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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:09,119 (Terri) Can I cancel the subscription? 2 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:10,880 Actually, he's dead. I've got to go. 3 00:00:10,919 --> 00:00:13,080 Can I take it that it's cancelled? Thank you. 4 00:00:13,119 --> 00:00:16,120 I'm the Minister for fucking Social Affairs. Hugh Abbot. 5 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:20,440 Could you explain to these people I'm the reason they're here? 6 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:23,120 (Terri) Sorry about that. (Hugh) Amazing place. 7 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:24,920 (Terri) Welcome back. (Hugh) Thank you. 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,440 It's ironic, we're both back on the same day. 9 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:31,800 Although your reasons for being away were more important than mine. 10 00:00:31,839 --> 00:00:33,640 - Just a frivolous holiday. - No... 11 00:00:33,679 --> 00:00:36,799 It was fantastic, though. You can't go wrong with Italy. 12 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:41,600 - But how are you? - Really upset and sad about it. 13 00:00:41,640 --> 00:00:44,960 - That your father had died. - My father had died. 14 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:46,439 Anyway...erm... 15 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:48,240 - Shall we...? - We're upstairs. 16 00:00:48,280 --> 00:00:50,200 ..get a bit of a wiggle on. Yes. 17 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:53,600 So, this is like a sort of governing mall. 18 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:55,399 There's actually quite a few problems here. 19 00:00:55,439 --> 00:00:58,960 - The e-mail system isn't working. - Oh. 20 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:03,000 - And the intelligent ventilation... - Intelligent ventilation? 21 00:01:03,039 --> 00:01:06,599 What we've got is a wind tunnel up in the Asylum Directorate. 22 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:09,000 Don't let any of those out as Diary stories. 23 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:10,480 This is us. 24 00:01:10,519 --> 00:01:12,879 Right. A bit too light and airy for my liking. 25 00:01:12,920 --> 00:01:14,799 Ooh...and these are awful. 26 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:18,079 Do we have to have those? They look like Alicia's Barbie furniture. 27 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:21,159 - Do you think they match? - Not if you wear that dress. 28 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:24,599 One of them's going to have to go and I'd rather it was the sofas. 29 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:27,000 - Is this us? - Yes, this is actually you. 30 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:30,719 - (Glenn) Isn't that David Dickinson? - Ooh, nice tan! 31 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:33,480 I can't take all the credit, the sun did the work. 32 00:01:34,719 --> 00:01:36,400 There's not much privacy. 33 00:01:36,439 --> 00:01:39,000 It doesn't matter. We're moving upstairs. 34 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:41,439 It's going to be hard to shoot up in there. 35 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:43,439 Yeah, yeah, that's true. 36 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:45,439 This is so poky. 37 00:01:45,480 --> 00:01:47,319 We're not here long enough for it to matter. 38 00:01:47,359 --> 00:01:49,239 It might interest you. 39 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:53,159 The date for your appearance before the Education Select Committee. 40 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,000 - It's tomorrow. - Oh, great! 41 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,359 Oh, that is great. Yes, welcome home, Hugh. 42 00:01:57,400 --> 00:01:59,359 Couldn't you have pushed it back? 43 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,200 Given me something cushy for my first week back? 44 00:02:02,239 --> 00:02:04,799 A couple of lunches or a fact finder to Dublin? 45 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:06,799 That's the date they gave me. 46 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:08,560 You can't change Select Committee dates. 47 00:02:08,599 --> 00:02:10,560 Oh, can't you? How did Liam get his changed 48 00:02:10,599 --> 00:02:12,680 so he could go to the Test match? 49 00:02:12,719 --> 00:02:16,080 It's going to be like sitting on a crate having chicken shit sprayed over me. 50 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:20,080 I mean, why do we want to close down schools for kids with special needs? 51 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:25,080 It's the one thing that I really, really, actually do not want to do. 52 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:29,719 And yet, bizarrely, I am the person most intimately involved in doing it. 53 00:02:29,759 --> 00:02:32,639 Robyn, go and see IT about the e-mail problem. 54 00:02:32,680 --> 00:02:34,400 Please. That'd be great. 55 00:02:34,439 --> 00:02:38,319 So now Terri's back, I just get all the dull stuff. Is that right? 56 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:39,639 Pretty much, yes. 57 00:02:39,680 --> 00:02:42,199 Oh, well, right. Yeah, well, of course. 58 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:44,360 Well, I'll see you later. 59 00:02:44,400 --> 00:02:46,520 Glenn, the Special Needs Bill. 60 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:51,000 With your, you know, particular interest, I can't do this. 61 00:02:51,039 --> 00:02:55,000 You know my views. Inclusion is an illusion. It doesn't work. 62 00:02:55,039 --> 00:02:58,199 - But you don't mind if I go with it? - Of course not. 63 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:01,400 You know, look, you're only following orders. 64 00:03:01,439 --> 00:03:03,400 So you won't make me feel bad 65 00:03:03,439 --> 00:03:05,840 except by comparing me to a concentration camp guard? 66 00:03:05,879 --> 00:03:07,680 Right. 67 00:03:07,719 --> 00:03:11,599 Now, tomorrow. Select Committee, that's Ballentine, isn't it? 68 00:03:11,639 --> 00:03:13,879 Who wants to go and watch bollockvision? 69 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:15,960 Bollockvision? 70 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:18,639 Mr Malcolm Tucker, turning it all the way up to eleven, down in the lobby. 71 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:22,199 - (Malcolm shouting) - (Hugh) Poor Keith! 