Let's form a government

[Buenchico]

Since our politicians can’t sort out a government, I think that it’s time for us to take command. Here are my suggestions:
Prime Minister: Andy-Hughes (voice of experience)
Chancellor: Buenchico (‘cos I’ve nearly worked out what all of the keys on my calculator actually do!)
Home Secretary: Craft1948 (calm & dignified)
Attorney General: Barmaid (self-explanatory!)
Foreign Secretary: Netibiza (‘cos she can see the UK from a foreign perspective)
Science & Industry: Chuckfickens (technical whizzkid) with Clanad appointed as his special advisor.
Agriculture & Fisheries: Shaneystar2 (‘cos they know about such things in Great Yarmouth)
Defence: Bobjugs12 (personal experience)
Scottish Office: Poodicat (obviously!)
Education: Mollykins (plenty of views about how schools should be run!)

Additions or amendments are, of course, most welcome.

[Buenchico]

The eyebrows are an essential requirement, Craft!

I suspect that you're referring to this guy:
http://cornerstonegro...ingdm0504_468x460.jpg
but some of us are old enough to remember Dennis Healey in the job:
http://nickbaines.fil...9/05/denis-healey.jpg

[craft1948]

Dennis Healey.....always spat when he talked...yeuch.
Bring back George Brown.....at least he was good for a laugh...there don't seem to be the characters any more, except for Boris.

[askyourgran]

Don't remember George Brown, but I do remember Michael Foot, couldn't believe how scruffy he was, even on special occcasions (ie the Cenotaph)

[ttfn]

Bet M F had a scruffy dog gran - he died in March aged 96, so had a good innings. George Brown always reminded me of a puffin wearing glasses!

[askyourgran]

That was a good description ttfn, I remember him now, he had big eyebrows too.

[craft1948]

ttfn I think he was always p!ssed.....

[Buenchico]

George Brown could make Charles Kennedy look like a model of sobriety. He was frequently 'tired and emotional' and was famously pictured (in every national newspaper) lying in the gutter.

His biggest gaffe though seems to have been on a state visit to Peru, when he asked a purple clad figure for a dance. The reply he got was this:
"No, First you are drunk. Second, this is not a waltz. It is the Peruvian national anthem. And third, I am not a woman. I am the Cardinal Archbishop of Lima".
;-)

[askyourgran]

LOL buenchico, I never knew he was like that.

[ttfn]

Ah craft - I thought he sounded a bit iffy - as though he had swallowed the cork when he pulled it with his teeth!

[netibiza]

ha ha lo ve that story Buenchico!

(and in real life, my father-in-law was the main bodyguard for 3 foreign secretaries so it is appropriate that I am IT!!!)