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Brown on the way to deliver the Queen's Speech  Today saw the
delivery of the Queen's Speech by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
This was primarily given because the Queen was in Turkey on a
Royal Visit to her husband, who had been slung in jail for
insulting the Turks while on the same Royal Visit.  Highlight of
the speech was detail of the government seeking the lowest
number of civil servants since 1945, although Gordon did ask for
permission to extend this to eight o'clock.  In the public
services, there will be more power for patients, meaning that
they will be able to charge their iPods while they wait to be
seen in the A&E Department of their local hospital.  There are
also plans for a bill to give young people a statutory right to
an apprenticeship, which has already scared the sh*t out of Sir
Alan Sugar, based on this year's series of dimwits on his BBC
programme who fail to ap