NBA Rumors: Jam Harn Tra Talks, Joel Embiid, PJ Tucker, Rudy Gay

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• STTO’S LATT: TUCKER, GAY, SUMNER, NOEL
• NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE
• THE GOVERNMENT (SERI 1-3); THE OPPOSN (SERI 4)THROUGHOUT THE BULK OF THE SERI (SERI 1-3 AND THE SPECIALS), THE CHARACTERS ARE EHER MEMBERS OF THE ERNG PARTY (WHETHER POLICIANS OR ADVISORS) OR CIVIL SERVANTS THE ERNMENT PARTMENTS N BY THEM. BY SERI 4, HOWEVER, THE MIGHTY HAVE NOW FALLEN, AND THE PARTY MEMBERS HAVE SPENT THE LAST TWO YEARS OPPOSN. LS LEFT-WG THAN THE PAST, AND MORE IMAGE-NSC AND SP-OBSSED, THE UNNAMED PARTY HAS MUCH MON WH NEW LABOUR:    NUMBER 10 THE PRIME MISTER (SERI 1 & 2, THE SPECIALS.)THE FIRST PRIME MISTER WAS SIMPLY REFERRED TO AS "THE PRIME MISTER" AND VIRTUALLY NOTHG WAS KNOWN ABOUT HIM, OTHER THAN HIS FONDNS FOR CHANGG HIS MD OFTEN. INVISIBLE PRINT: HE GO UNSEEN THROUGHOUT THE SERI. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: WE DON'T KNOW VERY MUCH ABOUT HIM PARED TO THE OTHER INVISIBLE PRIME MISTERS OF THE SHOW, BUT WHAT LTLE WE DO LEARN SUGGTS CERTA SIARI TO TONY BLAIR. NO NAME GIVEN: UNLIKE THE TWO SUBSEQUENT INVISIBLE PRIME MISTERS, HE IS NEVER GIVEN A NAME OR EVEN IALS.TOM DAVIS (SERI 3)BY SERI THREE THE ORIGAL PRIME MISTER HAD RIGNED AND BEEN REPLACED BY A NEW PARTY LEAR, NOW WH A NAME BUT STILL UNSEEN. KNOWN TO HAVE POOR MUNITN SKILLS AND MENTAL HEALTH ISSU, HIS SUPPORTERS WERE KNOWN AS "NUTTERS". INVISIBLE PRINT: AS WH HIS PRECSOR, WE NEVER SEE HIM. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: GORDON BROWN AND HIS SUPPORTERS, THE BROWN. VLENT GLASWEGIAN: WHILE WE NEVER SEE HIM, MENTS OM CHARACTERS DITE HE IS UNR HEAVY MEDITN FOR BOTH ANGER AND PRSN. THE MISSG DOSAC FIL SHOWS HIM HAVG A PHYSIL BRAWL WH MALLM, DAN MILLER AND JULI NICHOLSON, AND LATER, WHEN HE REALIS THE OPPOSN MAY BE ABOUT TO FEAT HIM, HE LETS OUT A DEATH WAIL, SMASH HIS TEA CUP AND ANNOUNC "IF WE'RE GOG OFF BEACHY HEAD, I'M FUCKG DRIVG !" BEFORE CSHG MALLM A BEAR HUG.MALLM TUCKER, PRIME MISTER'S DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITNS (SERI 1-3); LEAR OF THE OPPOSN'S DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITNS (SERI 4)"I'M A MAN OF PRCIPLE: I LIKE TO KNOW WHETHER I'M LYG TO SAVE THE SK OF A TOSSER OR A MORON."PLAYED BY: PETER CAPALDIFUNCTNAL MANIAC, SP DOCTOR, AND UNELECTED EMPLOYEE OF THE PARTY, MALLM NOHELS APPEARED TO BE THE MOST POWERFUL PERSON ERNMENT WHILE THE PARTY WAS POWER. AS THE PARTY'S MOST SENR PRS OFFICER HE IS RPONSIBLE FOR CRISIS MANAGEMENT PR AND ALSO ACTED AS AN ENFORCER, ENSURG ALL OF THE BET PARTMENTS FOLLOW THE PARTY LE. FIERCELY LOYAL TO THE PARTY, HIS OVERALL OBJECTIVE WAS TO KEEP THEM POWER BY ANY MEANS NECSARY. NOW THEY ARE OUT OF POWER, 'S HIS RAISON D'êTRE TO GET THEM BACK ... ACTUALLY PRETTY FUNNY: WHEN HE STARTS QUTNG NILA ABOUT HER FAY AND SPECIFILLY POSSIBLE PR NCERNS ABOUT HER CHILDREN, HE'S CLEARLY DARKLY AMED WHEN NILA SNARKS THAT HER 16 YEAR OLD DGHTER IS A HERO ADDICT WHO'S PREGNANT TO A NIGERIAN PEOPLE SMUGGLER AND HAS AN ACTIVE PORN REER. ANTI-HERO: HE'S AN UNSCPULO HERO WHO STARTED OFF AS THE ARCH-ENEMY LLEAGUE OF HUGH ABBOTT, THEN WAS MA THE MA CHARACTER, WHEN THE WRERS REALISED AN UNFETTERED SP DOCTOR IS A FAR MORE ENTERTAG CHARACTER THAN A WORN-OUT, EFFECTUAL, MIDDLE-AGED POLICIAN (THOUGH HUGH'S ACTOR'S ROLE-ENDG MISMEANOR DIDN'T EXACTLY HURT THE SUATN EHER). ANTI-VILLA: HE'S A WELL-INTENTNED EXTREMIST WHO'S ATTU AND METHODS ARE OFTEN MORALLY PLORABLE BUT ULTIMATELY FOR THE GREATER GOOD OF THE LABOUR PARY AND MALLM'S EY, THE UNTRY. AFFABLY EVIL: OFTEN NICE TO THE WAER ONLY TO GO GO TO FX AFFABLY EVIL WHEN ALG WH POLICIANS. AFTER BEG HIRED BACK BY JULI NICHOLSON, HIS AFFABILY TOWARDS HIS -WORKERS IS PLAYED FOR LGHS AS WELL AS HORROR IF TERRI, GLENN AND OLLIE'S MENTS ARE ANYTHG TO GO BY. BADASS A NICE SU: THE SUS WERE BAD THE EARLY SERI, BUT BY SERI 4 HE'S ARMANI AND LOOKG VERY SHARP ED. BADASS LONGAT: HE WEARS A FLOWG BLACK AT, MOST NOTABLY WHEN VOWG TO HIS NUMBER 10 LLEAGU "YOU WILL SEE ME AGAIN" AND THEN WALKG OUT OF NUMBER 10 AS BILLOWS AFTER HIM. THE BULLY: DON'T EVER LL HIM ONE THOUGH. HE IS SO MUCH WORSE THAN THAT. CATCHPHRASE: SAYS, "FOR FUCK SAKE", A LOT WHEN STRSED, WHICH IS OFTEN. THE CHSMASTER: THE MOST SUCCSFUL ONE THE SHOW, UALLY. HE SPREADS A MOUR THAT JULI NICHOLSON IS GETTG FOREIGN SECRETARY TO CLIP HIS WGS. IN "SPNERS AND LOSERS", HE SUGGTS A NUMBER OF NDIDAT TO NICK "NUTTER", ONLY TO THEN CLAIM TO TOM DAVIS, THAT THOSE NDIDAT WERE NICK'S IA SO THAT NICK AND JAMIE FIRED AND MALLM KEEPS HIS JOB. HE SETS OFF A CHA OF EVENTS THAT GET STEVE FLEMG FIRED. CLOTHG REFLECTS PERSONALY: IN SERI 3, ALL OF HIS SUS ARE LIGHT GREY, AND SOMETIM HE'LL EVEN PAIR A GREY SU WH A GREY TIE. WHEN WE SEE HIM SUAL CLOTH WE DISVER THAT PRACTILLY EVERY OTHER EM OF CLOTHG HE OWNS IS ALSO GREY. THIS ULD HAVE BEEN A LIBERATE ATTEMPT TO MATCH HIS WARDROBE TO HIS HAIR LOUR BUT THE GREY IS ALSO VERY FTG FOR A PRS OFFICER WHO LIK TO HI THE BACKGROUND, NEVER BEG THE STORY. CLTER F-BOMB: HIS FIRST SPECIALTY IS LOADG HIS SENTENC WH "FUCKS". COUNTRY MATTERS: ANOTHER OF HIS SPECIALI IS THE "CUNT"; 'S PART OF TUCKER'S LAW. DEADPAN SNARKER: BIG TIME, PECIALLY WHEN HE'S NOT ACTUALLY RORTG TO OUTRIGHT ABE. HIS PATRONISGLY LIVERY TO TERRI ABOUT HOW WHEN SHE APOLOGIS TO THE PRS THERE WILL BE, "THGS LLED MERAS... AND MICROPHON.. AND HANERS AND BAD BREATH.", TAK THE KE. DEATH GLARE: "HAVE I GOT MY BOLLOCKG FACE ON?.., THIS◊ IS MY BOLLOCKG FACE." THE DETERMATOR: HE IS FIERCELY LOYAL TO HIS PARTY AND WILL DO EVERYTHG HIS POWER TO KEEP POWER. DRAGON--CHIEF: IN SEASON 4, MALLM IS TECHNILLY SUBORDATE TO THE LEAR OF HIS PARTY, (EVEN IF SAID LEAR IS NILA MURRAY!) BUT YOU ULD BE FIVEN FOR FETTG THAT, NSIRG TWO OF THE PARTY LEARS WERE THE UNSEEN, AND THE THIRD WAS... NOT EXACTLY A POWERFUL FIGURE. THE DREAD: ALMOST EVERYONE THE SERI IS TERRIFIED OF HIM. IN THE LAST ISO, ADAM HOP HE GETS PUT A CELL WH A GENUE PSYPATH. DU, WHERE'S MY RPECT?: HE HAS FOUGHT SO HARD FOR THE PARTY. IF THE MISSG DOSAC FIL ARE TO BE BELIEVED, HOWEVER, NO ONE HAS AN OUNCE OF RPECT FOR HIM AFTER THE ELECTN. THE E-MAIL EXCHANGE REGARDG THE TULAR MISSG FIL IS ALSO DITIVE THAT PEOPLE AREN'T TAKG MALLM VERY SERLY ANY MORE. THE REPLI ARE SNARKY ALMOST DOWN TO THE LAST MAN. IT'S STILL HARD TO PICTURE THE CHARACTERS SAYG ANY OF THOSE THGS TO HIS FACE, HOWEVER... AND OLLIE SEEMS APPROPRIATELY SRED PISS-LS. ENRAGED BY IDCY: PART OF HIS DAILY ROUTE VOLV BERATG PEOPLE FOR THEIR MISTAK AND THEN TRYG TO FIX THEM. EVEN BAD MEN LOVE THEIR MAMAS: THE PUBLISHED SCRIPT BOOK CLUS A SECTN ENTLED "MALLM'S SENT ITEMS". AMONG THE THREATS OF SEXUAL VLENCE SENT TO DOSAC STAFF THERE IS ONE VERY POLE EMAIL ADDRSED TO "ISOBEL TUCKER" AND BEGNG "DEAR MAM..." EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: WHEN ALG WH THE SNDAL SURROUNDG NILA'S DGHTER, HE DID SEEM VERY MDFUL THAT NILA WAS FIRST AND FOREMOST A DISTRGHT MOTHER. HE EVEN TRIED TO FORT HER AND GIVE HER A (TERRIBLE) PEP TALK WHEN SHE STARTED CRYG HIS OFFICE. IN THE OFFICIAL SP-OFF BOOK THE MISSG DOSAC FIL (BY THE SHOW'S WRG TEAM), MALLM IS OPENLY SYMPATHETIC TOWARDS NILA WH REGARDS TO AN CINT THE SERI WHICH THE PRS MANIPULATE HER TO STANDG ONT OF A MPAIGN SIGN SUCH A WAY AS TO MAKE THE SIGN SAY "I AM BENT." HE IS ACTUALLY PLIMENTARY TO NILA FOR HER HANDLG OF THE AFFAIR (SOMETHG ALMOST UNHEARD OF FOR MALLM). THIS IS ALSO REFLECTED TO A LSER GREE THE EPISO SELF. DURG THE GOOLDG INQUIRY, MALLM CLAIMS HE WOULD NEVER TARGET "REAL PEOPLE", NON-POLICIANS. MALLM DID MORE TO HELP TICKEL THAN ANYONE ELSE GOVERNMENT OR OPPOSN, ALBE FOR CYNIL REASONS. THE GOVERNMENT WERE THE ON WHO SOLD OFF TICKEL'S HOME AND THEN ADD SULT TO JURY BY KICKG HIM OUT OF HIS PROTT TENT. NILA WAS TRYG TO VER HER OWN ARSE AFTER SUPPORTG THE SELLOFF, SO SPE MALLM'S ADVICE THE OPPOSN WEREN'T TAKG UP TICKEL'S E EHER. SURE, LEAKG TICKEL'S MEDIL RERDS WAS SENSIVE ON MALLM'S PART. BUT HE DID TO SHOW THAT THE GOVERNMENT WERE, AS HE PUT , "PICKG ON A MAN WH A HISTORY OF PRSN"... WHICH WAS TE AND TURNED OUT TO HAVE TRAGIC NSEQUENC. MALLM ULTIMATELY TOOK ALL THE BLAME FOR TICKEL'S ATH, BUT MIGHT HAVE BEEN AVOID IF ANYONE HAD LISTENED TO HIM EARLY ON. IN A LETED SCENE OF "RISE OF THE NUTTERS", OLLIE ACC MALLM OF BEG HOMOPHOBIC. HE RPONDS BY SAYG HOW HE WORKED TO HELP REPEAL ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN WHILE THE ACCER WAS STILL A SCHOOLBOY. WHEN NILA MAK A FLIPPANT REMARK ABOUT EMBARRASG HERSELF ONT OF, "UNIFORMED PENSNERS", MALLM IS QUICK TO REMD HER OF THE SACRIFICE THEY MA SO SHE ULD, "PLAY AT NNG THE UNTRY". WHILE HIS TEMPER IS NOT THE LMT, EVEN HE SEEMS TAKEN ABACK BY SOME OF JAMIE'S OUTBURSTS AND TANTMS. EXPOSORY HAIRSTYLE CHANGE: HE HAD DARK HAIR TO BEG WH AND GETS LIGHTER AND GRAYER AS THE SHOW GO ON. HIS JOB IS SO STRSFUL AG HIM. FX AFFABLY EVIL: HE'S PERFECTLY PABLE OF BEG VERY POLE WHEN SUS HIM. IT UALLY SUS HIM AS THE SETUP FOR A STRG OF ABE SO PAFUL YOU MAY FD PSYCHOLOGILLY IMPOSSIBLE TO MOVE FOR SEVERAL MUT AFTERWARD. THE FRIEND NOBODY LIK: OR SP DOCTOR, RATHER. POSSIBLE EXCEPTN OF JAMIE MACDONALD WHO ENGAG SOMEWHAT IENDLY BANTER WH MALLM IN THE LOOP, PECIALLY S LETED SCEN, THOUGH LS SO THE SERI SELF. GAY BRAVADO: HE IS EXCEEDGLY FOND OF UNNERVG MALE POLIS VIA FLIRTG AND DOUBLE ENTENDR. GIRLY RUN: HE'S AN AGGRSIVE, FOUL-MOUTHED, VLENT ALPHA MALE... WHO NS LIKE A GIRL. GUTTURAL GROWLER: PRODUC SOME RATHER UNNERVG HARMONICS WHEN REALLY ANNOYED, "DON'T YOU EVER LL ME A BULLY, I'M SO MUCH WORSE THAN THAT." HE LLS WHISPERBOARDG. HAIR-TRIGGER TEMPER: A VERY SHORT FE OF ANGER JT WAG TO EXPLO, THOUGH NOT AS BAD AS JAMIE. GIVEN THE PETENCE OF THE PEOPLE HE'S TRYG TO PROP UP POWER WHO MAKE UP THE PARTY WHO HE'S FOUGHT ALL HIS LIFE FOR, 'S HARD TO BLAME HIM. THE HEAVY: IN ANY EPISO WHERE THE PARTY LEAR'S WISH BEE RELEVANT TO DOSAC, IS ALWAYS MALLM WHO BRGS THE NEWS AND STEERS TO ONE NCLN OR ANOTHER. HER CO NAME WAS "MARY SUE": MIKE TICKER, PROTAGONIST OF TICKER TIME. (THE MISSG DOSAC FIL.) HOIST BY HIS OWN PETARD: FOR ALL HIS EFFICIENCY SOME OF HIS SCHEM HAVE WAY OF BACKFIRG ON HIM: UNR THE IMPRSN THAT THE "FOC GROUPS", ACTOR WAS THE MOLE WERE SIMON HEWT, HE ATTEMPTS TO W HER TO SILENCE WHICH RULTS HER TELLG THE PRS WHICH ULD HAVE HAVE BEEN PREVENTED HAD HE NOT JT ASSUMED HE WAS WORKG FOR SIMON. AS HUGH PUTS , THEY "RELEASED A STORY FOR THE PRS VOLUNTARILY.". HIS PLAN TO UNRME NILA BY MAKG SURE THE FILE FOR 'QUIET BATPEOPLE' WAS ON FULL DISPLAY FOR THE MERAS ULTIMATELY BACKFIR ON HIM WHEN 'S REVEALED A BLOW-UP OF THE PICTURE THAT HE HAD MR. TICKELL'S MOBILE NUMBER, NHS TAILS AND THE UNLISTED NUMBER OF MR. TICKELL'S EX-WIFE—DISPLAYED THE SAME WAY THE 'QUIET BAT PEOPLE' FILE WAS DISPLAYED—, ALL OF WHICH WAS LEAKED AFTER THE PICTURE WAS TAKEN. WHATEVER NFINCE MALLM HAD THE INQUIRY EVAPORAT PLETELY. HOLLYWOOD ATHEIST: HIS FACEBOOK PAGE LISTS: "DON'T WASTE MY TIME WH ALL THAT FLOPPY DONKEY DICK" AS HIS "RELIG VIEWS". HYPERPETENT SIKICK: TO THE ENTIRE LABOUR PARTY. HE'S THE ONLY CHARACTER THE SERI WHO IS PETENT. JERKASS HAS A POT: FOR ALL HIS MEANNS, 9 TIM OUT OF 10 HE'S JT PLA RIGHT: HE'S PUTS ACROSS THE SE TO HUGH ABBOT VERY WELL ABOUT WHY HAVG A GOOD RIGNATN IS POSSIBLE. HE RIGHTLY LLS OUT STEVE FOR BADLY HANDLG THE CRIME STATS. IN SEASON 4, HE'S RIGHT ABOUT NILA NOT HAVG ENOUGH FIRE TO BE LEARSHIP MATERIAL FOR THE LABOUR PARTY. IT WAS CEL TO REJECT GLENN THE WAY HE DID BUT DON'T CHANGE THE FACT THAT GLENN MA A NSC CISN TO SWCH OM THE LABOUR PARTY TO THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS AND DISLOYALTY IS A MASSIVE BERSERK BUTTON FOR MALLM. AS SHADY AND IRRPONSIBLE AS HE WAS TO LEAK MR. TICKELL'S NTACT TAILS TO THE PUBLIC, SOMETHG HAD TO BE DONE TO DRAW ATTENTN TO THE TORY ERMNENT'S POOR TREATMENT OF THE AFOREMENTNED NURSE. JERK JOCK: ESSENTIALLY A WORKPLACE VERSN AND HE DO SMACK GLENN THE NOSE. THAT SAID HE IS MORE TELLECTUAL AND SOPHISTITED THAN MOST EXAMPL, WHILST JAMIE AND CAL RICHARDS PLAY THIS TROPE STRAIGHTER. 'THE MISSG DOSAC FIL' SHOWS HIM ENGAGG A PHYSIL BRAWL WH DAN MILLER, TOM DAVIS AND JULI NICHOLSON (THOUGH ADMTEDLY MILLER STARTED .) JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: HE WAS A RATHER NASTY PERSON TO EVERYONE AT WORK. HOWEVER, OCSNALLY, HE'LL DULGE THE "HEART OF GOLD" PART. THOUGH HE'LL RIP YOUR TEETH AND FGERNAILS OUT IF YOU EVER THK OF MENTNG OR POTG OUT. ALSO SEEN 'THE MISSG DOSAC FIL' DURG THE TRANSCRIPT OF HIS VOICEMAIL TO CAL RICHARDS, WHEN HE TEARS UP AT THE PROSPECT OF A LTLE GIRL'S RABB BEG NAMED AFTER HIM, AS WELL AS THE PICTURE THE GIRL DREW OF HIM AND CAL HAVG A PIIC. WHEN EXPLAG TO OLLIE WHY HE NEEDS TO BRG DOWN NILA AS PARTY LEAR, MALLM POTS OUT THAT THE PARTY N'T DO ANYTHG TO HELP PEOPLE IF THEY DON'T HAVE POWER, AND NILA IS NEVER GOG TO W AN ELECTN. KICK THE DOG: HE DO A NICE LE THIS, E.G. "SORRY YOU HAD TO GO, BUT LET'S FACE , YOU'RE A FUCKG WASTE OF SK." OR KICK THE SON OF A BCH GIVEN NILA'S PUBLIC SCHOOL HYPOCRISY. REJECTG GLENN'S PLEAS TO E BACK TO THE LABOUR PARTY. KNIGHT TEMPLAR: DOWNPLAYED. HE KNOWS THAT HE ISN'T A KNIGHT IN SHG ARMOUR BUT HE SE HIMSELF AS MORE OF A UNSCPULO HERO STEAD OF A ANTI-VILLA. HE ALSO GENUELY BELIEV THAT HIS PARTY ULD HELP PEOPLE, AND THAT HIS ACTNS ARE FOR THE GREATER GOOD. KUBRICK STARE: THE MASTER OF THE DEATH GLARE OR THE BOLLOCKG FACE. LARGE HAM: NOT AS UNREALISTILLY MELODRAMATIC AS MOST EXAMPL BUT PETER CAPALDI CLEARLY ENJOYED HIMSELF A LOT. LEAN AND MEAN: HE KEEPS HIS WEIGHT DOWN BY NNG EVERYWHERE, BEG PERMANENTLY STRSED OUT, AND LIVG ON A DIET NSISTG MALY OF FFEE. OLLY REAR LIKENS HIM TO "A TH WHE MUGABE". LIMED WARDROBE: HE'S ALWAYS SEEN WEARG LIGHT GREY SUS. LOCKED OUT OF THE LOOP: IN "THE RISE OF THE NUTTERS" AND "SPNERS AND LOSERS", HE'S NSTANTLY KEPT OUT OF THE LOOP SPE BEG THE PRIME MISTER'S SP DOCTOR. MANLY TEARS: IS HEAVILY IMPLIED TO HAVE BEEN CRYG AFTER BEG SACKED BY STEVE FLEMG THE BEGNG OF THE LAST EPISO OF SEASON 3. IN FACT ON THE DVD VOKEDARMANDO IANNUCCI SAID HE SPECIFICIALLY TOLD PETER CAPALDI TO PLAY MALLM AS IF HE HAD BEEN CRYG FOR TWO WEEKS STRAIGHT. MANIPULATIVE BASTARD: THE PHRASE "MALVELLIAN" DON'T EXIST FOR NOTHG. HE TELLS TERRI TO TELL NILA MURRAY TO STANDG ONT OF THE LIAM BENTLEY SIGN MAKG LOOK LIKE 'S SAYG "I AM BENT", SOMETHG NILA LLS HIM OUT ON. HE ALSO MANIPULAT NILA TO THKG PETER MANNN AND THE RT OF THE TORI ARE TELLG NASTY JOK ABOUT HER FAY, WHEN HER DGHTER WAS ABOUT TO GET EXPELLED FOR BULLYG. HE MANIPULAT STEVE FLEMG TO LOOKG LIKE HE'S TRYG TO FLUENCE JULI NICHOLSON'S REPORT WHICH FORC STEVE TO RIGN. HE TRIPS NILA UP BY SETTG UP THE BATPEOPLE PHOTO, THOUGH THIS ALSO BACK TO BE HIM THE ASS DURG THE GOULDG LEAKG EQUIRY. MARRIED TO THE JOB: VERY LTLE ABOUT HIS PERSONAL LIFE IS REVEALED. THIS IS LIBERATE: A SUB-PLOT ABOUT MALLM'S PARTNER LEAVG HIM FOR JOURNALIST SIMON HEWT WAS CUT, AND ON THE DVD MENTARI THE ST AND WRERS AGREE THAT NO-ONE REALLY NEEDS (OR WANTS) TO KNOW ABOUT HIS LIFE OUTSI WORK. HE PROBABLY DON'T HAVE ONE. THIS IS NFIRMED BY MALLM HIMSELF THE LAST EPISO OF THE SERI, A HNTG YET AMAZG SPEECH TO OLLIE. HE WEARS A WEDDG RG FOR MOST OF THE N OF THE SERI; 'S GONE BY THE TIME HE GIV EVINCE TO THE GOOLDG INQUIRY AT THE END OF SERI 4, ALTHOUGH 'S NEVER REFERRED TO. PETER CAPALDI DO NOT LIKE TO TAKE OFF HIS OWN WEDDG RG, WHATEVER ROLE HE'S PLAYG. AT THE END OF SERI 3 EPISO 7, AS HE'S RETURNG TO HIS HOME AFTER "RIGNG", THERE IS A SMALL CHILD LOOKG OUT OF THE DOWNSTAIRS WDOW. IN THE LAST EPISO OF SERI 4 MALLM'S SPEECH TO OLLIE CLUS THE WORDS "NO KIDS" SO THE CHILD AT THE WDOW EVINTLY WASN'T HIS. SOME SCEN HIS OFFICE THE SAME SERI SHOW THAT HE HAS WHAT IS OBVLY A SMALL CHILD'S ARTWORK TAPED TO THE WALL. CONSIRG THAT HE REFERS TO HIMSELF AS HAVG "NO CHILDREN" DURG HIS RANT TO OLLIE THE FAL EPISO OF SERI 4, THIS ONE'S A B OF A PUZZLER—EHER HE WAS BEG METAPHORIL (SCE HE NEVER SE HIS KIDS DUE TO THE PRSUR OF HIS JOB) OR THE CHILD SERI 3 IS ACTUALLY A NIECE/NEPHEW OR OTHER RELATIVE. (HE DO MENTN A YOUNG NIECE HE'S APPARENTLY QUE CLOSE TO AN EARLIER EPISO.) A PIECE OF WILDLY IMPLSIBLE BUT FUN-TO-BELIEVE FANON HOLDS THE MALLM TUCKER'S PREV LIFE WAS AS SID JENKS' PYSCHOTIC-BUT-LOVG--HIS-OWN-SPECIAL-WAY FATHER. PRUMABLY HELL SPAT HIM BACK OUT.. MEMETIC BADASS: IN UNIVERSE AND OUT. GETTG "TUCKERED", IS SEEN AS A RIGHT OF PASSAGE IF FERG IS TO BE BELIEVED. NICE TO THE WAER: RU AND VRLIC AS HE IS TO CIVIL SERVANTS AND POLIS, HE'S NICE TO REGULAR STAFF, CLUDG CLEANERS. HE'S ALSO NSISTENTLY POLE, IENDLY AND WARM TO HIS OWN ASSISTANT SAM. THE NICKNAMER: HE HAS A NICKNAME FOR EVERYONE HE ENUNTERS, HE FAVOURS PARISONS TO CELEBRI MOST OF ALL. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: HE WAS BASED ON A NUMBER OF NEW LABOUR SP DOCTORS. ALASTAIR CAMPBELL IS THE ONE MOST OFTEN CED, BUT HE IS ALSO PARTLY BASED ON PETER MANLSON AND POSSIBLY ON DAMIAN "MAD DOG" MCBRI. THE LAST OF THE HAS LED TO SOME AMG VOKEDLIFE IMAT ART MOMENTS: ONE EPISO EMERG THAT THE OPPOSN'S NICKNAME FOR MALLM IS HAMISH MACDEATH: THE CONSERVATIV GAVE MCBRI THE NICKNAME "MCPOISON". MCBRI WAS ALSO FORCED TO RIGN AFTER HIS PLANS TO SET UP A BLOG SLANRG DAVID CAMERON WERE LEAKED, SOME TIME AFTER THE SHOW FEATURED MALLM TUCKER GETTG TO TROUBLE FOR POSTG SLANRO MENTS ON PETER MANNN'S BLOG. NOBLE TOP ENFORCER: YOU N TELL MALLM R MORE ABOUT THE PARTY VALU THAN THE PRIME MISTERS HE WORKS FOR, WHO ONLY SEEM TO RE ABOUT GOOD PUBLICY. PAY EVIL UNTO EVIL: HE'S PRONE TO DISHG THIS TROPE OUT TO VENAL POLICIANS, RIVAL SP DOCTORS AND CIVIL SERVANTS. SCREAMG AT HUGH OVER FLATGATE AND LLG HIM A STUPID CUNT, DURG HIS TERVIEW WH DAILY MAIL JACK JOURNALIST ANGELA HEANEY. PUTS DOWN OLLY AT THE CLIMAX OF SPNERS AND LOSERS, LLG HIM "BEN'S GLENN", RPONSE TO OLLY BEG A SELF-SERVG JERKASS TO GLENN. THREATENG TO RA DOWN ON PHIL SO HARD HE'LL, "HAVE TO BE REASSEMBLED BY AIR CRASH VTIGATORS". CONSTANTLY SULTG STEVE FLEMG AND ULTIMATELY GETTG HIM FIRED AT THE END OF SEASON 3. ORCHTRATG SOLDIER DISRPECTG NILA MURRAY'S DOWNFALL. PAPA WOLF: FOR HIS PARTY, AND TO SAM, TO SOME EXTENT. PET THE DOG: HIS MEANOUR TOWARDS WORKG-CLASS CHARACTERS OR ANYONE EMED A SOCIAL FERR IS UALLY SCERELY EMPATHETIC, GENTLEMANLY AND VOID OF NSCENSN. THIS STANDS NTRAST TO THE OBNOX AND PATRONIZG BEHAVUR DISPLAYED BY THOSE ON THE OPPOSE SI, SUCH AS MANNN OR PEARSON TOWARDS HOTEL RECEPTNISTS OR MPAIGNG YOUTHS, BUT ALSO THOSE ON HIS OWN SI, WHO GENERALLY MAKE MORE NOISE PUBLIC ABOUT REPRENTG THE LOWER CLASS AND EXPLOED BUT UALLY E ACROSS AS SCERE, NTEMPTUO AND DISMISSIVE MORE PRIVATE SETTGS. HE DO ON ONLY TWO OCSNS SHOW REMORSE AND REGRET FOR HIS ACTNS, NOTABLY WHEN HE HS GLENN, HE EXPRS WHAT APPEARS TO BE GENUE REMORSE. HE FEELS SORRY FOR GLENN WHEN THE STRS AND VAR HUIATNS HE'S ENDURED THE TWO SPECIALS LEAD TO HIM HAVG AN EXPLOSIVE BREAKDOWN, AND BRGS HIM ALONG TO THE MEETG WH DAN MILLER TO MAKE HIM FEEL CLUD AND BRIGHTEN HIS MOOD. HE NS TO HIS OFFICE THE MIDST OF HIS SACKG TO SCREAM AT EVERYONE FOR MAKG SAM CRY. SPEAKG OF SAM, SHE IS GENERAL ONE OF THE FEW PEOPLE WE EVER SEE MALLM TREAT A NSISTENTLY NICE AND PLEASANT WAY. WHEN BEN SWA BERAT A CLEANG LADY, MALLM TAK HER ASI TO LM HER DOWN. THIS ONE, HOWEVER, MAYBE BE A SUBVERSN AND MORE ALONG THE L OF "PUTTG OUT POTENTIAL FIR", SCE AMONG OTHER THGS THE CLEANER IS THREATENG TO GO TO THE PRS. IN SERI 3, HE TRI AND FAILS TO CHEER NILA UP WHEN THE HEADMASTER GETS SACKED OVER LETTG NILA'S DGHTER STAY AT SCHOOL AFTER BULLYG ANOTHER KID. WHEN STEVE FLEMG IS BEG SEXIST TO NILA (LLG HER DARLG AND 'SWEETHEART'), MALLM STICKS UP FOR NILA, ALBE BY SUATG STEVE'S GAY DUE TO THE MOTACHE. IN A LETED SCENE, HE GIV TERRI A GENUE HAPPY NEW YEAR GREETG. POP-CULTURED BADASS: QUICK TO MAKE REFERENC TO THE BEATL, THE CRYG GAME,THE FLTSTON AND MORE DURG HIS TIRAS. THIS MAK HIS TOTAL IGNORANCE AND UNSUCCSFUL ATTEMPTS AT EXPLAG THE PLOT OF STAR WARS OF ALL THGS ALL THE MORE HILAR (THOUGH THIS MAY HAVE BEEN A SE OF OBFTG STUPIDY OR THE POT BEG HE'S ABOVE SUCH NERD REFERENC). PUNCH-CLOCK VILLA: IT'S STRONGLY IMPLIED OM THE WAY HE TERACTS WH LOWER-STAT STAFF HE'S A NICE GUY WHEN HE'S OUT OF POLICS BUT A ROARG EIGHT TRA OF ANGER, JERK JOCK MANIPULATIVE BASTARD WHEN AT WORK. REAL MEN COOK: HE'S SEEN ENTERTAG JOURNALISTS AT HIS HOE WH CURRY AND WE. REAL MEN WEAR PK: AT WORK HE SEEMS ASSURED ENOUGH OF HIS OWN SEXUALY TO BE ENTIRELY FORTABLE FLIRTG WH MEN, WHILE THE SCEN MALLM'S HOE SHOW HIM TO HAVE PRI HIS OKG SKILLS AND AN EYE FOR TERR SIGN. HE ALSO GOT RATHER ALARMED AT THE THOUGHT OF JOURNALISTS DAMAGG HIS HEDGE. HOWEVER HE GAS THE MOST PK POTS FOR G OUT WH THE WONRFULLY FEY "DON'T TOUCH THAT SCARF, THAT'S PAUL SMITH!". DURG A FIGHT. "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH: REGULARLY DISH THE OUT THROUGHOUT THE SERI, POSSIBLY THE STANDOUT MAY BE THE ONE HE GIV TO NILA AFTER SHE GETS FORCED OUT OF HER JOB. SELF-MA MAN: HEAVILY IMPLIED. HIS NICKNAME "THE GORBALS GOEBBELS" DIT THAT HE GREW UP A VERY ROUGH AREA OF GLASGOW. IT WOULD GO A LONG WAY TO EXPLA WHY HE'S NICE TO THE WAER BUT DON'T TST THE "OXBRIDGE TWATS", LIKE OLLIE REER OR BEN SWA. SIR SWEARS-A-LOT: HE'S ROBTLY FAMO/FAMO FOR BEG A MAN WHOSE FAVOURE WORD STARTED WH A PAL "F" AND CROPPED UP NEARLY EVERY SENTENCE HE HIS SEND-FAVOURE WORD STARTS WH A "C", SO MUCH SO THAT WHEN PETER CAPALDI DID A PSA FOR MACLAN -CHARACTER, HE SAID HE WAS TALKG "ABOUT THE BIG C, AND NOT MY UAL BIG C!" SPOTLIGHT-STEALG SQUAD: FROM THE SPECIALS ONWARDS. JTIFIED TO A LARGE EXTENT THAT HE WAS ONE OF THE TWO ORIGAL MA CHARACTERS, AND SCE THE OTHER ONE SUDNLY EXED THE SERI OFF-SCREEN WH NOTHG BUT A HANDWAVE, FOC WAS NATURALLY SHIFTED TO HIM, EVEN IF THE SHOW WAS TECHNILLY RE-TOOLED AS MORE OF AN ENSEMBLE PIECE FOLLOWG HUGH'S PARTURE. THE STARSCREAM: IN SERI 4, HE TEAMS UP WH DAN MILLER AGAST NILA MURRAY, NOW LEAR OF THE OPPOSN, SPE OUTWARDLY STILL SUPPORTG HER. STEALTH HI/BYE: HE'S ABLE TO SNEAK UP ON PEOPLE A GLASS-WALLED OFFICE. "I'M A SHAPHIFTER!" SURROUND BY IDTS: HE HAS VERY LTLE PATIENCE FOR THE PETENCE OF MISTERS AND OTHER CIVIL SERVANTS WHEHALL TO THE POT WHERE HE SCRIB HIMSELF SERI FOUR AS HAVG "NO REAL IENDS". HE NSIRED HUGH ABBOT TO BE BUMBLG, PETENT AND OUT OF TOUCH WH THE PUBLIC, AND WAS NSTANTLY FED UP WH HAVG TO AL WH HIS MISTAK. HIS TREATMENT OF HUGH'S SUCCSOR, NILA MURRAY, WAS NSIRABLY MORE SYMPATHETIC, WH TUCKER EMG HER A "NICE LADY", AND EVEN HELPG TO MOVE FORWARD HER (RATHER FANCIFUL) POLICY IAS. HOWEVER, THIS PROFSNAL RPECT QUICKLY TERRATED FOLLOWG THE GENERAL ELECTN; NILA'S TIME AS LEAR OF THE OPPOSN WAS A PLETE DISASTER, UNTIL MALLM STAGED A UP D'éTAT AGAST HER, CLARG HER "A WASTE OF SK". DPE THIS, HE ATTTS AT THE GOOLDG INQUIRY THAT HE STILL RETAED GREAT RPECT FOR HER AS A PERSON, AND EVEN WENT SO FAR AS TO APPLD HER TENURE AS MISTER OF DO SA C. THE SVENGALI: HE FS THE TROPE PERFECTLY, ALTHOUGH STEAD OF MENTORG A SPECIFIC PERSON LIKE THIS, HE OBSSIVELY NTROLS HIS ENTIRE PARTY. HIS VILLAO BREAKDOWN SERI 4 EVEN VOLV HIM SCREAMG AT SOMEONE OBJECTG TO HIS PLAN, BEE HE IS DOG ALL FOR THE PARTY, AND NO-ONE SHOULD DARE EVER QUTN WHAT HE WOULD DO FOR THE PARTY. TALL, DARK, AND SNARKY: THOUGH HIS HAIR GO PREMATURELY GREY OM STRS BY SEASON 3. TEAM DAD: HE'S HER MAJTY'S GOVERNMENT'S TEAM DAD. THE SRIT, MOST ABIVE ONE IMAGABLE."NEVER MD WHAT MUMMY SAYS, JT DO WHAT DADDY SAYS" TRANQUIL FURY: MOST OF THE TIME, MALLM TUCKER IS A SCREAMG RAGG EIGHT TRA OF PURE ANGER. HOWEVER, IF HE EVER PLAYS THIS TROPE STRAIGHT AS AN ARROW, YOU ARE EP EP EP TROUBLE. PHIL SMH AND NILA MURRAY N ATTT TO THAT. TSUNRE: HE'S BASILLY TYPE A. HE'S ACTUALLY A JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD, BUT HE GO TSUN WHENEVER PARTY POLICS IS VOLVED. WHICH, GIVEN THE NATURE OF THE SHOW, IS ALL THE FUCKG TIME. UNCERTA DOOM: HIS FATE AFTER THE END OF THE SHOW IS NOT SET STONE, BUT JUDGG BY OUT-OF-UNIVERSE MENTS BY SERI CREATOR ARMANDO IANNUCCI, HE'S LIKELY EHER AD OR PRISON (THOUGH THIS IS ONLY TO CEMENT THE POT THAT THE SHOW IS TLY OVER AND PROBABLY NOT SER). HOWEVER, TUCKER HAS SUBSEQUENTLY MA SPORADIC MEOS OTHER MEDIA, OM A BIG ISSUE MAGAZE FEATURE CHRONICLG A FIERCE BREX BATE BETWEEN HIMSELF AND ALAN PARTRIDGE (ANOTHER IANNUCCI CHARACTER) TO AN THORISED MEO ALAN MOORE'S THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDARY GENTLEMEN, VOLUME III: CENTURY, WHERE HE HAS AN UNSEEN RAD TERVIEW WH REAL LIFE JOURNALIST JON SNOW. THE UNFETTERED: THERE IS NOTHG HE WON'T DO TO KEEP HIS PARTY POWER BY ANY MEANS NECSARY: BLACKMAIL, PHYSIL THREATS, LEAKG AND VLENCE ARE ALL HIS ARSENAL. TOTAL LACK OF SCPL IS A JOB REQUIREMENT, WH HIS MORE IALISTIC OPPOSE NUMBER, STEWART PEARSON, PLAYG JT AS DIRTY AS HIM. VETARI JOB SECURY: HE'S WORKED VERY HARD TO PUT HIMSELF THIS POSN, THOUGH HIS GRIP ON THGS IS SLIPPG SERI THREE. HOWEVER, WHEN HE'S FIRED, WE GET GLIMPS OF A ERNMENT WHOUT MALLM: STEVE FLEMG IS CREEPG AROUND BEG A CREEPY CREEP AND SRG EVERYONE, A HANDFUL OF BET MISTERS REVOLT AND DAN MILLER'S BAL APPARENTLY SEE AS AN OPPORTUNY TO LNCH A LEARSHIP BID. NEEDLS TO SAY, MALLM IS QUICKLY LLED BACK. MALLM: I AM THE HEART. I AM THE VENTRICL! VILLAO BREAKDOWN: RATHER, AN ANTI-HERO/ANTI-VILLA BREAKDOWN; SOME STONKG S, OFTEN WH BON THIS IS YOUR BRA ON EVIL AND DON'T YOU DARE PY ME!. WHEN STEVE FLEMG HAS HIM SACKED, MALLM CROSS OVER WH BADASS BOAST: "YOU NNOT FUCK ME! YOU NNOT FUCK ME! I AM UNFUCKABLE! I HAVE NEVER BEEN FUCKED. AND IF YOU FUCKG TRY AND FUCK ME, YOU'LL FD MY FUCKG ARSE WILL FUCKG GROW FUCKG FANGS AND FUCKG SNAP YOUR FUCKG CK OFF!" VLENT GLASWEGIAN: HE'S STTISH AND THREATENS PEOPLE WH CREATIVE ACTS OF VLENCE AND HAS ACTUALLY PUNCHED GLENN. VOLATILE SEND TIER POSN: HE'S ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FIGUR ERNMENT, BUT THE JOB REQUIR HIM TO SPEND EVERY WAKG HOUR ON DUTI SO MANDG THAT MALLM LERALLY HAS NO TIME FOR ANYTHG ELSE HIS LIFE. PL, 'S HEAVILY IMPLIED THAT THE WORK IS HAVG A SER IMPACT ON MALLM'S HEALTH, PECIALLY GIVEN HIS WARNG THAT OLLIE WILL END UP A WRECK WH A FEW MONTHS OF REPLACG HIM. WELL-INTENTNED EXTREMIST: HE GENUELY BELIEV THE PARTY MANIFTO AND WILL FIGHT TO THE ATH FOR . WORKAHOLIC: BTALLY NSTCTED DURG HIS RANT TO OLLIE THE LAST EVER EPISO. WOULDN'T H A GIRL: GLENN ISN'T, STRICTLY SPEAKG, A WOMAN. XANATOS SPEED CHS: HIS SEND SPECIALTY.SAMANTHA "SAM" CASSIDY"HAPPY BIRTHDAY MALLM!"PLAYED BY: SAMANTHA HARRGTONMALLM'S PA AND ONE TE NFIDANTE. HE IS GENUELY FOND OF HER AND THE FEELG IS MUTUAL: SHE IS THE ONLY CHARACTER WHO REALLY UNRSTANDS HIM AND DON'T VIEW HIM AS A PLETE BASTARD. WHEN MALLM GETS FIRED SERI 3, SAM ACTUALLY CRI WHILE EVERYONE ELSE IS CELEBRATG, AND MALLM NNG TO FORT HER. ALL THERE THE MANUAL: HER FULL NAME IS ONLY GIVEN THE MISSG DOSAC FIL. DEATH GLARE: THOUGH SHE NEVER SPEAKS DURG THE GOOLDG INQUIRY, SHE LIVERS A UPLE OF THE TO TERRI AND OLLIE WHEN THEY ARE THE ONLY ON TO EXPLICLY IMPLITE MALLM AS THE SOURCE OF THE LEAK. EXPOSORY HAIRSTYLE CHANGE: SHE HAS DARK HAIR EARLY ON AND IS A SANDY BLON BY THE END OF THE SERI. GIRL FRIDAY: A VERY PETENT ONE FOR MALLM. HYPERPETENT SIKICK: ENOUGH SO TO KEEP UP WH MALLM. MORALY PET: TO MALLM; SHE SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY PERSON HE GENUELY R ABOUT. THE RELIABLE ONE: ONE OF THE PREC FEW PETENT CHARACTERS THE SHOW, QUIET AND EFFICIENT AND JT GETS ON WH THGS THE BACKGROUND. NO WONR MALLM RPECTS HER SO MUCH. SATELLE CHARACTER: ABSOLUTELY NOTHG IS KNOWN ABOUT HER THE SHOW, OUTSI OF HER WORKG FOR MALLM. IN THE MISSG DOSAC FIL, WE LEARN THAT SHE KNOWS HOW TO FE MALLM'S SIGNATURE AND IS A FAN OF U2. SO PROUD OF YOU: HER CHARACTER PHOTO SHOWS THE SE SHE WEARS AFTER MALLM'S ROG SPEECH AT THE END OF SERI 3. UNDYG LOYALTY: SHE STAYS ON AS MALLM'S PA FOR AT LEAST THE EIGHT-YEAR N OF THE SHOW, DURG WHICH EVERY OTHER PROFSNAL RELATNSHIP AND ALLIANCE PORTRAYED WH THE SERI IS STROYED PLETELY AT LEAST ONCE. THIS CLUS HER CROSSG OVER TO OPPOSN WH HIM AFTER HIS PARTY LOS THE ELECTN AND, WELL, JT GENERALLY PUTTG UP WH MALLM FOR ALL THAT TIME...JAMIE MACDONALD, SENR PRS OFFICER, NUMBER 10"FROM NOW ON 'S A PROPER FIGHT—'S A PUB FIGHT, MOTHERWELL L."PLAYED BY: PL HIGGSJAMIE NS THE TTOSTERONE-CHARGED NUMBER 10 PRS OFFICE AND AS MALLM'S UNOFFICIAL SEND--MAND HE ALSO HELPS HIM WH HIS ENFORCER DUTI. HE ME TO NFLICT WH MALLM DURG THE SPECIALS, AND DISAPPEARED THEREAFTER. HOWEVER, HE'S STILL ALIVE, WELL, AND EMPLOYED, AND EXCHANGG BATIVE E-MAILS WH MALLM, AS PER THE MISSG DOSAC FIL. ALL THERE THE MANUAL: HIS FULL NAME IS GIVEN THE MISSG DOSAC FIL, THOUGH IS ALSO GIVEN IN THE LOOP. AX-CRAZY: WHILE MALLM'S TANTMS EQUENTLY THREATEN CREATIVE ACTS OF VLENCE, JAMIE NSTANTLY SEEMS ON THE VERGE OF EXPLODG TO ACTUAL ACTS OF VLENCE. BADASS ADORABLE: WH HIS SHORT STATURE, CURLY HAIR, BOYISH SE AND GIGANTIC BLUE EY HE DON'T LOOK LIKE THE SORT OF MAN WHO THREATENS TO PH IPODS UP HIS ENEMI' PENIS: BASTARD UNRSTUDY: TO MALLM. AS THE SPECIALS MAKE CLEAR, HOWEVER, MALLM HAS CHOSEN WELL; WHILE JAMIE IS SMART AND PETENT, HE LACKS MALLM'S VOKEDMAGNIFICENT BASTARDRY AND FSE, AND IS BASILLY A SHOUTY, VLENT BULLY WHO ULTIMATELY POS NO REAL THREAT. BERSERK BUTTON: AL JOLSON FANATIC. DISSG AL JOLSON MAK HIM EVEN ANGRIER. IN THE LOOP CLEARLY MONSTRAT THAT HE HAS A CHIP ON HIS SHOULR ABOUT CLASS, AND REACTS POORLY EVEN TO PERCEIVED UPPER CLASS PRETENSNS NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY'RE JT HIS HEAD. FOR EXAMPLE, HIS SNEERG ABOUT "FUCK' OXBRIDGE PLEASANTRI" WHEN MEETG TOBY (TOBY HAD SAID NOTHG BUT "HELLO") AND HIS YELLG ABOUT MICHAEL RODGER'S FONDNS FOR LISTENG TO OPERA HIS OFFICE. CHUCK CUNNGHAM SYNDROME: HE ISN'T SEEN OR MENTNED AGA AFTER THE SPECIALS. THE B CAME BACK: SORT OF. HE IS, HOWEVER, FEATURED THE POST-SERI-3 TIE- MATERIAL. CLTER F-BOMB: JT LIKE HIS BOSS. CUT HIS HEART OUT WH A SPOON: HIS THREATS N BE RATHER UNORTHDOX. THE DRAGON: WHILE HIS BOSS WAS MORE OF AN ANTI-HERO THAN A FULL ON VILLA, HE FUNCTNS AS A RATHER PETENT DRAGON FOR MALLM. THAT SAID, HE DID HAVE SOME AMBNS OF HIS OWN, WHICH MAY ACUNT FOR HIS ABSENCE THE THIRD SERI. DEADPAN SNARKER: HE'S NOT AS WTY AS MALLM BUT HE HAS HIS MOMENTS WHEN SULTG PEOPLE:JAMIE: "WHAT DID YOU FD OUT? THAT YOU'VE BEEN LEAKG TELLIGENCE TO THEM!?" EVIL HAS A BAD SENSE OF HUMOUR: WELL, "JERKASS MOTHERWELL BULLY WH ANGER MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS", AT LEAST. IT'S SUBTLY DONE, BUT JAMIE'S ATTEMPTS AT W TEND TO BE LS CLEVER THAN MALLM'S, TAKE HIM LONGER TO E OUT WH, AND PEOPLE GENERALLY TEND TO REACT WH NFN OR D ANNOYANCE AT THE RULT WHERE THEY DON'T WH MALLM, PROMPTG HIM TO HAVE TO W THEM WH A VLENT TEMPER TANTM STEAD. ALL OF WHICH WORKS TO RERCE THE FACT THAT HE'S NOT QUE AS GOOD AT WHAT HE DO AS MALLM IS. EXPY: WHILE THE ABSOLUTE POLAR OPPOSE TERMS OF PERSONALY AND MANNER, JAMIE WAS LOOSELY SPIRED BY NIL OM FRASIER ACRDG TO ARMANDO IANNUCCI. LIKE NIL, JAMIE WAS CREATED WH THE TENTN OF BEG SIAR TO THE MA CHARACTER, THIS SE MALLM, "BUT MORE SO". JT AS NIL IS EVEN MORE FOPPISH, FSY AND PRETENT THAN HIS BROTHER FRASIER, JAMIE IS EVEN MORE BAD-TEMPERED, SWEARY AND STTISH THAN TUCKER. ON THE SAME TOKEN, JAMIE CRICIALLY LACKS MALLM'S W AND MANIPULATIVE BASTARD STCTS, MAKG HIM ENOUGH OF A FOIL TO TUCKER, JT AS NIL LACKS FRASIER'S SOCIAL NFINCE AND LUCK WH WOMEN. FX AFFABLY EVIL: ON THE RARE OCSNS HE TRI CHARM RATHER THAN SCREAMG, HE'S ABOUT AS NVCG AS STEVE FLEMG, SCE HE'S UNABLE TO EFFECTIVELY NCEAL HIS SEETHG, ABIVE NATURE.JAMIE: I'M BEG POLE, AREN'T I?. HAIR-TRIGGER TEMPER: UNLIKE MALLM, WHO'S OUTBURSTS OF RAGE ARE GENERALLY MORE FOCSED AND PROMPTED MORE BY THE IDCY AND PETENCE OF THOSE HE'S SURROUND BY, JAMIE JT SEEMS TO HAVE A VLENT, OUT-OF-NTROL TEMPER READY TO EXPLO AT THE SLIGHTT HT OF EVEN A HYPOTHETIL PROVOTN. INFORMED ATTRIBUTE: HIS LACK OF HEIGHT. WH ALL THE DIGS AT JAMIE'S ALLEGED LACK OF HEIGHT, 'S EASY TO FET THAT PL HIGGS IS 5'10" - AVERAGE HEIGHT, TH NOT EXACTLY SHORT. HOWEVER, PARED TO PETER CAPALDI, CHRIS ADDISON, WILL SMH, BEN SWA AND SEVERAL OF THE OTHER ACTORS (ALL OVER SIX FEET) HE DO LOOK RATHER DIMUTIVE. JERKASS: HE'S VLENT, AGGRSIVE AND IMPOSSIBLE TO GET ON WH, UNLS YOU'RE A CLEANER. JERKASS HAS A POT: JAMIE IS SPOT ON WHEN HE SAYS THAT CLIFF LAWTON'S LEARSHIP SPEECH IS UTTER WOE-IS-ME VOKEDWANGST! JERK JOCK: A CR, MORE PYSCHOTIC BULLY THAN MALLM. LASER-GUID KARMA: IN "SPNERS AND LOSERS", HE SCREAMS AT AND BULLI ROBYN WHEN SHE HELPFULLY CHIPS WH AN UNPROMPTED SUGGTN FOR CLIFF LAWTON'S LEARSHIP BID. ROBYN THEN SCUTTL JAMIE'S PLANS BY TELLG TERRI THAT JAMIE IS MEETG LAWTON, AS TERRI THEN GO ON TO SPILL TO MALLM. MT HAVE NITE: A HEAVY SMOKER. MY MASTER, RIGHT OR WRONG: HE EXPLICLY DISCLAIMS PENNT THOUGHT RISE OF THE NUTTERS.JAMIE: YOU ARE GOG NUTTER MATE!MALLM: AND YOU'VE NEVER THOUGHT FUCKG ABOUT THAT, HAVE YOU?JAMIE: NO, I NEVER HAVE, BEE THAT'S HOW THEY GET YOU, FUCK THAT THKG, OH, LOGIC, REASON, TALKG! THE NAPOLEON: WHAT HE LACKS HEIGHT, HE MAK UP FOR AGGRSIVENS. NICE TO THE WAER: HE'LL SCREAM AND SWEAR HIS HEAD OFF TO PEOPLE POWER, CLUDG CIVIL SERVANTS, WH NO PUNCTN, BUT WHEN HE UNTENTNALLY KNOCKS TO A CLEANER, HE'S ALL APOLOGI. