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Shared Opinion | 30 May 2009

If you think politicians are mad, wait till celebrities are running the country

issue 30 May 2009

Clearly they should just have a different Speaker every time. Like on Have I Got News For You? since they sacked Angus Deayton. Do you remember the one with Sir Trevor Mcdonald? Brilliant. Because we never saw it coming, did we? We all thought, well, they just need to find the right man, somebody with a suitable terse wit, and who isn’t going to appear on the front of the News of The World in the sort of grainy photographs that one now vaguely expects to show a young George Osborne.

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