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Guess which former cabinet minister I just saw on an escalator at Bond St station

Smee [Edit] [Delete] 88 replies 14:32, 10 October '11

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  • Willie Whitelaw

    Kitchmo | 10 Oct '11, 14:34 | X
  • Douglas Hurd?

    I once got on the same train as him at Paddington.

    he_tu | 10 Oct '11, 14:34 | X
  • Portillo

    cheers

    jacques_le_biscuit_ | 10 Oct '11, 14:34 | X
  • may have seen him as well but I wont have recognised him

    Smee @Kitchmo | 10 Oct '11, 14:35 | X
  • Alastair Darling

    DaisyFlower | 10 Oct '11, 14:35 | X
  • Margaret Thatcher?

    Deadscalator.

    TheWza | 10 Oct '11, 14:35 | X
  • nope

    Smee @he_tu | 10 Oct '11, 14:35 | X
  • nope

    Smee @jacques_le_biscuit_ | 10 Oct '11, 14:35 | X
  • Jack Straw

    colon_closed_bracket | 10 Oct '11, 14:35 | X
  • nope

    Smee @DaisyFlower | 10 Oct '11, 14:35 | X
  • Barbara Castle

    Kitchmo | 10 Oct '11, 14:36 | X
  • ^gets everywhere

    spit-fire @DaisyFlower | 10 Oct '11, 14:36 | X
  • want to know who the closest is so far?

    Smee | 10 Oct '11, 14:36 | X
  • Anthony Eden

    Kitchmo | 10 Oct '11, 14:36 | X
  • nope

    Smee @TheWza | 10 Oct '11, 14:36 | X
  • Robin Cook

    eltham | 10 Oct '11, 14:36 | X
  • nope

    Smee @colon_closed_bracket | 10 Oct '11, 14:37 | X
  • Enoch Powell

    Kitchmo | 10 Oct '11, 14:37 | X
  • Is it a Conservative?

    marckee | 10 Oct '11, 14:37 | X
  • Yes

    Tweezer @Smee | 10 Oct '11, 14:37 | X
  • nope

    Smee @Kitchmo | 10 Oct '11, 14:37 | X
  • Heseltine

    still_here | 10 Oct '11, 14:37 | X
  • Liam Fox.

    SATIRE.

    hip_young_gunslinger | 10 Oct '11, 14:37 | X
  • nope

    Smee @Kitchmo | 10 Oct '11, 14:37 | X
  • nope (dead)

    Smee @eltham | 10 Oct '11, 14:38 | X
  • I saw him on the escalators at Bond St once

    he pushed in front of me.

    jacques_le_biscuit_ @Smee | 10 Oct '11, 14:38 | X
  • John Profumo

    Kitchmo | 10 Oct '11, 14:38 | X
  • In whose cabinet did he / she serve?

    Or a rough time frame?

    DaisyFlower | 10 Oct '11, 14:38 | X
  • whereas as you well know Anthony Eden is a live and well

    and can be spotted regularly at Lambeth North station

    Smee @Smee | 10 Oct '11, 14:38 | X
  • John Smith

    Kitchmo | 10 Oct '11, 14:38 | X
  • nope

    Smee @marckee | 10 Oct '11, 14:38 | X
  • Neil Kinnock

    hip_young_gunslinger | 10 Oct '11, 14:39 | X
  • David Laws

    DaisyFlower | 10 Oct '11, 14:40 | X
  • Big Daddy Kane

    jacques_le_biscuit_ | 10 Oct '11, 14:40 | X
  • For reasons that remain my own

    I'm going to say that the closest guesses so far are Jack Straw, Anthony Eden, and Dr Fox

    Smee | 10 Oct '11, 14:40 | X
  • Richard E Grant

    Darcy | 10 Oct '11, 14:40 | X
  • Clement Attlee

    Kitchmo | 10 Oct '11, 14:40 | X
  • David Blunkett.

    Steve13105895 | 10 Oct '11, 14:40 | X
  • Exactly what cabinet post did he hold then?

    Kitchmo @hip_young_gunslinger | 10 Oct '11, 14:41 | X
  • I thought that by 'former' you meant 'deceased'.

    eltham @Smee | 10 Oct '11, 14:41 | X
  • Geoff Hoon

    he_tu | 10 Oct '11, 14:41 | X
  • Jacqui Smith

    hip_young_gunslinger | 10 Oct '11, 14:41 | X
  • nope

    which, as we know it wasn't a Tory, means it must be Labour I think?

    (obvs it is now I said that)

    actually it could be Shirley Williams or one of them gang of four, i guess, dunno if they were all cabinet ministers in the 70s or not.

    Smee @DaisyFlower | 10 Oct '11, 14:41 | X
  • Banana Milliband

    brusma | 10 Oct '11, 14:41 | X
  • Margaret Beckett, David Miliband, Malcom Rifkind?

    (Seeing as the three you name have all been Foreign Sec)

    DaisyFlower @Smee | 10 Oct '11, 14:42 | X
  • English?

    hip_young_gunslinger | 10 Oct '11, 14:42 | X
  • Nicholas Lyndhurst

    jacques_le_biscuit_ @Smee | 10 Oct '11, 14:42 | X
  • David Goodwillie

    deadonthestairs | 10 Oct '11, 14:42 | X
  • I think I know.

    hip_young_gunslinger @hip_young_gunslinger | 10 Oct '11, 14:42 | X
  • John Reid

    brusma | 10 Oct '11, 14:42 | X
  • Pitt the Younger

    brusma | 10 Oct '11, 14:43 | X
  • well you don't get to lose three successive leadership contests

    by patiently waiting for your turn I suppose.

