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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:10,640 --> 00:00:12,439 Thank you. 2 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:14,199 Morning. 3 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:16,600 Morning, morning, morning, morning. 4 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:22,600 Morning, Cliff. Let me take that. 5 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,280 - Up all night with these bloody things. - Yep. 6 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:27,879 At a time like this, for God's sake. 7 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:29,199 (Cliff) ..going to have a pizza. 8 00:00:29,239 --> 00:00:32,159 (Terri) Can I have the digest, please? 9 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:33,880 ..printing them off. 10 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:37,240 - Would you mind taking them? - Oh, all right. Why? 11 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:40,159 - Erm, Malcolm's there. - Malcolm? Where? 12 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:41,759 - In there? Why? - In your office. 13 00:00:41,799 --> 00:00:43,200 It's just a social call. 14 00:00:43,240 --> 00:00:46,200 - A social call? Jesus Christ. - Yeah. 15 00:00:46,240 --> 00:00:48,439 Erm...have you got him coffee? 16 00:00:48,479 --> 00:00:50,399 Did you get Malcolm Tucker coffee? 17 00:00:50,439 --> 00:00:52,159 I thought you were organising... 18 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,799 Oh, for Christ's... Get him... Get coffee, get, erm... 19 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:58,799 - Danish pastries, croissants... - Danish pastries, croissants. 20 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:01,799 - No, fruit. Get lots of fruit. - Can you get fruit? 21 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:04,840 - Pile of fruit and lots of coffee, now. - Fruit... 22 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,640 (Malcolm) No, he's useless. He's absolutely useless. 23 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:13,599 He is, he's as useless as a marzipan dildo. 24 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:17,120 All right. Got to go. Minister's just walked in. 25 00:01:17,159 --> 00:01:19,439 Don't interrupt your call 'cos of me. 26 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:21,040 You're a Minister of the Crown, 27 00:01:21,079 --> 00:01:24,200 you don't need to listen to all of my fucking chutney. 28 00:01:24,239 --> 00:01:26,159 I'm sure it's more interesting than chutney. 29 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,200 No, no, it's just my cock-up, as usual. 30 00:01:29,239 --> 00:01:33,640 I thought that Graham Dixon was doing a briefing but it was Graham Hughes. 31 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,200 Too many Grahams. We ought to kill some of them. 32 00:01:36,239 --> 00:01:39,120 (Malcolm) Exactly. So... 33 00:01:39,159 --> 00:01:42,480 So. God, I'm sorry about the fuck-up about the coffee. 34 00:01:42,519 --> 00:01:44,840 How am I supposed to run a bloody department 35 00:01:44,879 --> 00:01:47,920 if I can't get the Prime Minister's enforcer a cup of fucking coffee? 36 00:01:47,959 --> 00:01:52,840 That's OK. Listen, the thing is, you're doing a bloody good job here, Cliff. 37 00:01:52,879 --> 00:01:56,760 Cos all this shit in the paper about whether I'm going or not... 38 00:01:56,799 --> 00:01:59,599 Have you seen...? Terri, can you bring the Mailin, please? 39 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:01,840 Have you seen the Mail? 40 00:02:01,879 --> 00:02:03,359 (Malcolm) "Lawton dangles by a thread"? 41 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:05,840 Yeah. "Dangles by a thread". 42 00:02:05,879 --> 00:02:07,079 (Cliff) It's all right, we've got... 43 00:02:07,120 --> 00:02:08,400 "Lawton dangles by a thread". 44 00:02:08,439 --> 00:02:10,400 - We've got it, it's OK. - Do keep it. 45 00:02:10,439 --> 00:02:13,400 Just leave it there. Thank you very much, Terri. 46 00:02:13,439 --> 00:02:15,599 (Malcolm) There's a lot, isn't there? 47 00:02:15,639 --> 00:02:19,280 It started in the Telegraph Diarybut just more and more and more and more. 48 00:02:19,319 --> 00:02:22,199 Seriously, the PM likes you personally. 49 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:27,000 I like you personally. And we have absolutely no desire to get rid of you. 50 00:02:27,039 --> 00:02:31,479 I just want you to know that. None of this negative stuff is coming from us. 51 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:35,080 Oh, Mal, mate, that... 52 00:02:37,039 --> 00:02:40,520 - makes me feel a lot more secure. - Does it? 53 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:42,479 - Well, it's difficult. - What's difficult? 54 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:45,400 - Just endless headlines day after day. - On and on. 55 00:02:45,439 --> 00:02:47,560 - Chipping away at confidence. - Absolutely. 56 00:02:47,599 --> 00:02:50,879 You see, the thing is that we are starting to look weak. 57 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:55,479 Everybody's saying, "When's he gonna go? When's he gonna go?" 58 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:56,680 Right. 59 00:02:56,719 --> 00:02:58,560 You don't want us to look weak, do you? 60 00:02:59,719 --> 00:03:02,039 No, no. 61 00:03:02,080 --> 00:03:04,159 So there you are. 62 00:03:04,199 --> 00:03:06,360 That's why you've got to go. 63 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:09,400 - No. - Yes. 64 00:03:09,439 --> 00:03:11,159 - No. - (Knock on door) 65 00:03:11,199 --> 00:03:13,199 - (Secretary) Coffee? - Fuck off. 66 00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,280 - Tea? - You fuck off, darling. 67 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:18,759 Malcolm, look, erm... 68 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:23,000 if you do this, it's the bollocks of the jungle out there, you know? 69 00:03:23,039 --> 00:03:25,599 They're like wolves. Pissed wolves. 70 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:28,680 I've made the announcement. I've told the lobby, Cliff. 71 00:03:28,719 --> 00:03:32,520 - You've told the lobby I'm going? - Yeah. Sorry, Cliff. 72 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:34,639 - Minister. - Get used to Cliff. 73 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:37,800 I've booked you in for the usual soapy tit wank farewell 74 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:39,680 at Number Ten in 20 minutes. 75 00:03:39,719 --> 00:03:42,800 I've also drafted you a letter of resignation. 