Hugh Abbot: Malcolm! 
Malcolm Tucker: What the fuck was that? Was this the whole Snooper Force thing from you? 
Hugh Abbot: Malcolm, I’ve talked to the PM and this is completely kosher as far as he’s concerned. He gave the go-ahead and he said, you know, bounce the Treasury. 
Malcolm Tucker: Don’t you realise, we have got 17 different issues we are fighting with the Treasury about? 
Hugh Abbot: I can hear that you are, as your usual, upset. 
Malcolm Tucker: I’ll tell you why I am upset. I’m upset because these fucking morons over at the Treasury, these people, they are so paranoid! If you don’t tell them about stuff like this, if you don’t even cc them on e-mail, they think you’ve started a palace coup! 
Hugh Abbot: Malcolm… 
Malcolm Tucker: You don’t seem to understand that I am gonna have to mop up a fucking hurricane of piss here from all of these neurotics! What did the Prime Minister actually say to you? 
Hugh Abbot: He actually said this is exactly the kind of thing we should be doing. 
Malcolm Tucker: What did he actually say? 
Hugh Abbot: He said this is exactly the sort of thing we should be doing. 
Malcolm Tucker: ‘SHOULD’ be doing. ‘Should’ does not mean ‘yes’.

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Hugh Abbot: ‘Should’, does it mean ‘yes’? 
Glenn Cullen: Yes, “we should do this”. 
Hugh Abbot: When Tucker was talking to me ‘should’ didn’t mean ‘yes’. I mean it really didn’t. I felt like a fool.