The department's Healthy Living initiative launch proceeded during Communications Director Malcolm Tucker's unprecedented absence from Westminster.
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rockets, rainbow coloured ice cream,

the sort of stuff that kids have at their parties.

Blimey, more, what are we doing, opening up a dolphinarium?

Good, sorted,

so, where were we? Healthy eating.

Beneficial lifestyle choices.

Get in! What?

I've just landed Andy Murray.

Yeah! That's brilliant.

Andy Murray, Andy Murray, the face of healthy choices.

The tennis player. No, the fucking pianist.

Nicola Murray nets Andy Murray.

Well, we've both netted him together.

Are you sure you want him. Murray?

Doesn't it sound like nepotism? Like, in the way that people think Russ and Diane Abbott are related?

And Bill Murray's her father. OK, I'll level with you, I don't like him.

Who would you suggest then, Terri?

Paula Radcliffe. Pooey Paula. That's not healthy.

Shitting in your own pants, that's definitely not a healthy image.

She could demonstrate how to do the hop, shit and jump.

That is very unfair. It only happened once.

Once is all you need. Imagine if Bruce Forsyth, at

end of that and quite rightly.

Terri, can we move on from your hatred of Andy Murray

and can we start trailing a major DoSAC initiative.

Don't give any details at this stage, just say, it's major, TBA. TBA?

To be announced. It's really self-defeating if I have to explain abbreviations to you, FFS.

What's FFS? Oh, for fuck...

Oh, we are going to need Malcolm clearance, Ollie. Glenn, can you get rid of all this water?

It looks like something out of fucking Doctor Who.

Here they come, it's the Flying Scot's curry.

# Where's your Papa Dom? #

You've got to try this aubergine, it's cooked in ghee.

I fucking love ghee, it's fucking freebase and butter.

Have some more wine, get quaffing.

Christ, here we go. No, we don't do take away.

See, if this is recorded spam, I'm going to hunt you down and burst your fucking lungs.

Where actually are you, Malcolm?

Where are you on holiday? Where?

Right, OK, I'm in Thailand in a sex bar. About to get an fucking facial.

Right, quick summary, Andy Murray, famous tennis player, also lovely Scotch person,

face of healthy lifestyle choices.

Nicola Murray, slightly panicky

Andy Pandy, fucking Gandhi had a

hand shandy, what ever, just fuck off out of my life, OK?

Okey-dokey.

The man from Hell Monte, he say, "Fucking aye."

Sorry about that, everybody's heard about the cooking, so...

Malcolm, what's all this about?

Well, I know these are hard times for print journalists, yeah?

I read that on the internet. One day you're writing for the papers and the next you're sleeping under them.

Right, so this is like Malcolm Tucker's soup kitchen.

Well, it is kind of in a way.

I just think you should have one, big square meal before you end up fucking

living off White Lightning and your own faeces. Come on, get stuck in.

bringing back Steve Fleming, kind of makes you old news, doesn't it?

Are you repositioning yourself, Malcolm?

This is about a guy sharing his ghee, that's it. OK.

So you're not currying favour, then? SHE LAUGHS

Sorry! Fuck you, get out of my house, get out of my house.

No wonder nobody's fucking buying your paper.

holiday for 10 years.

Malcolm's got to keep moving or he's dead. He's like a shark or Bob Dylan.

Who's driving the bus? Morning, morning, DoSAC.

Bollocky bollocks. It's the Ghost of Christmas Shit.

There's your answer, Terri. There's the man driving the bus.

That's Reg bloody Varney, all stops to electoral oblivion, ding-ding.

Get into my office, come on, it'll buy us a bit of time.

I've never seen Steve Fleming in the flesh. You're lucky.

He looks like a Lego policeman.

Look at him. Super Mario.

Morning, campers! Hi!

Steve Fleming! Hello...OK!

Hello, Nicola!

Hi! You look like you've lost some weight.

Do I? I don't think so, but...

I think so, yes.

