http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4455 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 14:04:39 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4455#post-126008 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:43:29 +0000 Haywood Manley 126008@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Dollar? Prog? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4455#post-125993 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:50:29 +0000 riesler 125993@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>... and Roger Dean to design the cover of the manifesto. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4455#post-12479 Thu, 13 May 2010 17:29:35 +0000 Iscariot 12479@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Curved Air - Transport<br /> Spooky Tooth - Dept of Health<br /> Family - Child poverty<br /> Manfred Mann's Earthband - Ecology<br /> 10 Years After - Her Majesties Prisons<br /> 10cc - to be "de-branded" and return to the name 2 teaspoons<br /> Groundhogs - Defra<br /> Led Zeppelin - Transport<br /> Barclay James Harvest - EU "Set aside" payments<br /> Grateful Dead - Cabinet Office<br /> The Nice - NICE<br /> King Crimson - Next Leader of the Opposition<br /> Velvet Underground - Transport<br /> Wishbone Ash - Defra<br /> Cheap Trick - election reform </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4455#post-12468 Thu, 13 May 2010 16:21:04 +0000 andhrimnir 12468@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Atomic Kitten - defence (low cost)<br /> Styx - defence (even lower cost)<br /> Dollar - chancellor<br /> The Who - new position, minister for closing down ID card scheme<br /> AC/DC - energy<br /> Cream - DEFRA<br /> Byrds - DEFRA<br /> Van Halen - transport<br /> Foreigner - immigration<br /> Deep Purple - NHS<br /> Yes - new position, special liaison with USA<br /> Lynyrd Skynyrd - education</p> <p>and not forgetting the<br /> Doobie Brothers - leaders of the opposition </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4455#post-12465 Thu, 13 May 2010 15:35:25 +0000 Skylarking 12465@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Lest we forget it was Greg Lake that had a full time roadie employed solely to look after his onstage persian rug. And you thought Nick Clegg was being a bit demanding this week ... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4455#post-12464 Thu, 13 May 2010 15:33:03 +0000 Jimmy 12464@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ha!</p> <p>How about something along the lines of the alliance wanting to bring out the crowd pleasers like 'From the Beginning' and the minimum wage. </p> <p>Also stuff about the split being down to 'Artistic Differences', exacerbated by Mandelson calling Lake a 'stage hog' after an 8-minute bass solo in Labour HQ. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4455#post-12451 Thu, 13 May 2010 14:50:28 +0000 The Orgazoid 12451@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Tool for Regulatory reform or the new "fixing" Politics Department. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4455#post-12447 Thu, 13 May 2010 14:36:20 +0000 Basil_B 12447@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Atomic Rooster for the Department of Energy<br /> The Crazy World of Arthur Brown for the Department of mental health<br /> although not really prog Dr Feelgood to run the NHS </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4455#post-12440 Thu, 13 May 2010 14:04:18 +0000 Skylarking 12440@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><em>That's</em> the spirit, Basil! Any more for any more? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4455#post-12439 Thu, 13 May 2010 13:58:57 +0000 Basil_B 12439@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Maybe Jethro Tull could be tempted into running the Ministry of Agriculture or Caravan to head up the Department of Transport ? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4455#post-12436 Thu, 13 May 2010 13:49:54 +0000 Skylarking 12436@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The Labour Party’s latest attempts to form a new ‘progressive alliance’ are close to collapse after both Greg Lake and Carl Palmer of Emerson Lake and Palmer walked out of negotiations yesterday. Lake and Palmer follow the departure of ELP’s flamboyant keyboardist Keith Emerson on Tuesday after failing to land the role of Shadow Foreign Secretary.</p> <p>This latest attempt to form ‘a shadow cabinet of all the progressives’ comes after Labour failed to woo Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats into a coalition government over the weekend.</p> <p>Ministers remained publicly confident that a ‘prog alliance’ could still be formed; pointing out that ‘honest’ Phil Collins of Genesis has already accepted the post of Shadow Chancellor. </p> <p>In private though, many were admitting that it was proving harder than expected to woo the veteran prog movement into ‘big stadium’ politics with Labour: “It’s like herding cats dealing with these progsters” confessed one of the Labour whips “Pink Floyd are way too socialist, in spite of being richer than the whole front bench put together, Fish from Marillion is insisting on devolution and Matt Bellamy of Muse refuses to meet with Harriet Harman, convinced that she’s actually a seven foot alien lizard in disguise.”</p> <p>Last minute attempts to draft in members of hippy prog-rockers Gong and Hawkwind also fell into disarray. “They shunned the catering, bringing their own fudge brownies, which is jolly bad form if you ask me” commented one of the aides “then they just stood there all evening giggling. It was clearly not going to work…”</p> <p>Labour’s big hope now is the full support of mystical prog megastars Yes. “Getting the classic 1972 line-up to form a coalition with us would be a dream come true” admitted Jack Straw “they’re still talking right now, though to be honest Bill Bruford is lobbying for a Jazz Fusion coalition and Rick Wakeman seems more interested in the beer and sandwiches. Failing that the only option left is to phone Radiohead, and none of us can face that…” </p>