Transcript revealed!

Here's a transcript of a phone conversation between David Cameron and Mitt Romney, early last week, that I totally made up.


Cameron: Hello, Mitt?


Romney: David! How nice to hear from you. I'm very much looking forward to my visit!


Cameron: Looking forward to witnessing an enthusiastic crowd, no doubt.


Romney: Ha ha! That's funny, David. Oh, can I bring you anything from America? Perhaps some U.S. made... uh...


Cameron: You're too kind, Mitt. No, don't trouble yourself. I do need to ask you a favor, however. If it turns out, you may be doing us both a favor.


Romney: Sorry, they told me not to sing 'God Save the Queen' the whole time I'm there.


Cameron: [Inaudible] no, no. We might be in a bit of tough spot with the press coverage around the Olympics --


Romney: Oh! Is everything okay?


Cameron: Yes, fine, just a few things blown out of proportion by the press, you know: customs strike, private security contractors didn't hire enough...


Romney: I think I can hook you up there, David.


Cameron: Too late for that Mitt. Regrettably. I wouldn't ask, but theres been a bit of a pile-up over here -- much ado about nothing -- but what with the unpopularity of our governments fiscal responsibility policies --


Romney: Well people just don't get it, David!


Cameron: Nothing you can do, Mitt. Nothing to be done. But the press criticism over the Olympics is something you can help with.


Romney: Oh?


Cameron: Yes. If you could, just, mention the trouble with the Olympics a bit? Publicly, to the press...


Romney: Let me get my folks to come up with a good narative.


Cameron: No, not necessary, you don't have to make up anything. Just repeat the criticisms the press have already made so that they can get mad at you instead of me.


[Pause. Inaudible.]


Romney: What's in it for me?


Cameron: Well, I'm going to be very indignant, and play the snooty British PM, at odds with the square-jawed American captain of industry who calls 'em like he see's em. If your very lucky, the Obama team might even seize on it and take my side.


Romney: Yeah, this isn't the Kerry campaign, David --


Cameron: Point taken.


Romney: You gotta be extra snooty, more specifically insulting -- Utah! Insult Utah! "[In strange voice] Religious loonies on the prarie had a silly Winter Olympics and that simply isn't posh enough, is it?"


Cameron: Hmmm... we'll work on it, but I want something else in return: I want to you forget Ed Miliband's name.


Romeny: Who?