[Urquhart and Elizabeth are watching architects chart the grounds of Parliament for a memorial to Margaret Thatcher]
The Margaret Thatcher Memorial. Is there really no way of preventing it?
It would seem not. It's all been paid for out of the Foundation. And the site was earmarked fifteen years ago, apparently. For a time, there seemed some possibility of putting it up in Grantham. Where no one would have to look at it.
Except the unfortunate inhabitants. Where is Grantham, anyway?
No one seems quite sure.
Couldn't the Arts Council do something about it?
You forget, my dear. We abolished the Arts Council a year ago.
Of course. Department of National Heritage?
No, not their pigeon, apparently. It seems the best we can hope for is to keep the scale of that thing down and perhaps plan a somewhat larger memorial of oneself to stand nearby.
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