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: DAMIAN MCBRI AND CHARLIE WHELAN, TWO EX-TRA UNNISTS WHO WERE PART OF NUMBER 10'S SP MACHE DURG THE BLAIR ERA. NO INDOOR VOICE ONLY FRIEND: DPE HIS ALIENATG PERSONALY, HE SEEMS TO BE THE CLOST THG MALLM HAS TO AN ACTUAL IEND, AS THEY ARE SEEN TALKG AMIBLY SOME SCEN AND IS THE ONLY ONE WHO N GET AWAY WH SULTG OR STANDG UP TO MALLM. ONLY ONE NAME: UNTIL THE MOVIE AND THE BOOK AT LEAST. PET THE DOG: HE GO TO POLE MO WHEN HE BUMPS TO A CLEANER, STRAIGHT AFTER CHEWG OUT ROBYN. A LETED SCENE OM "SPNERS AND LOSERS" HAS HIM JOG MALLM FORTG THE CLEANG LADY THAT BEN SWA NEEDLSLY BERATED. JAMIE EVEN OFFERS TO KILL HIM. PSYCHO FOR HIRE: HE'S BASILLY A BULL DOG FOR MALLM. LAMPSHAD BY OLLIE AT THE START OF SPNERS AND LOSERS. REAL MEN WEAR PK: DPE HIS DISLIKE FOR OPERA, THE MISSG DOSAC FIL SHOW THAT HE ED TO BE A FEATURE WRER A NEWSPAPER'S CULTURE SECTN. WHEN HE CLAIMS THAT THIS WAS ONLY DUE TO WANTG TO BED PENNY, HIS EDOR, MALLM RPONDS WH REPORTS OM HIS WORKERS ABOUT HIS BEHAVUR WHILST THERE (PLETE WH PONYTAIL). JAMIE HAS NO ANSWER. SARSM FAILURE: BEN SWA'S DISASTRO JEREMY PAXMAN TERVIEW MAK JAMIE SO ANGRY THAT HE N'T EVEN MANAGE HIS UAL STREAM OF PROFANI THE R RI AWAY. AFTER WHAT'S IMPLIED TO BE A LONG SILENCE, THE MOST HE N MANAGE IS "YOU DON'T SERVE TO LIVE!" THE STARSCREAM: DEFIED: MALLM SPECIFILLY CHOSE A BASTARD UNRSTUDY TOO BATSH TO PULL OFF A SUCCSFUL BETRAYAL. EVENTUALLY HE DO MAKE A RATHER PATHETIC ATTEMPT, WHICH FAILS HORRIBLY. SMUG SNAKE: UNLIKE MALLM, HE DON'T HAVE THE CHARM OR MANIPULATN SKILLS TO BE A VOKEDMAGNIFICENT BASTARD. TRANQUIL FURY: TRANQUIL BY JAMIE'S STANDARD ANYWAY HE'S SOMEWHAT MORE LM AND METHODIL WHEN HE'S IALLY STROYG THE FAX MACHE ONLY TO GET PROGRSIVELY ENRAGED AND THEN BACK TO FULL-ON VILLAOBREAKDOWN MO ULTIMATE JOB SECURY: HOW SOMEONE THIS CLOSE TO BEG FERAL WAS EVEN ALLOWED TO NUMBER 10 IS NEVER EXPLAED. VLENT GLASWEGIAN: WELL, A VLENT GUY OM MOTHERWELL, BUT CLOSE ENOUGH. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MOE?: AFTER PLAYG A FAIRLY PROMENT ROLE THE TWO SPECIALS, HE VANISH WHOUT EXPLANATN FOR SEASONS 3 AND 4. GIVEN THE HE WAS LAST SEEN SIDG AGAST MALLM THE LEARSHIP NTT, THOUGH, SEEMS SAFE TO ASSUME THAT HE PROBABLY DON'T HAVE A JOB ANY MORE. WORKG-CLASS HERO: AND HAS A CHIP ON HIS SHOULR ABOUT CLASS.    THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AFFAIRS (AND CIZENSHIP) OLLIE REER: "CIZENSHIP VOLV, BASILLY, CUTTG PENSNS TO THE GURKHAS, RE-JIGGG THE PROTOLS FOR A RABI OUTBREAK, SOME CRAP OM HEALTH ABOUT LONG-TERM RE FOR THE ELRLY, THAT NEHER THEY NOR WE HAVE ANY REAL IA ABOUT."GLENN CULLEN: "AND EVERYTHG TO DO WH THE ISLE OF MAN."AS A NEWLY-CREATED "SUPER PARTMENT" WH A WI RANGE OF DUTI, DOSAC'S REM IS NFG BUT AMONG OTHER THGS VERS HOG, IMMIGRATN AND BENEFS. IT IS THE LEAST GLAMORO OF THE CABET PARTMENTS AND THE ONE WHICH NO MPS WANT TO N. A FICTNAL PARTMENT, IS PARABLE TO THE REAL LIFE DEPARTMENT FOR COMMUNI AND LOL GOVERNMENT. THE PARTMENT SELF VOK THE THE MA CHARACTERS DO EVERYTHG TROPE, AS GLENN AND OLLIE HAVE ALREADY EXPLAED ABOVE.THIS PARTMENT WAS N BY THE FOLLOWG CHARACTERS SERI 1-3:CLIFF LAWTON MP"IT'S THE BOLLOCKS OF THE JUNGLE OUT THERE. THEY'RE LIKE WOLV- PISSED WOLV."PLAYED BY: TIM BENTCKTHE MISTER FOR SOCIAL AFFAIRS WHEN THE SERI STARTED, MALLM FORCED HIM TO RIGN THE VERY FIRST EPISO. BORG INSULT: SUBJECTED TO THIS OM BOTH MALLM AND JAMIE. BUTT-MONKEY: HIS TABLISHG MOMENT IS HIS DISMISSAL OM THE PARTMENT. DEY PROTAGONIST: IS MISTER FOR THE PARTMENT THAT THIS SERI FOLLOWS... FOR ALL OF FIVE MUT. HE'S BACK!: SUBVERTED; JT WHEN LOOKS LIKE JAMIE IS ABOUT TO BOOST HIM TO THE POSN OF RIVAL NDIDATE, MALLM TTONS ON AND ABORTS THE PLAN. MEANWHILE, CLIFF GO AS FAR AS SAYG "I'M BACK!" BEFORE JAMIE WEARILY TELLS HIM TO FUCK OFF. IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: THE SPEECH HE DRAFTS FOR HIS ABORTED LEARSHIP MPAIGN LNCH FOC ENTIRELY ON HOW MALLM, AND BY EXTENSN THE PARTY, SCREWED HIM OVER. JAMIE AND ROBYN BOTH ADVISE AGAST THIS. NEVER MY FLT: ACTS LIKE LABOUR SCREWED HIM OVER, NEVER MD THAT IF HE WAS A MORE EFFECTIVE POLICIAN HE WOULDN'T HAVE HAD TO RIGN THE FIRST PLACE. ROARG RAMPAGE OF REVENGE: AGAST MALLM, AND UTTERLY EFFECTUAL. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: IT'S A SMALL MOMENT, BUT THE MIDDLE OF MALLM SACKG HIM, HE TRI TO SIST MALLM LL HIM "MISTER". MALLM TELLS HIM TO "GET ED TO CLIFF." UNFORTUNATE NAM: "ELVIS... SORRY, CLIFF!" POOR CLIFF LAWTON'S PARENTS PROBABLY DIDN'T ENVISAGE THEIR SON GOG TO POLICS. WANGST: INVOKED; AFTER HEARG HIM BASE HIS ENTIRE STALKG-HORSE SPEECH ON HIS SACKG BY MALLM, JAMIE ACC CLIFF OF THIS AND MAK AS CLEAR AS POSSIBLE THAT THERE'S NO POT DOG SO WHEN EVERY SGLE POLICIAN THE CURRENT ERNMENT HAS HAD TO DO THE SAME THG AND WORSE AT SOME POT.HUGH ABBOTT MP (SERI 1-2)"I TEGORILLY DID NOT KNOWGLY NOT TELL THE TTH. EVEN THOUGH UNKNOWGLY I MIGHT NOT HAVE DONE."PLAYED BY: CHRIS LANGHAMCLIFF LAWTON'S REPLACEMENT. DURG HIS TIME THERE THE PARTMENT WAS RE-BRAND "THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND CIZENSHIP", OR DOSAC. HE LACKS "CLICK" WH HIS NSTUENTS, OTHER POLICIANS AND (MOST UPSETTG TO HUGH) THE PM'S WIFE. BAD BOSS: IN THE FIRST EPISO, HE SACKS HIS CHFFR FOR "APPROPRIATELY SG AND SMIRKG". IN HIS LAST, HE ACCINTALLY SENDS AN OFFENSIVE EMAIL TO THE WRONG PERSON AND MAK TERRI TAKE THE RAP FOR . BAD LIAR: JT LOOK AT HIS CHARACTER QUOTE. BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG: USUALLY PUTS ON A FAçA OF GOOD MANNERS AND OCSNALLY TRI TO APPEAR FAR NICER THAN HE ACTUALLY IS. AS SOON AS THGS BEG TO GO WRONG THOUGH, HE DROPS THE ACT ENTIRELY AND WILL HAPPILY BETRAY ANYONE ORR TO MAKE HIMSELF LOOK GOOD. CHUCK CUNNGHAM SYNDROME: HE'S NEVER MENTNED AGA AFTER BEG RHUFFLED AFTER THE SPECIALS. DEY PROTAGONIST: ARGUABLY THE MA CHARACTER OF THE FIRST TWO SEASONS BEFORE THE FOC SHIFTED TOWARDS MALLM. DIRTY COWARD: HUGH IS SLIMY, SHAMELS AND AS PATHETILY WARDLY AS THEY E. HE HIS A STORAGE ROOM TO AVOID MALLM'S WRATH. HE'S QUE VOL ABOUT HIS RENTMENT OVER DAN MILLER'S POPULARY WH THE PM, LLG HIM A "FUCKG BSHED ALUMIUM CYBERPRICK", BUT NEVER TO DAN'S FACE. GLENN KNOWS HUGH WOULD NEVER DARE TELL THE PM TO NCEL THE NEW SPECIAL SCHOOLS BILL: "NO, I'M NOT, BUT 'D BE GREAT IF I DID, WOULDN'T ?" HE FORC TERRI TO HUIATGLY ACCEPT BLAME AND PUBLICLY APOLOGIZE ON TELEVISN FOR SOMETHG THAT WAS 100% HIS FLT. HE THEN LI ABOUT GLENN NVCG HIM TO KILL THE SPECIAL SCHOOLS PROGRAMME. EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: EVEN HE FDS OLLIE'S MENTS ABOUT SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN DISTASTEFUL GIVEN GLENN'S SON HAS SPECIAL NEEDS.HUGH ABBOTT: YOU JT TOOK A SH WH YOUR CLOTH ON, OLLIE — GLENN'S BOY, PETER, HE WENT TO A SPECIAL NEEDS SCHOOL. IT DON'T STOP HIM OM THROWG GLENN UNR THE B (AND QUE POSSIBLY POISONG HIS RELATNSHIP WH HIS SON THE PROCS) AT THE END OF THE EPISO BY CLAIMG GLENN WAS THE ONE WHO NVCED HIM TO KILL THE PROGRAMME, THOUGH. IT ENDS THEIR IENDSHIP. IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: WHEN RMED OF TERRI'S FATHER PASSG AWAY, HIS IMMEDIATE RPONSE IS TO SAY THAT HE HIMSELF HAS JT SUFFERED A SIAR TRAGEDY: HE LACKS "CLICK" WH THE PRIME MISTER'S WIFE. JA-COLOURED GLASS: YOU N TELL HE'S LOST ALL ENTHIASM WH HIS JOB.I WORK, I EAT, I SHOWER. OCSNALLY, I'LL TAKE A DUMP, JT AS A SORT OF TREAT. HATE SK: HUGH HAS ALMOST NO REEMG OR LIKEABLE QUALI AT ALL. HE'S WARDLY, SELF ABSORBED, SENSIVE AND TREACHERO. KICK THE DOG: AFTER SUCCSFULLY THROWG GLENN UNR THE B DURG THE "YOUR OWN MOTHER'S PISS" FIAS, HE IMMEDIATELY LLS UP OLLIE TO GLOAT ABOUT WATCHG HIS "IEND" SUFFER DUE TO HIS OWN ACTNS. LACK OF EMPATHY: FROM TIME TO TIME, HUGH WILL MONSTRATE THAT HE IS ALMOST PLETELY OBLIV WHEN TO THE EMOTNS OF OTHER HUMAN BEGS. ALONG WH RPONDG TO THE "FLATGATE" AND "YOUR OWN MOTHER'S PISS" FIASS WH A BORRLE-HILAR IT'S ALL ABOUT ME ATTU, HE GO OUT OF HIS WAY TO BACK OUT OF NVERSATNS WH ANYONE WHO ISN'T A JOURNALIST DURG THE EPISO 6 PRS PARTY, AND EVEN ORRS TERRI TO RETURN TO WORK SPE KNOWG THAT SHE'S ON LEAVE AND MOURNG. TO BE PRECISE, HE DO SO JT A FEW SENDS AFTER LEARNG THAT TERRI'S FATHER HAS JT DIED, WH TERRI STILL DIBLY SOBBG THE BACKGROUND. AND THEN HE GO ON TO CLAIM THAT HE'S JT SUFFERED A SIAR TRAGEDY—BEG TOLD THAT HE LACKS "CLICK" WH THE PM'S WIFE. THE LAST DJ: HE TRI TO PRENT HIMSELF AS THE ONLY MISTER WH ANY KD OF HUMANY LEFT POLICS, PECIALLY PARISON WH "THAT FUCKG BSHED ALUMIUM DAN MILLER CYBERPRICK." THE REALY IS FELY LS IMPRSIVE. MARRIED TO THE JOB: WHILE HE IS MARRIED AND HAS TWO CHILDREN, BY HIS OWN ADMISSN HE BARELY HAS TIME TO SEE THEM. NEVER MY FLT: AFTER G TERRI'S EMAIL TO SEND A VULGAR EMAIL TO GLENN THAT ACCINTALLY ENDS UP BEG SENT TO A CHILD WH SPECIAL NEEDS ALSO LLED GLENN, HE SPENDS THE EPISO SHIFTG ALL THE BLAME ON TO TERRI AND ALSO SAYS HE WILL STAND BY HER REGARDLS OF WHAT "SHE" DID. TERRI RIGHTLY LLS HIM OUT IMMEDIATELY. NICE TO THE WAER: AVERTED. WHEN HE'S HELD UP BY SOME SECURY GUARDS HIS FAL EPISO, HE SNILY TELLS THEM THAT HE'S THE WHOLE REASON THEY'RE WORKG THERE. PUT ON A B: HUGH GO ON A TOUR OF ATRALIA DURG THE SPECIALS... B CRASH: .. NEVER BACK AFTER LOSG HIS CABET POSN THE RHUFFLE SERI 3. THE STOIC: LACKS EMOTNS OTHER THAN FEAR OR RENTMENT. SYMPATHETIC P.O.V.: DOWNPLAYED GIVEN HIS JERKASS BEHAVUR, BUT YOU N FEEL A TAD B OF SYMPATHY FOR HOW OVER-WORKED HE IS AND HOW HE RARELY GETS TO SEE HIS WIFE OR KIDS. UNGRATEFUL BASTARD: HE'S NOT GRATEFUL TO GLENN'S EFFORTS AT KEEPG HIM THE LOOP, AT ALL. WH FRIENDS LIKE THE...: HIS RELATNSHIP WH GLENN. JT BEE HE'S IENDS WH HIM DON'T MEAN HE WON'T CHEERFULLY BETRAY HIM A BID TO MAKE HIMSELF LOOK GOOD. BY HIS FAL APPEARANCE, HIS ACTNS HAVE STROYED THE IENDSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO.NILA MURRAY, MP (SERI 3); LEAR OF THE OPPOSN (SERI 4)"I HAVE ABOUT AS MUCH REAL POWER AS THOSE TWATS WHO S EHER SI OF ALAN SUGAR."PLAYED BY: REBEC FRONTHUGH ABBOTT'S REPLACEMENT FOLLOWG A RHUFFLE AT THE START OF SERI 3. AMB BUT WH NO REAL IAS, HER BELIEF THAT SHE N MAKE A DIFFERENCE PROV TO BE A LN. BY SERI 4, SHE HAS BEE LEAR OF THE OPPOSN. 0% APPROVAL RATG: AS POWERLS AS SHE WAS DURG HER TIME AS HEAD OF DOSAC, NILA AT LEAST HAD THE SUPPORT OF HER STAFF. AFTER BEG LEAR OF THE OPPOSN, NILA END UP EARNG THE DISRPECT AND MOCKERY OF ALMOST EVERYONE SHE ENUNTERED ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS: MEMBERS OF PUBLIC OPENLY RI HER ATTEMPTS AT SECURG POWER; JOURNALISTS HOUND HER AT EVERY TURN, ACPANIED BY THE DREAD "CHOP"; HER ASSISTANTS OPENLY SULT HER; THE RT OF THE SHADOW BET LGH AT HER IAS... EVEN STEVE FLEMG WENT OUT OF HIS WAY TO PUBLICLY STATE THAT SHE WAS UN-ELECTABLE. AWFUL WEDD LIFE: IS NSTANTLY ON THE VERGE OF DIVORCE WH JAM, HER UNSEEN HBAND. MALLM REFERS TO HER AS THE "GLUMMY MUMMY." BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG: ESPECIALLY SEASON 4, WHEN SHE MAK SARSTIC MENTS ABOUT UNIFORMED PENSNERS, TO WHICH MALLM LLS HER OUT FOR DISRPECTG SAID VETERANS SAYG THIS, "I'M GLAD YOU'RE THKG ABOUT THOSE PENSNERS S THOSE ARE THE POOR FUCKERS WHO GAVE EVERYTHG SO PEOPLE LIKE YOU ULD PLAY AT NNG THE UNTRY." BUTT-MONKEY: SHE WAS NEVER THE MOST PETENT MISTER, BUT SERI FOUR, WHEN SHE'S BEE LEAR OF THE OPPOSN, EACH EPISO SEEMS TO JT BE ONE LONG HUIATN CONGA FOR HER. CANNOT TELL A JOKE: SHE OFTEN GETS A BLANK STARE, OR EVEN MULTIPLE BLANK STAR, WHEN ATTEMPTG HUMOUR. HER POORLY TIMED, "THANK OUR FUCKY STARS FOR THAT", JOKE THE RAD EPISO, PECIALLY TAK THE KE. THE CHEW TOY: SHE GETS REGULARLY HUIATED BY THE PRS AND HARASSED BY THE "CHOP MAN", SERI 4. CLSTROPHOBIA: NEVER TAK LIFTS. CONTRASTG SEQUEL MA CHARACTER: TO HUGH ABBOTT. WHEREAS HUGH WAS A JAD, CYNIL, BURNT-OUT MIDDLE-AGED MAN, NILA IS AN OPTIMISTIC, NAIVE WOMAN WHO DON'T REALLY UNRSTAND HOW THE GAME IS PLAYED. CORPT THE CUTIE: BEG AROUND MALLM TURNS HER OM A NAIVE MP TO A FOUL-MOUTHED SAVVY POLICIAN ABLE TO THROW A PRS NFERENCE TO SAVE MALLM'S ARSE; DON'T STOP THE NSTANT FLOW OF SCREW-UPS HOWEVER. DEADPAN SNARKER: SHE'S CERTALY NOT AVERSE TO SNARKG BACK AT MALLM. "WE ARE A DYG ERMENT, OUR HAIR'S FALLG OUT, WE'RE UGHG UP BLOOD AND THE KIDS ARE ASKG TO CHANGE THE WILL.". THE DHERER: PROBABLY HER FATAL FLAW. MUCH AS SHE MIGHT PROTT OTHERWISE, AT THE END OF THE DAY SHE DON'T REALLY STAND FOR ANYTHG, HAVE ANY PARTICULAR IAS OR BELIEVE ANY PRCIPL, AND IS MORE TERTED BEG LIKED/POWERFUL THAN ANYTHG ELSE. CONSEQUENTLY, SHE ULTIMATELY DON'T REALLY WANT TO ROCK THE BOAT AND DO ANYTHG WHICH PEOPLE MIGHT VIEW UNFAVOURABLY. HER "BIG IAS" ARE ALL WISHY-WASHY NON-ENTI LIKE THE "FOURTH SECTOR" WHICH ARE POSED OF NOTHG BUT BLANDLY MEANGLS RPORATE-SPEAK BUZZWORDS, AND IS WILLG TO SPEND HOURS ENGAGED ELS BLATHER OVER THE PERFECT MEDIA-IENDLY NAME FOR PEOPLE WHO GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO HELP SOMEONE ELSE. WHICH IS WELL ENOUGH, IF NOT IAL, FOR THE MISTER OF A THIRD-RATE MOR PARTMENT THAT NO ONE REALLY PAYS ATTENTN TO, BUT PROV CREASGLY DISASTRO A LEAR OF THE OPPOSN. EXPOSORY HAIRSTYLE CHANGE: SHE HAS LONG HAIR SEASON THREE AND SEASON FOUR, HER HAIR'S BEEN SHORTENED TO A BOB. FAILURE HERO: HER MOR VICTORI SUCH AS STOPPG HER DGHTER OM GETTG EXCLUD OR KNOWGLY BOMBG THE FOURTH SECTOR PRS NFERENCE ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN. MARRIED TO THE JOB: HER UNSEEN HBAND SEEMS TO GET ANNOYED ABOUT HER ABSENCE OM THE HOME. HER CHILDREN—PECIALLY HER DGHTER ELLA—ARE EQUENTLY PAWNS THE POWER STGGLE BETWEEN HER AND MALLM, BUT WE NEVER ACTUALLY MEET ANY OF THEM. MY GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE?: THIS IS CLEARLY GOG THROUGH HER HEAD WHEN THE HEADMASTER AT ELLA'S SCHOOL HAS TO BE SACKED FOR BENDG THE L, TO THE POT WHERE NILA NSIRS RIGG UNTIL MALLM VEHEMENTLY ADVIS AGAST . NERVO WRECK: NILA GENERAL TENDS TO NDUCT HERSELF WH A KD OF TWCHY ANX ENERGY, EQUENTLY PUNCTUATED BY SLIGHTLY TOO AWKWARD, SHRILL AND OUT-OF-PLACE LGHTER, AND ALWAYS OVERREACTS TO EVERYTHG THAT HAPPENS TO HER THE WORSE POSSIBLY WAY. THIS EVENTUALLY GETS TO THE POT WHERE, ACRDG TO MALLM, OTHER WOMEN SCRIBE HER AS "A JTERY MOTHER AT A WEDDG". NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: SEASON 4, WHERE SHE'S SENTIALLY A GENR-FLIPPED ED MILIBAND, WHO ALSO BEAT A MUCH MORE-FANCIED NDIDATE DUE TO A QUIRK OF THE VOTG SYSTEM TO BEE LEAR OF THE OPPOSN. OBFTG STUPIDY: NILA ISN'T THE BRIGHTT, BUT SHE DO DISPLAY ENOUGH POLIL ACUY TO KNOWGLY BOMB A PRS NFERENCE TO TAKE THE HEAT OFF MALLM. ALTERNATIVELY, SHE'S DISPLAYG A TOUCH OF BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG, KNOWG THAT HER PROSPECTS OF A LEARSHIP BID ARE NIL AFTER A DISASTRO DAY AND A PARTICULARLY AWFUL PRS NFERENCE, AND SHE'S TAKG A SWIPE AT MALLM'S ERROR NTRIBUTG TO THE DAY'S EVENTS. OR BOTH! OFFSCREEN MOMENT OF AWOME: FOR ALL HER FLAWS, SHE WAS (ALBE ON A TECHNILY) ABLE TO FEAT DAN MILLER HER BID FOR OPPOSN LEAR. PARENTAL NEGLECT: BELIEV HER EQUENT WORK-RELATED ABSENC, AS WELL AS HER HBAND BEG "NEVER REALLY THERE," ARE THE REASON FOR HER PRETEEN DGHTER ACTG OUT AT SCHOOL. POTY-HAIRED BOSS: HER PETENCE PLUMMETS AS LEAR OF THE OPPOSN AND SHE GIV NO RATNAL THOUGHT TO ANY CISN, PECIALLY WH OVERTHKG THE 'BAT PEOPLE' TLE OR EASILY NCEEDG TO BEN SWA'S MANDS. POWER HAIR: HER HAIR IS NSIRABLY SHORTER AS LEAR OF THE OPPOSN. THE PETER PRCIPLE: BOTH OF HER PROMOTNS THE SERI UNT AS THIS: SHE'S PROMOTED TO MISTER OF DOSAC OM BEG A BACKBENCH MP SO OBSCURE THAT MALLM DON'T EVEN HAVE BACKGROUND REARCH ON HER, AND QUICKLY PROV THAT SHE'S A B OUT OF HER PTH OM HER PREV ROLE. HOWEVER, WHILE SHE AT LEAST MEETS A BASELE OF PETENCY AND PABILY (IF NOT AN PECIALLY HIGH ONE) AT DOSAC, WHEN SHE'S SOMEHOW ELECTED LEAR OF THE OPPOSN SHE'S AN UTTERLY PETENT FAILURE WHO GETS NO RPECT OM ANYONE. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: DPE BEG 'REGULARLY' HUIATED BY THE PRS AND ONLY BEG OPPOSN LEAR ON A TECHNILY, NILA HONTLY THOUGHT SHE HAD A SHOT AT BEG PRIME MISTER. ADMTEDLY, NILA WAS SHOWG SIGNS OF THIS HER FIRST SEASON: AT ONE POT, SHE GLOATED AT HOW WELL SHE WAS DOG ON BBC RAD- EVEN THOUGH HER ONLY VICTORY HAD BEEN DUE TO SOMEONE LLG WH A REPORT ON THE OPPOSN ACCEPTG FUNDS OM A SWEATSHOP. WHEN TRYG TO PERSUA DAN MILLER TO DROP THE LEAK QUIRY AFTER HE REPLAC HER AS LEAR OF THE OPPOSN, NILA — WHOUT A SHRED OF SELF-AWARENS — TRI TO AME HERSELF AS A PARTY ELR AND BRAZENLY TRI TO E "PEOPLE LIKE ME" AS A THREAT TO GET HIM TO AGREE. THIS IS AFTER THE SERI HAS MA A POT OF REPEATEDLY HAMMERG HOME EXACTLY HOW PETENT AND UNPOPULAR SHE WAS. SPICLY SIAR SUBSTUTE: HER ONLY POTS OF DIFFERENCE WH HUGH ABBOTT ARE THAT SHE'S A WOMAN, AND THAT SHE'S NOT BT IENDS WH HER MA MISTERIAL ADVISOR. THIS IS ENTIRELY JTIFIED, AS THE PREMISE OF THE SHOW IS THAT ALL POLICIANS ARE THE SAME. TOOK A LEVEL DUMBASS: SHE WAS TRODUCED AS UPBEAT, YET SLIGHTLY DIM. IN SEASON FOUR, SHE'S SO PETENT THAT SHE LERALLY NNOT WALK A STRAIGHT LE WHOUT SCREWG UP. TOOK A LEVEL JERKASS: SHE GETS LOT MORE SNIPPY WH EVERYONE SEASON 4, PECIALLY TO HER ADVISERS. WHERE IT ALL BEGAN: HER FIRST MAJOR ORR OF BS AS SECRETARY OF STATE IS TO TRAVEL TO LEAMGTON SPA. SHE MENTNS A LETED SCENE THAT SHE GREW UP THERE. WI-EYED IALIST: ACRDG TO REBEC FRONT, THE CHARACTER WAS LARGELY SPIRED BY A DISCSN WH A POLIL NSULTANT WHO TOLD HER THAT THE WORST NIGHTMARE FOR SOMEONE LIKE MALLM WOULD BE A POLICIAN WHO BELIEVED THGS. WDBAG POLICIAN: HER SPEECH ARE LEGENDARILY TERRIBLE.BEN SWA MP, JUNR MISTER FOR IMMIGRATN, DOSAC (SPECIALS, SERI 3); SHADOW CABET MISTER (SERI 4)"LOOK AT THIS! TAKEAWAY AND A FIGHT. ALL I NEED NOW IS A HANDJOB A B SHELTER AND I'LL HAVE HAD THE GREAT BRISH NIGHT OUT."PLAYED BY: JT EDWARDSA JUNR MISTER TO HUGH ABBOTT, SERI THREE HE TRANSFERRED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUTN AFTER NILA MURRAY SACKED HIM OM DOSAC OFF-SCREEN. HE IS PETTY AND IMMATURE, SLOW ON THE UPTAKE, AND HAS A MEGA NERVO BLK. BY THE BEGNG OF SERI 4, HE IS A SHADOW SECRETARY OF STATE FOR AN UNKNOWN PARTMENT. BIG EATER: OTHER CHARACTERS NEVER FAIL TO POKE FUN OF HIS FONDNS FOR FOOD AND HIS EQUENT TRIPS TO THE VENDG MACH. BUTT-MONKEY: HIS FIRST APPEARANCE HAS HIM UNEXPECTEDLY ENDG UP AN TERVIEW WH JEREMY PAXMAN, WHICH WAS ACCURATELY SCRIBED AS "LIKE WATCHG A LN RAPG A SHEEP, BUT A BAD WAY." LATER ON, MALLM FORC HIM TO ANOTHER ONE WH THE SAME MAN AND LEAV HIM WH NOTHG TO TALK ABOUT. THEN HE SPENDS A HAPPY HALF-HOUR BEG TOLD HE MIGHT BE THE NEXT PRIME MISTER, ONLY TO BE LEFT "STANDG THE HOE, ALONE, WH YOUR BIG, FLACCID DICK HANGG OUT WH A VOTE-FOR-ME STICKER ON THE END." AND THEN THERE'S THE EVENTS OF SEASON 4, EPISO 4, THOUGH TO BE FAIR THAT WAS HIS OWN FLT. CHARACTER TICS: NERVO BLKG. FAT IDT: HE'S RATHER OVERWEIGHT AND SO AMAZGLY DUMB THAT ONE OF THE FIRST THGS NILA MURRAY DO IS SACK HIM. (HE GETS SENT OVER TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUTN...) HIS STUPIDY DURG A CRISIS ANGERS MALLM SO MUCH THAT HE MAK HIM STAND A RNER AND GIV HIM AN UNPLUGGED KEYBOARD TO PLAY WH. JERKASS: HE'S A JERK, PECIALLY WHEN HE'S JEALO OF OTHERS. HE'S PECIALLY DICKISH TO NILA AND GLENN SEASON 3 TO THE POT WHERE MALLM HAS TO GET HIM TO STAND THE RNER! THE LOAD: HE DON'T EVEN MENTN THE ALFACE IA DURG HIS R CRASH TERVIEW WH JEREMY PAXMAN, THOUGH OLLIE DIDN'T HELP EHER BY MENTNG TO EMMA. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: ED "BLKY" BALLS. THE RIVAL: HE REALLY N'T STAND NILA. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: HE'S WRTEN A BOOK ABOUT "GETTG AHEAD POLICS" TLED IT'S THE EVERYTHG, STUPID. ONE WONRS WHAT ON EARTH HE WOULD KNOW ON THE SUBJECT. IN "SPNERS AND LOSERS", HIS EGO SWELLS EXPONENTIALLY WHEN LOOKS LIKE HE'S WH A (VERY VERY SLIM) CHANCE OF BEG THE NEXT PRIME MISTER. USED AGAST HIM MALLM'S SCHEME TO OT NILA AS OPPOSN LEAR. HE'S PROMISED POSNS THE SHADOW CABET HE'S RIDICULOLY UNQUALIFIED FOR EXCHANGE FOR RIGNATN (FOREIGN SECRETARY, CHANCELLOR), ONLY TO BE IMPLITED THE SAME SNDAL AS NILA AND FORCED ON THE BACKBENCH. SPANNER THE WORKS: IN SEASON 4 WHEN HE RIGNS AND UNRM NILA. SMUG SNAKE: DPE BEG DISLIKED BY EVERYONE, HE HAS A RATHER HIGH OPN OF HIMSELF.GLENN CULLEN, DOSAC SENR POLICY ADVISER"I FEEL LIKE I'M A THERAPY GROUP BEG N BY MY OWN RAPIST."PLAYED BY: JAM SMHDIVORCED AND PRSED, GLENN HAS BEEN WORKG AS AN ADVISER FOR AROUND THIRTY YEARS AND KNOWS NO OTHER WAY OF LIFE. HE IS HUGH'S BT MATE AND NFIDANTE, AND AFTER HUGH'S PARTURE A RHUFFLE, TRI TO MAKE HIMSELF VALUABLE TO NILA. IN SERI THREE HE ATTEMPTS TO N FOR ELECTN AS AN MP HIMSELF, BUT SCE HE'S GLENN, FAILURE IS THE ONLY OPTN. HE JOS A DIFFERENT PARTY DURG THE ELECTN BUT IS DISMAYED WHEN THEY JO A ALN WH JB. HE IS STILL A POLICY ADVISOR AT DOSAC AS OF SERI 4. THE ARTEFACT: IN THE FIRST TWO SEASONS WHEN HUGH WAS AROUND, HE HAD A PURPOSE AND HIS OPN WAS VALUED. WHEN HUGH LEFT, HIS IMPORTANCE GRADUALLY DIMISHED UNTIL HE WAS BASILLY RCED TO MAKG FFEE. BELEAGUERED ASSISTANT: TAKEN TO EXTREM SERI 4, WHERE EVERYONE AT DOSAC ACTIVELY AVOIDS HIM AND HE HAS NEXT TO NO WORK TO DO. BUTT-MONKEY: HE'S REGARD AS AN AGG, IRRELEVANT JOKE SPE ALL HIS ATTEMPTS TO CLAIM HIS 'EXPERIENCE' (READ: AGE) HAS GIVEN HIM NNECTNS, SEX-STARVED TO THE POT WHERE EVEN OLLIE AND HUGH DON'T HATE TO POT OUT "THE LAST TIME YOU SAW SNATCH WAS BASIC INSTCT" AND SPEGOATED NUMERO TIM FOR THE SCREW-UPS OF OTHER PEOPLE THE PARTMENT. BY THE SPECIALS, 'S BEE ENOUGH TO GIVE HIM A PIABLE BUT QUE HILAR MENTAL BREAKDOWN. IT GETS WAY WORSE SERI 4 WHEN THE COALN TAK OVER. CANNOT TELL A JOKE: HE ISN'T THE WTIT BLOKE, AND HE GETS A SMACKDOWN OM ROBYN:DON'T DO JOK, GLENN. YOU'RE NOT A FUNNY MAN, YOU'RE NOT THAT TYPE... CASANOVA WANNABE: HIS PIFUL ATTEMPTS AT FLIRTG WH ROBYN.GLEN CULLEN: "IF ANYONE SHOUTS AT YOU, THEY'LL HAVE TO ANSWER TO ME. I'LL BOX HIS EARS!"HUGH ABBOT: "BOX HIS EARS? IF THAT WAS FLIRTG, THAT WAS ABSOLUTELY CRAP. BOX HIS EARS? HOW LONG IS SCE YOU'VE HAD SEX?" SUBVERTED A THANKFULLY DELETED SCENE SEASON 3, WHERE HE PULLS DURG A PARTY AFTER NILA'S SPEECH BASHG PETER MANNN'S HYPOCRISY. CHARACTERIZATN MARCH ON: HE LOUDLY LLS TERRI A CUNT THE FIRST EPISO. IT SEEMS CREDIBLY JARRG PARED TO HIS FUDDY-DUDDY MEANOUR LATER EPISOS AND SERI. THE EEYORE: HE IS PERPETUALLY PRSED AND SELF-PRETG, DUE TO A BATN OF FAILED PERSONAL AND PROFSNAL LIV. GO-KARTG WH BOWSER: GLENN DON'T SEEM TO LET POLIL FIGHTS AFFECT WHO HE SOCIALIZ WH HIS DOWNTIME AT WORK. HE AND JULI NICHOLSON DE AND LISTEN TO A CRICKET MATCH TOGETHER AS HIS PARTMENT HAVG S DIRTY LNDRY THE MEDIA AIRED THANKS TO JULI' LEAKS. LIKEWISE, HE AND PHIL HANG OUT AND TALK ABOUT THE INTY OF THE STIG AS PHIL WAS DRYG HIS PANTS AT THE SAME TIME THEIR RPECTIVE MISTERS (WHO THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE HELPG) WERE HAVG A ONE-ON-ONE RAD BATE AGAST EACH OTHER. HYPOCRIL HUMOUR: BEG ARGUABLY THE MOST MORAL CHARACTER, THIS TENDS TO HAPPEN WHEN HE DO SOMETHG DISHONOURABLE. MOST OF THE TIME HE DO THE RIGHT THG, BUT SEASON TWO HE PRAIS MALLM FOR AMG TERRI, WHO HAD JT LOST HER FATHER, FOR A CRIME HUGH MTED, AND MAK LIGHT OF HER SUATN. IT IS CLEAR THAT GLENN HAS NO SYMPATHY FOR ANYONE THAT HASN'T EARNED HIS RPECT. IGNORED EXPERT: HE IS GENERALLY POLILLY APT, OFTEN BEG A VOICE OF SENSE WH THE SERI, ALTHOUGH DUE TO HIS AGE IS OFTEN IGNORED AND EMASCULATED BY YOUNGER MEMBERS OF STAFF. THE LAST DJ: BY PARISON, ONLY. GLENN IS AS DISHONT AND UNRHAND AS EVERYONE ELSE ON THE SHOW, BUT HE'S THE ONLY ONE SHOWN TO FEEL BAD ABOUT . HE EVENTUALLY RIGNS, DISGTED WH HIMSELF, AFTER LYG UNR OATH AN ENQUIRY. NICE GUY: MORE SOFT SPOKEN AND NSCIENT THAN MOST OF THE OTHER CHARACTERS, PECIALLY SHOWN DURG MR TICKEL'S ATH. GIVEN THAT EVEN HE IS PRONE TO BEG JT AS DISHONT AND UNRHAND AS EVERYONE ELSE THIS DO MAKE A DOWNPLAYED TROPE. OBSOLETE MENTOR: "I MAY BE NEED. I'VE BEEN NEED THE PAST." POOR GLENN, NO-ONE'S WANTED HIS OPN OR ADVICE ON ANYTHG SCE SERI 2. IT'S NOW SO LONG AGO THAT HUGH BEG EPLY TERTED HIS OPN PRACTILLY UNTS AS EARLY INSTALMENT WEIRDNS. ONLY SANE MAN: HE'S ONE OF THE FEW CHARACTERS THE SERI WH SOMETHG REMBLG A NSCIENCE. TOO BAD NOBODY TAK HIM SERLY. PAPA WOLF: HE LOOKS LIKE HE WANTS TO BEAT SEVEN SHAS OF SH OUT OF HUGH WHEN HUGH LI TO CLAIRE BALLENTYNE ABOUT GLENN BEG THE ONE WHO NVCED HIM TO KILL THE SPECIAL SCHOOLS PROGRAMME. PUNNY NAME: HIS NAME IS A PUN ON GLENCULLEN, WHICH IS THE NAME OF TWO PLAC IRELAND (A VILLAGE COUNTY DUBL AND A TOWNLAND COUNTY MAYO). "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH: WHEN HE FALLY GETS FED UP AND QUS AT THE END OF SEASON 4, HE TAK GREAT PLEASURE TELLG EVERY SGLE PERSON THE OFFICE WHO'S EVER PISSED HIM OFF WHY HE HAT THEM SO MUCH. AT LENGTH. HE ALSO LIVERS A 'VERY' BTER ONE ABOUT OLLIE DURG THE QUIRY ON LEAKG. SPANNER THE WORKS: IN SEASON 4 AND THE SPECIALS. TO THE POT THAT HE WOULD BE A VOKEDMAGNIFICENT BASTARD IF HE ACTUALLY MEANT TO DO ANY OF OR DID WH ANY GREE OF PETENCE. THOSE TWO GUYS: WH OLLIE THE FIRST THREE SERI AND TWO SPECIALS. VRLIC BT BUDS: ALSO WH OLLIE, UNTIL OLLIE BARS HIM OM BEG PART OF LABOUR AND THEN BETRAYS HIM DURG THE LEAKG QUIRY. YOU NEED TO GET LAID: THE EQUENT BUTT OF SEX- AND IMPOTENCY-RELATED