Jul 3, 2007

Come On Alhagie Mbye

Nderry's London bureau chief started out with a bang. He created a position in the British government hierarchy that doesn't exist. The post of deputy prime minister doesn't exist in the britain. It is a symbolic post. Just like an honorary degree with no prevailing powers.The screen shot captured the story on nderry's rag at the moment. Nderry will eventually edit it without admitting to the mistake. So just in case he did, it will be featured here for eternity. Here is what Wikipedia has to say about the lack of deputy minister in the British system :

Under its uncodified constitution, the United Kingdom possesses no formal permanent office of Deputy Prime Minister.

Harriet Harman is the deputy leader of the Labour party and the minister for women. She hasn't been appointed by Gordon Brown as deputy prime minster. How Alhagie Mbye could equate her role as deputy party leader to a deputy prime minister (a post that does not exist) is beyond me. And what is up with all this fancy titles that nderry keeps creating for his fly by correspondents?

Click here to see a profile of the new british cabinet ministers....

Update:
Maybe I didn't make myself clear. However I am not going to pull a nderry and edit the post to cover up. What I meant to say from the beginning is that Gordon Brown hasn't appointed anyone as a deputy prime minister and thus the position doesn't exist.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/notes/snpc-04023.pdf

Anonymous said...

more about the deputy prime minister of uk:

http://www.dpm.gov.uk/