@@swanningabout "yeah we watched the video too" fuck up pal. if someone quotes something from the video they're obviously stating their favourite line. now get tae fuck ya wet wipe.
By all the laws of nature and the RUclips comments section Nicola won, she got them with a grammar technicality at the last seconds and blocked them immediately (left the room in a hurry). Perfect form.
I think that may be Malcolm's best evisceration speech ever; so cold and calm that you know it's not angry, ranting hyperbole, and he means every word of it. I think Nicola actually handled herself quite well being on the receiving end, if only she were that controlled normally she would have been a much better leader.
Verbally pulling ollie out of the hospital after ollie's kidney operation and forcing him to come back to work in his hospital gown. Utterly brutal, bloody minded, savage. You were laughing at malcolm tucker eviscerating. That was the reason. Why capaldi didn't like doing the thick of it. And type casting
It's vicious, but I never felt sorry for her. Even before she became leader, it was clear she had no loyalty to her own staff, and there were multiple instances of her wanting to throw them under the bus to save herself. She has this scatterbrained facade, but she's as awful a person as the rest of the cast.
I love the little look Dan gives Malcolm before he barges in. He's all pleasant smiles for Nicola, but you can tell he's just thinking, "Come take her out of here, please."
@@erikandersen3274 eh, he spent years as one of the top figures in government, he'll go do his 6 months then come out with whatever comfortable nest egg he has set aside, maybe get a spot in the house of lords next time labour are in power to shut him up because he knows where too many bodies are buried.
As a voter, I don't like all these background political shenanigans...all I want to know is - If elected, will Dan Miller stand up for the Quiet Batpeople???
It's ironic that voters genuinely believe politicians care about their job of serving the country. When the reality is they are all fighting each other all the time in their own party, for even the vaguest sniff of a promotion, to wield more power over each other. The thought of doing their job well for a long time is the last thing on their mind.
@@cattysplatMalcolm sums it up nicely at the end of the inquiry, saying that the political class has abandoned morality in favour of popularity at all costs. Standing for nothing but re-election
Ironically both Malcom and Nicola are finished by the end of the series. He is made a scapegoat and arrested after the enquiry and she is humiliated and becomes a political punching bag. They both destroyed each other in a way.
i actually really liked Nicola. She was just a candid picture of a flawed and scatterbrained working woman that was easy to relate to. They didn't try to glamourise her or use her as the 'strong female character' trope which is cliched
She was horrible at her job. Did nothing productive to help people and was just selfish, typical MP. She was a well written character, epitomised problems with politicians
I dont think that's fair. She was given a shit ministry that got offloaded with all the shit no one else wanted to handle. She wasn't that much different from the rest, except that she was the one left holding the bag when the others decided they didnt want to touch it. She was a pretty useless opposition leader, but as an MP, she was not different enough to say she was horrible. Most of the shit she wanted to do got immediately shat on by Malcolm to make life easier for the same people she was holding the rubbish for.
Out of universe, I think it was a mistake to make her leader. She's pretty dumb yes, but too dumb even to approximate Jeremy Corbyn. Good character until then though.
The previous seasons of the Thick of It didn't involve the Prime Minister or Opposition Leader much, and managed to avoid that precise problem because of it. The benefits don't outweigh the implausibility of Nicola Murray as leader, even by Thick of It standards.
@@WalkerOfTheWastes I agree with what you said the conservative party is composed of some self-serving and elitist politicians. The party is also fragmented in which key party members don't share the same political agenda. BoJo embodies the traditional leadership traits but doesn't do policies which actually deliver value and sacked ministers whose political interests don't align with his. Jacob Rees Mogg only cares about being the hypocritical upper-class "gentleman" to serve the far-right voters. Theresa May is the woman who was weak to unite her party and lacked the will to compromise with the EU. Sajid Javid was the minister who had a liberal agenda and humble background, while his protege Rishi Sanuk is assumed to be a mole planted by BoJo to spy on Sajid and was promoted to Chancellor when Sajid was ordered BoJo to sack his advisors.
I'm curious as to what the Tories very own Malcolm Tucker must have said to Theresa May during the days after June 8th. Fuck, it would have been brutal.
