The Thick of It2005

Hugh Abbot:
[on the phone, fter the Snooper Force announcement] Malcolm!

Malcolm Tucker:
What the f*** was that? Was this the whole Snooper Force thing from you?

Hugh Abbot:
Malcolm, I've talked to the PM and this is completely kosher as far as he's concerned. He gave the go-ahead and he said, you know, bounce the Treasury.

Malcolm Tucker:
Don't you realise, we have got 17 different issues we are fighting with the Treasury about?

Hugh Abbot:
I can hear that you are, as your usual, upset.

Malcolm Tucker:
I'll tell you why I am upset. I'm upset because these f***ing morons over at the Treasury, these people, they are so paranoid! If you don't tell them about stuff like this, if you don't even cc them on e-mail, they think you've started a palace coup!

Hugh Abbot:
Malcolm...

Malcolm Tucker:
You don't seem to understand that I am gonna have to mop up a f***ing hurricane of piss here from all of these neurotics! What did the Prime Minister actually say to you?

Hugh Abbot:
He actually said this is exactly the kind of thing we should be doing.

Malcolm Tucker:
What did he actually say?

Hugh Abbot:
He said this is exactly the sort of thing we should be doing.

Malcolm Tucker:
'SHOULD' be doing. 'Should' does not mean 'yes'.