Your face looks quite gaunt. Muscly.

Does it now?

I come bearing caffeinated gifts.

Thank you, that's very thoughtful. Thank you very much.

I'm going to cut to the chase. I need you to publish...

..all the crime stats since 2004

as an accompaniment to our transparent government launch.

From 2004 up to the last quarter.

OK, we are just about to launch healthy choices with...Andy Murray!

Andy Murray, ace!

We'll make a minister of you yet.

After that, we can try and get you something for, say, end of the week.

After, why after? Why not right alongside?

Or, here's a thought...

before.

Because we're under resourced and it's not a priority.

The PM thinks it is a priority.

It CAN be done.

Oh, I seem to have reached the end of my argument!

OK, well, look, why don't we say Thursday lunchtime?

You've got Fran's leaving. I have got a lunch.

Thursday afternoon.

I don't give a fuck about Fran's leaving lunch.

I'm saying now, now, now, now, now, now.

OK, chillax, we're on the case, Steve.

Lovely. Thank you very much.

OK, well it's a delight to see you.

Oh, another one.

THEY LAUGH

Bye-bye. Bye, bye.

What you call that? Obsessive repulsive disorder, I would say.

about this. "Caffeinated gifts!"

Malcolm never bought us coffee, I like him.

Yes, well, you like bath salts. You're basically an idiot.

Mmm-mmm.

Sorry I can't do espressos but I've made this so thick and black it will be like fucking drinking plimsolls.

him last time.

All right.

Right, OK. Off the record, right, OK?

While Steve is a useful tool, and I do emphasise the word useful here, I'm still running the show, right?

If you're still running the show, why do you need to tell us?

Geoffrey, all I'm saying is this, it would be very much fucking appreciated if you could emphasise

the fact that I'm at the heart of government because it's fucking true.

I AM the heart. I am the ventricles

show. It's not for me to say.

No, you're still the star of the show, until they start wheeling out the celebrities.

What's next, Malcolm, Ant and Dec as the new fucking litter tsars.

That's when you know you are 20 points behind in the polls.

Oh, well, thank you very much, Mr fucking Prick Robinson.

Nicola, it's your nephew on the phone. What?

Your nephew, Andy Murray.

On the line, now?

It's Andy Murray on the line.

What line? Press 2.

He's not there, Terri.

Maybe it was three. God, it drives me insane. Is he there now? Yes.

Hang on. Really pisses me off, the fucking phones in this whole...

Andy, hello! It's Nicola Murray, yes, what a delight to talk to you.

'Hi, Malcolm.' Ollie. Andy Murray.

Oh, good, we are literally confirming him as we speak.

Ditch him. We can't go with celebrities, right. It's just going to look bad. Why?

'Were going to look desperate, right?' Well, Steve Fleming likes the idea.

you're on, there's another thing.

transparent government initiative.

'Is that all right with Daddy?' It's fine.

Really, because Nicola's got that baffled, panicky look like a child on a ghost train.

Give me second while I look up my file of things I really don't give a fuck about.

And here we have under the letter N we've got, nail-bombing golf clubs,

Newcastle, Nicola Murray, yes. She's still there.

So fucking can Andy Murray and get on with the fucking crime stats.

I'll make sure Kate liaises with my press whiz kid, Terri Coverley.

She's a woman. But, listen, if there's anything else we can do for you, please don't hesitate to call.

Dare I say it, we are here to serve, if you'll excuse the pun!

All right, Andy, take care, bye.

Malcolm says we have to drop him.

What?! Andy, he's not in, he is now out, apparently, according to Malcolm,

sent to bed without any barley water.

But he's an fucking tennis player. We're not asking Shane MacGowan, why?

looks desperate.

It's the sign of a dying government. We are a dying government!

Our hair's falling out and we are coughing up blood and our kids are asking us to change the will!

He was quite clear about this. He said kill it, kitten, breeze-block, sack, canal.

you've got to get on to... Me?

