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Widdy becomes Churchillian Prime Minister in book
Ann Widdecombe for Prime Minister? Only if Armageddon comes many may say – but that’s exactly what happened in a new comical book.
Author David Gee has penned just such a scenario in his book of Middle East meltdown – Shaikh-Down.
He said: “I see the world destroying itself and Ann Widdecombe becomes our esteemed Prime Minister.
“I think she would be a great PM and make Margaret Thatcher look like Mary Poppins.
“She is always on the side of right, and doesn’t always let party political wrangling get in the way.”
And Miss Widdecombe herself is delighted.
She laughed and said: “I always wanted to Prime Minster and now I am glad I am, even if it’s only in fiction.”
The 61-year-old Conservative MP for Maidstone and the Weald is stepping down at the next General Election, having first won the seat in 1987.
When it was pointed out that there was not much of a world left after the nukes finished their work, she sighed and said: “Yeah, well. That’s probably the only world where I would be Prime Minster.”
Even with the chance of leading Britain in the future looming thanks to the book, Miss Widdecombe still says she is leaving politics.
She said: “I don’t think I will be tempted to stay on with that hope.”
And of the comparison to Mrs Thatcher, Miss Widdecombe said: “I don’t think anyone could make Margaret Thatcher look like Mary Poppins but I am very flattered by the comparison.”
Risking a possible jihad on himself, Mr Gee, from Newhaven, sees the Middle East imploding amid tales of excessive sex and petrodollars.
He said: “There are revolutions all over the Arab world and a little event called Armageddon in this book, which is a comedy.
“Ann Widdecombe becomes our Prime Minister. Although I don’t go into a lot of detail about her, I do call her redoubtable and Churchillian.
“I have emailed her with details of the book, but she has not got back to me yet – hope she is not too upset with me.”
As for being described as Churchillian, she said: “Oh, very nice, too.”
Summing up the book, Mr Gee said: “On the Persian Gulf island of Belaj, Egyptian belly-dancers and British air-hostesses are working overtime to relieve randy Arabs of their frustrations and their petrodollars.
“One of the punters is murdered: whisky-soaked publisher Farouk whose nymphomaniac wife Nayla is a niece of the local despot, His Highness Shaikh Khalid al-Khazi.
“Newcomer Cass, an east London housewife, becomes a US $500 hooker. Sammy-Jo, an American stewardess with Page-3-girl boobs and nerdy British banker Eddy are drawn into a plot by BARF, the Belaj Armed Revolutionary Front, to assassinate the Amir in a bizarre bedroom romp.”
Shaikh-Down can be ordered from UK bookshops, price £6.99, or online at www.amazon.co.uk.
Source: http://www.kentnews.co.uk