Topic: The Great Persons "Cabinet" Draft - Selection Thread

[sms1986]

Minister of Culture/Education - Galileo.

[KingLuis10]

If Napoleon was still around today and just happened to post on RAWK, I suspect he wouldn't have been best pleased that he hasn't made the cut as my PM. He'd have made for a great one of course, but I want this bad boy using his military prowess in the Ministry of War. We'll just have to steer well clear of Russia!

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
[Minister of War]

[Titi Camara]

Minister of Culture/Education - Stewart Lee

[Rysoph76]

Sorry they're late.

Pick 1

Prime Minister - Bob Mortimor



Pick 2

Minister for International Relations - Paul McCartney

[Klippity Klopp]

Foreign Minister





John Lennon

[Vishwa Atma]

Minister of Health

Hugh Hefner



That lifestyle and the dude lived up to be 91!!! He must be onto something... 

[El Lobo]

Minister of Health - John Belushi

[Crimson_Tank]

Minister of Foreign Affairs: Anthony Bourdain

“Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McNasty's? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.”

“No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.”

“I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness in Cambodia. I wanted to ride out into a desert on camelback, sand and dunes in every direction, eat whole roasted lamb with my fingers. I wanted to kick snow off my boots in a Mafiya nightclub in Russia. I wanted to play with automatic weapons in Phnom Penh, recapture the past in a small oyster village in France, step into a seedy neon-lit pulqueria in rural Mexico. I wanted to run roadblocks in the middle of the night, blowing past angry militia with a handful of hurled Marlboro packs, experience fear, excitement, wonder.”

[Sheer Magnetism]

Minister of defence: Alexander of Macedon

[El Lobo]

Prime Minister - Karl Pilkington

[Sheer Magnetism]

Environment and rural affairs minister: Caroline Lucas

[Klippity Klopp]

Minister of Science





Sir David Attenborough

[Crimson_Tank]

Prime Minster - Garry Kasparov





Greatest Chess player of all time, some debate this but not me. Politically active yes. Brilliant Strategist, no doubt. Idealist with a Realist Grounding, yup. Chairman of Human Rights Foundation. Arrested and beaten for supporting free speech (Pussy Riot). Given Keeper of the Flame Award (for "propagation of democracy and the respect for individual rights throughout the world"). Opposes Totalitarian and Fascist Regimes, might be on a Putin hit-list.

Checkmate to all comers. (Even IBM's Deep Thought, but not its successors)

[Crimson_Tank]

Titi/HR picks:

Minister of Programming - Charlie Brooker

[Vishwa Atma]

Minister of Culture

Freddie Mercury

[KingLuis10]

I was trying to avoid picking this guy as he almost seems a bit too 'obvious'. But after overlooking him three times, I can't do it a fourth. I'm going to shift Elon Musk over into the newly-created Ministry for the Environment and select one of the greatest minds ever to have graced the earth as my Minister of Science.

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"

ALBERT EINSTEIN

Minister of Science

[sms1986]

Minister of Science - Rosalind Franklin.

[McrRed]

Minister of Defense: Ho Chi Minh

Come on. You want the guy that rebuffed the entire US war machine trying to bomb his country into the stone age guarding your borders.

[Buck Pete]

Minister for Health - Beverley Jane "Bev" McEwan (née Moxon; previously Atkinson, Sowden and Callard)






Bev has always needed to keep in shape to keep her plethora of husbands happy, and that is indeed what she does, with aplomb.  Taking time out from her gruelling Coronation Street Schedule she still finds precious time to visit Pure gym in Salford for a smoothie and to release a handful of fitness DVD's every year, before heading back to the daily grind on the cobbles.

My current portly cabinet trio of Pablo Escobar, Atilla and Bernie Madoff certainly would have benefited from a few hours with Bev during their glory years.  Pablo churning out squat thrusts in the jungles of Colombia while Atilla and his Barbarian hoard attempt to out-score each other on the abs crunches, just before sacking yet another unsuspecting city.

Yep, Bev would be the perfect lady to drive the nation into being healthy, starting with the 10 minute futile exercise in front of the TV every day would definitely be part of her extensive 3 page Manifesto.

In fact, after meticulously studying Bev's 'Body Blaster' DVD for a good 3 minutes, I am now sure that as the Minister for Health, Bev would probably start by completely overhauling the NHS and establishing pioneering medical research programs that eventually lead to finding cures to all diseases known to man.