Andy Murray's people and find a polite way of saying piss off, Andy,

apparently you're too well known to front our public awareness campaign.

Excellent.

Fuck me. What's the hell's this? It appears to be a trolley full of crime stats.

Vandalism, bicycle theft, oh, this is ridiculous!

Well, that's given us an unexpected head start, well done.

add you to the fucking figures.

Think about what you are going to say. OK, I've done that.

What, already? Is that enough time. Kate, hello, Terri Coverley.

Yes. We are thrilled about Andy being on board. Get on with it.

No, I'm not actually saying...

End the call.

Steve Fleming's here. Put the phone down.

Ah...Nicola Murray!

How are the crime stats coming along?

It's not easy, Steve, as you can see but Glenn and Ollie are on top of it.

"Other theft", what the fuck is "other theft"? If you want to stay late or

through the night on this?

It would be very much appreciated upstairs.

Well, I'm an atheist.

By the Prime Minister.

I did get the joke, by the way.

(Well done.)

Good morning, good morning, good morning. I'm back!

I'm sorry I left my sombrero at home, but here I am.

What do you think of the tan? What do you think about this shade? I call it custard cancer. Thank you very much.

Where did you go? I went to Easter Island.

I thought I'd spend my time there re-chiselling all the statues so they looked like Westlife.

How about a coffee? Oh, I've sent you a link to Andy Murray's website,

there something you should see. Andy Murray's website.

Andy says, "Just agreed to lead the government's healthy choices campaign. Eat, live, be."

Well, fuck a Pot Noodle. Sam, prepare my horse.

I ride...to DoSAC!

Hello, Terri. Morning, Nicola. Who am I, Terri?

You're Nicola. Nicola Murray?

Secretary of State for Department of Affairs. That's right.

policy on his fucking website?

Ah, no, I know exactly why that is.

You didn't make the phone call, did you?

Nicola, in other really bad news, good morning, by the way.

This is about the crime stats? Some of the crime stats that we published, as it turns

out, were unverified and not ready for being in the public domain.

Marianne Swift at the Mail... Oh, swine-faced Swift.

That's the one. She noticed a drop in the figures for aggravated

burglary in the last quarter whereas when she checked it out...

There was no drop? Yeah.

Right, so Swine-face Swift and her piggy hack hog colleagues...

Exactly. So we are getting a lot of oinking on the phones.

So basically, what that means is the department, well,

essentially the royal you, seem to have massaged the crime figures.

Great, thank you Steve "fucking Nicola" Fleming.

Yes, he is an fucking...

ninny, isn't it? Bring my dispatch boxes. OK.

Carolgees, how's the wee comedy dog?

Welcome back, good holiday?

I hear your kitchen's lovely at this time of year.

Well, actually, I went to Spain.

Oh, nice. I went to Malaga. It was lovely.

I was golfing with Stephen Hawking.

He lied about his handicap.

Mind you, I never had to hire a golf buggy, I just sat in his lap.

Please, why do we have to be like this?

All this negative energy, come on!

we've got to work together so...

Do you know what,

that doesn't mean we have to like each other, does it? No. Sorry.

We both know we don't like each other, everybody knows that we are the Gallagher brothers of politics.

you're the fucking loutish prick.

That's a lovely analogy. You were the one who forced me out of the sodding band.

Come on, let's have a chat.

wouldn't fucking go, would you?

You had to hang on in there like a limpet up a whale's arse.

Why do you thrive so much on being disliked?

People hate me, good! Bring it on. Do know what they think about you?

I'm sure you're going to tell me. I'll tell you exactly what people say about you.

All right, go on then. Fuck all.

Oh, do they, fuck all? People have no fucking opinion about you.

You're like fucking Special K or fucking the Moody Blues.

That's you, white noise in the background. Do you find that funny?

No, I don't find anything you're saying funny whatsoever and I'll

tell you a home truth, Malcolm Tucker.

The people who are really hated in this country,

the people who are really hated are us, this government.

