Queen to attend Cabinet Meeting

Yes, bet she can't wait...

Oh how very terrible for her poor dear.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ....... sorry couldn't resist.

Don't worry, I'm going.

I think that's really nice.

She can retire anytime she wants. It's called abdication. Her uncle did it so it's not unheard of.

A Cabinet meeting....what a treat lol. Will be a room full of sycophants all vying to pay her the greatest compliment. And she gets a pressie.....I hope it was from a whip round and not out of the public purse.

Going to hide behind the sofa now to avoid the volley of shots that are bound to come my way for posting this

OMG if this sets a precedent can you imagine King Charles 3 being required to sit quietly without contributing in years to come! ?

Think she's just doing the rounds to say Happy Christmas!She saw MI5 and 6 last week,Foreign Office tomorrow

Hello Vampirequeen You really must get the hoover out. The fluff and broken biscuits behind here is disgusting !

No way Nanado . There's one thing for sure they wouldn't let the TV cameras in on the day he attended !

Think you should join Vampire and me behind her sofa ! bring a dustpan and brush.

Perhaps she's gathering jokes material for the Betty Windsor Show Queen's Speech?

I do dislike these stunts - as if they would behave normally in her presence!

Bet she didn't turn up to Gordon Brown's meetings when he is said to have hurled phones and staplers at the head of dissenters

Apparently she has been invited to attend as an observer - although Prince Philip declined - can't imagine him keeping quiet if they start talking
-bulls**t- reasoned arguments.

That word was supposed to have been crossed through - looks like I am going to have to go back to school to learn how to use these things!

I heard on the radio that the cabinet has bought the present with their own money, not ours.

Can't you just imagine them picking out their smartest clothes and buffing up their shoes. They will all be sitting there pretending they agree about everything. . No, I'm not having a go at the present lot, I think they would all be the same whichever lot were in.

Can't see much work getting done - maybe thats not such a bad thing

BBC - R4 reporting on this "The PM has long been committed to getting more women around the cabinet table and tomorrow...."
Excuse me? W-hat?????
How come there are 18 men and 4 women currently then? Why is he failing so dismally, I'd like to know, if he has this long commitment?
There are also 9 attenders (who attend but are not official cabinet members) male and 1 attender female -(tokenethnicasianwoman Varsi).
Someone on Twitter said 20 of them were old Etonians. Which does tend to exclude adult women. (Do they let girls in these days?) I must go away and check if it is true.

No there are only 4 old Etonians. The person on Twitter lied. Or didn't check their facts. Must keep checking facts.

There may be only 4 old Etonians but most of the others went to independent schools as well.

Yes they did. "committed" my a**e. Harumph.

DH has done a quick cogs-whirring bit of arithmetic and says this proportion (4/22) is just slightly better than the parliamentary Tory part as a whole (16%).
Labour front bench slightly more than a third female. Same % as the PLP.

Jess

How many Labour, ANY? Does Cambridge come into it or Russell Group Uni's. Ofcourse there is is always Harpersons connections.

I don't know the answer but I do find there is a slight hypocrisy when the shadow front bench all forget how stupid they look when they don't acknowledge a good few of them have had private education and attended brilliant universities themselves. For goodness sake Miliband is the worst with his 'I went to a state school' rubbish. Didn't Miliband and Balls go to top American Universities?

I truly don't know the answer as I can't be bothered to find out but I hate class snobbery, sorry.

As for the Queen attending Cabinet isn't the story there this has not been done since Victoria. I think it is the historical point that is at the heart of the story rather than anything else.

You're right, POGS, it's just to mark the Jubilee. It's not setting a precedent.

Ed Miliband went to state primary and comprehensive schools and then to Oxford. He spent a year at Harvard (2002 - 2003) not as a student but as a visiting scholar, teaching courses on economics and politics. Ed Balls did go to fee-paying Nottingham High School and Oxford; then he went to Harvard on a scholarship.
Not that I am a special fan of either of these men, but I like to get the facts right - hopefully Wiki as given me the correct ones.

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Anno

Wasn't that the same state primary as Boris Johnson ?