http://www.politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2013/06/10/sketch-ken-clarke-stands-up-for-bilderberg
 

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
Generating laughter as subtle as a sledgehammer, Ken Clarke put in a 
hilarious performance defending the secretive goings-on of the 
Bilderberg Group this afternoon.
This shadowy gathering of world leaders - academics, bankers, company 
bosses and politicians - has been meeting annually since 1954 for cosy 
off-the-record chit-chats about the affairs that affect us all.
These meetings must drip with elitism. The latest one took place at the Grove hotel in Hertfordshire - the same luxury destination where the 
Google Big Tent took place last month. It's a destination frequented by 
the England football team, no less. Even the vast majority of those 
actually in government are outsiders to this very exclusive club.
Clarke is now merely a minister without portfolio in the government - 
someone to call on if anything unduly pesky pops up. He may not have 
much to do in Whitehall these days, but many years of life clinging on 
near the summit of public life have made him a stalwart defender of the 
establishment. 

That was his task this afternoon.



It didn't even seem to matter he was speaking for the Bilderberg Group 
itself rather than the coalition. This was bizarre and even baffling - 
or at least it was until Clarke revealed he was on the group's steering 
committee. He explained, in response to a question from a bemused Tory 
backbencher, that most members of the group only attended one or two 
meetings, but by some strange twist of fate, he had found himself a 
"core" member for the last decade or so.
Fancy that! The sense of informal happenstance seemed to be being 
deliberately cultivated by Clarke, whose brain - if cut in half - would 
resemble either a teenager's very messy bedroom or the work of a 
particularly crazed abstract expressionist. Regrettably, he explained, 
he was about to be retired from the committee because of his age. "Other jobs are timeless, but in this particular role I have met the end of my allotted span." Clarke will be laughing important and worrying matters 
off for the British establishment for some time to come