Government Gossip T-Shirts

Whitehall: Gave honest impartial advice

"If we're going to keep this quite, we'll need a public enquiry."

'Take a letter,'

'It was a very pleasant, successful party, I'm told - quite unlike the 'Lib-Dems' at the moment'.

"Cynical, mendacious, completely without a shred of principle... just what we're looking for in a candidate."

Trump's firings

A Week in Politics

"The opposition think they are the government in waiting and the government is the opposition in waiting."

"I wasn't invited to this great party. That proves I'm not a Washington Insider."

'To escape a trap to raise the debt ceiling the wily house speaker will gnaw of his own leg.'

Government tsk force

'Lessee... He's keepin' my ol' guy at Defense, he's got a corrupt warmonger at State, a tax cheat at Treasury, an' the old Marc Rich pardon guy at Justice.... Nope -- I couldn'ta done a better job myself!'

"I'm Chancellor Hunt's Deputy Prime Minister."

'I just had the greatest idea! -- Let's deregulate ourselves!'

'Voodoo economics was bad enough, but this voodoo foreign policy....'

'Your home district or mine?'

I didn't know there WAS a Mrs. Speaker....

When government regulations go too far.

GOP Departures

21st century water cooler conversations.

"I'm voting for Stephen because I cannot stand Katie's mother, she is so catty! Anyway-- how're your parents doing with the divorce?"

'I heard the Board was talking about kicking you, but I don't know if it's upstairs or out.'

"I'm more of a 'How Jen stays thin' person than a 'Why Jen won't let Brad alone' person."

"We'd better watch Cranston. He looks like a whistleblower."

"...and she said 'MOO!'"

'No. . . I'll never spend £400 on a haircut. . .'

"Did you hear that that bastard McMinney has buggered of to work for Bank of America!"

Guess which "squeaky wheel" got another raise.

'John, I have to get going. Here's my views on politics, sports, and automobiles in case some of the boys come in later.'

"You would be perfect if you weren't you!"

'I'm a fat cat in a dog-eat-dog world.'

"So, Tom from accounting—you remember Tom, right? Anyway, Tom yells 'TMI, Gail!' Can you believe he said that?" "Textbook Tom."

"Maps to stars' rehab centers."

"The water does taste a little funny. Maybe they added analgesics, to ease the pain of restructuring."

'Vanity, thy name is Maple.'