76 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:45,680 You can say you're jumping before you're pushed 77 00:03:45,719 --> 00:03:49,240 although we're gonna be briefing that you were pushed, sorry. 78 00:03:51,039 --> 00:03:52,560 Erm... 79 00:03:52,599 --> 00:03:56,039 Look, tell you what, you don't need to do all this. 80 00:03:56,080 --> 00:03:59,080 What about Tom? Everybody knows he's fucking up Transport. 81 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:03,199 We can't sack Tom, we can't lose anyone at Transport, they're important. 82 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:04,960 And Social Affairs isn't? 83 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,280 OK, the Department of Social Affairs is very important 84 00:04:08,319 --> 00:04:10,680 but it's not Transport. 85 00:04:10,719 --> 00:04:13,199 Transport's cars, buses, trucks... 86 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:16,279 I know what transport fucking entails! 87 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,720 (Cliff) Look, look... 88 00:04:19,759 --> 00:04:21,319 (Cliff sighs) 89 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:24,839 Look, I'll look at it. 90 00:04:26,839 --> 00:04:28,199 Personal reasons. 91 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:30,279 I thought that would give you adequate scope. 92 00:04:30,319 --> 00:04:35,399 Scope. What, like, erm... shooting up in the Cabinet Office or something? 93 00:04:35,439 --> 00:04:38,399 Stuffing a cat up my arse and having a wank? What do you mean, scope? 94 00:04:38,439 --> 00:04:41,120 This could be a great deal worse. 95 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:45,759 You have had a good innings, you have been here for 18 months. 96 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:50,120 And you know, I have written some very nice things about you 97 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:53,040 in the PM's reply to your resignation. 98 00:04:53,079 --> 00:04:55,199 Some very nice fucking things indeed. 99 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:58,600 I had a lump in my throat. And you know why? 100 00:04:58,639 --> 00:05:02,879 Because no one who matters thinks any less of you over this, 101 00:05:02,920 --> 00:05:05,680 so far. OK? 102 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:09,120 Right. One more thing. 103 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:11,079 The Daily Mail. 104 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,199 David Topham has got it into his head 105 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:16,560 that we are going to sack you because of press pressure. 106 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:18,399 - I wonder why. - Look... 107 00:05:18,439 --> 00:05:22,120 you're in no position to dish out fucking sarcasm. That's over. 108 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:27,240 You no longer have purchase in the sarcasm world. Get on the phone. 109 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:29,800 Tell him you're jumping before you're pushed, 110 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:31,279 although we were going to push you, 111 00:05:31,319 --> 00:05:32,759 but not because of press pressure 112 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:36,560 but because of your deeply held personal issues. 113 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:38,360 You want me to write my own obituary. 114 00:05:38,399 --> 00:05:41,759 Get on the fucking phone. Do it now. 115 00:05:45,639 --> 00:05:47,439 Thank you. 116 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:49,240 Morning. 117 00:05:54,959 --> 00:05:58,319 - Good morning. - (Terri) Have you seen the Times? 118 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:00,319 - No. - Jo Cherman's been a bit of a bitch. 119 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:02,160 - She always is. - Yeah. 120 00:06:02,199 --> 00:06:05,600 - Everything in this package is small... - We go down and say it, 121 00:06:05,639 --> 00:06:09,800 the local yokels will take the photos, 20 minutes is enough. 122 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:12,240 - (Hugh) Hugh's here now. - Morning, Hugh. 123 00:06:12,279 --> 00:06:15,720 - Good morning. Come on. - (Chatter) 124 00:06:15,759 --> 00:06:16,839 Terri... 125 00:06:16,879 --> 00:06:19,399 Shush, I've got something important to say. 126 00:06:19,439 --> 00:06:21,839 - (Chatting) - Olly. I've got something for us. 127 00:06:21,879 --> 00:06:24,600 I've got us a very, very tasty little morsel. 128 00:06:24,639 --> 00:06:27,439 This morning I had a chat with my good friend 129 00:06:27,480 --> 00:06:29,240 the Prime Minister of Great Britain... 130 00:06:29,279 --> 00:06:31,160 - (All) Ooh. - Yes. And, erm... 131 00:06:31,199 --> 00:06:34,399 Remember the, erm... 132 00:06:34,439 --> 00:06:38,439 (Sighs) Olly, your benefit unit fraud... 133 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:40,839 Anti-Benefit Fraud Executive. ABFE. 134 00:06:40,879 --> 00:06:43,480 ABFE. Erm, Scrounger Squad. 135 00:06:43,519 --> 00:06:44,879 (Olly) Snooper Squad. 136 00:06:44,920 --> 00:06:47,120 The one with the spending implications? 137 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:51,199 The Prime Minister's view, is "fuck the spending implications, I like it." 138 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:53,879 - Good. - So this is us. We're on the map. 139 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:58,160 It's a chance for me, Glenn, to get on Richard & Judy and plant that flag 140 00:06:58,199 --> 00:06:59,800 right on their fucking sofa. 141 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:04,240 So the Prime Minister's authorised you to announce it, has he? 142 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:06,399 That's very much what he signalled. 143 00:07:06,439 --> 00:07:10,439 He said he's right behind us on this and it's very much what we should be doing. 144 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:13,120 This is great. So we can do it today at the school. 145 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:17,079 - We can clear the press conference... - Excuse me. 146 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:21,120 (Glenn) We'll double bubble it, leak it to the Standard for the early editions 147 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:23,759 and trail it on The World At One. 148 00:07:23,800 --> 00:07:26,800 We need someone at the Standardwe can give this to. 149 00:07:26,839 --> 00:07:31,800 What about Angela Heaney? She's at the Standardnow, isn't she? Olly? 150 00:07:31,839 --> 00:07:34,399 Erm...yes, she is. 151 00:07:34,439 --> 00:07:37,279 Do you not think that maybe she's a bit junior, I think. 