He'd probably have the Corbyn trajectory. His first election he wouldn't win but they'd make some decent progress, but the election after he'd get trounced. Doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who would have a committed Brexit stance either. JB would get replaced by a Boris-esque tory after the Brexit vote and that guy would smash Dan
you can just tell that malcom had been planning what he was going to tell her, at the start of the video he was pacing back and forth, eavesdropping to find the perfect moment to come in, or when dan gave the head nod at around 0:30. he did just enough insulting and destructive wording to break her spirit (you can see that on her face at 1:10) but you can tell when she talked about pissing into his tent what came next was all on him from his core. when he was having a go at her before his voice was low, serious, and was intentionally like that to put the weight of what he was saying across, but when he talked about how she would fuck up her pissing he spoke in a raised voice, he leaned in close as if about to pounce over the table and begin throttling her, and while his words continued to stay condensed enough that they broke her harder, they carried more weight because they werent rehearsed and they were meant to be felt and they were meant to cut deep and hurt hard, which they did.
Of course, the best bit is that Nicola's right - the inquiry does fuck over Malcolm and he has a massive fall from grace due to a combination of his actions and arrogance. Nicola is the only one who actually comes out of the series OK. Everyone else either loses their jobs or is stuck in the same cycle they were in before. Murray looks a bit silly and scatter-brained, but nothing she's done is really that bad, and she manages to take down an entire era of political spin by pushing for the inquiry to go further.
nicola doesnt actually come out OK, shes turned into a backbencher where she was before, possibly even resigning from politics completely. the only ones i think who came out OK was dan miller and ollie, who rose to be the top dogs, replacing nicola and malcolm respectively. the rest as you say fell flat and lost their jobs or theyre stuck in the loop (to quote the movie name). and nicola wasnt actually right, since she wanted to stop the inquiry because it would have fucked her over since she supported the bill. the inquiry that actually fucked malcolm over was a near completely different one, since at this stage it was just about the bill that made mr tickel homeless, and when it brought down malcolm it was about the entirety of leaking - thanks to the two dipshit coalition "we bought a bank" bunglers and glenn cullens inability to redact causing the inquiry team to look at leaking as a whole. that wasnt nicola pissing into malcolms tent like she said she would. malcolm did kind of bring himself down though, youre right there. his past actions caught up with him and forced him to step out of the limelight of politics.
Ironically, Malcolm was one of the few people that took Tickell seriously and seemed to have sympathy for him losing his home - it wasn't his handling of the event that brought him down, but his spinning of it and the leaks surrounding that.
@@frasierfreak92 It was Emma's idea to get the enquiry to go further, to investigate PFI contracts to get Nicola into trouble over Mr Tickel's death as well. Peter used her idea ("Let's kick her in the PFI's!") When Fergus and Adam's e-mails were leaked by Glenn. Peter made a phone call to someone saying that Mr Tickel's medical records were illegally obtained. Which made the enquiry investigate leaking in general. And it diverted attention away from him over Mr Tickel's death.
I wrote the same comment, before I saw yours. I'm not a Labour man by any stretch o the imagination, but at least Corbyn has principles (I think they're bullshit) and would never give them up for the sake of power. I don't like Corbyn, But I do respect his integrity.
The Conservatives got more seats, than Labour, the SNP, the Lib Dems, Plaid, and the Greens combined. And that was after the Conservatives produced one of the worst manifesto's in history, and Labour one of the best... I think my assessment is entirely fair.
If the conservatives produce a shit manifesto and Labour a good one then that makes Nicola Murray the conservative party. She's the type of person to fuck up a 25 point advantage in 2 months.
Poor old Nicola. I felt she represented the normal person in that world of abnormal people; trying to do her best, failing, and being lambasted for every mistake.
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the delay along with the obvious lack of sincerity of the "steady on Malcolm that's a bit strong" line from Dan was absolute perfection
Yeah the way he says “that’s a bit strong”, obviously implying that he agrees anyway
Darkstar263 that’s literally the point that was made in the comment
It's like the Willy Wonka "No, stop, come back."
Amd he said it so he could later say that he had.
