All his talk about this place.
1520
01:32:45,480 --> 01:32:48,840
It being like...?
You don't think there were owt...?
1521
01:32:48,960 --> 01:32:51,080
Course not. What you on about?
1522
01:32:52,600 --> 01:32:54,000
Oh, nothing.
1523
01:32:54,880 --> 01:32:56,600
- – Nothing.
- – Right.
1524
01:33:00,800 --> 01:33:04,760
Are you sure you're stopping here?
The missus not mind?
1525
01:33:06,200 --> 01:33:08,880
No. No, the missus not mind.
1526
01:33:09,960 --> 01:33:14,240
Everything all right in that regard?
Missus? Family?
1527
01:33:16,600 --> 01:33:19,280
Are you asking me as a friend
or as a whip, Walter?
1528
01:33:20,840 --> 01:33:22,080
What do you think?
1529
01:33:24,720 --> 01:33:29,880
I don't know.
One of them grey areas, int'it?
1530
01:33:32,320 --> 01:33:37,200
Well, look, yes, yes, Walter.
It's all fine in that regard, ta.
1531
01:33:39,040 --> 01:33:40,040
Eh.
1532
01:33:41,880 --> 01:33:43,480
Three years!
1533
01:33:45,520 --> 01:33:47,080
Three years.
1534
01:33:48,560 --> 01:33:50,640
The lady is not happy.
1535
01:33:51,960 --> 01:33:55,280
She can't really understand
why they're still alive over there.
1536
01:33:56,440 --> 01:34:00,520
A minority in the government again
and with the absence of pairing.
1537
01:34:00,640 --> 01:34:04,760
And yet no huge defeats.
Even, can you believe, some victories.
1538
01:34:04,880 --> 01:34:06,680
To be fair,
they have exceeded expectations.
1539
01:34:06,800 --> 01:34:09,720
– They are getting their chaps in.
– Not even 'in', technically.
1540
01:34:09,840 --> 01:34:12,520
Can't we put a stop to nodding through?
We did to pairing.
1541
01:34:12,640 --> 01:34:14,760
If they're infirmed
and within the grounds,
1542
01:34:14,880 --> 01:34:16,960
they're entitled to the nod –
we have to honour that.
1543
01:34:17,080 --> 01:34:20,360
What the lady wants is more aggression,
determination.
1544
01:34:20,480 --> 01:34:23,160
And with that,
some new blood to the Whips' Office.
1545
01:34:23,280 --> 01:34:24,880
- – Really? Young blood?
- –
1546
01:34:25,000 --> 01:34:28,200
Your new junior whip
reporting for duty, sir!
1547
01:34:28,320 --> 01:34:31,640
And I've intercepted the Chelmsford chap.
He's awaiting orders.
1548
01:34:31,760 --> 01:34:34,000
– Thank you, Colonel. Let him in.
– Sir!
1549
01:34:35,560 --> 01:34:37,200
I didn't say young, I said new.
1550
01:34:37,320 --> 01:34:39,600
– Oh, God!
– The Member for Chelmsford.
1551
01:34:39,720 --> 01:34:41,640
Norman! Mum's the word,
1552
01:34:41,760 --> 01:34:44,880
but you'll be getting a call,
shadow cabinet, another move.
1553
01:34:45,000 --> 01:34:46,840
Oh, right, smashing. Lovely.
1554
01:34:47,440 --> 01:34:49,720
I knew I could rely on her.
1555
01:34:49,840 --> 01:34:51,640
Shadow Arts.
1556
01:34:51,760 --> 01:34:56,320
– Hm? Come again?
– You had hinted that you wanted a move.
1557
01:34:56,440 --> 01:34:58,360
Yeah, up! Not down!
1558
01:34:58,480 --> 01:35:02,000
But you love theatre and museums.
You're our biggest patron of the lot.
1559
01:35:02,120 --> 01:35:04,120
Yes, but, oh hell! Shadow...?
1560
01:35:04,240 --> 01:35:07,440
That doesn't even sound like a position.
1561
01:35:08,160 --> 01:35:12,880
Makes me out to be a sodding
bloody wizard – the Shadow Arts!
1562
01:35:14,600 --> 01:35:18,160
Come on, Norman,
you know how it works, reshuffles.
1563
01:35:18,280 --> 01:35:21,760
Like a box step.
You know what a box step is, don't you?
1564
01:35:21,880 --> 01:35:23,520
Well, ha-ha, you will soon.
1565
01:35:23,640 --> 01:35:26,840
If one first takes a step forward,
cha-cha-cha,
1566
01:35:26,960 --> 01:35:28,760
one then has to take a step to the back.
1567
01:35:28,880 --> 01:35:31,920
Now, be a dear,
look surprised when you get the call.
1568
01:35:32,040 --> 01:35:35,440
And the rest of us, remember –
aggression, determination.
1569
01:35:35,560 --> 01:35:37,280
Aggression! Determination!
1570
01:35:37,400 --> 01:35:40,600
The Member for Coventry South West.
1571
01:35:40,720 --> 01:35:45,760
Gosh, look at these!
Not from a bring-and-buy, are they?
1572
01:35:45,880 --> 01:35:47,920
I wonder who's paid for them.
1573
01:35:49,000 --> 01:35:51,120
So, this is just a little feedback,
1574
01:35:51,240 --> 01:35:54,080
just some observations and thoughts
from your performances in the House.
1575
01:35:54,160 --> 01:35:56,560
– Feedback? Who from?
– Well, us, the whips.
1576
01:35:56,680 --> 01:36:00,400
Why? Sorry, I'm not being rude here.
I just don't understand.
1577
01:36:00,520 --> 01:36:04,400
– On behalf of the party, some support.
– Oh, the party?
1578
01:36:04,520 --> 01:36:07,040
Well, you know,
I just say what I think, that's all.
1579
01:36:07,160 --> 01:36:10,320
We certainly admire your ability
to speak your mind,
1580
01:36:10,440 --> 01:36:12,160
especially in a boys' club like this.
1581
01:36:12,280 --> 01:36:15,440
Oh, it doesn't bother me, dear.
I've got two of me own.
1582
01:36:16,400 --> 01:36:20,560
Obviously, we've noticed some of your
abstentions on key votes and then...
1583
01:36:20,680 --> 01:36:24,400
Well, then, some votes against us, which
is difficult, being in a minority anyway.
1584
01:36:25,000 --> 01:36:29,200
Yes, sorry about that.
They just weren't quite up my street.
1585
01:36:30,320 --> 01:36:34,440
You seem to be able to take others with
you, some of the younger, newer Members.
1586
01:36:34,560 --> 01:36:37,080
I have to say, your manner
of speechmaking is very, er...
1587
01:36:37,920 --> 01:36:41,080
– ..very persuasive.
– Oh, ta very much.
1588
01:36:41,200 --> 01:36:44,800
Yes, I developed this little thing
on the picket lines, you know,
1589
01:36:44,920 --> 01:36:46,920
going up at the end of me sentences.
1590
01:36:47,040 --> 01:36:49,400
It seems to go down well,
it gets people going.
1591
01:36:50,440 --> 01:36:53,240
We must fight to beat those who tread
1592
01:36:53,360 --> 01:36:55,960
on the working PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY!
1593
01:36:59,280 --> 01:37:01,960
You know, that sort of thing.
1594
01:37:02,080 --> 01:37:03,360
Yes.
1595
01:37:03,480 --> 01:37:07,080
Well, I don't mean to lay down the law,
but we must be on the lookout for rebels.
1596
01:37:07,200 --> 01:37:10,560
Oh, yes, of course you must, pet.
I know all about rebels.
1597
01:37:10,680 --> 01:37:14,000
I'm not long back from Portugal, you know,
over the summer.
1598
01:37:14,760 --> 01:37:16,440
We managed to bring down the junta.
1599
01:37:16,560 --> 01:37:20,120
Managed? Come off it, the revolution!
1600
01:37:20,240 --> 01:37:23,880
Well, it was either that
or the Lakes, dear.
1601
01:37:29,840 --> 01:37:32,240
All right, gentlemen, please!
What's the matter?
1602
01:37:32,360 --> 01:37:35,640
They're at it again, Mr Speaker,
bending the rules, to say the bloody least.
1603
01:37:35,760 --> 01:37:38,960
Bending? The only thing bent is my leg,
after your man closed the bloody door.
1604
01:37:39,080 --> 01:37:43,080
Please! Mr Speaker,
there's been a difference of opinion
1605
01:37:43,200 --> 01:37:46,000
regarding the votes on two bills
at committee stage.
1606
01:37:46,120 --> 01:37:50,360
Education was in Committee Room 14,
while Finance was in Committee Room 10.
1607
01:37:50,480 --> 01:37:55,040
Mr Harrison here had been the preselected
whip present at both committees.
1608
01:37:55,160 --> 01:37:57,200
Yes, right. So, I voted in 14.
1609
01:37:57,320 --> 01:37:59,560
Then I ran down the corridor to ten
and I voted in there.
1610
01:37:59,640 --> 01:38:03,040
Just as the doors were being closed
and locked, as is the ancient custom.
1611
01:38:03,160 --> 01:38:05,120
– As is the procedure.
– And he didn't make it.
1612
01:38:05,240 --> 01:38:06,600
And I did bloody make it!
1613
01:38:06,720 --> 01:38:10,640
A sizeable chunk of Mr Harrison
did make it, Mr Speaker.
1614
01:38:11,960 --> 01:38:17,360
A size...? A sizeable chunk?
Which chunk?
1615
01:38:17,480 --> 01:38:19,800
Me whole body, both arms
and me left leg.
1616
01:38:19,920 --> 01:38:23,160
Me right leg got caught in the door as
he was closing it. Look, I've got a bruise.
1617
01:38:23,240 --> 01:38:25,400
He wouldn't leave
so the doors could be closed.
1618
01:38:25,520 --> 01:38:27,760
Because I'd made it into the room.
It's purple, like a peach.
1619
01:38:27,880 --> 01:38:31,960
– What was the vote without Mr Harrison?
– 22 to 22.
1620
01:38:32,080 --> 01:38:36,520
Serjeant, would you say that
the overwhelming majority of Mr Harrison
1621
01:38:36,640 --> 01:38:38,720
was inside the committee room?
1622
01:38:38,840 --> 01:38:43,640
Well, er, yes,
I suppose I would, Mr Speaker.
1623
01:38:43,760 --> 01:38:49,040
Very well, I declare the vote for the
government, 22 to 22 and three quarters.
1624
01:38:49,160 --> 01:38:52,760
22 and three quarters?
– I have spoken!
1625
01:38:53,680 --> 01:38:55,480
Chalk it up.
1626
01:38:55,600 --> 01:38:58,520
I look forward to seeing that one
in the history books.
1627
01:39:00,320 --> 01:39:04,200
Oh, really, you two! Passing legislation
by three quarters of a person now!
1628
01:39:04,320 --> 01:39:05,680
That really is the living end.
1629
01:39:05,800 --> 01:39:07,800
Oh, bugger off, Humphrey.
1630
01:39:07,920 --> 01:39:11,320
You deliberately timed the votes
so that Walter would miss one.
1631
01:39:11,960 --> 01:39:14,320
We beat you
and that is the end to it, so...
1632
01:39:15,640 --> 01:39:18,200
So, sucks, boo to you.
1633
01:39:21,920 --> 01:39:24,800
Oh, and a raspberry as well.