152 00:07:37,319 --> 00:07:39,560 Bit too much like your ex 153 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:42,399 who broke your heart and dumped you with a text message. 154 00:07:42,439 --> 00:07:44,759 It was a fucking email, not a text message. 155 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:47,240 We give it to her, she'll write what we want. 156 00:07:47,279 --> 00:07:49,079 - She's easy. - She is easy. 157 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:51,800 I can see that you've all got big, stiff hard-ons for this... 158 00:07:51,839 --> 00:07:55,600 - (Hugh) Sorry? - I'm not saying that's not nice. 159 00:07:55,639 --> 00:07:57,519 - But... - (Hugh) Terri. 160 00:07:57,560 --> 00:08:00,399 ..there is no way we're gonna clear it by this afternoon. 161 00:08:00,439 --> 00:08:02,079 (Olly) Why not? 162 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:04,399 So cool it, and I'll ring Paul at the Treasury. 163 00:08:04,439 --> 00:08:07,480 - (All) No, no, no! - No calls to the Treasury. 164 00:08:07,519 --> 00:08:10,519 If you call the Treasury, to get near the announcement 165 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:12,360 he's going to have to dress up as catering 166 00:08:12,399 --> 00:08:15,800 with a big tray of drinks and a pot of sliced lemons. 167 00:08:15,839 --> 00:08:17,319 I'm not doing that. 168 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:19,560 - I'm just going by procedure. - (Hugh) Terri. 169 00:08:19,600 --> 00:08:22,040 I love doing things the right way, that ethical stuff. 170 00:08:22,079 --> 00:08:24,240 I love it, we all do. 171 00:08:24,279 --> 00:08:27,680 But it's difficult when you're the first to put your gun down 172 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:30,959 because people jump on your head as if it's a ripe watermelon. 173 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:32,360 We don't want that. 174 00:08:32,399 --> 00:08:34,200 The Prime Minister wants to do it. 175 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:36,440 He's above the Treasury in the hierarchy. 176 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:39,279 - I can write it down on a chart. - (Terri) Whatever. 177 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:41,919 - (Glenn) Thank you. - I'll get to it, Minister. 178 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:44,000 You're just doing your job. 179 00:08:44,039 --> 00:08:46,279 (Whispers) Not very well. 180 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:48,279 Will you get Angela on the phone for Olly? 181 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:50,600 - You can deal with this Olly, yes? - Erm... 182 00:08:50,639 --> 00:08:53,399 - Will it be my usual driver? - (Olly) ..technically. 183 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:55,600 - Yes, Hugh. - I don't fucking like him. 184 00:08:55,639 --> 00:08:58,240 He's... I don't know. I think he despises me. 185 00:08:58,279 --> 00:09:01,480 We'll have to use him today, you know how the pool system works. 186 00:09:01,519 --> 00:09:05,200 So we go down to the school...erm...have to... 187 00:09:05,240 --> 00:09:08,000 - He's sort of contemptuous. - The driver? 188 00:09:08,039 --> 00:09:10,159 I feel like he looks down on me. 189 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:11,799 No, Hugh, he likes you, I'm sure. 190 00:09:13,879 --> 00:09:16,519 (Hourly pips on radio) 191 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:18,840 The World At One. This is Nick Clarke... 192 00:09:18,879 --> 00:09:20,960 Well, you can fuck off for a start. 193 00:09:21,000 --> 00:09:22,639 The Social Affairs Secretary Hugh Abbot... 194 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:24,159 Evening. 195 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:25,639 - First story up. - Top of the bill. 196 00:09:25,679 --> 00:09:29,320 ..a uniformed, so-called Snooper Force. 197 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:30,919 The announcement suggests the DSA has 198 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:33,399 pushed the Treasury into releasing more funds, 199 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:35,720 so we'll ask, is the Treasury losing its... 200 00:09:35,759 --> 00:09:38,039 Yes, and not before time! 201 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:41,200 ..Social Affairs spokesman Mark Davis Nathenson... 202 00:09:41,240 --> 00:09:44,200 If you can get him out of the bath! 203 00:09:44,240 --> 00:09:45,799 But first, the estimates of fatalities 204 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:48,000 from yesterday's train disaster in Bangalore 205 00:09:48,039 --> 00:09:49,799 have risen overnight... 206 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:50,879 Well, that's marvellous. 207 00:09:50,919 --> 00:09:52,840 - (Mobile) - Ooh. 208 00:09:52,879 --> 00:09:55,600 Oh, Tucker. Malcolm. 209 00:09:55,639 --> 00:09:58,799 What the fuck was that? Was this Snooper Force thing from you? 210 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:00,240 Malcolm, I talked to the PM, 211 00:10:00,279 --> 00:10:03,559 this is completely kosher as far as he's concerned. 212 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:06,799 He gave the go-ahead and he said bounce the Treasury. 213 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:12,200 We have got 17 different issues we are fighting with the Treasury about. 214 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:15,000 I can hear that you are, as usual, upset... 215 00:10:15,039 --> 00:10:16,720 I'll tell you why I'm upset. 216 00:10:16,759 --> 00:10:19,799 I'm upset because these fucking morons at the Treasury, 217 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,200 these people, they are so paranoid. 218 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:23,840 If you don't tell them about this stuff, 219 00:10:23,879 --> 00:10:27,799 cc them on email, they think you've started a coup. 220 00:10:27,840 --> 00:10:30,360 - Mal.. .Malcolm... - You don't seem to understand 221 00:10:30,399 --> 00:10:31,960 that I'm going to have to mop up 222 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:35,279 a fucking hurricane of piss from all these neurotics. 223 00:10:35,320 --> 00:10:38,000 What did the Prime Minister actually say to you? 224 00:10:38,039 --> 00:10:42,200 He actually said, "This is exactly the kind of thing we should be doing." 