I also like how Dan invited Malcolm in with his head. Like Malcolm was desperate to get stuck in and just needed the slightest of invites
"You've got all the charm of a rotting teddy bear by a graveside." LOL
Darkstar263 Yes...we've all watched the same clip...
That's exactly what I think of Theresa May!!
@@swanningabout "yeah we watched the video too" fuck up pal. if someone quotes something from the video they're obviously stating their favourite line. now get tae fuck ya wet wipe.
@@matt-ko4cc I'm feeling the spirit of Malcolm in this comment. Heh!
One of my favourite ever Malcolm insults. The image is wonderfully vivid.
Actual transcript of the 1922 Committee's meeting with Liz Truss last week
I imagine this is how Teresa May’s leadership ended.
Art imitating real life imitating art
Missing an h there. You illiterate fuck.
I actually feel bad for her but she was a Tory so...💁
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Liz Truss
Can't believe Dan Miller is the dad from my parents are aliens
...and was the slightly unhinged owner of the cafe in Lead Balloon
...and Professor Tony Shales in Fresh Meat
Great actor
Pff, I remember him in the advert for the first gen Renault Megane...
He's also the Colonel in "Bluestone42."
"What's the first rule?"
By all the laws of nature and the RUclips comments section Nicola won, she got them with a grammar technicality at the last seconds and blocked them immediately (left the room in a hurry). Perfect form.
I think that may be Malcolm's best evisceration speech ever; so cold and calm that you know it's not angry, ranting hyperbole, and he means every word of it. I think Nicola actually handled herself quite well being on the receiving end, if only she were that controlled normally she would have been a much better leader.
she was just in shock and so broken by his words that her options for all she could do was remain calm or pass out.
"Finished?" "No, you're finished"
Love how that mirrors the final words between Malcolm and the inquiry.
This is his most vindictive moment.
She fucked the party. He genuinely wants to get people into power to help people.
Verbally pulling ollie out of the hospital after ollie's kidney operation and forcing him to come back to work in his hospital gown. Utterly brutal, bloody minded, savage. You were laughing at malcolm tucker eviscerating. That was the reason. Why capaldi didn't like doing the thick of it. And type casting
It's vicious, but I never felt sorry for her. Even before she became leader, it was clear she had no loyalty to her own staff, and there were multiple instances of her wanting to throw them under the bus to save herself. She has this scatterbrained facade, but she's as awful a person as the rest of the cast.
I love the little look Dan gives Malcolm before he barges in. He's all pleasant smiles for Nicola, but you can tell he's just thinking, "Come take her out of here, please."
Malcolm's closing line in the Inquiry echoes his remark here: "Finished? I'm finished"
That’s what I was thinking, then he walks away though. Knowing that he’s done in politics, but it’s more being freed. Just freed from his own life.
Ironically he then goes to jail
@@erikandersen3274 eh, he spent years as one of the top figures in government, he'll go do his 6 months then come out with whatever comfortable nest egg he has set aside, maybe get a spot in the house of lords next time labour are in power to shut him up because he knows where too many bodies are buried.
"Political fucking mist."
Man, SO much venom in that line.
"Women f&ckin hate you, they think you come across like a jittery mother at a wedding." Comedy gold😂
As a voter, I don't like all these background political shenanigans...all I want to know is -
If elected, will Dan Miller stand up for the Quiet Batpeople???
It's ironic that voters genuinely believe politicians care about their job of serving the country. When the reality is they are all fighting each other all the time in their own party, for even the vaguest sniff of a promotion, to wield more power over each other. The thought of doing their job well for a long time is the last thing on their mind.
@@cattysplatMalcolm sums it up nicely at the end of the inquiry, saying that the political class has abandoned morality in favour of popularity at all costs. Standing for nothing but re-election
I love the part around 0:33 where Dan looks over his shoulder to silently summon Malcolm.
The slow beckoning head tilt as he turns back towards Nicola is perfect
"...and prepare for your column in Grazia." Christ.
I don't get it
@@Theseamus2000 it's a weekly women's mag that... well... it's not a great one
@@tariqmohamed how bad we talking? Boring and poorly written or is what it writes bad?