1634
01:39:24,920 --> 01:39:27,640
We really are in the playground,
aren't we?
1635
01:39:27,760 --> 01:39:30,720
Well! That's another first, any road.
1636
01:39:32,160 --> 01:39:34,600
Well done, Walter. That was nicely played.
1637
01:39:36,200 --> 01:39:38,440
This has become a war of attrition.
1638
01:39:38,560 --> 01:39:40,880
All right, new tactic.
1639
01:39:41,360 --> 01:39:43,160
After late night debates,
1640
01:39:43,280 --> 01:39:47,800
we have no appointments until business
begins at 2:30pm the next day.
1641
01:39:47,920 --> 01:39:51,720
But Government ministers have to be
in their departments first thing.
1642
01:39:52,600 --> 01:39:58,960
So, it's time to employ the age-old tactic
of quite simply, ha-ha, wearing them out.
1643
01:39:59,080 --> 01:40:01,520
So, we've crafted a rota of our chaps
1644
01:40:01,640 --> 01:40:04,280
who will come in for what is essentially
night shift work –
1645
01:40:04,400 --> 01:40:08,240
asking a lot of boring questions,
making interminable speeches, etcetera.
1646
01:40:08,360 --> 01:40:11,560
Now, that lot over there will have
to keep their Members back
1647
01:40:11,680 --> 01:40:14,320
in case we call a vote,
which we'll never do.
1648
01:40:14,440 --> 01:40:16,600
So it's basic Somme tactics then, yes?
1649
01:40:16,720 --> 01:40:19,520
We keep them on their toes
for a charge that never comes
1650
01:40:19,640 --> 01:40:22,680
until they're completely caught off guard
when the big push does happen.
1651
01:40:22,800 --> 01:40:28,400
It's stamina, what – who can last
the longest before raising the white flag.
1652
01:40:29,280 --> 01:40:32,080
Saw it in the eyes of the chaps
I was with in Fontanellato.
1653
01:40:33,040 --> 01:40:34,560
Prisoners of war.
1654
01:40:34,680 --> 01:40:39,400
Everything in their mind, body, focused
on getting through each day at a time.
1655
01:40:39,520 --> 01:40:43,600
Really, Colonel? God, I had no idea.
Prisoner of which war?
1656
01:40:46,840 --> 01:40:48,680
Which war?
1657
01:40:48,800 --> 01:40:51,800
What do you mean which war? THE war.
1658
01:40:51,920 --> 01:40:57,640
Oh, yes, I know. Sorry, I-I just wondered,
you know, Second?
1659
01:40:58,640 --> 01:41:00,200
First?
1660
01:41:01,520 --> 01:41:03,320
Korean or...?
1661
01:41:03,440 --> 01:41:04,760
Suez?
1662
01:41:04,880 --> 01:41:08,560
Please do not list them as though
they were flavours of ice cream!
1663
01:41:11,080 --> 01:41:12,880
Which war?
1664
01:41:13,000 --> 01:41:18,160
It was THE war,
where I spent nine months in a camp,
1665
01:41:18,280 --> 01:41:21,760
and every sunrise
was assumed to be one's last.
1666
01:41:22,840 --> 01:41:26,360
Where there were moments
I believed I would not live,
1667
01:41:26,480 --> 01:41:30,280
and moments, I believe,
I did not want to.
1668
01:41:32,160 --> 01:41:34,600
You ask me which war, sir.
1669
01:41:36,120 --> 01:41:39,520
It was THE war... sir.
1670
01:41:40,880 --> 01:41:44,000
And don't slouch!
1671
01:41:48,840 --> 01:41:54,680
Right, brandy I think,
before the bugle sounds.
1672
01:41:55,880 --> 01:41:59,520
Why on earth did I say 'which war?'
1673
01:41:59,640 --> 01:42:02,960
Christ! My own father died
in the bloody...
1674
01:42:03,080 --> 01:42:05,320
I can't believe I still haven't got
the hang of getting onside
1675
01:42:05,440 --> 01:42:06,920
with men like that...
1676
01:42:07,040 --> 01:42:09,760
– You will.
– You know it's not my fault I'm young!
1677
01:42:09,880 --> 01:42:13,720
I can't help it that I currently
find myself being young.
1678
01:42:13,840 --> 01:42:16,400
No, you can't, but what a lovely problem
to have. That's for you.
1679
01:42:26,880 --> 01:42:30,000
♪ Pushing thru the market square
1680
01:42:31,440 --> 01:42:33,520
♪ So many mothers sighing
1681
01:42:36,520 --> 01:42:38,600
♪ News had just come over
1682
01:42:39,240 --> 01:42:42,680
♪ We had five years left to cry in
1683
01:42:44,920 --> 01:42:47,120
♪ News guy wept and told us
1684
01:42:49,240 --> 01:42:52,040
♪ Earth was really dying
1685
01:42:54,200 --> 01:42:56,800
♪ Cried so much his face was wet
1686
01:42:57,800 --> 01:43:01,880
♪ And I knew he was not lying
1687
01:43:02,600 --> 01:43:07,040
♪ I heard telephones, opera house,
favourite melodies
1688
01:43:07,160 --> 01:43:11,640
♪ I saw boys, toys, electric irons and TVs
1689
01:43:12,280 --> 01:43:16,160
♪ My brain hurt like a warehouse
It had no room to spare
1690
01:43:16,280 --> 01:43:20,640
♪ I had to cram so many things
to store everything in there
1691
01:43:20,760 --> 01:43:23,600
♪ And all the fat-skinny people
1692
01:43:24,200 --> 01:43:27,120
♪ And all the tall-short people
1693
01:43:28,640 --> 01:43:31,480
♪ And all the nobody people
1694
01:43:32,720 --> 01:43:35,840
♪ And all the somebody people
1695
01:43:36,440 --> 01:43:40,720
♪ I never thought I'd need so many people
1696
01:43:43,640 --> 01:43:47,280
♪ I think I saw you
in an ice-cream parlour
1697
01:43:48,040 --> 01:43:50,880
♪ Sipping milkshakes cold and long
1698
01:43:52,440 --> 01:43:56,880
♪ Smiling and waving and looking so fine
1699
01:43:57,000 --> 01:44:00,360
♪ I don't think you knew
you were in this song
1700
01:44:00,480 --> 01:44:05,880
♪ And it was cold and it rained
So I felt like an actor
1701
01:44:06,000 --> 01:44:10,160
♪ And I thought of me ma
And I wanted to get back there
1702
01:44:10,280 --> 01:44:14,440
♪ Your face, your race,
the way that you talk
1703
01:44:14,560 --> 01:44:18,840
♪ I kiss you, you're beautiful
I want you to walk
1704
01:44:18,960 --> 01:44:23,560
♪ We've got five years
Stuck on my eyes
1705
01:44:24,240 --> 01:44:28,560
♪ Five years What a surprise
1706
01:44:28,680 --> 01:44:32,440
♪ Five years
My brain hurts a lot
1707
01:44:33,080 --> 01:44:36,640
♪ Five years That's all we got
1708
01:44:36,760 --> 01:44:39,400
♪ We got five years...
1709
01:44:39,520 --> 01:44:41,720
The Member for Grimsby!
1710
01:44:41,840 --> 01:44:45,440
– ♪ Five years...
– The Member for Thurrock!
1711
01:44:46,520 --> 01:44:51,000
– ♪ Five years
– The Member for Coventry North West
1712
01:44:51,120 --> 01:44:55,920
♪ Five years That's all we got ♪
1713
01:45:10,200 --> 01:45:13,960
The archives? Hell's teeth, Walter!
I've got to be on the bench in...
1714
01:45:14,080 --> 01:45:17,360
Look, I just wanted
somewhere private, right?
1715
01:45:17,480 --> 01:45:21,200
And, well, this is where I come,
sometimes.
1716
01:45:22,120 --> 01:45:24,240
Get away, bit of space, quiet.
1717
01:45:25,080 --> 01:45:26,680
– Really?
– Hm.
1718
01:45:26,800 --> 01:45:30,400
Over a million parliamentary bills,
1719
01:45:30,520 --> 01:45:34,040
every single law of the land that was ever
passed, signed by the queen or king,
1720
01:45:34,160 --> 01:45:36,520
– rolled up and stuff in 'ere.
– Yes.
1721
01:45:36,640 --> 01:45:39,160
Well, there's not been many
of those recently.
1722
01:45:39,280 --> 01:45:43,760
And whose fault is that? Look, your own
bloody enquiry cleared us, right?
1723
01:45:43,880 --> 01:45:46,200
The lady admitted it in the House.
1724
01:45:47,080 --> 01:45:51,560
Come on, Jack, it's bad enough you keeping
everyone up all hours of the night now.
1725
01:45:51,680 --> 01:45:54,760
Open up the usual channels,
bring pairing back.
1726
01:45:54,880 --> 01:45:57,840
These are old men,
and not like your lot –
1727
01:45:57,960 --> 01:46:00,360
men who've worked,
who've been down pits...
1728
01:46:00,480 --> 01:46:02,640
Sorry? Been down pits?
1729
01:46:04,440 --> 01:46:06,680
What about Lancaster North?
He's a barrister.
1730
01:46:08,000 --> 01:46:10,040
Lichfield and Tamworth – lecturer.
1731
01:46:10,160 --> 01:46:13,240
Michael Cocks, even, not exactly
your average Labour bovver boy, is he?
1732
01:46:13,360 --> 01:46:15,440
No, don't think we don't see
the way the wind blows.
1733
01:46:15,560 --> 01:46:19,320
Must be getting you worried. You'll have
to learn to posh yourself up a bit.
1734
01:46:19,440 --> 01:46:23,480
Classical music, fine wine.
Don't want you growing out of touch.
1735
01:46:23,600 --> 01:46:25,400
Oh, yeah, cos it's pure accident
1736
01:46:25,520 --> 01:46:28,640
how I keep this fragile ragbag collection
together
1737
01:46:28,760 --> 01:46:31,640
Gosh, yes, I know all that. 'The best
deputy the House has ever seen!'
1738
01:46:31,760 --> 01:46:35,640
Able to connect with all Members, from all
walks of life, yes, I know all about that.
1739
01:46:35,760 --> 01:46:39,080
Well, eh-up, if it's true for me,
your lot are going the other way.
1740
01:46:39,200 --> 01:46:42,200
Chingford for a start –
he's an egg and chips man.
1741
01:46:42,840 --> 01:46:47,480
And builders, grocer's daughters.
Blimey, are you ready?
1742
01:46:47,600 --> 01:46:49,600
Yes, well.
1743
01:46:49,720 --> 01:46:52,800
Come on, Jack. Nobody cheated.
1744
01:46:52,920 --> 01:46:55,160
Not me, not Pendry.
1745
01:46:55,280 --> 01:46:59,800
Open up the usual channels. Let's get
this place moving, working again.
1746
01:46:59,920 --> 01:47:02,440
Eh, I'll up the bet.
1747
01:47:02,560 --> 01:47:05,240
– Come on.
– Walter, you don't get it, do you?
1748
01:47:05,360 --> 01:47:07,360
We're not playing any more.
1749
01:47:13,160 --> 01:47:16,240
Eh, Joe, come on, hm?
1750
01:47:16,360 --> 01:47:19,760
– Look alive, eh?
– Owt happening in the chamber?
