Former Daily Star and Sunday Express editor Brian Hitchen imagines a British government in which journalists and media executives replace politicians.
His fantasy media cabinet appears on the gentlemenranters site. There's a big clue to the right-wing political composition of his team in his introduction.
"Readers will note that no one has been appointed minister for overseas aid and development. This is because there will not be any overseas aid, nothing for the usual begging-bowl nations, until Britain is out of her present financial crisis, and our senior citizens have been provided with decent pensions.
Only then will 'our' British government consider giving money to foreigners."
Anyway, for your amusement (or otherwise), here is Hitchen's line-up, in which Fleet Street becomes Downing Street:
Prime minister: Boris Johnson, editor, columnist, and mayor of London
Deputy prime minister: Paul Dacre, editor the Daily Mail
Chancellor of the Exchequer: Murdoch MacLennan, Telegraph Media Group chief executive
Foreign secretary: Frederick Forsyth, author, former Reuters correspondent
Home secretary: Simon Heffer, columnist, Daily Telegraph
Defence minister: Sir Max Hastings, columnist, author and former editor (Daily Telegraph and London Evening Standard)
Minister, joint chiefs of intelligence: Gerald Seymour, former ITN foreign correspondent and author.
Minister for trade, industry, and trade unions: Kelvin MacKenzie, columnist and former editor (The Sun)
Education minister: Sir David Nicholas, former editor and chairman, ITN.
Minister of police: Peter Hill, editor Daily Express.
Justice minister: Richard Littlejohn, columnist Daily Mail.
Immigration minister: Rebekah Wade, News International chief executive
Special forces minister: Alastair McQueen, former defence correspondent (Daily Mirror)
Minister for war in Afghanistan: John Fullerton, ex-Reuters, and former MI6 agent
Minister of agriculture and rural affairs: Charles Moore, columnist, author and former editor (Sunday Telegraph, Daily Telegraph and The Spectator)
Minister of fisheries: Dick Durham, master mariner, news editor (Yachting Monthly)
Minister for Culture, Media, and Sport: Lord (Guy) Black, former director of Press Complaints Commission, editorial director, Telegraph Media Group
Minister for Europe: Professor Anthony Delano, former Daily Mirror foreign correspondent, author, London College of Communication
Prime minister's press secretary: Sir Bernard Ingham
Cabinet secretary: Sir Gus O'Donnell would be asked to remain in his post.
Hitchen concludes: "Your additional suggestions are welcome, but they will not necessarily appear on the list, particularly if I disagree with them. That's how dictatorships, even benign ones, work..."
