Queen's diamond jubilee

[Miss Demeanour]

Lord Mandelson plans street parties for Queen's diamond jubilee

Lord Mandelson?s gift for rising above the political battle    made him much the best minister to announce the arrangements for the celebration of the Queen?s diamond jubilee in 2012

Nobody could have conveyed in a more loyal and dignified tone the plan to hold ?a series of fitting events? in the first week of June 2012, in which we shall have the chance to recognise and give thanks for the Queen?s remarkable achievements. 

Lord Hunt of Wirral, replying for the Tories, made the error of inserting one or two partisan remarks, which Lord Mandelson quite rightly ignored, instead simply thanking Lord Hunt for speaking so well of the Queen.

A lesser performer would have been thrown by the embarrassment of forgetting the genial Lord McNally, but Lord Mandelson recovered without apparent effort, declaring himself strongly in favour of street parties and mugs.

Lord Mandelson was just as receptive to suggestions from other peers for historical pageants, tree-planting and a new classic horse race to mark the jubilee.

 

What a crock of shite 

[Snoopy]

I see some Welsh twat wants to use St David's Day as a Bank Holiday in celebration of the Queen's Jubilee ... this would be that same Welsh twats who want a republic would it?

[Nick]

Littlejohn on Mandelson 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1241482/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-Mandelson-run-Jubilee-God-save-Queen.html