[during the roadworks, Jeremy is playing Margaret Thatcher's speeches on the loudspeaker]
(voiceover) At 4 am, there were still 700 yards to go, and the men were flagging. So, I brought out the motivational big gun.
(over loudspeakers) ...another winter of discontent.
This is... Thatcher? To motivate the men?
This is going well.
(over loudspeakers) ...and I hope it will be followed by a winter of common sense.
Yes! I like that one! (applauds)
Don't, you'll encourage him!
(voiceover) The chaps, however, were not Telegraph readers like James. So I promised them that the sooner they finished laying, the sooner I'd switch her off.
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