@@Theseamus2000 it's more obscure mediocrity
Only Malcolm can make the line "you're not a grandee you're a fuckin' blandee" sound cool
"steady on Malcolm, that's a bit strong"
Said with absolutely zero empathy hahahahahaha
@@areteees and said after he finished his tirade rather than stopping him mid flow.
The level of foreshadowing of Nicola Murray to Theresa May is amazing.
Theresa May was not that bad. She was just killed off by extremists in her party.
"there's your golden handshake"
👏🏻
dbasq1 Yes...we've all watched the same clip...
Ironically both Malcom and Nicola are finished by the end of the series. He is made a scapegoat and arrested after the enquiry and she is humiliated and becomes a political punching bag. They both destroyed each other in a way.
Personally it seemed more like they destroyed themselves while trying to ruin each other and failing to do so.
So good. A nice blocking touch with her sort of struggling with the chair and Malcolm moving it over without a thought.
Nicola never had the makings of a varsity party grandee.
Too much gabagool
i actually really liked Nicola. She was just a candid picture of a flawed and scatterbrained working woman that was easy to relate to. They didn't try to glamourise her or use her as the 'strong female character' trope which is cliched
She was horrible at her job. Did nothing productive to help people and was just selfish, typical MP. She was a well written character, epitomised problems with politicians
this is a pretty muddled comment lmao
I dont think that's fair. She was given a shit ministry that got offloaded with all the shit no one else wanted to handle. She wasn't that much different from the rest, except that she was the one left holding the bag when the others decided they didnt want to touch it. She was a pretty useless opposition leader, but as an MP, she was not different enough to say she was horrible. Most of the shit she wanted to do got immediately shat on by Malcolm to make life easier for the same people she was holding the rubbish for.
Out of universe, I think it was a mistake to make her leader. She's pretty dumb yes, but too dumb even to approximate Jeremy Corbyn. Good character until then though.
The previous seasons of the Thick of It didn't involve the Prime Minister or Opposition Leader much, and managed to avoid that precise problem because of it. The benefits don't outweigh the implausibility of Nicola Murray as leader, even by Thick of It standards.
Sounds like a fairly accurate description of a certain female PM as well.
MarsProbe May or Thatcher?
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Thanks for the mental imagery there! Bloody hell!
@@WalkerOfTheWastes You lost me when you used 'dime'. Don't trust non-American people who use American currency in phrases.
@@artsed08 I live in Scotland, mate. Nice to see it's only the wording and not the content you disagree with.
@@WalkerOfTheWastes I agree with what you said the conservative party is composed of some self-serving and elitist politicians. The party is also fragmented in which key party members don't share the same political agenda. BoJo embodies the traditional leadership traits but doesn't do policies which actually deliver value and sacked ministers whose political interests don't align with his. Jacob Rees Mogg only cares about being the hypocritical upper-class "gentleman" to serve the far-right voters. Theresa May is the woman who was weak to unite her party and lacked the will to compromise with the EU. Sajid Javid was the minister who had a liberal agenda and humble background, while his protege Rishi Sanuk is assumed to be a mole planted by BoJo to spy on Sajid and was promoted to Chancellor when Sajid was ordered BoJo to sack his advisors.
I know for a fact Malcolm would make me cry.
Such a great series!! Not far off reality now 😂😂😂
Underrated actress, in my opinion.
Afraid not, nothing underrated about Rebecca Front. She's great.
@Bilal Khalid Yh I agree I would have kept her on in that position just for her looks .....
She was also in The Wrong Mans and Grandma's House, and is in Avenue 5. She's the reason Veep happened.
I'm curious as to what the Tories very own Malcolm Tucker must have said to Theresa May during the days after June 8th. Fuck, it would have been brutal.
I'm sure it happened in some way or another and I wish I was there to savour every word.
Like how he’s doesn’t tell him to go easy until after he’s finished his rant
Ironically the inquiry fucked Malcolm the most 😂
"That's a bit strong" brilliant!!!
In the canon of this series, I doubt Dan ever goes on to become PM. The moment you appear on screen, you lose.