How about we stand together? Let's both be team players, shall we?

Were you the Einstein that OK'd this fucking Andy Murray thing at DoSAC

Times asking why the budget's been

pre-announced on Twitter by fucking Ryan Giggs.

Shit!

stats which DoSAC have published art unconfirmed projections."

Shit! That's DoSAC for you.

Come on, Malcolm, team players.

Bring me sunshine.

No, we are not manipulating the figures, somebody quite simply made a mistake.

No, I couldn't possibly say who.

Glen Cullen. Glen with one N.

We have actually decided to go in a different direction from Andy.

fucking hairdresser. Got any photos?

I'll get a photo of you in a minute with your cock nailed to the desk.

Hey, you want to see something that's really worth photographing, Steve Fleming at work, eh?

That the real master of spin.

He's Spinney fucking Hendrix.

Nicola, you and your department have screwed up.

I'd like to agree with the previous speaker only adding the words "fucking royally."

Oh, Jesus, are my being gang-bollocked?

Andy Murray's Henman fisting us in the press.

respect, Malcolm, the crimes stats cock-up is a much bigger deal.

This is such a great double act, isn't it? Good cock, bad cock.

I tell you what, why don't you go first? I need a wazz.

what the bloody hell happened?

Like you asked, we published the crime figures from 2004 up to the last quarter.

you dozy mare.

Up to, includes the thing you're going up to, right?

If you say count up to 20, it means count up to and include the number 20.

The events leading up to the Second World War do not include the Second World War.

We haven't got time for a semantic argument about this.

Do not fucking call me sweetheart.

I think you'll find Steve was addressing me, the tash is a bit of a giveaway. I'll draft a statement.

You fucking will not draft any fucking statement. I've been minding the shop.

You were fucking minding the shop and what happened?

A bunch of fucking school kids came in and fucking dropped

their trousers and fucking had a shit in aisle five.

Freudian nightmare of your head.

Could you two decide between you, in which order and from which direction I'm going to be shafted?

Andy, let me talk you through the decision.

We do need to go in a different direction.

We need to go black.

What? Sentiment, comedy?

Would you like to speak to Oliver Reeder? He's the sort of mastermind...

Don't tell him that. Fucking...

Hello... Hello, Mr Murray.

I can assure you that you'd remain my number-one choice...

but I put it together and I don't get to have the final say

on anything really,

in any section of my life at all, or even in my personal life. Stop digging.

Stop digging. Shut the fuck up.

Ignore him. Just come with me, come into my office.

Malcolm, Malcolm! Malcolm!

Sorry about this, everybody.

Goodbye, give my regards to the rest of the fucking Village People.

< Nicola, excuse me, it's Andy Murray,

he's insisting on talking to you.

Talk to him. What? Get him back on board.

Fucking talk to him. No. You cannot be serious!

Is that an attempt at a joke?

He told me to kill it, I've killed it.

Right now, some photos in the papers of a very boring man with tight white shorts is going to be a

very pleasant distraction from Steve's fucking crime stats abortion.

If we need a fucking celebrity, can we try somebody else?

Steve Redgrave. He's a boring fuck.

Lewis Hamilton. Fucking boring.

Boring fuck and fucking drives a car.

Fucking cyclist, are you fucking mental? Everybody hates cyclists.

< Paula Radcliffe.

And she's a boring fuck as well.

How about we just launch the policy without a celebrity? Oh, great idea(!)

"Hello there, hi, everyone, I, Nicola Murray would like to say to you

down on carbs."

Lads, let's get this crime stats cock-up sorted.

What have you got both got so far? We've been trying to think of a replacement for Andy Murray. Yeah.

Some of the women footballers, Jessica Clarke or Sue Smith.

Or Faye White.

I cannot believe the energy going into Andy Murray.

I can't...!

What's his problem?

at the heart of government,

need to talk to you. One second, please.

Listen, when that... When that incident occurred I was on holiday.