1751
01:47:19,880 --> 01:47:23,000
Abingdon is quizzing Agriculture –
1752
01:47:23,120 --> 01:47:28,040
the difference between North Sea
and Mediterranean tuna.
1753
01:47:28,160 --> 01:47:32,600
North Sea?
There isn't any tuna in the North Sea.
1754
01:47:33,400 --> 01:47:36,160
Eh? You're joking?
1755
01:47:36,280 --> 01:47:38,400
Oh, for fuck's sake!
1756
01:47:39,120 --> 01:47:41,240
This can't go on, Michael.
We know what they're doing.
1757
01:47:41,320 --> 01:47:45,040
Of course we know what they're doing.
It's what we'd be doing if we were them.
1758
01:47:45,160 --> 01:47:49,920
Here, get whoever's on bench duty to slip
this the minister. I think it's Joe Ashton.
1759
01:47:50,040 --> 01:47:52,360
Brace yourself, chief,
the Scots are on the march.
1760
01:47:52,480 --> 01:47:54,040
It's like bloody Glencoe out there.
1761
01:47:54,160 --> 01:47:56,360
The Member for West Lothian!
1762
01:47:56,480 --> 01:47:59,120
Michael, is it true?
Devolution is going on the books?
1763
01:47:59,240 --> 01:48:01,480
– Ay, it's true.
– Oh, Christ's sake.
1764
01:48:01,600 --> 01:48:04,040
– Eh, Tam, we know...
– The Member for Western Isles.
1765
01:48:04,160 --> 01:48:06,920
Eh, Don, this is the Labour Whips' Office.
If you want...
1766
01:48:07,040 --> 01:48:10,200
We want some guarantees
you'll get this bill through the House.
1767
01:48:10,320 --> 01:48:13,600
Not if I can help it.
You'll fall if you propose this.
1768
01:48:13,720 --> 01:48:16,400
You'll fall if you don't propose it.
1769
01:48:16,520 --> 01:48:19,600
We Scots Nats are not gonna prop
you lot up forever.
1770
01:48:19,720 --> 01:48:23,320
The way the Tories are behaving at the
moment, they'll talk any bill out of time.
1771
01:48:23,440 --> 01:48:24,480
– Good!
– No, they won't.
1772
01:48:24,600 --> 01:48:28,280
We're proposing a timetable motion,
a maximum of 20 days' debate.
1773
01:48:28,400 --> 01:48:30,800
Ha-ha! 20 days?
1774
01:48:30,920 --> 01:48:33,280
For matters which haven't been discussed
let alone attempted
1775
01:48:33,320 --> 01:48:37,960
in the living memory of this parliament,
built to serve the whole United Kingdom.
1776
01:48:38,080 --> 01:48:39,920
A kingdom that is united.
1777
01:48:40,040 --> 01:48:42,760
So what about a kingdom that is fair, Tam?
1778
01:48:42,880 --> 01:48:47,200
Tam! Are you really saying
you'd go against the party whip?
1779
01:48:47,320 --> 01:48:50,440
Because, well, that doesn't bode well
for future prospects, does it?
1780
01:48:50,560 --> 01:48:52,120
What future prospects?
1781
01:48:52,240 --> 01:48:54,600
If you devolve powers
to Scotland and Wales,
1782
01:48:54,720 --> 01:48:56,760
then we Scot and Welsh MPs in Westminster
1783
01:48:56,880 --> 01:49:00,480
will be as useful
as a chocolate teapot, won't we?
1784
01:49:00,600 --> 01:49:03,480
I thought handing power to Brussels
was bad enough!
1785
01:49:03,600 --> 01:49:07,400
This post-colonial fixation
of just giving ourselves away!
1786
01:49:08,200 --> 01:49:11,760
This parliament was once the seat
of the democratic world!
1787
01:49:11,880 --> 01:49:14,120
Now, it's the planet's biggest jumble sale,
1788
01:49:14,240 --> 01:49:17,680
with you tossing Scotland, Ireland
and Wales overboard now, too,
1789
01:49:17,800 --> 01:49:19,040
shed some weight.
1790
01:49:19,160 --> 01:49:24,480
It's so bloody typical!
This self-destructive, bloody country!
1791
01:49:27,400 --> 01:49:31,520
Well, I'll be voting with you, Michael.
And the best of luck.
1792
01:49:32,520 --> 01:49:35,840
I warned you!
I did say 'asking for trouble'.
1793
01:49:35,960 --> 01:49:40,440
Yeah, well, it's asking
for trouble if we don't, isn't it?
1794
01:49:43,480 --> 01:49:48,440
Is there any news of them
fixing that sodding clock yet?
1795
01:49:54,920 --> 01:49:56,840
What on earth's this?
1796
01:49:56,960 --> 01:50:00,320
From what I can gather,
Hilda and Stan are off to a posh hotel
1797
01:50:00,440 --> 01:50:02,120
for their second honeymoon.
1798
01:50:04,080 --> 01:50:10,200
And this Ray chap is taking Deidre
to the Dog and Gun... down Eccles way.
1799
01:50:12,600 --> 01:50:15,640
God! Do people actually watch this stuff?
1800
01:50:16,160 --> 01:50:17,760
Apparently.
1801
01:50:20,840 --> 01:50:23,680
It's really rather good.
1802
01:50:24,600 --> 01:50:29,560
Chief, you don't think we've taken this
a bit far, do you? Somme tactics?
1803
01:50:29,680 --> 01:50:31,760
Absolutely not!
1804
01:50:31,880 --> 01:50:33,280
Well, perhaps.
1805
01:50:33,400 --> 01:50:36,600
But I thought we were trying
to beat them at their own game, Jack.
1806
01:50:36,720 --> 01:50:39,480
And whatever happened
to our tug-of-war, remember?
1807
01:50:39,600 --> 01:50:42,520
– Bringing some strays over to our side?
– It's not as simple as that, chief.
1808
01:50:42,640 --> 01:50:44,760
Jack, chief, something's happened
in the chamber.
1809
01:50:44,880 --> 01:50:47,160
The Member for Rotherham!
1810
01:50:55,760 --> 01:50:57,960
– What happened?
– He collapsed at the dispatch box.
1811
01:50:58,080 --> 01:51:00,120
The Member for Rushcliffe.
– Is he all right?
1812
01:51:00,240 --> 01:51:03,640
We were just having a good old ding-dong,
nothing out the ordinary, and then...
1813
01:51:03,760 --> 01:51:07,320
– Michael, he's doesn't seem to be...
– Come on! Don't be a silly bugger.
1814
01:51:07,440 --> 01:51:09,960
– I'm very sorry.
– Listen, he wasn't well, OK?
1815
01:51:10,080 --> 01:51:11,680
– It's nothing to do with you.
– What happened?
1816
01:51:11,800 --> 01:51:13,920
– His heart, we think. He collapsed.
– I'm sorry.
1817
01:51:14,040 --> 01:51:18,680
Rushcliffe will need protecting.
Nobody dies in the Palace, remember?
1818
01:51:18,800 --> 01:51:21,200
– Now, hold on a minute...
– What's his name?
1819
01:51:21,320 --> 01:51:24,800
He's the Member for...
Oh, Brian. His name is Brian.
1820
01:51:24,920 --> 01:51:27,520
All right, Brian?
We've got you now. Stay with us.
1821
01:51:28,120 --> 01:51:29,760
Michael, no, I'm sorry.
1822
01:51:29,880 --> 01:51:32,880
To just brush this under the carpet
with the whole nobody dies thing,
1823
01:51:33,000 --> 01:51:35,960
– they've gone too far...
– Yeah, I know, Ann.
1824
01:51:36,080 --> 01:51:38,120
They've been pushing this too far.
There needs to be consequences.
1825
01:51:38,240 --> 01:51:40,000
All right! Enough!
1826
01:51:40,760 --> 01:51:45,760
I mean, Jesus! What do we do to them
that side, eh? Stroke them with feathers?
1827
01:51:45,880 --> 01:51:47,480
I need to...
1828
01:51:48,320 --> 01:51:49,760
Shit.
1829
01:51:49,880 --> 01:51:53,000
- – I need to phone his wife and...
- –
1830
01:51:53,920 --> 01:51:55,680
Oh, not bloody now!
1831
01:51:55,800 --> 01:51:57,080
What?
1832
01:51:57,200 --> 01:51:59,400
Oh, Jack. I'm sorry, I'm...
1833
01:52:01,360 --> 01:52:02,640
Right.
1834
01:52:03,680 --> 01:52:06,080
Yeah, well,
thanks for letting us know, Jack.
1835
01:52:10,480 --> 01:52:14,480
Pairing, it's, um... It's back on.
1836
01:52:33,880 --> 01:52:36,400
Blimey, what's going on here?
1837
01:52:37,560 --> 01:52:42,360
Well, from what I can make out,
this Tannhäuser chap's gone off somewhere.
1838
01:52:43,160 --> 01:52:46,000
And his missus, Liz, she's not happy.
1839
01:52:47,480 --> 01:52:50,360
And when they're not happy in opera,
they're properly not happy.
1840
01:52:52,040 --> 01:52:54,400
– I've horrible feeling about it all.
– Why's that?
1841
01:52:54,520 --> 01:52:57,880
Well, it's opera, isn't it?
Always goes tits-up in the end.
1842
01:52:58,000 --> 01:52:59,360
Hello?
1843
01:52:59,480 --> 01:53:03,200
Oh, Lady B, how's the doc?
You all set for the off?
1844
01:53:03,320 --> 01:53:07,880
Oh, yes. I just wanted to say thank you
for putting us up while pairing was off.
1845
01:53:08,000 --> 01:53:12,840
Hark at me, 'putting us up'.
I feel like we're checking out of a B&B.
1846
01:53:12,960 --> 01:53:15,800
You're very welcome, love,
just leave your money on t'side.
1847
01:53:18,720 --> 01:53:21,000
Um, there is another thing.
1848
01:53:21,840 --> 01:53:27,720
I wondered about finally looking into,
you know, letting Alf bow out.
1849
01:53:27,840 --> 01:53:30,360
Finding a replacement for Batley?
1850
01:53:30,480 --> 01:53:33,840
Of course, my lovely. We want you
enjoying your retirement, don't we?
1851
01:53:33,960 --> 01:53:37,200
– Oh, thank you, Walter. Bye, then.
– Bye, my love.
1852
01:53:37,320 --> 01:53:40,600
– Ta-ra, Ann.
– The Member for Newham North East.
1853
01:53:40,720 --> 01:53:43,800
It's becoming intolerable, Michael.
It's this Militant left lot.
1854
01:53:43,920 --> 01:53:46,880
They've infiltrated my local party
and they're close,
1855
01:53:47,000 --> 01:53:50,080
I swear they're that close
to deselecting me, unless I...
1856
01:53:50,200 --> 01:53:54,160
Unless I what? Start calling
for revolution? The guillotine?
1857
01:53:54,280 --> 01:53:56,240
Reg, look, I understand.
1858
01:53:56,360 --> 01:54:01,240
Look... Look, we'll talk, yeah?
Just... Just not now.
1859
01:54:01,360 --> 01:54:04,760
It's a ticking bomb this, Michael,
I'm warning you.
1860
01:54:04,880 --> 01:54:07,480
Exit poll from Ashfield.
1861
01:54:07,600 --> 01:54:10,920
It's unbelievable!