72 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:23,960 You should have discussed it. 73 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,719 Malcolm must love this. Four ministers in one building. 74 00:03:26,759 --> 00:03:29,280 It's his dream. A one-stop bollock-shop. 75 00:03:29,319 --> 00:03:33,199 Trouble is, we're going to be getting some of that in about an hour. 76 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:36,680 Which is worse? Watching him rumble towards you like prostate cancer, 77 00:03:36,719 --> 00:03:40,840 or him appearing suddenly out of nowhere, like a severe stroke. 78 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:46,120 Oh... How's your sister coping? 79 00:03:46,159 --> 00:03:48,680 So, Hugh, this new word, "Citizenship". 80 00:03:48,719 --> 00:03:50,919 Did the PM actually outline what it entails? 81 00:03:50,960 --> 00:03:54,400 To be honest, I think he was making the reshuffle up as he went along. 82 00:03:54,439 --> 00:03:58,120 We were lucky that citizenship was the first word that sprang to mind. 83 00:03:58,159 --> 00:04:01,599 We could be in the Department for Social Affairs and Woodland Folk. 84 00:04:01,639 --> 00:04:03,520 The problem is, though, Hugh, 85 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:05,800 that there's been a bit of a rush, with you not in place, 86 00:04:05,840 --> 00:04:10,000 every department trying to unload all the stuff that they didn't want. 87 00:04:10,039 --> 00:04:13,000 It's been like somebody driving a lorry down Whitehall, 88 00:04:13,039 --> 00:04:16,720 shouting, "Bring out your shit", and it's ended up at our door. 89 00:04:16,759 --> 00:04:18,399 What are we getting? 90 00:04:18,439 --> 00:04:21,839 Citizenship basically involves cutting pensions to the Ghurkhas, 91 00:04:21,879 --> 00:04:24,680 rejigging the protocols for a rabies outbreak, 92 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:28,639 some crap from Health about long-term care for the elderly, 93 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:31,360 that neither they nor we have any idea about. 94 00:04:31,399 --> 00:04:33,399 And what to do with the Isle of Man. 95 00:04:33,439 --> 00:04:36,839 Just what I fucking need. Five new ways to lose my job. 96 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:40,639 Where did that come from? 97 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,279 - Oh, Malcolm sent that. - It's far too big. Why did he send it? 98 00:04:44,319 --> 00:04:45,959 Office warming present. 99 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,240 - So why did he send us a present? - I don't know. 100 00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:52,120 - Has Security checked this? - What for? Tiny little terrorists? 101 00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:54,319 - Yes. - It's a plant. Yes? 102 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:56,800 So...citizenshit. 103 00:04:56,839 --> 00:04:59,600 What we need is some nice, touchy-feely, 104 00:04:59,639 --> 00:05:02,800 fondley, sneaky, hand-in-the-bra policies. 105 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:05,560 New bicycles for special constables, that sort of thing? 106 00:05:05,600 --> 00:05:06,800 Yeah. 107 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:09,040 Making special needs kids clean up graffiti. 108 00:05:09,079 --> 00:05:10,959 That's just very mean. 109 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,279 Well, yes. Not, of course, as mean as making them spell graffiti. 110 00:05:14,319 --> 00:05:15,879 That genuinely is mean. 111 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:18,879 - I'll go and have a word with Malcolm. - OK. 112 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:21,439 You just took a shit with your clothes on, Olly. 113 00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:23,600 - Why? - Glenn's boy, Peter. 114 00:05:23,639 --> 00:05:26,480 He went to a special needs school. 115 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:28,439 Oh. 116 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:31,040 Yep. 117 00:05:31,079 --> 00:05:35,920 - Glenn's had sex. - God, you're such a prick, Olly. 118 00:05:35,959 --> 00:05:39,000 There's more to life than drinks at the Foreign Office 119 00:05:39,040 --> 00:05:41,879 and Nick Robinson's number on your Blackberry. 120 00:05:41,920 --> 00:05:43,800 All right, fine. Sorry, Hugh. 121 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:48,519 I feel for the guy. I had a girlfriend with special needs once, so I know. 122 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:51,000 Luckily, I was able to fulfil them. 123 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,279 Oh, God, you're such a... 124 00:05:53,319 --> 00:05:56,199 - Haircut? - Chemo. Nob. 125 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:58,360 - So, did you enjoy the show? - Magnificent. 126 00:05:58,399 --> 00:06:02,439 Should I phone Keith, so I can get his team to watch you bollock me now? 127 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:04,480 No, no. Have I got my bollocking face on? 128 00:06:04,519 --> 00:06:07,519 - Well... - No, this is my bollocking face. 129 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:10,800 Oh, crikey, yes. Thanks for the pot plant, by the way. 130 00:06:10,839 --> 00:06:13,439 - Did I send that? - As an office warming present. 131 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:16,399 -Christ, she's a great PA, isn't she, Sam? -Yes. 132 00:06:16,439 --> 00:06:18,839 She always remembers the little people. 133 00:06:18,879 --> 00:06:22,160 Look at the size of that. You could crucify somebody on that. 134 00:06:22,199 --> 00:06:24,920 So, what do you think of the new building, eh? 135 00:06:24,959 --> 00:06:27,279 I can't wait to move upstairs, actually. 136 00:06:27,319 --> 00:06:30,199 I don't like the glass walls on this floor. 137 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:31,560 I just feel a bit exposed. 138 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:33,600 Like a whore in a Reeperbahn window. 139 00:06:33,639 --> 00:06:35,720 Glenn, it's Olly. 140 00:06:35,759 --> 00:06:39,160 He wants you to go through and clarify the Citizenship brief. 141 00:06:39,199 --> 00:06:41,680 - How much, love? - Sorry? 142 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:45,279 - OK, I'm on it. - I'll catch you later. 143 00:06:45,319 --> 00:06:48,519 I like the tan, by the way. Have you declared it? 144 00:06:48,560 --> 00:06:50,560 Staying at the villa of an influential friend. 145 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:53,160 I haven't got any influential friends. 146 00:06:53,199 --> 00:06:56,759 - You are my only influential friend. - And I'm not your friend. 