PICTURE: Liz’s Placemats
Bet she loved them.
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Ed Balls stretches credulity by claiming he isn’t ambitious…
“I would love to be part of Ed’s Labour government but what I do next for me is not an all-consuming passion. I’m more bothered, in a personal sense, about getting to grade 8 piano by the time I’m 50.”
Bill Quango MP says:
Ned Flanders – Clegg
Lisa Simpson – Natalie Bennett
Milhouse – Hilary Benn
Martin Prince – Andy Burnham
Edna Krabappel – Luciana Berger
Crazy Cat Lady – Glenda jackson
Comic book guy – John Prescott
Carl – Chucka
Lenny – Philip Hammond
Willie – Eric joyce
Poochie – Gordon Brown
Reverend Lovejoy – Tony Blair
They are shit. Is that really all we are willing to gift the Queen?
Bet they turn up on eBay.
Is Cameron using Queen for PR? Its even low than Blair.
But Hacked Off using Millie Dowler and other innocents to strnegthen their campaign for press censorship is the lowest of the low.
Millie Dowler phone was hacked. Queen is above politics she doesn’t even vote in elections.
Cameron and the lot should have gone and met the Queen to give the gift. She should not be used for PR.
who.ever can generate sympathy us the winner.
So how much did the placemats cost us?
Bet like all the others down here they were made in China.
Nobody could get lower than the belly of a snake surely?
Someone calling himself son of belly of a snake would do it.
not a patch on Keith Vaz using the suicide of a nurse for self publicity though.
What is it to do with Keith Vaz? Did he use Queen for PR?
Not yet he hasn’t.
He is but a pale shadow of Blair in his ability to flourish saprophytically from tragedy. Boo Hoo the queen of Hearts was the People’s Princess……
…she certainly had the morals of a chav.
I invented spin doctors and Alyingstare Campbell.
Look how rich it made me
I watched the Queen visit Dave’s place of work earlier on Sky news and it was a nice factual account.
I then listened to the BBC’s report on the midday news and most of their report was taken up with how undemocratic this was and many around the country were very upset about it.
FFS the queen is the head of our state BBC, get over it. Just to check I went outside and did not see one upset person.
Queen is Head of State. But she hasn’t got any involvement in politics that is why we are democratic.
Sad thing is, Cameron using our Queen for PR.
bring up monarchy.
bring back feudalism.
few families running the world.
it never changed.
If you think feudalism was a bed of roses for the lucky few, read the Oxford History of England and think again.
egypt, the mouthpiece of the world, the land of the pyramids…
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the pharoah king is struggling to be beyond the law.
here it may well be that the queen now wants to spend time…her husband is not getting younger. life is so fragile…
when king charles comes…..will he be beyond politics too. he is an activist.
…..beyond all this the trillion dollar world. the liebour scandal.
when the the fines are in the billion dollar category..imagine the size of the scam. we all suffer from poverty.
of.
the.
imagination. pyramid makers knew it.
It was very sad to see our Queen sitting between two queens. Queen should not be used for PR by any politicians.
do this. do that. who are you?
Clearly a nanny-State socialist.
This was certainly true in the case of Blair and ‘the people’s princes” blubber-fest and his strenuous, though repellant, efforts to turn the passing of the former Empress of India into another PR extravaganza for his party.
I hardly see inviting HM to the cabinet as an observer in the same light as the odious, cynical, manipulation of one of our last revered national institutions to produce some good vibes in the grid
Was she invited? Or did she invite herself? After all, it is her government so she should be able to pop in from time to time to see what they are up to.
“I went to Cabinet and all i got were 60 shitty placemats”
I fart in your general direction!
Maybe her Maj appreciates pretty pictures as an under-setter.
Not all of us have the Sun spread out as a table cloth, Daily star as placemat and use our sleeve as a napkin 8illy
You mean that Billy has sleeves?
My Nan had a set of those.
You can tell the cabinet had to pay for these themselves (subject to future expenses claims, obviously). Got them from Poundland did they?
One does so enjoy a well-placed palace mat – knowotoymeen? – like?
It just gets worse and worse…7 Down.
* Downward inflation ..ended
* Pleb back in the news
* UKIP foaming at the mouth..14% = 0 seats.
* Using the queen to help PR ( chuffin heck things must be bad )
* Strikes
* Boris bounce over
* Warsi has been let out
You’re really struggling, aren’t you?
‘Strikes’. It’s traditional for Bob Crow to screw up people’s Christmas travel arrangements. Up the workus !
up the work shy.
HOW MUCH DID THE MATS COST….ME !!!!!!!!!!
They didn’t cost a penny to those sponging off the state.
If they were paid for by the Cabinet, I’m not sure that you’re strictly correct.
A lucky secret santa choice. Who by?
The man on the telly tells us that a very broad hint was received from Buck House on what HM would like. I mean, what else can you get someone who already has everything?
lots……o,f…..lurve..,,,………l.l…..
