UK Election 2010

[Brown Sauce]

Cabinet appointments may be made be David Cameron, working with Nick Clegg, but the chosen men and women need to pass through a small but constitutionally significant ritual before the power of office is truly theirs.

They must all go to the Queen, whose ministers they will be, and receive from Her Majesty the Seals of Office for their respective departments.

In order for these to be available, however, the Queen must first receive all the outgoing ministers of the former Labour Government.

The Clerk of the Privy Council, who is a Civil Servant, makes the arrangements and it will be Lord Mandelson's last duty as Lord President of the Council to lead his ousted Cabinet colleagues into the monarch to hand back the symbols of their office and power.

As always, Her Majesty makes the brutality of this process as amenable as possible.

After all, over 13 years of Labour rule, she has come to know them all well through the many Privy Council meetings they have attended.

Shortly after the departing ministers leave, another fleet of cars brings the new Cabinet to see the monarch.

It is a different atmosphere. Many new ministers have never attended anything like this before.

The Privy Council dates back to the Middle Ages and has customs that need to be explained.

It is a tense and excited group who wait to be shown into the Queen.

When the Heath Robinson bell rings, Pages open the door and the Equerry announces the council.

Those not yet Privy Councillors must be "sworn", which means they take an oath to conduct their business loyally and without putting the nation in danger.

When the door opens, the new Cabinet will walk into the waiting Queen.

All remain standing, as no one sits during Privy Council meetings, which helps keep them brief.

New members take it in turn to kneel and take their oath, generally with a Testament from the Bible in their hands.

The Queen then hands them the Seals of Office.

At this point the new ministers of the Crown take full possession of their power from the monarch.

As they leave, clutching these esoteric seals in their boxes, each may wonder how long this power will be theirs.

One day, they will have to return and hand them back. When and why remains to be seen.

For the Queen, it is another new Cabinet added to the countless she has invested since 1952.[/quote]

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And lo, the David Icke forum spake!

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this is one of the people who've been heckling during live reports from Downing Street over the past few days.

He's quite entertaining, though I'm sure a few more years in the job will refine his performance skills...but he's definitely got the height for it.

c'mon the hecklers calling William Hague a sucker of Satan's Cock!

[minterdan]

This pic says it all for me

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[luke]

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who is this?



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Lembit Opik turns to stand-up
Deposed MP makes comedy debut
chortle.co.uk

Deposed Lib Dem politician Lembit Opik is planning a new career as a stand-up comedian – and has his first ‘open spot’ booked in for next month.

The former MP, who has just lost his Montgomeryshire seat after 13 years, is no stranger to shows such as Have I Got News For You, where he has been mercilessly ribbed for his colourful private life and political views – including dating a Cheeky Girl and campaigning for a defence system against asteroid collisions.

But now, as he looks for a new career, he will be exploiting his experiences for his own ten-minute routine at London’s Backstage Comedy Club on June 2.

The show is promoted by Robert Meakin, a journalist who occasionally edits The Independent’s Pandora gossip column, which is how he got to know Opik. He said: ‘Before the election, he told me he fancied coming down and doing a bit once the campaign was over. Of course, he didn’t know he was going to lose… but he called me on the Saturday after the election and said he was still up for it, and said he’ll do ten to 15 minutes of observational material based on his misfortune.’

Meakin says Opik is likely to get a sympathetic reception at his club, based at the Café Koha in Leicester Square. ‘Packed, it only holds about 70 people,’ he said. ‘And they are a warm, nice crowd – this is not some terrible bearpit. I’m fairly sure he won’t get bottled off or anything. Lembit says he’s still adjusting to life outside the Commons, and he’s dipping his toe in the water of comedy to see what it’s like. He’s always fancied doing it.’

It’s not the first time the 45-year-old has turned to comedy. He performs a cabaret turn in Westminster social events with Labour MP Stephen Pound and Tory Nigel Evans; and the three have performed in a comedy club once before, as part of a stunt to decide which party was the funniest. But this gig, when he will appear on the same bill as ventriloquist Nina Conti, will be his debut on a normal club night.

‘He’s got plenty of material to work with,’ Meakin said. ‘But how it will come out is quite another matter…’

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Here's some great footage of the election results being read out in Glasgow the other week. I was watching this and chatting to Luke at the time and while it sounded a great uproar then, it's much better in close-up! haha BNP scum.

[luke]

that was great the same user has two more videos here and here

[modern]

Big Diane Abbott, standing for Labour leadership. Would make a refreshing change.

[luke]

Lembit Opik @ The Backstage Comedy Club, London


Cheeky chappie ... Lembit Opik makes his debut as a standup comic

Lembit Opik's first foray into standup comedy shows that strangeness follows him around like a heat-seeking Cheeky Girl. Less than a month after losing his Montgomeryshire seat, the former Lib Dem MP took the stage last night at the Backstage Comedy Club in central London, a cramped basement venue just a rat's tail from Leicester Square tube. It was his standup debut, a 15-minute set alongside another six comedians (the best of whom was the excellent Josh Widdicombe). Alongside the critics in the audience, I spotted at least one press photographer, as well as Stephen Pound MP – a mate of Opik's – and a smattering of TV cameras. Not many first nights are quite like this.

Nor are many of them so lacking in material. We endured a largely gag-free introduction thanking his lingerie model girlfriend, Katie Green, and the Conservative voters of his former constituency for enabling him to be there. There were self-deprecatory references to losing his parliamentary seat after 13 years, allusions to the Cheeky Girls and corruption in parliament, a duff anecdote about his name – almost an anagram of "I like to be MP", he told us – and a small section about the Daily Mail, which had quoted the event's promoter, Robert Meakin, on the likelihood of Opik being bottled off the stage.

Then, unwisely, Opik picked up a shoe and attempted ventriloquism – perhaps an attempt to upstage the previous act, comedian/vetriloquist Nina Conti. Ducking behind the brogue and adopting a silly voice, he didn't so much tell jokes as explain that, because Conti's monkey was only a puppet, and this was a real shoe, his was the superior act. He prefaced this section with the words: "Now, I was told not to do this." Whoever offered the advice was surely right.

But here's the curious thing – behind Opik's Liberal Democrat rosette (which he wore on stage, presumably in self-mocking reference to his disastrous election night) you could sense confidence, lucidity, composure, sharpness. His set had structure. All of this gives him two years on other novice comedians. One gag about becoming mayor of London, which gently ribbed Boris Johnson, and another about being ignored in a lift by Nick Clegg, were nicely delivered.

What are we to make of Opik's transformation into a comedian? Maybe it's post-election catharsis, perhaps even mid-life crisis. It was most definitely a publicity stunt. But perhaps we shouldn't write him off just yet. Opik clearly has an appetite for adulation and holding court, both of which are sated by standup comedy. So who knows? Perhaps this really was a career change.

from http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/jun/03/lembit-opik-standup-review

they were cussing bigtime on the radio this morning