225 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:43,879 What did he actually say? 226 00:10:43,919 --> 00:10:47,600 He said, "This is exactly the sort of thing we should be doing." 227 00:10:47,639 --> 00:10:52,200 Should be doing. Should does not mean yes. 228 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:56,519 Now, there's only thing to do here and it's what I'm going to tell you to do. 229 00:10:56,559 --> 00:10:59,159 - Kill it. - I can't kill it. 230 00:10:59,200 --> 00:11:01,600 I'm on my way to make the announcement. 231 00:11:01,639 --> 00:11:04,120 There's gonna be television cameras there. 232 00:11:04,159 --> 00:11:07,200 Fuck the cameras. Think of something else to say. 233 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:10,240 Just don't mention the... New Avengers or the Snooper Force, 234 00:11:10,279 --> 00:11:12,000 whatever the fuck you call it. 235 00:11:12,039 --> 00:11:13,679 - Scam Busters? - Get rid of 236 00:11:13,720 --> 00:11:16,759 I don't want to hear about it again. Bye. 237 00:11:16,799 --> 00:11:19,320 (Glenn) Hugh, talk to me. 238 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:21,200 Hugh, what's going on? What's the matter? 239 00:11:21,240 --> 00:11:24,600 We're going to have to do a number of things almost immediately. 240 00:11:24,639 --> 00:11:27,120 - What? What's the problem? - Fuck. 241 00:11:27,159 --> 00:11:30,120 - What? Hugh, what? - Stop saying what. 242 00:11:30,159 --> 00:11:32,240 - Right. - I was sucked in! 243 00:11:32,279 --> 00:11:35,759 - Is this Tucker jumping on this? - I think he was right. 244 00:11:35,799 --> 00:11:39,039 - He's always fucking right. - No, he's not always right. 245 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:41,879 Should... 246 00:11:41,919 --> 00:11:45,279 - does it mean yes? - Yes, we should do this. 247 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:48,399 - Hugh. - When Tucker was talking to me 248 00:11:48,440 --> 00:11:52,320 should didn't mean yes. I mean, it really didn't. 249 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:54,600 It... I just...I felt like a fool. 250 00:11:55,759 --> 00:11:58,559 - This is nice. - Yeah, this is very nice. 251 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:03,919 This is just work, isn't it? I mean, we're not... 252 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:06,200 Yeah, no, absolutely. Nothing like that. 253 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:08,279 It's just, you know, deadline. 254 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:11,600 Yeah, sure, erm... Something like, erm... 255 00:12:11,639 --> 00:12:14,480 Social Affairs Minister Hugh Abbot 256 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:16,919 will today announce 257 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:20,679 a tough new crackdown on benefit fraudsters. 258 00:12:21,919 --> 00:12:23,480 Erm. Paragraph. 259 00:12:23,519 --> 00:12:27,320 - Yeah, I can do the punctuation, Olly. - Sorry. 260 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:29,399 Actually, I did have it written down a bit better. 261 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:31,320 I've got it on a piece of paper. 262 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:33,159 That's fantastic, Olly. Can I just have that? 263 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:35,200 Sure, yeah. 264 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:37,440 - It's should all be there. - Certainly is. 265 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:39,639 I've done it in capitals and everything... 266 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:45,879 Erm, I think I'll say senior government sources. 267 00:12:45,919 --> 00:12:48,360 Thank you very much. 268 00:12:48,399 --> 00:12:51,440 - It sounds better. - Oh, yeah, of course. 269 00:12:52,919 --> 00:12:54,639 Olly, come on! 270 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:57,240 (Glenn) Over here! Olly! (Hugh) Over here! 271 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:00,480 Sorry. 272 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:02,720 (Glenn) Right. 273 00:13:02,759 --> 00:13:04,879 - What's that you've got? - Olives. 274 00:13:04,919 --> 00:13:08,480 - Olives? He's brought his own olives. - Want one? Glenn? 275 00:13:08,519 --> 00:13:11,200 (Glenn) So the line is - call every news desk 276 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:13,360 that the Snooper Force story 277 00:13:13,399 --> 00:13:15,399 is that it was let out by, quote, 278 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:19,120 a disgruntled civil servant, unquote. OK? 279 00:13:19,159 --> 00:13:21,720 - OK, great. - And, Terri? 280 00:13:21,759 --> 00:13:25,159 - You can drop that tone, all right? - What tone? 281 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:27,200 The "I knew better all along" tone. 282 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:29,559 It isn't fucking appreciated right now. 283 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:30,440 (Phone beeps) 284 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:32,080 Bye. 285 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:35,000 The thing is, the story isn't a story. 286 00:13:35,039 --> 00:13:37,080 (Chuckles) What do you mean? 287 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:41,480 The Snooper Force, it's not happening. None of that's actually happening. 288 00:13:41,519 --> 00:13:43,799 - I can't do this. - You've got to do this. 289 00:13:43,840 --> 00:13:50,120 I mean, yeah, I... You know, reading, talking, I get car sick. 290 00:13:50,159 --> 00:13:51,600 I've got to stop, we've got to stop. 291 00:13:51,639 --> 00:13:54,279 Jesus Christ. 292 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:56,440 Do you think you could pull in at the next lay-by? 293 00:13:59,639 --> 00:14:03,159 As far as the department and the Government are concerned, 294 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:05,240 there is no Snooper Force. 295 00:14:05,279 --> 00:14:08,480 What's going on? Has the Treasury gone ballistic? 296 00:14:08,519 --> 00:14:10,480 - No, no... - Why this flip-flop? 297 00:14:10,519 --> 00:14:13,000 No, there's no flip-flop. Nothing like that! 298 00:14:13,039 --> 00:14:19,159 No, erm, this isn't a...change in policy in any...in any respect. 299 00:14:19,200 --> 00:14:22,200 - No. - What's going on, Olly? 300 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:24,879 Bec... No, well, the truth is that I... 301 00:14:24,919 --> 00:14:28,039 - acted beyond my brief. - What are you talking about? 