'He has no business knowing that. He's just showing off'.
What was tony blair talking about in that scene? He asks his advisor a couple questions then says that, but I couldn't make out what he said.
shareTony Blair's character was referring to the fact that Clinton knew in great detail what the election returns were for Prime Minister throughout the UK, even in small and/or out of the way places.
Slightly odd scene - and I'm going to be a real politics anorak here.....
Clinton refers to two constituencies - Birmingham Edgbaston and Wirral South, saying that it was a real surprise that both had gone to Labour. Blair then asks his advisor if this is true as Blair, apparently, knows less than Clinton about how his own party did in the preceding day's election.
Wirral South - Labour had already taken the seat in a by-election some months before the General Election in 1997; it also reports its votes reasonably early in the evening on election day so no reason whatsover that Blair wouldn't know about it by the time of the Clinton call
Edgbaston - this seat was a real surprise but it announced its result early in the evening and Blair is on record as saying that he heard this result live on Election Night.
I thought it was a nice touch that Clinton knew about individual results (out of the 650 results in the UK General Election) but then why does the script crack on that Tony Blair didn't know these blindingly obvious things? It would be like a movie about the 2000 US election in which GW Bush isn't aware of a spot of bother in Florida the day after the polls closed.
"Someone has been tampering with Hank's memories."
It's just a plot device to establish Clinton's dominance and experience over Blair in a 20sec scene. The actual content of the dialogue adds nothing to the overall plot of the film. Very effective IMO.
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