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Tim,

You should lead, not follow. Just because Dale has said he's running for Mayor of London and Sheppard announced his defection to Labour on this, the first day of April, doesn't mean you have to jump on the bandwagon.

I will of course be off now to write an article on the need for all private homes to be compulsorily purchased by the state and re-distributed to citizens on the basis of their needs.

Inspired by Dave Cameron's Leadership of the Conservative Party, I have decided to join the Party straight away.

Would a subscription of £50 and a donation of £3m be enough? Will I be able to choose which constituency I can represent in Parliament?

Good April fool ;-)

You had me for a minute there!!

Sorry Tim, Too Obvious!!!!!!

:-)

An inspired idea. I look forward to the day when President Carol Thatcher, accompanied by the Mayor of London Iain Dale, goes to open the second session of the new look People's Parliament. Passing the Whitehall Theatre, with Sir Anthony Blair starring in the latest revived Whitehall Farce "The Night We dropped a Clanger" and accompanied by the Mounted Brigade of the Combined Clapham Posse, in their faux Bearskin Hoodies, President Thatcher is met at the new House of Donors by Premier Comrade Cameron and the Chief Oppo Charlie Clarke.

After the traditional Passing Through the Gordon Brown Memorial Iris Scanner and ID Verification Portal with the Minister of Truth and National Security, David Davis, making the Traditional Cry "Are you sure you aren't carrying?" President Thatcher will take her place to hear the President's Rap delivered by DJ Gorgeous Gids Osborne. The Oppo Rapper JonO Sheppard then responds.

Oh happy day and I am so privileged to see it dawn.

Thanks Ted!

I agree Annabel - it was a bit obvious - but what a shame, it would have been one of the few times I could have agreed wholeheartedly with the Tombstoners!!!!

I agree Annabel - it was a bit obvious - but what a shame, it would have been one of the few times I could have agreed wholeheartedly with the Tombstoners!!!!

Sorry for the duplicate post!

Another thought. Now if you had alleged that you had irrefutable evidence that Gordon Brown was abandoning all claims to the Leadership of Nulab, and subsequently the Premiership in favour of Margaret Beckett, or the Saintly Patricia even, you may have created a degree of panic for a couple of beats.

Actually not a bad idea. I was always told that it was not what powers the queen had, but the powers the monarchy kept from others.As the queen has ignored her coronation oath and sat back while these quislings hand us over to europe I really can't see the point of a monarch.

My idea for an April Fool was that the Labour Party were going to elect a psychotic liar with an extremely unpleasant penchant for public nose-picking as their leader. But that's just too crazy to believe so Tim's is a much more realistic spoof

And a happy April 1st to you, too

Good job on ITV this morning Mr Editor. You certainly got the better of Mrs Alastair Campbell.

Oh my god I cant belive i fell for that !

I fell for it - thought, as a "Camerloon", 'this is one step too far'.

Well actually -

The present Queen is Queen of Great Britain as have been all of her predecessors since Queen Anne who was the first monarch of Great Britain .
Queen Anne succeeded to the throne on 8/3/1702 but was not crowned until 23/4/1702 - St George's day - as Queen of England , Scotland , Ireland and France .

The Act of Union 1707 was the occasion when Anne took a further title of Queen of Great Britain . All subsequent coronations have been only to this title and the specificity of the monarchs bond to England , AS England ,
( and not simply a subsumed part of Great Britain )
has been lost .

With the ongoing constitutional crisis , which has not been played out yet and which could result in well end of the British Union it might be that , if England resumes an independent path , the British maonarchy could find itself high and dry with no connection to England ( other than the church ) .

Time for a specific act of reconnection to the English people ?

If only, if only....

Since I'll happily vote for (just about) any party that would abolish the monarchy, my excitement on seeing the headline turned to disappointment, then chuckles as I read on and realised.

You had me for a minute, I'll readily confess-for about 3 seconds I was a Tory supporter :D

There are some things too sacred to joke about!

There's part of me that actually wished this wasn't an April Fool.

Just imagine...

President Thatcher.

