This brief sketch from an early Simon Pegg television series is actually much closer to the reality some times than any of us would care to admit.
So just enjoy the humour in it.
Under no circumstances should anyone imagine that similar conversations have happened over the past six years about things like frazzle ice, cofferdams, electricity prices, or the 1969 power contract.
No.
Because that would involve both the minister and the official being complete dullards and everyone knows that could never happen.
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