302 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:33,159 I dunno, I just kind of...wanted to play the big man in front of you. 303 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,279 - You just made something up? - No! 304 00:14:35,320 --> 00:14:38,639 Listen, Angela, I am really so sorry. 305 00:14:38,679 --> 00:14:42,240 If it's any help, the line that we're giving to everybody else 306 00:14:42,279 --> 00:14:44,600 is that there's a disgruntled civil servant, 307 00:14:44,639 --> 00:14:47,600 - they leaked the story. - Have you got a name? 308 00:14:47,639 --> 00:14:50,039 Do I have a name for the disgruntled civil servant? 309 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:52,639 - (Mouthing) - Derek. Derek? 310 00:14:52,679 --> 00:14:54,559 Terri. Terri. 311 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:58,720 No, we're just going to pick a name. We're gonna pick a name. I'm so sorry. 312 00:14:58,759 --> 00:15:00,919 - I'm so sorry. - Olly, this is ridiculous. 313 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:02,960 - It is not fucking... - Did you plan this? 314 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:04,519 The last thing I want to do today 315 00:15:04,559 --> 00:15:07,720 is be stuckin a fucking lay-by by a Wacky Warehouse, 316 00:15:07,759 --> 00:15:09,200 begging my ex-girlfriend. 317 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:14,320 All right. So... 318 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:16,919 what the hell am I going to say 319 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:19,039 is the reason for me summoning 320 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:24,759 all the nation's major news organisations to a school in Wiltshire? 321 00:15:24,799 --> 00:15:27,240 (Olly) You want something sexy, eye-catching 322 00:15:27,279 --> 00:15:30,440 and that is free and universally popular 323 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:34,799 and instantly applicable, no one can possibly object to it. 324 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:37,120 - Yes. - You should have said before, Glenn, 325 00:15:37,159 --> 00:15:38,679 because I've got a file 326 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:41,200 about that fucking thick of that back at the office. 327 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:42,840 - Those policies are ten a penny! - Olly! 328 00:15:42,879 --> 00:15:45,360 Our entire manifesto is made up of... 329 00:15:45,399 --> 00:15:47,120 It doesn't help when you get cynical. 330 00:15:48,159 --> 00:15:49,720 Think of this as an opportunity. 331 00:15:49,759 --> 00:15:52,600 I can't just come up with Das Kapitalin a cab. 332 00:15:52,639 --> 00:15:54,240 - Olly. - Here, shave. 333 00:15:54,759 --> 00:15:56,360 (Buzzing) 334 00:15:56,399 --> 00:15:59,279 (Glenn) What we need is something that the public want 335 00:16:00,200 --> 00:16:01,799 that's incredibly popular and is free. 336 00:16:01,840 --> 00:16:04,600 - Return of capital punishment. - (Buzzing stops) 337 00:16:04,639 --> 00:16:07,879 That's a joke, right? You are joking, yes? Obviously. 338 00:16:07,919 --> 00:16:10,200 Come on, Olly, come up with something. 339 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:12,759 (Olly) National spare room database. 340 00:16:15,759 --> 00:16:18,360 What about zoos? 341 00:16:18,399 --> 00:16:23,039 My kids went to a zoo the other day and they said it was fucking disgusting. 342 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:25,559 You know, the state of it. 343 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:28,440 That's shit, isn't it? 344 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:31,600 No...but there is an idea there, 345 00:16:31,639 --> 00:16:34,200 because in the middle of the city you've got wild animals. 346 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:36,879 Pet ASBOs? Remember that? ASBOs for pets. 347 00:16:36,919 --> 00:16:42,399 That sounds potentially ludicrous, but then pet passports, that was a goer. 348 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:46,799 (Glenn) What if everybody had to carry a plastic bag by law? 349 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:49,799 You know identification cards are coming in... 350 00:16:49,840 --> 00:16:53,399 You've fucking cracked. Are you mad? 351 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:57,360 What if the announcement is... there's no big announcement. 352 00:16:57,399 --> 00:16:59,320 - (Hugh) For goodness... - No, wait. 353 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:03,200 We say the Department of Social Affairs has been doing amazing work, 354 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:04,680 bread-and-butter work, belt-and-braces work, 355 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:07,160 the kind of work you aren't interested in 356 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:09,240 cos it's not shiny, shiny, media-friendly. 357 00:17:09,279 --> 00:17:12,200 You sickos are so obsessed with the media... 358 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:14,000 Sickos. 359 00:17:14,039 --> 00:17:16,599 ..that every time we try and...just carry on with our day 360 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:21,400 you don't show up, so we have to call a big thing like this. 361 00:17:21,440 --> 00:17:24,440 - On target, under budget... - Coalface politics. 362 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:26,680 - Yes, I like that. - Not wasting resources. 363 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:28,799 - Good, let's do that. - Let's go for that. 364 00:17:28,839 --> 00:17:33,720 We trick them. Tinselly thing and they come along and we say... 365 00:17:33,759 --> 00:17:38,160 "Ah, that's what we've been doing, we've been doing our fucking jobs!" 366 00:17:38,200 --> 00:17:39,839 They never print that stuff, do they? 367 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:43,759 You've come two hours out of London to cover this... 368 00:17:43,799 --> 00:17:45,640 You mugs! You mugs! 369 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,519 But you've got a bigger story here than you have chasing tinsel. 370 00:17:48,559 --> 00:17:51,039 Which is you live in a country which is properly... 371 00:17:51,079 --> 00:17:53,640 Not many countries can say that. 372 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:57,480 And we've probably got ten million we can throw at it. 373 00:17:57,519 --> 00:18:00,359 That's good, because it sounds like a lot, doesn't it? 374 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:02,279 I've got a thing here that says springy concrete. 375 00:18:02,319 --> 00:18:05,240 I think that's about the playground... 376 00:18:05,279 --> 00:18:07,640 - Springy concrete? - (Hugh) Good afternoon... 