Are you saying to me that my wee caravan is a complete fucking waste of time?

And my stupid fucking wing mirror extensions?

The crime stats and Andy Murray, it's a double fault.

Listen, if you're not a prostitute or a pizza guy, fuck off.

Steve, could you eat or fuck whatever is at the door on your fucking way out, please?

No, thanks. ..How can I be held responsible?

For what? I've created a what among the government?

I've created a vibe?

Listen, son, the only fucking vibe you have to worry about is the one

that your wife hides in her knicker draw. ..I'm on top of this.

Fine, fine, I'm just saying I'll gladly lend you a hand if you feel the need to keep your head down.

give blow jobs to truckers.

I said fuck off!

Oh...! It's Lord Nicholson.

What an enormous...pleasure this is.

In fact, it's the Right Honourable, the Lord Nicholson of Arnage. Kissing of feet may commence.

You've got all your stuff ready for your official lording ceremony?

Have you got your mink thong and ermine colostomy bag?

I have to hide that unfortunately, can't wear it on the tube or the bus but I would.

It would be great larks, but there we go.

How about a coffee?

Well, if there's coffee going, I never say no to a nice cup of coffee.

Do you not drink coffee any more or is it all port and swans' blood these days?

Swan's blood, that does sound nice.

up this crime stats inquiry,

which, is in effect, an investigation into the facts...

You don't have to talk to me about that, do you? I was on my holidays then.

Didn't you get my postcard?

I'll speak to whomsoever I need to speak to, holiday or no holiday.

that's just you and Brian Sewell?

I'm going to leave you to it, frankly. So soon?

I'm going to make tracks as well.

The problem is that you're shifting from the man people love to hate

to the man people just hate.

From Simon Cowell to Piers Morgan. See you later and remember my door is always open.

I had no idea, no idea that it was Malcolm who drafted Fleming's resignation letter in 2003.

I forgot your political memory only goes back two issues of The Economist.

Hey, there's a reference to you here, Cullen. Where?

"Alleged to have assaulted an elderly aide at a party conference."

Elderly aide?

Elderly aide. It makes me sound like a fucking stair lift.

"Go to New York..."

Hey! Dora the Explorer. Still here then, Malcolm?

Time for a milky drink? Come on, come on in, I want to have a word with you.

There you go. How was Cabinet? Was it good? Is Tom looking after you?

You're all over the newspapers like a pissing puppy, Malcolm.

I think you'll find that's what we masters of the dark arts call a blip.

Tomorrow, that will all be old news.

It'll be like the fucking War Of The Roses or Aids, remember Aids?

Listen, Nicola, did Julius mention to you about his inquiry?

Yeah. The inquiry into the whole fucking crime stats cock-up? Yeah.

You know the phone call that came through to me from your office about the whole idea? Yeah, yeah.

It didn't happen, right? You want me to cover your back?

I want you to get the old inquiry screen out and slap it on factor 50, why not?

I tell you what, this is what I'll do, I'll get for you some very

good press attention for your fucking healthy choices nonsense.

How about that? I'll get you some big fucking healthy headlines.

You're in no position to give me anything.

You can't even get a fucking bagel cleaned up off your door. Do you mind?

Do you think I can't get it up any more, is that it?

You're looking at fucking Lazarus, sweetheart,

and not just plain Lazarus, I'm fucking self-raising Lazarus, right?

Yes, I'll tell Nicola to expect your call healthy choices sometime this afternoon. ..Well done, Malcolm.

He's very impressive, isn't he?

actually quite impressive. That's the thing about the evil, isn't it?

Their amazing work ethic.

How are the hacks? Ready to eat their own cocks.

not fucking Rangers' supporters.

I know they aren't.

I need 10 minutes, I need to Google some jokes about Andy Murray. Shall I go first? Warm them up.

audience with Peter fucking Bowles.

Tuesday meeting...

There he is, Screaming Lord Crutch.

I like the flunkies by the way, that's a very nice touch. A wee bit Graham Norton.