    Smee @jacques_le_biscuit_ | 10 Oct '11, 14:43 | X
  • Pitt the Even Younger

    brusma | 10 Oct '11, 14:43 | X
  • Andy Burnham

    waffle | 10 Oct '11, 14:43 | X
  • Minister of funny teeth and jubilant Welsh fist-pumping.

    hip_young_gunslinger @Kitchmo | 10 Oct '11, 14:43 | X
  • Moses Kiptanui.

    hip_young_gunslinger | 10 Oct '11, 14:44 | X
  • *DING DING DING DING DING*

    Smee @he_tu | 10 Oct '11, 14:44 | X
  • george boateng

    meths | 10 Oct '11, 14:44 | X
  • DING DING DING DING DING DING DING

    Smee @he_tu | 10 Oct '11, 14:44 | X
  • Pitt the Glint in the Milkman's eye

    DaisyFlower | 10 Oct '11, 14:44 | X
  • whoon?

    meths @Smee | 10 Oct '11, 14:45 | X
  • Pitt the glint in the milkman's eye?

    Smee @brusma | 10 Oct '11, 14:45 | X
  • Moses Kiptanui

    brusma | 10 Oct '11, 14:45 | X
  • fix

    Smee | 10 Oct '11, 14:45 | X
  • Alan Johnson

    TheWza | 10 Oct '11, 14:45 | X
  • Your mum has some of the milkman's 'glint' in her eye.

    TheWza @DaisyFlower | 10 Oct '11, 14:46 | X
  • They were.

    marckee @Smee | 10 Oct '11, 14:47 | X
  • I wanted to shout something at him about cash for influence

    or whatever that scandal was, but then I wasn't sure if that was him or not. I remembered too late that he was involved in that abortive attempt to unseat Gordon Brown. Could have been really embarassing for him had I remembered in time.

    Smee @Smee | 10 Oct '11, 14:48 | X
  • Poor Alan.

    Kitchmo @TheWza | 10 Oct '11, 14:49 | X
  • Wilson Kipketer

    jacques_le_biscuit_ | 10 Oct '11, 14:50 | X
  • Harriet Harman

    TheWza | 10 Oct '11, 14:50 | X
  • You should have said

    *I thought you prefered taxis?*. That would have been a deep burn.

    Kitchmo @Smee | 10 Oct '11, 14:51 | X
  • ok

    i guess by the criteria of the question though, they were Labour cabinet ministers so...

    Smee @marckee | 10 Oct '11, 14:51 | X
  • Ruth Kelly

    TheWza | 10 Oct '11, 14:51 | X
  • Estelle Morris

    TheWza | 10 Oct '11, 14:51 | X
  • Hazel Blears

    TheWza | 10 Oct '11, 14:52 | X
  • Hicham El Guerrouj

    jacques_le_biscuit_ | 10 Oct '11, 14:52 | X
  • I was in a lift with him once.

    (it was in the MoD main building, so probably not that surprising).

    Very erotically charged moment.

    thewarn @Smee | 10 Oct '11, 14:52 | X
  • yeah

    except, as I now realise, that was Stephen Byers...

    Smee @Kitchmo | 10 Oct '11, 14:53 | X
  • Nah inaccurate criticism is the best

    Also it was the same scandal, surely you'd be allowed that?

    Kitchmo @Smee | 10 Oct '11, 14:54 | X
  • Hilary Benn

    Jack Straw - glasses
    Dr Fox - rural affairs
    Anthony Eden - dunno

    TheWza | 10 Oct '11, 14:54 | X
  • Theodor Blank

    amnuck | 10 Oct '11, 14:55 | X
  • I assume you're playing the moves you would have chosen

    not that you haven't noticed he_tu got it up there ^

    Kitchmo @TheWza | 10 Oct '11, 14:56 | X
  • dude

    game's over. it was hoon.

    Smee @TheWza | 10 Oct '11, 14:57 | X
  • Makiko Tanaka

    amnuck | 10 Oct '11, 14:58 | X
  • Madeleine Albright

    amnuck | 10 Oct '11, 15:00 | X
  • yup.

    TheWza @Kitchmo | 10 Oct '11, 15:02 | X
  • yeah i guess.

    but it would have been much better if i had just egged him

    Smee @Kitchmo | 10 Oct '11, 15:02 | X
  • British?

    Royter-Hatfood | 10 Oct '11, 15:05 | X
  • :(

    Poor Maddie

    thewarn @amnuck | 10 Oct '11, 15:07 | X
  • Can you hear me?...

    ...Your boys took one hell of a beating. Your boys took one hell of a beating.

    BigRadgeDoug @he_tu | 12 Oct '11, 02:51 | X
  • I stood next to Hilary Benn on the District Line the other day

    He sat down when a seat became free. I stayed standing. He'd probably had a harder day than me.

    dan_thw | 12 Oct '11, 03:46 | X
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