Free apples! [throws ball]
Yes and ho!
Uh, free coffins. [throws ball]
Yes and ho!
Reduce the deficit with spending cuts.
Yes and ho!
Peter, Peter, I want to hear new ideas ricocheting off your synapses like a pinball, not just a two year old slogan.
Okay, Doctor Jazz, let's hear it. [throws ball]
We do away with computers.
Yes and h-
You idiot! That's fucking mental!
No blocking, Peter, only counterpoint. Do away with computers, what do we think? How will it affect us? Good idea? Bad idea?
Good idea for me, I wouldn't get anymore of your fucking emails. [Peter gets up]
Try and stay cross-legged if you can, but don't break the circle...
I'm 54, Stewart. My knees are fucked and my patience is snapped. Some of us had to go through this hippie shit the first time around.
I'm not talking about trying to sell it to the electorate, Peter. I'm talking about exploring it within the free space of the circle.
Okay, give me the ball. Give me the ball! Give me the ball. (Peter tries to wrestle the ball away from Stewart)
No!
Give me... give me the FUCKING ball, Stewart! [grabs the ball] Let's do away with you.
What?
Filter's off, Daddy-o! Let it all hang out! Just suppose your free-range no-consequence bullshit was hugely entertaining when we were in opposition and shitting money, but now we're in government and it's all gone a bit J.G. Ballard, it's irrelevant and infantile!
Oh, very droll, Peter.
Oh, and maybe the reason you don't mind handing your phone in is that it doesn't ring as much as it used to. Oh, sorry; doesn't ring as much as it used to, yes and ho.Glenn: Want the opinion of an old lag? Mannion will have to go.
Stick to 'policemen are getting younger', Glenn. Peter's going nowhere, and I don't mean that in a Glenn's career kind of way.
I've seen a lot of people resign, and they're always happier afterwards.
You're thinking of lobotomies. Peter resigns over my dead body.
Yes. Yes, that would be the ideal scenario.
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