[Jim Hacker and Maurice, the EEC Commissioner, are having a meeting to discuss the EEC plans to name British sausages 'emulsified high fat offal tubes':]
One of your officials pays farmers to produce surplus food, while on the same floor, the next office is paying them to destroy the surpluses.
MMaurice
That is not true!
No?
MMaurice
He is not in the next office, not even on the same floor!
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