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🐞CURMUDGEONS' CORNER XV🐞

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Even dead, I'm sure Lord Attenborough would be more use than M Gove and Rees Mogg
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited July 2021
    See. That's why I wouldn't be the right person for the job @Alan Clark2 in Liverpool. I don't do detail😕
    We need organised minds to keep us under control.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Unfortunately, I think one of the criteria for the Cabinet of Trust is that the candidates must be alive. Sanity is a matter for consideration.  Some of the Monster Raving Loony Party's ideas  don't seem so loony now.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    B3 said:
    Unfortunately, I think one of the criteria for the Cabinet of Trust is that the candidates must be alive. Sanity is a matter for consideration.  Some of the Monster Raving Loony Party's ideas  don't seem so loony now.
    And, by comparison, neither does their leader
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I think he might be dead.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    B3 said:
    I think he might be dead.
    Bojo? nah, just in quarantine
    Devon.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    edited July 2021
    I think B3 meant Screaming Lord Sutch. I can see why you might mistake one for the other though:

    From his obituary:

    Campaigning under the slogan: "Vote for insanity - you know it makes sense", his party policies include:

    • Banning work before lunchtime "because it's far too difficult"
    • Abolishing January and February to make winter shorter
    • Putting joggers and the unemployed on a gigantic treadmill to generate cheap electricity
    • Backing British beef throughout the mad cow disease crisis. "I've been eating it for years and look at me," he said
    • Diverting the Channel tunnel to Jersey to make the whole of the United Kingdom an offshore tax haven
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I think B3 meant Screaming Lord Sutch 
    oh right, gotcha
    Devon.
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    My eldest daughter for Education Minister.  My God she'd soon have 'em sorted.  
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • NorthernJoeNorthernJoe Posts: 660
    If book, film and TV characters are possible then Professor Dumbledore from Harry Potter. He's got the old man's beard of trust, a certain authority (aided by the elder wand) and I guess magic too.

    I spent spring watching to much Harry potter films as our son read the first 4 and watched the films repeatedly afterwards. Only first four because he's 8 years old and number 5 onwards is a little scary supposedly.

    If death wasn't a barrier I'd choose Heseltine in his Tarzan prime!! I think he was the last of the older generation of MPs with ability. Tony Benn might fit that category too. I'd also say Thatcher if only to have the first female PM in there (and possibly to get older labourites' reaction).

    If living only I'd not have any actors, sports people or celebrities of any level A to Z. I'd stuff it with academics, experts in as wide a range of fields as possible. Indeed 650 of them as our MPs. The added benefit would be certain tabloids getting apopletic about them being experts. We were supposedly in the era of lack of trust in experts. Unfairly IMHO as they cannot mess up as much as the politicians have over the years. I'd also make at least one of them a sociologist because most people don't know what they study when in fact they possibly have a bigger impact on state policies than people realise.
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