147 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:58,199 You're not my friend. 148 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:00,639 - So, this Super Schools Bill... - Yep. 149 00:07:01,519 --> 00:07:04,240 You don't think it's so super, do you? 150 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:07,199 - You're doing it now. - What? 151 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:09,199 That's your bollocking face. 152 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:13,000 You know, it's great that you get all misty eyed over Glenn's kid. 153 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:17,560 But no one's trying to fuck over special needs kids. 154 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:19,079 R...Really? 155 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,199 Before I went away, I consulted an expert, Mark Ryan. 156 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:27,199 The LSE education guy? And what did that sandal-wearing nonce have to say? 157 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:29,800 Closing down special needs schools 158 00:07:29,839 --> 00:07:33,560 and putting needy kids into mainstream education is a lousy idea. 159 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:35,519 I've got an expert who will deny that. 160 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:38,800 SEN parents want the schools kept open. 161 00:07:38,839 --> 00:07:42,680 Yeah, well, my expert would totally oppose that. 162 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:43,959 Who is your expert? 163 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:46,160 No idea, but I can get one by this afternoon. 164 00:07:46,199 --> 00:07:50,800 You have spoken to the wrong expert. You've got to ask the right expert. 165 00:07:50,839 --> 00:07:54,120 You've got to know what an expert's going to advise before he advises. 166 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:58,759 Hugh, whether you like this or not, you are going to have to promote this Bill. 167 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:02,199 So what I'm going to do is, I'm going to get you another expert. 168 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:03,399 OK. 169 00:08:03,439 --> 00:08:06,600 But surely, Mr Smedley, 170 00:08:06,639 --> 00:08:10,360 inclusion has been shown to fail the most vulnerable SEN children. 171 00:08:10,399 --> 00:08:15,439 When inclusion's done badly, yes. Yes, you get bad results. That's a given. 172 00:08:15,480 --> 00:08:17,399 Inclusion is an illusion. 173 00:08:17,439 --> 00:08:19,920 Mark Ryan from the LSE was saying that 174 00:08:19,959 --> 00:08:22,199 when the special schools do get it right, 175 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:26,399 that the parents of SEN children absolutely fucking flock to... 176 00:08:26,439 --> 00:08:29,399 - You spoke to Mark Ryan? - Yeah, well, some expert advice. 177 00:08:29,439 --> 00:08:32,240 - Expert advice from Mark Ryan? - Yeah. 178 00:08:32,279 --> 00:08:33,480 - You have a problem with Ryan? 179 00:08:33,519 --> 00:08:36,200 - In educational circles, he's a joke. 180 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:38,200 - That's another given. - Is it? 181 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:40,440 - (E-mail alert) - Ah, sorry. 182 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:44,200 It's just that I'm expecting something quite important. 183 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:45,480 Is our e-mail up and running? 184 00:08:45,519 --> 00:08:48,279 No. No, no, this is my hotmail. 185 00:08:48,320 --> 00:08:50,679 Sorry, can you excuse me just erm... 186 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:58,120 (Smedley) We live in an inclusive society. 187 00:08:58,159 --> 00:09:00,200 We all rub shoulders together, Mr Cullen? 188 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:01,720 Indeed. 189 00:09:01,759 --> 00:09:04,440 Let's not let the Ryans of this world create... 190 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:06,600 - Sorry? - ..apartheid for children. 191 00:09:06,639 --> 00:09:09,960 The alternative is to isolate these kids in ghetto schools. 192 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,440 The minister won't be a moment. 193 00:09:12,480 --> 00:09:14,879 (Olly) Good spot for a suicide, I would think. 194 00:09:14,919 --> 00:09:17,320 Good long drop, appreciative audience. 195 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:20,120 What if you just broke your back? 196 00:09:20,159 --> 00:09:22,080 It'd leave you paralysed for life, 197 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:25,399 and you'd still be depressed about the thing that was depressing you. 198 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:29,200 - What are these hangy-down things? - (Olly) Acoustic baffles. 199 00:09:29,240 --> 00:09:31,039 They stop it getting too echoey. 200 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:34,159 So when you break your back, nobody can hear you scream. 201 00:09:34,200 --> 00:09:39,360 Well, that is the kind of attention to detail that you get in a PFI building. 202 00:09:39,399 --> 00:09:42,240 Hey! Get back to work, all of you! 203 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,600 Right, I'm off to Number Ten for this Cabinet summit 204 00:09:46,639 --> 00:09:50,759 with the PM and Education, try and swing this Bill around. 205 00:09:50,799 --> 00:09:53,679 Now, if it drags on can you phone my home and tell Kate? 206 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:57,600 She doesn't watch rolling news because she's a normal human being. 207 00:09:57,639 --> 00:10:00,279 (Parody accent) Yes, massah, I's a good slave! 208 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:04,200 - Can I say, that manner... - Something catastrophic has happened! 209 00:10:04,240 --> 00:10:06,320 Whoa! What's going on? 210 00:10:06,360 --> 00:10:10,600 I've just had a phone call from a man. He's got a child, he lives in Reigate. 211 00:10:10,639 --> 00:10:16,279 This child, she is called Glenn, after Glenn Close, and her surname is Cullen. 212 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:21,039 She's Glenn Cullen. And this morning, apparently, in her in... 213 00:10:22,240 --> 00:10:26,080 In the e-mail tray, she got a note, 214 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:28,519 and it used these words. "Christ", 215 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:29,799 and "cunt". 216 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:31,519 And apparently I sent it. 217 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:34,879 - No! - Anybody could use that computer. 