In respect of my job as FS Minister in the Bloggers Government and my policy statement posted previously, it is nice to see that someone important agrees with me.
Lola
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2 hours ago
Wednesday, 6 October 2010
It's Nice When Someone Agrees with You...
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Yes, [future] Prime Minister.
L, well spotted.
JH, have you just promoted L? I suppose somebody's got to do the job.
I have a rule about being Prime Minister. Anyone who really wants the job is fundamentally unsuited to it.
I can state categorically, here and now, that I do not want to be PM. It would cut into my free time. Or rather it wouldn't.
If you want me to do it here are my conditions. I would be the laziest, most work avoiding PM of all time. (Even more so than T Bliar). And I would only do it part time. I want Fridays and Mondays off, plus I can only fit in mornings for the rest of the week (oh, and I don't work for anyone other than myself and my family on weekends). I want 4 weeks annual leave plus statutory days and one of my first actions will be to tell all the No 10 staff that we will be closed over Christmas (I am big on family).
The good news is that I don't want paying a salary. All I want is all my expenses covered plus a car and driver.
You choose? Do you want tme to do it or not?
L, it's a bit awkward, I'd pencilled in Obo but he stopped 'blogging so technically he's lost the right. You are doing a great job with FS reform so it seems a waste to promote you. Hmm.
MW, Don't you dare promote me!
Thinking about it I think I am best suited and able to do two roles satisfactorily. FS and Defence.
My policies are very simple, so neither will require my full time attention after the first 3 to 6 months. In re FS yopu have an out line. In re defence I have simple rules
- No-one messes with a big bloke.
- Talk very softly and carry a big stick
- The best Military discipline is self discipline
- and I'd look very hard at re-instating the local regimental tradition in the Army
- I would look very hard at scrapping the RAF (as far as much of its international work is concerned) and strengthening the air component of the Navy. The RAF would be equipped for excellent home defence.
- I would look very hard at strengthening the TA and lifting its local profile (This is part of my covert 'citzenship' agenda
and so on.....
L, that seems vaguely sensible (apart from the covert citizenship), but as you said, people aren't allowed to nominate themselves. I had a splendid Defence Minister but The Remittance Man stopped blogging so I suppose I need a replacement.
I feel a bit left out.
AC1, I have to do a reshuffle for all the people who stopped blogging so I'll slot you in somewhere.
MW - Yes, sorry about the 'forced citzenship' bit - I lacked the language to make my point. Broadly, if you think of the State as an area of land occupied by people who broadly agree on how they should organise it it seems onkly right to me that we should all take our turn at defending it, or be ready to defend it. On top of that the military still, just about, exhibits all the right attitudes to public service now almost wholly lacking in politics and exposing the populace to that might just be A Good Thing.
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