377 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:11,079 - Should I say, "Hello, boys and girls"? - Yes, very nice. 378 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:13,319 Like a fucking panto dame. 379 00:18:13,359 --> 00:18:15,200 He's gonna look ridiculous on the six o'clock news 380 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:16,799 saying, "Hello, boys and girls." 381 00:18:16,839 --> 00:18:18,599 He's talking to the audience in front of him. 382 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:21,319 Real money for real families. 383 00:18:21,359 --> 00:18:23,599 - Real families or people? - (Glenn) Families. 384 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:27,319 - (Olly) People. Real people. - You see? Don't... Families. 385 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:30,880 Families sounds exclusive, it sounds back to basics, John Major. 386 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:34,279 - People sounds communist. - It doesn't sound communist. 387 00:18:34,319 --> 00:18:37,519 - I'll say families. - Say families of people. 388 00:18:37,559 --> 00:18:41,640 - Mr Abbot. - (Glenn) Great. You're on. Here we go. 389 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:43,039 (Hugh) Thank you. 390 00:18:43,079 --> 00:18:45,240 - (Glenn) It's what you do best, mate. - Yep. 391 00:18:45,279 --> 00:18:48,240 (Hugh) This is lovely. Very nice indeed. 392 00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:53,480 Well, that was a fucking disaster. 393 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:03,359 - Well, that... - Shut up. 394 00:19:05,039 --> 00:19:06,799 Thank you. 395 00:19:06,839 --> 00:19:09,000 (Terri) Ah. Well done. 396 00:19:09,039 --> 00:19:12,319 There's nothing in the Standard, big fat nothing. 397 00:19:12,359 --> 00:19:13,799 - Nothing? - You got away with it. 398 00:19:13,839 --> 00:19:16,519 He's created a press conference so boring 399 00:19:16,559 --> 00:19:18,279 that none of the press will touch it. 400 00:19:18,319 --> 00:19:20,400 - (Hugh laughs) - Genius. 401 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:23,759 Fucking well done, mate. You turned it around. 402 00:19:23,799 --> 00:19:25,640 (Indistinct chatter) 403 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:31,319 Well, you really pulled it round, mate. 404 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:33,559 I took the flak, you supplied the flak jacket. 405 00:19:33,599 --> 00:19:35,680 Yeah, and the bullets bounced off. 406 00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:38,599 - This is what it's all about, Glenn. - Yeah. 407 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:40,599 All those years at the coalface, 408 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:43,480 hanging in there, taking all the shit, all the bullshit. 409 00:19:43,519 --> 00:19:46,400 When you are Senior Cabinet Minister, we'll show them. 410 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:49,359 Yeah, and Snooper Force? Bollocks, we'll get rid of that. 411 00:19:49,400 --> 00:19:52,400 For fuck's sake, yeah. Fiddling while Rome burns. 412 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:55,079 Fucking right. We'll kick some arse. 413 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:57,039 We'll kick some butt! Kick some butt! 414 00:19:57,079 --> 00:20:00,599 That's what we're in it for, mate, tell them all the shit that we do. 415 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:02,480 It's a means to an end, mate. 416 00:20:02,519 --> 00:20:05,319 Fuck me, Malcolm. How do you do that? 417 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:07,599 Can I have a word with you? 418 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:15,839 (Sighing heavily) I'm hacked off, mate. 419 00:20:17,039 --> 00:20:20,200 But w-w-we killed it. It-it's killed. 420 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:23,359 Yeah. But once you start the fire... 421 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:25,640 And we didn't start the fire. 422 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:29,200 It was always burning since the world's been turning, et cetera, et cetera. 423 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:31,720 Malcolm, you're not making any sense. 424 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:35,960 Prime Minister, obviously, he's on the plane in Stockholm 425 00:20:36,000 --> 00:20:38,799 and somebody hits him with The World At One. 426 00:20:38,839 --> 00:20:42,599 He thinks it's the Treasury trying to stiff him one 427 00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:44,119 so he, er... 428 00:20:49,039 --> 00:20:51,559 he stuck with the story. 429 00:20:51,599 --> 00:20:55,440 - He liked it? - Yeah, he's backing the Snooper Force. 430 00:20:56,799 --> 00:20:58,240 Oh, right. 431 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:01,680 You... We shouldn't really then have... 432 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:05,200 I mean, you shouldn't really have told us to, er... 433 00:21:05,839 --> 00:21:07,720 Should you? (Chuckles) 434 00:21:08,279 --> 00:21:10,039 Don't should me, Hugh, 435 00:21:10,079 --> 00:21:13,519 cos I'll should you right back, right through that window. 436 00:21:13,559 --> 00:21:17,319 None of this should be happening, should it? Should it? Should it? 437 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:20,400 Is that should in the...sense of yes, or...? 438 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:23,079 It's should in the sense of you should do as you're fucking told. 439 00:21:24,640 --> 00:21:26,319 What, erm... 440 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:28,200 What are we gonna do now? 441 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:32,079 You're gonna completely reverse your position. 442 00:21:32,119 --> 00:21:34,279 Look, no, hang on a second. 443 00:21:34,319 --> 00:21:38,440 Hang... Malcolm. It's not actually that, erm... 444 00:21:38,480 --> 00:21:41,119 - That's gonna be quite hard, really. - Yes, well, 445 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:45,000 the announcement that you didn't make today, you did. 446 00:21:45,039 --> 00:21:46,799 No, no, I didn't. 447 00:21:46,839 --> 00:21:50,160 And there were television cameras there while I was not doing it. 448 00:21:50,640 --> 00:21:52,599 Fuck them. 449 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:56,359 I'm not quite sure how... What level of reality I'm supposed to be operating on. 450 00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:58,519 Look, this is what they run with. 451 00:21:58,559 --> 00:22:02,400 I tell them that you said it, they believe that you said it. 452 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,160 They don't really believe you said it, 453 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,599 - they know you never said it. - Right. 