Tony Blair is reshuffling his cabinet. Here are my suggestions for a dream team ' left-right' anti-war coalition.
Who'd be in your team?
Joint Prime Ministers: Tariq Ali and Sir Peregrine Worsthorne
Foreign Secretary: John Pilger
Minister of State, Foreign Office: Dr John Laughland
Defence: Kate Hudson
Armed Forces: Corelli Barnett
Trade and Industry: Ian Johnson
Chancellor of the Exchequer: Sir Peter Tapsell MP
Home Secretary: Peter Hitchens
Education: Mark Almond (the writer, not the pop singer, though both would I'm sure do a better job than whoever Blair appoints...)
Leader of the Commons: Felicity Arbuthnot
Leader of the Lords: Lord (Ian) Gilmour
Cabinet Office: Peter Wilby
Health: Ken Clarke MP
NHS: Alice Mahon
Minister for Europe: Alan Simpson MP
Transport: Andrew Murray
Lord Chancellor: Douglas Hogg MP
Energy: Arthur Scargill
Science and Technology: Tam Dalyell
Agriculture: Michael Meacher MP
Environment: Peter Bottomley MP
Arts: Harold Pinter
Culture & Media: Seumas Milne
International Development: Tony Benn
Ministers without Portfolio: Matthew Parris; Bruce Kent
Sport: Geoffrey Wheatcroft
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Do you have a genuine enthusiasm for the like of Peter Hitchens, or are you just purposely looking to build a 'balancing act' coalition of ideologically unbending schoolmaster types?
I do have a 'genuine enthusiasm' for Peter Hitchens- he's a nice man and a man of principle too.
In addition to opposing both the wars against Yugoslavia in 1999 and Iraq in 2003, he also supports:
(a) renationalisation of the railways
(b) reintroduction of capital punishment.
He would, I believe make a terrific Home Secretary. And a pretty good Foreign Secretary or Transport Minister too for that matter.
What? No space for Galloway in the cabinet. I'm very disappointed
GG would have been in there a year ago, but I lost my 'respect' for him when he appeared on Big Brother.
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