Transcript Episode - Smokescreen
(Humphrey enters room)
Humphrey!
Prime Minister.
(Prime Minister) - Everything all right?
(Humphrey) - Everything is very far from all right.
(Prime Minister) - What’s the trouble?
(Humphrey) - Your anti-smoking legislation.
(Prime Minister) - What about it?
(Humphrey) - Notwithstanding the fact that your proposal could encompass certain concomitant benefits of a peripheral relevance,
there is a countervailing consideration of infinitely superior magnitude, involving your personal complicity and corroborative malfeasance,
with the consequence that the taint and stigma of your former associations and diversions could irredeemably and irretrievably invalidate your position and culminate in public revelations and recriminations of a profoundly embarrassing and ultimately indefensible characte