JOK.OLIVER FRANCIS "OLLIE" REER, DOSAC POLICY ADVISER (SERI 1-3); SPECIAL ADVISOR TO THE LEAR OF THE OPPOSN (SERI 4)"YEAH, YOU THK 'S MY FGER, BCH."PLAYED BY: CHRIS ADDISONOLLIE SPENT A YEAR A THK TANK BEFORE JOG THE DEPARTMENT. A GRADUATE OF "POXBRIDGE", HE IS BOOK-SMART BUT NOT STREETWISE. RUTHLSLY AMB AND UNSCPULO HIS ATTEMPTS TO FURTHER HIS POLIL REER, HE N BE UNTSTWORTHY AND DISLOYAL, ALTHOUGH HIS AMBNS SEEM TO OL DOWN SERI 3 ONLY TO REV UP SERI 4.HIS PERSONAL LIFE OCSNALLY FURTHERS HIS REER - E.G. WHEN HE DAT JOURNALIST ANGELA HEANEY AND, LATER, EMMA MSGER, A POLICY ADVISER TO DOSAC SHADOW MISTER PETER MANNN MP. AMBIGUOLY BI: IN THE SHOW HE'S ONLY SEEN WH WOMEN (AND IS UNEXPECTEDLY SUCCSFUL ON THAT ONT), BUT HUGH AND GLENN SPECULATE ABOUT HIS CLOSENS WH DAN MILLER. AMBN IS EVIL: HE'S CREDIBLY THLS HIS CLIMB UP THE REER LADR. BASTARD UNRSTUDY: THERE ARE SUBTLE HTS, AT LEAST THROUGHOUT THE FOURTH SERI, THAT HE UNRTAK EFFORTS TO UNRME MALLM AND ACCELERATE HIS FALL OM GRACE. FOR STANCE, HE IS VISIBLY TRIGUED BY THE UNNNY AMOUNT OF KNOWLEDGE TUCKER HAS ABOUT TICKEL'S MEDIL HISTORY, WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT REFLECT ON THE EVENTS OF THE SIXTH EPISO. AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE LAST EPISO HE SURREPTLY LEAKS MALLM'S IMPENDG ARRT TO THE PRS (THIS HE ADMS TO DAN MILLER) AND IS IMPLIED HE DO THE SAME WH MALLM'S CHOICE OF HACKNEY POLICE STATN TO AVOID MEDIA EXPOSURE, SPE OF TUCKER'S PLEAS NOT TO. BUTT-MONKEY: IN "SPNERS AND LOSERS", HE GETS BULLIED LEFT AND RIGHT BY MALLM, SUCKG UP TO THE VAR SMUG SNAK, FORCED TO EMBARRASSG HIMSELF TRYG TO REKDLE A RELATNSHIP HE JT BROKE OFF AND THEN RCED TO THE STAT OF CHEE MONOR WHILE EMMA AND PHIL LGH AT HIM. CANNOT TELL A JOKE: MOSTLY THE FIRST UPLE OF SEASONS. HE OCSNALLY MANAG A B OF GENUELY FUNNY SNARKG, BUT MOSTLY HE JT SPERATELY PROLONGS OTHER PEOPLE'S JOK. CHRONIC BACKSTABBG DISORR: HE IS WILLG TO FURTHER HIS POLIL REER BY THROWG OTHERS UNR THE B. DATG CATWOMAN: HIS RELATNSHIP WH EMMA, THAT HE WOULD HAVE HER JOB WERE HIS PARTY OPPOSN. AND HIS RELATNSHIP WH ANGELA, A JOURNALIST AND, HENCE, THE ENEMY, WHICH MALLM WAST NO TIME PALIZG UPON. DEADPAN SNARKER: HE'S VERY SNARKY TOWARDS GLENN AND N OCSNALLY HOLD HIS OWN AGAST MALLM. DTERAGONIST: AFTER MALLM, HE GETS THE MOST NSISTENT FOC THROUGHOUT THE SERI. DIRTY COWARD: HE NEVER STANDS UP TO MALLM. BT EXEMPLIFIED WHEN HE OUTS GLENN CULLEN AS THE LEAKER DURG THE GOLDG INQUIRY. THE DRAGON: BE MALLM'S RIGHT-HAND MAN SEASON FOUR. EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: EVEN FOR SOMEONE PRONE TO AS MANY DU, NOT FUNNY! MOMENTS AS OLLIE, HE STILL LOOKS UTTERLY SHOCKED AND APPALLED DURG STEVE FLEMG'S FAMO NEW ERA SPEECH WHERE HE PAR THE PARTMENT TO THE VICTIMS OF JOSEF FRZL. HE'S NOT A FAN OF RACISM IF HIS DIALOGUE WH EMMA IS ANYTHG TO GO BY. HE SEEMS GENUELY UNFORTABLE WH THE LENGTHS HE AND MALLM WENT TO STROYG NILA'S REER. FACE–HEEL TURN: IN SEASON FOUR, CULMATG HOW HE HELPS STROY NILA'S REER, BETRAYS HIS IEND GLENN, AND BETRAYS MALLM BY LEAKG NEWS OF HIS ARRT TO THE MEDIA. ALTHOUGH GIVEN THAT OLLIE WAS ALWAYS A B OF A DUPLICO, SLEAZY JERK, THE SHIFT OM "FACE" TO "HEEL" ISN'T CREDIBLY FAR. FX AFFABLY EVIL: A MASSIVE JERKASS UNRNEATH. OLLIE N APPEAR QUE CHARMG AND GOOD-NATURED - BUT HE'LL HAVE NO TROUBLE CHEERFULLY BETRAYG YOU A BID FOR POWER. THE GADFLY: OF THE SEVERELY JERKASS VARIETY, WHETHER 'S MAKG JOK ABOUT GLENN'S SON WH SPECIAL NEEDS, OR JOKG ABOUT MALLM PUNCHG GLENN, YOU N ALWAYS UNT ON OLLIE TO SAY A HURTFUL OR DOWNRIGHT IMMATURE THG. JERKASS: HE IS SENSIVE, WARDLY AND GETS WORSE AND WORSE AS THE SERI GO ON. JERKASS HAS A POT: IN HIS SEND EPISO RANT TO GLENN ABOUT HOW NOT EVERYONE IS THE SAME. KAVORKA MAN: HE'S A WEASELLY, PALE, BPECTACLED PRICK WH A RNY SENSE OF HUMOUR WHO LOOKS LIKE A TWELVE YEAR OVER THE URSE OF THE SERI BEDS ANGELA HEANEY, EMMA MSGER OM THE OPPOSN, AND IS ALSO PICTED AS SOMETHG OF A WOMANIZER. THIS IS REALLY VERY GOOD GOG A SERI THAT SELDOM BOTHERS TO LOOK AT ANYONE'S PRIVATE LIV (BEE MOST OF THEM DON'T HAVE PRIVATE LIV). THIS DO JT APPLY TO THE CHARACTER RATHER THAN CHRIS ADDISON, THE ACTOR WHO PLAYS HIM. CHRIS ADDISON IS QUE HANDSOME AND SOMETHG OF A BISHOUNEN. MANIPULATIVE BASTARD: SEASON 4 SHOWS THAT MALLM - AND THE VIEWERS - MAY HAVE BEEN UNRTIMATG HIS CUNNG. THE MILLSTONE: DURG BEN SWA'S R CRASH TERVIEW, OLLIE GIV AWAY THE ALFACE IA TO HIS GIRLIEND. MY GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE?: HE LOOKS NEAR TEARS AFTER HELPG THRONE NILA OM HER LEARSHIP POSN THE PARTY. OLR THAN THEY LOOK: CHRIS ADDISON. OLLIE IS MEANT TO BE HIS EARLY 20S AND LOOKS NO OLR THAN 22. CHRIS ADDISON TURNED 40(!) 2011. O.O.C. IS SER BS: IN THE MISSG DOSAC FIL, EVERYONE RPONDS TO MALLM'S REQUT FOR THE TULAR FIL WH RISN AND SARSTIC MENTS... EXCEPT FOR OLLIE. MALLM, NATURALLY, IGNOR THE RT OF THE CHATTER AND ZEROS RIGHT ON THIS, SENDG OLLIE AN EMAIL NOTG HOW TERTG IS THAT OLLIE HAS BEEN VERY QUIET THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EXCHANGE AND RMG HIM THAT HE'S POPPG AROUND FOR A LTLE CHAT. OLLIE BREAKS AND NFS TO BEG THE ONE WHO HAS LOST THE FIL. PET THE DOG: WHEN NILA MURRAY'S DGHTER ELLA ACTS OUT SCHOOL, HE TRI TO REASSURE NILA THAT SHE'S NOT A BAD MOTHER, BUT A "PATHFR MUM", WHICH DON'T DO MUCH TO LIFT HER SPIRS BUT 'S NICE OF HIM TO MAKE THE EFFORT. HE VERY WARMLY TELLS GLENN THAT HE FEELS PROUD OF HIM WHEN THE LATTER TELLS OLLIE HE PLANS ON STANDG FOR PARLIAMENT. THE MOMENT IS ONE OF TOTAL SCERY, NOTWHSTANDG THAT OLLIE’S QUICK TO MOCK WHEN THE PLAN FALLS THROUGH DUE GLENN’S ASSOCIATN WH NILA. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: THERE IS A VAST GULF BETWEEN OLLIE'S OWN OPN OF HIS ABILI AND HIS ACTUAL ABILI. SMUG SNAKE: OLLIE TENDS TO E ACROSS AS RATHER SNI AND WEASELLY, AND ON THE WHOLE IS NOT NEARLY AS STREET SMART AS HE THKS HE IS. SPELL MY NAME WH AN S: EARLY EPISOS CRED CHRIS ADDISON AS PLAYG "OLLY REER", WHICH IS LATER CHANGED TO "OLIVER REER", WHILE THE MISSG DOSAC FIL HAS HIM SIGN HIMSELF AS OLLIE. TOYED WH THE FIRST EPISO OF SERI 3, WHERE HE OFFERS THAT HE'S 'OLIVER' OR 'OLLIE' AS NILA PREFERS; WHEN SHE LEANS TOWARD 'OLIVER', HE THEN SISTS ON 'OLLIE' ANYWAY. THE STARSCREAM: HE ENDS UP WH MALLM'S OLD JOB AT THE END OF SEASON 4, ALTHOUGH 'S PRETTY HEAVILY IMPLIED THAT HE'S NOWHERE NEAR BEG PABLE OF AND, AS MALLM HIMSELF SUGGTS WH TYPIL TIC BLUNTNS, WILL CRASH AND BURN BEFORE TOO LONG. STRAWMAN POLIL: OLLIE IS BASILLY AN EXAMPLE OF THE STEREOTYPIL "PROFSNAL POLIL OPERATIVE"; HE'S ATTEND A PRETTY GOOD UNIVERSY AND KNOWS ALL ABOUT THEORY, STRATEGY AND TERMOLOGY, BUT HE DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY TERT OR NCERN FOR ANYONE OTHER THAN HIMSELF (TO BORRLE LACK OF EMPATHY LEVELS AT TIM), HAS NO REAL KNOWLEDGE OR TERT HOW THE WORLD WORKS OUTSI OF A ERNMENT PARTMENT OR POLIL THEORY, AND MALY SEEMS TO VIEW POLICS AS A POTENTIALLY LUCRATIVE REER PATH RATHER THAN AN OPPORTUNY TO IMPLEMENT A PARTICULAR IOLOGY OR TO IMPROVE OTHER PEOPLE'S LIV. THOSE TWO GUYS: WH GLENN WHILE THEY'RE THE SAME PARTMENT. TOOK A LEVEL JERKASS: HE STARTED OUT AS AN AMB, YET EFFICIENT SORT. BY THE END OF THE SERI, HE'S BEE A DUPL, BACK-STABBG WORM WHO'S SOLD OUT EVERY IEND HE'S EVER HAD. HE ENDS UP REPLACG MALLM, SPE THE FACT THAT HE'S CLEARLY NOT UP TO THE TASK. TOOK A LEVEL KDNS: BE LS TRAORO AND GENERALLY A B NICER SERI THREE. AS OF SERI FOUR, THOUGH, HE SEEMS TO BE SHAPG UP FOR A BASTARD UNRSTUDY TO MALLM. IT'S IMPLIED THAT HE'S UNFORTABLE DOG THE THGS MALLM DO SERI 4, AS WELL. THEN, OF URSE, HE STROYS MALLM, POSSIBLY PART OUT OF RENTMENT FOR WHAT MALLM HAS MA HIM BEE AS WELL AS THE SATISFACTN OF PROVG HIS OWN CUNNG. TREACHERO ADVISOR: IN SEASON FOUR, HE GETS SO FED UP WH NILA'S PETENCE THAT HE JOS MALLM'S PLAN TO BRG HER DOWN. VRLIC BT BUDS: WH GLENN, A RELATNSHIP THAT SURVIV EVEN TO SERI FOUR, BUT TO A CRASHG END WHEN OLLIE SELLS HIM OUT AFTER G HIM TO HELP OT NILA. Y-MAN: TO BEN SWA THE 2007 SPECIALS, WHEN LOOKED LIKE BEN WAS GOG TO BE THE NEW SHERIFF TOWN.TERRI COVERLY, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITNS, DOSAC"WELL, YOU KNOW, I'M JT TRYG TO DO MY BT AND MAKE SURE I N STILL GET HOME BY SIX O'CLOCK".PLAYED BY: JOANNA SNLANAS A CIVIL SERVANT, TERRI DO NOT GET VOLVED PARTY POLICS AND HAS REMAED HER JOB REGARDLS OF WHICH PARTY IS POWER, WHICH IS PROBABLY WHY SHE N'T BE ARSED WH . SHE ORDAT THE PARTMENT'S MEDIA RELATNS, AND IS ONE OF THE FEW CHARACTERS TO HAVE A LIFE OUTSI OF WORK. ABHORRENT ADMIRER: TO PETER MANNN, WHO CREASGLY VOLLY PROJECTS HIS UTTER LACK OF TERT HER. CAN'T GET TROUBLE FOR NUTH': BY THE FAL SEASON, SHE'S SO FED UP WH EVERYTHG THAT SHE WANTS OUT AND PLANS TO BUY A TEA SHOP. UNFORTUNATELY, HER STAT AS A CIVIL SERVANT MEANS THAT SHE'S TOO EXPENSIVE TO GET RID OF. CHARACTERIZATN MARCH ON: IN THE FIRST TWO SEASONS, SHE'S A QUIETLY PETENT EMPLOYEE WHO SIMPLY N'T BE ARSED TO RE ABOUT PARTY POLICS (AND THE WHOLE PARTMENT FELL APART WHEN ROBYN HAD TO VER FOR HER). FROM SERI 3 ONWARD SHE'S JT A PLETE IDT. DUMBASS HAS A POT: SHE'S NOT WRONG WHEN SHE LLS MALLM OUT ON HIS ILL-THOUGHT OUT LLS DURG THE LOCKDOWN EPISO. EXPOSORY HAIRSTYLE CHANGE: SHE HAD SHORT BLACK HAIR TO BEG WH AND BY THE END, SHE HAS SHOULR-LENGTH BROWN HAIR. FAT IDT: SHE'S OVERWEIGHT AND RARELY READS THE ROOM. FLANRIZATN: SHE SEEMED A LOT MORE PETENT THE FIRST SERI (BORRG ON ONLY SANE EMPLOYEE, IF ONLY BEE SHE WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO WANTED TO STICK TO PROTOL AND KEEP THEIR BUTTS VERED). BY THE TIME OF THE THIRD SERI SHE'S REACHED THE POT WHERE SHE'S KNOWN EVEN AMONG THE OPPOSN AS "THE ELS ONE". AT THE END OF THE SEND SERI, TERRI SUFFERS A GREAT AL OF UPHEAVAL HER PERSONAL LIFE. IT IS NOT UNTIL AFTER THIS TRMA THAT THE QUALY OF HER WORK DROPS OFF, AND SERI 3 SHE ADMS TO MALLM THAT SHE TRI TO TAKE MORE TIME FOR HERSELF OUTSI OF WORK. THE FRIEND NOBODY LIK: SHE'S REGARD AS A PLETE WASTE OF SPACE BY EVERYONE THE OFFICE, EVEN BY OLLY AND GLENN, WHO ULD BE GENEROLY LLED HER IENDS, WHO MOCK HER BOTH TO HER FACE AND BEHD HER BACK. WHEN GLENN RIGNS, HE LETS HER KNOW HOW MUCH HE BOTH DISLIKED AND PTIED HER, WHICH LEAV HER QUE HURT. HIDN DEPTHS: SHE BARELY PUTS THE EFFORT AT WORK, BUT IS SHOWN TO HAVE PASSNS OUTSI HER JOB, LIKE GARNG, AMATR DRAMATICS AND THE TEA SHOP SHE WANTS TO OPEN. THE LOAD: SHE VELOPS A PRETTY STRONG REPUTATN AS THIS, BEG SCRIBED AS "THE BLOCKAGE". OBFTG STUPIDY: IN SERI 4, SHE STRAIGHT-UP TELLS GLENN THAT SHE WANTS OUT AND IS LOOKG TO PICK UP A RNDANCY PACKAGE, SUGGTG SHE MAY HAVE BEEN PLAYG TO HER REPUTATN. SHE ALSO SEEMS TO HAVE NO PROBLEM MANAGG THE TICKELL CRISIS WHILE STEWART'S UNREACHABLE. OF COURSE I SMOKE: DPE BEG A NON-SMOKER, SHE HAS A CIGARETTE WH PETER SO SHE N TRY AND FLIRT WH HIM. (HE DON'T NOTICE EHER THE FLIRTG OR THAT SHE IS RATHER OBVLY NOT A SMOKER.) SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: SHE VIEWS HERSELF AS TACHED, PROFSNAL AND THE ONLY SANE WOMAN THE PARTMENT, AND ALSO FEELS QUALIFIED TO OFFER EVERYONE AROUND HER RELATNSHIP ADVICE AT THE DROP OF A HAT. SHE IS VIEWED BY EVERYONE ELSE AS THOROUGHLY ANNOYG AND ELS BUT TOO MUCH TROUBLE TO FIRE.TERRI COVERLY: I'M JT GOG TO TAKE MY MEDIA HAT OFF... NILA MURRAY: I HONTLY NEVER THOUGHT YOU HAD ONE. SMUG SNAKE: SHE HAS A HILARLY LUD VIEW OF HER OWN IMPORTANCE AND PABILI, HIGHLIGHTED DURG THE GOUDLG INQUIRY. THEN AGA, HER TE LEVEL OF PETENCE WAS PLITED AT THE END OF SERI 2, DUE TO MALLM AND HUGH FORCG HER TO HUIATGLY TAKE THE FALL FOR SOMETHG HUGH DID. STALKER WH A CSH TO PETER MANNN. HE IS DYG TO GET HER MA RNDANT SERI 4, SAYG "SHE'S A FART A OCK, AND I WANT TO WAFT HER OUT OF HERE!" TOOK A LEVEL DUMBASS: POSSIBLE VOKED, THE FIRST TWO SEASONS SHE'S WAY MORE HELPFUL AND PETENT TO HER DOSAC LLEAGU AND 'S IMPLIED HAVG TO TAKE THE FALL FOR HUGH'S MISTAKE MA HER PUT LS EFFORT AT WORK AND BEE KNOWN AS "THE BLOCKAGE", BY THE LAST SEASON. TOOK A LEVEL JERKASS: SHE ED TO BE ONE OF THE NICER CHARACTERS ON THE SHOW (WELL, NICE PARED TO EVERYONE ELSE). THEN AT THE END OF SERI TWO, SHE'S FORCED TO FALL ON HER SWORD AND MAKE A PUBLIC STATEMENT/APOLOGY FOR SOMETHG HUGH DID, WH LTLE TO NO SUPPORT OM ANYONE WHATSOEVER. TH, BY THE TIME SERI 3 ROLLS AROUND, TERRI IS ONE THE BCHIT, NASTIT PEOPLE ON THE SHOW. ULTIMATE JOB SECURY: AS A CIVIL SERVANT SHE'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO GET RID OF, AND SHE'LL TAKE THE TIME TO REMD EVERYONE ELSE OF , TOO. IN SERI 4 SHE'S ACTIVELY TRYG TO GET HERSELF FIRED WH NO SUCCS.ROBYN MURDOCH, SENR PRS OFFICER, DOSAC"GIVE THEM ALL OF THE L TO SAY?"PLAYED BY: POLLY KEMPANOTHER CIVIL SERVANT, JUNR TO TERRI. DPE HER JOB TLE ROBYN'S MA DUTY IS MAKG TEA. BUTT-MONKEY: WHEN ASKED THE GOOLDG INQUIRY WHETHER THERE'S A CULTURE OF BULLYG AT DOSAC, SHE RPONDS "I THK THERE'S A CULTURE OF BULLYG ME AT DOSAC." THE DZ: USELSLY STUPID. DUMB BLON: TO THE POT WHERE SHE'S NICKNAMED "THE BLON BOMBSHE". GENR-BLENR NAME: HUGH IALLY THOUGHT SHE WAS ROBYN MURDOCH'S SECRETARY. SPANNER THE WORKS: HUGH'S CUNNG PLAN TO PE THE FACTORY IS ED BY ROBYN BEG TOO DUMB FOR POLICS. ULTIMATE JOB SECURY: SHE'S PRETTY ELS BUT HER JOB SECURY WILL BE ASSURED FOR AS LONG AS GLENN IS CHARGE OF SACKG PEOPLE.HELEN HATLEY, POLICY ADVISOR TO THE LEAR OF THE OPPOSN (SERI 4)"I DON'T THK YOU GOT ENOUGH CUDDL AS A CHILD."PLAYED BY: REBEC GETHGSA YOUNG, IALISTIC JUNR POLICY ADVISOR, WHO HAS NOT YET LEARNED NOT TO GET SMART TO MALLM. ALLERATIVE NAME: TWO HS. BRAY BTE: AN TELLIGENT POLICY ADVISER WH BROWN HAIR. BULLYG A DRAGON: THE ABOVE QUOTE NCLUS THE FIRST NVERSATN WE SEE HER HAVE WH MALLM. AMAZGLY, SHE LIV. SHE'S ALSO VERY WILLG TO BOLLOCK NILA FOR HER VAR CK-UPS, AND EVEN THOUGH NILA ISN'T ALL THAT SRY, SHE IS STILL HER BOSS. POSSIBLY HELEN GETS SPECIAL PRIVILEG BY VIRTUE OF BEG THE ONLY PERSON THE PARTY WHO IS GENUELY LOYAL TO NILA. EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: SHE'S THE MOST LOYAL PERSON TO NILA WHEN SHE'S LEAR OF THE OPPOSN (ADMTEDLY NOT HARD), BUT EVEN SHE DON'T SEEM TO HAVE SERLY BELIEVED THAT NILA HAD ANY REAL SHOT AT BEG PRIME MISTER. THE FASHNISTA: THIS IS SOMETHG OF AN INFORMED ATTRIBUTE. THE OFFICIAL WEBSE STAT ONE OF HER FUNCTNS IS TO ADVISE NILA ON FASHN, HOWEVER HELEN DRS MUCH THE SAME AS ANYONE ELSE. (THIS ULD BE VOKEDFRIDGE BRILLIANCE, AS SO DO FASHN SIGNERS.) THE MISTRS: IT'S IMPLIED THAT SHE HAD A RELATNSHIP WH A MARRIED NEWS SHOW PRODUCER.NILA:YOU REMEMBER ALL THE EMAILS YOU SENT THREE YEARS AGO, DO YOU? BEE OM WHAT I UNRSTAND OM OLLIE, A LARGE NUMBER OF THEM WERE SENT TO THAT MARRIED PRODUCER ON THE DAILY POLICS. HELEN: OLLIE IS A FUCKG... HE WAS SUPPOSED TO LEAVE HER. NAïVE NEWER: PARTICULARLY PARED TO OLLIE. HOWEVER, SHE IS A LOT MORE PETENT THAN OLLIE WAS AT THE START OF HIS TENURE, AND SE RIGHT THROUGH MALLM AND OLLIE'S PROTTATNS OF LOYALTY. NUMBER TWO: TO NILA. REMEMBER THE NEW GUY?: THE OFFICIAL WEBSE STAT SHE "WAS ALWAYS NILA MURRAY'S FIRST CHOICE AS SPECIAL ADVISOR, BUT ONLY AGREED TO JO NILA'S TEAM WHEN SHE BEME LEAR." SLAVE TO PR: TH FAR, HER MA NTRIBUTNS TO NILA'S TEAM HAS BEEN TO HELP HER PRACTICE WALKG WH A WREATH, AND BE SEEN NODDG ON TELEVISN WHILST PRETENDG TO TALK TO HER. SURE, LET'S GO WH THAT: WHEN TRYG TO NSOLE NILA AFTER HER TENURE AS LEAR (AND REER GENERAL) HAS UTTERLY IMPLOD:NILA: [TEARFULLY] I REALLY THOUGHT I ULD BEE PRIME MISTER. HELEN: [UNABLE TO NCEAL GENUE, IMPULSIVE ASTONISHMENT] REALLY?! NILA: [STUNG] Y! DIDN'T YOU? HELEN: ... Y. WI-EYED IALIST: YOUNGER AND LS EXPERIENCED THAN OLLIE REER.    OTHER GOVERNMENT CHARACTERS (SERI 1-3) NICK HANWAY, ENFORCER TO TOM DAVIS"TOM'S NOT SURE ABOUT YOU..."PLAYED BY: MART SAVAGEAS TOM DAVIS' RIGHT-HAND MAN, "NICE NUTTER NICK" WAS SURE HE WOULD BE TAKG OVER OM MALLM AFTER THE ORIGAL PRIME MISTER'S RIGNATN. A LTLE TOO SURE... HAIR-TRIGGER TEMPER: HE MENTS THAT HE WAS HOPG FOR BAD NEWS JT SO HE ULD H SOMEONE. JERKASS: HE'S A B OF AN UNLIKEABLE CK — HAPPY TO STEAL OLLIE'S (ACTUALLY MALLM'S) IAS AND TAKE CRED, AND GLEEFUL THE POSSIBILY THAT HE MIGHT REPLACE MALLM THE NEXT RHUFFLE. SMUG SNAKE: HE'S ARROGANT AND GETS THOROUGHLY OUTPLAYED AT THE END OF SPNERS AND LOSERS. THE STAR SCREAM: A FAILED ONE TO MALLM. UNWTG PAWN: HE'S NVCED THAT THE APPOTMENT OF A NEW PRIME MISTER WILL ALSO REQUIRE A NEW CHIEF SP DOCTOR, BUT HE SERLY UNRTIMAT MALLM TUCKER...JULI NICHOLSON"I'M THE NEW CHE GUEVARA, ALL I NEED IS A NEW MOTACHE AND SOME LASER RRECTN EYE TREATMENT".PLAYED BY: ALEX MACQUEENA FORMER BS GU TURNED MP THE FIRST TWO SERI, HE ALSO ACTED AS A "BLUE-SKI THKER" TO THE PRIME MISTER, A MEANGLS JOB TLE GIVEN TO HIM TO KEEP HIM QUIET. BY SERI THREE HE HAD BEEN MA A LIFE PEER, AND AS LORD NICHOLSON OF ARNAGE HE WAS PUT A POSN OF REAL POWER, G PROBLEMS FOR THOSE WHO HAD IALLY REFED TO TAKE HIM SERLY. AFFABLY EVIL: POLE, SOFTSPOKEN AND LISTENS TO CRICKET, HE'S ALSO A LEAKER AND A SCHEMG BASTARD. BIG EATER: IF HE'S NOT EATG FOOD, HE'S UALLY G FOOD AS AN ANALOGY, MUCH TO MALLM'S ANNOYANCE. "I WILL NOT EAT THE PISSY BISCU!" BUTT-MONKEY: OFTEN ON THE RECEIVG END OF MALLM TUCKER'S SCHEM. THE CHARMER: IT'S IMPLIED HE'S CHARMG ENOUGH TO HAVE IENDS HIGH PLAC WHICH MAY EXPLA HIS ELEVATN TO HOE OF LORDS SEASON 3. CLOUDCUCKOOLANR: COM ACROSS THIS WAY DURG THE BHAJI SCENE WH HIS FOOD METAPHORS. COMMONALY CONNECTN: AT THE END OF "RISE OF THE NUTTERS", HE AND MALLM VERY BRIEFLY SPEND THEIR MUTUAL ANIMOSY TO SWAP MISERATNS OVER THE FACT THAT NEHER OF THEM TURNED OUT TO BE THE LOOP NCERNG THE REAL DATE OF THE PRIME MISTER'S RIGNATN (ALTHOUGH MALLM'S SE SEEMS TO BE MALY BEE NICHOLSON IS STG STUNNED HIS OFFICE WHOUT ANY APPARENT TENTN OF LEAVG). EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: FOR ALL HIS UNRMG MALLM, HE KNOWS THAT ALLOWG A DAN MILLER RONATN IS A BAD IA SO HAS MALLM VED BACK AS A RULT. KICKED UPSTAIRS: HE TRI TO GET VOLVED THE ERNMENT'S PUBLIC RELATNS ACTIVI, TREADG ON THE TO OF THE PRS OFFICERS WHOSE JOB IS AND WHO ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOG. HE ANTAGONIS EVERYONE WH HIS MAD POLICY IAS, TO THE POT WHERE THEY START TO BELIEVE HE IS ACTUALLY UNHGED AND DANGERO. HE IS PROMOTED TO THE POSN OF "BLUE-SKY THKER" TO THE PRIME MISTER... A MEANGLS JOB TLE GIVEN TO HIM TO MAKE HIM THK HE HAS SOME ACTUAL POWER AND TO KEEP HIM QUIET."I'M SPENDG HALF OF MY TIME NOW ALG WH THAT BBISH THAT NICHOLSON'S PUTTG OUT THERE... IF HE DO STICK HIS BALDY HEAD 'ROUND YOUR DOOR AND UP WH SOME STUPID IA ABOUT "POLICEMEN'S HELMETS SHOULD BE YELLOW" OR "LET'S SET UP A PARTMENT TO UNT THE MOON," JT TREAT HIM LIKE SOMEONE WH ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE, YOU KNOW? JT SAY "Y, THAT'S LOVELY, THAT'S GOOD, WE MT TALK ABOUT THAT LATER," OKAY?" — MALLM TUCKER SUBVERTED WHEN HE GETS ELEVATED TO THE HOE OF LORDS, WHICH IS TYPILLY TREATED AS THIS BRISH POLIL SATIRE... EXCEPT THAT TURNS OUT THAT BEG MA A LIFETIME MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT ACTUALLY DO E WH A LOT OF FLUENCE WH THE PARTY, WHICH MAK NICHOLSON SUDNLY A LOT MORE OF A SER THREAT TO PEOPLE WHO HAD ONCE JT BSHED HIM OFF. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: JOHN BIRT, PETER MANLSON, ANDREW ADONIS. PASTIM PROVE PERSONALY: NICHOLSON ENJOYS LISTENG TO THE CRICKET; QUE APART OM THE FACT THAT HE FS THE "POSH ECCENTRIC" CHARACTER TYPE TO A T, MALLM—WHO FDS CRICKET STULTIFYGLY BORG—CLEARLY BELIEV THAT SUS HIM. PRAGMATIC VILLAY: DPE NSPIRG WH TOM DAVI AND STEVE FLEMG TO SACK MALLM, DON'T TAKE LONG FOR JULI TO ASK MALLM BACK IF ONLY TO PREVENT A DAN MILLER BAL. PRECISN F-STRIKE: PRETTY MUCH ALONE AMONG THE ST THAT HE SELDOM SWEARS. THE EXCEPTNS ARE WHEN HE'S QUOTG HIS NEPHEW, REALLY SURPRISED OR OFFEND AND WHEN MALLM OR JAMIE ARE PHYSILLY ATTACKG HIM. PREMATURELY BALD: THE OTHER CHARACTERS QUE LIKE REMDG HIM ABOUT THIS. SQUIPEDALIAN LOQUACNS: HE'S POSH AND OVER-POLE:JULI NICHOLSON: WELL, I WILL SPEAK TO WHOMSOEVER I NEED TO SPEAK TO, HOLIDAY OR NO HOLIDAY.MALLM TUCKER: WHERE DO YOU LEARN TO SPEAK LIKE THAT? IS THERE A SPECIAL SCHOOL THAT ONLY YOU AND BRIAN SEWELL GO TO? SMUG SNAKE: THKS HE HAS MORE THORY ERNMENT THAN HE DO AND WHILST HE IS SOMEWHAT POWERFUL, HIS ATTEMPTS TO BROWBEAT MALLM E ACROSS AS PATHETIC AND RARELY IF EVER TAKEN SERLY. IN "SPNERS AND LOSERS", HE BRAGS ABOUT LEAKG THE IMMIGRATN FIGUR TO GLENN WHO THEN TELLS JAMIE WHICH B JULI THE ASS. STOIC SPECTACL: HE HAS GLASS AND DON'T EMOTE MUCH PARED TO THE OTHER CHARACTERS. TOOK A LEVEL BADASS: IN SERI 3, HE'S BEEN ELEVATED TO THE HOE OF LORDS AS A LIFE PEER, WHICH MAK HIM A LOT HARR TO PH AROUND THAN HE WAS PREVLY, AND PUTS HIM A POSN WHERE HE N E MALLM SOME GENUE TROUBLE, WHICH HE AND STEVE FLEMG END UP DOG THE PENULTIMATE EPISO. WICKED CULTURED: APPARENTLY, NICHOLSON'S MEANS OF PG WH ALL-NIGHTERS VOLVE BLACK FFEE AND "VIVALDI ON THE IPOD TOUCH." YOUNGER THAN THEY LOOK: JULI IS (VIA VOKEDWORD OF GOD) MEANT TO BE HIS MID-50S. ALEX MACQUEEN IS ACTUALLY YOUNGER THAN CHRIS ADDISON (WHO'S PLAYG SOMEONE HIS EARLY TWENTI.) THE "SHY BALD HEAD" HELPS.STEVE FLEMG MP"WOULD YOU PLEASE FUCKG I LOST MY TEMPER. WHERE IS ? WHERE IS ? WHERE IS ? OH, I'VE FOUND AGA, 'S ALL RIGHT!PLAYED BY: DAVID HAIGA POWERFUL AND FLUENTIAL CABET MISTER CHARGED WH ENFORCER DUTI, IS LIKELY THAT HE IS A WHIP. WAS ONCE FORCED TO RIGN BY MALLM AND THE TWO BEME SWORN ENEMI. HE LATER RETURNED, TERMED TO WREAK REVENGE ON MALLM. BALD OF EVIL: A CREEPY SCHEMER WH A SHY DOME. BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG: A PAPER-TH DISGUISE THIS PASSIVE-AGGRSIVE CREEP'S SE. CUTE AND PSYCHO: HE'S A SPECTACULARLY UNSTABLE VERSN OF THIS TROPE; THAT CHEERFUL GR, THE REALLY STRANGE PLIMENTS AND THE "LL ME UNCLE STEVE", ATTU YOU SEE WHEN YOU FIRST MEET HIM? GET HIM EVEN SLIGHTLY AGATED AND HIS AX-CRAZY SI WILL E TO THE FORE. THE SRY PART WHEN HE SPERATELY TRI TO SUPPRS HIS SANY, SWGG OM STEPFORD SER TO UNSTOPPABLE RAGE AND BACK AGA SO VLENTLY YOU WONR HE DON'T GIVE HIMSELF WHIPLASH. THE DREAD: BEFORE HE APPROACH NILA SHE REMARKS THAT STEVE'S, "THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS SH". EVIL GLOATG: WHEN GETTG MALLM SACKED HE HAS THIS TO SAY, "I WOULDN'T TELL YOU WHAT I JT TOLD YOU, BEFORE I TOLD THE PRS PACK WOULD I? THAT WOULD BE VERY VERY UNPROFSNAL". FX AFFABLY EVIL: HE TRI SO HARD TO BE GENUELY AFFABLE, SUGAR-ATG EVERYTHG, VERG UP HIS ANGER WH LGHTER, AVOIDG SWEARG AND SG THE EFFECT IS MORE THAT OF A MAN PERMANENTLY THE MIDDLE OF A BAD VILLAO BREAKDOWN WH NO SENSE OF HUMOUR TO BOOT. HAIR-TRIGGER TEMPER: LAMPSHAD BY THE QUOTE ABOVE AND UNLIKE MALLM, HAS POOR NTROL AND IS EASILY TRIGGERED WHICH MEANS HE DO A POOR JOB AT PROJECTG AN AFFABLY EVIL FA. HYPOCRIL HUMOUR: "WE WAS ON THE SAME SI, MALLM AND YOU FUCKED ME OVER", NO POTS GUSG WHAT HE DID TO MALLM THE EPISO BEFORE. UNLS HE WAS REFERRG TO THE TIME MALLM FORC HIM TO RIGN BACK 2003. JERK WH A HEART OF JERK: HE'S A VILE, SEXIST BULLSHTER WH NILA AND NOT GOOD AT HIDG . IT MAY SEEM LIKE HE'S JT DOG HIS JOB AS THE PM'S NEW CHIEF WHIP BUT HE'S PECIALLY OBNOX WHEN TAKG PLEASURE MALLM'S SACKG. JERKASS HAS A POT: HE'S NOT WRONG WHEN HE SAYS THAT HE AND MALLM SHOULD TRY TO WORK TOGETHER. TURNS TO HYPOCRE HAS A POT WHEN HE, THE PRIME MISTER AND JULI FORCE MALLM OUT OF A JOB. HIS PUBLIC CLARATN SERI FOUR THAT NILA IS UNELECTABLE AS PARTY LEAR IS SEEN BY PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE, EVEN HIS POLIL ENEMI PREV SEASONS, AS JT STATG THE OBV, PECIALLY WH HOW DAN MILLER IS ABLE TO UNRME HER WH IMPUNY DURG MEETGS. JT BETWEEN YOU AND ME: AFTER GETTG SHNNED UPON MALLM'S RETURN, HE MAK THE MISTAKE OF RMG MALLM THAT HE'S CID TO JO DAN MILLER AND FORCE A LEARSHIP CHALLENGE AGAST THE PM, GLOATG THAT THERE'S NOTHG MALLM N DO TO STOP HIM. UNFORTUNATELY, MALLM REALIS THERE'S ONE THG HE N DO... AND EQUALLY UNFORTUNATELY, IS LS SCEPTIBLE TO THIS TROPE. LGHG MAD: HE EVABLY ATTEMPTS TO VER UP HIS HAIR-TRIGGER TEMPER AND OUTBURSTS OF ANGER WH WHAT HE THKS IS GOOD-NATURED CHUCKLG, BUT 'S ALWAYS RATHER FORCED AND THE RULT IS HIM JT LOOKG RATHER UNSTABLE STEAD. IT FOOLS NO ONE. MADNS MANTRA: WE LAST SEE HIM RANTG "FUCK HIM FUCK HIM FUCK HIM FUCK HIM!" AFTER MALLM PROMIS THAT THERE'S "ONE THG" HE N DO TO THWART HIS PLANS.... WHOUT TELLG HIM WHAT THAT THG IS. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: PETER MANLSON. SIIAR OD PERSONALY AND MALLM EVEN JOK THAT HE'S GAY DUE TO THE MOTACHE. NEW ERA SPEECH: WHICH ONLY SERV TO GIVE EVERYONE WHO'S LISTENG TO THE CREEPS, MALY BEE DURG HE PAR EVERYONE THE PARTMENT TO THE VICTIMS OF JOSEF FRZL. NO SENSE OF PERSONAL SPACE: HE A B TOO CLOSE TO NILA MURRAY WHO IS VISIBLY CREEPED OUT WHEN HE KISS HER ON THE CHEEKS TWICE. NOT-SO-HARMLS VILLA: HE DO GET MALLM TUCKER SACKED AFTER ALL, UNTIL MALLM TURNS THE TABL THE NEXT EPISO. DURG THE EPISO BEFORE HE SHOWS UP, 'S IMPLIED THAT MUCH OF THE CHAOS NUMBER 10 SUCH AS MALLM'S FLUENCE DIMISHG IS BEE OF STEVE. TERRI EVEN ASKS IF MALLM IS FEELG EMASCULATED BY . PET THE DOG: A LETED SCENE SEASON 3 HAS STEVE ASKS MALLM TO LAY OFF NILA AS, "'S ONLY DOSAC". SLIMEBALL: STEVE IS UNCTUO, OILY AND FOR HIMSELF AND NOT THE PARTY, UNLIKE MALLM. SUDNLY SHOUTG: AFTER ONE TOO MANY SNI REMARKS OM OLLIE, "WILL YOU PLEASE FUCKING WELL—!?". SMUG SNAKE: DURG THE "FOURTH SECTOR", EPISO, HE IS SCRIBED BY MALLM AS A RONT WHO'S PART OF A BIGGER PROBLEM. STEVE HAS A LNTH OF MALLM'S CHARM, TAK HIMSELF WAY TOO SERLY AND STUPIDLY GIV AWAY HIS WHOLE PLAN TO MALLM. STEPFORD SER: TYPE III - AN AX-CRAZY PSYCHO BEHD THE SE. THAT WHICH LI BENEATH THE SE IS NIGHTMARE FUEL DUCG. THOSE TWO GUYS: SEEN WH JULI A LOT DURG THE CLIMAX OF THE THIRD SEASON. TYRANT TAK THE HELM: AT FIRST HIS LLEAGU ARE HAPPY TO SEE THE BACK OF MALLM TUCKER BUT WHEN THEY REALIZE HOW CREEPY, CHARMLS AND BAD-TEMPERED HIS REPLACEMENT IS THEY CI THEY WANT THEIR JERK TO E BACK OM HIS 10-MUTE RETIREMENT. UNWTG PAWN: HE FALLS FOR MALLM'S MOURS ABOUT HIM G OUT BADLY JULI NICHOLSON'S REPORT, WHICH LEADS TO FLEMG ASKG JULI ABOUT AND THEN LOOKG RPT TO THE MEDIA. VILLAO BREAKDOWN: AS NOTED ABOVE, NSTANTLY SEEMS TO BE ONE OF THE. EXAGGERATED WHEN MALLM SUCCSFULLY OUT GAMBS HIM.DAN MILLER MP, JUNR MISTER (SERI 1); LEAR OF THE OPPOSN (SERI 4)"IF YOU'RE GONNA MAKE AN OMELETTE, YOU'RE GOG TO HAVE TO HAVE SOME ANK AND HONT DISCSN WH THE EGGS."PLAYED BY: TONY GARDNERPOWERFUL AND FLUENTIAL YOUNG MISTER (SLASH: POLISHED ALUMIUM CYBERPRICK) WHO HAS LONG BEEN MOURED TO BE PLANNG A LEARSHIP BID. EVENTUALLY SUCCEEDS SERI 4 GIVEN NILA'S FABULO SUCCS AS LEAR OF THE OPPOSN. THE ACE: ALL CHARACTERS - MALLM CLUD DURG "SPNERS AND LOSERS", - NOTE HIS EXCEPTNAL POLIL SKILLS. CHEKHOV'S GUNMAN: OVER THE URSE OF THE FAL SERI WH EACH FAIRLY NOCUO APPEARANCE HE BE MORE POWERFUL UNTIL EVENTUALLY HE GETS RID OF MALLM. IN THE FIRST SERI, TALKG TO DAN, HUGH JOK THAT IF HE'D RIGNED THE DAY HE'D BEEN APPOTED HE'D BE PRIME MISTER NOW. WHEN HUGH LATER CIS TO RIGN, HE FDS [[OUTGAMBTED DAN HAS BEATEN HIM TO .]] DEADPAN SNARKER: DOWNPLAYED WH, "STEADY ON MALLM, THAT'S A B STRONG", WHEN MALLM VERBALLY EVISCERAT NILA FOR HER POOR PERFORMANCE AS LABOUR LEAR. THE DREAD: AS OF THE FAL SEASON, THE ERNMENT HAD ONLY ONE PLANNED RPONSE THE EVENT THAT DAN MILLER TOOK NTROL OF THE OPPOSN, SUMMED UP BY PETER MANNN AS "WE'RE FUCKED." MUCH OF THE FLAPPG ABOUT THE SPECIALS WAS ALSO PROMPTED OUT OF DREAD THAT HE MIGHT CHALLENGE TOM DAVIS FOR THE PARTY LEARSHIP. DNK WH POWER: A SUBTLE EXAMPLE; UPON FALLY ACHIEVG LEARSHIP, HE STARTS PARG HIMSELF FAVOURABLY TO J CHRIST:DAN MILLER: [ENTERG TO APPLSE] PLEASE, PLEASE, I'M NOT CHRIST. HE WAS QUE A SCFFY MAN. THE FIGHTG NARCISSIST: A NON-PHYSIL FIGHTG VARIETY."I LIKE GETTG ON MY HIGH HORSE. I LOOK GOOD ON . LIKE A KNIGHT." JERK WH A HEART OF JERK: OF THE PASSIVELY- VARIETY, HE SEEMS POLE AND CHARMG BUT HE'S A VERY SLEAZY MAN WHO EVENTUALLY THROWS MALLM TUCKER TO THE WOLV TO SAVE HIS ASS AND DON'T GIVE A RATS ASS ABOUT PARTY POLICY OR IOLOGY. KICK THE DOG: SELLG MALLM OUT TO THE PRS AND SABOTAGG HIS QUIET EX. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: DAVID MILIBAND. PUPPET KG: AMBIGUO. WHEN HE FALLY SUCCEEDS BEG THE PARTY LEAR, HE'S SEEN AS LTLE MORE THAN A PUPPET FOR MALLM. HE SEEMS TO HAVE HIS OWN AGENDA, THOUGH: HE'S SHOWN CHSMASTER SKILLS OF HIS OWN, OM EARLY ON, AND THE OTHER PARTY MEMBERS FEAR HIM. ULTIMATELY AVERTED, AS HE MANAG TO GET RID OF MALLM PERMANENTLY AT THE END OF THE SERI, LEAVG HIM EE TO LEAD THE PARTY HOWEVER HE LIK. SMUG SNAKE: HE'S SUPERFICIALLY CHARMG BUT FIRST AND FOREMOST A SLEAZY OPPORTUNIST. THE STARSCREAM: ONE OF HIS FIRST ACTS AFTER BEG THE PARTY LEAR IS TO GET RID OF MALLM, WHO ORCHTRATED HIS RISE TO POWER THE FIRST PLACE. STRAWMAN POLIL: HE'S BASILLY THE PLATONIC IAL OF THE STEREOTYPIL MORN BRISH SLEAZY POLICIAN, POST-BLAIR — YOUNG, BLANDLY HANDSOME AND CHARMG ENOUGH TO BE SEEN AS AN UP-AND-ER, BUT WH A PERSISTENT AIR OF OILY, SMARMY SCERY AND VAGUELY ROBOTIC SOCPATHY. OVERALL, HE'S THE KD OF POLICIAN WHO LOOKS GOOD ON THE SURFACE AND MANAG TO TICK ALL THE BOX, BUT ULTIMATELY OFF AS SOMEONE WHO HAS NO REAL IALS OR NVICTNS BEYOND CLIMBG THE SLIPPERY LADR NO MATTER WHO HE HAS TO KNIFE THE BACK ORR TO DO SO. TALL, DARK, AND SNARKY: BLANDLY HANDSOME AND SNI. UNGRATEFUL BASTARD: MALLM'S MACHATNS GOT HIM ELECTED LEAR OF THE OPPOSN. DAN REPAYS HIM BY THROWG HIM TO THE WOLV. THOUGH 'S PROBABLE MALLM WOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME TO HIM TO SAVE THE PARTY, GIVEN HOW HE BASILLY HANDLED NILA.CLAIRE BALLENTYNE MP".. YOU DIDN'T WANT TO E HERE AT ALL, DID YOU MR ABBOTT?"PLAYED BY: EVE MATHSONANOTHER FLUENTIAL MP, SHE IS CHAIR OF THE SELECT COMMTEE. SHE TAK NO CRAP OM ANYONE, LEAST OF ALL HUGH ABBOTT WHEN HE ATTEMPTS TO LIE TO THE COMMTEE. SHE ALSO APPEARED SPNERS AND LOSERS, WHEN MALLM LLED ON HER FOR ONE OF HIS BATMAN GAMBS. THE GAMBLG ADDICT: THE REASON SHE ULTIMATELY DON'T END UP NNG FOR PARTY LEAR. HERO OF ANOTHER STORY: SHE APPEARS TO HAVE WANRED OM SOME SORT OF UK VERSN OF THE WT WG, WHERE POLICIANS ARE CLEVER, RG AND RPONSIBLE. UNTIL TURNS OUT SHE'S UNELECTABLE AS LEAR BEE OF HER ONGOG ONLE GAMBLG ADDICTN, ANYWAY. