Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article ,
Martin wrote:

Maggie Thatcher was famous for weeding her vegetables out of the
cabinet.

Actually, the converse was true. Anyone who showed the slightest
bit of spine (not necessarily hawthorn, as Howes didn't have much
more than a damson) was weeded out. By the end, there were ONLY
vegetables left - with sticky willy Whitelaw being the only one
that anyone knew the name of even at the time.

A challenge: name another, and position, at the time she finally
got the most ancient Order of the Boot.

Major, J: Foreign Secretary? Tebbit, N: Barehanded Ratcatcher in
Ordinary; Howard, M?: Night-Flyer Quite Extraordinary...umm...yep,
otherwise, you're dead right.

Mike.