[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16578231You have to wonder what Michael Gove was on.[/url

Quite. Instead of coming out with guff like this, he should be replying to the email I sent him several weeks ago.

Borrowed time, hopefully.

Wonder why an MP with a constituency rich in shipbuilding heritage might suggest getting Liz a new yacht?

his Grandmother's yacht?

Isn't he the MP for Surrey Heath? Hardly a bastion of ship building.

I first heard of Gove when he used to appear on the [iMoral Maze[/i on R4 years ago.
I thought he was a total nutjob then and he doesn't seem to have improved.

Let's not be too hasty in dismissing this. I know where we can get some very cheap boat bits at the moment. The navigation system isn’t very good but I am sure we could pick up something cheap from Halfords.

Are they leaky?
If so, you might be onto something there.

Very leaky but she'll not notice till it is too late.

Fine.
Put me down for a tenner and a very sharp knitting needle.

Mind you, we'd have to make sure the Duke of Ed isn't present, he's that dessicated, he'd just soak up the ocean as the boat sank.

So, here's the plan.
We send out invitations for a regal party on board the HMS Halfords.
Guest list to include all royals (regardless of how minor, but not the aforementioned regal biltong ), all heridary peers and their male offspring, the PM, the Chancellor, Michael Gove, that bloke at HMRC who let Vodafone off the hook (off the hook ... good eh?), the Murdochs, Richard Desmond and Ant and Dec.

Any more ?

Couldn't Gove just use his salary and contributions from his mates to sort out Britannia?

All in it together you mean?

That's the spirit!

This idiot for starters



Damo could go onboard as entertainment. They'll be hoping it will sink after listening to him for 5 minutes.

Just get Ian Hislop to sort out the invites!

I've donated already -all of my income around £4,000pa. Whether I wanted to or not is another matter. My ESA payments will stop in September because this government has limited it to 365 days, totally ignoring the Lords who didn't want this to happen and I may even be donating more tomorrow - they are debating the new Personal Independant Payment replacing DLA.

Oh, how happy I feel just giving my income away, just like that, how nice of this government to do this on my behalf afterall "we're all in this together".

how about if a hustings was erected in Trafalgar Square and all the 'Royals' were beheaded ?

that would save having to build a new 'Royal' Yacht !

Vive La Republique !!!

Sir Mark Thatcher.

It did give us some of the best front pages of recent times: twitpic.com/87r4fh

It did give us some of the best front pages of recent times: twitpic.com/87r4fh

Has Prince "I like a bit of luxury" Charles been lobbying again? Given the Queen's age how much use is she liklely to get out of a new yacht given it would take years to build? Or is Gove suggesting a second hand model?

The Ark Royal's still knocking around somewhere, mebbe we could get the Koreans to do a cut & shut job on it

Air craft carriers are no use to us as our new fighter won't land on them! Politicians / the MOD beggar belief. No carriers at present. Two on order but we'll only order two. Scrapped the Harriers and ordered 'planes that have been designed erroneously and may need to be scrapped / completely redesigned before they can be used! What's a few billion quid in these austere times though?

Maggie Thatcher and the rest of the Bullington Bullies in the cabinet and then put the t**t Mark Thatcher in charge of navigation, never seen again

Don't forget Carol Thatcher...

Devastating if used as a rudimentary club I would have thought.