Tomorrow's Daily Mail should make good reading, bet the headline will read' 'Cameron to Abolish Monarchy'

The Privy Council could pick the Head of State thus abandoning the hereditary principle, get rid of the Civil List, privatise the Duchy of Lancaster, Duchy of Cornwall and Crown Estates and along with having a new modern parliament in a more central location in the UK higher above sea level such as Stoke-on-Trent, Bakewell, Buxton, Derby, Macclesfield or somewhere in the Higher parts of Sheffield or Manchester (Thus securing it from rises in sea level and storm surges for generations to come and in a more central location more defendable from enemy attack) with maybe a third of the number of MP's and the House of Lords replaced by Select Committees with remote voting and participation in debates using videoconferencing would hugely improve things.

My God I really was about to order a "I Love Cameron" T-Shirt.

If only Cameron could be this radical!

I was so excited for a moment there.....

Having seen this and hit the roof, my language cannot describe my immediate feelings towards D.C. and Co.

God, that got my heart beating...I was ready to break down in tears!

A little bit obvious...

I made someone think they'd caught herpes off of a cigarette.

(assuming this is a serious proposal)

The Privy Council could pick the Head of State thus abandoning the hereditary principle

Who picks the privy council? Seems a bit like a papal enclave (conclave? you know what I mean anyway). I'd favour a non-political head of state though. The Irish model looks workable

get rid of the Civil List, privatise the Duchy of Lancaster, Duchy of Cornwall and Crown Estates

Agreed

and along with having a new modern parliament in a more central location in the UK higher above sea level such as Stoke-on-Trent, Bakewell, Buxton, Derby, Macclesfield or somewhere in the Higher parts of Sheffield or Manchester

I'm not sure we want the seat of goverment here in Derby (although it makes sense to de-centralise away from Westminster)-it's far too small and doesn't have the transport inferstructure. Buxton and Bakewell-are you serious??? Manchester would be a good bet-many countries have the government not in the largest city-eg USA, Holland, Oz


with maybe a third of the number of MP's and the House of Lords replaced by Select Committees with remote voting and participation in debates using videoconferencing would hugely improve things

We have far too many MPs I agree. Why does Derby have two? As for the HoL going, great but be careful. We need some sort of balancing if we keep FPTP for westminster. Elected 2nd chamber using PR and voted for mid-term??

I know a couple of good pubs in Bakewell Comstock,a good bookshop too. This will make a it a fine venue for Parliament when I'm PM or King.

The best April fools are the ones that are most plausible.....and this was a good one!

Bakewell's a lovely place, Malcolm, but a seat of government?

It's this, above owt else, that made me ask YAA if he was serious-if he wasn't he was about 6 and a half hours too late,judging by his post time

We need some sort of balancing if we keep FPTP for westminster.
Alternative Vote perhaps could be used, I don't see why it can't be set in statute proportions of seats that the party with the largest national vote gets both to limit freakish landslide majorities on low votes such as those Labour has enjoyed since 1997 and the Conservative majorities in 1983 and 1987, then the other parties could get seats based on percentage of the vote - thus improving representation of smaller parties while actually increasing one party government but also ending the chances of a party with vastly fewer votes than the party with most votes winning an overall majority - it is preferable to avoid gridlock and have strong government and majority governments tend to be the strongest.

I'm not sure we want the seat of goverment here in Derby (although it makes sense to de-centralise away from Westminster)-it's far too small and doesn't have the transport inferstructure. Buxton and Bakewell-are you serious???
West Germany had it's capital in Bonn which isn't much bigger than Derby. Transport infrastructure can be put in, Buxton has a lot of buildings that might be used indeed and there has been talk of re-extending the railway line from Manchester to Nottingham where it used to be which if done would enable through trains to London and Glasgow, edinburgh etc..... - especially with modern communications there is no need for the financial capital and political capital to be in the same place. London is grinding to a halt.

Who knows what goes on in YAAs brain Comstock? But I'd assumed he was joking?

On reading this I ACTUALLY sat and stared at the screen in disbelief for about 10 minutes... before scrolling down... which has left me a lot more cheerful. How gullible.

haven't had time to read whether this is a joke or not.
But if it's not a joke, and there's the slightest hint of it,
then it is 100% wrong, and whoever is pressing for it is not a Conservative.

April 1st already, Tim?!! This one certainly had me going for a moment too - I nearly choked on my coffee.

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