218 00:10:34,919 --> 00:10:38,799 - Hugh, Glenn says can you head over? - Yes, I must, I must... 219 00:10:38,840 --> 00:10:42,080 Olly was using it. Olly was using it earlier. 220 00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:45,799 Did you send an e-mail, Olly, about me, calling me a cunt? 221 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:49,679 No. No, I never use that word, let alone about you. No. Absolutely. 222 00:10:49,720 --> 00:10:52,080 I won't use it until it's been fully normalised 223 00:10:52,120 --> 00:10:55,480 and has no further association with the female twat. 224 00:10:55,519 --> 00:10:57,960 - It was you! - We'll get to the bottom of this. 225 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,240 I've got to go off to Number Ten, but I absolutely give you my word. 226 00:11:01,879 --> 00:11:02,919 Look. 227 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:05,200 Hugh... 228 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:09,039 No, I didn't get any e-mail about Roy Smedley. Was it funny? 229 00:11:09,080 --> 00:11:11,200 Kind of. It was a bit sweary. 230 00:11:12,399 --> 00:11:14,000 At least he's served his purpose. 231 00:11:14,039 --> 00:11:16,759 We've now got some very useful material to trot out 232 00:11:16,799 --> 00:11:20,600 in case My Bloody Ballentine wants to know 233 00:11:20,639 --> 00:11:23,840 why you've done a U-turn in favour of inclusion. 234 00:11:23,879 --> 00:11:25,840 But I haven't. 235 00:11:25,879 --> 00:11:28,120 I'm going to take a fucking stand. I'm buggered if I let you down now. 236 00:11:28,159 --> 00:11:32,080 I'm going to go in to the PM and tell him straight up, this bill is bollocks. 237 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:33,519 No, you're not. 238 00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:35,039 No, I'm not, but it would be great if I did. 239 00:11:37,039 --> 00:11:39,039 Another little bit of my soul chipped away. 240 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:40,120 Don't worry about it. 241 00:11:40,159 --> 00:11:42,240 (Frantic stonewalling) 242 00:11:45,799 --> 00:11:49,600 Hugh, the Guardianweb site has broken the e-mail thing. 243 00:11:49,639 --> 00:11:52,480 In the final edition, here, of the Standard 244 00:11:52,519 --> 00:11:55,480 I am suddenly a major news story. 245 00:11:55,519 --> 00:11:57,240 Sweary Woman Of Whitehall. 246 00:11:57,279 --> 00:11:59,000 Sweary Woman Of Whitehall. A pun. 247 00:11:59,039 --> 00:12:01,320 It's not really punning on anything, is it? 248 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:04,519 How do you appear out of nowhere in a building made of glass? 249 00:12:04,559 --> 00:12:08,399 I'm a shape shifter. I don't need this, get this fucking sorted. 250 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:10,919 What is wrong with you? Having a nervous breakdown? 251 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:14,039 Get on top of it, OK? You will see me again. 252 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,000 I don't want this, Hugh. I don't want to be the story. 253 00:12:17,039 --> 00:12:22,600 The Sunare running a cartoon with you being arrested by a cuntstable. 254 00:12:22,639 --> 00:12:25,799 - Olly, don't be such a bastard. - Hey, whoa, turd tonsils. 255 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:29,600 That's quite enough of that, Olly. Just knock it off, OK. 256 00:12:29,639 --> 00:12:33,039 Terri, Terri, come with me. Come here. 257 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:37,960 Just fucking act your age. We've had enough of your puerile influence. 258 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,519 Actually, I think I might have an idea about... 259 00:12:40,559 --> 00:12:44,600 Just...just tell me, truthfully, 260 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:47,159 did you send that e-mail? 261 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:49,639 No, I didn't. 262 00:12:51,879 --> 00:12:53,840 And you know I didn't. 263 00:12:56,240 --> 00:13:01,639 - What? I'm sorry? Are you inferring... - Implying. 264 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:05,039 - You're implying that...it was me? - Hmm. 265 00:13:06,679 --> 00:13:10,039 (Whispering) I saw you, Hugh. I saw you do it. 266 00:13:14,159 --> 00:13:16,159 (Floor creaking) 267 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:23,080 It...it was for Glenn, for our Glenn. 268 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:26,679 To amuse him when that prick man was in his office, 269 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:29,159 and I just typed in the wrong address. 270 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:31,799 It was a genuine mistake. 271 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:34,159 I didn't really see you. I was bluffing. 272 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:37,480 That doesn't bode well for your Select Committee performance. 273 00:13:37,519 --> 00:13:41,960 I knew you were bluffing. I admitted it because it's the right thing to do. 274 00:13:42,000 --> 00:13:45,000 Not because you'd caught me out. And I caught you out. 275 00:13:45,039 --> 00:13:48,039 You lied about seeing me do it. 276 00:13:48,080 --> 00:13:49,799 So, how do you like them apples? 277 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:52,519 Are you going to admit to this publicly? 278 00:13:52,559 --> 00:13:54,159 What? 279 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:57,759 No! Are you mad? I can't do that. That mustn't happen. You've got... 280 00:13:57,799 --> 00:14:00,600 - I need you to...to...to... - What? To lie? 281 00:14:00,639 --> 00:14:04,600 It was Derrida who said there is no such thing as empirical truth. 282 00:14:04,639 --> 00:14:08,240 I'll tell you what Derrida said. He said, "Go fuck your face, Abbot!" 283 00:14:08,279 --> 00:14:12,200 You need to mind your language. It will keep getting you into trouble. 284 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:14,360 I can't even get out of the fucking room! 285 00:14:14,399 --> 00:14:16,480 (Terri) Excuse me. 286 00:14:16,519 --> 00:14:19,919 Now to the meat of the Committee's interest. 287 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:24,240 You've made quite a U-turn on SEN schools, have you not, Minister? 288 00:14:24,279 --> 00:14:25,840 Why have you sold out? 289 00:14:25,879 --> 00:14:28,840 Sold out? That's rather an emotive way of putting it. 290 00:14:28,879 --> 00:14:31,399 But you are on record as having been in opposition 291 00:14:31,440 --> 00:14:33,480 to the policy of inclusion. 292 00:14:33,519 --> 00:14:38,759 No, it's just that times have changed and I have reassessed the landscape. 