Observer list of ideal political appointments.
Prime Minister: Benjamin Disraeli (he's done it once already)
Home Secretary: Charles Dickens
Foreign & Commonwealth Office: Rudyard Kipling
Chancellor of the Exchequer: Martin Amis (money)
Education Secretary: Muriel Spark (the Prime of Miss Brodie)
Environmental Secretary: Graham Greene (its in the name)
Defence Secretary: Evelyn Waugh (it's in the name)
Minister for Europe: Julian Brnes (Sarkozy's Parrot)
Minister of Innovation: HG Wells
Health Secretary: Dylan Thomas (he deserves a second chance)
Children's Secretary: William Golding
Transport Secretary: JG Ballard (crash)
Minister of Housing: Virginia Woolf (A room of One's Own)
Minister of Universities: Malcolm Bradbury
Minister for Diversity: Anthony Powell
Minister for rural affairs: Ted Hughes
Minister for sport and leisured classes: Jane Austen
Attorney General: Franz Kafka
Postmaster General: Anthony Trollope
3 comments:
Love it!
Very amusing, I thought, particularly the play on names. The Guardian has a long article on books the new British PM should be reading, which looks interesting, though not as frivolous. Had a look at your pix -- superb.
Very amusing, I thought, particularly the play on names. The Guardian has a long article on books the new British PM should be reading, which looks interesting, though not as frivolous. Had a look at your pix -- superb.
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