Scene: a secret bar located in the basement of Number Ten. The Prime Minister and his Director of Communications sit alone sipping lager.
dc: Coalition’s not going so well.
ac: Oh my God, sir!
dc: Press hounds everywhere, sniffing at our backsides.
ac: How dreadful, sir!
dc: Police at it too.
ac: How disgusting!
dc: What we need, Couls, is a futile gesture. It’ll raise the whole tone of the government.
ac: Spot on, sir!
dc: Couls, you know how it is that in government, ten men can play better than eleven.
ac: I believe that can be so, sir.
dc: Couls, we want you to be that man. We need you to resign.
ac: Right you are, sir!
dc: Pop up stairs, burn your files, hack your computer, and leave by the window.
ac: On your command, sir!
dc: Goodbye, Couls. God, I wish I could come too.
ac: Goodbye, sir – or is it au revoir?
dc: Yes, Couls, it is. But for God’s sake don’t tell anyone.
In honour of the great Peter Cook. Not medical, Dr No accepts, but he couldn’t resist. If only the health secretary’s initials had been AC instead of AL…
Is that how you understand this mess? I don’t though, I can’t make heads or tails of it at all! For example, please explain;
As a doctor, your loyalty first and foremost is to your ‘patients’ not anyone else. You can’t, for example, say that you did not approach the man at the top, say, your medical director, because he had an assistant you didn’t approve of, can you? You’d be in front to the GMC if you did that and your patients came to harm because of ‘your’ deficiency. Not the medical director’s problem but yours, right?
Doesn’t these ethics apply to policemen too, their loyalty is to the public and not any top men?
And I am baffled why those who are above board don’t stand up very confident and very tall and face this craze?!
Anonymouse – Dr No is not sure anyone knows how this political theatre is going to play out. Dr No just has a hunch that the AC/DC connection Act hasn’t yet been played, and who knows what extra twists and turns it will bring into the plot if and when it is played!