The Thick of It2005

Phil Smith:
[on phone] Stewart is keen for you to go on News 24...

Emma Messinger:
He is going on News 24.

Peter Mannion:
...wants you to go on News 24, he wants you to do a bit of "praise him" "praise him" about the PM, you know go all backed in...

Peter Mannion:
Oh God no, sorry I really don't wanna do that.

Phil Smith:
No No of course you don't want to do that, no one wants to do that...

Emma Messinger:
What's he saying?

Phil Smith:
It's my phone call.

Emma Messinger:
Put him on loudspeaker will you.

Phil Smith:
I don't want to put him on loudspeaker... no I'm talking to him...

Emma Messinger:
[turns on the loudspeaker] Peter, hi it's Emma, listen Stewart says this really is the strategy.

Peter Mannion:
We're supposed to be the Opposition for Chrissakes, in the old days we wouldn't have been weeping over his grave, we'd have been pissing on it.

Emma Messinger:
If we start point scoring now, we're just going to look like opportunist weasels.

Peter Mannion:
Well, weasily done.

Emma Messinger:
What?

Peter Mannion:
It's "weasily done".

Phil Smith:
It's a joke.

Emma Messinger:
That was a joke?

Peter Mannion:
Tell Stewart I'm not doing it, tell him bollocks to it. Tell him to f*** off.

Emma Messinger:
Tell Stewart to... now Peter that's not a very good idea now is it?

Peter Mannion:
Not actually to f*** off, just make an excuse, pretty it up. But when you do tell him, make sure he knows, reading between the lines, that I told you to tell him to f*** off, but you're prettying it up.