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.
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