454 00:22:06,640 --> 00:22:09,000 But it's in their interests to say you said it 455 00:22:09,039 --> 00:22:10,880 because if they don't, 456 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:13,799 they're not gonna get what you say tomorrow or the next day 457 00:22:13,839 --> 00:22:16,240 when I decide to tell them what it is you're saying. 458 00:22:17,559 --> 00:22:20,000 Yeah. I-I am following this, I just... 459 00:22:20,039 --> 00:22:24,720 I had a friend who used to indulge in extramarital affairs, OK? 460 00:22:24,759 --> 00:22:27,599 He would go off and have some dalliance 461 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:30,799 and every Monday he'd come back and he'd meet his wife. 462 00:22:30,839 --> 00:22:35,319 And he told me that all he did was inside his head turn a little switch. 463 00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:38,559 - The affair never happened. OK? - Right. 464 00:22:38,599 --> 00:22:40,960 There's not a... What is the problem with this? 465 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:45,680 The problem with it... First of all, I didn't get much dalliance. 466 00:22:45,720 --> 00:22:48,920 Get it into your head, rewind today in your head. 467 00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:51,000 OK, stop explaining it to me. 468 00:22:51,039 --> 00:22:52,599 I have to fucking explain it to you, man, 469 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:54,599 you haven't been here long enough. 470 00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:58,200 (Glenn) I don't think he'd be really up for that. 471 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:01,160 - Tucker's in the building... - (Olly) When did he come in? 472 00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,400 Where are all the people? Where are my people? 473 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:06,720 They've gone home, Secretary of State, it's 5:40. 474 00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:09,839 OK. Well, erm...listen. 475 00:23:11,039 --> 00:23:13,400 The situation is, erm, it's pretty terrible, 476 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:15,599 but things have changed. OK? 477 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:17,319 The line is now, 478 00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:22,160 I did announce the Snooper Force this afternoon at the school. 479 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:24,279 OK? That's what happened. All right? 480 00:23:24,319 --> 00:23:28,680 So now you have to tell the media 481 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,319 in case they...missed it. 482 00:23:31,839 --> 00:23:33,720 OK? Great. 483 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,400 - (Glenn) What we've got to... - I said this was gonna happen. 484 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:42,119 - It's happened. It's nobody's fault. - I said it. Glenn, I... 485 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:43,480 What we have to do... 486 00:23:43,519 --> 00:23:45,240 Excuse me. It's not my fault, it's yours. 487 00:23:45,279 --> 00:23:48,559 - I didn't say that... - You said it was nobody's fault 488 00:23:48,599 --> 00:23:51,240 - but it's your fault and your fault. - It's not my fault. 489 00:23:51,279 --> 00:23:53,960 If you walk away from this I'll pin it on you... 490 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:55,359 (Hugh) Everything OK? 491 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,480 (Glenn) ..you cunt. (Terri) We're fucked. 492 00:23:57,519 --> 00:23:59,160 Great. 493 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,039 (Glenn) This is the real world, Terri. (Terri) We are fucked. 494 00:24:03,319 --> 00:24:04,880 - How's it going? - Good. 495 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:07,599 I think they might need a little bit of coordination. 496 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:12,920 - (All talking) - Has anyone spoken to Nicky Campbell? 497 00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:15,160 I've got one missed call here - Nicky Campbell. 498 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:18,839 It's become so complicated and it's actually terrifically simple. 499 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,720 There was always gonna be a Snooper Force policy. Definitely. 500 00:24:22,759 --> 00:24:26,519 It's too good to have been invented by a disgruntled civil servant. 501 00:24:26,559 --> 00:24:28,799 I'm really glad you came in, Angela. 502 00:24:28,839 --> 00:24:31,799 - Well, I could lose my job, Olly. - Yeah... 503 00:24:31,839 --> 00:24:33,799 I went all hot and heavy to the news desk 504 00:24:33,839 --> 00:24:37,319 with three directly contradictory stories in one day. 505 00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:40,039 - I know. - They gave me flip-flops. 506 00:24:40,079 --> 00:24:44,240 You know? Someone actually went out and bought flip-flops to give me. 507 00:24:44,559 --> 00:24:46,599 Yeah. 508 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,119 You've gotta give them credit for that, that is quite funny. 509 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,759 Yeah, and they pasted onto them... 510 00:24:51,799 --> 00:24:55,960 a fucking porn picture of a girl sucking a big cock 511 00:24:56,000 --> 00:24:59,880 and they wrote "Angela Heaney swallows anything". 512 00:24:59,920 --> 00:25:02,960 That is less funny. Obviously that's quite offensive. 513 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,200 Can you give me one good reason why I shouldn't do a big story 514 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:10,359 - on the, you know, the day of spin? - What sort of story? 515 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:13,440 Inside story of a government department out of control 516 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:16,920 with diagrams and a flow chart with your face and name on it 517 00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:21,039 and Glenn's and Hugh's and big arrows showing who spoke to who 518 00:25:21,079 --> 00:25:22,599 and how you all fucked it up. 519 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,000 I think I could write that one up myself. 520 00:25:25,039 --> 00:25:28,359 I think I could do the punctuation on that one. 521 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,440 - OK, I was patronis... - Hey. Hi, Angela. 