The Tories are gonna take it.
1862
01:54:11,040 --> 01:54:13,120
That and Birmingham Stechford.
1863
01:54:13,240 --> 01:54:16,000
You what? Ashfield's mining!
What are they voting Tory for?
1864
01:54:16,120 --> 01:54:20,600
I can't fucking believe David and Roy
prancing off to Europe!
1865
01:54:20,720 --> 01:54:23,120
Yeah, well, thanks very much
1866
01:54:23,240 --> 01:54:25,400
Coventry South West
is on her way down, chief.
1867
01:54:25,520 --> 01:54:27,360
Oh, yeah, yeah, there's another one!
1868
01:54:27,480 --> 01:54:29,560
Hm? I've got Militant.
1869
01:54:29,680 --> 01:54:32,640
I've got the moderates.
I've got the Trotskyites.
1870
01:54:32,760 --> 01:54:36,280
It's the Mad Hatter's bloody tea party,
Labour right now.
1871
01:54:37,240 --> 01:54:40,440
We just get pairing back on
so the sick ones can stay at home,
1872
01:54:40,560 --> 01:54:44,240
and the healthy ones start
chucking their toys out of their pram!
1873
01:54:44,360 --> 01:54:45,760
Jesus!
1874
01:54:45,880 --> 01:54:48,360
It's like turkeys voting
for sodding Christmas here.
1875
01:54:48,480 --> 01:54:51,000
The Member for Coventry South West!
1876
01:54:51,680 --> 01:54:53,320
Hello, everyone.
1877
01:54:53,440 --> 01:54:55,200
Ooh, it's nice in here, isn't it?
1878
01:54:55,320 --> 01:54:57,560
– Would you like a drink, Audrey?
– Ta!
1879
01:54:57,680 --> 01:55:01,400
Don't bother with the posh plonk.
I can't tell Stork from butter, me.
1880
01:55:01,520 --> 01:55:03,680
Audrey, cut to the chase.
1881
01:55:04,800 --> 01:55:09,960
Your persistent displays of disloyalty
under normal circumstances,
1882
01:55:10,080 --> 01:55:13,440
– would not only not be tolerated...
– Disloyalty? Who to?
1883
01:55:13,560 --> 01:55:17,120
It'd be disloyal to go against
my principles, surely?
1884
01:55:17,240 --> 01:55:19,880
This is a hung parliament – hung.
1885
01:55:20,000 --> 01:55:23,320
Compromises have to be made
on policy, we have to moderate...
1886
01:55:23,440 --> 01:55:26,600
– Well...
– ..we have to moderate our programme,
1887
01:55:26,720 --> 01:55:28,560
satisfy those across the spectrum.
1888
01:55:28,680 --> 01:55:33,960
Can someone please explain to me
what's the point of being in power then,
1889
01:55:34,080 --> 01:55:36,760
if we're not going to look after
working-class interests?
1890
01:55:37,320 --> 01:55:41,080
That is, after all,
what we've been voted in for.
1891
01:55:41,200 --> 01:55:47,920
And yet here's our chancellor proposing
£1.25 billion worth of cuts
1892
01:55:48,040 --> 01:55:50,160
that'll affect the poorest the hardest.
1893
01:55:50,280 --> 01:55:54,240
And how would you feel if we became
the first government in living memory
1894
01:55:54,360 --> 01:55:58,280
to be forced out of the House – that make
you feel all happy and proud, would it?
1895
01:55:58,400 --> 01:56:04,200
Well, given that I've always voted every
time for my constituents over the party,
1896
01:56:04,320 --> 01:56:06,920
my ratings locally are through the roof.
1897
01:56:07,040 --> 01:56:09,160
What about you, dear? How's yours looking?
1898
01:56:11,920 --> 01:56:15,480
Oh, flatter yourself if you want,
1899
01:56:15,600 --> 01:56:21,520
that they voted for you personally,
but they didn't.
1900
01:56:21,640 --> 01:56:23,720
They voted for the party.
1901
01:56:24,800 --> 01:56:28,400
Based on class, based on economic group,
1902
01:56:28,520 --> 01:56:32,680
based on geography, based on
what their effing mums and dads voted for.
1903
01:56:32,800 --> 01:56:36,360
But not you, all right?
This is how it works.
1904
01:56:36,480 --> 01:56:39,720
My understanding
of parliamentary democracy
1905
01:56:39,840 --> 01:56:43,200
is that people are sent to look after
the needs of their neighbours,
1906
01:56:43,320 --> 01:56:44,880
not just do as they're told by you lot.
1907
01:56:45,000 --> 01:56:48,000
So, you pay no heed to the benefits
of working together, Audrey,
1908
01:56:48,120 --> 01:56:50,440
as a party, with shared ideals?
1909
01:56:50,560 --> 01:56:54,880
Not on every specific detail, no,
but able to get stuff done.
1910
01:56:55,000 --> 01:56:57,400
Or at the very least, keep them out.
1911
01:56:57,520 --> 01:57:00,680
It's not perfect, I know, blimey,
but it's all we've got.
1912
01:57:00,800 --> 01:57:06,320
It is only not perfect because
no one has the guts to challenge it.
1913
01:57:06,440 --> 01:57:09,640
Well, no one HAD the guts.
1914
01:57:10,640 --> 01:57:12,280
– Ta for the sherry.
– Audrey.
1915
01:57:12,400 --> 01:57:15,040
What the hell are you playing at?
Get back here!
1916
01:57:15,160 --> 01:57:19,560
Walter, let her go, eh? Let her go.
1917
01:57:19,680 --> 01:57:23,680
Right, devolution bill.
What are the numbers?
1918
01:57:23,800 --> 01:57:27,120
Sorry. Unless you've any miracles
you've been saving up,
1919
01:57:27,240 --> 01:57:30,600
– we are not going to make it.
– No, no, no. This is flagship.
1920
01:57:31,080 --> 01:57:34,080
If we lose this,
they're sure to call a no confidence.
1921
01:57:35,360 --> 01:57:40,520
The question is that the Allocation of
Time motion on the Scotland and Wales Bill
1922
01:57:40,640 --> 01:57:43,120
be now read a second time.
1923
01:57:46,000 --> 01:57:50,120
Ayes to the right, 283.
1924
01:57:51,520 --> 01:57:55,480
Noes to the left, 312.
1925
01:57:55,600 --> 01:57:57,800
The noes have it! The noes have it!
1926
01:57:59,480 --> 01:58:03,720
♪ You take the high road
and I'll take the low road! ♪
1927
01:58:03,840 --> 01:58:05,680
Well, gentlemen,
1928
01:58:05,800 --> 01:58:09,480
thanks to the government's own failed stab
at a Highland Fling...
1929
01:58:11,600 --> 01:58:17,600
..I think we can safely say their flagship
Devolution Bill is dead in the water.
1930
01:58:17,720 --> 01:58:20,240
- – Which means...
- –
1931
01:58:21,160 --> 01:58:22,480
Enter.
1932
01:58:23,120 --> 01:58:26,920
Thought I'd come over myself,
save you the bother.
1933
01:58:27,040 --> 01:58:29,320
Oh, Michael,
it wouldn't have been any bother.
1934
01:58:30,640 --> 01:58:32,760
But nevertheless, here you are.
1935
01:58:32,880 --> 01:58:38,320
And so, Mr Cocks, it is of course
with deep regret that I inform you...
1936
01:58:38,440 --> 01:58:40,840
I think we should all be upstanding
for this, Fred, Colonel?
1937
01:58:41,800 --> 01:58:44,600
..that we shall be presenting
our motion of censure
1938
01:58:44,720 --> 01:58:49,200
that this House has no confidence
in her Majesty's government.
1939
01:58:49,320 --> 01:58:52,560
Vote on Wednesday 23rd, 10pm?
1940
01:58:52,680 --> 01:58:57,520
Yes, that's what we thought.
Great minds, eh?
1941
01:58:57,640 --> 01:59:00,360
With no Devolution Bill timetabled,
1942
01:59:00,480 --> 01:59:03,720
the Scots and Welsh Nats
will have to vote against us,
1943
01:59:03,840 --> 01:59:07,840
leaving us around 312 to 320 –
we'd be out.
1944
01:59:07,960 --> 01:59:10,721
Look, if we're struggling for numbers,
can't we try to get some pairs?
1945
01:59:10,840 --> 01:59:12,640
No, Joe, it's a no confidence vote.
They won't pair.
1946
01:59:12,760 --> 01:59:16,120
They are trying to prove we haven't
got the numbers to govern, after all.
1947
01:59:16,240 --> 01:59:18,200
Well, we'd better set other wheels
in motion then, hadn't we?
1948
01:59:18,320 --> 01:59:21,680
The Member for Roxburgh,
Selkirk and Peebles!
1949
01:59:21,800 --> 01:59:25,000
Mrs Taylor. And what, I wonder,
can I do for you?
1950
01:59:25,560 --> 01:59:30,720
We wondered if you were available for
a little chat? Not here. Downing Street.
1951
01:59:30,840 --> 01:59:33,000
Ooh! Downing Street?
1952
01:59:33,120 --> 01:59:35,440
Little old me, a Liberal?
1953
01:59:36,840 --> 01:59:38,480
Downing Street.
1954
01:59:40,280 --> 01:59:43,280
Well, would you like me to go in
through the front or around the back?
1955
01:59:44,240 --> 01:59:45,880
Around the back.
1956
01:59:46,000 --> 01:59:48,760
– For now, if you'd be so kind...
– But of course.
1957
01:59:48,880 --> 01:59:52,640
Quick! Get yourself to Annie's,
it's a free bar!
1958
01:59:52,760 --> 01:59:56,160
Free bar on the eve of a no confidence
vote? Why, they'd make a killing.
1959
01:59:56,280 --> 01:59:58,320
No, it's you know, whatshisname, Berwick.
1960
01:59:58,440 --> 02:00:02,480
Liberal. Hah! Liberal with his coins,
say that much.
1961
02:00:02,600 --> 02:00:06,080
He put a wodge behind the bar,
told us to go guns blazing.
1962
02:00:06,200 --> 02:00:07,520
– You what?
– Why?
1963
02:00:07,640 --> 02:00:11,000
I don't know, old chap, probably
to say sorry for running over, I expect.
1964
02:00:11,120 --> 02:00:13,760
They're in our committee room,
some party meeting thing.
1965
02:00:13,880 --> 02:00:16,360
Liberal Party? We didn't we know this!
Why didn't we know this?
1966
02:00:16,440 --> 02:00:18,560
No, no, no. Surely not.
1967
02:00:19,520 --> 02:00:21,200
Why hasn't Peebles phoned yet?
1968
02:00:21,320 --> 02:00:24,600
Must be close, maybe tied.
1969
02:00:25,560 --> 02:00:28,160
Oh, sod it! I'm off up.
1970
02:00:28,280 --> 02:00:31,520
Walter you can't just storm into a Liberal
Party meeting, you're a Labour whip!
1971
02:00:31,640 --> 02:00:32,920
Watch me.
1972
02:00:35,640 --> 02:00:37,800
– What are you up to?
– Shit! They're onto us.
1973
02:00:37,920 --> 02:00:40,480
– Don't be silly, Walter, let me in!
– Ah, what you gonna do?
1974
02:00:40,600 --> 02:00:42,840
Huff and puff and blow this house down?
1975
02:00:42,960 --> 02:00:45,440
- – No, just use my key.
