A Conversation Between PM Kennedy and various MPs
A group of New Liberal Ministers (Fritz Hollings, Sam Nunn, Howell Heflin, and Richard Shelby) arrive at 4 Victoria Street for a meeting with Prime Minister Kennedy. A butler leads them into the Prime Minister’s office, shutting the door behind them.
Kennedy: Ministers, what can I do for you?
Richard Shelby: Ted, we’re going to be frank with you. You’re too far left for us to align with anymore. We can not, in good confidence, stand for election as New Liberal Party Candidates.
TK: What!? You cannot be serious right now. Fritz?
Fritz Hollings: I’m sorry Ted. We need to cut the budget, and you’re adding to it. We need to do something about Hussein, and you’re not.
Sam Nunn: You want to allow gays in the military. I can’t support that, my constituency would kill me.
Howell Heflin: The only place you’re cutting the budget is the Defense Ministry. I was in World War II and...
TK: Damn it all! Get out! Get out of my office!
SN: We have others with us.
TK: How many?
SN: 15 backbenchers and a cabinet Member.
TK: Who!? Who’s the bastard?
The MPs leave Number 4 as the Prime Minister yells and begins calling Party Officials and his cabinet.