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: GWYH DUNWOODY, DIANE ABBOTT.GEOFF HOLHURST MP"MY HEAD IS THE RIGHT SIZE!"PLAYED BY: ROB EDWARDSDEFENCE MISTER, BT KNOWN FOR BEG RPT AND HAVG A TY HEAD. IT WAS NEVER FIRMLY TABLISHED IF HE WAS A TOSSER OR A MORON. ARSON, MURR, AND JAYWALKG: HIS TY HEAD IS MENTNED AS ANOTHER REASON HE'LL NEVER BE PARTY LEAR. BUTT-MONKEY: EVERY SGLE APPEARANCE HE MAK VOLV HIM BEG BOLLOCKED, SULTED OR HUIATED AND VIRTUALLY NOTHG ELSE; EVEN DURG AN EPISO WHERE HE ONLY APPEARS A SLISHOW BY THE OPPOSN, HE'S STILL CHARACTERIZED AS "A SHEPARD DRSED UP TO MEET THE QUEEN." INFORMED DEFORMY: HIS FAMOLY TY HEAD. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: GEOFF HOON.JOHN DUGGAN"MY TO DO LIST IS LONGER THAN A BIG WILLY."PLAYED BY: MIL JUPPUTTERLY HAPLS PRS OFFICER CHARGED WH LOOKG AFTER NILA MURRAY DURG THE EASTBOURNE PARTY CONFERENCE. UNFORTUNATELY THE ONLY THG HE SEEMS TO BE ANY GOOD AT IS PRIVG A VILLAGE SOMEWHERE OF A TWAT. HE REAPPEARS SEASON 4, JT TIME TO HELP HER MAKE A CK UP OF AN TERVIEW WH SKY. ABHORRENT ADMIRER: TO HELEN, WHO MANAG TO PROJECT HER UTTER AND POTED LACK OF TERT WHOUT SAYG A WORD. DIGGG YOURSELF DEEPER: GIVEN A CHANCE TO TALK, DUGGAN WILL ALMOST CERTALY SAY SOMETHG OFFENSIVE—AND TRY TO VER UP WH SOMETHG THAT TURNS OUT TO BE EVEN WORSE, AND TRY TO VER THAT UP WH SOMETHG WORSE... THE DZ: TERRIBLE SOCIAL SKILLS, ALWAYS SAYS THE WRONG THG AND IS A PLETE LIABILY TO ANYONE HE WORKS WH DON'T EXPLA THE JOKE: HE NSTANTLY EXPLAS HIS BAD JOK ONLY TO MAKE THEM EVEN WORSE. LAZY BUM: MUCH TO NILA'S TRATN, JOHN SEEMS TO BE THE HAB OF AVOIDG WORK WHEREVER POSSIBLE AND EXCG THIS AS HAVG A TO-DO LIST "LONGER THAN A BIG WILLY." FOR GOOD MEASURE, HE BARELY SEEMS TO BE ANY SORT OF HURRY WHEN HE SAYS THIS. THE MILLSTONE: EVERYTHG HE SAYS SEASON 4 DURG NILA MURRAYS'S SKY TERVIEW, FULL STOP. MUGGL: JOHN SAYS OF HIS EX-WIFE, "SHE WAS A MUGGLE. NEXT WIFE'S GOT TO BE A POLI". HE STAR AT HELEN WHILST SAYG THIS. O.O.C. IS SER BS: IN HIS SEND EPISO, UPON SEEG THAT NILA AND HELEN HAVE ABANDONED HIM ON THE TRA, HE FALLY DROPS THE BUMBLG AND STARTS SHOUTG DIBLY AT THEM THROUGH THE WDOW. THE OPPOSN (SERI 1-3); THE GOVERNMENT (SERI 4)PERHAPS EVEN MORE IMAGE-OBSSED THAN THE OTHER PARTY, IS HTED THAT THEY ARE ALSO MORE ELIST AND THAT MANY MEMBERS HOLD OBJECTNABLE VIEWS. THEY ARE MOSTLY UNSEEN UP UNTIL THE FIRST SPECIAL, BUT START TO APPEAR MORE OFTEN SERI 3 AND FALLY FORM A ALN ERNMENT SERI 4. COMPARABLE TO THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY.    THE OPPOSN JB, LEAR OF THE OPPOSN (THE SPECIALS, SERI 3); PRIME MISTER (SERI 4)AN OLD ETONIAN WHO APPARENTLY KEEPS A CLIQUE OF OTHER ETONIANS ABOUT HIM. LTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT HIM (OTHER THAN HIS TASTE FOR RACIST JOK) AS, LIKE THE TWO PREV PRIME MISTERS, HE IS NEVER SEEN. INVISIBLE PRINT: AS WH ALL THE PRIME MISTERS ON THE SHOW, WE NEVER SEE HIM. ONLY KNOWN BY THEIR NICKNAME: "JB", PRUMABLY HIS IALS. POLILLY INRRECT VILLA: ACRDG TO PETER MANNN, HE'S PRONE TO RACIST REMARKS AND JOK- THOUGH STEWART TRI TO EXCE THIS BY LLG "IRONIZG." NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: DAVID "CALL ME DAVE" CAMERONSTEWART PEARSON, OPPOSN DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITNS (THE SPECIALS, SERI 3); THE PRIME MISTER'S DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITNS (SERI 4)"LET'S IMAGEER THE NARRATIVE..."PLAYED BY: VCENT FRANKLAN ADVERTISG EXECUTIVE RECED OM THE PRIVATE SECTOR, STEWART WOULD SEEM TO BE THE PERFECT CHOICE FOR A PARTY WANTG TO REPOSN THEMSELV AS MORE PC AND E-IENDLY. IN PRACTICE, HIS LIBERAL VIEWS ARE RATHER AT ODDS WH THOSE OF THE PARTY'S OLD GUARD, PECIALLY PETER MANNN MP WHO HE HAS TROUBLE EXERTG NTROL AND FLUENCE OVER. HIS PETENCE SEEMS TO HAVE TERRATED SOMEWHAT SEASON 4, DUE TO THE BATN OF HAVG A ALN TO KEEP UNR NTROL AND THE PROBLEMS OF BEG ERNMENT RATHER THAN OPPOSN (MEANG HIS MEDIA-IENDLY PROPOSALS N'T BE THEORETIL ANY MORE, AND ACTUALLY HAVE TO TAKE THE BUDGET TO NSIRATN). CLOUDCUCKOOLANR: AS MANY PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE SERI NOTE, HIS SPEECH WOULD BE MUCH BETTER UNRSTOOD IF THEY ME WH SUBTL. DEADPAN SNARKER: AN EVABILY GIVEN HIS PASSIVE-AGGRSIVE NATURE, PECIALLY TOWARDS PETER MANNN AND PHIL SMH. FRIENDLY ENEMY: SHOWS HTS OF THIS THE AFTERMATH OF THE BBC RAD SNDAL.MALLM TUCKER: "CARRY ON LIKE THIS AND I MIGHT NOT FD YOU UTTERLY FUCKG NTEMPTIBLE."STEWART PEARSON: "THAT'S AN CENTIVE." GRANOLA GIRL: A RARE MALE EXAMPLE WHO ISN'T ALSO AN AGEG HIPPY. HYPOCRE: DURG THE "Y AND HO" GAME, HE SISTS THAT NONE OF THE IMAGARY POLICI SHOULD BE BLOCKED OR RID; HOWEVER, WHEN TIME FOR PETER TO MAKE A SUGGTN, HE IMMEDIATELY STARTS SULTG . AND THEN, WHEN HE SUGGTS THAT THEY "DO AWAY WH PUTERS" AND PETER IMMEDIATELY POTS OUT NO UNCERTA TERMS WHAT A STUPID IA THIS IS, HE SIMPERS "NO BLOCKG, PETER. MERELY UNTERPOTG." ICE-CREAM KOAN: ONE OF THE THGS PETER HAT MOST ABOUT HIM IS HIS TENNCY TO SPOUT MEANGLS PR BUZZWORDS AND "MOTIVATNAL" SLOGANS. EVEN SIMPLE THGS LIKE "I WANTED TO TALK TO YOU" GET RENRED AS "I JT WANTED TO TAKE A FEW TRIPS WH YOU ON THE IAS ROEL." PROMPTG AN EXASPERATED FERG, ONE EPISO, TO SHOUT "SUBTL! YOU NEED SUBTL!" THE GOOLDG INQUIRY REVEALS HE LERALLY N'T TALK PLA ENGLISH. JERKASS: ARROGANT, POMPO, SELF-IMPORTANT, SELF-RIGHTEO, NSCENDG, PRENTENT AND OVER-BEARG. THAT SAID, HE REVEALS HIMSELF TO BE DISGTED WH HOW TOXIC THE NSERVATIVE PARTY HAS BEE DURG HIS FAL SPEECH. KICK THE DOG: FOR ALL HIS SOCIAL LIBERAL TENNCI, HE GO OUT OF HIS WAY TO HUIATE A HOTEL EMPLOYEE ONT OF A CROWD ROOM AFTER SHE TERPTS HIS THOUGHT MP, FOR NO REASON OTHER THAN TO VENT HIS OWN TRATNS. MARRIED TO THE JOB: HE HAS ISSU WH WORK-LIFE BALANCE: "I'M AN EXTRAORDARILY PRECISE MAN, THAT'S WHY MY WIFE LEFT ME." NICE TO THE WAER: INVERTED. AT THE THOUGHT CAMP, AFTER HE GETS "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH OM PETER, A HOTEL EMPLOYEE TO RM THEM THAT THERE'S AN EMERGENCY PHONE LL. WHILE 'S LIKELY DUE PART DUE TO THE FACT THAT HE'S SMARTG OM THE TONGUE-LASHG HE'S JT RECEIVED OM PETER, STEWART IS STILL NOTICEABLY SNI AND NSCENDG TOWARDS HER. HE ALSO GETS A B CHIPPY WH THE SK RECEPTNIST WHEN TRYG TO GET HIS PHONE BACK. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: FRANKL HAS SCRIBED HIM AS BEG BASED ON STEVE HILTON, A FORMER DIRECTOR OF STRATEGY FOR DAVID CAMERON. O.O.C. IS SER BS: HIS REACTN TO THE "SILIN PLAYGROUNDS" PROGRAMME BEG SCRAPPED IS TO JT WANR OFF A DAZE. HE'S SO AGHAST AT FERG AND ADAM'S BUYG A TAX-FUND TWO BILLN POUND MUNY BANK THAT HE'S RCED TO SLACK-JAWED DISBELIEF. WHEN THE PHOTO OF HIM AND PETER ON A SLI GO VIRAL, HE SCREAMS, THROWS PHIL'S PHONE AGAST A WALL AND JT LI DOWN ON THE FLOOR. OOP NORTH: HE SCRIB HIMSELF AS A LAD OM LEEDS WH A LT FOR LIFE. POTY-HAIRED BOSS: HIS PETENCE GROSSLY TERRAT ONCE HIS PARTY GETS TO POWER AND HE ACTUALLY HAS TO THK OF SILLY THGS LIKE BUDGET AND PRACTILY WHEN G UP WH HIS PIE--THE-SKY IAS. BTALLY LAMPSHAD BY PETER DURG THE "Y AND HO" EXERCISE:PETER: LET'S DO AWAY WH YOU. STEWART: WHAT? PETER: FILTER'S OFF, DADDY-O, LET ALL HANG OUT. JT SUPPOSE YOUR EE-RANGE NO-NSEQUENCE BULLSH WAS HUGELY ENTERTAG WHEN WE WERE OPPOSN AND SHTG MONEY, BUT NOW WE'RE ERNMENT AND 'S ALL GONE A B J.G. BALLARD 'S IRRELEVANT AND FANTILE! OH, AND MAYBE THE REASON YOU DON'T MD HANDG YOUR PHONE IS THAT DON'T RG AS MUCH AS ED TO. OH, SORRY; DON'T RG AS MUCH AS ED TO, Y AND HO. PRECISN F-STRIKE: ISN'T MUCH GIVEN TO SWEARG (PARED TO THE RT OF THE ST), BUT HIS FAL SPEECH UPON BEG SACKED CLUS A VERY WELL PLACED SWEAR WORD AT THE END. "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH: DELIVERS A VERY BTER ONE WHEN BEG SACKED TO HIS LLEAGU: "YOU KNOW, I'VE SPENT THE LAST TEN YEARS TOXIFYG THIS PARTY. IT’S BEEN A B LIKE RENOVATG AN OLD, OLD HOE, YEAH? YOU N TAKE OUT A SEXIST BEAM HERE, A LLO WDOW THERE, REPLACE THE ODD HOMOPHOBIC ROOF TILE, BUT AFTER A WHILE YOU REALISE THIS RENOVATN IS DOOMED BEE THE FOUNDATNS ARE BUILT UPON WHAT I N ONLY SCRIBE AS A SOLID BED OF CUNTS" SERIAL SPOE: HE HAS BEEN DIVORCED THREE TIM, SOMETHG HE BLAM ON HIM BEG AN "EXTRAORDARILY PRECISE MAN". HE'S SO ED TO HE PARED HIS WIV TO IPHON. SQUIPEDALIAN LOQUACNS: UNABLE TO SPEAK ANYTHG BUT FANCY WORDS AND ODD METAPHORS. S ARCH-NEMIS: PETER HAT HIS GUTS AND TAK EVERY OPPORTUNY TO EXPRS HIS LOATHG FOR HIM. THE HAPPIT PETER GETS IS WHEN STEWART IS SACKED THE FAL EPISO. TOOK A LEVEL JERKASS: HAS BEE QUE A NASTY AND NSCENDG PIECE OF WORK AS OF THE FOURTH SERI. VOLATILE SEND TIER POSN: HIS PREVLY LOW-EFFORT JOB TURNS VERY MANDG SERI 4 ONCE HE ACTUALLY HAS TO START TAKG BUDGET TO ACUNT. IT EVENTUALLY GETS HIM SACKED. VILLAO BREAKDOWN/VILLAO BSOD: SUFFERS A FEW NASTY S SERI 4 AS LAMI START TO STACK UP: IN THE FIRST EPISO, THE "SILIN PLAYGROUNDS" PROGRAMME IS SCRAPPED BY THE PRIME MISTER BEFORE N EVEN GET OFF THE GROUND, THANKS TO STEWART MISLEGATG WHO WOULD EXPLA TO THE PUBLIC; WORSE STILL, THE PM DON'T EVEN TELL STEWART THIS PERSONALLY—HE LEGAT TO AN UNRLG. STEWART N ONLY WANR OFF A TRMATIZED DAZE TO SUPPOSEDLY "RT HIS EY ON THE RIVER," NOT EVEN GETTG ANGRY WHEN PHIL FETS TO TAKE THE TEABAG OUT OF HIS MUG. EPISO THREE GIV HIM A WORSE DAY THAN UAL: HIS "THOUGHT CAMP" IS DISPTED, HE GETS UGHT UNAWAR BY THE TICKELL TASTROPHE, HE DISVERS THAT FERG AND ADAM END UP WASTG TWO BILLN TAX ON A MUNY BANK... AND THEN EMERG THAT HE WAS PHOTOGRAPHED STANDG ON A CHILDREN'S SLIPPERY-DIP WH PETER WHILST TRYG TO GET A PHONE SIGNAL. STEWART'S ONLY RPONSE IS TO LET OUT A PRIMAL SCREAM, HURL PHIL'S BLACKBERRY AT THE NEART WALL, STAGGER OVER TO THE END OF THE RRIDOR AND LLAPSE A HEAP. THE MONUMENTAL LEAKG BACLE AND THE G QUIRY EPISO FIVE SENDS STEWART TO BY FAR HIS MOST EXPLOSIVE RANT EVER, PLETE WH HYSTERIL HAND-WAVG, IMPOSSIBLE THREATS, AND A LOT OF FGER-POTG. "IN THE TIME HAS TAKEN FOR TERRI TO EXTRACT HERSELF OM A BLUETOOTH, THIS LTLE QUIRY HAS FED! IT IS NOW GROWG FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF BLOODY LIGHT! IT'S NOT GOG TO BE SOMETHG WE N SEE OM SPACE, 'S GOG TO BE SPACE! BRIAN COX IS GOG TO PHONE ME AND ASK FOR THE FILM RIGHTS!!!" WELL-INTENTNED EXTREMIST: BENEATH THE BUZZWORDS AND SELF-RIGHTEONS, STEWART IS GENUELY A SOCIAL LIBERAL WHO BELIEV GENR EQUALY, ENVIRONMENTALISM AND CLIVENS. HE REALLY DO WANT TO MORNISE THE PARTY AND MAKE KR AND LS REGRSIVE. UNFORTUNATELY HE SEEMS TO UNRTIMATE THE SIZE OF THE TASK, PRAISG THE UNSEEN PREMIER AS "GENUELY PROGRSIVE" SPE OTHER CHARACTERS HTG HE IS ANYTHG BUT. IT'S LIKELY HE IS BEG MANIPULATED BY HIS EMPLOYERS, WHO SAY THEY WANT TO MAKE THE PARTY LS NSERVATIVE, BUT ARE ACTUALLY JT DULGG A PUBLIC RELATNS EXERCISE TO SEEM LS NSERVATIVE. WHATEVER THE SE, LONG BEFORE HIS EXTREMELY BTER FAL SPEECH THOUGH, HE REALIZ 'S A LOST E.PETER MANNN MP, SHADOW MISTER FOR SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND CIZENSHIP (THE SPECIALS, SERI 3); MISTER FOR SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND CIZENSHIP (SERI 4)"I'M MORN! I SAY "BLACK" STEAD OF "LOURED," I THK WOMEN ARE A GOOD THG, I HAVE NO PROBLEM WH GAYS- MOST OF THEM ARE VERY WELL TURNED OUT, PECIALLY THE MEN. WHY IS THIS LAST YEAR I'M BEG MA TO FEEL AS IF I'M ALWAYS TWO STEPS BEHD, LIKE I N'T PROGRAM A VIO OR NVERT EVERYTHG BACK TO OLD MONEY? BEE THAT'S NOT ME!"PLAYED BY: ROGER ALLAMONE OF THE OLD GUARD, HE IS RISTANT TO THE NEW CULTURE OF SP AND BLANKETLY REF TO TAKE STEWART SERLY. HE WAS A JUNR MISTER WHEN HIS PARTY WERE LAST POWER. DURG THIS TIME HE ALSO GOT HIS HOEKEEPER PREGNANT AND TWELVE YEARS LATER HE STILL HASN'T LIVED THIS DOWN. DPE THIS HE IS ONE OF THE SHOW'S FEW SYMPATHETIC CHARACTERS. BY SERI FOUR, HE HAS BEE MISTER OF DOSAC AND IS UNHAPPY AT HAVG TO SHARE POWER THE COALN. BORN THE WRONG CENTURY: HE'S BASILLY AN OLD-SCHOOL TORY WHO'S BEEN DRAGGED KICKG AND SCREAMG TO A FLASHY, MORN MEDIA-NSC PARTY, AND HE HAT ALMOST EVERYTHG ABOUT . BREAK THE MOTIVATNAL SPEAKER: PETER SEEMS TO HAVE MA HIS MISSN LIFE TO VERBALLY FEAT STEWART, BUT FOR THE MOST PART, HE HASN'T HAD MUCH SUCCS. HOWEVER, AFTER SPENDG A WHOLE MORNG ENDURG THE IDCY OF THE THOUGHT CAMP, HE MANAG TO TEMPORARILY FLUMMOX STEWART DURG THE "Y AND HO" GAME BY SUGGTG A NEW AND NOVATIVE POLICY: DOG AWAY WH STEWART Y AND HO. HE MANAG AGA LATER ON, WHEN STEWART NAGS THAT HE DON'T HAVE JB'S APPROVAL TO PROCEED WH A NEW POLICY; MANNN TURNS AROUND AND YELLS "SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU PRANCG SH." STEWART APPEARS FLABBERGASTED. HE DO HAVE THE SATISFACTN OF SEEG STEWART REMOVED OM OFFICE, BUT GIVEN THAT HIS OWN REER ALSO HANGS BY A THREAD DUE TO HIS BEG STAED BY THE SAME SNDALS THAT BOUGHT DOWN STEWART, 'S A PYRRHIC VICTORY FOR HIM. BUTT-MONKEY: IT'S QUE OBV THE MAN IS WELL-MEANG, BUT HE'S NSTANTLY SURROUND BY PEOPLE WHO WANT TO MAKE HIM LOOK LIKE A TOSSER, OR PEOPLE WHO THK HE'S A TOSSER. HE'S ALSO NOT THE BT PUBLIC SPEAKER, BUT THEN AGA NEHER IS NILA MURRAY. CANNOT TELL A JOKE: HE'S ACCED OF THIS DURG THE RAD BATE:PETER MANNN: .. SHOULD E ROLLG ALONG THE RRIDOR BUT MALLM TUCKER, THE MAN WHO WAS ONCE REFERRED TO AS 'THE GORBALS GOEBBELS'? STEWART PEARSON: OH, DON'T DO A JOKE, PETER, DON'T DO A JOKE... CHILD HATER: "I HATE SCHOOL CHILDREN. THEY'RE VOLATILE AND STUPID AND THEY HAVEN'T GOT THE VOTE. MIGHT AS WELL BE TALKG TO FUCKG GEE." DEADPAN SNARKER: HE RPONDS TO MOST EVENTS AND CRIS HIS LIFE WH DRY, WHERG SARSM. WHEN STEWART ASKS WHEN A PARTY'S NOT A PARTY, MANNN RPONDS WH, "WHEN 'S AT YOUR HOE". THE EEYORE: APPARENTLY, EVEN HIS VOICE IS "PRSG TONALLY". EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: HE'S NOT A FAN OF JB'S PENCHANT FOR RACIST JOK, AND WEL IMMIGRATN ON THE BASIS OF THE ENOMIC BENEFS. REF POT BLANK TO E NILA'S PERSONAL LIFE AGAST HER — AT LEAST UNTIL MALLM PERSUAS NILA THAT PETER'S PERSONAL LIFE IS FAIR GAME, AT WHICH POT HE PERFORMS A HEEL–FACE TURN. HE MAY BE HOPELS WH TECH, BUT EVEN HE KNOWS THAT STEWART'S "DO AWAY WH PUTERS", SUGGTN IS REALLY STUPID. FRIENDLY ENEMY: DURG THE OPPOSN'S VIS TO DOSAC, MALLM ACTUALLY GETS ALONG FAIRLY WELL WH PETER, CHEERFULLY TRADG SULTS AND JOK; THIS IS MOST LIKELY AN ATTEMPT AT DIPLOMACY MORE THAN ANY ACTUAL SIGN OF IENDSHIP, BUT STILL JARRG GIVEN THE BOLLOCKG MALLM HAD JT GIVEN PHIL. IN THE MISSG DOSAC FIL, AFTER GETTG CREASGLY TRATED WH OLLIE'S PATHETIC ATTEMPTS AT G UP WH CHARACTER ATTACKS AGAST PETER, MALLM FALLY GETS FED UP AND RORTS TO EMAILG PETER DIRECTLY TO SEE IF HE'D LIKE TO NTRIBUTE DIRT OM HIS "SORDID PAST," TO WHICH PETER CHEERFULLY REPLI WH SOME EXAMPL. OLLIE (WHO'S BEEN CC'D) IS BAFFLED BY THE EXCHANGE. GMPY OLD MAN: HE DON'T EXACTLY POSSS A SUNNY PERSONALY TO BEG WH, BUT BETWEEN BEG AN OLD-SCHOOL TORY A MEDIA-NSC THATCHERE PARTY, BEG DISRPECTED AND PATRONISED ON A NSTANT BASIS AND HAVG TO PUT UP WH STEWART'S BULLSH, PETER DON'T EXACTLY HAVE MANY REASONS FOR GOOD CHEER. HOPELS WH TECH: "WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UPLOAD AND DOWNLOAD?"'NOTE THAT SAID, HE DO UNRSTAND HOW EFUL MORN TECHNOLOGY IS — HENCE HIS BREAKDOWN OVER STEWART IVOLOLY SUGGTG THAT THE ERNMENT SHOULD DO AWAY WH PUTERS. HYPOCRIL HUMOUR: THE SPEECH QUOTED ABOVE; HE'S PLAG THAT EVERYONE TREATS HIM LIKE HE'S STUCK THE PAST, BUT HIS EXAMPL — KNOWG HOW TO PROGRAM A VCR AND NEEDG TO NVERT CIMAL CURRENCY TO 'OLD' MONEY — ARE THEMSELV NOT PARTICULARLY RELEVANT AT THE BEGNG OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. JA-COLOURED GLASS: ONE GETS THE FEELG THAT PETER HAS LONG SCE LOST ALMOST ALL ENTHIASM FOR HIS JOB/REER/LIFE LONG AGO. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: IN A WAY; HE'S CYNIL, SARSTIC AND WORLD-WEARY, BUT HE ALSO ONE OF THE FEW TLY CENT, SYMPATHETIC AND PRCIPLED MA CHARACTERS THE SERI. EXCEPT... (SEE BELOW) MARRIED TO THE JOB: HIS UNSEEN WIFE IS ANNOYED ABOUT HIS MANDG WORK SCHLE. NICE TO THE WAER: ONE OF HIS GLARG FLAWS IS AVERTG THIS TROPE, BEG VERY FLIPPANT ABOUT MR. TICKEL AND JT AS FLIPPANT TO THE YOUTH WORKERS TOO. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: TIM YEO (THE LOVE CHILD). HIS APPEARANCE AND WAY OF SPEAKG ARE ALSO UNNNILY LIKE CHRIS PATTEN. LIKE NTEMPORARY CONSERVATIVE MP DAVID DAVIS HE IS A FAILED NDIDATE FOR LEAR, BUT HE IS SELF-SCRIBED AS PRO-IMMIGRATN, AND APPEARS TO BE IOLOGILLY SIAR TO KENH CLARKE. NO GOOD DEED GO UNPUNISHED: HE TELLS NILA HE WON'T E THE BULLYG STORY ONLY FOR MALLM TUCKER TO CLARE HIM FAIR GAME AT THE END OF THE EPISO ANYWAY. O.O.C. IS SER BS: ONE OF THE FEW TIM HIS SARSM FAILS HIM IS DURG GLENN'S RIGNATN SPEECH WHERE HE TELLS PETER THAT HE HAT HIM. HE JT STANDS THERE STUNNED SILENCE AND IS TELLGLY THE ONLY ONE WHO SUGGTS GOG TO HELP HIM. ONCE DONE, NEVER FOTTEN: HE HAD AN AFFAIR WH A HOEMAID THAT PRODUCED A SON TWELVE YEARS AGO. NO ONE WILL EVER LET HIM FET ABOUT . ONLY SANE MAN: OUT OF THE TORI ANYWAY, HE HAS A LOWER TOLERANCE FOR BULLSH THAN MOST OF THE ST. POLILLY INRRECT HERO: DOWNPLAYED. HE'S ONE OF THE MORE SYMPATHETIC CHARACTERS THE SERI BUT, AS THE QUOTE ABOVE SUGGTS, SEEMS THAT A LOT OF HIS ATTUS, IF NOT ACTUALLY RACIST, HOMOPHOBIC, ETC., N AT THE VERY LEAST BE SCRIBED AS OUTDATED. IN NTRAST WH OTHER MEMBERS OF HIS PARTY, WHO APPEAR TO HYPOCRILLY TRY AND HI GENUE RACIST AND HOMOPHOBIC VIEWS BEHD A TH VENEER OF 'IRONY' AND ATTEMPTS TO PROJECT AN AIR OF YOUTHFUL PROGRSIVENS, PETER DON'T SEEM TO HAVE ANY GENUE MALICE OR BIAS AGAST PEOPLE OF LOUR OR THE QUEER MUNY, BUT HE IS OFTEN VERY THOUGHTLS (E.G. SAYG AN ANGLO-SAXON STUNT'S NAME IS "EASIER TO PRONOUNCE" THAN A BRISH ASIAN ONE, OR PLIMENTG GAY PEOPLE FOR BEG "VERY WELL TURNED OUT") AND OLD-FASHNED HIS OUTLOOK. SCREW THE ELECTN, I HAVE RUL: "IF I HAVE TO WA ALL THIS SH TO W THE ELECTN, THEN I'M HAPPY TO LOSE !" STEWART REGARDS THIS AS A RIDICULO SE OF HONOUR BEFORE REASON. REPEATED SERI 4, WHERE HE IS DISGTED ENOUGH ABOUT THE ILLEGAL LEAKG OF THE MEDIL RERDS OF A PROMENT ANTI-ERNMENT POLICY PROTTER, RECENTLY CEASED, TO LEAK TO THE PRS. S ARCH-NEMIS: HE LOATH THE PATRONISG STEWART PEARSON WH THE WHE-HOT TENSY OF A THOAND BURNG SUPERNOVAS, AND THE FEELG IS VERY MUCH MUTUAL. SMARTER THAN YOU LOOK: FOR ALL HIS PETENCE DURG THE "CALL APP BRA", BACLE, WAS PETER WHO TOLD THE PRIME MISTER TO WIN THE GOLDG INQUIRY TO MAKE AN QUIRY ON LEAKG, WHICH ULTIMATELY TAK OUT MALLM TUCKER, OF ALL PEOPLE.EMMA MSGER, AI TO PETER MANNN"PETER, YOU N'T SAY THE PUBLIC ARE FUCKG HORRIBLE."PLAYED BY: OLIVIA POULETOLLIE REER'S GIRLIEND AND ALSO HIS UNTERPART THE OPPOSN. LIKE OLLIE, SHE AB THEIR RELATNSHIP TO GATHER RMATN ON THE OPPOSG PARTY'S PLANS. SHE LIV A FLAT WH FELLOW ADVISOR PHIL, BUT N'T STAND HIM. BLON REPUBLIN SEX KTEN: VERY MUCH HER CHARACTERIZATN, EXCEPT REPLACE "REPUBLIN" WH "TORY" (WELL, PROBABLY TORY): SHE'S POSH, SHE'S BLON, SHE'S AMB AND SHE'S A NSERVATIVE. DON'T KEEP HER OM SLEEPG WH (PROBABLE) LABOUR MAN OLLY REER. CHEKHOV'S GUNMAN: IN SEASON TWO, SHE WAS OLLY'S MENTNED, BUT NEVER SEEN GIRLIEND THE OPPOSN. STARTG WH THE SPECIALS, SHE BE A REGULAR CHARACTER. DATG CATWOMAN: SHE SHAR THE SAME JOB ROLE AND RANK AS BOYIEND OLLIE, BUT THE OPPOSN PARTY. DEADPAN SNARKER: "I'M HAVG AN AFFAIR WH RICHARD BAN. I'M CREDIBLY AROED BY MEN WH MEAT THEIR SURNAM." ESTABLISHG CHARACTER MOMENT: SHE SPENDS MUCH OF HER FIRST EPISO BEG QUE LOVELY-DOVEY WH HER BOYIEND OLLIE. AND THEN THE MOMENT WHEN SHE THLSLY STEALS HIS IA AND PCH TO HER OWN BOSS BEHD HIS BACK. AND WHEN THEY GO FOR , SCE 'S EVABLE THAT OLLIE WILL FD OUT ABOUT , SHE IALLY TRI TO WEASEL OUT OF THE BLAME BY CLAIMG PHIL WAS THE ONE WHO DID . GIRL FRIDAY: A PRETTY PETENT ONE FOR PETER. ICE QUEEN: EMMA STARTS OFF ALL LOVEY-DOVEY WH OLLIE, BUT OVER THE URSE OF THE SERI THLSLY STEALS HIS IAS AND LDLY KICKS HIM TO THE KERB ON A NUMBER OF OCSNS. SHE ALSO TREATS PHIL, GLENN AND TERRI WH UTTER NTEMPT AND HATRED ALMOST EVERY TERACTN WH THEM. JERKASS: AN SPID, POSH, BCH WHO IS JT AS NASTY ABOUT MR. TICKEL AS THE RT OF DOSAC AS REVEALED DURG THE GOOLDG INQUIRY. NEVER MY FLT: BLAM EVERYTHG THAT GO WRONG ON PHIL, EVEN WHEN WAS AT LEAST PARTIALLY HER IA. THIS FALLY BACKFIR ON HER THE GOOLDG INQUIRY, WHEN SHE BLAM PHIL AND ADAM FOR THE SENSIVE MENTS MA ABOUT MR. TICKELL, ONLY TO HAVE HER OWN (VERY SULTG) EXACT WORDS ON THE MATTER READ OUT PUBLIC. RICH BCH: WHEN GLENN CULLEN CIS TO RIGN AND LIVERS HIS EXTREMELY BTER "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH TO THE ENTIRE PARTMENT, HE SPECIFILLY SGL EMMA OUT AS A "STANDARD-ISSUE SIPID POSH BCH." VRLIC BT BUDS: WH PHIL; THE TWO HAVE A HATE-FILLED RELATNSHIP AND EACH WOULD THROW THE OTHER UNR THE B, BUT THEY DO OCSNALLY ENGAGE IENDLY BANTER — AND THEY'VE MANAGED TO SUCCSFULLY SHARE A FLAT FOR QUE SOME TIME WHOUT KILLG EACH OTHER.PHILIP BARTHOLOMEW CORNELI "PHIL" SMH, AI TO PETER MANNN"IT'S A DARK SU AND 'S ONLY LEWARM, I STILL WIN!"PLAYED BY: WILL SMHEMMA'S FLATMATE AND OLLIE'S WORST ENEMY, HE IS GLENN'S UNTERPART THE OPPOSN SPE BEG NSIRABLY YOUNGER. HE IS CHILDISH AND IMMATURE, NSTANTLY SUCKS UP TO PETER MANNN AND N'T TALK WHOUT G THE LORD OF THE RGS METAPHORS. HE OFTEN SUFFERS OM UNFLATTERG PARISONS TO RUPERT BROOKE AND JAM MAY DUE TO HIS OUTDATED HAIRSTYLE. '80S HAIR: HE SPORTS A SHOULR-LENGTH MULLET. AM/FM CHARACTERIZATN: IN ADDN TO HIS NSTANTLY REFERENCG FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTN, HE'S CLEARLY A FAN OF QUEEN, AS HE MENTNS THEM QUE A B DIALOGUE. BUTT-MONKEY: AS OF SERI 4, EVERYONE TREATS HIM WH TOTAL NTEMPT, POSSIBLY BEE EMMA IS NO LONGER THERE ALL THE TIME TO DRAW ATTENTN AWAY OM JT HOW SPECTACULARLY PETENT HE REALLY IS. HE REMAS SO , OBNOX AND ARROGANT, HOWEVER, THAT 'S HARD TO FEEL SORRY FOR HIM. CLOUDCUCKOOLANR: HE DON'T MAKE REFERENC BASED REALY. DEADPANSNARKER: WHILE MOST OF HIS JOK FALL FLAT, HIS W OCSNALLY SH THROUGH.PHIL: SO WHAT HAVE WE JT GREENL?ADAM: WELL, WE ARE STARTG A MUNY BANK WH TWO BILLN POUNDS.PHIL: IS THAT THE TWO BILLN POUNDS WE KEEP THE BISCU T? FLANRIZATN: IN HIS FIRST APPEARANC DURG THE FIRST SPECIAL (AND THE OPPOSN EXTRA THAT NS NCURRENT WH THE SEND SPECIAL), HE'S AN EXPERIENCED AND EASILY-JANGLED BUT FAIRLY SAVVY WORKER WH A SIRE TO PONY UP TO PETER MANNN AND AN OBSSN WH THE '80S. HOWEVER, DURG THE THIRD SERI, HE STARTS BEHAVG VERY UNPROFSNALLY HIS ATTEMPTS TO MS WH OLLIE, AND THE FALE, HE'S JUDGED ELS ENOUGH TO BE LEGATED TO FFEE DUTI. BY THE FOURTH SERI, HE'S LTLE MORE THAN A ELS, IMMATURE "8-YEAR-OLD TRAPPED THE BODY OF A 12-YEAR-OLD," ABOUT WHOM EVERY TERACTN ENDS WH EHER A PUNCHLE ABOUT HOW MUCH HE LOV SCI-FI AND FANTASY OR SOMETHG ABOUT HIM SUCKG UP TO PETER; ADMTEDLY, THE WORST OF HIS ELSNS IS PARTLY DUE TO THE FACT THAT HE'S NO LONGER TEAMED UP WH EMMA. FANBOY: MUCH TO THE ANNOYANCE OF EVERYONE AROUND HIM, HE NSTANTLY MENTNS FANTASY AND SCIENCE-FICTN NVERSATN. HE EVEN HAS HIS ACTN FIGUR STILL THE BOX. GEEK PHYSIQU: GLENN SCRIB HIM AS AN 8-YEAR-OLD A 12-YEAR-OLD'S BODY. HEROIC BSOD: AFTER ALG WH STEWART'S OVERLY-SACCHARE MO OF NEGOTIATNS FOR MOST OF HIS REER, PHIL WAS NOT PREPARED FOR A BOLLOCKG OM MALLM - AFTER MALLM IS THROUGH WH HIM, HE LOOKS LIKE HE'S JT SOILED HIMSELF. IN FACT, A LETED SCENE, PHIL ADMS TO BEG SO IGHTENED, HE LEFT THE BUILDG A DAZE AND DIDN'T STOP WANRG UNTIL HE REACHED GREENWICH. (FOR THOSE NOT FAIAR WH LONDON, 'S ABOUT SIX (TEN KM) OM WHEHALL TO GREENWICH.) HERO-WORSHIPPER: TO PETER MANNN TO THE POT OF BEG A WORLD EXPERT. JERKASS: MORE SO THAN OLLIE REER, HE UNNECCSARILY MISTREAT GLENN, HE'S APPROPIATELY SENSIVE ABOUT MR TICKEL'S MENTAL ISSU AND NSTANTLY MAK POLILLY RRECT MENTS THAN EVEN SHOCK EMMA. MANCHILD: HIS CHILDLIKE PERSONALY HAS BEEN MENTNED QUE A FEW TIM. NEAT FREAK: "THERE'S NO HAPPS WHOUT ORR. IT'S A NAZI QUOTE, BUT NONE THE LS STANDS THE TT OF TIME." NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: HIS OUTDATED FASHN SENSE AND GANGLY PHYSIQUE ARE REMISCENT OF JAB RE-MOGG. OLR THAN THEY LOOK: WHILE PHIL'S AGE IS NEVER STATED ON-SCREEN 'S HTED THAT HE'S AROUND THE SAME AGE AS OLLIE (WHO IS, AT THE BEGNG OF THE SERI, IMPLIED TO BE HIS MID-TWENTI). WILL SMH WAS BORN 1971. PROFSNAL BUTT-KISSER: ONE OF HIS KEY TRAS IS HIS SYPHANTIC BEHAVUR TOWARDS PETER. PROUD TO BE A GEEK: DPE THE RISN HIS HOBBI RECEIVE OM EVERYONE. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: BY SEASON 4, HIS BELIEFS GREATLY OUTWEIGH HIS ACTUAL PABILI. UNDYG LOYALTY: IF PHIL HAS ANY REEMG FEATURE 'S HIS VOTN TO PETER. HE EVEN SAYS DURG THE TICKELL FIAS THAT MANNN WILL RIGN "OVER HIS AD BODY." VRLIC BT BUDS: WH EMMA; THE TWO HAVE A HATE-FILLED RELATNSHIP AND EACH WOULD THROW THE OTHER UNR THE B, BUT THEY DO OCSNALLY ENGAGE IENDLY BANTER — AND THEY'VE MANAGED TO SUCCSFULLY SHARE A FLAT FOR QUE SOME TIME WHOUT KILLG EACH OTHER. WANRG WALK OF MADNS: AFTER A HARROWG FIRST-TIME BOLLOCKG OM MALLM TUCKER, HE WANRS OFF A TRMATIZED DAZE AND, ACRDG TO A LETED SCENE, ACTUALLY LEFT THE BUILDG ALTOGETHER; HE WAS SO TERRIFIED THAT HE DIDN'T STOP WALKG UNTIL HE REACHED GREENWICH - A GOOD TEN KILOMETR AWAY! YOU NEED TO GET LAID: SEND PLACE TO GLENN WHEN TO JOK ABOUT HIS LACK OF A SEX LIFE.AFFERS"YOU N SEE WHY PEOPLE DON'T VOTE!"PLAYED BY: DAVID DAWSONEMMA'S LTLE BROTHER, HE LIV WH EMMA AND PHIL. HIS VOLVEMENT POLICS SEEMS TO EXTEND TO FUCKG OFF, DARLG, WHEN EMMA NEEDS TO DISCS SOMETHG WH OLLIE PRIVATE. FUNNY BACKGROUND EVENT: HIS PURPOSE THE SHOW, REALLY. CAL "THE FUCKER" RICHARDS"FUCK, WHAT I REALLY NEED TO DO, IS SHOOT YOU ALL THE BACK OF THE HEAD. FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! BUT I N'T, BEE 'S ILLEGAL!"PLAYED BY: TOM HOLLANRBROUGHT AS A PR ADVISOR AHEAD OF THE GENERAL ELECTN. HE IS AN AGGRSIVE AND PSYCHOTIC BULLY WH A VERY CEL SENSE OF HUMOUR. AX-CRAZY: LOOKS VERY DISAPPOTED WHEN HE REFLECTS ABOUT HOW WOULD BE ILLEGAL TO SHOOT EVERYONE THE BACK OF THE HEAD. THE DREAD: THE MERE MENTN OF HIS NAME BRGS ABOUT AN ATMOSPHERE OF PANIC. EVIL HAS A BAD SENSE OF HUMOUR: TELLG STEWART HE'S FIRED THEN LGHG OFF AS WELL AS TELLG PHIL TO OVERDOSE ON BARBURAT. EVIL COUNTERPART: TO MALLM OF ALL PEOPLE. FRIENDLY ENEMY: THE MISSG DOSAC FIL REVEALS THAT HE IS APPARENTLY GOOD IENDS WH MALLM, TO THE POT WHERE THEY PLAY TENNIS AND MALLM SEEMS TO BE AN HONORARY MEMBER OF THE FAY. JERKASS: POSSIBLY THE BIGGT JERK ON THE ENTIRE SHOW. NAM TO RUN AWAY OM REALLY FAST: LET'S JT SAY HE DIDN'T GET HIS NICKNAME OUT OF THE BLUE. THE NAPOLEON: SHORT OF BOTH STATURE AND TEMPER. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: ANDY COULSON, RICHARD LTLEJOHN THE TIE- BOOK. NO INDOOR VOICE: PRONE TO SHOUTING WHEN ANGRY, WHICH IS ALMOST ALL THE TIME. SADIST: LOV SRG THE SH OUT OF EVERYONE DURG HIS TRODUCTN. SUDNLY SHOUTG: WHEN STEWART PEARSON IS PCHG WHAT TO SMART BOMB THE PM WH, CAL JT GO, "FUCK! THAT IS BRILLIAAAAAANT!". SHROUD MYTH: "THE FUCKER, HE ', HE ' TO YOUR TOWN..."MARY DRAKE"I'M HERE AN ANGRY PACY."PLAYED BY: SYLVTRA LE TOUZELA SENR BET MISTER, MARY HAS THE DIRECT EAR OF THE PRIME MISTER. BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG: WHEN WE FIRST MEET MARY, SHE SEEMS LIKE A NICE, SANE VOICE OF REASON. NEXT TIME AROUND, SHE'S NOT SO NICE. CHEKHOV'S GUNMAN: SHE FIRST APPEARS AS ONE OF THE PARTICIPANTS THE COALN'S "MD CAMP" AND IS PRENT WHEN PETER SUGGTS FIRG STEWART. SEVERAL EPISOS LATER SHE REAPPEARS, FIRG STEWART AND REPLACG HIM AS HEAD OF MUNITNS. EARLY-BIRD CAMEO: APPEARS BRIEFLY AT STEWART'S "THOUGHT MP" S4E3. HAS A TYPE: LIK HER MEN WEAK AND WHE IF HER DIALOGUE IS TO BE BELIEVED. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: THERA MAY. TYRANT TAK THE HELM: SHE OTS STEWART BY THE END OF THE SERI. EVERYTHG SUGGTS SHE'S GOG TO BE MUCH MORE UNPLEASANT.THE JUNR COALN PARTY (SERI 4)

STTO’S LATT: TUCKER, GAY, SUMNER, NOEL

Is Mallm Tucker om "The Thick of It" Gay?

" It is revealed he has no wife or kids, and there are several tim when lleagu make subtle suggtns that he is gay. Free agent forward Rudy Gay, who was recently released by the Thunr, is drawg tert om several potential playoff teams, acrdg to Stto.

The Warrrs, Lakers, Mavericks, Bulls and Pelins have all registered tert Gay, per Stto. Gay will be 37 by the time next season starts and while his role has dimished each of the past three seasons, he’s still a seasoned veteran wh 17 years of NBA experience.