- Oi!
1976
02:00:45,560 --> 02:00:48,600
– What are you up to?
– Piss off, Atkins! I'm sorry, Ann.
1977
02:00:48,720 --> 02:00:51,920
– Get the fuck out of this office, now!
– All right, OK, steady on.
1978
02:00:52,040 --> 02:00:54,200
– – Hello?
1979
02:00:54,320 --> 02:00:55,720
Yes.
1980
02:00:57,040 --> 02:00:58,280
Right.
1981
02:01:00,640 --> 02:01:01,840
Right.
1982
02:01:01,960 --> 02:01:05,320
No. No... I understand.
1983
02:01:09,600 --> 02:01:11,440
Well, what is it?
1984
02:01:15,560 --> 02:01:18,560
– – They went for it?
1985
02:01:18,680 --> 02:01:21,600
A Liberal-Labour pact, my friend!
1986
02:01:21,720 --> 02:01:25,680
Signed sealed and bloody delivered!
Get some in!
1987
02:01:25,800 --> 02:01:28,560
You can't do that! That is totally
undemocratic, and might I add...
1988
02:01:28,680 --> 02:01:30,520
So, what's that, all 13?
1989
02:01:30,640 --> 02:01:32,800
That is, Walter, yes, that is all 13.
1990
02:01:32,920 --> 02:01:38,280
Yes, yes, it's a whole baker's dozen
off their tally
1991
02:01:38,400 --> 02:01:42,920
and a big fat baker's dozen
onto our side.
1992
02:01:43,040 --> 02:01:45,240
Giving us a majority...
1993
02:01:46,680 --> 02:01:49,720
..of 18.
1994
02:01:51,120 --> 02:01:55,640
Our two parties
walking into the lobby together, hm?
1995
02:01:55,760 --> 02:01:59,480
Two by two, by bloody two!
1996
02:01:59,600 --> 02:02:01,880
Thanks for popping in, Humphrey.
1997
02:02:02,000 --> 02:02:04,960
Now bugger off,
we've got a country to run!
1998
02:02:15,400 --> 02:02:18,920
And you're sure
this won't happen again soon?
1999
02:02:19,040 --> 02:02:23,160
Oh, I wouldn't have thought so.
These things are built to last, Mr Cocks.
2000
02:02:23,280 --> 02:02:27,480
Just need a bit of love and attention
every now again, know what I mean?
2001
02:02:41,760 --> 02:02:43,640
All right, let her go!
2002
02:02:49,040 --> 02:02:52,320
–
–
2003
02:02:54,120 --> 02:02:58,800
♪ I vow to thee, my country
2004
02:02:58,920 --> 02:03:03,400
♪ All earthly things above
2005
02:03:03,520 --> 02:03:07,960
♪ Entire and whole and perfect
2006
02:03:08,080 --> 02:03:12,560
♪ The service of my love
2007
02:03:12,680 --> 02:03:17,160
♪ The love that asks no questions
2008
02:03:17,280 --> 02:03:21,800
♪ The love that stands the test
2009
02:03:21,920 --> 02:03:26,160
♪ That lays upon the altar
2010
02:03:26,280 --> 02:03:30,400
♪ The dearest and the best
2011
02:03:30,520 --> 02:03:35,280
♪ The love that never falters
2012
02:03:35,400 --> 02:03:39,160
♪ The love that pays the price
2013
02:03:39,960 --> 02:03:44,320
♪ The love that makes undaunted
2014
02:03:44,440 --> 02:03:49,560
♪ The final sacrifice ♪
2015
02:03:53,000 --> 02:03:55,960
The Member for Birmingham Perry Barr.
2016
02:03:57,000 --> 02:03:59,360
– Radio Times, sir?
– Oh, yes, thank you.
2017
02:04:00,760 --> 02:04:02,800
– Hello.
– Oh, Mr Weatherill.
2018
02:04:02,920 --> 02:04:05,680
– Any chance of a quick tidy up?
– Course, sir. Take a seat.
2019
02:04:05,800 --> 02:04:07,600
– Thank you.
– Bloody 'ell!
2020
02:04:07,720 --> 02:04:09,920
A pretty sharp suit you've got there!
2021
02:04:10,040 --> 02:04:12,520
Yes, thank you.
2022
02:04:15,480 --> 02:04:17,800
It's Jeff, isn't it? Perry Barr?
Jack Weatherill.
2023
02:04:17,920 --> 02:04:19,640
– Oh! The enemy!
– Hardly.
2024
02:04:19,760 --> 02:04:21,560
In fact, I hear a growing number
of your lot
2025
02:04:21,680 --> 02:04:24,040
are getting in rather hot water
with their own party.
2026
02:04:24,160 --> 02:04:25,960
This Coventry lady
sounds quite a character.
2027
02:04:26,080 --> 02:04:29,040
Well, like me, she just wants what's fair.
2028
02:04:29,160 --> 02:04:32,080
– Remember our roots.
– No, no, yes, of course.
2029
02:04:33,920 --> 02:04:37,240
Still, it's a funny old budget this year,
for a socialist government.
2030
02:04:37,360 --> 02:04:40,520
Cuts in spending.
Higher taxes for the worse off.
2031
02:04:40,640 --> 02:04:45,240
Well, what can you do? It's the budget.
Budgets always pass.
2032
02:04:45,360 --> 02:04:48,400
Well, even budgets have to go through
committee stage, like anything else.
2033
02:04:48,520 --> 02:04:51,360
In theory, amendments can be tabled
by the opposition.
2034
02:04:52,760 --> 02:04:57,880
– Never passed though, eh? Never happened.
– No. No, it never happened.
2035
02:04:58,000 --> 02:05:01,480
But if, er... How would you describe?
2036
02:05:01,600 --> 02:05:05,280
If certain 'disgruntled' government
backbenchers
2037
02:05:05,400 --> 02:05:08,360
were to, er, join with the opposition...
2038
02:05:09,800 --> 02:05:12,080
..well, then, anything might be possible.
2039
02:05:13,920 --> 02:05:15,760
Worth thinking about, anyway.
2040
02:05:15,880 --> 02:05:20,640
The Members for Coventry South West
and Birmingham Perry Barr.
2041
02:05:21,400 --> 02:05:24,680
Oh. Everything's the same in here,
but the other way around.
2042
02:05:24,800 --> 02:05:27,640
Right, let's not beat around
Shepherd's Bush, shall we?
2043
02:05:27,760 --> 02:05:29,720
Your proposed amendment.
2044
02:05:30,640 --> 02:05:33,920
To link tax allowances
with the rate of inflation,
2045
02:05:34,040 --> 02:05:39,000
reducing the government's income
by nearly half a billion pounds.
2046
02:05:39,120 --> 02:05:42,360
Or saving working families that amount.
Yes.
2047
02:05:42,480 --> 02:05:46,120
Of course, you're right.
In fact, given this will be the first time
2048
02:05:46,240 --> 02:05:48,240
that a wrecking amendment
to a government's budget
2049
02:05:48,360 --> 02:05:51,120
has been proposed
by the government's party,
2050
02:05:51,240 --> 02:05:55,360
I think I can safely say we're pretty
excited to see how it goes down.
2051
02:05:55,480 --> 02:05:58,880
The only parties I like, Mr Atkins,
2052
02:05:59,000 --> 02:06:03,080
have jelly and ice cream
and clowns prancing about.
2053
02:06:03,200 --> 02:06:05,040
Well, you'll be right at home
at the Labour Conference then.
2054
02:06:05,160 --> 02:06:06,560
If I may...
2055
02:06:06,680 --> 02:06:09,640
Now, let's get one thing straight,
shall we?
2056
02:06:09,760 --> 02:06:11,640
We are not a team.
2057
02:06:11,760 --> 02:06:14,680
We just need your extra bodies
to get the motion through.
2058
02:06:14,800 --> 02:06:17,360
We're not crossing any party lines here,
understand?
2059
02:06:18,040 --> 02:06:20,920
You're heroes, that's what you are.
2060
02:06:21,040 --> 02:06:24,640
Anything to add? Anyone?
2061
02:06:24,760 --> 02:06:26,720
I don't give a beggars fart,
2062
02:06:26,840 --> 02:06:30,160
long as we shove it up their piss pipe
and make it sting.
2063
02:06:30,280 --> 02:06:34,920
As ever, Colonel, wise...
..strange words. Good health.
2064
02:06:37,360 --> 02:06:39,600
Well, this is our greatest strike yet!
2065
02:06:39,720 --> 02:06:42,360
Imagine the gasket they'll blow
when they hear about this!
2066
02:06:42,480 --> 02:06:45,480
– All down to you, Jack.
– No, no. It was all of us.
2067
02:06:45,600 --> 02:06:47,440
Jack, I'm trying to say well done.
2068
02:06:47,560 --> 02:06:49,880
– You did well, really well.
– Yes, thank you.
2069
02:06:50,000 --> 02:06:52,080
Thank you!
2070
02:06:52,200 --> 02:06:54,560
That bloody woman, Michael!
2071
02:06:54,680 --> 02:06:57,240
Not content with destroying our budget,
2072
02:06:57,360 --> 02:07:01,840
managed to march with the striking
Asian workers at Grunwick yesterday,
2073
02:07:01,960 --> 02:07:04,320
got herself arrested
for allegedly punching someone.
2074
02:07:04,440 --> 02:07:09,000
– Oh! I'll have her! I swear to...
– I'd like to send her to bloody Coventry.
2075
02:07:09,120 --> 02:07:11,600
God's gift to the Tories, this lot.
It's unbelievable.
2076
02:07:12,480 --> 02:07:14,800
Audrey? It's Michael Cocks.
2077
02:07:16,120 --> 02:07:18,840
Heard about your little day out
yesterday.
2078
02:07:19,600 --> 02:07:21,960
Yeah, but... Yeah, but...
2079
02:07:22,600 --> 02:07:24,240
Yeah... Yeah...
2080
02:07:25,840 --> 02:07:28,520
Audrey, will you shut up a minute?
2081
02:07:28,640 --> 02:07:32,360
You're a Labour Member
who got arrested for physical assault!
2082
02:07:32,480 --> 02:07:33,880
So...
2083
02:07:34,000 --> 02:07:39,520
Yeah, yeah, well, regardless,
you have to do one of the following, hm?
2084
02:07:39,640 --> 02:07:44,360
You can either pay a £20... Audrey!
2085
02:07:44,480 --> 02:07:47,600
..a £20 fine,
2086
02:07:47,720 --> 02:07:52,000
or you can come down here
and write a formal apology.
2087
02:07:52,120 --> 02:07:54,320
Now, which is it to be? Hm?
2088
02:07:56,200 --> 02:07:57,760
Good.
2089
02:07:59,240 --> 02:08:00,840
She's coming down.
2090
02:08:01,480 --> 02:08:04,240
Papers are still full
of their budget sabotage, chief.
2091
02:08:04,360 --> 02:08:05,360
Oh!
2092
02:08:05,480 --> 02:08:11,240
The smug look on the aristo-twats' faces!
They're poncing about like Cheshire cats.
2093
02:08:11,360 --> 02:08:15,640
At least we're hanging in, even getting
stuff through now, so sod 'em, right?
2094
02:08:15,760 --> 02:08:18,360
The Member
for Coventry South West!
2095
02:08:19,040 --> 02:08:25,240
Right. Sit down, hm?