293 00:14:38,799 --> 00:14:41,759 We now have the funding for academies 294 00:14:41,799 --> 00:14:44,960 which will have two behaviour support teachers. 295 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,559 These Super Schools will offer skill clusters... 296 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:50,200 But we're not interested in that. 297 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:52,000 What the Committee are curious about is 298 00:14:52,039 --> 00:14:54,720 how it is that you've changed your mind, 299 00:14:54,759 --> 00:14:59,080 given your opposition to these policies in the past. 300 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:01,519 Did you seek specialist advice? 301 00:15:01,559 --> 00:15:04,799 Well, naturally. I sought expert advice. 302 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,000 Yes. Who? 303 00:15:07,039 --> 00:15:09,399 - Roy Smedley. - And? 304 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:12,559 And...he was very good. 305 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:17,799 And his was the only advice you took? 306 00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:21,399 You saw only one expert? 307 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:22,799 Yes. 308 00:15:25,399 --> 00:15:27,759 And you thought that was enough? Just one? 309 00:15:27,799 --> 00:15:32,039 - I tried to find somebody different. - And did you succeed? 310 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:33,679 - No. - No one? 311 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:35,039 No. 312 00:15:37,039 --> 00:15:38,360 How was that? 313 00:15:38,399 --> 00:15:40,399 I lied to the Select Committee. I lied. 314 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:43,879 - Is Tucker in the building? - Malcolm In The Middle. 315 00:15:43,919 --> 00:15:47,679 It's what they're calling him. He can stand in the atrium and shout. 316 00:15:47,720 --> 00:15:49,399 I don't want to see him. 317 00:15:49,440 --> 00:15:51,600 I can't take one of his scenes from The Exorcistjust now. 318 00:15:51,639 --> 00:15:53,600 I don't think Ballentine's on to anything. 319 00:15:53,639 --> 00:15:55,080 Oh, no? 320 00:15:55,120 --> 00:15:59,960 Well, why did she keep asking, "Just one expert? Only one? 321 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,399 "Less than three, but not two?" Fucking bitch! 322 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:05,440 She's trying to throw you off balance, like a Sumo wrestler. 323 00:16:05,480 --> 00:16:08,200 It worked. I was on the floor, in a fucking nappy. 324 00:16:08,240 --> 00:16:10,159 Oh, shit, it's Malcolm. 325 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:14,639 - A man in his 50s, hiding. - Look, he's gone. Hugh, come out. 326 00:16:14,679 --> 00:16:17,799 Get it in perspective. It's not a major lie. 327 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:20,799 It's not like you were selling naval secrets down a gay club. 328 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:23,799 Why does he never laugh with me like that? 329 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:25,240 (Olly) Lack of click? 330 00:16:25,279 --> 00:16:27,799 I thought I was a professional press officer. 331 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:29,240 I don't know. 332 00:16:29,279 --> 00:16:31,200 It just is absolute hell. 333 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:33,120 - Hi. - Oh, hello. 334 00:16:33,159 --> 00:16:36,879 - How is the... - I'm actually in a bit of a state here. 335 00:16:36,919 --> 00:16:38,399 Yeah. 336 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:40,279 Something cropped up that we need to talk about, 337 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:43,600 and then afterwards you can get on with whatever... You know. 338 00:16:43,639 --> 00:16:45,799 Don't you think that I'm due a bit of support? 339 00:16:45,840 --> 00:16:47,759 Yes, I do, I do. Absolutely. 340 00:16:47,799 --> 00:16:51,799 But my Committee thing is actually a bigger deal than your...sweary thing. 341 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:55,200 So, you know...it just is. 342 00:16:55,240 --> 00:16:57,799 - Hi, Malcolm. - Were you hiding just now? 343 00:16:57,840 --> 00:16:59,399 No. 344 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:02,039 Terri, you're giving a press conference in 90 minutes. 345 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:03,360 You're going to apologise. 346 00:17:03,399 --> 00:17:05,599 There's your statement. Learn it. 347 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:08,400 Erm...I organise the press conferences. 348 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:10,400 - I don't give them, normally. - Oh, God! 349 00:17:10,440 --> 00:17:13,240 As you're not used to this, I'll go through it for you. 350 00:17:13,279 --> 00:17:16,160 What happens is this. A bunch of press people appear. 351 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:18,839 They have things called cameras and microphones, 352 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:21,160 and mobile phones, hangovers and bad breath. 353 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:26,839 Then you are going to walk out and read from what we call a prepared statement. 354 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:28,440 In that, you will say, 355 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:30,000 "I'm really fucking sorry 356 00:17:30,039 --> 00:17:33,000 "for sounding like a hairy arsed docker after 12 pints. 357 00:17:33,039 --> 00:17:36,759 "I promise that I will never call an eight-year-old girl a cunt again. 358 00:17:36,799 --> 00:17:40,240 "Can we now just draw a line over this and fucking move on? Thank you." 359 00:17:40,279 --> 00:17:42,759 Everybody goes home and we see what happens. 360 00:17:42,799 --> 00:17:44,720 The best case is you keep your job, 361 00:17:44,759 --> 00:17:47,079 although you will be The Sweary Woman of Whitehall. 362 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:50,079 This first Mark Ryan meeting would be in the diary. 363 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:53,720 Do you want us to see if we could post that down the memory hole? 364 00:17:53,759 --> 00:17:55,799 I mean, diaries do get lost, don't they? 365 00:17:55,839 --> 00:17:57,319 Well, yes. 366 00:17:57,359 --> 00:17:59,799 - We've lost a few diaries in our time. - Well, erm... 367 00:17:59,839 --> 00:18:02,799 Listen, do it subtly. I don't want to know about it. 368 00:18:02,839 --> 00:18:05,400 - I mean, do it, but don't tell me. - OK. 369 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:07,799 - Do I know? - Yeah. No. I don't know. 370 00:18:07,839 --> 00:18:10,720 - Do I? - Don't... You sort it out. 371 00:18:10,759 --> 00:18:12,240 Do I know? 372 00:18:12,279 --> 00:18:14,799 Sort it out but don't tell me because I don't want to know. 373 00:18:14,839 --> 00:18:18,000 I don't think you quite get it. My life is in tatters. 