The Thick of It (TV Series)

Spinners and Losers: Opposition Extra (2007)

Will Smith: Phil Smith

Quotes 

• 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 fuck off.

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

  Peter Mannion : Not actually to fuck 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 fuck off, but you're prettying it up.