Blog2014 ≫ David Cameron has asked a senior civil servant to "find answers" about a missing dossier on alleged paedophiles at Westminster in the 1980s.

I love how "find answers" is in quotes. I'm sure he wants answers found but when the BBC put it in quotes like that it sounds mocking, rather than quoting.

Reminds me of a Mitchell and Webb where the big boss asks his henchmen to "take care of" someone, so they kill him, and then he's "no, actually take care of him! what made you think I wanted him killed???". Also of course Mr Jolly Lives Next Door where Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson's Dreamytime Escorts get the note saying "take out Nicholas Parsons" instead of Peter Cook's hitman who lives next door.

I hope there were no accidental misunderstandings when the home secretary originally handed over this dossier to someone else, asking them to investigate or process or otherwise deal appropriately with it. What if he said "can you take care of this" and then his eye accidentally twitched so it looked like he was winking and then the person receiving the document thought "oh, take care of it, got it".

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