He'd probably have the Corbyn trajectory. His first election he wouldn't win but they'd make some decent progress, but the election after he'd get trounced. Doesn't strike me as the kind of guy who would have a committed Brexit stance either. JB would get replaced by a Boris-esque tory after the Brexit vote and that guy would smash Dan
Well, Labour have had the backends of shit since 2012 so…
I mean, the PM from the early series didn't show up either and he lost. And hey, Mannion and his crew got to be in government so they won...
@@ClaraFinndidn't peg him as an antisemite
A rotting teddy bear by a graveside. Marvelous.
you can just tell that malcom had been planning what he was going to tell her, at the start of the video he was pacing back and forth, eavesdropping to find the perfect moment to come in, or when dan gave the head nod at around 0:30. he did just enough insulting and destructive wording to break her spirit (you can see that on her face at 1:10)
but you can tell when she talked about pissing into his tent what came next was all on him from his core. when he was having a go at her before his voice was low, serious, and was intentionally like that to put the weight of what he was saying across, but when he talked about how she would fuck up her pissing he spoke in a raised voice, he leaned in close as if about to pounce over the table and begin throttling her, and while his words continued to stay condensed enough that they broke her harder, they carried more weight because they werent rehearsed and they were meant to be felt and they were meant to cut deep and hurt hard, which they did.
Of course, the best bit is that Nicola's right - the inquiry does fuck over Malcolm and he has a massive fall from grace due to a combination of his actions and arrogance. Nicola is the only one who actually comes out of the series OK. Everyone else either loses their jobs or is stuck in the same cycle they were in before. Murray looks a bit silly and scatter-brained, but nothing she's done is really that bad, and she manages to take down an entire era of political spin by pushing for the inquiry to go further.
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nicola doesnt actually come out OK, shes turned into a backbencher where she was before, possibly even resigning from politics completely. the only ones i think who came out OK was dan miller and ollie, who rose to be the top dogs, replacing nicola and malcolm respectively. the rest as you say fell flat and lost their jobs or theyre stuck in the loop (to quote the movie name).
and nicola wasnt actually right, since she wanted to stop the inquiry because it would have fucked her over since she supported the bill. the inquiry that actually fucked malcolm over was a near completely different one, since at this stage it was just about the bill that made mr tickel homeless, and when it brought down malcolm it was about the entirety of leaking - thanks to the two dipshit coalition "we bought a bank" bunglers and glenn cullens inability to redact causing the inquiry team to look at leaking as a whole. that wasnt nicola pissing into malcolms tent like she said she would.
malcolm did kind of bring himself down though, youre right there. his past actions caught up with him and forced him to step out of the limelight of politics.
Ironically, Malcolm was one of the few people that took Tickell seriously and seemed to have sympathy for him losing his home - it wasn't his handling of the event that brought him down, but his spinning of it and the leaks surrounding that.
@@frasierfreak92 It was Emma's idea to get the enquiry to go further, to investigate PFI contracts to get Nicola into trouble over Mr Tickel's death as well. Peter used her idea ("Let's kick her in the PFI's!")
When Fergus and Adam's e-mails were leaked by Glenn. Peter made a phone call to someone saying that Mr Tickel's medical records were illegally obtained. Which made the enquiry investigate leaking in general. And it diverted attention away from him over Mr Tickel's death.
A surprisingly accurate description of Ed Miliband.
I wrote the same comment, before I saw yours.
I'm not a Labour man by any stretch o the imagination, but at least Corbyn has principles (I think they're bullshit) and would never give them up for the sake of power. I don't like Corbyn, But I do respect his integrity.
+jimmy2k4o What the fuck? A balanced and understanding opinion on the internet? Since when did Hell freeze over?
8 years on and it's now a perfectly apt description of Keir Starmer
"This is a private conversation" then you should try closing the door
Thick of It did a great job in accurately portraying government nowdays - Nicola Murray def either represents Theresa May or now Lizz Truss
Replace Nicola Murray with Theresa May, and it's how I envision her getting the sack 😂
When Theresa May resigned recently, this scene immediately spung to mind.
‘prepare for your column in Grazia...’😂😂😂
Lorna Murphy Yes...we've all watched the same clip...
"There's your golden handshake!" wonderful
probably the best line in all comedy for the 2010s
I love this scene :) A master class in acting
How did they predict Liz Truss?