Don't needle me, Malcolm, not when people are under scrutiny.

I'm under scrutiny? Yes. Nosferatu.

That's really fucking scary. I'm walking on, we're moving on.

I'm Ian Botham, I'm walking on for hospice care.

How's it going with Lord...? I've not been in yet, I've been standing here for 20 minutes.

So if this phone call does come up...

No, no, that's a bit...!

Don't do that. I made it quite clear...

I saw... I thought Nicola was choking. She wasn't, she was laughing

retrospectively at your massive shiny head.

What happened, did you get heckled off?

Was the line "Taxi for Tom Selleck?"

Yeah. Can I have a quick word? Just five minutes.

So, Malcolm...

What is it? What's your problem? Have you fucking coughed up your own twin?

No, no, no, no...

I need to talk to Tom.

No, Tom isn't immediately available to you. Fuck off.

Malcolm, the Prime Minister respects you enormously.

Sam, get hold of Pat... Actually, I'm going to need that. That's an official Blackberry.

Fuck off!

Your five minutes starts now. Fuck off.

This is an acutely private moment, Julius.

Would it seem terribly rude if I asked you to shit off for five minutes? Yes, it would it.

Julius... Can you fuck off as well! Excuse me. Julius, what's the deal?

At the moment, Malcolm is getting the sack.

Shit.

Now? Literally, I mean... I'm actually in the sacking.

Minister has to say about that?

Listen to me a minute, the Prime Minister...

supports you fully in whatever you decide to do next.

You, fucking Nicola, tell them, fucking tell them there was no fucking phone call.

Speak, I fucking ask you, speak!

Open sesame!

I'm not here, Malcolm. You are fucking here.

Open your fucking mouth for once and say something. I'm not getting involved.

You fucking speak, you've always something to say.

I'm only a Cabinet Minister. Fuck off then! Don't fucking touch me.

Come on, Malcolm. You cannot fuck me, I am unfuckable.

I have never been fucked. And if you fucking try and fuck me,

you'll find my fucking arse will grow fucking fangs.

And fucking snap your cock off. Will you listen to me?

Let's hear it.

Listen to me for one second.

Go right ahead.

I told the press pack, would I?

That would be very, very unprofessional.

So there's no point in getting angry, because the show is over.

It's curtains. No curtain-call.

Everyone loved the show,

but it just wasn't buttering any parsnips any more, brother.

You don't have the fucking balls apart from that fucking inflated

fucking boil on the fucking end of your fucking neck...

Oh, look. Oh...

(Malcolm Tucker resigns.)

Looks pretty factual to me. Fuck this. Fuck this.

Kate, Kate...

It's Andy Murray's agent. Get her to piss off.

Hi... No, absolutely not.

Malcolm's gone! I'll call you back.

has resigned." Malcolm's resigned.

What? Tape the telly... Tucker's gone! He's resigned.

Happy days.

I just want to hug someone. Is this good? It feels good.

Are we sure it's good? Not because I don't want to hug you, Terri.

I'm not fucking finished.

You are finished though, that's what I've been trying...

What are you doing to her?

Don't worry. Leave her fucking alone.

Don't worry, it's all right.

launch. Where is it?

Need a bit of help. What is it?

Nicola, hi! He's gone. I know. Would you like a glass of wine?

No, thanks.

Fantastic. I know, yeah.

I've sorted everything out with Andy's agent. More or less...

celebrate. Shall I hold it under a hot tap? It's white wine.

A cold tap then.

What good is running it under a cold tap going to do? Don't do that, it looks awful.

cos that's where you fucking belong.

I didn't ask you to come back in. Would you leave my office, please?

As for you...

Malcolm, I'm sick to death...

Don't touch me, Malcolm. I will tell you this...

You shafted me, boy. I'll fucking strike you, Malcolm.

I warn you. Don't touch that scarf, that's Paul Smith. Twat!

You'll see me again.

You will fucking see me again.

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