Let's get this apology drafted, shall we?
2096
02:08:41,440 --> 02:08:42,640
Hm.
2097
02:09:25,280 --> 02:09:27,400
That was pretty fucking good, actually.
2098
02:09:35,480 --> 02:09:39,640
Ah, Michael. Looking for somewhere
to hunker down as well?
2099
02:09:39,760 --> 02:09:42,760
I'm off to Committee Room 8,
try and bag the sofa there.
2100
02:09:43,440 --> 02:09:47,400
Oh, Humphrey, what a pretty blanket.
Did Jack knit it for you?
2101
02:09:47,520 --> 02:09:50,080
This happens to be
the Atkins' family tartan.
2102
02:09:50,200 --> 02:09:53,880
A blatant attempt
to curry favour with the Scots.
2103
02:09:54,000 --> 02:09:59,960
Yes, well, given you're having
yet another suicidal stab at devolution,
2104
02:10:00,080 --> 02:10:01,320
we must try what we can.
2105
02:10:01,440 --> 02:10:04,440
– So terribly exhausting, isn't it?
– Yeah, and whose fault is that?
2106
02:10:04,560 --> 02:10:07,440
Oh, so stop limping on then,
why don't you?
2107
02:10:07,560 --> 02:10:11,600
All this compromising, this party,
that party, this faction...
2108
02:10:11,720 --> 02:10:14,480
Oh, I happen to be quite at peace with it,
Humphrey.
2109
02:10:15,800 --> 02:10:20,360
In fact, I rather think we would do
better as a House, you know, as a system,
2110
02:10:20,480 --> 02:10:23,680
if we did all cooperate more.
2111
02:10:23,800 --> 02:10:27,160
– Maybe it's the way forward.
– The way forward?
2112
02:10:27,800 --> 02:10:32,120
It's been the way since the war,
all of us palling along.
2113
02:10:32,240 --> 02:10:34,520
Well, do you know what?
I'll be honest with you.
2114
02:10:34,640 --> 02:10:38,640
Yes, at first, I was a little nervous
having her at the helm.
2115
02:10:38,760 --> 02:10:42,400
But I've come to realise
she's precisely what parliament needs –
2116
02:10:42,520 --> 02:10:46,080
an end to this national consensus,
trying to please everyone.
2117
02:10:46,200 --> 02:10:50,160
Time instead to strike out in one
distinctive direction, get things done.
2118
02:10:50,280 --> 02:10:54,560
- Oh, rip the country apart, you mean?
- Yeah, yeah. It sounds cracking
2119
02:10:54,680 --> 02:10:57,720
Do you know how many divisions
you've lost, you and your team,
2120
02:10:57,840 --> 02:11:00,800
in this glorious age of compromising
and cooperation?
2121
02:11:01,640 --> 02:11:04,800
Macmillan's government,
they didn't lose any, neither did Eden's.
2122
02:11:04,920 --> 02:11:07,120
Heath's, I regret to say, lost six.
2123
02:11:07,240 --> 02:11:10,520
– You lot? Thus far?
– Do enlighten me, Humphrey.
2124
02:11:10,640 --> 02:11:12,040
57.
2125
02:11:12,160 --> 02:11:14,120
A record, I might add.
2126
02:11:14,240 --> 02:11:17,480
Over 50 failed attempts to govern!
2127
02:11:17,600 --> 02:11:21,880
It doesn't work, Michael.
One party governs, and one party opposes.
2128
02:11:22,000 --> 02:11:24,120
That's our system.
That's this building.
2129
02:11:24,240 --> 02:11:27,320
Two sides of the House,
two sides of the argument,
2130
02:11:27,440 --> 02:11:29,480
facing off against each other.
2131
02:11:29,600 --> 02:11:32,280
The gap between the Government
and Opposition Benches
2132
02:11:32,400 --> 02:11:36,200
the precise length of two swords drawn,
their tips touching.
2133
02:11:37,360 --> 02:11:39,760
We're not built for cooperation, Michael.
2134
02:11:39,880 --> 02:11:42,040
You get a chance, we try and stop you.
2135
02:11:42,160 --> 02:11:44,840
We get a chance, you try and stop us.
That's our way.
2136
02:11:44,960 --> 02:11:52,360
God, such an innate and instinctive
Tory inability to cooperate and share, eh?
2137
02:11:52,480 --> 02:11:55,920
Conservative Britain.
2138
02:11:56,040 --> 02:12:00,120
'As long as I'm all right,
every bugger else can go hang!'
2139
02:12:00,240 --> 02:12:04,000
Right, yes, as opposed to Labour Britain.
2140
02:12:04,120 --> 02:12:07,040
'Yes, it's shit, but at least
it's equally shit for everyone.'
2141
02:12:08,320 --> 02:12:10,440
It's the arrogance of your lot,
I can't stand.
2142
02:12:10,560 --> 02:12:12,640
The fiddling and the meddling
and the managing.
2143
02:12:12,760 --> 02:12:15,680
Well, some of us think
there's still a hell of a lot to get done,
2144
02:12:15,800 --> 02:12:18,000
so forgive me
if we don't shut up shop just yet.
2145
02:12:18,120 --> 02:12:22,720
Get done? That's my point.
You're not doing anything.
2146
02:12:27,840 --> 02:12:31,960
We're keeping you out,
and that's something.
2147
02:12:32,080 --> 02:12:34,880
The Member for Newham North East.
2148
02:12:35,000 --> 02:12:36,680
Ready when you are, chief.
2149
02:12:36,800 --> 02:12:39,400
Excellent. Do excuse me, would you?
2150
02:12:39,520 --> 02:12:41,200
– Reg?
– I warned you, Michael.
2151
02:12:41,320 --> 02:12:43,440
– Reg, what are you doing?
– I warned you!
2152
02:12:43,560 --> 02:12:47,120
My local party, those anarchists.
That's it, I'm out, I'm done.
2153
02:12:47,240 --> 02:12:51,360
Reg, wait a minute, for Christ's sake!
Look, let's at least talk.
2154
02:12:52,840 --> 02:12:57,720
Look, lose the whip, no, no, become
an independent, make your point, fine.
2155
02:12:58,680 --> 02:13:00,480
But don't you dare go join
the enemy ranks!
2156
02:13:00,600 --> 02:13:05,320
You've lost control, Michael.
The party, it's collapsing in on itself.
2157
02:13:06,040 --> 02:13:10,960
You are a government minister,
crossing the floor to become a Tory?
2158
02:13:12,680 --> 02:13:14,000
Reg.
2159
02:13:15,400 --> 02:13:16,680
Why?
2160
02:13:19,120 --> 02:13:21,520
Everyone needs somewhere to go,
Michael.
2161
02:13:21,640 --> 02:13:23,880
I got him! I got the bastard!
2162
02:13:24,000 --> 02:13:28,560
Stockport North, my rebel, stick him down
on the list for the Broadcasting Bill.
2163
02:13:28,680 --> 02:13:31,200
Well done, Joe. Every vote counts.
2164
02:13:31,320 --> 02:13:33,760
Turns out he's a train spotter.
2165
02:13:33,880 --> 02:13:35,920
I got him on
the Railways Committee, didn't I?
2166
02:13:37,080 --> 02:13:39,640
That and a new carpet for his corridor!
2167
02:13:39,760 --> 02:13:43,080
I got him!
2168
02:13:45,360 --> 02:13:47,640
No. Not here.
2169
02:14:09,560 --> 02:14:11,080
Love?
2170
02:14:11,200 --> 02:14:12,960
Yeah.
2171
02:14:13,600 --> 02:14:16,520
Stick the kettle on. I'm coming home.
2172
02:14:21,880 --> 02:14:23,920
Nobody dies in the Palace.
2173
02:14:32,400 --> 02:14:35,720
The Member for Pontefract
and Castleford.
2174
02:15:00,840 --> 02:15:04,520
Warm beer –
he'd have enjoyed this.
2175
02:15:04,640 --> 02:15:07,440
–
– 17!
2176
02:15:09,360 --> 02:15:12,600
17 of our lot dead since we got in.
2177
02:15:14,560 --> 02:15:16,640
Another wonderful record
2178
02:15:16,760 --> 02:15:19,960
– Who could have predicted, eh?
– Well, he did.
2179
02:15:20,720 --> 02:15:24,120
– Walsall North. He saw it.
– Oh, this again. Michael...
2180
02:15:24,240 --> 02:15:27,120
– Well, he saw something!
– Well!
2181
02:15:27,240 --> 02:15:31,280
I didn't think our little alliance
with the Liberals would die so quickly.
2182
02:15:31,400 --> 02:15:34,080
It's been a year.
It couldn't last forever.
2183
02:15:34,200 --> 02:15:36,720
Oh, well. Back to a hung again.
2184
02:15:38,120 --> 02:15:41,000
Feels like a divorce
and they get the kids.
2185
02:15:41,880 --> 02:15:43,760
And I should know, eh?
2186
02:15:45,720 --> 02:15:48,320
Oh, don't make out like you didn't know.
2187
02:15:48,440 --> 02:15:51,000
Still, I'm sorry. It must be hard going.
2188
02:15:51,120 --> 02:15:54,000
Make a little note in my file, did you,
when you found out?
2189
02:15:57,080 --> 02:16:02,520
Oh, don't look so bloody sheepish.
I made plenty in yours over the years.
2190
02:16:03,560 --> 02:16:06,960
What, 'too bloody handsome
for his own good'?
2191
02:16:07,080 --> 02:16:12,800
– Aye. 'Has delusions of grandeur.'
–
2192
02:16:12,920 --> 02:16:15,040
'And is a right...'
2193
02:16:20,760 --> 02:16:22,960
Do you fancy a pint over the road?
2194
02:16:25,200 --> 02:16:28,200
Oh, Folkestone South, yes!
2195
02:16:29,800 --> 02:16:32,640
..one of dozens of councils
hit by the strike,
2196
02:16:32,760 --> 02:16:35,600
its 2,500 manual workers
walked out yesterday...
2197
02:16:35,719 --> 02:16:38,999
..snow and freezing temperatures
have hit parts of Britain
2198
02:16:39,120 --> 02:16:40,600
in the coldest winter for years...
2199
02:16:40,719 --> 02:16:43,959
..like others in central London,
it's been closed now for two weeks
2200
02:16:44,080 --> 02:16:46,320
because of the dustmen's
indefinite strike...
2201
02:16:48,000 --> 02:16:49,320
Here we are, then.
2202
02:16:49,440 --> 02:16:52,000
Following yet another failure
on devolution,
2203
02:16:52,120 --> 02:16:55,560
we shall present our motion of censure –
no confidence in your government,
2204
02:16:55,680 --> 02:16:58,360
blah blah blah, you get the point.
Wednesday for the vote?
2205
02:16:59,000 --> 02:17:01,320
The 28th? Fine.
2206
02:17:01,440 --> 02:17:02,840
Fine.
2207
02:17:03,480 --> 02:17:07,000
All right, chaps, we've got them
on the ropes! One final push!
2208
02:17:18,520 --> 02:17:22,480
– Walter? It's Joyce.
– Lady B? Is it the doc? Is he OK?
2209
02:17:22,600 --> 02:17:27,640
Look, we know this one's going
to be tight, one or two in it,
2210
02:17:27,760 --> 02:17:33,680
and I'm... I'm worried you're going to ask
him because if you ask him, he'll come.