Bev's plucky Corrie character 'Liz Mcdonald' even had a part-time job as a Doctors surgery receptionist. Liz's 3 week stint in that role would have given serious method actor Bev priceless experience and the tools to be part of masterminding the biggest NHS reform policy ever to be undertaken by a UK government.

During her interview for the cabinet post, a smiling Bev (allegedly) stated that "Robert De Niro could have easily beaten Sugar Ray Leonard following his portrayal of some old Black & White boxer". She then added "SO..Liz's stint on reception in the Betsy Street Surgery makes me the perfect candidate".

[Anywhichwayicant]

Minister of Culture - Liam Gallagher, as you were x

[Harold Barton]

Minister of War / Defence:

Hannibal

[Sudden Death Draft Loser]

Minister of Finance/ Economy - Silvio Gesell



Silvio Gesell - March 1862 – 11 March 1930) was a German merchant, theoretical economist, social activist, Georgist, anarchist, libertarian socialist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Gesell#Economic_philosophy

[Samie]

Minister of Finance/Economy- Jerome Kerviel



https://www.theguardian.com/business/2008/jan/25/banking.france

A brilliant young rogue trader, who spun an elaborate web of fake transactions from his desk, has cost France's biggest bank €4.9bn (£3.7bn) in what appears to be the largest-ever fraud by a single trader.

[Rysoph76]

Immigration Minister - Rod Hull

Before you can enter my country, you have to get through border control and be vetted and Rod would be the ideal man to greet you and establish your credentials (which may or may not include your ability to fix tv aerials)

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/I4xJvxSZ9aI" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/I4xJvxSZ9aI</a>

[McrRed]

Minister of Science and Health

Did some great mathematical design work for a genuine wonder of the world, described astronomical orbits and mapped Orion, allegedly performed the first "caesarian".

Imhotep

[Lastrador]

Charles Darwin - Minister of Science

[Lastrador]

Subutai - Minister of War

Genghis Khan primary military strategist.

[Rysoph76]

Minister of culture whose role also includes responsibility for writing our national anthem

[Samie]

Prime Minister/Lord Emperor-  George W. Bush

[Sudden Death Draft Loser]

 Minister of Science/Health -  David Nutt



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nutt

[Harold Barton]

Foreign Secretary: Ben Franklin



Diplomat was just one of his careers. Yet another polymath for my cabinet. Plus you cannot argue with this:

[Buck Pete]

Minister for Culture - Quentin Tarantino

[Anywhichwayicant]

Minster of the Arts (Wildcard) - Mandingo

[sms1986]

Foreign Minister - Eleanor Roosevelt.

[KingLuis10]

AMELIA EARHART

[Minister of Tourism & Development]

[Titi Camara]

Foreign Minister   - Stephen Fry

[Crimson_Tank]

Minister of Culture and Arts: Edward Kennedy "The Duke" Ellington

"Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it."

“How can anyone expect to be understood unless he presents his thoughts with complete honesty? This situation is unfair because it asks too much of the world. In effect, we say, ' I don't dare show you what I am because I don't trust you for a minute but please love me anyway because I so need you to. And, of course, if you don't love me anyway, you're a dirty dog, just as I suspected, so I was right in the first place.' Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.”

[Betty Blue]

Maya Angelou - Minister of Equality & Civil Rights

I'm struggling to sum up everything that is so amazing about this woman. Writer, poet, professor, civil rights activist. She is one of the most important black writers of our time and amongst a never ending list of honours, she also worked closely with Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. This is a woman who truly understood the importance of equality and never stopped fight for it throughout her life. And furthermore, she was absolute bonkers, funny, intelligent and completely outspoken. The perfect fit for this role and more than strong enough to get her voice heard in the bat shit crazy cabinet she'd be occupying.

“I am gay,” Maya Angelou told a gathering of 4,000 predominantly LGBT people at the GALA Festival in Tampa, Fla., in 1996. “I am lesbian. I am black. I am white. I am Native American. I am Christian. I am Jew. I am Muslim.”



Still I rise - by Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.

[Betty Blue]

Andy Warhol - Minister of Finance

This is the category I was fearing most. Who would be crazy enough to help finance Hunter S Thompson health care plans and Dali's cultural vision? Step in Andy Warhol. Love him or hate him. He was a money making machine, and not by ripping off the poor or smuggling drugs, but through art (and probably more stealing off the rich!). All in which makes him the perfect addition to this cabinet. Plus, he could throw a damn good party.

[Klippity Klopp]

Minister of Education





J. K. Rowling