374 00:18:18,039 --> 00:18:22,440 Nobody will speak to me at my daughter's school. Why should I lie for Hugh? 375 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:25,599 Because it's your job to make him look good. 376 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:28,480 What kind of a PR person are you, anyway? 377 00:18:28,519 --> 00:18:30,799 I mean, look. Hey, hey, hey, hey! 378 00:18:30,839 --> 00:18:34,000 Are you going to take a bad story and make it worse? 379 00:18:34,039 --> 00:18:35,799 You say, "Oh, hi there, everyone. 380 00:18:35,839 --> 00:18:39,000 "I know this looks bad, but wait till you hear this. 381 00:18:39,039 --> 00:18:42,599 "It was actually the Minister for Social Affairs and Citizenship 382 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:44,200 "who called a child a cunt. 383 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:46,519 "There you are, it is worse than we thought." 384 00:18:46,559 --> 00:18:51,599 If you were to go out there and tell the truth, 385 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:54,400 it would be morally repugnant. 386 00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:56,880 Because you would be condemning 387 00:18:56,920 --> 00:19:01,599 a guy who's doing his fucking best to try and make things better. 388 00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,319 You'd be condemning him to the scrapheap. 389 00:19:04,359 --> 00:19:06,599 (Terri) Right... (Malcolm) OK? 390 00:19:06,640 --> 00:19:08,839 - Yes. - Good girl. Get Robyn, she'll help you. 391 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:11,480 Robyn, can you help her go over her lines? 392 00:19:11,519 --> 00:19:15,000 It was interesting, watching you talking about the truth, 393 00:19:15,039 --> 00:19:18,799 because I had a similar problem today, funnily enough. 394 00:19:18,839 --> 00:19:19,880 Really? 395 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:21,880 At the Committee, I didn't... 396 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:25,400 Well, unwittingly, I didn't tell the entire truth. 397 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:28,200 - You lied? To Claire Ballentine? - Yeah. 398 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:29,559 Does she know? 399 00:19:29,599 --> 00:19:31,400 I don't think so. She couldn't possibly. 400 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:33,279 That doesn't matter, then. 401 00:19:33,319 --> 00:19:36,440 I lied to the Select Committee. It's like lying to the House. 402 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:40,200 Yeah, I know. But if she doesn't know, then it doesn't matter, Hugh. 403 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:42,400 Excuse me, but I can't be fielding calls. 404 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:45,640 I have got a lot of lines to learn. It's Ballentine's office. 405 00:19:45,680 --> 00:19:48,480 They want Departmental diaries from the last 12 weeks. 406 00:19:48,519 --> 00:19:50,640 - Shit! - She's on to us, she must be. 407 00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:52,839 - Why else... - Have you got the diaries? 408 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:54,599 Yes, in a sense. 409 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:58,000 Olly might be doing something with the diaries 410 00:19:58,039 --> 00:20:00,799 I don't know about because he hasn't told me. 411 00:20:00,839 --> 00:20:04,079 Well, you get him to undo what you don't know he's doing. 412 00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:05,599 I can't. I don't know he's doing it. 413 00:20:05,640 --> 00:20:08,680 Hugh, go and get Olly and Glenn in here. 414 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:11,720 This is serious. You have lied to a Select Committee. 415 00:20:11,759 --> 00:20:14,480 - I told you that. - That's like lying to the House. 416 00:20:14,519 --> 00:20:17,079 - That's what I said. - They're on to you! 417 00:20:17,119 --> 00:20:18,920 Jesus Christ! 418 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:21,559 Malcolm, do you think this is too bright? 419 00:20:21,599 --> 00:20:22,960 It's too bright. 420 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,000 Can you please, Robyn, go to the Sketchley concession 421 00:20:25,039 --> 00:20:26,640 and get my grey suit? Now. 422 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:29,720 Do I look ten? Do I look like I'm on some bloody... 423 00:20:29,759 --> 00:20:32,839 Please, just do it. Get the suit. 424 00:20:32,880 --> 00:20:35,759 - Can I have the money? - Don't you get paid? 425 00:20:35,799 --> 00:20:37,119 Have you got the diaries? 426 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:38,799 - Yes. - I don't know. 427 00:20:38,839 --> 00:20:42,200 - We've not shredded anything. - I don't want to hear this. 428 00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,440 Hugh, take your fingers out of your fucking ears. 429 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:48,880 You're going to go to the Committee tomorrow and you're going to apologise. 430 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:53,839 I'll tell them I forgot. Forgetting's an involuntary thing. It's like farting. 431 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:55,240 (Rapping on glass) 432 00:20:55,279 --> 00:20:56,880 (Terri) Malcolm! 433 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:00,599 - What? - You were meant to be dealing with me. 434 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:03,400 The worst that can happen to you is you'll lose your job. 435 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:05,839 - I'm going to lose my reputation. - Grow up. 436 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:09,240 - You should be doing the growing up. - I am a fucking grown-up. 437 00:21:09,279 --> 00:21:12,599 - You could have fooled me! - Glenn's son could have fooled you. 438 00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:14,359 No offence, Glenn. 439 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,759 You two get the paper trail sorted and get your story sorted out. 440 00:21:17,799 --> 00:21:19,839 I'm sorry, can you stop swearing? 441 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,200 I'm really sorry. You won't hear any more swearing from us, 442 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:25,079 you massive, gay shite! 