He's being a nuisance to me.

He also has got plans to squeeze your department so hard you'll

be lucky if you're left with one bollock between the three of you.

So all I am doing here is asking you, formally, if you will join me in a little bit of a circle jerk.

Circle jerk, what? It's when a lot of guys in a circle all, you know...

I assume you don't mean literally, do you? Presumably?

Tony Mac in the lobby, you know him, right?

Yeah. Call him, tell him that you're getting it that Nicholson

is going to get Foreign Sec in the reshuffle, via a seat. Tony. Hi, how's it dangling? Yeah?

Listen, I just want to run something past you.

I wonder if you're hearing... I've been hearing,

that Nicholson's going to be getting, er, Foreign Sec.

Hugh, who is your top mate in the Commentariat?

Colin Sykes? Colin Sykes?

Yeah. That's your top mate? Yeah.

Call him up. Hi Colin. Yes, it's Hugh Abbott speaking, how are you?

Yeah, you got a decent backhand yet, have you? Hugh, Hugh Abbott, we played tennis together.

Yeah. I know it's probably bollocks, but that's what we all thought when Jim was up for Home Secretary,

next thing, he's given up the Columbian Marching Powder and taken up the Sacraments.

Foreign Secretary is exactly where he should be.

I mean, he's a smart guy, he works hard. Cath, yeah,

I dunno where that's come from. I've been getting that as well.

At one point I think I called him a dog rapist. Stonewall them, OK, I'll talk to the boss, right.

Now I've got to phone the Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Alright, boss?

Yeah, look, I'm really sorry to interrupt you, but we're getting hit blind-side down here.

Stuff about Julius Nicholson. Cath and I's phones are both white hot.

Stuff about him becoming Foreign Sec. Is there...?

Am I out of the loop here?

The person that's most likely to be getting his mates

to be putting this kind of stuff around, is Julius Nicholson.

You put so much hope in them, and they always let you down.

I think maybe Julius needs to have his wings clipped a wee bit,

you know? Do you want to do it?

I think you're right. I think it's better that I just have a little chat.

I'll see you in the morning. Bye.