2211
02:17:33,799 --> 02:17:36,839
And if he comes,
I'm worried he won't make it, Walter.
2212
02:17:37,680 --> 02:17:42,200
I know how important it is, I do.
It's been his life. Our bloody life.
2213
02:17:42,879 --> 02:17:46,239
- – But, please. Maybe this time....
- Joyce!
2214
02:17:46,360 --> 02:17:48,400
Maybe don't ask him this time.
2215
02:17:48,520 --> 02:17:50,960
Please, Walter. I've got to go.
2216
02:17:52,520 --> 02:17:55,200
Right! Battle stations.
2217
02:17:56,639 --> 02:17:59,959
Can we do this, eh? Can we win it?
2218
02:18:00,080 --> 02:18:06,040
No, not with just our lot. We'll need
the odds and sods, as many as we can get.
2219
02:18:06,600 --> 02:18:09,840
Let's show the bastards –
five full years, right?
2220
02:18:09,959 --> 02:18:12,079
Yes! Come on! Nearly there!
2221
02:18:12,200 --> 02:18:15,040
One for all and all for one!
2222
02:18:17,559 --> 02:18:18,999
Sorry, that was shit.
2223
02:18:19,959 --> 02:18:25,319
OK, let's hit that rainbow.
I'll start with the leprechauns.
2224
02:18:25,440 --> 02:18:30,640
The Members for Belfast West,
Belfast North, Armagh and Fermanagh!
2225
02:18:30,760 --> 02:18:32,880
We've already said we'll abstain.
2226
02:18:33,000 --> 02:18:37,560
No, we need you to bloody well turn up
and walk into the 'no' lobby with us.
2227
02:18:37,680 --> 02:18:39,840
No? I thought yous were aye?
2228
02:18:39,959 --> 02:18:43,319
Blinking Nora! Please don't get
the lobbies mixed up!
2229
02:18:43,440 --> 02:18:46,440
This is an opposition motion,
so we want you voting no,
2230
02:18:46,559 --> 02:18:48,679
saying that you have confidence in us,
right?
2231
02:18:48,799 --> 02:18:51,359
Look, we'd like to keep you fellas in,
2232
02:18:51,480 --> 02:18:54,280
but we're gonna have to get something
to take back to our constituents
2233
02:18:54,400 --> 02:18:57,800
and say, 'Look!
This is what we got! Ain't it grand?'
2234
02:18:57,920 --> 02:19:01,640
– Like the pipeline!
– Oh, the pipeline would be smashing.
2235
02:19:01,760 --> 02:19:05,480
– It's been on the cards for years.
– I'll see what I can do, right?
2236
02:19:05,600 --> 02:19:08,880
And I know my man Belfast West
will be walking through the right lobby,
2237
02:19:09,000 --> 02:19:12,080
never put a foot wrong
all these years, eh, Gerry?
2238
02:19:12,200 --> 02:19:14,000
Well, it's tricky, isn't it?
2239
02:19:14,120 --> 02:19:17,800
Voting on little things and tiny
whathaveyous is different, isn't it?
2240
02:19:17,920 --> 02:19:21,680
But voting to actually keep
the British government in power?
2241
02:19:21,799 --> 02:19:24,439
That would be a little harder
to sell back home.
2242
02:19:24,559 --> 02:19:27,039
Oi! Don't pull my pisser, you!
2243
02:19:27,160 --> 02:19:30,400
I know you won't let us down
at the last hurdle.
2244
02:19:30,520 --> 02:19:32,040
Bar keep!
2245
02:19:32,840 --> 02:19:35,680
The Member for Roxburgh,
Selkirk and Peebles.
2246
02:19:35,799 --> 02:19:38,719
You'll have perhaps two Liberals.
Maybe three.
2247
02:19:38,840 --> 02:19:43,080
The rest of us need to be seen to stand up
to you, to keep our seats. I'm sorry.
2248
02:19:43,920 --> 02:19:46,120
The Member for Western Isles!
2249
02:19:46,240 --> 02:19:48,800
Come on, Donald,
that's twice Labour have failed Scotland.
2250
02:19:48,920 --> 02:19:50,360
It's time to join with us.
2251
02:19:50,480 --> 02:19:54,600
Look, we'll walk in with you, if only
to save our own seats, nothing more.
2252
02:20:03,080 --> 02:20:05,000
OK, the drill!
2253
02:20:05,760 --> 02:20:08,200
Every single one of our Members
is coming here to register
2254
02:20:08,320 --> 02:20:11,880
and is not permitted to leave the building
after six o'clock under any circumstances.
2255
02:20:12,000 --> 02:20:15,120
I'm working on the Welsh.
I think a few Irish may bend as well.
2256
02:20:15,240 --> 02:20:17,360
The only unknown still
is their man Batley.
2257
02:20:17,480 --> 02:20:21,440
I want someone from a local association
at Leeds train station immediately.
2258
02:20:21,560 --> 02:20:24,920
If he sees Batley getting on a train
down here I want to be the first to know.
2259
02:20:25,040 --> 02:20:27,640
I've got the Scots.
They're walking in with us.
2260
02:20:27,760 --> 02:20:29,360
Bravo that man!
2261
02:20:29,480 --> 02:20:33,680
–
– The Member for Batley and Morley.
2262
02:20:33,800 --> 02:20:36,840
– Walter? It's the doc?
– Doc! How are you?
2263
02:20:36,960 --> 02:20:39,360
Ssh. The wife she doesn't know.
2264
02:20:39,480 --> 02:20:44,920
Look, how are we doing,
numbers wise?
2265
02:20:45,800 --> 02:20:50,840
Do you need me down? I've got me bags
packed, but, Walter, there's...
2266
02:20:52,440 --> 02:20:56,840
..there's all newspapers outside,
they're all watching.
2267
02:20:56,960 --> 02:21:00,880
Doc, you...
You don't sound too good, mate.
2268
02:21:01,480 --> 02:21:05,760
Never mind that, right?
You say the word, I'm there.
2269
02:21:07,160 --> 02:21:10,640
The Members for Belfast North and Armagh.
2270
02:21:10,760 --> 02:21:13,880
The Guy Fawkes cellars?
Ha. Isn't that ironic?
2271
02:21:14,520 --> 02:21:17,640
Centuries ago, they plotted here
to bring the government down.
2272
02:21:17,760 --> 02:21:20,400
Now here we are,
plotting to prop you up.
2273
02:21:20,520 --> 02:21:22,680
Ann will go through the agreement
on prices with you.
2274
02:21:22,800 --> 02:21:25,880
You just have to sign and date
and we're good to go, all right?
2275
02:21:26,000 --> 02:21:28,080
The Member for Welwyn and Hatfield!
2276
02:21:28,200 --> 02:21:30,360
Helene, all right for tonight?
2277
02:21:30,480 --> 02:21:32,520
Front of the queue, don't worry.
2278
02:21:32,640 --> 02:21:34,920
The Member for Chelmsford!
2279
02:21:35,040 --> 02:21:36,280
– Norman.
– Chief.
2280
02:21:36,400 --> 02:21:38,080
Just off to Sheekey's, bite to eat.
2281
02:21:38,200 --> 02:21:43,040
No, not tonight! No one leaves
the Palace grounds, eat here.
2282
02:21:44,080 --> 02:21:45,800
Eat here?
2283
02:21:47,560 --> 02:21:48,840
Norman!
2284
02:21:48,960 --> 02:21:51,240
The Member for Fermanagh!
2285
02:21:51,360 --> 02:21:55,600
Oi! In there! No more wandering off!
I'll be back soon.
2286
02:21:56,560 --> 02:21:59,080
The Member for Belfast West!
2287
02:21:59,200 --> 02:22:02,000
Would you look at that? I didn't even know
you could stand behind it.
2288
02:22:02,120 --> 02:22:06,400
Gerry, I'm not gonna try
and bloody hoodwink you or swindle you.
2289
02:22:06,520 --> 02:22:08,240
I'll just ask you.
2290
02:22:08,360 --> 02:22:10,600
Will you walk into the lobby
with us tonight?
2291
02:22:10,720 --> 02:22:13,200
The Members for Belfast North and Armagh.
2292
02:22:13,880 --> 02:22:17,520
Oh, look, it's green!
We've signed it with green ink!
2293
02:22:17,640 --> 02:22:21,160
We can't have that –
an historic whatjermacallit.
2294
02:22:21,280 --> 02:22:23,560
No, people'll laugh at us.
We have to write it out again.
2295
02:22:23,680 --> 02:22:25,400
Oh, for God's sake, quickly!
2296
02:22:25,520 --> 02:22:27,640
The Member for Belfast West.
2297
02:22:27,760 --> 02:22:32,000
A lot's changed, Michael. I can't ever
forget this is an imperial parliament.
2298
02:22:32,120 --> 02:22:35,680
That just won't do any more.
I'm sorry, Michael. I truly am.
2299
02:22:36,320 --> 02:22:37,880
The Member for Fermanagh.
2300
02:22:38,000 --> 02:22:42,360
Oi! In there! Drink this and shut that!
Get in!
2301
02:22:48,000 --> 02:22:53,200
So, if we're right,
and... who bloody knows, eh,
2302
02:22:53,320 --> 02:22:57,040
we're about tied, 311 to 311.
2303
02:22:57,160 --> 02:22:59,400
– But that's without the doc.
– Let's give him a call, then.
2304
02:22:59,520 --> 02:23:01,120
Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait.
2305
02:23:01,760 --> 02:23:04,640
We just need to dig bloody deeper,
win a few more of the odds...
2306
02:23:04,760 --> 02:23:09,120
No, it's too much, Walter.
No more offers, No more deals.
2307
02:23:09,240 --> 02:23:12,360
No more? It's what we do!
2308
02:23:13,240 --> 02:23:16,320
Oi! I'm breaking my back out there!
2309
02:23:17,680 --> 02:23:20,440
The most important thing
is stopping them from getting in,
2310
02:23:20,560 --> 02:23:22,520
because they will, Michael.
2311
02:23:23,080 --> 02:23:25,680
We go to the polls now and she will.
2312
02:23:26,960 --> 02:23:29,320
And I don't want to live
in her country, right?
2313
02:23:30,360 --> 02:23:32,720
Don't be the man who could have
stopped that but didn't.
2314
02:23:32,840 --> 02:23:35,760
I don't understand. We're one man down,
and the doc wants to come.
2315
02:23:35,880 --> 02:23:38,480
Ann, it'll kill him.
2316
02:23:39,160 --> 02:23:41,080
He'll die happy.
2317
02:23:42,360 --> 02:23:45,360
Look, he's an old whip himself,
he knows the game.
2318
02:23:45,480 --> 02:23:47,520
What time is it?
2319
02:23:47,640 --> 02:23:50,680
I'll drive up, myself. Sod it.
It'll be fine, we'll look after him,
2320
02:23:50,800 --> 02:23:54,240
– I can get there and back in time...
– No, Ann, Michael, I am not having it.
2321
02:23:54,360 --> 02:23:58,200
We said there had to be a line somewhere
and this is it! This is the line.
2322
02:23:58,320 --> 02:24:01,440
After four and a half years,
to get this far and it all be for nothing?
2323
02:24:01,560 --> 02:24:04,120
This one last thing
and we've made it, Michael.
2324
02:24:09,280 --> 02:24:10,480
No.
