22 April 2006

Birthday presents

What do you give someone who already has everything? The cabinet is obviously as clueless as everyone else. The Times reports:
"The Queen’s 80th birthday present from Tony Blair’s Cabinet was a china tea set made by Spode pottery in Staffordshire, and believed to cost about £1,000.
The 25 Cabinet members are thought to have chipped in a minimum of about £30 each for the set in the Stafford Flowers design — described as “one of the great Spode patterns” with 22-carat gilding."
Not very imaginative, lads. One would have thought that Her Maj already possessed more than enough china tea sets.

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