522 00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,799 I like the hair, nice little corkscrews. 523 00:25:32,839 --> 00:25:34,799 Yeah, er, fine. 524 00:25:34,839 --> 00:25:41,519 We were just, er, talking about why we should or shouldn't do a big... 525 00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,839 story on the big insidery piece 526 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:48,799 kind of day of spin sort of spread in the... 527 00:25:49,599 --> 00:25:52,000 - paper. - I don't know. 528 00:25:52,039 --> 00:25:54,440 Maybe you should. Good idea. 529 00:25:55,799 --> 00:25:58,200 Oh, wait a minute, wait a minute. 530 00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:01,000 I know why she shouldn't, because if she did that 531 00:26:01,039 --> 00:26:05,039 she'd be dead to me, to this department, to the Government. 532 00:26:05,079 --> 00:26:09,960 And she'd never get another story, or a fucking whiff of a story, 533 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:14,559 so long as she kept her sorry hack bitch face lingering around Westminster 534 00:26:14,599 --> 00:26:17,200 because I would call every editor I know, 535 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,039 which, obviously, that's all of them, 536 00:26:19,079 --> 00:26:21,839 and tell them to gouge her name out of their address books 537 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,400 so she'd never even get a job on hospital radio, 538 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:26,440 where the sad sack belongs. 539 00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:29,240 That's what I'd tell her. 540 00:26:29,279 --> 00:26:31,799 But maybe you should do it. See you later. 541 00:26:31,839 --> 00:26:33,279 Yeah. 542 00:26:33,319 --> 00:26:35,279 He...he's actually... 543 00:26:35,839 --> 00:26:37,799 He can be really nice. 544 00:26:37,839 --> 00:26:39,799 It's been a very long day. 545 00:26:39,839 --> 00:26:43,400 I didn't say we weren't doing it, which is as good as saying we were. 546 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:45,440 - Thanks, bye-bye. - The World Tonight. 547 00:26:46,839 --> 00:26:49,279 Hello, Hugh Abbot here. 548 00:26:49,319 --> 00:26:52,279 Yes, no, it's always a pleasure to speak to The World Tonight. 549 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:56,079 Go live on air now? 550 00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,599 Yes, of course, I'd be delighted to. 551 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,839 Robin, my pleasure, nice to be with you. 552 00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:08,640 Yes. Before I answer that, 553 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,519 may I just say how delighted I am, as indeed we all are, 554 00:27:11,559 --> 00:27:13,200 at the excitement and enthusiasm 555 00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:16,359 that the benefit fraud inspection unit has created. 556 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,440 I announced at a press conference 557 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:23,000 this new benefit fraud inspection unit 558 00:27:23,039 --> 00:27:25,440 which we are hoping to call... 559 00:27:26,039 --> 00:27:27,720 Sponge Avengers. 560 00:27:27,759 --> 00:27:31,160 - And at that press conference... - (Vacuum whirring) 561 00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:34,359 ..there seems to have been a bit of a blip 562 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:38,119 because many of the journalists didn't pick up on the announcement. 563 00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:41,400 I think they're so much looking for... 564 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:43,799 (On radio) ..scandal or incompetence. 565 00:27:43,839 --> 00:27:45,680 So that statement 566 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,400 that the policy was the invention of a disgruntled civil servant 567 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:53,480 was actually the invention of a disgruntled civil servant. 568 00:27:53,519 --> 00:27:56,039 No, there's only one disgruntled civil servant. 569 00:27:56,079 --> 00:28:02,680 One of them's... One of them's an invention... by the other one, you see. 570 00:28:02,720 --> 00:28:05,680 (Hugh) Anyone listening carefully will think I'm mad. 571 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,599 (Glenn) They won't, it came over loud and clear. 572 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:11,799 (Glenn) It's gonna put the whole thing to bed anyway. Kill it. 573 00:28:11,839 --> 00:28:15,240 Olly's offered Angela a private life piece about you. 574 00:28:15,279 --> 00:28:19,119 - (Hugh) Great. - A Sunday walk with the family, 575 00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:20,359 that sort of thing. 576 00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:21,640 She's gonna be checking through my books 577 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,839 and snooping in my bathroom cabinet 578 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,799 and making snide remarks about how I don't know who Gail Porter is. 579 00:28:27,839 --> 00:28:30,640 - We did dick her about a bit, Hugh. - Yeah. 580 00:28:32,079 --> 00:28:34,559 We're getting a roasting from what has been 581 00:28:34,599 --> 00:28:36,799 dubbed, but I wouldn't call, Flip-Flop Friday. 582 00:28:36,839 --> 00:28:39,480 We need all the help from friends we can get right now. 583 00:28:39,519 --> 00:28:42,000 - (Hugh) I know. - What do you think? 584 00:28:42,039 --> 00:28:44,640 I just... I just think that... 585 00:28:45,839 --> 00:28:48,200 (Window whirring) 586 00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,599 I want a new driver. Get me a new driver. 587 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:52,839 I don't want to see this guy ever again. 588 00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:54,400 On what grounds? 589 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,440 Smiling. Inappropriate smiling. 590 00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:59,200 And smirking. Smiling and smirking. 591 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,519 I don't want to see that smile or smirk ever again. OK? 592 00:29:03,599 --> 00:29:05,119 Thank you. 593 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:08,039 - OK, thank you. - (Driver) Which way do you want to go? 594 00:29:08,079 --> 00:29:10,039 (Hugh) I don't care, you're the boss. 49223

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