2325
02:24:11,720 --> 02:24:13,360
No. Not like this.
2326
02:24:17,760 --> 02:24:21,520
Well, I'd better go see if I can twist
a few more Liberal arms, hadn't I?
2327
02:24:21,640 --> 02:24:24,920
Don't try too hard,
they're flimsy and break easily.
2328
02:24:26,520 --> 02:24:28,360
Hold on!
2329
02:24:29,560 --> 02:24:32,360
Hold on a bloody minute.
2330
02:24:37,680 --> 02:24:42,280
- – I need a pair.
- – You're not serious?
2331
02:24:42,760 --> 02:24:44,520
Batley and Morley, he can't come,
2332
02:24:44,640 --> 02:24:47,200
and it's an honourable tradition
that you pair someone off.
2333
02:24:48,320 --> 02:24:50,840
Well, I don't have anyone
to pair him with.
2334
02:24:50,960 --> 02:24:52,960
Everyone, of course, is here. Of course!
2335
02:24:53,080 --> 02:24:55,680
Then just pick someone
and take them out. I'm demanding it.
2336
02:24:55,800 --> 02:24:57,960
- Oh? You're demanding?
- Well, I better had, then
2337
02:24:58,080 --> 02:25:00,400
I can't do it, Walter, for heaven's sake.
2338
02:25:00,520 --> 02:25:03,880
Imagine what the lady would do
to the person who didn't walk in tonight.
2339
02:25:04,000 --> 02:25:05,640
Career would be over, that'd be it.
2340
02:25:05,760 --> 02:25:08,280
– How do you suggest I pick that person?
– I don't care how!
2341
02:25:08,400 --> 02:25:13,200
I have got the doc at death's door and I
am not, NOT going to ask him to come down.
2342
02:25:14,360 --> 02:25:16,920
– What, you want me to ask him to come?
– No, that's not fair.
2343
02:25:17,040 --> 02:25:21,960
Well, what the bloody hell is, eh?
I'm asking you, as honourable man,
2344
02:25:22,080 --> 02:25:24,680
to honour the tradition
and take someone out!
2345
02:25:29,440 --> 02:25:32,920
– All right, you'll get your pair.
– Who?
2346
02:25:34,320 --> 02:25:36,800
Um... No, what does it matter?
2347
02:25:38,240 --> 02:25:40,760
No, come on, I want this in writing. Who?
2348
02:25:41,720 --> 02:25:43,200
Me. I'll do it.
2349
02:25:44,280 --> 02:25:45,800
I'll, er... I'll step out.
2350
02:25:47,520 --> 02:25:49,840
You? Don't try and pull that with me...
2351
02:25:49,960 --> 02:25:53,200
I'm not trying to pull anything, Walter,
you've a perfect right to ask for a pair.
2352
02:25:54,200 --> 02:25:55,840
And I've given you one.
2353
02:25:55,960 --> 02:25:57,640
There.
2354
02:26:01,360 --> 02:26:03,400
Oh, bloody hell!
2355
02:26:09,160 --> 02:26:11,160
It's all I ever wanted, you know.
2356
02:26:12,400 --> 02:26:14,120
Other folk what came in with me
2357
02:26:14,240 --> 02:26:17,560
all talking about cabinet posts
and 'the top job'.
2358
02:26:17,680 --> 02:26:22,680
This is all I ever wanted,
to be in the engine room.
2359
02:26:25,000 --> 02:26:26,960
And I bloody loved it.
2360
02:26:33,280 --> 02:26:40,920
You know, I think it'd all work fine,
this thing, British democracy,
2361
02:26:41,040 --> 02:26:44,680
if it weren't so damn reliant
on... people.
2362
02:26:46,800 --> 02:26:49,200
People who get ill, get sick.
2363
02:26:50,320 --> 02:26:52,200
People who change their mind,
and who won't!
2364
02:26:53,120 --> 02:26:55,760
People who fall in and out of love,
just...
2365
02:26:58,000 --> 02:26:59,480
Just people.
2366
02:27:03,760 --> 02:27:07,520
This conversation,
it never happened, right?
2367
02:27:07,640 --> 02:27:09,680
– I'm sorry?
– Forget it.
2368
02:27:09,800 --> 02:27:12,160
No pairing. I didn't ask.
2369
02:27:13,400 --> 02:27:18,720
I'm offering myself here.
You're going to turn that down?
2370
02:27:20,760 --> 02:27:22,120
Yes, I am.
2371
02:27:25,000 --> 02:27:29,320
And if you ever bloody tell anyone,
I will hunt you down like a dog.
2372
02:27:29,440 --> 02:27:31,280
Do you understand?
2373
02:27:31,400 --> 02:27:34,880
We keep this between ourselves
till one of us pops us clogs.
2374
02:27:35,800 --> 02:27:37,960
I've a reputation, you know.
2375
02:27:40,440 --> 02:27:42,000
All right.
2376
02:27:43,600 --> 02:27:46,760
– Oh, I plan to long outlive you, anyway.
– Bollocks!
2377
02:27:47,880 --> 02:27:49,200
50 quid?
2378
02:27:59,920 --> 02:28:05,120
The question is that this House has no
confidence in Her Majesty's Government.
2379
02:28:08,120 --> 02:28:09,960
Ayes to the right...
2380
02:28:11,920 --> 02:28:14,160
..311.
2381
02:28:16,120 --> 02:28:17,600
Noes to the left...
2382
02:28:21,640 --> 02:28:23,680
..310.
2383
02:28:24,960 --> 02:28:27,520
The ayes have it! The ayes have it!
2384
02:28:30,360 --> 02:28:35,920
Motion carried that this House has
no confidence in Her Majesty's Government.
2385
02:28:42,680 --> 02:28:45,400
– I can't think what to...
– It's all right, chief.
2386
02:28:49,080 --> 02:28:52,880
I just can't believe that...
that that's it.
2387
02:28:55,160 --> 02:28:58,440
– Over.
– Well, it might not be, eh?
2388
02:28:58,560 --> 02:29:01,320
We might end up back here,
live to fight another day.
2389
02:29:01,440 --> 02:29:06,600
Don't try and bloody well...
and bloody 'manage' me, Walter!
2390
02:29:09,600 --> 02:29:11,720
I'm not one of your sheep.
2391
02:29:14,600 --> 02:29:16,680
We're not coming back.
2392
02:29:18,920 --> 02:29:21,640
That's it. We lost.
2393
02:29:25,520 --> 02:29:26,920
I lost.
2394
02:29:28,360 --> 02:29:29,880
I'm, um...
2395
02:29:32,480 --> 02:29:34,480
I'm sorry.
2396
02:29:36,240 --> 02:29:38,760
Oi, don't you dare!
2397
02:29:42,480 --> 02:29:45,880
Ann, you and all, chin up.
2398
02:29:49,160 --> 02:29:51,320
Right, you pair! Here, now.
2399
02:29:53,160 --> 02:29:55,920
That's a three line whip, that is,
no arguing.
2400
02:30:02,960 --> 02:30:05,040
Four and a half years!
2401
02:30:07,120 --> 02:30:09,800
All they gave us was four bloody weeks!
2402
02:30:11,200 --> 02:30:12,640
Eh?
2403
02:30:15,440 --> 02:30:17,400
Right, what time is it?
2404
02:30:18,400 --> 02:30:20,760
I've got to go for a little drive.
2405
02:30:26,800 --> 02:30:30,440
You shouldn't have driven all this way.
You look like death warmed up.
2406
02:30:30,560 --> 02:30:33,640
I know, it's just I want it
coming from me.
2407
02:30:34,560 --> 02:30:35,960
Alfred.
2408
02:30:36,080 --> 02:30:39,080
– Alf! You've got visitor.
–
2409
02:30:42,080 --> 02:30:43,320
Oh.
2410
02:30:47,280 --> 02:30:48,960
Did we win?
2411
02:30:50,680 --> 02:30:52,680
No, mate. I'm sorry.
2412
02:30:52,800 --> 02:30:56,320
Get to retire now, though, Alf.
So that's good news, eh?
2413
02:31:00,240 --> 02:31:02,080
By how many?
2414
02:31:03,480 --> 02:31:06,120
Well, it doesn't matter by how many,
does it?
2415
02:31:07,080 --> 02:31:09,080
By how many?
2416
02:31:17,880 --> 02:31:20,280
By one, Doc. We lost by one.
2417
02:31:27,440 --> 02:31:31,120
–
– Oi! Nowt could've been done.
2418
02:31:33,000 --> 02:31:35,520
No bugger's fault, right?
2419
02:31:36,400 --> 02:31:38,960
- – Nowt to be done.
- –
2420
02:31:39,080 --> 02:31:42,240
The prime minister
and his private secretary, Ken Stowe,
2421
02:31:42,360 --> 02:31:45,680
going in their official car
to Buckingham Palace
2422
02:31:45,800 --> 02:31:47,560
to tender his resignation to the queen...
2423
02:31:47,680 --> 02:31:51,400
..Mr Callaghan refuses to turn
to thoughts of retirement today.
2424
02:31:51,520 --> 02:31:55,880
We look back on the events
which led him down this road to defeat...
2425
02:31:56,000 --> 02:31:59,160
..Margaret Thatcher is now
the prime minister of Great Britain
2426
02:31:59,280 --> 02:32:02,040
with an overall majority.
2427
02:32:09,360 --> 02:32:12,240
A majority of 43? Well done, Jack.
2428
02:32:13,240 --> 02:32:15,800
That should see you well.
Get stuff done, eh?
2429
02:32:15,920 --> 02:32:19,360
Yes. Well, it's shame, in a way.
I'll miss the excitement.
2430
02:32:20,360 --> 02:32:22,720
Well, you know what you're doing,
you'll be fine.
2431
02:32:24,480 --> 02:32:25,880
I learnt from the best.
2432
02:32:30,800 --> 02:32:32,120
Anyway...
2433
02:32:33,920 --> 02:32:37,000
I was very sorry to hear about
the uh... about the doc.
2434
02:32:39,240 --> 02:32:41,480
Was it his lungs that went in the end?
2435
02:32:42,960 --> 02:32:44,720
No, actually, it was, um...
2436
02:32:47,080 --> 02:32:48,640
It was his heart.
2437
02:32:52,320 --> 02:32:53,760
So...
2438
02:32:57,240 --> 02:32:58,520
Here.
2439
02:33:01,600 --> 02:33:03,040
50 quid.
2440
02:33:03,160 --> 02:33:05,080
– Don't be silly, I can't take that.
– Oh, don't be so soft!
2441
02:33:05,200 --> 02:33:07,280
I'd be taking it from you
if it were other way round!
2442
02:33:07,400 --> 02:33:08,960
All right.
2443
02:33:21,640 --> 02:33:24,000
– Do you want a drink?
– Oh, bloody hell, yes!
2444
02:33:25,000 --> 02:33:27,320
– Is Michael not around?
– No.
2445
02:33:28,040 --> 02:33:31,920
No, we all need somewhere to go.
2446
02:33:35,360 --> 02:33:38,680
Where there is discord,
may we bring harmony.
2447
02:33:38,800 --> 02:33:41,960
Where there is error, may we bring truth.
2448
02:33:42,080 --> 02:33:44,920
Where there is doubt, may we bring faith.
2449
02:33:45,040 --> 02:33:48,120
And where there is despair,
may we bring hope.
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