Victoria ascended post-1689; too late to be head of government.
There’s also Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians.
Yeah, that Presidency is going to be awkward…
I imagine the UK will have to sidestep it if Art 50 is triggered before it’s over, but I understand the (UK) money has already been committed and we won’t see it again…
Looks a lot like another Thatcher will be moving in to Number 10.
The Lib Dems are being cheeky.
Ha! Well, at least they can provide some light relief.
Boudicca doesn’t count?
No comments about Cameron and his cheery humming?
He’s screwed the country and is now running away and leaving someone else to clean up. And he thinks tum te tum is appropriate and statesman like?
Of all the things that annoy me about Cameron, the humming is pretty near the bottom of the list.
No. She didn’t last long enough.
It’s a demonstration of the contempt in which he and his privileged kind hold the country.
I don’t understand what the problem with accidental exposure of humming to oneself is. Does humming mean something different in UK than US? I’m imagining Bush doing the same thing and I can’t see anything wrong.
Shh! We don’t want them Australians waltzing in…
Yeah, it’s a bit strange. He’s humming for God’s sake. Who cares?
I think it’s more a demonstration of the fact that he’s demob happy.
The one does not preclude the other…
Just a quiet word: Obama has been President for the last seven and a half years. Time flies when you’re having fun…
It seems unduly insouciant in view of the fact that all this is the result of the failure of his great gamble. It doesn’t necessarily need the full Thatcher waterworks, but it’s not quite the done thing to look as though you don’t care that you’ve just bequeathed the mother of all political messes to your successor.
Yes, but what’s the connection to humming? Would you not ascribe all that to him if he weren’t humming?
Well I’m not convinced it was the West Wing theme tune. His humming is too short to be sure and the West Wing theme tune was just a bit unmemorable to be hummable: it was all just that vaguely stirring American patriotic stuff that worked brilliantly against the credits, but was otherwise largely forgettable to a British audience.
But I have to admit that, as someone of much the same age as Cameron and a fan of the series, under the circumstances I’d want to play out these last few days as the version of the fantasy one last time.
It could have been worse: he could have tried humming the theme to the US version of House of Cards. If that is hummable.