Oh dear one of the chores of being in the preceeding week's Lib Dem Voice Golden Dozen is actually being singled out and named to partake in the LDV Weekend Meme*. But it is an intersting one set by Stephen Tall a fantasy Lib Dem-Liberal-SDP Cabinet. A cabinet of all our talents alive or dead.
Roy Jenkins – Prime Minister
Vincent Cable – Chancellor of the Exchequer
William Gladstone – Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
Nick Clegg – Home Secretary
Menzie Campbell – Justice
William Beveridge – Work & Pensions
Jo Grimmond – Health
Shirley Williams – Education
Chris Huhne – Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Lynne Featherstone – Energy and Climate Change
David Lloyd George - President of the Board of Trade
Bill Rodgers – Transport
Winston Churchill – Defence
Paddy Ashdown – International Development
David Penhaligon – Communities and Local Government
David Steel – Constitutional Affairs
Clement Freud – Culture, Media and Sport
John Pardoe – Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Russell Johnston - Europe
I've added in couple of posts that LDV didn't include, Trade and Europe.
*As. opposed to being including in the catch all 'All Lib Dem Bloggers'
Well, at least yours isn't QUITE as much of an oestrogen-free zone as Stephen's. But how ANYONE could put someone other than El Presidente in charge of local govt...
ReplyDeleteEek! I'd forgotten the Baroness Scott. I was too busy messing around with the green benches and once I determined that the best PM this country never had was PM I had to fit a few rather peeved offed leaders in somewhere.
ReplyDeleteI also ran through quite a comprehensive list of our female MPs down the years to think of worthy inclusions in the list. I would have a fair number of the current intake as Ministers of State amongst this lot.
I echo what Jennie says - flippin' eck, 17 men, 2 women. Not good.
ReplyDeleteI think I've something like 14/10
Wot no Charles K??????? And I agree with Jennie and Caron, too few women.
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