Civil Servants Have Put Together a Briefing Document... [Derived Headline]

The HeraldAugust 11, 2010

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Civil servants have put together a briefing document for the Queen in the event of a hung parliament. I look forward to a hung parliament. I may have the wrong past participle here. I may be thinking of hanged. Were that very strict 18th-century judge Lord Braxfield alive today, he might say that many of our politicians are clever chiels but would be nane the waur o' a hanging.

In Braxfield's day, a chap could find himself dangling from the end of a rope for stealing a loaf out of the City Bakeries. We don't want to return to those barbarous ways.

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Civil Servants Have Put Together a Briefing Document... [Derived Headline]

So, no executions in Parliament Square. Not even just the one scoundrel from each p...

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