443 00:21:25,599 --> 00:21:28,200 Fuck off! 444 00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:32,559 Right, how are you doing in sorting out whether he lied or not? 445 00:21:32,599 --> 00:21:34,480 - Pretty well. - Is that a lie? 446 00:21:34,519 --> 00:21:37,039 - Yeah. - That is not fucking funny, you retard. 447 00:21:37,079 --> 00:21:40,400 I'm sorry about that, Glenn. The situation just... 448 00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:41,839 Here she comes. 449 00:21:48,319 --> 00:21:50,240 (Hugh) That fucking sofa! 450 00:21:50,279 --> 00:21:54,160 I would like to offer my sincere and unreserved apologies 451 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,480 for the terrible outrage caused by the e-mail that I sent. 452 00:21:57,519 --> 00:22:02,599 It was never meant to be read by anybody other than the intended recipient. 453 00:22:03,839 --> 00:22:06,640 - I understand that the... - Oh, for... 454 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:08,960 - What the hell's he... - Twat! 455 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,799 ..language I used in the e-mail... 456 00:22:10,839 --> 00:22:13,920 He doesn't realise that if you walk in front of the camera... 457 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:17,480 ..like that in an internal departmental conversation, 458 00:22:17,519 --> 00:22:19,480 or any conversation. 459 00:22:19,519 --> 00:22:22,799 I wish I had never sent the e-mail, 460 00:22:22,839 --> 00:22:26,039 and indeed, I find it hard to believe that I did. 461 00:22:26,079 --> 00:22:28,599 Whoa, she's gone off script here. 462 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:30,559 Fucking hell, Terri, what...? 463 00:22:30,599 --> 00:22:35,759 ..momentary lapse in restraint... and that... 464 00:22:35,799 --> 00:22:39,200 - OK, we're back on track. - Thank God. 465 00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:42,200 ..and I wish to apologise that I've let down 466 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:46,599 the electorate, the minister, my colleagues, 467 00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:48,799 my own family... 468 00:22:48,839 --> 00:22:50,759 (Glenn) Even though half of them are dead. 469 00:22:50,799 --> 00:22:53,119 ..and indeed, the voters of the future... 470 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:55,279 - Our children. - ..our children. 471 00:22:55,319 --> 00:22:57,039 Now get off. 472 00:22:57,079 --> 00:23:01,240 Brilliant, Malcolm. Fucking stunning. Well done, mate. 473 00:23:01,279 --> 00:23:03,519 OK, we've got to get upstairs 474 00:23:03,559 --> 00:23:06,519 and start rehearsing for tomorrow's Select Committee. 475 00:23:06,559 --> 00:23:09,839 I'm never going to get out of this fucking building, am I? 476 00:23:10,120 --> 00:23:13,400 Do you remember when I came to see Peter's concert at his school? 477 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,960 His face? The pride he had when he played? 478 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:19,640 - His face etched in my memory. - Yeah? 479 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:21,440 Fucking unbearable. 480 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:25,599 That's why I needed Malcolm's expert to try and wipe it from my mind. 481 00:23:25,640 --> 00:23:29,000 - It hasn't really worked, though. - Hugh, mate, don't panic. 482 00:23:29,039 --> 00:23:33,359 You'll manage. Just do what you have to do. Whatever you have to do, do it. 483 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,480 Just make sure that you don't get sweat on your upper lip. 484 00:23:36,519 --> 00:23:37,920 It makes you look guilty. 485 00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,000 - What am I supposed to do? - I've no idea. 486 00:23:40,039 --> 00:23:43,720 But if you sweat, it makes your face look like Spam. 487 00:23:43,759 --> 00:23:45,200 It has come to the Committee's notice 488 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:48,720 that you did not see just one special adviser, 489 00:23:48,759 --> 00:23:53,079 as you told us in your previous appearance, but two. 490 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:55,279 Why did you omit to mention that fact? 491 00:23:55,319 --> 00:23:59,319 Yes, I apologise unreservedly for that oversight. 492 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:02,559 - I forgot. - Are you forgetful generally? 493 00:24:02,599 --> 00:24:07,079 Well, it's hard to know... erm...how forgetful one is. 494 00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:12,200 You'd have to remember all the things you'd remembered and forgotten. 495 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,680 And how could I remember what I've forgotten, 496 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:16,839 because I've forgotten it, by definition? 497 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,720 I'm pretty good. If I see a picture of the Queen, I can put a name to a face. 498 00:24:20,759 --> 00:24:22,720 And if I see a movie, I don't sit there, going, 499 00:24:22,759 --> 00:24:26,400 "Who's that one? The copper or the pirate?" 500 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:29,599 So you just accidentally told a slight untruth? 501 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:35,440 I... My statement was unintentionally not a truthful statement. 502 00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:38,720 - I...I...I slightly misled... - You completely misled. 503 00:24:38,759 --> 00:24:42,480 I misled the Committee and I have apologised for that. 504 00:24:42,519 --> 00:24:45,119 Are you lying now about not lying before? 505 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,839 Erm...no. I am not a liar. 506 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:52,880 I categorically did not knowingly...not tell the truth. 507 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:57,000 Even though unknowingly I might not have done. 508 00:24:57,039 --> 00:24:59,960 I wanted to come back and apologise to the Committee... 509 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,240 Glad to be of service, but you didn't want to come back, Minister. 510 00:25:03,279 --> 00:25:05,680 You were told to come back. 511 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:08,279 The last thing in the world you wanted was to come back, 512 00:25:08,319 --> 00:25:10,960 given how busy you have been. 513 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,680 Interestingly enough, we do notice from your diaries 514 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,400 that your meeting with Roy Smedley 515 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:18,720 seems to have taken place at almost the same time 516 00:25:18,759 --> 00:25:21,680 as the notorious sweary e-mail was sent. 517 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,799 I was in that meeting, so I couldn't possibly have sent it. 518 00:25:24,839 --> 00:25:28,640 I wasn't suggesting... It was your Chief Press Officer. 