NBA RUMORS: JAM HARN TRA TALKS, JOEL EMBIID, PJ TUCKER, RUDY GAY, LAKERS, WARRRS, BUCKS, MORE

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THE GOVERNMENT (SERI 1-3); THE OPPOSN (SERI 4)THROUGHOUT THE BULK OF THE SERI (SERI 1-3 AND THE SPECIALS), THE CHARACTERS ARE EHER MEMBERS OF THE ERNG PARTY (WHETHER POLICIANS OR ADVISORS) OR CIVIL SERVANTS THE ERNMENT PARTMENTS N BY THEM. BY SERI 4, HOWEVER, THE MIGHTY HAVE NOW FALLEN, AND THE PARTY MEMBERS HAVE SPENT THE LAST TWO YEARS OPPOSN. LS LEFT-WG THAN THE PAST, AND MORE IMAGE-NSC AND SP-OBSSED, THE UNNAMED PARTY HAS MUCH MON WH NEW LABOUR:    NUMBER 10 THE PRIME MISTER (SERI 1 & 2, THE SPECIALS.)THE FIRST PRIME MISTER WAS SIMPLY REFERRED TO AS "THE PRIME MISTER" AND VIRTUALLY NOTHG WAS KNOWN ABOUT HIM, OTHER THAN HIS FONDNS FOR CHANGG HIS MD OFTEN. INVISIBLE PRINT: HE GO UNSEEN THROUGHOUT THE SERI. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: WE DON'T KNOW VERY MUCH ABOUT HIM PARED TO THE OTHER INVISIBLE PRIME MISTERS OF THE SHOW, BUT WHAT LTLE WE DO LEARN SUGGTS CERTA SIARI TO TONY BLAIR. NO NAME GIVEN: UNLIKE THE TWO SUBSEQUENT INVISIBLE PRIME MISTERS, HE IS NEVER GIVEN A NAME OR EVEN IALS.TOM DAVIS (SERI 3)BY SERI THREE THE ORIGAL PRIME MISTER HAD RIGNED AND BEEN REPLACED BY A NEW PARTY LEAR, NOW WH A NAME BUT STILL UNSEEN. KNOWN TO HAVE POOR MUNITN SKILLS AND MENTAL HEALTH ISSU, HIS SUPPORTERS WERE KNOWN AS "NUTTERS". INVISIBLE PRINT: AS WH HIS PRECSOR, WE NEVER SEE HIM. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: GORDON BROWN AND HIS SUPPORTERS, THE BROWN. VLENT GLASWEGIAN: WHILE WE NEVER SEE HIM, MENTS OM CHARACTERS DITE HE IS UNR HEAVY MEDITN FOR BOTH ANGER AND PRSN. THE MISSG DOSAC FIL SHOWS HIM HAVG A PHYSIL BRAWL WH MALLM, DAN MILLER AND JULI NICHOLSON, AND LATER, WHEN HE REALIS THE OPPOSN MAY BE ABOUT TO FEAT HIM, HE LETS OUT A DEATH WAIL, SMASH HIS TEA CUP AND ANNOUNC "IF WE'RE GOG OFF BEACHY HEAD, I'M FUCKG DRIVG !" BEFORE CSHG MALLM A BEAR HUG.MALLM TUCKER, PRIME MISTER'S DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITNS (SERI 1-3); LEAR OF THE OPPOSN'S DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITNS (SERI 4)"I'M A MAN OF PRCIPLE: I LIKE TO KNOW WHETHER I'M LYG TO SAVE THE SK OF A TOSSER OR A MORON."PLAYED BY: PETER CAPALDIFUNCTNAL MANIAC, SP DOCTOR, AND UNELECTED EMPLOYEE OF THE PARTY, MALLM NOHELS APPEARED TO BE THE MOST POWERFUL PERSON ERNMENT WHILE THE PARTY WAS POWER. AS THE PARTY'S MOST SENR PRS OFFICER HE IS RPONSIBLE FOR CRISIS MANAGEMENT PR AND ALSO ACTED AS AN ENFORCER, ENSURG ALL OF THE BET PARTMENTS FOLLOW THE PARTY LE. FIERCELY LOYAL TO THE PARTY, HIS OVERALL OBJECTIVE WAS TO KEEP THEM POWER BY ANY MEANS NECSARY. NOW THEY ARE OUT OF POWER, 'S HIS RAISON D'êTRE TO GET THEM BACK ... ACTUALLY PRETTY FUNNY: WHEN HE STARTS QUTNG NILA ABOUT HER FAY AND SPECIFILLY POSSIBLE PR NCERNS ABOUT HER CHILDREN, HE'S CLEARLY DARKLY AMED WHEN NILA SNARKS THAT HER 16 YEAR OLD DGHTER IS A HERO ADDICT WHO'S PREGNANT TO A NIGERIAN PEOPLE SMUGGLER AND HAS AN ACTIVE PORN REER. ANTI-HERO: HE'S AN UNSCPULO HERO WHO STARTED OFF AS THE ARCH-ENEMY LLEAGUE OF HUGH ABBOTT, THEN WAS MA THE MA CHARACTER, WHEN THE WRERS REALISED AN UNFETTERED SP DOCTOR IS A FAR MORE ENTERTAG CHARACTER THAN A WORN-OUT, EFFECTUAL, MIDDLE-AGED POLICIAN (THOUGH HUGH'S ACTOR'S ROLE-ENDG MISMEANOR DIDN'T EXACTLY HURT THE SUATN EHER). ANTI-VILLA: HE'S A WELL-INTENTNED EXTREMIST WHO'S ATTU AND METHODS ARE OFTEN MORALLY PLORABLE BUT ULTIMATELY FOR THE GREATER GOOD OF THE LABOUR PARY AND MALLM'S EY, THE UNTRY. AFFABLY EVIL: OFTEN NICE TO THE WAER ONLY TO GO GO TO FX AFFABLY EVIL WHEN ALG WH POLICIANS. AFTER BEG HIRED BACK BY JULI NICHOLSON, HIS AFFABILY TOWARDS HIS -WORKERS IS PLAYED FOR LGHS AS WELL AS HORROR IF TERRI, GLENN AND OLLIE'S MENTS ARE ANYTHG TO GO BY. BADASS A NICE SU: THE SUS WERE BAD THE EARLY SERI, BUT BY SERI 4 HE'S ARMANI AND LOOKG VERY SHARP ED. BADASS LONGAT: HE WEARS A FLOWG BLACK AT, MOST NOTABLY WHEN VOWG TO HIS NUMBER 10 LLEAGU "YOU WILL SEE ME AGAIN" AND THEN WALKG OUT OF NUMBER 10 AS BILLOWS AFTER HIM. THE BULLY: DON'T EVER LL HIM ONE THOUGH. HE IS SO MUCH WORSE THAN THAT. CATCHPHRASE: SAYS, "FOR FUCK SAKE", A LOT WHEN STRSED, WHICH IS OFTEN. THE CHSMASTER: THE MOST SUCCSFUL ONE THE SHOW, UALLY. HE SPREADS A MOUR THAT JULI NICHOLSON IS GETTG FOREIGN SECRETARY TO CLIP HIS WGS. IN "SPNERS AND LOSERS", HE SUGGTS A NUMBER OF NDIDAT TO NICK "NUTTER", ONLY TO THEN CLAIM TO TOM DAVIS, THAT THOSE NDIDAT WERE NICK'S IA SO THAT NICK AND JAMIE FIRED AND MALLM KEEPS HIS JOB. HE SETS OFF A CHA OF EVENTS THAT GET STEVE FLEMG FIRED. CLOTHG REFLECTS PERSONALY: IN SERI 3, ALL OF HIS SUS ARE LIGHT GREY, AND SOMETIM HE'LL EVEN PAIR A GREY SU WH A GREY TIE. WHEN WE SEE HIM SUAL CLOTH WE DISVER THAT PRACTILLY EVERY OTHER EM OF CLOTHG HE OWNS IS ALSO GREY. THIS ULD HAVE BEEN A LIBERATE ATTEMPT TO MATCH HIS WARDROBE TO HIS HAIR LOUR BUT THE GREY IS ALSO VERY FTG FOR A PRS OFFICER WHO LIK TO HI THE BACKGROUND, NEVER BEG THE STORY. CLTER F-BOMB: HIS FIRST SPECIALTY IS LOADG HIS SENTENC WH "FUCKS". COUNTRY MATTERS: ANOTHER OF HIS SPECIALI IS THE "CUNT"; 'S PART OF TUCKER'S LAW. DEADPAN SNARKER: BIG TIME, PECIALLY WHEN HE'S NOT ACTUALLY RORTG TO OUTRIGHT ABE. HIS PATRONISGLY LIVERY TO TERRI ABOUT HOW WHEN SHE APOLOGIS TO THE PRS THERE WILL BE, "THGS LLED MERAS... AND MICROPHON.. AND HANERS AND BAD BREATH.", TAK THE KE. DEATH GLARE: "HAVE I GOT MY BOLLOCKG FACE ON?.., THIS◊ IS MY BOLLOCKG FACE." THE DETERMATOR: HE IS FIERCELY LOYAL TO HIS PARTY AND WILL DO EVERYTHG HIS POWER TO KEEP POWER. DRAGON--CHIEF: IN SEASON 4, MALLM IS TECHNILLY SUBORDATE TO THE LEAR OF HIS PARTY, (EVEN IF SAID LEAR IS NILA MURRAY!) BUT YOU ULD BE FIVEN FOR FETTG THAT, NSIRG TWO OF THE PARTY LEARS WERE THE UNSEEN, AND THE THIRD WAS... NOT EXACTLY A POWERFUL FIGURE. THE DREAD: ALMOST EVERYONE THE SERI IS TERRIFIED OF HIM. IN THE LAST ISO, ADAM HOP HE GETS PUT A CELL WH A GENUE PSYPATH. DU, WHERE'S MY RPECT?: HE HAS FOUGHT SO HARD FOR THE PARTY. IF THE MISSG DOSAC FIL ARE TO BE BELIEVED, HOWEVER, NO ONE HAS AN OUNCE OF RPECT FOR HIM AFTER THE ELECTN. THE E-MAIL EXCHANGE REGARDG THE TULAR MISSG FIL IS ALSO DITIVE THAT PEOPLE AREN'T TAKG MALLM VERY SERLY ANY MORE. THE REPLI ARE SNARKY ALMOST DOWN TO THE LAST MAN. IT'S STILL HARD TO PICTURE THE CHARACTERS SAYG ANY OF THOSE THGS TO HIS FACE, HOWEVER... AND OLLIE SEEMS APPROPRIATELY SRED PISS-LS. ENRAGED BY IDCY: PART OF HIS DAILY ROUTE VOLV BERATG PEOPLE FOR THEIR MISTAK AND THEN TRYG TO FIX THEM. EVEN BAD MEN LOVE THEIR MAMAS: THE PUBLISHED SCRIPT BOOK CLUS A SECTN ENTLED "MALLM'S SENT ITEMS". AMONG THE THREATS OF SEXUAL VLENCE SENT TO DOSAC STAFF THERE IS ONE VERY POLE EMAIL ADDRSED TO "ISOBEL TUCKER" AND BEGNG "DEAR MAM..." EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: WHEN ALG WH THE SNDAL SURROUNDG NILA'S DGHTER, HE DID SEEM VERY MDFUL THAT NILA WAS FIRST AND FOREMOST A DISTRGHT MOTHER. HE EVEN TRIED TO FORT HER AND GIVE HER A (TERRIBLE) PEP TALK WHEN SHE STARTED CRYG HIS OFFICE. IN THE OFFICIAL SP-OFF BOOK THE MISSG DOSAC FIL (BY THE SHOW'S WRG TEAM), MALLM IS OPENLY SYMPATHETIC TOWARDS NILA WH REGARDS TO AN CINT THE SERI WHICH THE PRS MANIPULATE HER TO STANDG ONT OF A MPAIGN SIGN SUCH A WAY AS TO MAKE THE SIGN SAY "I AM BENT." HE IS ACTUALLY PLIMENTARY TO NILA FOR HER HANDLG OF THE AFFAIR (SOMETHG ALMOST UNHEARD OF FOR MALLM). THIS IS ALSO REFLECTED TO A LSER GREE THE EPISO SELF. DURG THE GOOLDG INQUIRY, MALLM CLAIMS HE WOULD NEVER TARGET "REAL PEOPLE", NON-POLICIANS. MALLM DID MORE TO HELP TICKEL THAN ANYONE ELSE GOVERNMENT OR OPPOSN, ALBE FOR CYNIL REASONS. THE GOVERNMENT WERE THE ON WHO SOLD OFF TICKEL'S HOME AND THEN ADD SULT TO JURY BY KICKG HIM OUT OF HIS PROTT TENT. NILA WAS TRYG TO VER HER OWN ARSE AFTER SUPPORTG THE SELLOFF, SO SPE MALLM'S ADVICE THE OPPOSN WEREN'T TAKG UP TICKEL'S E EHER. SURE, LEAKG TICKEL'S MEDIL RERDS WAS SENSIVE ON MALLM'S PART. BUT HE DID TO SHOW THAT THE GOVERNMENT WERE, AS HE PUT , "PICKG ON A MAN WH A HISTORY OF PRSN"... WHICH WAS TE AND TURNED OUT TO HAVE TRAGIC NSEQUENC. MALLM ULTIMATELY TOOK ALL THE BLAME FOR TICKEL'S ATH, BUT MIGHT HAVE BEEN AVOID IF ANYONE HAD LISTENED TO HIM EARLY ON. IN A LETED SCENE OF "RISE OF THE NUTTERS", OLLIE ACC MALLM OF BEG HOMOPHOBIC. HE RPONDS BY SAYG HOW HE WORKED TO HELP REPEAL ANTI-GAY LEGISLATN WHILE THE ACCER WAS STILL A SCHOOLBOY. WHEN NILA MAK A FLIPPANT REMARK ABOUT EMBARRASG HERSELF ONT OF, "UNIFORMED PENSNERS", MALLM IS QUICK TO REMD HER OF THE SACRIFICE THEY MA SO SHE ULD, "PLAY AT NNG THE UNTRY". WHILE HIS TEMPER IS NOT THE LMT, EVEN HE SEEMS TAKEN ABACK BY SOME OF JAMIE'S OUTBURSTS AND TANTMS. EXPOSORY HAIRSTYLE CHANGE: HE HAD DARK HAIR TO BEG WH AND GETS LIGHTER AND GRAYER AS THE SHOW GO ON. HIS JOB IS SO STRSFUL AG HIM. FX AFFABLY EVIL: HE'S PERFECTLY PABLE OF BEG VERY POLE WHEN SUS HIM. IT UALLY SUS HIM AS THE SETUP FOR A STRG OF ABE SO PAFUL YOU MAY FD PSYCHOLOGILLY IMPOSSIBLE TO MOVE FOR SEVERAL MUT AFTERWARD. THE FRIEND NOBODY LIK: OR SP DOCTOR, RATHER. POSSIBLE EXCEPTN OF JAMIE MACDONALD WHO ENGAG SOMEWHAT IENDLY BANTER WH MALLM IN THE LOOP, PECIALLY S LETED SCEN, THOUGH LS SO THE SERI SELF. GAY BRAVADO: HE IS EXCEEDGLY FOND OF UNNERVG MALE POLIS VIA FLIRTG AND DOUBLE ENTENDR. GIRLY RUN: HE'S AN AGGRSIVE, FOUL-MOUTHED, VLENT ALPHA MALE... WHO NS LIKE A GIRL. GUTTURAL GROWLER: PRODUC SOME RATHER UNNERVG HARMONICS WHEN REALLY ANNOYED, "DON'T YOU EVER LL ME A BULLY, I'M SO MUCH WORSE THAN THAT." HE LLS WHISPERBOARDG. HAIR-TRIGGER TEMPER: A VERY SHORT FE OF ANGER JT WAG TO EXPLO, THOUGH NOT AS BAD AS JAMIE. GIVEN THE PETENCE OF THE PEOPLE HE'S TRYG TO PROP UP POWER WHO MAKE UP THE PARTY WHO HE'S FOUGHT ALL HIS LIFE FOR, 'S HARD TO BLAME HIM. THE HEAVY: IN ANY EPISO WHERE THE PARTY LEAR'S WISH BEE RELEVANT TO DOSAC, IS ALWAYS MALLM WHO BRGS THE NEWS AND STEERS TO ONE NCLN OR ANOTHER. HER CO NAME WAS "MARY SUE": MIKE TICKER, PROTAGONIST OF TICKER TIME. (THE MISSG DOSAC FIL.) HOIST BY HIS OWN PETARD: FOR ALL HIS EFFICIENCY SOME OF HIS SCHEM HAVE WAY OF BACKFIRG ON HIM: UNR THE IMPRSN THAT THE "FOC GROUPS", ACTOR WAS THE MOLE WERE SIMON HEWT, HE ATTEMPTS TO W HER TO SILENCE WHICH RULTS HER TELLG THE PRS WHICH ULD HAVE HAVE BEEN PREVENTED HAD HE NOT JT ASSUMED HE WAS WORKG FOR SIMON. AS HUGH PUTS , THEY "RELEASED A STORY FOR THE PRS VOLUNTARILY.". HIS PLAN TO UNRME NILA BY MAKG SURE THE FILE FOR 'QUIET BATPEOPLE' WAS ON FULL DISPLAY FOR THE MERAS ULTIMATELY BACKFIR ON HIM WHEN 'S REVEALED A BLOW-UP OF THE PICTURE THAT HE HAD MR. TICKELL'S MOBILE NUMBER, NHS TAILS AND THE UNLISTED NUMBER OF MR. TICKELL'S EX-WIFE—DISPLAYED THE SAME WAY THE 'QUIET BAT PEOPLE' FILE WAS DISPLAYED—, ALL OF WHICH WAS LEAKED AFTER THE PICTURE WAS TAKEN. WHATEVER NFINCE MALLM HAD THE INQUIRY EVAPORAT PLETELY. HOLLYWOOD ATHEIST: HIS FACEBOOK PAGE LISTS: "DON'T WASTE MY TIME WH ALL THAT FLOPPY DONKEY DICK" AS HIS "RELIG VIEWS". HYPERPETENT SIKICK: TO THE ENTIRE LABOUR PARTY. HE'S THE ONLY CHARACTER THE SERI WHO IS PETENT. JERKASS HAS A POT: FOR ALL HIS MEANNS, 9 TIM OUT OF 10 HE'S JT PLA RIGHT: HE'S PUTS ACROSS THE SE TO HUGH ABBOT VERY WELL ABOUT WHY HAVG A GOOD RIGNATN IS POSSIBLE. HE RIGHTLY LLS OUT STEVE FOR BADLY HANDLG THE CRIME STATS. IN SEASON 4, HE'S RIGHT ABOUT NILA NOT HAVG ENOUGH FIRE TO BE LEARSHIP MATERIAL FOR THE LABOUR PARTY. IT WAS CEL TO REJECT GLENN THE WAY HE DID BUT DON'T CHANGE THE FACT THAT GLENN MA A NSC CISN TO SWCH OM THE LABOUR PARTY TO THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS AND DISLOYALTY IS A MASSIVE BERSERK BUTTON FOR MALLM. AS SHADY AND IRRPONSIBLE AS HE WAS TO LEAK MR. TICKELL'S NTACT TAILS TO THE PUBLIC, SOMETHG HAD TO BE DONE TO DRAW ATTENTN TO THE TORY ERMNENT'S POOR TREATMENT OF THE AFOREMENTNED NURSE. JERK JOCK: ESSENTIALLY A WORKPLACE VERSN AND HE DO SMACK GLENN THE NOSE. THAT SAID HE IS MORE TELLECTUAL AND SOPHISTITED THAN MOST EXAMPL, WHILST JAMIE AND CAL RICHARDS PLAY THIS TROPE STRAIGHTER. 'THE MISSG DOSAC FIL' SHOWS HIM ENGAGG A PHYSIL BRAWL WH DAN MILLER, TOM DAVIS AND JULI NICHOLSON (THOUGH ADMTEDLY MILLER STARTED .) JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: HE WAS A RATHER NASTY PERSON TO EVERYONE AT WORK. HOWEVER, OCSNALLY, HE'LL DULGE THE "HEART OF GOLD" PART. THOUGH HE'LL RIP YOUR TEETH AND FGERNAILS OUT IF YOU EVER THK OF MENTNG OR POTG OUT. ALSO SEEN 'THE MISSG DOSAC FIL' DURG THE TRANSCRIPT OF HIS VOICEMAIL TO CAL RICHARDS, WHEN HE TEARS UP AT THE PROSPECT OF A LTLE GIRL'S RABB BEG NAMED AFTER HIM, AS WELL AS THE PICTURE THE GIRL DREW OF HIM AND CAL HAVG A PIIC. WHEN EXPLAG TO OLLIE WHY HE NEEDS TO BRG DOWN NILA AS PARTY LEAR, MALLM POTS OUT THAT THE PARTY N'T DO ANYTHG TO HELP PEOPLE IF THEY DON'T HAVE POWER, AND NILA IS NEVER GOG TO W AN ELECTN. KICK THE DOG: HE DO A NICE LE THIS, E.G. "SORRY YOU HAD TO GO, BUT LET'S FACE , YOU'RE A FUCKG WASTE OF SK." OR KICK THE SON OF A BCH GIVEN NILA'S PUBLIC SCHOOL HYPOCRISY. REJECTG GLENN'S PLEAS TO E BACK TO THE LABOUR PARTY. KNIGHT TEMPLAR: DOWNPLAYED. HE KNOWS THAT HE ISN'T A KNIGHT IN SHG ARMOUR BUT HE SE HIMSELF AS MORE OF A UNSCPULO HERO STEAD OF A ANTI-VILLA. HE ALSO GENUELY BELIEV THAT HIS PARTY ULD HELP PEOPLE, AND THAT HIS ACTNS ARE FOR THE GREATER GOOD. KUBRICK STARE: THE MASTER OF THE DEATH GLARE OR THE BOLLOCKG FACE. LARGE HAM: NOT AS UNREALISTILLY MELODRAMATIC AS MOST EXAMPL BUT PETER CAPALDI CLEARLY ENJOYED HIMSELF A LOT. LEAN AND MEAN: HE KEEPS HIS WEIGHT DOWN BY NNG EVERYWHERE, BEG PERMANENTLY STRSED OUT, AND LIVG ON A DIET NSISTG MALY OF FFEE. OLLY REAR LIKENS HIM TO "A TH WHE MUGABE". LIMED WARDROBE: HE'S ALWAYS SEEN WEARG LIGHT GREY SUS. LOCKED OUT OF THE LOOP: IN "THE RISE OF THE NUTTERS" AND "SPNERS AND LOSERS", HE'S NSTANTLY KEPT OUT OF THE LOOP SPE BEG THE PRIME MISTER'S SP DOCTOR. MANLY TEARS: IS HEAVILY IMPLIED TO HAVE BEEN CRYG AFTER BEG SACKED BY STEVE FLEMG THE BEGNG OF THE LAST EPISO OF SEASON 3. IN FACT ON THE DVD VOKEDARMANDO IANNUCCI SAID HE SPECIFICIALLY TOLD PETER CAPALDI TO PLAY MALLM AS IF HE HAD BEEN CRYG FOR TWO WEEKS STRAIGHT. MANIPULATIVE BASTARD: THE PHRASE "MALVELLIAN" DON'T EXIST FOR NOTHG. HE TELLS TERRI TO TELL NILA MURRAY TO STANDG ONT OF THE LIAM BENTLEY SIGN MAKG LOOK LIKE 'S SAYG "I AM BENT", SOMETHG NILA LLS HIM OUT ON. HE ALSO MANIPULAT NILA TO THKG PETER MANNN AND THE RT OF THE TORI ARE TELLG NASTY JOK ABOUT HER FAY, WHEN HER DGHTER WAS ABOUT TO GET EXPELLED FOR BULLYG. HE MANIPULAT STEVE FLEMG TO LOOKG LIKE HE'S TRYG TO FLUENCE JULI NICHOLSON'S REPORT WHICH FORC STEVE TO RIGN. HE TRIPS NILA UP BY SETTG UP THE BATPEOPLE PHOTO, THOUGH THIS ALSO BACK TO BE HIM THE ASS DURG THE GOULDG LEAKG EQUIRY. MARRIED TO THE JOB: VERY LTLE ABOUT HIS PERSONAL LIFE IS REVEALED. THIS IS LIBERATE: A SUB-PLOT ABOUT MALLM'S PARTNER LEAVG HIM FOR JOURNALIST SIMON HEWT WAS CUT, AND ON THE DVD MENTARI THE ST AND WRERS AGREE THAT NO-ONE REALLY NEEDS (OR WANTS) TO KNOW ABOUT HIS LIFE OUTSI WORK. HE PROBABLY DON'T HAVE ONE. THIS IS NFIRMED BY MALLM HIMSELF THE LAST EPISO OF THE SERI, A HNTG YET AMAZG SPEECH TO OLLIE. HE WEARS A WEDDG RG FOR MOST OF THE N OF THE SERI; 'S GONE BY THE TIME HE GIV EVINCE TO THE GOOLDG INQUIRY AT THE END OF SERI 4, ALTHOUGH 'S NEVER REFERRED TO. PETER CAPALDI DO NOT LIKE TO TAKE OFF HIS OWN WEDDG RG, WHATEVER ROLE HE'S PLAYG. AT THE END OF SERI 3 EPISO 7, AS HE'S RETURNG TO HIS HOME AFTER "RIGNG", THERE IS A SMALL CHILD LOOKG OUT OF THE DOWNSTAIRS WDOW. IN THE LAST EPISO OF SERI 4 MALLM'S SPEECH TO OLLIE CLUS THE WORDS "NO KIDS" SO THE CHILD AT THE WDOW EVINTLY WASN'T HIS. SOME SCEN HIS OFFICE THE SAME SERI SHOW THAT HE HAS WHAT IS OBVLY A SMALL CHILD'S ARTWORK TAPED TO THE WALL. CONSIRG THAT HE REFERS TO HIMSELF AS HAVG "NO CHILDREN" DURG HIS RANT TO OLLIE THE FAL EPISO OF SERI 4, THIS ONE'S A B OF A PUZZLER—EHER HE WAS BEG METAPHORIL (SCE HE NEVER SE HIS KIDS DUE TO THE PRSUR OF HIS JOB) OR THE CHILD SERI 3 IS ACTUALLY A NIECE/NEPHEW OR OTHER RELATIVE. (HE DO MENTN A YOUNG NIECE HE'S APPARENTLY QUE CLOSE TO AN EARLIER EPISO.) A PIECE OF WILDLY IMPLSIBLE BUT FUN-TO-BELIEVE FANON HOLDS THE MALLM TUCKER'S PREV LIFE WAS AS SID JENKS' PYSCHOTIC-BUT-LOVG--HIS-OWN-SPECIAL-WAY FATHER. PRUMABLY HELL SPAT HIM BACK OUT.. MEMETIC BADASS: IN UNIVERSE AND OUT. GETTG "TUCKERED", IS SEEN AS A RIGHT OF PASSAGE IF FERG IS TO BE BELIEVED. NICE TO THE WAER: RU AND VRLIC AS HE IS TO CIVIL SERVANTS AND POLIS, HE'S NICE TO REGULAR STAFF, CLUDG CLEANERS. HE'S ALSO NSISTENTLY POLE, IENDLY AND WARM TO HIS OWN ASSISTANT SAM. THE NICKNAMER: HE HAS A NICKNAME FOR EVERYONE HE ENUNTERS, HE FAVOURS PARISONS TO CELEBRI MOST OF ALL. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: HE WAS BASED ON A NUMBER OF NEW LABOUR SP DOCTORS. ALASTAIR CAMPBELL IS THE ONE MOST OFTEN CED, BUT HE IS ALSO PARTLY BASED ON PETER MANLSON AND POSSIBLY ON DAMIAN "MAD DOG" MCBRI. THE LAST OF THE HAS LED TO SOME AMG VOKEDLIFE IMAT ART MOMENTS: ONE EPISO EMERG THAT THE OPPOSN'S NICKNAME FOR MALLM IS HAMISH MACDEATH: THE CONSERVATIV GAVE MCBRI THE NICKNAME "MCPOISON". MCBRI WAS ALSO FORCED TO RIGN AFTER HIS PLANS TO SET UP A BLOG SLANRG DAVID CAMERON WERE LEAKED, SOME TIME AFTER THE SHOW FEATURED MALLM TUCKER GETTG TO TROUBLE FOR POSTG SLANRO MENTS ON PETER MANNN'S BLOG. NOBLE TOP ENFORCER: YOU N TELL MALLM R MORE ABOUT THE PARTY VALU THAN THE PRIME MISTERS HE WORKS FOR, WHO ONLY SEEM TO RE ABOUT GOOD PUBLICY. PAY EVIL UNTO EVIL: HE'S PRONE TO DISHG THIS TROPE OUT TO VENAL POLICIANS, RIVAL SP DOCTORS AND CIVIL SERVANTS. SCREAMG AT HUGH OVER FLATGATE AND LLG HIM A STUPID CUNT, DURG HIS TERVIEW WH DAILY MAIL JACK JOURNALIST ANGELA HEANEY. PUTS DOWN OLLY AT THE CLIMAX OF SPNERS AND LOSERS, LLG HIM "BEN'S GLENN", RPONSE TO OLLY BEG A SELF-SERVG JERKASS TO GLENN. THREATENG TO RA DOWN ON PHIL SO HARD HE'LL, "HAVE TO BE REASSEMBLED BY AIR CRASH VTIGATORS". CONSTANTLY SULTG STEVE FLEMG AND ULTIMATELY GETTG HIM FIRED AT THE END OF SEASON 3. ORCHTRATG SOLDIER DISRPECTG NILA MURRAY'S DOWNFALL. PAPA WOLF: FOR HIS PARTY, AND TO SAM, TO SOME EXTENT. PET THE DOG: HIS MEANOUR TOWARDS WORKG-CLASS CHARACTERS OR ANYONE EMED A SOCIAL FERR IS UALLY SCERELY EMPATHETIC, GENTLEMANLY AND VOID OF NSCENSN. THIS STANDS NTRAST TO THE OBNOX AND PATRONIZG BEHAVUR DISPLAYED BY THOSE ON THE OPPOSE SI, SUCH AS MANNN OR PEARSON TOWARDS HOTEL RECEPTNISTS OR MPAIGNG YOUTHS, BUT ALSO THOSE ON HIS OWN SI, WHO GENERALLY MAKE MORE NOISE PUBLIC ABOUT REPRENTG THE LOWER CLASS AND EXPLOED BUT UALLY E ACROSS AS SCERE, NTEMPTUO AND DISMISSIVE MORE PRIVATE SETTGS. HE DO ON ONLY TWO OCSNS SHOW REMORSE AND REGRET FOR HIS ACTNS, NOTABLY WHEN HE HS GLENN, HE EXPRS WHAT APPEARS TO BE GENUE REMORSE. HE FEELS SORRY FOR GLENN WHEN THE STRS AND VAR HUIATNS HE'S ENDURED THE TWO SPECIALS LEAD TO HIM HAVG AN EXPLOSIVE BREAKDOWN, AND BRGS HIM ALONG TO THE MEETG WH DAN MILLER TO MAKE HIM FEEL CLUD AND BRIGHTEN HIS MOOD. HE NS TO HIS OFFICE THE MIDST OF HIS SACKG TO SCREAM AT EVERYONE FOR MAKG SAM CRY. SPEAKG OF SAM, SHE IS GENERAL ONE OF THE FEW PEOPLE WE EVER SEE MALLM TREAT A NSISTENTLY NICE AND PLEASANT WAY. WHEN BEN SWA BERAT A CLEANG LADY, MALLM TAK HER ASI TO LM HER DOWN. THIS ONE, HOWEVER, MAYBE BE A SUBVERSN AND MORE ALONG THE L OF "PUTTG OUT POTENTIAL FIR", SCE AMONG OTHER THGS THE CLEANER IS THREATENG TO GO TO THE PRS. IN SERI 3, HE TRI AND FAILS TO CHEER NILA UP WHEN THE HEADMASTER GETS SACKED OVER LETTG NILA'S DGHTER STAY AT SCHOOL AFTER BULLYG ANOTHER KID. WHEN STEVE FLEMG IS BEG SEXIST TO NILA (LLG HER DARLG AND 'SWEETHEART'), MALLM STICKS UP FOR NILA, ALBE BY SUATG STEVE'S GAY DUE TO THE MOTACHE. IN A LETED SCENE, HE GIV TERRI A GENUE HAPPY NEW YEAR GREETG. POP-CULTURED BADASS: QUICK TO MAKE REFERENC TO THE BEATL, THE CRYG GAME,THE FLTSTON AND MORE DURG HIS TIRAS. THIS MAK HIS TOTAL IGNORANCE AND UNSUCCSFUL ATTEMPTS AT EXPLAG THE PLOT OF STAR WARS OF ALL THGS ALL THE MORE HILAR (THOUGH THIS MAY HAVE BEEN A SE OF OBFTG STUPIDY OR THE POT BEG HE'S ABOVE SUCH NERD REFERENC). PUNCH-CLOCK VILLA: IT'S STRONGLY IMPLIED OM THE WAY HE TERACTS WH LOWER-STAT STAFF HE'S A NICE GUY WHEN HE'S OUT OF POLICS BUT A ROARG EIGHT TRA OF ANGER, JERK JOCK MANIPULATIVE BASTARD WHEN AT WORK. REAL MEN COOK: HE'S SEEN ENTERTAG JOURNALISTS AT HIS HOE WH CURRY AND WE. REAL MEN WEAR PK: AT WORK HE SEEMS ASSURED ENOUGH OF HIS OWN SEXUALY TO BE ENTIRELY FORTABLE FLIRTG WH MEN, WHILE THE SCEN MALLM'S HOE SHOW HIM TO HAVE PRI HIS OKG SKILLS AND AN EYE FOR TERR SIGN. HE ALSO GOT RATHER ALARMED AT THE THOUGHT OF JOURNALISTS DAMAGG HIS HEDGE. HOWEVER HE GAS THE MOST PK POTS FOR G OUT WH THE WONRFULLY FEY "DON'T TOUCH THAT SCARF, THAT'S PAUL SMITH!". DURG A FIGHT. "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH: REGULARLY DISH THE OUT THROUGHOUT THE SERI, POSSIBLY THE STANDOUT MAY BE THE ONE HE GIV TO NILA AFTER SHE GETS FORCED OUT OF HER JOB. SELF-MA MAN: HEAVILY IMPLIED. HIS NICKNAME "THE GORBALS GOEBBELS" DIT THAT HE GREW UP A VERY ROUGH AREA OF GLASGOW. IT WOULD GO A LONG WAY TO EXPLA WHY HE'S NICE TO THE WAER BUT DON'T TST THE "OXBRIDGE TWATS", LIKE OLLIE REER OR BEN SWA. SIR SWEARS-A-LOT: HE'S ROBTLY FAMO/FAMO FOR BEG A MAN WHOSE FAVOURE WORD STARTED WH A PAL "F" AND CROPPED UP NEARLY EVERY SENTENCE HE HIS SEND-FAVOURE WORD STARTS WH A "C", SO MUCH SO THAT WHEN PETER CAPALDI DID A PSA FOR MACLAN -CHARACTER, HE SAID HE WAS TALKG "ABOUT THE BIG C, AND NOT MY UAL BIG C!" SPOTLIGHT-STEALG SQUAD: FROM THE SPECIALS ONWARDS. JTIFIED TO A LARGE EXTENT THAT HE WAS ONE OF THE TWO ORIGAL MA CHARACTERS, AND SCE THE OTHER ONE SUDNLY EXED THE SERI OFF-SCREEN WH NOTHG BUT A HANDWAVE, FOC WAS NATURALLY SHIFTED TO HIM, EVEN IF THE SHOW WAS TECHNILLY RE-TOOLED AS MORE OF AN ENSEMBLE PIECE FOLLOWG HUGH'S PARTURE. THE STARSCREAM: IN SERI 4, HE TEAMS UP WH DAN MILLER AGAST NILA MURRAY, NOW LEAR OF THE OPPOSN, SPE OUTWARDLY STILL SUPPORTG HER. STEALTH HI/BYE: HE'S ABLE TO SNEAK UP ON PEOPLE A GLASS-WALLED OFFICE. "I'M A SHAPHIFTER!" SURROUND BY IDTS: HE HAS VERY LTLE PATIENCE FOR THE PETENCE OF MISTERS AND OTHER CIVIL SERVANTS WHEHALL TO THE POT WHERE HE SCRIB HIMSELF SERI FOUR AS HAVG "NO REAL IENDS". HE NSIRED HUGH ABBOT TO BE BUMBLG, PETENT AND OUT OF TOUCH WH THE PUBLIC, AND WAS NSTANTLY FED UP WH HAVG TO AL WH HIS MISTAK. HIS TREATMENT OF HUGH'S SUCCSOR, NILA MURRAY, WAS NSIRABLY MORE SYMPATHETIC, WH TUCKER EMG HER A "NICE LADY", AND EVEN HELPG TO MOVE FORWARD HER (RATHER FANCIFUL) POLICY IAS. HOWEVER, THIS PROFSNAL RPECT QUICKLY TERRATED FOLLOWG THE GENERAL ELECTN; NILA'S TIME AS LEAR OF THE OPPOSN WAS A PLETE DISASTER, UNTIL MALLM STAGED A UP D'éTAT AGAST HER, CLARG HER "A WASTE OF SK". DPE THIS, HE ATTTS AT THE GOOLDG INQUIRY THAT HE STILL RETAED GREAT RPECT FOR HER AS A PERSON, AND EVEN WENT SO FAR AS TO APPLD HER TENURE AS MISTER OF DO SA C. THE SVENGALI: HE FS THE TROPE PERFECTLY, ALTHOUGH STEAD OF MENTORG A SPECIFIC PERSON LIKE THIS, HE OBSSIVELY NTROLS HIS ENTIRE PARTY. HIS VILLAO BREAKDOWN SERI 4 EVEN VOLV HIM SCREAMG AT SOMEONE OBJECTG TO HIS PLAN, BEE HE IS DOG ALL FOR THE PARTY, AND NO-ONE SHOULD DARE EVER QUTN WHAT HE WOULD DO FOR THE PARTY. TALL, DARK, AND SNARKY: THOUGH HIS HAIR GO PREMATURELY GREY OM STRS BY SEASON 3. TEAM DAD: HE'S HER MAJTY'S GOVERNMENT'S TEAM DAD. THE SRIT, MOST ABIVE ONE IMAGABLE."NEVER MD WHAT MUMMY SAYS, JT DO WHAT DADDY SAYS" TRANQUIL FURY: MOST OF THE TIME, MALLM TUCKER IS A SCREAMG RAGG EIGHT TRA OF PURE ANGER. HOWEVER, IF HE EVER PLAYS THIS TROPE STRAIGHT AS AN ARROW, YOU ARE EP EP EP TROUBLE. PHIL SMH AND NILA MURRAY N ATTT TO THAT. TSUNRE: HE'S BASILLY TYPE A. HE'S ACTUALLY A JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD, BUT HE GO TSUN WHENEVER PARTY POLICS IS VOLVED. WHICH, GIVEN THE NATURE OF THE SHOW, IS ALL THE FUCKG TIME. UNCERTA DOOM: HIS FATE AFTER THE END OF THE SHOW IS NOT SET STONE, BUT JUDGG BY OUT-OF-UNIVERSE MENTS BY SERI CREATOR ARMANDO IANNUCCI, HE'S LIKELY EHER AD OR PRISON (THOUGH THIS IS ONLY TO CEMENT THE POT THAT THE SHOW IS TLY OVER AND PROBABLY NOT SER). HOWEVER, TUCKER HAS SUBSEQUENTLY MA SPORADIC MEOS OTHER MEDIA, OM A BIG ISSUE MAGAZE FEATURE CHRONICLG A FIERCE BREX BATE BETWEEN HIMSELF AND ALAN PARTRIDGE (ANOTHER IANNUCCI CHARACTER) TO AN THORISED MEO ALAN MOORE'S THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDARY GENTLEMEN, VOLUME III: CENTURY, WHERE HE HAS AN UNSEEN RAD TERVIEW WH REAL LIFE JOURNALIST JON SNOW. THE UNFETTERED: THERE IS NOTHG HE WON'T DO TO KEEP HIS PARTY POWER BY ANY MEANS NECSARY: BLACKMAIL, PHYSIL THREATS, LEAKG AND VLENCE ARE ALL HIS ARSENAL. TOTAL LACK OF SCPL IS A JOB REQUIREMENT, WH HIS MORE IALISTIC OPPOSE NUMBER, STEWART PEARSON, PLAYG JT AS DIRTY AS HIM. VETARI JOB SECURY: HE'S WORKED VERY HARD TO PUT HIMSELF THIS POSN, THOUGH HIS GRIP ON THGS IS SLIPPG SERI THREE. HOWEVER, WHEN HE'S FIRED, WE GET GLIMPS OF A ERNMENT WHOUT MALLM: STEVE FLEMG IS CREEPG AROUND BEG A CREEPY CREEP AND SRG EVERYONE, A HANDFUL OF BET MISTERS REVOLT AND DAN MILLER'S BAL APPARENTLY SEE AS AN OPPORTUNY TO LNCH A LEARSHIP BID. NEEDLS TO SAY, MALLM IS QUICKLY LLED BACK. MALLM: I AM THE HEART. I AM THE VENTRICL! VILLAO BREAKDOWN: RATHER, AN ANTI-HERO/ANTI-VILLA BREAKDOWN; SOME STONKG S, OFTEN WH BON THIS IS YOUR BRA ON EVIL AND DON'T YOU DARE PY ME!. WHEN STEVE FLEMG HAS HIM SACKED, MALLM CROSS OVER WH BADASS BOAST: "YOU NNOT FUCK ME! YOU NNOT FUCK ME! I AM UNFUCKABLE! I HAVE NEVER BEEN FUCKED. AND IF YOU FUCKG TRY AND FUCK ME, YOU'LL FD MY FUCKG ARSE WILL FUCKG GROW FUCKG FANGS AND FUCKG SNAP YOUR FUCKG CK OFF!" VLENT GLASWEGIAN: HE'S STTISH AND THREATENS PEOPLE WH CREATIVE ACTS OF VLENCE AND HAS ACTUALLY PUNCHED GLENN. VOLATILE SEND TIER POSN: HE'S ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FIGUR ERNMENT, BUT THE JOB REQUIR HIM TO SPEND EVERY WAKG HOUR ON DUTI SO MANDG THAT MALLM LERALLY HAS NO TIME FOR ANYTHG ELSE HIS LIFE. PL, 'S HEAVILY IMPLIED THAT THE WORK IS HAVG A SER IMPACT ON MALLM'S HEALTH, PECIALLY GIVEN HIS WARNG THAT OLLIE WILL END UP A WRECK WH A FEW MONTHS OF REPLACG HIM. WELL-INTENTNED EXTREMIST: HE GENUELY BELIEV THE PARTY MANIFTO AND WILL FIGHT TO THE ATH FOR . WORKAHOLIC: BTALLY NSTCTED DURG HIS RANT TO OLLIE THE LAST EVER EPISO. WOULDN'T H A GIRL: GLENN ISN'T, STRICTLY SPEAKG, A WOMAN. XANATOS SPEED CHS: HIS SEND SPECIALTY.SAMANTHA "SAM" CASSIDY"HAPPY BIRTHDAY MALLM!"PLAYED BY: SAMANTHA HARRGTONMALLM'S PA AND ONE TE NFIDANTE. HE IS GENUELY FOND OF HER AND THE FEELG IS MUTUAL: SHE IS THE ONLY CHARACTER WHO REALLY UNRSTANDS HIM AND DON'T VIEW HIM AS A PLETE BASTARD. WHEN MALLM GETS FIRED SERI 3, SAM ACTUALLY CRI WHILE EVERYONE ELSE IS CELEBRATG, AND MALLM NNG TO FORT HER. ALL THERE THE MANUAL: HER FULL NAME IS ONLY GIVEN THE MISSG DOSAC FIL. DEATH GLARE: THOUGH SHE NEVER SPEAKS DURG THE GOOLDG INQUIRY, SHE LIVERS A UPLE OF THE TO TERRI AND OLLIE WHEN THEY ARE THE ONLY ON TO EXPLICLY IMPLITE MALLM AS THE SOURCE OF THE LEAK. EXPOSORY HAIRSTYLE CHANGE: SHE HAS DARK HAIR EARLY ON AND IS A SANDY BLON BY THE END OF THE SERI. GIRL FRIDAY: A VERY PETENT ONE FOR MALLM. HYPERPETENT SIKICK: ENOUGH SO TO KEEP UP WH MALLM. MORALY PET: TO MALLM; SHE SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY PERSON HE GENUELY R ABOUT. THE RELIABLE ONE: ONE OF THE PREC FEW PETENT CHARACTERS THE SHOW, QUIET AND EFFICIENT AND JT GETS ON WH THGS THE BACKGROUND. NO WONR MALLM RPECTS HER SO MUCH. SATELLE CHARACTER: ABSOLUTELY NOTHG IS KNOWN ABOUT HER THE SHOW, OUTSI OF HER WORKG FOR MALLM. IN THE MISSG DOSAC FIL, WE LEARN THAT SHE KNOWS HOW TO FE MALLM'S SIGNATURE AND IS A FAN OF U2. SO PROUD OF YOU: HER CHARACTER PHOTO SHOWS THE SE SHE WEARS AFTER MALLM'S ROG SPEECH AT THE END OF SERI 3. UNDYG LOYALTY: SHE STAYS ON AS MALLM'S PA FOR AT LEAST THE EIGHT-YEAR N OF THE SHOW, DURG WHICH EVERY OTHER PROFSNAL RELATNSHIP AND ALLIANCE PORTRAYED WH THE SERI IS STROYED PLETELY AT LEAST ONCE. THIS CLUS HER CROSSG OVER TO OPPOSN WH HIM AFTER HIS PARTY LOS THE ELECTN AND, WELL, JT GENERALLY PUTTG UP WH MALLM FOR ALL THAT TIME...JAMIE MACDONALD, SENR PRS OFFICER, NUMBER 10"FROM NOW ON 'S A PROPER FIGHT—'S A PUB FIGHT, MOTHERWELL L."PLAYED BY: PL HIGGSJAMIE NS THE TTOSTERONE-CHARGED NUMBER 10 PRS OFFICE AND AS MALLM'S UNOFFICIAL SEND--MAND HE ALSO HELPS HIM WH HIS ENFORCER DUTI. HE ME TO NFLICT WH MALLM DURG THE SPECIALS, AND DISAPPEARED THEREAFTER. HOWEVER, HE'S STILL ALIVE, WELL, AND EMPLOYED, AND EXCHANGG BATIVE E-MAILS WH MALLM, AS PER THE MISSG DOSAC FIL. ALL THERE THE MANUAL: HIS FULL NAME IS GIVEN THE MISSG DOSAC FIL, THOUGH IS ALSO GIVEN IN THE LOOP. AX-CRAZY: WHILE MALLM'S TANTMS EQUENTLY THREATEN CREATIVE ACTS OF VLENCE, JAMIE NSTANTLY SEEMS ON THE VERGE OF EXPLODG TO ACTUAL ACTS OF VLENCE. BADASS ADORABLE: WH HIS SHORT STATURE, CURLY HAIR, BOYISH SE AND GIGANTIC BLUE EY HE DON'T LOOK LIKE THE SORT OF MAN WHO THREATENS TO PH IPODS UP HIS ENEMI' PENIS: BASTARD UNRSTUDY: TO MALLM. AS THE SPECIALS MAKE CLEAR, HOWEVER, MALLM HAS CHOSEN WELL; WHILE JAMIE IS SMART AND PETENT, HE LACKS MALLM'S VOKEDMAGNIFICENT BASTARDRY AND FSE, AND IS BASILLY A SHOUTY, VLENT BULLY WHO ULTIMATELY POS NO REAL THREAT. BERSERK BUTTON: AL JOLSON FANATIC. DISSG AL JOLSON MAK HIM EVEN ANGRIER. IN THE LOOP CLEARLY MONSTRAT THAT HE HAS A CHIP ON HIS SHOULR ABOUT CLASS, AND REACTS POORLY EVEN TO PERCEIVED UPPER CLASS PRETENSNS NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY'RE JT HIS HEAD. FOR EXAMPLE, HIS SNEERG ABOUT "FUCK' OXBRIDGE PLEASANTRI" WHEN MEETG TOBY (TOBY HAD SAID NOTHG BUT "HELLO") AND HIS YELLG ABOUT MICHAEL RODGER'S FONDNS FOR LISTENG TO OPERA HIS OFFICE. CHUCK CUNNGHAM SYNDROME: HE ISN'T SEEN OR MENTNED AGA AFTER THE SPECIALS. THE B CAME BACK: SORT OF. HE IS, HOWEVER, FEATURED THE POST-SERI-3 TIE- MATERIAL. CLTER F-BOMB: JT LIKE HIS BOSS. CUT HIS HEART OUT WH A SPOON: HIS THREATS N BE RATHER UNORTHDOX. THE DRAGON: WHILE HIS BOSS WAS MORE OF AN ANTI-HERO THAN A FULL ON VILLA, HE FUNCTNS AS A RATHER PETENT DRAGON FOR MALLM. THAT SAID, HE DID HAVE SOME AMBNS OF HIS OWN, WHICH MAY ACUNT FOR HIS ABSENCE THE THIRD SERI. DEADPAN SNARKER: HE'S NOT AS WTY AS MALLM BUT HE HAS HIS MOMENTS WHEN SULTG PEOPLE:JAMIE: "WHAT DID YOU FD OUT? THAT YOU'VE BEEN LEAKG TELLIGENCE TO THEM!?" EVIL HAS A BAD SENSE OF HUMOUR: WELL, "JERKASS MOTHERWELL BULLY WH ANGER MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS", AT LEAST. IT'S SUBTLY DONE, BUT JAMIE'S ATTEMPTS AT W TEND TO BE LS CLEVER THAN MALLM'S, TAKE HIM LONGER TO E OUT WH, AND PEOPLE GENERALLY TEND TO REACT WH NFN OR D ANNOYANCE AT THE RULT WHERE THEY DON'T WH MALLM, PROMPTG HIM TO HAVE TO W THEM WH A VLENT TEMPER TANTM STEAD. ALL OF WHICH WORKS TO RERCE THE FACT THAT HE'S NOT QUE AS GOOD AT WHAT HE DO AS MALLM IS. EXPY: WHILE THE ABSOLUTE POLAR OPPOSE TERMS OF PERSONALY AND MANNER, JAMIE WAS LOOSELY SPIRED BY NIL OM FRASIER ACRDG TO ARMANDO IANNUCCI. LIKE NIL, JAMIE WAS CREATED WH THE TENTN OF BEG SIAR TO THE MA CHARACTER, THIS SE MALLM, "BUT MORE SO". JT AS NIL IS EVEN MORE FOPPISH, FSY AND PRETENT THAN HIS BROTHER FRASIER, JAMIE IS EVEN MORE BAD-TEMPERED, SWEARY AND STTISH THAN TUCKER. ON THE SAME TOKEN, JAMIE CRICIALLY LACKS MALLM'S W AND MANIPULATIVE BASTARD STCTS, MAKG HIM ENOUGH OF A FOIL TO TUCKER, JT AS NIL LACKS FRASIER'S SOCIAL NFINCE AND LUCK WH WOMEN. FX AFFABLY EVIL: ON THE RARE OCSNS HE TRI CHARM RATHER THAN SCREAMG, HE'S ABOUT AS NVCG AS STEVE FLEMG, SCE HE'S UNABLE TO EFFECTIVELY NCEAL HIS SEETHG, ABIVE NATURE.JAMIE: I'M BEG POLE, AREN'T I?. HAIR-TRIGGER TEMPER: UNLIKE MALLM, WHO'S OUTBURSTS OF RAGE ARE GENERALLY MORE FOCSED AND PROMPTED MORE BY THE IDCY AND PETENCE OF THOSE HE'S SURROUND BY, JAMIE JT SEEMS TO HAVE A VLENT, OUT-OF-NTROL TEMPER READY TO EXPLO AT THE SLIGHTT HT OF EVEN A HYPOTHETIL PROVOTN. INFORMED ATTRIBUTE: HIS LACK OF HEIGHT. WH ALL THE DIGS AT JAMIE'S ALLEGED LACK OF HEIGHT, 'S EASY TO FET THAT PL HIGGS IS 5'10" - AVERAGE HEIGHT, TH NOT EXACTLY SHORT. HOWEVER, PARED TO PETER CAPALDI, CHRIS ADDISON, WILL SMH, BEN SWA AND SEVERAL OF THE OTHER ACTORS (ALL OVER SIX FEET) HE DO LOOK RATHER DIMUTIVE. JERKASS: HE'S VLENT, AGGRSIVE AND IMPOSSIBLE TO GET ON WH, UNLS YOU'RE A CLEANER. JERKASS HAS A POT: JAMIE IS SPOT ON WHEN HE SAYS THAT CLIFF LAWTON'S LEARSHIP SPEECH IS UTTER WOE-IS-ME VOKEDWANGST! JERK JOCK: A CR, MORE PYSCHOTIC BULLY THAN MALLM. LASER-GUID KARMA: IN "SPNERS AND LOSERS", HE SCREAMS AT AND BULLI ROBYN WHEN SHE HELPFULLY CHIPS WH AN UNPROMPTED SUGGTN FOR CLIFF LAWTON'S LEARSHIP BID. ROBYN THEN SCUTTL JAMIE'S PLANS BY TELLG TERRI THAT JAMIE IS MEETG LAWTON, AS TERRI THEN GO ON TO SPILL TO MALLM. MT HAVE NITE: A HEAVY SMOKER. MY MASTER, RIGHT OR WRONG: HE EXPLICLY DISCLAIMS PENNT THOUGHT RISE OF THE NUTTERS.JAMIE: YOU ARE GOG NUTTER MATE!MALLM: AND YOU'VE NEVER THOUGHT FUCKG ABOUT THAT, HAVE YOU?JAMIE: NO, I NEVER HAVE, BEE THAT'S HOW THEY GET YOU, FUCK THAT THKG, OH, LOGIC, REASON, TALKG! THE NAPOLEON: WHAT HE LACKS HEIGHT, HE MAK UP FOR AGGRSIVENS. NICE TO THE WAER: HE'LL SCREAM AND SWEAR HIS HEAD OFF TO PEOPLE POWER, CLUDG CIVIL SERVANTS, WH NO PUNCTN, BUT WHEN HE UNTENTNALLY KNOCKS TO A CLEANER, HE'S ALL APOLOGI. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: DAMIAN MCBRI AND CHARLIE WHELAN, TWO EX-TRA UNNISTS WHO WERE PART OF NUMBER 10'S SP MACHE DURG THE BLAIR ERA. NO INDOOR VOICE ONLY FRIEND: DPE HIS ALIENATG PERSONALY, HE SEEMS TO BE THE CLOST THG MALLM HAS TO AN ACTUAL IEND, AS THEY ARE SEEN TALKG AMIBLY SOME SCEN AND IS THE ONLY ONE WHO N GET AWAY WH SULTG OR STANDG UP TO MALLM. ONLY ONE NAME: UNTIL THE MOVIE AND THE BOOK AT LEAST. PET THE DOG: HE GO TO POLE MO WHEN HE BUMPS TO A CLEANER, STRAIGHT AFTER CHEWG OUT ROBYN. A LETED SCENE OM "SPNERS AND LOSERS" HAS HIM JOG MALLM FORTG THE CLEANG LADY THAT BEN SWA NEEDLSLY BERATED. JAMIE EVEN OFFERS TO KILL HIM. PSYCHO FOR HIRE: HE'S BASILLY A BULL DOG FOR MALLM. LAMPSHAD BY OLLIE AT THE START OF SPNERS AND LOSERS. REAL MEN WEAR PK: DPE HIS DISLIKE FOR OPERA, THE MISSG DOSAC FIL SHOW THAT HE ED TO BE A FEATURE WRER A NEWSPAPER'S CULTURE SECTN. WHEN HE CLAIMS THAT THIS WAS ONLY DUE TO WANTG TO BED PENNY, HIS EDOR, MALLM RPONDS WH REPORTS OM HIS WORKERS ABOUT HIS BEHAVUR WHILST THERE (PLETE WH PONYTAIL). JAMIE HAS NO ANSWER. SARSM FAILURE: BEN SWA'S DISASTRO JEREMY PAXMAN TERVIEW MAK JAMIE SO ANGRY THAT HE N'T EVEN MANAGE HIS UAL STREAM OF PROFANI THE R RI AWAY. AFTER WHAT'S IMPLIED TO BE A LONG SILENCE, THE MOST HE N MANAGE IS "YOU DON'T SERVE TO LIVE!" THE STARSCREAM: DEFIED: MALLM SPECIFILLY CHOSE A BASTARD UNRSTUDY TOO BATSH TO PULL OFF A SUCCSFUL BETRAYAL. EVENTUALLY HE DO MAKE A RATHER PATHETIC ATTEMPT, WHICH FAILS HORRIBLY. SMUG SNAKE: UNLIKE MALLM, HE DON'T HAVE THE CHARM OR MANIPULATN SKILLS TO BE A VOKEDMAGNIFICENT BASTARD. TRANQUIL FURY: TRANQUIL BY JAMIE'S STANDARD ANYWAY HE'S SOMEWHAT MORE LM AND METHODIL WHEN HE'S IALLY STROYG THE FAX MACHE ONLY TO GET PROGRSIVELY ENRAGED AND THEN BACK TO FULL-ON VILLAOBREAKDOWN MO ULTIMATE JOB SECURY: HOW SOMEONE THIS CLOSE TO BEG FERAL WAS EVEN ALLOWED TO NUMBER 10 IS NEVER EXPLAED. VLENT GLASWEGIAN: WELL, A VLENT GUY OM MOTHERWELL, BUT CLOSE ENOUGH. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE MOE?: AFTER PLAYG A FAIRLY PROMENT ROLE THE TWO SPECIALS, HE VANISH WHOUT EXPLANATN FOR SEASONS 3 AND 4. GIVEN THE HE WAS LAST SEEN SIDG AGAST MALLM THE LEARSHIP NTT, THOUGH, SEEMS SAFE TO ASSUME THAT HE PROBABLY DON'T HAVE A JOB ANY MORE. WORKG-CLASS HERO: AND HAS A CHIP ON HIS SHOULR ABOUT CLASS.    THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AFFAIRS (AND CIZENSHIP) OLLIE REER: "CIZENSHIP VOLV, BASILLY, CUTTG PENSNS TO THE GURKHAS, RE-JIGGG THE PROTOLS FOR A RABI OUTBREAK, SOME CRAP OM HEALTH ABOUT LONG-TERM RE FOR THE ELRLY, THAT NEHER THEY NOR WE HAVE ANY REAL IA ABOUT."GLENN CULLEN: "AND EVERYTHG TO DO WH THE ISLE OF MAN."AS A NEWLY-CREATED "SUPER PARTMENT" WH A WI RANGE OF DUTI, DOSAC'S REM IS NFG BUT AMONG OTHER THGS VERS HOG, IMMIGRATN AND BENEFS. IT IS THE LEAST GLAMORO OF THE CABET PARTMENTS AND THE ONE WHICH NO MPS WANT TO N. A FICTNAL PARTMENT, IS PARABLE TO THE REAL LIFE DEPARTMENT FOR COMMUNI AND LOL GOVERNMENT. THE PARTMENT SELF VOK THE THE MA CHARACTERS DO EVERYTHG TROPE, AS GLENN AND OLLIE HAVE ALREADY EXPLAED ABOVE.THIS PARTMENT WAS N BY THE FOLLOWG CHARACTERS SERI 1-3:CLIFF LAWTON MP"IT'S THE BOLLOCKS OF THE JUNGLE OUT THERE. THEY'RE LIKE WOLV- PISSED WOLV."PLAYED BY: TIM BENTCKTHE MISTER FOR SOCIAL AFFAIRS WHEN THE SERI STARTED, MALLM FORCED HIM TO RIGN THE VERY FIRST EPISO. BORG INSULT: SUBJECTED TO THIS OM BOTH MALLM AND JAMIE. BUTT-MONKEY: HIS TABLISHG MOMENT IS HIS DISMISSAL OM THE PARTMENT. DEY PROTAGONIST: IS MISTER FOR THE PARTMENT THAT THIS SERI FOLLOWS... FOR ALL OF FIVE MUT. HE'S BACK!: SUBVERTED; JT WHEN LOOKS LIKE JAMIE IS ABOUT TO BOOST HIM TO THE POSN OF RIVAL NDIDATE, MALLM TTONS ON AND ABORTS THE PLAN. MEANWHILE, CLIFF GO AS FAR AS SAYG "I'M BACK!" BEFORE JAMIE WEARILY TELLS HIM TO FUCK OFF. IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: THE SPEECH HE DRAFTS FOR HIS ABORTED LEARSHIP MPAIGN LNCH FOC ENTIRELY ON HOW MALLM, AND BY EXTENSN THE PARTY, SCREWED HIM OVER. JAMIE AND ROBYN BOTH ADVISE AGAST THIS. NEVER MY FLT: ACTS LIKE LABOUR SCREWED HIM OVER, NEVER MD THAT IF HE WAS A MORE EFFECTIVE POLICIAN HE WOULDN'T HAVE HAD TO RIGN THE FIRST PLACE. ROARG RAMPAGE OF REVENGE: AGAST MALLM, AND UTTERLY EFFECTUAL. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: IT'S A SMALL MOMENT, BUT THE MIDDLE OF MALLM SACKG HIM, HE TRI TO SIST MALLM LL HIM "MISTER". MALLM TELLS HIM TO "GET ED TO CLIFF." UNFORTUNATE NAM: "ELVIS... SORRY, CLIFF!" POOR CLIFF LAWTON'S PARENTS PROBABLY DIDN'T ENVISAGE THEIR SON GOG TO POLICS. WANGST: INVOKED; AFTER HEARG HIM BASE HIS ENTIRE STALKG-HORSE SPEECH ON HIS SACKG BY MALLM, JAMIE ACC CLIFF OF THIS AND MAK AS CLEAR AS POSSIBLE THAT THERE'S NO POT DOG SO WHEN EVERY SGLE POLICIAN THE CURRENT ERNMENT HAS HAD TO DO THE SAME THG AND WORSE AT SOME POT.HUGH ABBOTT MP (SERI 1-2)"I TEGORILLY DID NOT KNOWGLY NOT TELL THE TTH. EVEN THOUGH UNKNOWGLY I MIGHT NOT HAVE DONE."PLAYED BY: CHRIS LANGHAMCLIFF LAWTON'S REPLACEMENT. DURG HIS TIME THERE THE PARTMENT WAS RE-BRAND "THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND CIZENSHIP", OR DOSAC. HE LACKS "CLICK" WH HIS NSTUENTS, OTHER POLICIANS AND (MOST UPSETTG TO HUGH) THE PM'S WIFE. BAD BOSS: IN THE FIRST EPISO, HE SACKS HIS CHFFR FOR "APPROPRIATELY SG AND SMIRKG". IN HIS LAST, HE ACCINTALLY SENDS AN OFFENSIVE EMAIL TO THE WRONG PERSON AND MAK TERRI TAKE THE RAP FOR . BAD LIAR: JT LOOK AT HIS CHARACTER QUOTE. BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG: USUALLY PUTS ON A FAçA OF GOOD MANNERS AND OCSNALLY TRI TO APPEAR FAR NICER THAN HE ACTUALLY IS. AS SOON AS THGS BEG TO GO WRONG THOUGH, HE DROPS THE ACT ENTIRELY AND WILL HAPPILY BETRAY ANYONE ORR TO MAKE HIMSELF LOOK GOOD. CHUCK CUNNGHAM SYNDROME: HE'S NEVER MENTNED AGA AFTER BEG RHUFFLED AFTER THE SPECIALS. DEY PROTAGONIST: ARGUABLY THE MA CHARACTER OF THE FIRST TWO SEASONS BEFORE THE FOC SHIFTED TOWARDS MALLM. DIRTY COWARD: HUGH IS SLIMY, SHAMELS AND AS PATHETILY WARDLY AS THEY E. HE HIS A STORAGE ROOM TO AVOID MALLM'S WRATH. HE'S QUE VOL ABOUT HIS RENTMENT OVER DAN MILLER'S POPULARY WH THE PM, LLG HIM A "FUCKG BSHED ALUMIUM CYBERPRICK", BUT NEVER TO DAN'S FACE. GLENN KNOWS HUGH WOULD NEVER DARE TELL THE PM TO NCEL THE NEW SPECIAL SCHOOLS BILL: "NO, I'M NOT, BUT 'D BE GREAT IF I DID, WOULDN'T ?" HE FORC TERRI TO HUIATGLY ACCEPT BLAME AND PUBLICLY APOLOGIZE ON TELEVISN FOR SOMETHG THAT WAS 100% HIS FLT. HE THEN LI ABOUT GLENN NVCG HIM TO KILL THE SPECIAL SCHOOLS PROGRAMME. EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: EVEN HE FDS OLLIE'S MENTS ABOUT SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN DISTASTEFUL GIVEN GLENN'S SON HAS SPECIAL NEEDS.HUGH ABBOTT: YOU JT TOOK A SH WH YOUR CLOTH ON, OLLIE — GLENN'S BOY, PETER, HE WENT TO A SPECIAL NEEDS SCHOOL. IT DON'T STOP HIM OM THROWG GLENN UNR THE B (AND QUE POSSIBLY POISONG HIS RELATNSHIP WH HIS SON THE PROCS) AT THE END OF THE EPISO BY CLAIMG GLENN WAS THE ONE WHO NVCED HIM TO KILL THE PROGRAMME, THOUGH. IT ENDS THEIR IENDSHIP. IT'S ALL ABOUT ME: WHEN RMED OF TERRI'S FATHER PASSG AWAY, HIS IMMEDIATE RPONSE IS TO SAY THAT HE HIMSELF HAS JT SUFFERED A SIAR TRAGEDY: HE LACKS "CLICK" WH THE PRIME MISTER'S WIFE. JA-COLOURED GLASS: YOU N TELL HE'S LOST ALL ENTHIASM WH HIS JOB.I WORK, I EAT, I SHOWER. OCSNALLY, I'LL TAKE A DUMP, JT AS A SORT OF TREAT. HATE SK: HUGH HAS ALMOST NO REEMG OR LIKEABLE QUALI AT ALL. HE'S WARDLY, SELF ABSORBED, SENSIVE AND TREACHERO. KICK THE DOG: AFTER SUCCSFULLY THROWG GLENN UNR THE B DURG THE "YOUR OWN MOTHER'S PISS" FIAS, HE IMMEDIATELY LLS UP OLLIE TO GLOAT ABOUT WATCHG HIS "IEND" SUFFER DUE TO HIS OWN ACTNS. LACK OF EMPATHY: FROM TIME TO TIME, HUGH WILL MONSTRATE THAT HE IS ALMOST PLETELY OBLIV WHEN TO THE EMOTNS OF OTHER HUMAN BEGS. ALONG WH RPONDG TO THE "FLATGATE" AND "YOUR OWN MOTHER'S PISS" FIASS WH A BORRLE-HILAR IT'S ALL ABOUT ME ATTU, HE GO OUT OF HIS WAY TO BACK OUT OF NVERSATNS WH ANYONE WHO ISN'T A JOURNALIST DURG THE EPISO 6 PRS PARTY, AND EVEN ORRS TERRI TO RETURN TO WORK SPE KNOWG THAT SHE'S ON LEAVE AND MOURNG. TO BE PRECISE, HE DO SO JT A FEW SENDS AFTER LEARNG THAT TERRI'S FATHER HAS JT DIED, WH TERRI STILL DIBLY SOBBG THE BACKGROUND. AND THEN HE GO ON TO CLAIM THAT HE'S JT SUFFERED A SIAR TRAGEDY—BEG TOLD THAT HE LACKS "CLICK" WH THE PM'S WIFE. THE LAST DJ: HE TRI TO PRENT HIMSELF AS THE ONLY MISTER WH ANY KD OF HUMANY LEFT POLICS, PECIALLY PARISON WH "THAT FUCKG BSHED ALUMIUM DAN MILLER CYBERPRICK." THE REALY IS FELY LS IMPRSIVE. MARRIED TO THE JOB: WHILE HE IS MARRIED AND HAS TWO CHILDREN, BY HIS OWN ADMISSN HE BARELY HAS TIME TO SEE THEM. NEVER MY FLT: AFTER G TERRI'S EMAIL TO SEND A VULGAR EMAIL TO GLENN THAT ACCINTALLY ENDS UP BEG SENT TO A CHILD WH SPECIAL NEEDS ALSO LLED GLENN, HE SPENDS THE EPISO SHIFTG ALL THE BLAME ON TO TERRI AND ALSO SAYS HE WILL STAND BY HER REGARDLS OF WHAT "SHE" DID. TERRI RIGHTLY LLS HIM OUT IMMEDIATELY. NICE TO THE WAER: AVERTED. WHEN HE'S HELD UP BY SOME SECURY GUARDS HIS FAL EPISO, HE SNILY TELLS THEM THAT HE'S THE WHOLE REASON THEY'RE WORKG THERE. PUT ON A B: HUGH GO ON A TOUR OF ATRALIA DURG THE SPECIALS... B CRASH: .. NEVER BACK AFTER LOSG HIS CABET POSN THE RHUFFLE SERI 3. THE STOIC: LACKS EMOTNS OTHER THAN FEAR OR RENTMENT. SYMPATHETIC P.O.V.: DOWNPLAYED GIVEN HIS JERKASS BEHAVUR, BUT YOU N FEEL A TAD B OF SYMPATHY FOR HOW OVER-WORKED HE IS AND HOW HE RARELY GETS TO SEE HIS WIFE OR KIDS. UNGRATEFUL BASTARD: HE'S NOT GRATEFUL TO GLENN'S EFFORTS AT KEEPG HIM THE LOOP, AT ALL. WH FRIENDS LIKE THE...: HIS RELATNSHIP WH GLENN. JT BEE HE'S IENDS WH HIM DON'T MEAN HE WON'T CHEERFULLY BETRAY HIM A BID TO MAKE HIMSELF LOOK GOOD. BY HIS FAL APPEARANCE, HIS ACTNS HAVE STROYED THE IENDSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO.NILA MURRAY, MP (SERI 3); LEAR OF THE OPPOSN (SERI 4)"I HAVE ABOUT AS MUCH REAL POWER AS THOSE TWATS WHO S EHER SI OF ALAN SUGAR."PLAYED BY: REBEC FRONTHUGH ABBOTT'S REPLACEMENT FOLLOWG A RHUFFLE AT THE START OF SERI 3. AMB BUT WH NO REAL IAS, HER BELIEF THAT SHE N MAKE A DIFFERENCE PROV TO BE A LN. BY SERI 4, SHE HAS BEE LEAR OF THE OPPOSN. 0% APPROVAL RATG: AS POWERLS AS SHE WAS DURG HER TIME AS HEAD OF DOSAC, NILA AT LEAST HAD THE SUPPORT OF HER STAFF. AFTER BEG LEAR OF THE OPPOSN, NILA END UP EARNG THE DISRPECT AND MOCKERY OF ALMOST EVERYONE SHE ENUNTERED ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS: MEMBERS OF PUBLIC OPENLY RI HER ATTEMPTS AT SECURG POWER; JOURNALISTS HOUND HER AT EVERY TURN, ACPANIED BY THE DREAD "CHOP"; HER ASSISTANTS OPENLY SULT HER; THE RT OF THE SHADOW BET LGH AT HER IAS... EVEN STEVE FLEMG WENT OUT OF HIS WAY TO PUBLICLY STATE THAT SHE WAS UN-ELECTABLE. AWFUL WEDD LIFE: IS NSTANTLY ON THE VERGE OF DIVORCE WH JAM, HER UNSEEN HBAND. MALLM REFERS TO HER AS THE "GLUMMY MUMMY." BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG: ESPECIALLY SEASON 4, WHEN SHE MAK SARSTIC MENTS ABOUT UNIFORMED PENSNERS, TO WHICH MALLM LLS HER OUT FOR DISRPECTG SAID VETERANS SAYG THIS, "I'M GLAD YOU'RE THKG ABOUT THOSE PENSNERS S THOSE ARE THE POOR FUCKERS WHO GAVE EVERYTHG SO PEOPLE LIKE YOU ULD PLAY AT NNG THE UNTRY." BUTT-MONKEY: SHE WAS NEVER THE MOST PETENT MISTER, BUT SERI FOUR, WHEN SHE'S BEE LEAR OF THE OPPOSN, EACH EPISO SEEMS TO JT BE ONE LONG HUIATN CONGA FOR HER. CANNOT TELL A JOKE: SHE OFTEN GETS A BLANK STARE, OR EVEN MULTIPLE BLANK STAR, WHEN ATTEMPTG HUMOUR. HER POORLY TIMED, "THANK OUR FUCKY STARS FOR THAT", JOKE THE RAD EPISO, PECIALLY TAK THE KE. THE CHEW TOY: SHE GETS REGULARLY HUIATED BY THE PRS AND HARASSED BY THE "CHOP MAN", SERI 4. CLSTROPHOBIA: NEVER TAK LIFTS. CONTRASTG SEQUEL MA CHARACTER: TO HUGH ABBOTT. WHEREAS HUGH WAS A JAD, CYNIL, BURNT-OUT MIDDLE-AGED MAN, NILA IS AN OPTIMISTIC, NAIVE WOMAN WHO DON'T REALLY UNRSTAND HOW THE GAME IS PLAYED. CORPT THE CUTIE: BEG AROUND MALLM TURNS HER OM A NAIVE MP TO A FOUL-MOUTHED SAVVY POLICIAN ABLE TO THROW A PRS NFERENCE TO SAVE MALLM'S ARSE; DON'T STOP THE NSTANT FLOW OF SCREW-UPS HOWEVER. DEADPAN SNARKER: SHE'S CERTALY NOT AVERSE TO SNARKG BACK AT MALLM. "WE ARE A DYG ERMENT, OUR HAIR'S FALLG OUT, WE'RE UGHG UP BLOOD AND THE KIDS ARE ASKG TO CHANGE THE WILL.". THE DHERER: PROBABLY HER FATAL FLAW. MUCH AS SHE MIGHT PROTT OTHERWISE, AT THE END OF THE DAY SHE DON'T REALLY STAND FOR ANYTHG, HAVE ANY PARTICULAR IAS OR BELIEVE ANY PRCIPL, AND IS MORE TERTED BEG LIKED/POWERFUL THAN ANYTHG ELSE. CONSEQUENTLY, SHE ULTIMATELY DON'T REALLY WANT TO ROCK THE BOAT AND DO ANYTHG WHICH PEOPLE MIGHT VIEW UNFAVOURABLY. HER "BIG IAS" ARE ALL WISHY-WASHY NON-ENTI LIKE THE "FOURTH SECTOR" WHICH ARE POSED OF NOTHG BUT BLANDLY MEANGLS RPORATE-SPEAK BUZZWORDS, AND IS WILLG TO SPEND HOURS ENGAGED ELS BLATHER OVER THE PERFECT MEDIA-IENDLY NAME FOR PEOPLE WHO GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO HELP SOMEONE ELSE. WHICH IS WELL ENOUGH, IF NOT IAL, FOR THE MISTER OF A THIRD-RATE MOR PARTMENT THAT NO ONE REALLY PAYS ATTENTN TO, BUT PROV CREASGLY DISASTRO A LEAR OF THE OPPOSN. EXPOSORY HAIRSTYLE CHANGE: SHE HAS LONG HAIR SEASON THREE AND SEASON FOUR, HER HAIR'S BEEN SHORTENED TO A BOB. FAILURE HERO: HER MOR VICTORI SUCH AS STOPPG HER DGHTER OM GETTG EXCLUD OR KNOWGLY BOMBG THE FOURTH SECTOR PRS NFERENCE ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN. MARRIED TO THE JOB: HER UNSEEN HBAND SEEMS TO GET ANNOYED ABOUT HER ABSENCE OM THE HOME. HER CHILDREN—PECIALLY HER DGHTER ELLA—ARE EQUENTLY PAWNS THE POWER STGGLE BETWEEN HER AND MALLM, BUT WE NEVER ACTUALLY MEET ANY OF THEM. MY GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE?: THIS IS CLEARLY GOG THROUGH HER HEAD WHEN THE HEADMASTER AT ELLA'S SCHOOL HAS TO BE SACKED FOR BENDG THE L, TO THE POT WHERE NILA NSIRS RIGG UNTIL MALLM VEHEMENTLY ADVIS AGAST . NERVO WRECK: NILA GENERAL TENDS TO NDUCT HERSELF WH A KD OF TWCHY ANX ENERGY, EQUENTLY PUNCTUATED BY SLIGHTLY TOO AWKWARD, SHRILL AND OUT-OF-PLACE LGHTER, AND ALWAYS OVERREACTS TO EVERYTHG THAT HAPPENS TO HER THE WORSE POSSIBLY WAY. THIS EVENTUALLY GETS TO THE POT WHERE, ACRDG TO MALLM, OTHER WOMEN SCRIBE HER AS "A JTERY MOTHER AT A WEDDG". NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: SEASON 4, WHERE SHE'S SENTIALLY A GENR-FLIPPED ED MILIBAND, WHO ALSO BEAT A MUCH MORE-FANCIED NDIDATE DUE TO A QUIRK OF THE VOTG SYSTEM TO BEE LEAR OF THE OPPOSN. OBFTG STUPIDY: NILA ISN'T THE BRIGHTT, BUT SHE DO DISPLAY ENOUGH POLIL ACUY TO KNOWGLY BOMB A PRS NFERENCE TO TAKE THE HEAT OFF MALLM. ALTERNATIVELY, SHE'S DISPLAYG A TOUCH OF BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG, KNOWG THAT HER PROSPECTS OF A LEARSHIP BID ARE NIL AFTER A DISASTRO DAY AND A PARTICULARLY AWFUL PRS NFERENCE, AND SHE'S TAKG A SWIPE AT MALLM'S ERROR NTRIBUTG TO THE DAY'S EVENTS. OR BOTH! OFFSCREEN MOMENT OF AWOME: FOR ALL HER FLAWS, SHE WAS (ALBE ON A TECHNILY) ABLE TO FEAT DAN MILLER HER BID FOR OPPOSN LEAR. PARENTAL NEGLECT: BELIEV HER EQUENT WORK-RELATED ABSENC, AS WELL AS HER HBAND BEG "NEVER REALLY THERE," ARE THE REASON FOR HER PRETEEN DGHTER ACTG OUT AT SCHOOL. POTY-HAIRED BOSS: HER PETENCE PLUMMETS AS LEAR OF THE OPPOSN AND SHE GIV NO RATNAL THOUGHT TO ANY CISN, PECIALLY WH OVERTHKG THE 'BAT PEOPLE' TLE OR EASILY NCEEDG TO BEN SWA'S MANDS. POWER HAIR: HER HAIR IS NSIRABLY SHORTER AS LEAR OF THE OPPOSN. THE PETER PRCIPLE: BOTH OF HER PROMOTNS THE SERI UNT AS THIS: SHE'S PROMOTED TO MISTER OF DOSAC OM BEG A BACKBENCH MP SO OBSCURE THAT MALLM DON'T EVEN HAVE BACKGROUND REARCH ON HER, AND QUICKLY PROV THAT SHE'S A B OUT OF HER PTH OM HER PREV ROLE. HOWEVER, WHILE SHE AT LEAST MEETS A BASELE OF PETENCY AND PABILY (IF NOT AN PECIALLY HIGH ONE) AT DOSAC, WHEN SHE'S SOMEHOW ELECTED LEAR OF THE OPPOSN SHE'S AN UTTERLY PETENT FAILURE WHO GETS NO RPECT OM ANYONE. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: DPE BEG 'REGULARLY' HUIATED BY THE PRS AND ONLY BEG OPPOSN LEAR ON A TECHNILY, NILA HONTLY THOUGHT SHE HAD A SHOT AT BEG PRIME MISTER. ADMTEDLY, NILA WAS SHOWG SIGNS OF THIS HER FIRST SEASON: AT ONE POT, SHE GLOATED AT HOW WELL SHE WAS DOG ON BBC RAD- EVEN THOUGH HER ONLY VICTORY HAD BEEN DUE TO SOMEONE LLG WH A REPORT ON THE OPPOSN ACCEPTG FUNDS OM A SWEATSHOP. WHEN TRYG TO PERSUA DAN MILLER TO DROP THE LEAK QUIRY AFTER HE REPLAC HER AS LEAR OF THE OPPOSN, NILA — WHOUT A SHRED OF SELF-AWARENS — TRI TO AME HERSELF AS A PARTY ELR AND BRAZENLY TRI TO E "PEOPLE LIKE ME" AS A THREAT TO GET HIM TO AGREE. THIS IS AFTER THE SERI HAS MA A POT OF REPEATEDLY HAMMERG HOME EXACTLY HOW PETENT AND UNPOPULAR SHE WAS. SPICLY SIAR SUBSTUTE: HER ONLY POTS OF DIFFERENCE WH HUGH ABBOTT ARE THAT SHE'S A WOMAN, AND THAT SHE'S NOT BT IENDS WH HER MA MISTERIAL ADVISOR. THIS IS ENTIRELY JTIFIED, AS THE PREMISE OF THE SHOW IS THAT ALL POLICIANS ARE THE SAME. TOOK A LEVEL DUMBASS: SHE WAS TRODUCED AS UPBEAT, YET SLIGHTLY DIM. IN SEASON FOUR, SHE'S SO PETENT THAT SHE LERALLY NNOT WALK A STRAIGHT LE WHOUT SCREWG UP. TOOK A LEVEL JERKASS: SHE GETS LOT MORE SNIPPY WH EVERYONE SEASON 4, PECIALLY TO HER ADVISERS. WHERE IT ALL BEGAN: HER FIRST MAJOR ORR OF BS AS SECRETARY OF STATE IS TO TRAVEL TO LEAMGTON SPA. SHE MENTNS A LETED SCENE THAT SHE GREW UP THERE. WI-EYED IALIST: ACRDG TO REBEC FRONT, THE CHARACTER WAS LARGELY SPIRED BY A DISCSN WH A POLIL NSULTANT WHO TOLD HER THAT THE WORST NIGHTMARE FOR SOMEONE LIKE MALLM WOULD BE A POLICIAN WHO BELIEVED THGS. WDBAG POLICIAN: HER SPEECH ARE LEGENDARILY TERRIBLE.BEN SWA MP, JUNR MISTER FOR IMMIGRATN, DOSAC (SPECIALS, SERI 3); SHADOW CABET MISTER (SERI 4)"LOOK AT THIS! TAKEAWAY AND A FIGHT. ALL I NEED NOW IS A HANDJOB A B SHELTER AND I'LL HAVE HAD THE GREAT BRISH NIGHT OUT."PLAYED BY: JT EDWARDSA JUNR MISTER TO HUGH ABBOTT, SERI THREE HE TRANSFERRED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUTN AFTER NILA MURRAY SACKED HIM OM DOSAC OFF-SCREEN. HE IS PETTY AND IMMATURE, SLOW ON THE UPTAKE, AND HAS A MEGA NERVO BLK. BY THE BEGNG OF SERI 4, HE IS A SHADOW SECRETARY OF STATE FOR AN UNKNOWN PARTMENT. BIG EATER: OTHER CHARACTERS NEVER FAIL TO POKE FUN OF HIS FONDNS FOR FOOD AND HIS EQUENT TRIPS TO THE VENDG MACH. BUTT-MONKEY: HIS FIRST APPEARANCE HAS HIM UNEXPECTEDLY ENDG UP AN TERVIEW WH JEREMY PAXMAN, WHICH WAS ACCURATELY SCRIBED AS "LIKE WATCHG A LN RAPG A SHEEP, BUT A BAD WAY." LATER ON, MALLM FORC HIM TO ANOTHER ONE WH THE SAME MAN AND LEAV HIM WH NOTHG TO TALK ABOUT. THEN HE SPENDS A HAPPY HALF-HOUR BEG TOLD HE MIGHT BE THE NEXT PRIME MISTER, ONLY TO BE LEFT "STANDG THE HOE, ALONE, WH YOUR BIG, FLACCID DICK HANGG OUT WH A VOTE-FOR-ME STICKER ON THE END." AND THEN THERE'S THE EVENTS OF SEASON 4, EPISO 4, THOUGH TO BE FAIR THAT WAS HIS OWN FLT. CHARACTER TICS: NERVO BLKG. FAT IDT: HE'S RATHER OVERWEIGHT AND SO AMAZGLY DUMB THAT ONE OF THE FIRST THGS NILA MURRAY DO IS SACK HIM. (HE GETS SENT OVER TO THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUTN...) HIS STUPIDY DURG A CRISIS ANGERS MALLM SO MUCH THAT HE MAK HIM STAND A RNER AND GIV HIM AN UNPLUGGED KEYBOARD TO PLAY WH. JERKASS: HE'S A JERK, PECIALLY WHEN HE'S JEALO OF OTHERS. HE'S PECIALLY DICKISH TO NILA AND GLENN SEASON 3 TO THE POT WHERE MALLM HAS TO GET HIM TO STAND THE RNER! THE LOAD: HE DON'T EVEN MENTN THE ALFACE IA DURG HIS R CRASH TERVIEW WH JEREMY PAXMAN, THOUGH OLLIE DIDN'T HELP EHER BY MENTNG TO EMMA. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: ED "BLKY" BALLS. THE RIVAL: HE REALLY N'T STAND NILA. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: HE'S WRTEN A BOOK ABOUT "GETTG AHEAD POLICS" TLED IT'S THE EVERYTHG, STUPID. ONE WONRS WHAT ON EARTH HE WOULD KNOW ON THE SUBJECT. IN "SPNERS AND LOSERS", HIS EGO SWELLS EXPONENTIALLY WHEN LOOKS LIKE HE'S WH A (VERY VERY SLIM) CHANCE OF BEG THE NEXT PRIME MISTER. USED AGAST HIM MALLM'S SCHEME TO OT NILA AS OPPOSN LEAR. HE'S PROMISED POSNS THE SHADOW CABET HE'S RIDICULOLY UNQUALIFIED FOR EXCHANGE FOR RIGNATN (FOREIGN SECRETARY, CHANCELLOR), ONLY TO BE IMPLITED THE SAME SNDAL AS NILA AND FORCED ON THE BACKBENCH. SPANNER THE WORKS: IN SEASON 4 WHEN HE RIGNS AND UNRM NILA. SMUG SNAKE: DPE BEG DISLIKED BY EVERYONE, HE HAS A RATHER HIGH OPN OF HIMSELF.GLENN CULLEN, DOSAC SENR POLICY ADVISER"I FEEL LIKE I'M A THERAPY GROUP BEG N BY MY OWN RAPIST."PLAYED BY: JAM SMHDIVORCED AND PRSED, GLENN HAS BEEN WORKG AS AN ADVISER FOR AROUND THIRTY YEARS AND KNOWS NO OTHER WAY OF LIFE. HE IS HUGH'S BT MATE AND NFIDANTE, AND AFTER HUGH'S PARTURE A RHUFFLE, TRI TO MAKE HIMSELF VALUABLE TO NILA. IN SERI THREE HE ATTEMPTS TO N FOR ELECTN AS AN MP HIMSELF, BUT SCE HE'S GLENN, FAILURE IS THE ONLY OPTN. HE JOS A DIFFERENT PARTY DURG THE ELECTN BUT IS DISMAYED WHEN THEY JO A ALN WH JB. HE IS STILL A POLICY ADVISOR AT DOSAC AS OF SERI 4. THE ARTEFACT: IN THE FIRST TWO SEASONS WHEN HUGH WAS AROUND, HE HAD A PURPOSE AND HIS OPN WAS VALUED. WHEN HUGH LEFT, HIS IMPORTANCE GRADUALLY DIMISHED UNTIL HE WAS BASILLY RCED TO MAKG FFEE. BELEAGUERED ASSISTANT: TAKEN TO EXTREM SERI 4, WHERE EVERYONE AT DOSAC ACTIVELY AVOIDS HIM AND HE HAS NEXT TO NO WORK TO DO. BUTT-MONKEY: HE'S REGARD AS AN AGG, IRRELEVANT JOKE SPE ALL HIS ATTEMPTS TO CLAIM HIS 'EXPERIENCE' (READ: AGE) HAS GIVEN HIM NNECTNS, SEX-STARVED TO THE POT WHERE EVEN OLLIE AND HUGH DON'T HATE TO POT OUT "THE LAST TIME YOU SAW SNATCH WAS BASIC INSTCT" AND SPEGOATED NUMERO TIM FOR THE SCREW-UPS OF OTHER PEOPLE THE PARTMENT. BY THE SPECIALS, 'S BEE ENOUGH TO GIVE HIM A PIABLE BUT QUE HILAR MENTAL BREAKDOWN. IT GETS WAY WORSE SERI 4 WHEN THE COALN TAK OVER. CANNOT TELL A JOKE: HE ISN'T THE WTIT BLOKE, AND HE GETS A SMACKDOWN OM ROBYN:DON'T DO JOK, GLENN. YOU'RE NOT A FUNNY MAN, YOU'RE NOT THAT TYPE... CASANOVA WANNABE: HIS PIFUL ATTEMPTS AT FLIRTG WH ROBYN.GLEN CULLEN: "IF ANYONE SHOUTS AT YOU, THEY'LL HAVE TO ANSWER TO ME. I'LL BOX HIS EARS!"HUGH ABBOT: "BOX HIS EARS? IF THAT WAS FLIRTG, THAT WAS ABSOLUTELY CRAP. BOX HIS EARS? HOW LONG IS SCE YOU'VE HAD SEX?" SUBVERTED A THANKFULLY DELETED SCENE SEASON 3, WHERE HE PULLS DURG A PARTY AFTER NILA'S SPEECH BASHG PETER MANNN'S HYPOCRISY. CHARACTERIZATN MARCH ON: HE LOUDLY LLS TERRI A CUNT THE FIRST EPISO. IT SEEMS CREDIBLY JARRG PARED TO HIS FUDDY-DUDDY MEANOUR LATER EPISOS AND SERI. THE EEYORE: HE IS PERPETUALLY PRSED AND SELF-PRETG, DUE TO A BATN OF FAILED PERSONAL AND PROFSNAL LIV. GO-KARTG WH BOWSER: GLENN DON'T SEEM TO LET POLIL FIGHTS AFFECT WHO HE SOCIALIZ WH HIS DOWNTIME AT WORK. HE AND JULI NICHOLSON DE AND LISTEN TO A CRICKET MATCH TOGETHER AS HIS PARTMENT HAVG S DIRTY LNDRY THE MEDIA AIRED THANKS TO JULI' LEAKS. LIKEWISE, HE AND PHIL HANG OUT AND TALK ABOUT THE INTY OF THE STIG AS PHIL WAS DRYG HIS PANTS AT THE SAME TIME THEIR RPECTIVE MISTERS (WHO THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE HELPG) WERE HAVG A ONE-ON-ONE RAD BATE AGAST EACH OTHER. HYPOCRIL HUMOUR: BEG ARGUABLY THE MOST MORAL CHARACTER, THIS TENDS TO HAPPEN WHEN HE DO SOMETHG DISHONOURABLE. MOST OF THE TIME HE DO THE RIGHT THG, BUT SEASON TWO HE PRAIS MALLM FOR AMG TERRI, WHO HAD JT LOST HER FATHER, FOR A CRIME HUGH MTED, AND MAK LIGHT OF HER SUATN. IT IS CLEAR THAT GLENN HAS NO SYMPATHY FOR ANYONE THAT HASN'T EARNED HIS RPECT. IGNORED EXPERT: HE IS GENERALLY POLILLY APT, OFTEN BEG A VOICE OF SENSE WH THE SERI, ALTHOUGH DUE TO HIS AGE IS OFTEN IGNORED AND EMASCULATED BY YOUNGER MEMBERS OF STAFF. THE LAST DJ: BY PARISON, ONLY. GLENN IS AS DISHONT AND UNRHAND AS EVERYONE ELSE ON THE SHOW, BUT HE'S THE ONLY ONE SHOWN TO FEEL BAD ABOUT . HE EVENTUALLY RIGNS, DISGTED WH HIMSELF, AFTER LYG UNR OATH AN ENQUIRY. NICE GUY: MORE SOFT SPOKEN AND NSCIENT THAN MOST OF THE OTHER CHARACTERS, PECIALLY SHOWN DURG MR TICKEL'S ATH. GIVEN THAT EVEN HE IS PRONE TO BEG JT AS DISHONT AND UNRHAND AS EVERYONE ELSE THIS DO MAKE A DOWNPLAYED TROPE. OBSOLETE MENTOR: "I MAY BE NEED. I'VE BEEN NEED THE PAST." POOR GLENN, NO-ONE'S WANTED HIS OPN OR ADVICE ON ANYTHG SCE SERI 2. IT'S NOW SO LONG AGO THAT HUGH BEG EPLY TERTED HIS OPN PRACTILLY UNTS AS EARLY INSTALMENT WEIRDNS. ONLY SANE MAN: HE'S ONE OF THE FEW CHARACTERS THE SERI WH SOMETHG REMBLG A NSCIENCE. TOO BAD NOBODY TAK HIM SERLY. PAPA WOLF: HE LOOKS LIKE HE WANTS TO BEAT SEVEN SHAS OF SH OUT OF HUGH WHEN HUGH LI TO CLAIRE BALLENTYNE ABOUT GLENN BEG THE ONE WHO NVCED HIM TO KILL THE SPECIAL SCHOOLS PROGRAMME. PUNNY NAME: HIS NAME IS A PUN ON GLENCULLEN, WHICH IS THE NAME OF TWO PLAC IRELAND (A VILLAGE COUNTY DUBL AND A TOWNLAND COUNTY MAYO). "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH: WHEN HE FALLY GETS FED UP AND QUS AT THE END OF SEASON 4, HE TAK GREAT PLEASURE TELLG EVERY SGLE PERSON THE OFFICE WHO'S EVER PISSED HIM OFF WHY HE HAT THEM SO MUCH. AT LENGTH. HE ALSO LIVERS A 'VERY' BTER ONE ABOUT OLLIE DURG THE QUIRY ON LEAKG. SPANNER THE WORKS: IN