But they’re quite nice placemats.
Of course, anything really expensive would have had you complaining about MPs on the take again.
How naff.
Agree completely; utter tat. One can only imagine The Duke of Edinburgh’s reaction.
Perhaps they’ll end up as a present for Fergie?
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She is f*cked in the head and needs careful supervision moving forward, if not permanent incarceration in a secure facility. The deeper details of this case are seriously disturbing.
Good God!
Doesn’t the woman know what considerable effort and dedication goes into a boner?
This is in very bad taste.
Makes the DVD box set I gave to to Gordon Brown look a class gift.
Perhaps the best joke was Barry chose VHS knowing Gordon still has a Betamax.
Tacky.
To the Queen, every single person in the country is a pleb.
It’s typical of the Conservatives telling everyone to know their placemats.
What a relief only 60 for a State banquet from now on.
As I am unemployed I am available to make up the numbers should I be required if for example there is a trade delegation from Burkhino Faso.
It’s austerity. We’re all in it together, y’know.
How much did those set Dave back ?
Those mats are really going to get the country back in work.
No Gay marriage will do that.
The place mats look quite nice, and would make a nice addition to the home.
(No sarcasm, irony, or satire intended – they look good.)
I’ll swap them for a complete DVD box set of classic American movies.
But will she ever get to see it? It is a bit chilly down that way and you know what happens to octogenarians who stand about for hours in the cold.
Holy shit. I thought the placemats were a wind up! ‘Know your place’ Liz-Mats’ as a prezzie must rank up among Ernie Wise’s present to Eric Morecambe of a Des O Connor LP. We know HMQ likes the wrestling- a dvd of Wrestlemania would have probably gone down better.
I have visions of Her Maj cutting about the Palace with a Stone Cold 3:16 T shirt !!!
And that’s the bottom line cause Stone Cold said so!!!!
I’m glad Charles Kennedy never did Stone Cold.
She’s just ordered another t shirt which says “I went to cabinet and all I got were these lousy place mats”
HMQ likes the wrestling….?
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so vile was a wrestler.
Didn’t take her long.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/6-X-LUXURY-HEAVYWEIGHT-LONDON-SCENES-CORK-PLACEMATS-STUNNING-QUALITY-/230758220115?pt=UK_HG_Crockery_RL&hash=item35ba430153
Made in NZ? Don’t believe it. All that sort of tat may be sold in NZ, but last time I was there everything but everything actually made in China. The labels usually say something like ‘designed in NZ [or Australia]‘ but manufacture is 100% Chinese.
Fortunately they’re not personalised, so I guess she can re-wrap them and give them to someone else!
Me ! Me ! Me !
http://fxbites.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/the-very-long-arm-of-law.html
10/10
I shall pass it on as a Christening present to William and his wife when the time comes. That’ll save a couple of quid on the civil list which is what all you thickie republicans are always on about.
the birth of a new generation is the start of a new generation. when the new child is born the queen will take time off from being a monarch.
it is only fair. tectonic plate movement.
king charles. take care….for in his hands lies the welfare of the monarch.
Detail on the place mats:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/ministers-whipround-to-buy-gift-of-place-mats-for-the-queen-8423916.html
Hand finished by Lady Clare company in Gloucestershire, show images of Buckingham palace chosen from the Royal Library at Windsor.
GBP 200 each rumoured to have been put in the kitty by each of the ministers.
Bloody hell. 32 ministers attend cabinet, that’s £6,400 or £106.66p a placemat.
You are Alan Johnson and I claim my £ 5.
They are hand finished, and custom made by a very good company here in the UK.
May be a bit boring, but for Her Majesty, the designs will mean a lot and they are more than suitable for a state function.
This is a good news story: Super work for flagging Guido.
…and they were suggested as a gift by…Buckingham Palace
I recommend close checking of the next set of expenses claims. Clearly a whipround for place-mats for the Queen is a legitimate living expense.
Six place mats is not going to make a very big banquet.
Daily Politics – Union boss Frances O’Grady – same old, same old, same wolf’s clothing with a quieter voice. Must have had the same coach as Tom Watson.
Notice how Coburn let O’Grady go on without interruption?
sisters together
Crikey I just gave something similar to the age concern charity shop. Do you think I should ask for them back?
Sixty (60) placements, not six (6).
If we were still a truly great country, those placemats would be hand painted. What next, DVDs?
You’d think posh people would be able to get this right, if nothing else.
Did they have a whip-round to buy them?
God, how dreadful
With all the financial disasters flying around to show this Government’s total incompetence it must be a welcome relief to invite the Queen around and have a photoshoot of some table mats!
Philllllllip ! One will be car booting again this weekend , we have to get rid of ones ghastly trinkets
Whatever they cost – they spent too much on the likes of the old sour krout – hasn’t she sponged enough for free already?
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