519 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,559 Yes, it was. And her father's just died. 520 00:25:31,599 --> 00:25:34,319 I'm sorry to hear that. No one was suggesting... 521 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:37,240 No, no, and quite right, too. But you know what people are like. 522 00:25:37,279 --> 00:25:41,400 Going back to my, erm...initial concern, it would now seem that 523 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:45,599 the two meetings you had with the two special education advisers 524 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:49,319 provided you with two opposing verdicts on this particular issue. 525 00:25:49,359 --> 00:25:51,079 Yet you came up with one. 526 00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:53,680 So would it be therefore true to say that the Government 527 00:25:53,720 --> 00:25:57,039 is intent on pushing this through regardless of what anyone says? 528 00:25:57,079 --> 00:26:01,960 No. We wanted two opinions because we wanted to start a debate. 529 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:05,519 Not much of a debate if you ignore one and just go with the other. 530 00:26:05,559 --> 00:26:09,240 It's a personal thing, but if government isn't personal, 531 00:26:09,279 --> 00:26:10,720 then what the hell is it? 532 00:26:10,759 --> 00:26:14,200 My senior adviser, Glenn Cullen, 533 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:18,160 has a son, his name is Peter, 534 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,359 and he has special educational needs. 535 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,400 Glenn obviously wouldn't say anything about it. 536 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,240 He's far too professional. 537 00:26:25,279 --> 00:26:31,880 But I had the privilege of going down with Glenn to Peter's SEN school, 538 00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:36,640 and watched Peter playing the trombone in the school orchestra. 539 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:39,839 It wasn't very good. 540 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:43,200 Erm... He struggled manfully. 541 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,799 And Glenn leaned over to me, and he said, 542 00:26:46,839 --> 00:26:50,519 you know, "If only this was a Super School." 543 00:26:50,559 --> 00:26:52,759 Inclusion is not an illusion. 544 00:26:53,640 --> 00:26:55,400 And... 545 00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:58,000 I think that tipped the balance for me. 546 00:26:58,039 --> 00:27:00,039 It's a personal thing. 547 00:27:05,599 --> 00:27:07,079 (Glenn exhaling) 548 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,559 - Say something. - Well, what is to say? 549 00:27:12,599 --> 00:27:14,400 I can't believe you did that. 550 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,400 You said do what you have to do. 551 00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:19,000 I understand that, and I know nothing is sacred. 552 00:27:19,039 --> 00:27:23,160 - But I didn't mean for you to do that. - Were you misleading me? 553 00:27:23,200 --> 00:27:28,799 - Don't give me that bollocks. - I...I'm sorry. OK? I'm really sorry. 554 00:27:28,839 --> 00:27:31,559 Do you know, I wish I'd kept Peter's trombone. 555 00:27:31,599 --> 00:27:35,200 If I had, I'd shove it up your arse, wide end first. 556 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:40,359 Listen, you're the best senior adviser anybody could want, and... 557 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,119 Come on, you're my best pal. 558 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,839 - OK. - So, am I...? 559 00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:53,960 (Hugh) Hello. Are you all right? 560 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,000 Very strong performance, by the way, the apology. 561 00:27:57,039 --> 00:28:00,000 So you think you can get round me with compliments, do you? 562 00:28:00,039 --> 00:28:03,079 I understand I'm not your favourite chocolate in the box, 563 00:28:03,119 --> 00:28:06,839 but I appreciate everything, and I will fight for you, 564 00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:08,839 irrespective of what you did. 565 00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:13,200 What I did? I didn't do it, Hugh! Do you remember, you sent the e-mail! 566 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:14,720 - I forgot. - Forgot? 567 00:28:14,759 --> 00:28:16,440 No, not forgot. 568 00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:18,799 I can't get anything right at the moment. I'm going to go away. 569 00:28:18,839 --> 00:28:22,799 Go to the gents. Look at the man standing in front of you in the mirror, 570 00:28:22,839 --> 00:28:26,039 and say, "Can I live with him? Can I?" 571 00:28:26,079 --> 00:28:28,200 - You're in there. - I don't know what else can go wrong. 572 00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,799 Unless the energy system sets fire to my office and puts it out 573 00:28:31,839 --> 00:28:34,559 by squirting liquefied shit through the sprinklers. 574 00:28:34,599 --> 00:28:37,599 - Malcolm's coming this way. - Oh, God. 575 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:41,000 Check out. Malcolm Tucker is leaving the building. 576 00:28:41,039 --> 00:28:42,279 Oh, right. 577 00:28:42,319 --> 00:28:45,200 I want to say well done, you slippery fuck. 578 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,200 You should be able to weasel your way out 579 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,279 and come back smelling like a perfumed trollop. 580 00:28:49,319 --> 00:28:51,200 - Thank you. - No problem. 581 00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,400 Hey, I'm going to have a swear box installed on Monday, by the way. 582 00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:56,960 - What? - Fucking joking, you twat. 583 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:58,200 Right. 584 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,839 - I'm in turbo. Laters. - Yeah. 585 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:02,720 (Malcolm) Oi! How're you doing? 586 00:29:02,759 --> 00:29:04,440 (Heavy sigh) 587 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,680 - Good night. - Good night. 49698

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