SEASON 4 AND THE SPECIALS. TO THE POT THAT HE WOULD BE A VOKEDMAGNIFICENT BASTARD IF HE ACTUALLY MEANT TO DO ANY OF OR DID WH ANY GREE OF PETENCE. THOSE TWO GUYS: WH OLLIE THE FIRST THREE SERI AND TWO SPECIALS. VRLIC BT BUDS: ALSO WH OLLIE, UNTIL OLLIE BARS HIM OM BEG PART OF LABOUR AND THEN BETRAYS HIM DURG THE LEAKG QUIRY. YOU NEED TO GET LAID: THE EQUENT BUTT OF SEX- AND IMPOTENCY-RELATED JOK.OLIVER FRANCIS "OLLIE" REER, DOSAC POLICY ADVISER (SERI 1-3); SPECIAL ADVISOR TO THE LEAR OF THE OPPOSN (SERI 4)"YEAH, YOU THK 'S MY FGER, BCH."PLAYED BY: CHRIS ADDISONOLLIE SPENT A YEAR A THK TANK BEFORE JOG THE DEPARTMENT. A GRADUATE OF "POXBRIDGE", HE IS BOOK-SMART BUT NOT STREETWISE. RUTHLSLY AMB AND UNSCPULO HIS ATTEMPTS TO FURTHER HIS POLIL REER, HE N BE UNTSTWORTHY AND DISLOYAL, ALTHOUGH HIS AMBNS SEEM TO OL DOWN SERI 3 ONLY TO REV UP SERI 4.HIS PERSONAL LIFE OCSNALLY FURTHERS HIS REER - E.G. WHEN HE DAT JOURNALIST ANGELA HEANEY AND, LATER, EMMA MSGER, A POLICY ADVISER TO DOSAC SHADOW MISTER PETER MANNN MP. AMBIGUOLY BI: IN THE SHOW HE'S ONLY SEEN WH WOMEN (AND IS UNEXPECTEDLY SUCCSFUL ON THAT ONT), BUT HUGH AND GLENN SPECULATE ABOUT HIS CLOSENS WH DAN MILLER. AMBN IS EVIL: HE'S CREDIBLY THLS HIS CLIMB UP THE REER LADR. BASTARD UNRSTUDY: THERE ARE SUBTLE HTS, AT LEAST THROUGHOUT THE FOURTH SERI, THAT HE UNRTAK EFFORTS TO UNRME MALLM AND ACCELERATE HIS FALL OM GRACE. FOR STANCE, HE IS VISIBLY TRIGUED BY THE UNNNY AMOUNT OF KNOWLEDGE TUCKER HAS ABOUT TICKEL'S MEDIL HISTORY, WHICH MAY OR MAY NOT REFLECT ON THE EVENTS OF THE SIXTH EPISO. AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE LAST EPISO HE SURREPTLY LEAKS MALLM'S IMPENDG ARRT TO THE PRS (THIS HE ADMS TO DAN MILLER) AND IS IMPLIED HE DO THE SAME WH MALLM'S CHOICE OF HACKNEY POLICE STATN TO AVOID MEDIA EXPOSURE, SPE OF TUCKER'S PLEAS NOT TO. BUTT-MONKEY: IN "SPNERS AND LOSERS", HE GETS BULLIED LEFT AND RIGHT BY MALLM, SUCKG UP TO THE VAR SMUG SNAK, FORCED TO EMBARRASSG HIMSELF TRYG TO REKDLE A RELATNSHIP HE JT BROKE OFF AND THEN RCED TO THE STAT OF CHEE MONOR WHILE EMMA AND PHIL LGH AT HIM. CANNOT TELL A JOKE: MOSTLY THE FIRST UPLE OF SEASONS. HE OCSNALLY MANAG A B OF GENUELY FUNNY SNARKG, BUT MOSTLY HE JT SPERATELY PROLONGS OTHER PEOPLE'S JOK. CHRONIC BACKSTABBG DISORR: HE IS WILLG TO FURTHER HIS POLIL REER BY THROWG OTHERS UNR THE B. DATG CATWOMAN: HIS RELATNSHIP WH EMMA, THAT HE WOULD HAVE HER JOB WERE HIS PARTY OPPOSN. AND HIS RELATNSHIP WH ANGELA, A JOURNALIST AND, HENCE, THE ENEMY, WHICH MALLM WAST NO TIME PALIZG UPON. DEADPAN SNARKER: HE'S VERY SNARKY TOWARDS GLENN AND N OCSNALLY HOLD HIS OWN AGAST MALLM. DTERAGONIST: AFTER MALLM, HE GETS THE MOST NSISTENT FOC THROUGHOUT THE SERI. DIRTY COWARD: HE NEVER STANDS UP TO MALLM. BT EXEMPLIFIED WHEN HE OUTS GLENN CULLEN AS THE LEAKER DURG THE GOLDG INQUIRY. THE DRAGON: BE MALLM'S RIGHT-HAND MAN SEASON FOUR. EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: EVEN FOR SOMEONE PRONE TO AS MANY DU, NOT FUNNY! MOMENTS AS OLLIE, HE STILL LOOKS UTTERLY SHOCKED AND APPALLED DURG STEVE FLEMG'S FAMO NEW ERA SPEECH WHERE HE PAR THE PARTMENT TO THE VICTIMS OF JOSEF FRZL. HE'S NOT A FAN OF RACISM IF HIS DIALOGUE WH EMMA IS ANYTHG TO GO BY. HE SEEMS GENUELY UNFORTABLE WH THE LENGTHS HE AND MALLM WENT TO STROYG NILA'S REER. FACE–HEEL TURN: IN SEASON FOUR, CULMATG HOW HE HELPS STROY NILA'S REER, BETRAYS HIS IEND GLENN, AND BETRAYS MALLM BY LEAKG NEWS OF HIS ARRT TO THE MEDIA. ALTHOUGH GIVEN THAT OLLIE WAS ALWAYS A B OF A DUPLICO, SLEAZY JERK, THE SHIFT OM "FACE" TO "HEEL" ISN'T CREDIBLY FAR. FX AFFABLY EVIL: A MASSIVE JERKASS UNRNEATH. OLLIE N APPEAR QUE CHARMG AND GOOD-NATURED - BUT HE'LL HAVE NO TROUBLE CHEERFULLY BETRAYG YOU A BID FOR POWER. THE GADFLY: OF THE SEVERELY JERKASS VARIETY, WHETHER 'S MAKG JOK ABOUT GLENN'S SON WH SPECIAL NEEDS, OR JOKG ABOUT MALLM PUNCHG GLENN, YOU N ALWAYS UNT ON OLLIE TO SAY A HURTFUL OR DOWNRIGHT IMMATURE THG. JERKASS: HE IS SENSIVE, WARDLY AND GETS WORSE AND WORSE AS THE SERI GO ON. JERKASS HAS A POT: IN HIS SEND EPISO RANT TO GLENN ABOUT HOW NOT EVERYONE IS THE SAME. KAVORKA MAN: HE'S A WEASELLY, PALE, BPECTACLED PRICK WH A RNY SENSE OF HUMOUR WHO LOOKS LIKE A TWELVE YEAR OVER THE URSE OF THE SERI BEDS ANGELA HEANEY, EMMA MSGER OM THE OPPOSN, AND IS ALSO PICTED AS SOMETHG OF A WOMANIZER. THIS IS REALLY VERY GOOD GOG A SERI THAT SELDOM BOTHERS TO LOOK AT ANYONE'S PRIVATE LIV (BEE MOST OF THEM DON'T HAVE PRIVATE LIV). THIS DO JT APPLY TO THE CHARACTER RATHER THAN CHRIS ADDISON, THE ACTOR WHO PLAYS HIM. CHRIS ADDISON IS QUE HANDSOME AND SOMETHG OF A BISHOUNEN. MANIPULATIVE BASTARD: SEASON 4 SHOWS THAT MALLM - AND THE VIEWERS - MAY HAVE BEEN UNRTIMATG HIS CUNNG. THE MILLSTONE: DURG BEN SWA'S R CRASH TERVIEW, OLLIE GIV AWAY THE ALFACE IA TO HIS GIRLIEND. MY GOD, WHAT HAVE I DONE?: HE LOOKS NEAR TEARS AFTER HELPG THRONE NILA OM HER LEARSHIP POSN THE PARTY. OLR THAN THEY LOOK: CHRIS ADDISON. OLLIE IS MEANT TO BE HIS EARLY 20S AND LOOKS NO OLR THAN 22. CHRIS ADDISON TURNED 40(!) 2011. O.O.C. IS SER BS: IN THE MISSG DOSAC FIL, EVERYONE RPONDS TO MALLM'S REQUT FOR THE TULAR FIL WH RISN AND SARSTIC MENTS... EXCEPT FOR OLLIE. MALLM, NATURALLY, IGNOR THE RT OF THE CHATTER AND ZEROS RIGHT ON THIS, SENDG OLLIE AN EMAIL NOTG HOW TERTG IS THAT OLLIE HAS BEEN VERY QUIET THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EXCHANGE AND RMG HIM THAT HE'S POPPG AROUND FOR A LTLE CHAT. OLLIE BREAKS AND NFS TO BEG THE ONE WHO HAS LOST THE FIL. PET THE DOG: WHEN NILA MURRAY'S DGHTER ELLA ACTS OUT SCHOOL, HE TRI TO REASSURE NILA THAT SHE'S NOT A BAD MOTHER, BUT A "PATHFR MUM", WHICH DON'T DO MUCH TO LIFT HER SPIRS BUT 'S NICE OF HIM TO MAKE THE EFFORT. HE VERY WARMLY TELLS GLENN THAT HE FEELS PROUD OF HIM WHEN THE LATTER TELLS OLLIE HE PLANS ON STANDG FOR PARLIAMENT. THE MOMENT IS ONE OF TOTAL SCERY, NOTWHSTANDG THAT OLLIE’S QUICK TO MOCK WHEN THE PLAN FALLS THROUGH DUE GLENN’S ASSOCIATN WH NILA. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: THERE IS A VAST GULF BETWEEN OLLIE'S OWN OPN OF HIS ABILI AND HIS ACTUAL ABILI. SMUG SNAKE: OLLIE TENDS TO E ACROSS AS RATHER SNI AND WEASELLY, AND ON THE WHOLE IS NOT NEARLY AS STREET SMART AS HE THKS HE IS. SPELL MY NAME WH AN S: EARLY EPISOS CRED CHRIS ADDISON AS PLAYG "OLLY REER", WHICH IS LATER CHANGED TO "OLIVER REER", WHILE THE MISSG DOSAC FIL HAS HIM SIGN HIMSELF AS OLLIE. TOYED WH THE FIRST EPISO OF SERI 3, WHERE HE OFFERS THAT HE'S 'OLIVER' OR 'OLLIE' AS NILA PREFERS; WHEN SHE LEANS TOWARD 'OLIVER', HE THEN SISTS ON 'OLLIE' ANYWAY. THE STARSCREAM: HE ENDS UP WH MALLM'S OLD JOB AT THE END OF SEASON 4, ALTHOUGH 'S PRETTY HEAVILY IMPLIED THAT HE'S NOWHERE NEAR BEG PABLE OF AND, AS MALLM HIMSELF SUGGTS WH TYPIL TIC BLUNTNS, WILL CRASH AND BURN BEFORE TOO LONG. STRAWMAN POLIL: OLLIE IS BASILLY AN EXAMPLE OF THE STEREOTYPIL "PROFSNAL POLIL OPERATIVE"; HE'S ATTEND A PRETTY GOOD UNIVERSY AND KNOWS ALL ABOUT THEORY, STRATEGY AND TERMOLOGY, BUT HE DON'T REALLY HAVE ANY TERT OR NCERN FOR ANYONE OTHER THAN HIMSELF (TO BORRLE LACK OF EMPATHY LEVELS AT TIM), HAS NO REAL KNOWLEDGE OR TERT HOW THE WORLD WORKS OUTSI OF A ERNMENT PARTMENT OR POLIL THEORY, AND MALY SEEMS TO VIEW POLICS AS A POTENTIALLY LUCRATIVE REER PATH RATHER THAN AN OPPORTUNY TO IMPLEMENT A PARTICULAR IOLOGY OR TO IMPROVE OTHER PEOPLE'S LIV. THOSE TWO GUYS: WH GLENN WHILE THEY'RE THE SAME PARTMENT. TOOK A LEVEL JERKASS: HE STARTED OUT AS AN AMB, YET EFFICIENT SORT. BY THE END OF THE SERI, HE'S BEE A DUPL, BACK-STABBG WORM WHO'S SOLD OUT EVERY IEND HE'S EVER HAD. HE ENDS UP REPLACG MALLM, SPE THE FACT THAT HE'S CLEARLY NOT UP TO THE TASK. TOOK A LEVEL KDNS: BE LS TRAORO AND GENERALLY A B NICER SERI THREE. AS OF SERI FOUR, THOUGH, HE SEEMS TO BE SHAPG UP FOR A BASTARD UNRSTUDY TO MALLM. IT'S IMPLIED THAT HE'S UNFORTABLE DOG THE THGS MALLM DO SERI 4, AS WELL. THEN, OF URSE, HE STROYS MALLM, POSSIBLY PART OUT OF RENTMENT FOR WHAT MALLM HAS MA HIM BEE AS WELL AS THE SATISFACTN OF PROVG HIS OWN CUNNG. TREACHERO ADVISOR: IN SEASON FOUR, HE GETS SO FED UP WH NILA'S PETENCE THAT HE JOS MALLM'S PLAN TO BRG HER DOWN. VRLIC BT BUDS: WH GLENN, A RELATNSHIP THAT SURVIV EVEN TO SERI FOUR, BUT TO A CRASHG END WHEN OLLIE SELLS HIM OUT AFTER G HIM TO HELP OT NILA. Y-MAN: TO BEN SWA THE 2007 SPECIALS, WHEN LOOKED LIKE BEN WAS GOG TO BE THE NEW SHERIFF TOWN.TERRI COVERLY, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITNS, DOSAC"WELL, YOU KNOW, I'M JT TRYG TO DO MY BT AND MAKE SURE I N STILL GET HOME BY SIX O'CLOCK".PLAYED BY: JOANNA SNLANAS A CIVIL SERVANT, TERRI DO NOT GET VOLVED PARTY POLICS AND HAS REMAED HER JOB REGARDLS OF WHICH PARTY IS POWER, WHICH IS PROBABLY WHY SHE N'T BE ARSED WH . SHE ORDAT THE PARTMENT'S MEDIA RELATNS, AND IS ONE OF THE FEW CHARACTERS TO HAVE A LIFE OUTSI OF WORK. ABHORRENT ADMIRER: TO PETER MANNN, WHO CREASGLY VOLLY PROJECTS HIS UTTER LACK OF TERT HER. CAN'T GET TROUBLE FOR NUTH': BY THE FAL SEASON, SHE'S SO FED UP WH EVERYTHG THAT SHE WANTS OUT AND PLANS TO BUY A TEA SHOP. UNFORTUNATELY, HER STAT AS A CIVIL SERVANT MEANS THAT SHE'S TOO EXPENSIVE TO GET RID OF. CHARACTERIZATN MARCH ON: IN THE FIRST TWO SEASONS, SHE'S A QUIETLY PETENT EMPLOYEE WHO SIMPLY N'T BE ARSED TO RE ABOUT PARTY POLICS (AND THE WHOLE PARTMENT FELL APART WHEN ROBYN HAD TO VER FOR HER). FROM SERI 3 ONWARD SHE'S JT A PLETE IDT. DUMBASS HAS A POT: SHE'S NOT WRONG WHEN SHE LLS MALLM OUT ON HIS ILL-THOUGHT OUT LLS DURG THE LOCKDOWN EPISO. EXPOSORY HAIRSTYLE CHANGE: SHE HAD SHORT BLACK HAIR TO BEG WH AND BY THE END, SHE HAS SHOULR-LENGTH BROWN HAIR. FAT IDT: SHE'S OVERWEIGHT AND RARELY READS THE ROOM. FLANRIZATN: SHE SEEMED A LOT MORE PETENT THE FIRST SERI (BORRG ON ONLY SANE EMPLOYEE, IF ONLY BEE SHE WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO WANTED TO STICK TO PROTOL AND KEEP THEIR BUTTS VERED). BY THE TIME OF THE THIRD SERI SHE'S REACHED THE POT WHERE SHE'S KNOWN EVEN AMONG THE OPPOSN AS "THE ELS ONE". AT THE END OF THE SEND SERI, TERRI SUFFERS A GREAT AL OF UPHEAVAL HER PERSONAL LIFE. IT IS NOT UNTIL AFTER THIS TRMA THAT THE QUALY OF HER WORK DROPS OFF, AND SERI 3 SHE ADMS TO MALLM THAT SHE TRI TO TAKE MORE TIME FOR HERSELF OUTSI OF WORK. THE FRIEND NOBODY LIK: SHE'S REGARD AS A PLETE WASTE OF SPACE BY EVERYONE THE OFFICE, EVEN BY OLLY AND GLENN, WHO ULD BE GENEROLY LLED HER IENDS, WHO MOCK HER BOTH TO HER FACE AND BEHD HER BACK. WHEN GLENN RIGNS, HE LETS HER KNOW HOW MUCH HE BOTH DISLIKED AND PTIED HER, WHICH LEAV HER QUE HURT. HIDN DEPTHS: SHE BARELY PUTS THE EFFORT AT WORK, BUT IS SHOWN TO HAVE PASSNS OUTSI HER JOB, LIKE GARNG, AMATR DRAMATICS AND THE TEA SHOP SHE WANTS TO OPEN. THE LOAD: SHE VELOPS A PRETTY STRONG REPUTATN AS THIS, BEG SCRIBED AS "THE BLOCKAGE". OBFTG STUPIDY: IN SERI 4, SHE STRAIGHT-UP TELLS GLENN THAT SHE WANTS OUT AND IS LOOKG TO PICK UP A RNDANCY PACKAGE, SUGGTG SHE MAY HAVE BEEN PLAYG TO HER REPUTATN. SHE ALSO SEEMS TO HAVE NO PROBLEM MANAGG THE TICKELL CRISIS WHILE STEWART'S UNREACHABLE. OF COURSE I SMOKE: DPE BEG A NON-SMOKER, SHE HAS A CIGARETTE WH PETER SO SHE N TRY AND FLIRT WH HIM. (HE DON'T NOTICE EHER THE FLIRTG OR THAT SHE IS RATHER OBVLY NOT A SMOKER.) SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: SHE VIEWS HERSELF AS TACHED, PROFSNAL AND THE ONLY SANE WOMAN THE PARTMENT, AND ALSO FEELS QUALIFIED TO OFFER EVERYONE AROUND HER RELATNSHIP ADVICE AT THE DROP OF A HAT. SHE IS VIEWED BY EVERYONE ELSE AS THOROUGHLY ANNOYG AND ELS BUT TOO MUCH TROUBLE TO FIRE.TERRI COVERLY: I'M JT GOG TO TAKE MY MEDIA HAT OFF... NILA MURRAY: I HONTLY NEVER THOUGHT YOU HAD ONE. SMUG SNAKE: SHE HAS A HILARLY LUD VIEW OF HER OWN IMPORTANCE AND PABILI, HIGHLIGHTED DURG THE GOUDLG INQUIRY. THEN AGA, HER TE LEVEL OF PETENCE WAS PLITED AT THE END OF SERI 2, DUE TO MALLM AND HUGH FORCG HER TO HUIATGLY TAKE THE FALL FOR SOMETHG HUGH DID. STALKER WH A CSH TO PETER MANNN. HE IS DYG TO GET HER MA RNDANT SERI 4, SAYG "SHE'S A FART A OCK, AND I WANT TO WAFT HER OUT OF HERE!" TOOK A LEVEL DUMBASS: POSSIBLE VOKED, THE FIRST TWO SEASONS SHE'S WAY MORE HELPFUL AND PETENT TO HER DOSAC LLEAGU AND 'S IMPLIED HAVG TO TAKE THE FALL FOR HUGH'S MISTAKE MA HER PUT LS EFFORT AT WORK AND BEE KNOWN AS "THE BLOCKAGE", BY THE LAST SEASON. TOOK A LEVEL JERKASS: SHE ED TO BE ONE OF THE NICER CHARACTERS ON THE SHOW (WELL, NICE PARED TO EVERYONE ELSE). THEN AT THE END OF SERI TWO, SHE'S FORCED TO FALL ON HER SWORD AND MAKE A PUBLIC STATEMENT/APOLOGY FOR SOMETHG HUGH DID, WH LTLE TO NO SUPPORT OM ANYONE WHATSOEVER. TH, BY THE TIME SERI 3 ROLLS AROUND, TERRI IS ONE THE BCHIT, NASTIT PEOPLE ON THE SHOW. ULTIMATE JOB SECURY: AS A CIVIL SERVANT SHE'S ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO GET RID OF, AND SHE'LL TAKE THE TIME TO REMD EVERYONE ELSE OF , TOO. IN SERI 4 SHE'S ACTIVELY TRYG TO GET HERSELF FIRED WH NO SUCCS.ROBYN MURDOCH, SENR PRS OFFICER, DOSAC"GIVE THEM ALL OF THE L TO SAY?"PLAYED BY: POLLY KEMPANOTHER CIVIL SERVANT, JUNR TO TERRI. DPE HER JOB TLE ROBYN'S MA DUTY IS MAKG TEA. BUTT-MONKEY: WHEN ASKED THE GOOLDG INQUIRY WHETHER THERE'S A CULTURE OF BULLYG AT DOSAC, SHE RPONDS "I THK THERE'S A CULTURE OF BULLYG ME AT DOSAC." THE DZ: USELSLY STUPID. DUMB BLON: TO THE POT WHERE SHE'S NICKNAMED "THE BLON BOMBSHE". GENR-BLENR NAME: HUGH IALLY THOUGHT SHE WAS ROBYN MURDOCH'S SECRETARY. SPANNER THE WORKS: HUGH'S CUNNG PLAN TO PE THE FACTORY IS ED BY ROBYN BEG TOO DUMB FOR POLICS. ULTIMATE JOB SECURY: SHE'S PRETTY ELS BUT HER JOB SECURY WILL BE ASSURED FOR AS LONG AS GLENN IS CHARGE OF SACKG PEOPLE.HELEN HATLEY, POLICY ADVISOR TO THE LEAR OF THE OPPOSN (SERI 4)"I DON'T THK YOU GOT ENOUGH CUDDL AS A CHILD."PLAYED BY: REBEC GETHGSA YOUNG, IALISTIC JUNR POLICY ADVISOR, WHO HAS NOT YET LEARNED NOT TO GET SMART TO MALLM. ALLERATIVE NAME: TWO HS. BRAY BTE: AN TELLIGENT POLICY ADVISER WH BROWN HAIR. BULLYG A DRAGON: THE ABOVE QUOTE NCLUS THE FIRST NVERSATN WE SEE HER HAVE WH MALLM. AMAZGLY, SHE LIV. SHE'S ALSO VERY WILLG TO BOLLOCK NILA FOR HER VAR CK-UPS, AND EVEN THOUGH NILA ISN'T ALL THAT SRY, SHE IS STILL HER BOSS. POSSIBLY HELEN GETS SPECIAL PRIVILEG BY VIRTUE OF BEG THE ONLY PERSON THE PARTY WHO IS GENUELY LOYAL TO NILA. EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: SHE'S THE MOST LOYAL PERSON TO NILA WHEN SHE'S LEAR OF THE OPPOSN (ADMTEDLY NOT HARD), BUT EVEN SHE DON'T SEEM TO HAVE SERLY BELIEVED THAT NILA HAD ANY REAL SHOT AT BEG PRIME MISTER. THE FASHNISTA: THIS IS SOMETHG OF AN INFORMED ATTRIBUTE. THE OFFICIAL WEBSE STAT ONE OF HER FUNCTNS IS TO ADVISE NILA ON FASHN, HOWEVER HELEN DRS MUCH THE SAME AS ANYONE ELSE. (THIS ULD BE VOKEDFRIDGE BRILLIANCE, AS SO DO FASHN SIGNERS.) THE MISTRS: IT'S IMPLIED THAT SHE HAD A RELATNSHIP WH A MARRIED NEWS SHOW PRODUCER.NILA:YOU REMEMBER ALL THE EMAILS YOU SENT THREE YEARS AGO, DO YOU? BEE OM WHAT I UNRSTAND OM OLLIE, A LARGE NUMBER OF THEM WERE SENT TO THAT MARRIED PRODUCER ON THE DAILY POLICS. HELEN: OLLIE IS A FUCKG... HE WAS SUPPOSED TO LEAVE HER. NAïVE NEWER: PARTICULARLY PARED TO OLLIE. HOWEVER, SHE IS A LOT MORE PETENT THAN OLLIE WAS AT THE START OF HIS TENURE, AND SE RIGHT THROUGH MALLM AND OLLIE'S PROTTATNS OF LOYALTY. NUMBER TWO: TO NILA. REMEMBER THE NEW GUY?: THE OFFICIAL WEBSE STAT SHE "WAS ALWAYS NILA MURRAY'S FIRST CHOICE AS SPECIAL ADVISOR, BUT ONLY AGREED TO JO NILA'S TEAM WHEN SHE BEME LEAR." SLAVE TO PR: TH FAR, HER MA NTRIBUTNS TO NILA'S TEAM HAS BEEN TO HELP HER PRACTICE WALKG WH A WREATH, AND BE SEEN NODDG ON TELEVISN WHILST PRETENDG TO TALK TO HER. SURE, LET'S GO WH THAT: WHEN TRYG TO NSOLE NILA AFTER HER TENURE AS LEAR (AND REER GENERAL) HAS UTTERLY IMPLOD:NILA: [TEARFULLY] I REALLY THOUGHT I ULD BEE PRIME MISTER. HELEN: [UNABLE TO NCEAL GENUE, IMPULSIVE ASTONISHMENT] REALLY?! NILA: [STUNG] Y! DIDN'T YOU? HELEN: ... Y. WI-EYED IALIST: YOUNGER AND LS EXPERIENCED THAN OLLIE REER.    OTHER GOVERNMENT CHARACTERS (SERI 1-3) NICK HANWAY, ENFORCER TO TOM DAVIS"TOM'S NOT SURE ABOUT YOU..."PLAYED BY: MART SAVAGEAS TOM DAVIS' RIGHT-HAND MAN, "NICE NUTTER NICK" WAS SURE HE WOULD BE TAKG OVER OM MALLM AFTER THE ORIGAL PRIME MISTER'S RIGNATN. A LTLE TOO SURE... HAIR-TRIGGER TEMPER: HE MENTS THAT HE WAS HOPG FOR BAD NEWS JT SO HE ULD H SOMEONE. JERKASS: HE'S A B OF AN UNLIKEABLE CK — HAPPY TO STEAL OLLIE'S (ACTUALLY MALLM'S) IAS AND TAKE CRED, AND GLEEFUL THE POSSIBILY THAT HE MIGHT REPLACE MALLM THE NEXT RHUFFLE. SMUG SNAKE: HE'S ARROGANT AND GETS THOROUGHLY OUTPLAYED AT THE END OF SPNERS AND LOSERS. THE STAR SCREAM: A FAILED ONE TO MALLM. UNWTG PAWN: HE'S NVCED THAT THE APPOTMENT OF A NEW PRIME MISTER WILL ALSO REQUIRE A NEW CHIEF SP DOCTOR, BUT HE SERLY UNRTIMAT MALLM TUCKER...JULI NICHOLSON"I'M THE NEW CHE GUEVARA, ALL I NEED IS A NEW MOTACHE AND SOME LASER RRECTN EYE TREATMENT".PLAYED BY: ALEX MACQUEENA FORMER BS GU TURNED MP THE FIRST TWO SERI, HE ALSO ACTED AS A "BLUE-SKI THKER" TO THE PRIME MISTER, A MEANGLS JOB TLE GIVEN TO HIM TO KEEP HIM QUIET. BY SERI THREE HE HAD BEEN MA A LIFE PEER, AND AS LORD NICHOLSON OF ARNAGE HE WAS PUT A POSN OF REAL POWER, G PROBLEMS FOR THOSE WHO HAD IALLY REFED TO TAKE HIM SERLY. AFFABLY EVIL: POLE, SOFTSPOKEN AND LISTENS TO CRICKET, HE'S ALSO A LEAKER AND A SCHEMG BASTARD. BIG EATER: IF HE'S NOT EATG FOOD, HE'S UALLY G FOOD AS AN ANALOGY, MUCH TO MALLM'S ANNOYANCE. "I WILL NOT EAT THE PISSY BISCU!" BUTT-MONKEY: OFTEN ON THE RECEIVG END OF MALLM TUCKER'S SCHEM. THE CHARMER: IT'S IMPLIED HE'S CHARMG ENOUGH TO HAVE IENDS HIGH PLAC WHICH MAY EXPLA HIS ELEVATN TO HOE OF LORDS SEASON 3. CLOUDCUCKOOLANR: COM ACROSS THIS WAY DURG THE BHAJI SCENE WH HIS FOOD METAPHORS. COMMONALY CONNECTN: AT THE END OF "RISE OF THE NUTTERS", HE AND MALLM VERY BRIEFLY SPEND THEIR MUTUAL ANIMOSY TO SWAP MISERATNS OVER THE FACT THAT NEHER OF THEM TURNED OUT TO BE THE LOOP NCERNG THE REAL DATE OF THE PRIME MISTER'S RIGNATN (ALTHOUGH MALLM'S SE SEEMS TO BE MALY BEE NICHOLSON IS STG STUNNED HIS OFFICE WHOUT ANY APPARENT TENTN OF LEAVG). EVEN EVIL HAS STANDARDS: FOR ALL HIS UNRMG MALLM, HE KNOWS THAT ALLOWG A DAN MILLER RONATN IS A BAD IA SO HAS MALLM VED BACK AS A RULT. KICKED UPSTAIRS: HE TRI TO GET VOLVED THE ERNMENT'S PUBLIC RELATNS ACTIVI, TREADG ON THE TO OF THE PRS OFFICERS WHOSE JOB IS AND WHO ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOG. HE ANTAGONIS EVERYONE WH HIS MAD POLICY IAS, TO THE POT WHERE THEY START TO BELIEVE HE IS ACTUALLY UNHGED AND DANGERO. HE IS PROMOTED TO THE POSN OF "BLUE-SKY THKER" TO THE PRIME MISTER... A MEANGLS JOB TLE GIVEN TO HIM TO MAKE HIM THK HE HAS SOME ACTUAL POWER AND TO KEEP HIM QUIET."I'M SPENDG HALF OF MY TIME NOW ALG WH THAT BBISH THAT NICHOLSON'S PUTTG OUT THERE... IF HE DO STICK HIS BALDY HEAD 'ROUND YOUR DOOR AND UP WH SOME STUPID IA ABOUT "POLICEMEN'S HELMETS SHOULD BE YELLOW" OR "LET'S SET UP A PARTMENT TO UNT THE MOON," JT TREAT HIM LIKE SOMEONE WH ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE, YOU KNOW? JT SAY "Y, THAT'S LOVELY, THAT'S GOOD, WE MT TALK ABOUT THAT LATER," OKAY?" — MALLM TUCKER SUBVERTED WHEN HE GETS ELEVATED TO THE HOE OF LORDS, WHICH IS TYPILLY TREATED AS THIS BRISH POLIL SATIRE... EXCEPT THAT TURNS OUT THAT BEG MA A LIFETIME MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT ACTUALLY DO E WH A LOT OF FLUENCE WH THE PARTY, WHICH MAK NICHOLSON SUDNLY A LOT MORE OF A SER THREAT TO PEOPLE WHO HAD ONCE JT BSHED HIM OFF. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: JOHN BIRT, PETER MANLSON, ANDREW ADONIS. PASTIM PROVE PERSONALY: NICHOLSON ENJOYS LISTENG TO THE CRICKET; QUE APART OM THE FACT THAT HE FS THE "POSH ECCENTRIC" CHARACTER TYPE TO A T, MALLM—WHO FDS CRICKET STULTIFYGLY BORG—CLEARLY BELIEV THAT SUS HIM. PRAGMATIC VILLAY: DPE NSPIRG WH TOM DAVI AND STEVE FLEMG TO SACK MALLM, DON'T TAKE LONG FOR JULI TO ASK MALLM BACK IF ONLY TO PREVENT A DAN MILLER BAL. PRECISN F-STRIKE: PRETTY MUCH ALONE AMONG THE ST THAT HE SELDOM SWEARS. THE EXCEPTNS ARE WHEN HE'S QUOTG HIS NEPHEW, REALLY SURPRISED OR OFFEND AND WHEN MALLM OR JAMIE ARE PHYSILLY ATTACKG HIM. PREMATURELY BALD: THE OTHER CHARACTERS QUE LIKE REMDG HIM ABOUT THIS. SQUIPEDALIAN LOQUACNS: HE'S POSH AND OVER-POLE:JULI NICHOLSON: WELL, I WILL SPEAK TO WHOMSOEVER I NEED TO SPEAK TO, HOLIDAY OR NO HOLIDAY.MALLM TUCKER: WHERE DO YOU LEARN TO SPEAK LIKE THAT? IS THERE A SPECIAL SCHOOL THAT ONLY YOU AND BRIAN SEWELL GO TO? SMUG SNAKE: THKS HE HAS MORE THORY ERNMENT THAN HE DO AND WHILST HE IS SOMEWHAT POWERFUL, HIS ATTEMPTS TO BROWBEAT MALLM E ACROSS AS PATHETIC AND RARELY IF EVER TAKEN SERLY. IN "SPNERS AND LOSERS", HE BRAGS ABOUT LEAKG THE IMMIGRATN FIGUR TO GLENN WHO THEN TELLS JAMIE WHICH B JULI THE ASS. STOIC SPECTACL: HE HAS GLASS AND DON'T EMOTE MUCH PARED TO THE OTHER CHARACTERS. TOOK A LEVEL BADASS: IN SERI 3, HE'S BEEN ELEVATED TO THE HOE OF LORDS AS A LIFE PEER, WHICH MAK HIM A LOT HARR TO PH AROUND THAN HE WAS PREVLY, AND PUTS HIM A POSN WHERE HE N E MALLM SOME GENUE TROUBLE, WHICH HE AND STEVE FLEMG END UP DOG THE PENULTIMATE EPISO. WICKED CULTURED: APPARENTLY, NICHOLSON'S MEANS OF PG WH ALL-NIGHTERS VOLVE BLACK FFEE AND "VIVALDI ON THE IPOD TOUCH." YOUNGER THAN THEY LOOK: JULI IS (VIA VOKEDWORD OF GOD) MEANT TO BE HIS MID-50S. ALEX MACQUEEN IS ACTUALLY YOUNGER THAN CHRIS ADDISON (WHO'S PLAYG SOMEONE HIS EARLY TWENTI.) THE "SHY BALD HEAD" HELPS.STEVE FLEMG MP"WOULD YOU PLEASE FUCKG I LOST MY TEMPER. WHERE IS ? WHERE IS ? WHERE IS ? OH, I'VE FOUND AGA, 'S ALL RIGHT!PLAYED BY: DAVID HAIGA POWERFUL AND FLUENTIAL CABET MISTER CHARGED WH ENFORCER DUTI, IS LIKELY THAT HE IS A WHIP. WAS ONCE FORCED TO RIGN BY MALLM AND THE TWO BEME SWORN ENEMI. HE LATER RETURNED, TERMED TO WREAK REVENGE ON MALLM. BALD OF EVIL: A CREEPY SCHEMER WH A SHY DOME. BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG: A PAPER-TH DISGUISE THIS PASSIVE-AGGRSIVE CREEP'S SE. CUTE AND PSYCHO: HE'S A SPECTACULARLY UNSTABLE VERSN OF THIS TROPE; THAT CHEERFUL GR, THE REALLY STRANGE PLIMENTS AND THE "LL ME UNCLE STEVE", ATTU YOU SEE WHEN YOU FIRST MEET HIM? GET HIM EVEN SLIGHTLY AGATED AND HIS AX-CRAZY SI WILL E TO THE FORE. THE SRY PART WHEN HE SPERATELY TRI TO SUPPRS HIS SANY, SWGG OM STEPFORD SER TO UNSTOPPABLE RAGE AND BACK AGA SO VLENTLY YOU WONR HE DON'T GIVE HIMSELF WHIPLASH. THE DREAD: BEFORE HE APPROACH NILA SHE REMARKS THAT STEVE'S, "THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS SH". EVIL GLOATG: WHEN GETTG MALLM SACKED HE HAS THIS TO SAY, "I WOULDN'T TELL YOU WHAT I JT TOLD YOU, BEFORE I TOLD THE PRS PACK WOULD I? THAT WOULD BE VERY VERY UNPROFSNAL". FX AFFABLY EVIL: HE TRI SO HARD TO BE GENUELY AFFABLE, SUGAR-ATG EVERYTHG, VERG UP HIS ANGER WH LGHTER, AVOIDG SWEARG AND SG THE EFFECT IS MORE THAT OF A MAN PERMANENTLY THE MIDDLE OF A BAD VILLAO BREAKDOWN WH NO SENSE OF HUMOUR TO BOOT. HAIR-TRIGGER TEMPER: LAMPSHAD BY THE QUOTE ABOVE AND UNLIKE MALLM, HAS POOR NTROL AND IS EASILY TRIGGERED WHICH MEANS HE DO A POOR JOB AT PROJECTG AN AFFABLY EVIL FA. HYPOCRIL HUMOUR: "WE WAS ON THE SAME SI, MALLM AND YOU FUCKED ME OVER", NO POTS GUSG WHAT HE DID TO MALLM THE EPISO BEFORE. UNLS HE WAS REFERRG TO THE TIME MALLM FORC HIM TO RIGN BACK 2003. JERK WH A HEART OF JERK: HE'S A VILE, SEXIST BULLSHTER WH NILA AND NOT GOOD AT HIDG . IT MAY SEEM LIKE HE'S JT DOG HIS JOB AS THE PM'S NEW CHIEF WHIP BUT HE'S PECIALLY OBNOX WHEN TAKG PLEASURE MALLM'S SACKG. JERKASS HAS A POT: HE'S NOT WRONG WHEN HE SAYS THAT HE AND MALLM SHOULD TRY TO WORK TOGETHER. TURNS TO HYPOCRE HAS A POT WHEN HE, THE PRIME MISTER AND JULI FORCE MALLM OUT OF A JOB. HIS PUBLIC CLARATN SERI FOUR THAT NILA IS UNELECTABLE AS PARTY LEAR IS SEEN BY PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE, EVEN HIS POLIL ENEMI PREV SEASONS, AS JT STATG THE OBV, PECIALLY WH HOW DAN MILLER IS ABLE TO UNRME HER WH IMPUNY DURG MEETGS. JT BETWEEN YOU AND ME: AFTER GETTG SHNNED UPON MALLM'S RETURN, HE MAK THE MISTAKE OF RMG MALLM THAT HE'S CID TO JO DAN MILLER AND FORCE A LEARSHIP CHALLENGE AGAST THE PM, GLOATG THAT THERE'S NOTHG MALLM N DO TO STOP HIM. UNFORTUNATELY, MALLM REALIS THERE'S ONE THG HE N DO... AND EQUALLY UNFORTUNATELY, IS LS SCEPTIBLE TO THIS TROPE. LGHG MAD: HE EVABLY ATTEMPTS TO VER UP HIS HAIR-TRIGGER TEMPER AND OUTBURSTS OF ANGER WH WHAT HE THKS IS GOOD-NATURED CHUCKLG, BUT 'S ALWAYS RATHER FORCED AND THE RULT IS HIM JT LOOKG RATHER UNSTABLE STEAD. IT FOOLS NO ONE. MADNS MANTRA: WE LAST SEE HIM RANTG "FUCK HIM FUCK HIM FUCK HIM FUCK HIM!" AFTER MALLM PROMIS THAT THERE'S "ONE THG" HE N DO TO THWART HIS PLANS.... WHOUT TELLG HIM WHAT THAT THG IS. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: PETER MANLSON. SIIAR OD PERSONALY AND MALLM EVEN JOK THAT HE'S GAY DUE TO THE MOTACHE. NEW ERA SPEECH: WHICH ONLY SERV TO GIVE EVERYONE WHO'S LISTENG TO THE CREEPS, MALY BEE DURG HE PAR EVERYONE THE PARTMENT TO THE VICTIMS OF JOSEF FRZL. NO SENSE OF PERSONAL SPACE: HE A B TOO CLOSE TO NILA MURRAY WHO IS VISIBLY CREEPED OUT WHEN HE KISS HER ON THE CHEEKS TWICE. NOT-SO-HARMLS VILLA: HE DO GET MALLM TUCKER SACKED AFTER ALL, UNTIL MALLM TURNS THE TABL THE NEXT EPISO. DURG THE EPISO BEFORE HE SHOWS UP, 'S IMPLIED THAT MUCH OF THE CHAOS NUMBER 10 SUCH AS MALLM'S FLUENCE DIMISHG IS BEE OF STEVE. TERRI EVEN ASKS IF MALLM IS FEELG EMASCULATED BY . PET THE DOG: A LETED SCENE SEASON 3 HAS STEVE ASKS MALLM TO LAY OFF NILA AS, "'S ONLY DOSAC". SLIMEBALL: STEVE IS UNCTUO, OILY AND FOR HIMSELF AND NOT THE PARTY, UNLIKE MALLM. SUDNLY SHOUTG: AFTER ONE TOO MANY SNI REMARKS OM OLLIE, "WILL YOU PLEASE FUCKING WELL—!?". SMUG SNAKE: DURG THE "FOURTH SECTOR", EPISO, HE IS SCRIBED BY MALLM AS A RONT WHO'S PART OF A BIGGER PROBLEM. STEVE HAS A LNTH OF MALLM'S CHARM, TAK HIMSELF WAY TOO SERLY AND STUPIDLY GIV AWAY HIS WHOLE PLAN TO MALLM. STEPFORD SER: TYPE III - AN AX-CRAZY PSYCHO BEHD THE SE. THAT WHICH LI BENEATH THE SE IS NIGHTMARE FUEL DUCG. THOSE TWO GUYS: SEEN WH JULI A LOT DURG THE CLIMAX OF THE THIRD SEASON. TYRANT TAK THE HELM: AT FIRST HIS LLEAGU ARE HAPPY TO SEE THE BACK OF MALLM TUCKER BUT WHEN THEY REALIZE HOW CREEPY, CHARMLS AND BAD-TEMPERED HIS REPLACEMENT IS THEY CI THEY WANT THEIR JERK TO E BACK OM HIS 10-MUTE RETIREMENT. UNWTG PAWN: HE FALLS FOR MALLM'S MOURS ABOUT HIM G OUT BADLY JULI NICHOLSON'S REPORT, WHICH LEADS TO FLEMG ASKG JULI ABOUT AND THEN LOOKG RPT TO THE MEDIA. VILLAO BREAKDOWN: AS NOTED ABOVE, NSTANTLY SEEMS TO BE ONE OF THE. EXAGGERATED WHEN MALLM SUCCSFULLY OUT GAMBS HIM.DAN MILLER MP, JUNR MISTER (SERI 1); LEAR OF THE OPPOSN (SERI 4)"IF YOU'RE GONNA MAKE AN OMELETTE, YOU'RE GOG TO HAVE TO HAVE SOME ANK AND HONT DISCSN WH THE EGGS."PLAYED BY: TONY GARDNERPOWERFUL AND FLUENTIAL YOUNG MISTER (SLASH: POLISHED ALUMIUM CYBERPRICK) WHO HAS LONG BEEN MOURED TO BE PLANNG A LEARSHIP BID. EVENTUALLY SUCCEEDS SERI 4 GIVEN NILA'S FABULO SUCCS AS LEAR OF THE OPPOSN. THE ACE: ALL CHARACTERS - MALLM CLUD DURG "SPNERS AND LOSERS", - NOTE HIS EXCEPTNAL POLIL SKILLS. CHEKHOV'S GUNMAN: OVER THE URSE OF THE FAL SERI WH EACH FAIRLY NOCUO APPEARANCE HE BE MORE POWERFUL UNTIL EVENTUALLY HE GETS RID OF MALLM. IN THE FIRST SERI, TALKG TO DAN, HUGH JOK THAT IF HE'D RIGNED THE DAY HE'D BEEN APPOTED HE'D BE PRIME MISTER NOW. WHEN HUGH LATER CIS TO RIGN, HE FDS [[OUTGAMBTED DAN HAS BEATEN HIM TO .]] DEADPAN SNARKER: DOWNPLAYED WH, "STEADY ON MALLM, THAT'S A B STRONG", WHEN MALLM VERBALLY EVISCERAT NILA FOR HER POOR PERFORMANCE AS LABOUR LEAR. THE DREAD: AS OF THE FAL SEASON, THE ERNMENT HAD ONLY ONE PLANNED RPONSE THE EVENT THAT DAN MILLER TOOK NTROL OF THE OPPOSN, SUMMED UP BY PETER MANNN AS "WE'RE FUCKED." MUCH OF THE FLAPPG ABOUT THE SPECIALS WAS ALSO PROMPTED OUT OF DREAD THAT HE MIGHT CHALLENGE TOM DAVIS FOR THE PARTY LEARSHIP. DNK WH POWER: A SUBTLE EXAMPLE; UPON FALLY ACHIEVG LEARSHIP, HE STARTS PARG HIMSELF FAVOURABLY TO J CHRIST:DAN MILLER: [ENTERG TO APPLSE] PLEASE, PLEASE, I'M NOT CHRIST. HE WAS QUE A SCFFY MAN. THE FIGHTG NARCISSIST: A NON-PHYSIL FIGHTG VARIETY."I LIKE GETTG ON MY HIGH HORSE. I LOOK GOOD ON . LIKE A KNIGHT." JERK WH A HEART OF JERK: OF THE PASSIVELY- VARIETY, HE SEEMS POLE AND CHARMG BUT HE'S A VERY SLEAZY MAN WHO EVENTUALLY THROWS MALLM TUCKER TO THE WOLV TO SAVE HIS ASS AND DON'T GIVE A RATS ASS ABOUT PARTY POLICY OR IOLOGY. KICK THE DOG: SELLG MALLM OUT TO THE PRS AND SABOTAGG HIS QUIET EX. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: DAVID MILIBAND. PUPPET KG: AMBIGUO. WHEN HE FALLY SUCCEEDS BEG THE PARTY LEAR, HE'S SEEN AS LTLE MORE THAN A PUPPET FOR MALLM. HE SEEMS TO HAVE HIS OWN AGENDA, THOUGH: HE'S SHOWN CHSMASTER SKILLS OF HIS OWN, OM EARLY ON, AND THE OTHER PARTY MEMBERS FEAR HIM. ULTIMATELY AVERTED, AS HE MANAG TO GET RID OF MALLM PERMANENTLY AT THE END OF THE SERI, LEAVG HIM EE TO LEAD THE PARTY HOWEVER HE LIK. SMUG SNAKE: HE'S SUPERFICIALLY CHARMG BUT FIRST AND FOREMOST A SLEAZY OPPORTUNIST. THE STARSCREAM: ONE OF HIS FIRST ACTS AFTER BEG THE PARTY LEAR IS TO GET RID OF MALLM, WHO ORCHTRATED HIS RISE TO POWER THE FIRST PLACE. STRAWMAN POLIL: HE'S BASILLY THE PLATONIC IAL OF THE STEREOTYPIL MORN BRISH SLEAZY POLICIAN, POST-BLAIR — YOUNG, BLANDLY HANDSOME AND CHARMG ENOUGH TO BE SEEN AS AN UP-AND-ER, BUT WH A PERSISTENT AIR OF OILY, SMARMY SCERY AND VAGUELY ROBOTIC SOCPATHY. OVERALL, HE'S THE KD OF POLICIAN WHO LOOKS GOOD ON THE SURFACE AND MANAG TO TICK ALL THE BOX, BUT ULTIMATELY OFF AS SOMEONE WHO HAS NO REAL IALS OR NVICTNS BEYOND CLIMBG THE SLIPPERY LADR NO MATTER WHO HE HAS TO KNIFE THE BACK ORR TO DO SO. TALL, DARK, AND SNARKY: BLANDLY HANDSOME AND SNI. UNGRATEFUL BASTARD: MALLM'S MACHATNS GOT HIM ELECTED LEAR OF THE OPPOSN. DAN REPAYS HIM BY THROWG HIM TO THE WOLV. THOUGH 'S PROBABLE MALLM WOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME TO HIM TO SAVE THE PARTY, GIVEN HOW HE BASILLY HANDLED NILA.CLAIRE BALLENTYNE MP".. YOU DIDN'T WANT TO E HERE AT ALL, DID YOU MR ABBOTT?"PLAYED BY: EVE MATHSONANOTHER FLUENTIAL MP, SHE IS CHAIR OF THE SELECT COMMTEE. SHE TAK NO CRAP OM ANYONE, LEAST OF ALL HUGH ABBOTT WHEN HE ATTEMPTS TO LIE TO THE COMMTEE. SHE ALSO APPEARED SPNERS AND LOSERS, WHEN MALLM LLED ON HER FOR ONE OF HIS BATMAN GAMBS. THE GAMBLG ADDICT: THE REASON SHE ULTIMATELY DON'T END UP NNG FOR PARTY LEAR. HERO OF ANOTHER STORY: SHE APPEARS TO HAVE WANRED OM SOME SORT OF UK VERSN OF THE WT WG, WHERE POLICIANS ARE CLEVER, RG AND RPONSIBLE. UNTIL TURNS OUT SHE'S UNELECTABLE AS LEAR BEE OF HER ONGOG ONLE GAMBLG ADDICTN, ANYWAY. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: GWYH DUNWOODY, DIANE ABBOTT.GEOFF HOLHURST MP"MY HEAD IS THE RIGHT SIZE!"PLAYED BY: ROB EDWARDSDEFENCE MISTER, BT KNOWN FOR BEG RPT AND HAVG A TY HEAD. IT WAS NEVER FIRMLY TABLISHED IF HE WAS A TOSSER OR A MORON. ARSON, MURR, AND JAYWALKG: HIS TY HEAD IS MENTNED AS ANOTHER REASON HE'LL NEVER BE PARTY LEAR. BUTT-MONKEY: EVERY SGLE APPEARANCE HE MAK VOLV HIM BEG BOLLOCKED, SULTED OR HUIATED AND VIRTUALLY NOTHG ELSE; EVEN DURG AN EPISO WHERE HE ONLY APPEARS A SLISHOW BY THE OPPOSN, HE'S STILL CHARACTERIZED AS "A SHEPARD DRSED UP TO MEET THE QUEEN." INFORMED DEFORMY: HIS FAMOLY TY HEAD. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: GEOFF HOON.JOHN DUGGAN"MY TO DO LIST IS LONGER THAN A BIG WILLY."PLAYED BY: MIL JUPPUTTERLY HAPLS PRS OFFICER CHARGED WH LOOKG AFTER NILA MURRAY DURG THE EASTBOURNE PARTY CONFERENCE. UNFORTUNATELY THE ONLY THG HE SEEMS TO BE ANY GOOD AT IS PRIVG A VILLAGE SOMEWHERE OF A TWAT. HE REAPPEARS SEASON 4, JT TIME TO HELP HER MAKE A CK UP OF AN TERVIEW WH SKY. ABHORRENT ADMIRER: TO HELEN, WHO MANAG TO PROJECT HER UTTER AND POTED LACK OF TERT WHOUT SAYG A WORD. DIGGG YOURSELF DEEPER: GIVEN A CHANCE TO TALK, DUGGAN WILL ALMOST CERTALY SAY SOMETHG OFFENSIVE—AND TRY TO VER UP WH SOMETHG THAT TURNS OUT TO BE EVEN WORSE, AND TRY TO VER THAT UP WH SOMETHG WORSE... THE DZ: TERRIBLE SOCIAL SKILLS, ALWAYS SAYS THE WRONG THG AND IS A PLETE LIABILY TO ANYONE HE WORKS WH DON'T EXPLA THE JOKE: HE NSTANTLY EXPLAS HIS BAD JOK ONLY TO MAKE THEM EVEN WORSE. LAZY BUM: MUCH TO NILA'S TRATN, JOHN SEEMS TO BE THE HAB OF AVOIDG WORK WHEREVER POSSIBLE AND EXCG THIS AS HAVG A TO-DO LIST "LONGER THAN A BIG WILLY." FOR GOOD MEASURE, HE BARELY SEEMS TO BE ANY SORT OF HURRY WHEN HE SAYS THIS. THE MILLSTONE: EVERYTHG HE SAYS SEASON 4 DURG NILA MURRAYS'S SKY TERVIEW, FULL STOP. MUGGL: JOHN SAYS OF HIS EX-WIFE, "SHE WAS A MUGGLE. NEXT WIFE'S GOT TO BE A POLI". HE STAR AT HELEN WHILST SAYG THIS. O.O.C. IS SER BS: IN HIS SEND EPISO, UPON SEEG THAT NILA AND HELEN HAVE ABANDONED HIM ON THE TRA, HE FALLY DROPS THE BUMBLG AND STARTS SHOUTG DIBLY AT THEM THROUGH THE WDOW. THE OPPOSN (SERI 1-3); THE GOVERNMENT (SERI 4)PERHAPS EVEN MORE IMAGE-OBSSED THAN THE OTHER PARTY, IS HTED THAT THEY ARE ALSO MORE ELIST AND THAT MANY MEMBERS HOLD OBJECTNABLE VIEWS. THEY ARE MOSTLY UNSEEN UP UNTIL THE FIRST SPECIAL, BUT START TO APPEAR MORE OFTEN SERI 3 AND FALLY FORM A ALN ERNMENT SERI 4. COMPARABLE TO THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY.    THE OPPOSN JB, LEAR OF THE OPPOSN (THE SPECIALS, SERI 3); PRIME MISTER (SERI 4)AN OLD ETONIAN WHO APPARENTLY KEEPS A CLIQUE OF OTHER ETONIANS ABOUT HIM. LTLE IS KNOWN ABOUT HIM (OTHER THAN HIS TASTE FOR RACIST JOK) AS, LIKE THE TWO PREV PRIME MISTERS, HE IS NEVER SEEN. INVISIBLE PRINT: AS WH ALL THE PRIME MISTERS ON THE SHOW, WE NEVER SEE HIM. ONLY KNOWN BY THEIR NICKNAME: "JB", PRUMABLY HIS IALS. POLILLY INRRECT VILLA: ACRDG TO PETER MANNN, HE'S PRONE TO RACIST REMARKS AND JOK- THOUGH STEWART TRI TO EXCE THIS BY LLG "IRONIZG." NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: DAVID "CALL ME DAVE" CAMERONSTEWART PEARSON, OPPOSN DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITNS (THE SPECIALS, SERI 3); THE PRIME MISTER'S DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITNS (SERI 4)"LET'S IMAGEER THE NARRATIVE..."PLAYED BY: VCENT FRANKLAN ADVERTISG EXECUTIVE RECED OM THE PRIVATE SECTOR, STEWART WOULD SEEM TO BE THE PERFECT CHOICE FOR A PARTY WANTG TO REPOSN THEMSELV AS MORE PC AND E-IENDLY. IN PRACTICE, HIS LIBERAL VIEWS ARE RATHER AT ODDS WH THOSE OF THE PARTY'S OLD GUARD, PECIALLY PETER MANNN MP WHO HE HAS TROUBLE EXERTG NTROL AND FLUENCE OVER. HIS PETENCE SEEMS TO HAVE TERRATED SOMEWHAT SEASON 4, DUE TO THE BATN OF HAVG A ALN TO KEEP UNR NTROL AND THE PROBLEMS OF BEG ERNMENT RATHER THAN OPPOSN (MEANG HIS MEDIA-IENDLY PROPOSALS N'T BE THEORETIL ANY MORE, AND ACTUALLY HAVE TO TAKE THE BUDGET TO NSIRATN). CLOUDCUCKOOLANR: AS MANY PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE SERI NOTE, HIS SPEECH WOULD BE MUCH BETTER UNRSTOOD IF THEY ME WH SUBTL. DEADPAN SNARKER: AN EVABILY GIVEN HIS PASSIVE-AGGRSIVE NATURE, PECIALLY TOWARDS PETER MANNN AND PHIL SMH. FRIENDLY ENEMY: SHOWS HTS OF THIS THE AFTERMATH OF THE BBC RAD SNDAL.MALLM TUCKER: "CARRY ON LIKE THIS AND I MIGHT NOT FD YOU UTTERLY FUCKG NTEMPTIBLE."STEWART PEARSON: "THAT'S AN CENTIVE." GRANOLA GIRL: A RARE MALE EXAMPLE WHO ISN'T ALSO AN AGEG HIPPY. HYPOCRE: DURG THE "Y AND HO" GAME, HE SISTS THAT NONE OF THE IMAGARY POLICI SHOULD BE BLOCKED OR RID; HOWEVER, WHEN TIME FOR PETER TO MAKE A SUGGTN, HE IMMEDIATELY STARTS SULTG . AND THEN, WHEN HE SUGGTS THAT THEY "DO AWAY WH PUTERS" AND PETER IMMEDIATELY POTS OUT NO UNCERTA TERMS WHAT A STUPID IA THIS IS, HE SIMPERS "NO BLOCKG, PETER. MERELY UNTERPOTG." ICE-CREAM KOAN: ONE OF THE THGS PETER HAT MOST ABOUT HIM IS HIS TENNCY TO SPOUT MEANGLS PR BUZZWORDS AND "MOTIVATNAL" SLOGANS. EVEN SIMPLE THGS LIKE "I WANTED TO TALK TO YOU" GET RENRED AS "I JT WANTED TO TAKE A FEW TRIPS WH YOU ON THE IAS ROEL." PROMPTG AN EXASPERATED FERG, ONE EPISO, TO SHOUT "SUBTL! YOU NEED SUBTL!" THE GOOLDG INQUIRY REVEALS HE LERALLY N'T TALK PLA ENGLISH. JERKASS: ARROGANT, POMPO, SELF-IMPORTANT, SELF-RIGHTEO, NSCENDG, PRENTENT AND OVER-BEARG. THAT SAID, HE REVEALS HIMSELF TO BE DISGTED WH HOW TOXIC THE NSERVATIVE PARTY HAS BEE DURG HIS FAL SPEECH. KICK THE DOG: FOR ALL HIS SOCIAL LIBERAL TENNCI, HE GO OUT OF HIS WAY TO HUIATE A HOTEL EMPLOYEE ONT OF A CROWD ROOM AFTER SHE TERPTS HIS THOUGHT MP, FOR NO REASON OTHER THAN TO VENT HIS OWN TRATNS. MARRIED TO THE JOB: HE HAS ISSU WH WORK-LIFE BALANCE: "I'M AN EXTRAORDARILY PRECISE MAN, THAT'S WHY MY WIFE LEFT ME." NICE TO THE WAER: INVERTED. AT THE THOUGHT CAMP, AFTER HE GETS "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH OM PETER, A HOTEL EMPLOYEE TO RM THEM THAT THERE'S AN EMERGENCY PHONE LL. WHILE 'S LIKELY DUE PART DUE TO THE FACT THAT HE'S SMARTG OM THE TONGUE-LASHG HE'S JT RECEIVED OM PETER, STEWART IS STILL NOTICEABLY SNI AND NSCENDG TOWARDS HER. HE ALSO GETS A B CHIPPY WH THE SK RECEPTNIST WHEN TRYG TO GET HIS PHONE BACK. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: FRANKL HAS SCRIBED HIM AS BEG BASED ON STEVE HILTON, A FORMER DIRECTOR OF STRATEGY FOR DAVID CAMERON. O.O.C. IS SER BS: HIS REACTN TO THE "SILIN PLAYGROUNDS" PROGRAMME BEG SCRAPPED IS TO JT WANR OFF A DAZE. HE'S SO AGHAST AT FERG AND ADAM'S BUYG A TAX-FUND TWO BILLN POUND MUNY BANK THAT HE'S RCED TO SLACK-JAWED DISBELIEF. WHEN THE PHOTO OF HIM AND PETER ON A SLI GO VIRAL, HE SCREAMS, THROWS PHIL'S PHONE AGAST A WALL AND JT LI DOWN ON THE FLOOR. OOP NORTH: HE SCRIB HIMSELF AS A LAD OM LEEDS WH A LT FOR LIFE. POTY-HAIRED BOSS: HIS PETENCE GROSSLY TERRAT ONCE HIS PARTY GETS TO POWER AND HE ACTUALLY HAS TO THK OF SILLY THGS LIKE BUDGET AND PRACTILY WHEN G UP WH HIS PIE--THE-SKY IAS. BTALLY LAMPSHAD BY PETER DURG THE "Y AND HO" EXERCISE:PETER: LET'S DO AWAY WH YOU. STEWART: WHAT? PETER: FILTER'S OFF, DADDY-O, LET ALL HANG OUT. JT SUPPOSE YOUR EE-RANGE NO-NSEQUENCE BULLSH WAS HUGELY ENTERTAG WHEN WE WERE OPPOSN AND SHTG MONEY, BUT NOW WE'RE ERNMENT AND 'S ALL GONE A B J.G. BALLARD 'S IRRELEVANT AND FANTILE! OH, AND MAYBE THE REASON YOU DON'T MD HANDG YOUR PHONE IS THAT DON'T RG AS MUCH AS ED TO. OH, SORRY; DON'T RG AS MUCH AS ED TO, Y AND HO. PRECISN F-STRIKE: ISN'T MUCH GIVEN TO SWEARG (PARED TO THE RT OF THE ST), BUT HIS FAL SPEECH UPON BEG SACKED CLUS A VERY WELL PLACED SWEAR WORD AT THE END. "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH: DELIVERS A VERY BTER ONE WHEN BEG SACKED TO HIS LLEAGU: "YOU KNOW, I'VE SPENT THE LAST TEN YEARS TOXIFYG THIS PARTY. IT’S BEEN A B LIKE RENOVATG AN OLD, OLD HOE, YEAH? YOU N TAKE OUT A SEXIST BEAM HERE, A LLO WDOW THERE, REPLACE THE ODD HOMOPHOBIC ROOF TILE, BUT AFTER A WHILE YOU REALISE THIS RENOVATN IS DOOMED BEE THE FOUNDATNS ARE BUILT UPON WHAT I N ONLY SCRIBE AS A SOLID BED OF CUNTS" SERIAL SPOE: HE HAS BEEN DIVORCED THREE TIM, SOMETHG HE BLAM ON HIM BEG AN "EXTRAORDARILY PRECISE MAN". HE'S SO ED TO HE PARED HIS WIV TO IPHON. SQUIPEDALIAN LOQUACNS: UNABLE TO SPEAK ANYTHG BUT FANCY WORDS AND ODD METAPHORS. S ARCH-NEMIS: PETER HAT HIS GUTS AND TAK EVERY OPPORTUNY TO EXPRS HIS LOATHG FOR HIM. THE HAPPIT PETER GETS IS WHEN STEWART IS SACKED THE FAL EPISO. TOOK A LEVEL JERKASS: HAS BEE QUE A NASTY AND NSCENDG PIECE OF WORK AS OF THE FOURTH SERI. VOLATILE SEND TIER POSN: HIS PREVLY LOW-EFFORT JOB TURNS VERY MANDG SERI 4 ONCE HE ACTUALLY HAS TO START TAKG BUDGET TO ACUNT. IT EVENTUALLY GETS HIM SACKED. VILLAO BREAKDOWN/VILLAO BSOD: SUFFERS A FEW NASTY S SERI 4 AS LAMI START TO STACK UP: IN THE FIRST EPISO, THE "SILIN PLAYGROUNDS" PROGRAMME IS SCRAPPED BY THE PRIME MISTER BEFORE N EVEN GET OFF THE GROUND, THANKS TO STEWART MISLEGATG WHO WOULD EXPLA TO THE PUBLIC; WORSE STILL, THE PM DON'T EVEN TELL STEWART THIS PERSONALLY—HE LEGAT TO AN UNRLG. STEWART N ONLY WANR OFF A TRMATIZED DAZE TO SUPPOSEDLY "RT HIS EY ON THE RIVER," NOT EVEN GETTG ANGRY WHEN PHIL FETS TO TAKE THE TEABAG OUT OF HIS MUG. EPISO THREE GIV HIM A WORSE DAY THAN UAL: HIS "THOUGHT CAMP" IS DISPTED, HE GETS UGHT UNAWAR BY THE TICKELL TASTROPHE, HE DISVERS THAT FERG AND ADAM END UP WASTG TWO BILLN TAX ON A MUNY BANK... AND THEN EMERG THAT HE WAS PHOTOGRAPHED STANDG ON A CHILDREN'S SLIPPERY-DIP WH PETER WHILST TRYG TO GET A PHONE SIGNAL. STEWART'S ONLY RPONSE IS TO LET OUT A PRIMAL SCREAM, HURL PHIL'S BLACKBERRY AT THE NEART WALL, STAGGER OVER TO THE END OF THE RRIDOR AND LLAPSE A HEAP. THE MONUMENTAL LEAKG BACLE AND THE G QUIRY EPISO FIVE SENDS STEWART TO BY FAR HIS MOST EXPLOSIVE RANT EVER, PLETE WH HYSTERIL HAND-WAVG, IMPOSSIBLE THREATS, AND A LOT OF FGER-POTG. "IN THE TIME HAS TAKEN FOR TERRI TO EXTRACT HERSELF OM A BLUETOOTH, THIS LTLE QUIRY HAS FED! IT IS NOW GROWG FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF BLOODY LIGHT! IT'S NOT GOG TO BE SOMETHG WE N SEE OM SPACE, 'S GOG TO BE SPACE! BRIAN COX IS GOG TO PHONE ME AND ASK FOR THE FILM RIGHTS!!!" WELL-INTENTNED EXTREMIST: BENEATH THE BUZZWORDS AND SELF-RIGHTEONS, STEWART IS GENUELY A SOCIAL LIBERAL WHO BELIEV GENR EQUALY, ENVIRONMENTALISM AND CLIVENS. HE REALLY DO WANT TO MORNISE THE PARTY AND MAKE KR AND LS REGRSIVE. UNFORTUNATELY HE SEEMS TO UNRTIMATE THE SIZE OF THE TASK, PRAISG THE UNSEEN PREMIER AS "GENUELY PROGRSIVE" SPE OTHER CHARACTERS HTG HE IS ANYTHG BUT. IT'S LIKELY HE IS BEG MANIPULATED BY HIS EMPLOYERS, WHO SAY THEY WANT TO MAKE THE PARTY LS NSERVATIVE, BUT ARE ACTUALLY JT DULGG A PUBLIC RELATNS EXERCISE TO SEEM LS NSERVATIVE. WHATEVER THE SE, LONG BEFORE HIS EXTREMELY BTER FAL SPEECH THOUGH, HE REALIZ 'S A LOST E.PETER MANNN MP, SHADOW MISTER FOR SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND CIZENSHIP (THE SPECIALS, SERI 3); MISTER FOR SOCIAL AFFAIRS AND CIZENSHIP (SERI 4)"I'M MORN! I SAY "BLACK" STEAD OF "LOURED," I THK WOMEN ARE A GOOD THG, I HAVE NO PROBLEM WH GAYS- MOST OF THEM ARE VERY WELL TURNED OUT, PECIALLY THE MEN. WHY IS THIS LAST YEAR I'M BEG MA TO FEEL AS IF I'M ALWAYS TWO STEPS BEHD, LIKE I N'T PROGRAM A VIO OR NVERT EVERYTHG BACK TO OLD MONEY? BEE THAT'S NOT ME!"PLAYED BY: ROGER ALLAMONE OF THE OLD GUARD, HE IS RISTANT TO THE NEW CULTURE OF SP AND BLANKETLY REF TO TAKE STEWART SERLY. HE WAS A JUNR MISTER WHEN HIS PARTY WERE LAST POWER. DURG THIS TIME HE ALSO GOT HIS HOEKEEPER PREGNANT AND TWELVE YEARS LATER HE STILL HASN'T LIVED THIS DOWN. DPE THIS HE IS ONE OF THE SHOW'S FEW SYMPATHETIC CHARACTERS. BY SERI FOUR, HE HAS BEE MISTER OF DOSAC AND IS UNHAPPY AT HAVG TO SHARE POWER THE COALN. BORN THE WRONG CENTURY: HE'S BASILLY AN OLD-SCHOOL TORY WHO'S BEEN DRAGGED KICKG AND SCREAMG TO A FLASHY, MORN MEDIA-NSC PARTY, AND HE HAT ALMOST EVERYTHG ABOUT . BREAK THE MOTIVATNAL SPEAKER: PETER SEEMS TO HAVE MA HIS MISSN LIFE TO VERBALLY FEAT STEWART, BUT FOR THE MOST PART, HE HASN'T HAD MUCH SUCCS. HOWEVER, AFTER SPENDG A WHOLE MORNG ENDURG THE IDCY OF THE THOUGHT CAMP, HE MANAG TO TEMPORARILY FLUMMOX STEWART DURG THE "Y AND HO" GAME BY SUGGTG A NEW AND NOVATIVE POLICY: DOG AWAY WH STEWART Y AND HO. HE MANAG AGA LATER ON, WHEN STEWART NAGS THAT HE DON'T HAVE JB'S APPROVAL TO PROCEED WH A NEW POLICY; MANNN TURNS AROUND AND YELLS "SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU PRANCG SH." STEWART APPEARS FLABBERGASTED. HE DO HAVE THE SATISFACTN OF SEEG STEWART REMOVED OM OFFICE, BUT GIVEN THAT HIS OWN REER ALSO HANGS BY A THREAD DUE TO HIS BEG STAED BY THE SAME SNDALS THAT BOUGHT DOWN STEWART, 'S A PYRRHIC VICTORY FOR HIM. BUTT-MONKEY: IT'S QUE OBV THE MAN IS WELL-MEANG, BUT HE'S NSTANTLY SURROUND BY PEOPLE WHO WANT TO MAKE HIM LOOK LIKE A TOSSER, OR PEOPLE WHO THK HE'S A TOSSER. HE'S ALSO NOT THE BT PUBLIC SPEAKER, BUT THEN AGA NEHER IS NILA MURRAY. CANNOT TELL A JOKE: HE'S ACCED OF THIS DURG THE RAD BATE:PETER MANNN: .. SHOULD E ROLLG ALONG THE RRIDOR BUT MALLM TUCKER, THE MAN WHO WAS ONCE REFERRED TO AS 'THE GORBALS GOEBBELS'? STEWART PEARSON: OH, DON'T DO A JOKE, PETER, DON'T DO A JOKE... CHILD HATER: "I HATE SCHOOL CHILDREN. THEY'RE VOLATILE AND STUPID AND THEY HAVEN'T GOT THE VOTE. MIGHT AS WELL BE TALKG TO FUCKG GEE." DEADPAN SNARKER: HE RPONDS TO MOST EVENTS AND CRIS HIS LIFE WH DRY, WHERG SARSM. WHEN STEWART ASKS WHEN A PARTY'S NOT A PARTY, MANNN RPONDS WH, "WHEN 'S AT YOUR HOE". THE EEYORE: APPARENTLY, EVEN HIS VOICE IS "PRSG TONALLY". EVERYONE HAS STANDARDS: HE'S NOT A FAN OF JB'S PENCHANT FOR RACIST JOK, AND WEL IMMIGRATN ON THE BASIS OF THE ENOMIC BENEFS. REF POT BLANK TO E NILA'S PERSONAL LIFE AGAST HER — AT LEAST UNTIL MALLM PERSUAS NILA THAT PETER'S PERSONAL LIFE IS FAIR GAME, AT WHICH POT HE PERFORMS A HEEL–FACE TURN. HE MAY BE HOPELS WH TECH, BUT EVEN HE KNOWS THAT STEWART'S "DO AWAY WH PUTERS", SUGGTN IS REALLY STUPID. FRIENDLY ENEMY: DURG THE OPPOSN'S VIS TO DOSAC, MALLM ACTUALLY GETS ALONG FAIRLY WELL WH PETER, CHEERFULLY TRADG SULTS AND JOK; THIS IS MOST LIKELY AN ATTEMPT AT DIPLOMACY MORE THAN ANY ACTUAL SIGN OF IENDSHIP, BUT STILL JARRG GIVEN THE BOLLOCKG MALLM HAD JT GIVEN PHIL. IN THE MISSG DOSAC FIL, AFTER GETTG CREASGLY TRATED WH OLLIE'S PATHETIC ATTEMPTS AT G UP WH CHARACTER ATTACKS AGAST PETER, MALLM FALLY GETS FED UP AND RORTS TO EMAILG PETER DIRECTLY TO SEE IF HE'D LIKE TO NTRIBUTE DIRT OM HIS "SORDID PAST," TO WHICH PETER CHEERFULLY REPLI WH SOME EXAMPL. OLLIE (WHO'S BEEN CC'D) IS BAFFLED BY THE EXCHANGE. GMPY OLD MAN: HE DON'T EXACTLY POSSS A SUNNY PERSONALY TO BEG WH, BUT BETWEEN BEG AN OLD-SCHOOL TORY A MEDIA-NSC THATCHERE PARTY, BEG DISRPECTED AND PATRONISED ON A NSTANT BASIS AND HAVG TO PUT UP WH STEWART'S BULLSH, PETER DON'T EXACTLY HAVE MANY REASONS FOR GOOD CHEER. HOPELS WH TECH: "WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UPLOAD AND DOWNLOAD?"'NOTE THAT SAID, HE DO UNRSTAND HOW EFUL MORN TECHNOLOGY IS — HENCE HIS BREAKDOWN OVER STEWART IVOLOLY SUGGTG THAT THE ERNMENT SHOULD DO AWAY WH PUTERS. HYPOCRIL HUMOUR: THE SPEECH QUOTED ABOVE; HE'S PLAG THAT EVERYONE TREATS HIM LIKE HE'S STUCK THE PAST, BUT HIS EXAMPL — KNOWG HOW TO PROGRAM A VCR AND NEEDG TO NVERT CIMAL CURRENCY TO 'OLD' MONEY — ARE THEMSELV NOT PARTICULARLY RELEVANT AT THE BEGNG OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY. JA-COLOURED GLASS: ONE GETS THE FEELG THAT PETER HAS LONG SCE LOST ALMOST ALL ENTHIASM FOR HIS JOB/REER/LIFE LONG AGO. JERK WH A HEART OF GOLD: IN A WAY; HE'S CYNIL, SARSTIC AND WORLD-WEARY, BUT HE ALSO ONE OF THE FEW TLY CENT, SYMPATHETIC AND PRCIPLED MA CHARACTERS THE SERI. EXCEPT... (SEE BELOW) MARRIED TO THE JOB: HIS UNSEEN WIFE IS ANNOYED ABOUT HIS MANDG WORK SCHLE. NICE TO THE WAER: ONE OF HIS GLARG FLAWS IS AVERTG THIS TROPE, BEG VERY FLIPPANT ABOUT MR. TICKEL AND JT AS FLIPPANT TO THE YOUTH WORKERS TOO. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: TIM YEO (THE LOVE CHILD). HIS APPEARANCE AND WAY OF SPEAKG ARE ALSO UNNNILY LIKE CHRIS PATTEN. LIKE NTEMPORARY CONSERVATIVE MP DAVID DAVIS HE IS A FAILED NDIDATE FOR LEAR, BUT HE IS SELF-SCRIBED AS PRO-IMMIGRATN, AND APPEARS TO BE IOLOGILLY SIAR TO KENH CLARKE. NO GOOD DEED GO UNPUNISHED: HE TELLS NILA HE WON'T E THE BULLYG STORY ONLY FOR MALLM TUCKER TO CLARE HIM FAIR GAME AT THE END OF THE EPISO ANYWAY. O.O.C. IS SER BS: ONE OF THE FEW TIM HIS SARSM FAILS HIM IS DURG GLENN'S RIGNATN SPEECH WHERE HE TELLS PETER THAT HE HAT HIM. HE JT STANDS THERE STUNNED SILENCE AND IS TELLGLY THE ONLY ONE WHO SUGGTS GOG TO HELP HIM. ONCE DONE, NEVER FOTTEN: HE HAD AN AFFAIR WH A HOEMAID THAT PRODUCED A SON TWELVE YEARS AGO. NO ONE WILL EVER LET HIM FET ABOUT . ONLY SANE MAN: OUT OF THE TORI ANYWAY, HE HAS A LOWER TOLERANCE FOR BULLSH THAN MOST OF THE ST. POLILLY INRRECT HERO: DOWNPLAYED. HE'S ONE OF THE MORE SYMPATHETIC CHARACTERS THE SERI BUT, AS THE QUOTE ABOVE SUGGTS, SEEMS THAT A LOT OF HIS ATTUS, IF NOT ACTUALLY RACIST, HOMOPHOBIC, ETC., N AT THE VERY LEAST BE SCRIBED AS OUTDATED. IN NTRAST WH OTHER MEMBERS OF HIS PARTY, WHO APPEAR TO HYPOCRILLY TRY AND HI GENUE RACIST AND HOMOPHOBIC VIEWS BEHD A TH VENEER OF 'IRONY' AND ATTEMPTS TO PROJECT AN AIR OF YOUTHFUL PROGRSIVENS, PETER DON'T SEEM TO HAVE ANY GENUE MALICE OR BIAS AGAST PEOPLE OF LOUR OR THE QUEER MUNY, BUT HE IS OFTEN VERY THOUGHTLS (E.G. SAYG AN ANGLO-SAXON STUNT'S NAME IS "EASIER TO PRONOUNCE" THAN A BRISH ASIAN ONE, OR PLIMENTG GAY PEOPLE FOR BEG "VERY WELL TURNED OUT") AND OLD-FASHNED HIS OUTLOOK. SCREW THE ELECTN, I HAVE RUL: "IF I HAVE TO WA ALL THIS SH TO W THE ELECTN, THEN I'M HAPPY TO LOSE !" STEWART REGARDS THIS AS A RIDICULO SE OF HONOUR BEFORE REASON. REPEATED SERI 4, WHERE HE IS DISGTED ENOUGH ABOUT THE ILLEGAL LEAKG OF THE MEDIL RERDS OF A PROMENT ANTI-ERNMENT POLICY PROTTER, RECENTLY CEASED, TO LEAK TO THE PRS. S ARCH-NEMIS: HE LOATH THE PATRONISG STEWART PEARSON WH THE WHE-HOT TENSY OF A THOAND BURNG SUPERNOVAS, AND THE FEELG IS VERY MUCH MUTUAL. SMARTER THAN YOU LOOK: FOR ALL HIS PETENCE DURG THE "CALL APP BRA", BACLE, WAS PETER WHO TOLD THE PRIME MISTER TO WIN THE GOLDG INQUIRY TO MAKE AN QUIRY ON LEAKG, WHICH ULTIMATELY TAK OUT MALLM TUCKER, OF ALL PEOPLE.EMMA MSGER, AI TO PETER MANNN"PETER, YOU N'T SAY THE PUBLIC ARE FUCKG HORRIBLE."PLAYED BY: OLIVIA POULETOLLIE REER'S GIRLIEND AND ALSO HIS UNTERPART THE OPPOSN. LIKE OLLIE, SHE AB THEIR RELATNSHIP TO GATHER RMATN ON THE OPPOSG PARTY'S PLANS. SHE LIV A FLAT WH FELLOW ADVISOR PHIL, BUT N'T STAND HIM. BLON REPUBLIN SEX KTEN: VERY MUCH HER CHARACTERIZATN, EXCEPT REPLACE "REPUBLIN" WH "TORY" (WELL, PROBABLY TORY): SHE'S POSH, SHE'S BLON, SHE'S AMB AND SHE'S A NSERVATIVE. DON'T KEEP HER OM SLEEPG WH (PROBABLE) LABOUR MAN OLLY REER. CHEKHOV'S GUNMAN: IN SEASON TWO, SHE WAS OLLY'S MENTNED, BUT NEVER SEEN GIRLIEND THE OPPOSN. STARTG WH THE SPECIALS, SHE BE A REGULAR CHARACTER. DATG CATWOMAN: SHE SHAR THE SAME JOB ROLE AND RANK AS BOYIEND OLLIE, BUT THE OPPOSN PARTY. DEADPAN SNARKER: "I'M HAVG AN AFFAIR WH RICHARD BAN. I'M CREDIBLY AROED BY MEN WH MEAT THEIR SURNAM." ESTABLISHG CHARACTER MOMENT: SHE SPENDS MUCH OF HER FIRST EPISO BEG QUE LOVELY-DOVEY WH HER BOYIEND OLLIE. AND THEN THE MOMENT WHEN SHE THLSLY STEALS HIS IA AND PCH TO HER OWN BOSS BEHD HIS BACK. AND WHEN THEY GO FOR , SCE 'S EVABLE THAT OLLIE WILL FD OUT ABOUT , SHE IALLY TRI TO WEASEL OUT OF THE BLAME BY CLAIMG PHIL WAS THE ONE WHO DID . GIRL FRIDAY: A PRETTY PETENT ONE FOR PETER. ICE QUEEN: EMMA STARTS OFF ALL LOVEY-DOVEY WH OLLIE, BUT OVER THE URSE OF THE SERI THLSLY STEALS HIS IAS AND LDLY KICKS HIM TO THE KERB ON A NUMBER OF OCSNS. SHE ALSO TREATS PHIL, GLENN AND TERRI WH UTTER NTEMPT AND HATRED ALMOST EVERY TERACTN WH THEM. JERKASS: AN SPID, POSH, BCH WHO IS JT AS NASTY ABOUT MR. TICKEL AS THE RT OF DOSAC AS REVEALED DURG THE GOOLDG INQUIRY. NEVER MY FLT: BLAM EVERYTHG THAT GO WRONG ON PHIL, EVEN WHEN WAS AT LEAST PARTIALLY HER IA. THIS FALLY BACKFIR ON HER THE GOOLDG INQUIRY, WHEN SHE BLAM PHIL AND ADAM FOR THE SENSIVE MENTS MA ABOUT MR. TICKELL, ONLY TO HAVE HER OWN (VERY SULTG) EXACT WORDS ON THE MATTER READ OUT PUBLIC. RICH BCH: WHEN GLENN CULLEN CIS TO RIGN AND LIVERS HIS EXTREMELY BTER "THE REASON YOU SUCK" SPEECH TO THE ENTIRE PARTMENT, HE SPECIFILLY SGL EMMA OUT AS A "STANDARD-ISSUE SIPID POSH BCH." VRLIC BT BUDS: WH PHIL; THE TWO HAVE A HATE-FILLED RELATNSHIP AND EACH WOULD THROW THE OTHER UNR THE B, BUT THEY DO OCSNALLY ENGAGE IENDLY BANTER — AND THEY'VE MANAGED TO SUCCSFULLY SHARE A FLAT FOR QUE SOME TIME WHOUT KILLG EACH OTHER.PHILIP BARTHOLOMEW CORNELI "PHIL" SMH, AI TO PETER MANNN"IT'S A DARK SU AND 'S ONLY LEWARM, I STILL WIN!"PLAYED BY: WILL SMHEMMA'S FLATMATE AND OLLIE'S WORST ENEMY, HE IS GLENN'S UNTERPART THE OPPOSN SPE BEG NSIRABLY YOUNGER. HE IS CHILDISH AND IMMATURE, NSTANTLY SUCKS UP TO PETER MANNN AND N'T TALK WHOUT G THE LORD OF THE RGS METAPHORS. HE OFTEN SUFFERS OM UNFLATTERG PARISONS TO RUPERT BROOKE AND JAM MAY DUE TO HIS OUTDATED HAIRSTYLE. '80S HAIR: HE SPORTS A SHOULR-LENGTH MULLET. AM/FM CHARACTERIZATN: IN ADDN TO HIS NSTANTLY REFERENCG FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTN, HE'S CLEARLY A FAN OF QUEEN, AS HE MENTNS THEM QUE A B DIALOGUE. BUTT-MONKEY: AS OF SERI 4, EVERYONE TREATS HIM WH TOTAL NTEMPT, POSSIBLY BEE EMMA IS NO LONGER THERE ALL THE TIME TO DRAW ATTENTN AWAY OM JT HOW SPECTACULARLY PETENT HE REALLY IS. HE REMAS SO , OBNOX AND ARROGANT, HOWEVER, THAT 'S HARD TO FEEL SORRY FOR HIM. CLOUDCUCKOOLANR: HE DON'T MAKE REFERENC BASED REALY. DEADPANSNARKER: WHILE MOST OF HIS JOK FALL FLAT, HIS W OCSNALLY SH THROUGH.PHIL: SO WHAT HAVE WE JT GREENL?ADAM: WELL, WE ARE STARTG A MUNY BANK WH TWO BILLN POUNDS.PHIL: IS THAT THE TWO BILLN POUNDS WE KEEP THE BISCU T? FLANRIZATN: IN HIS FIRST APPEARANC DURG THE FIRST SPECIAL (AND THE OPPOSN EXTRA THAT NS NCURRENT WH THE SEND SPECIAL), HE'S AN EXPERIENCED AND EASILY-JANGLED BUT FAIRLY SAVVY WORKER WH A SIRE TO PONY UP TO PETER MANNN AND AN OBSSN WH THE '80S. HOWEVER, DURG THE THIRD SERI, HE STARTS BEHAVG VERY UNPROFSNALLY HIS ATTEMPTS TO MS WH OLLIE, AND THE FALE, HE'S JUDGED ELS ENOUGH TO BE LEGATED TO FFEE DUTI. BY THE FOURTH SERI, HE'S LTLE MORE THAN A ELS, IMMATURE "8-YEAR-OLD TRAPPED THE BODY OF A 12-YEAR-OLD," ABOUT WHOM EVERY TERACTN ENDS WH EHER A PUNCHLE ABOUT HOW MUCH HE LOV SCI-FI AND FANTASY OR SOMETHG ABOUT HIM SUCKG UP TO PETER; ADMTEDLY, THE WORST OF HIS ELSNS IS PARTLY DUE TO THE FACT THAT HE'S NO LONGER TEAMED UP WH EMMA. FANBOY: MUCH TO THE ANNOYANCE OF EVERYONE AROUND HIM, HE NSTANTLY MENTNS FANTASY AND SCIENCE-FICTN NVERSATN. HE EVEN HAS HIS ACTN FIGUR STILL THE BOX. GEEK PHYSIQU: GLENN SCRIB HIM AS AN 8-YEAR-OLD A 12-YEAR-OLD'S BODY. HEROIC BSOD: AFTER ALG WH STEWART'S OVERLY-SACCHARE MO OF NEGOTIATNS FOR MOST OF HIS REER, PHIL WAS NOT PREPARED FOR A BOLLOCKG OM MALLM - AFTER MALLM IS THROUGH WH HIM, HE LOOKS LIKE HE'S JT SOILED HIMSELF. IN FACT, A LETED SCENE, PHIL ADMS TO BEG SO IGHTENED, HE LEFT THE BUILDG A DAZE AND DIDN'T STOP WANRG UNTIL HE REACHED GREENWICH. (FOR THOSE NOT FAIAR WH LONDON, 'S ABOUT SIX (TEN KM) OM WHEHALL TO GREENWICH.) HERO-WORSHIPPER: TO PETER MANNN TO THE POT OF BEG A WORLD EXPERT. JERKASS: MORE SO THAN OLLIE REER, HE UNNECCSARILY MISTREAT GLENN, HE'S APPROPIATELY SENSIVE ABOUT MR TICKEL'S MENTAL ISSU AND NSTANTLY MAK POLILLY RRECT MENTS THAN EVEN SHOCK EMMA. MANCHILD: HIS CHILDLIKE PERSONALY HAS BEEN MENTNED QUE A FEW TIM. NEAT FREAK: "THERE'S NO HAPPS WHOUT ORR. IT'S A NAZI QUOTE, BUT NONE THE LS STANDS THE TT OF TIME." NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: HIS OUTDATED FASHN SENSE AND GANGLY PHYSIQUE ARE REMISCENT OF JAB RE-MOGG. OLR THAN THEY LOOK: WHILE PHIL'S AGE IS NEVER STATED ON-SCREEN 'S HTED THAT HE'S AROUND THE SAME AGE AS OLLIE (WHO IS, AT THE BEGNG OF THE SERI, IMPLIED TO BE HIS MID-TWENTI). WILL SMH WAS BORN 1971. PROFSNAL BUTT-KISSER: ONE OF HIS KEY TRAS IS HIS SYPHANTIC BEHAVUR TOWARDS PETER. PROUD TO BE A GEEK: DPE THE RISN HIS HOBBI RECEIVE OM EVERYONE. SMALL NAME, BIG EGO: BY SEASON 4, HIS BELIEFS GREATLY OUTWEIGH HIS ACTUAL PABILI. UNDYG LOYALTY: IF PHIL HAS ANY REEMG FEATURE 'S HIS VOTN TO PETER. HE EVEN SAYS DURG THE TICKELL FIAS THAT MANNN WILL RIGN "OVER HIS AD BODY." VRLIC BT BUDS: WH EMMA; THE TWO HAVE A HATE-FILLED RELATNSHIP AND EACH WOULD THROW THE OTHER UNR THE B, BUT THEY DO OCSNALLY ENGAGE IENDLY BANTER — AND THEY'VE MANAGED TO SUCCSFULLY SHARE A FLAT FOR QUE SOME TIME WHOUT KILLG EACH OTHER. WANRG WALK OF MADNS: AFTER A HARROWG FIRST-TIME BOLLOCKG OM MALLM TUCKER, HE WANRS OFF A TRMATIZED DAZE AND, ACRDG TO A LETED SCENE, ACTUALLY LEFT THE BUILDG ALTOGETHER; HE WAS SO TERRIFIED THAT HE DIDN'T STOP WALKG UNTIL HE REACHED GREENWICH - A GOOD TEN KILOMETR AWAY! YOU NEED TO GET LAID: SEND PLACE TO GLENN WHEN TO JOK ABOUT HIS LACK OF A SEX LIFE.AFFERS"YOU N SEE WHY PEOPLE DON'T VOTE!"PLAYED BY: DAVID DAWSONEMMA'S LTLE BROTHER, HE LIV WH EMMA AND PHIL. HIS VOLVEMENT POLICS SEEMS TO EXTEND TO FUCKG OFF, DARLG, WHEN EMMA NEEDS TO DISCS SOMETHG WH OLLIE PRIVATE. FUNNY BACKGROUND EVENT: HIS PURPOSE THE SHOW, REALLY. CAL "THE FUCKER" RICHARDS"FUCK, WHAT I REALLY NEED TO DO, IS SHOOT YOU ALL THE BACK OF THE HEAD. FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! FUCK! BUT I N'T, BEE 'S ILLEGAL!"PLAYED BY: TOM HOLLANRBROUGHT AS A PR ADVISOR AHEAD OF THE GENERAL ELECTN. HE IS AN AGGRSIVE AND PSYCHOTIC BULLY WH A VERY CEL SENSE OF HUMOUR. AX-CRAZY: LOOKS VERY DISAPPOTED WHEN HE REFLECTS ABOUT HOW WOULD BE ILLEGAL TO SHOOT EVERYONE THE BACK OF THE HEAD. THE DREAD: THE MERE MENTN OF HIS NAME BRGS ABOUT AN ATMOSPHERE OF PANIC. EVIL HAS A BAD SENSE OF HUMOUR: TELLG STEWART HE'S FIRED THEN LGHG OFF AS WELL AS TELLG PHIL TO OVERDOSE ON BARBURAT. EVIL COUNTERPART: TO MALLM OF ALL PEOPLE. FRIENDLY ENEMY: THE MISSG DOSAC FIL REVEALS THAT HE IS APPARENTLY GOOD IENDS WH MALLM, TO THE POT WHERE THEY PLAY TENNIS AND MALLM SEEMS TO BE AN HONORARY MEMBER OF THE FAY. JERKASS: POSSIBLY THE BIGGT JERK ON THE ENTIRE SHOW. NAM TO RUN AWAY OM REALLY FAST: LET'S JT SAY HE DIDN'T GET HIS NICKNAME OUT OF THE BLUE. THE NAPOLEON: SHORT OF BOTH STATURE AND TEMPER. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: ANDY COULSON, RICHARD LTLEJOHN THE TIE- BOOK. NO INDOOR VOICE: PRONE TO SHOUTING WHEN ANGRY, WHICH IS ALMOST ALL THE TIME. SADIST: LOV SRG THE SH OUT OF EVERYONE DURG HIS TRODUCTN. SUDNLY SHOUTG: WHEN STEWART PEARSON IS PCHG WHAT TO SMART BOMB THE PM WH, CAL JT GO, "FUCK! THAT IS BRILLIAAAAAANT!". SHROUD MYTH: "THE FUCKER, HE ', HE ' TO YOUR TOWN..."MARY DRAKE"I'M HERE AN ANGRY PACY."PLAYED BY: SYLVTRA LE TOUZELA SENR BET MISTER, MARY HAS THE DIRECT EAR OF THE PRIME MISTER. BCH SHEEP'S CLOTHG: WHEN WE FIRST MEET MARY, SHE SEEMS LIKE A NICE, SANE VOICE OF REASON. NEXT TIME AROUND, SHE'S NOT SO NICE. CHEKHOV'S GUNMAN: SHE FIRST APPEARS AS ONE OF THE PARTICIPANTS THE COALN'S "MD CAMP" AND IS PRENT WHEN PETER SUGGTS FIRG STEWART. SEVERAL EPISOS LATER SHE REAPPEARS, FIRG STEWART AND REPLACG HIM AS HEAD OF MUNITNS. EARLY-BIRD CAMEO: APPEARS BRIEFLY AT STEWART'S "THOUGHT MP" S4E3. HAS A TYPE: LIK HER MEN WEAK AND WHE IF HER DIALOGUE IS TO BE BELIEVED. NO CELEBRI WERE HARMED: THERA MAY. TYRANT TAK THE HELM: SHE OTS STEWART BY THE END OF THE SERI. EVERYTHG SUGGTS SHE'S GOG TO BE MUCH MORE UNPLEASANT.THE JUNR COALN PARTY (SERI 4)

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