Brilliant !! The Thick of it at it's finest.
Everyone in the past is relating this to Theresa, but I'm sat in her in 2023 hoping this is how Graham Brady sent Liz Truss packing...
Column in Grazia? Malcolm went too far with that.
I don't get it
Bilal Khalid it’s a magazine not a catalogue, illiterate fuck.
switching the characters for Liz Truss, chief whipp and Jeremy Cu..Hunt
The way they both look up at the "its" right at the end
This is a scarily realistic show.
*Trusst* me.
I May take your word for it
This is exactly how the Liz truss meeting went !
Big fan of the edit at 1:43 where Malcolm's jacket has to button itself up momentarily to contain his rage.
For a second there I thought he was describing Teresa May. Oh wait, he is.
not intentionally, as this was 2014
And now it's even more actual.
what about now?
It was 2012
Such a mirror.
Theresa May, off you pop! Omnishambles.
Nahtan Mahekaw I look forward to her column in Grazia.
I hope this had a blooper reel
It's pronounced Nicola Murray, but it's spelt Teresa May
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Spot on Mr Smith
If Nichola ever did become prime minister: *Liz Truss*
Keir Starmer and Alastair Campbell sack Rebecca Long Bailey (2020, colourised)
This is exactly what it is going on right now in the cabinet. Suella, you are gone already and you won’t be missed
And the inquiry ended up as Malcolm's downfall😢
At one point when he's talking Peter capaldi's jacket is unbottened then the next it's buttoned up
Live footage from Downing Street right now
All the charm of a rotting Teddy bear by a grave site
Tucker is magnificent!
The public talking to Theresa May
Steady on Malcolm that's a bit strong.
Steady on Malcolm that's a bit strong!
Nicola Murray is Ed Milliband!
Nicola Murray is the general state of the Labour party.
The Conservatives got more seats, than Labour, the SNP, the Lib Dems, Plaid, and the Greens combined.
And that was after the Conservatives produced one of the worst manifesto's in history, and Labour one of the best... I think my assessment is entirely fair.
If the conservatives produce a shit manifesto and Labour a good one then that makes Nicola Murray the conservative party. She's the type of person to fuck up a 25 point advantage in 2 months.
I think your assessment looks fucking stupid now actually.
the "beat me on a technicality" combined with the time of release for sure was a reference to the milibands
Ahhh I miss this show
it was never gone it just took the time spot of the news
This must be what the end of May will look like.
Someone edit this so it's Theresa May. Too fitting.
There's your golden handshake .
The loser’s way out every time. 🤣 Pointing out grammar mistakes. I love how it actually made them look back too. Lolol
1:33 Piss in a tent is unforeseeable
Foreshadowing Truss
It is Alaris, how similar Nicola is to Liz Truss
Was this based on Liz Truss, ten years or so ahead of its time.
I like the fact that despite her threat she doesn't do anything ha
Poor old Nicola. I felt she represented the normal person in that world of abnormal people; trying to do her best, failing, and being lambasted for every mistake.
I always felt sorry for her at the end when we see her entire life kinda just fall apart (though tuckers insults are always class)
Truss
Goodbye Theresa May.
Donald where's your trousers.
Rebecca is the narrator on "The Supervet".
Wait, I've just realised, his screen is 16:9, but his resolution is 4:3...
GOod job NM. No tart!
Love Rebecca Front.
Its like Theresa May
I wonder if Liz Truss’s exit was based on this.
Live look at Nikki Haley and her campaign manager
Liz Truss anyone?
EXEC: that man would make a great fuckin' doctor
"Finished?"
"You're finished."
Brilliant.
Liz Truss the fairwell speech.
Nicola Starmer
Is Dan Miller supposed to be the handsome Miliband brother (forgot his name)?
political mist
Reminds me a lot of Theresa may
Funny thing is that in an inadvertent roundabout way, Nicola DID end up fucking Malcolm over too.
Damn. And then Tucker got shit canned too
no, malcolm tucker is NOT based on alistair campbell(!)
Its Liz Truss
Can’t stand his jacket being unbottoned then bottoned up the next scene. Then unbottoned the next lol.