Celebs you wish were MPs

[TheDullWitch]

OK maybe Jamie Oliver, he is pretty selfless in his food thing. He seems to know how to bring people together.

Steve Allen from LBC radio. He's as camp as Christmas but so honest and cutting.

James Whale

Sir David Attenborough for the environment. Would actually care about what he's doing.

Has anyone said Jeremy Hardy or Marcus Brigstocke yet?

Some sort of R4 comedy hybrid candidate would be great.

George Monbiot would be pretty effective I imagine (not sure if he's really a 'celeb' though.)

Dara O'Briain

You can't have Dara. He's ours. Agree with Michael O'Leary. He'd soon sort it out. I would love if he was our Minister for Health.

Michael O'Leary - what an unutterable wanker that man is. If you're keeping Dara, please keep O'Leary too.

O'leary for Health Minister? Have you been on a RyanAir flight lately

This must be one of the most brain dead posts ever. Why would any celeb in their right mind be interested in being an MP?

I am sure the above celebs have mastered the complexities of fiscal policy, law making and justice, health, education, energy issues, the environment, social equality..so why don't why we just make it a vote on who is the most genuine bloke or who's the nattiest dresser ?

Charming Its just a bit of fun!

But if you don't like the thread, why post ? The OP isn't asking whether celebrities SHOULD be MPs, that's a different issue, merely who you think might make an interesting choice if they did.

I think that Bill Bailey would have some good ideas for solving a few of our problems .

I used to think Eddie Izzard myself, but recently he's been all over our local paper cos he's apparently bessy mates with
Lucy Powell, best known round these parts variously as 'prospective Labour MP for Withington', 'that one who's always in the papers who isn't even an MP but keeps behaving as if she is one' or 'that one who got excused from the Labour Party Conference by Gordon Brown so she could go to Glastonbury

So my enthusiasm for him is wavering somewhat.

Will Self
Jarvis Cocker
Jamie Oliver
Mark Thomas
Marcus Brigstock
That one from peep show someone already mentioned
Why aren't there any women on this list? all the women i can think of are ones I know not celebrities, wierd eh.

ooh, germaine greer
courtney love!

that'd make parliament today worth watching!

Good point dreamylady. Sheila Hancock?

Please please please not Will Self!

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Alan Sugar!

Janet Street Porter.

She would be fabulous.

Anita Roddick would have been great.

Ooh, Lucy Powell is right up her arse, isn't she? her connection with Eddie Izzard will date from Britain in Europe days. I like Mr Izzard meself. Same connection ;).

Marcus Brigstocke, definitely, along with Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. Jeremy Hardy to shake us up and never let us rest in contented contentment.

Joanna Lumley.

I don't think any of these people qualify as brain dead personally.

I agree ThingOne. I suppose we're using a broad interpretation of 'celebrity'. W're talking about people who've made a name for being successful in fields of expertise or endeavour, whereas I suspect that Stephla might have simply been flicking through her Heat magazine .

I agree O'Leary is a twat, but our health service is DIRE over here. BIllIONS being spent on equipment, then they shut down the wards. O'Leary would cut out the guff, and get things moving. (I would really hope to not be ill while he is sorting it out though!)

Our current Health Minister is an independent, and also, clinically obese. I'm not entirely sure she takes the whole "health" thing seriously.

It costs us a least ?50 just to see a GP, then a course of anti-biotics can around ?40. ?90 quid gone. This is for babies too, there is no automatic right to healthcare here. Embrace your NHS ladies.

As for Dara, he'd just cheer us all up, and we need that!

er.. BILLIONS.

Ah right, I see. Sorry for being a bit aggressive, I have a major sense-of-humour-failure where he's concerned!

OMG I can see what hospitals would be like under Ryanair rules.

pay per go gas and air
pay per bag you bring into the hospital
pay per meter for wheel chair use
pay for staff time to check you in
pay per bath you have
etc
etc

oh and pay to get in the lift first

No probs Policywonk. He's not the most charismatic of men, by any stretch, but I think he could do a nice spreadsheet.

@bythepowerofgreyskull - We already have pay as you go Healthcare! We just want more value for money with it. We pay for everything, but may still have to wait years for it, then get charged for every single bit of treatment.

Marcus Brigstocke doesn't like cats. Can't trust a man who doesn't like cats.

Bill Bailey would be good in Education. Not sure why, just feels like a good place for him...

Martin Clunes, yes, if only to stop him doing this Reggie Perrin thing that my DP is currently making me watch!