A Whitehall "Farce" without Brian Rix or the Theatre of that name!!

 Those of us who are of a certain age remember fondly the "Whitehall Farces" in the 50's and 60's in the Whitehall Theatre, London. These plays were fairly innocent comedy sketches highlighting the vagaries of Government, the Armed Forces and mainstream life in the UK at the time! 

As an aside, Brian Rix also made a series of television "farces" which dominated the theatrical ones insofar that they had a wider audience via the new medium of television ! This popularity of his ninety T.V. farces made Rix the highest paid actor on the only television medium at the time, the BBC.

  

This then is the history of "Whitehall Farces" and in truth they were an absolutely innocent, joy to watch.

Sixty + years later and the public have a new form of "Whitehall Farce", the only difference is that, this farce has nothing to do with the Theatre of that name! Nor do we have the benefit of the redoubtable Brian Rix scripting this farce.

In London, the ‘White Hall’ of Henry VIII was associated with rather more serious aspects of government and was the building before which Charles I was later executed on 30 January 1649. A scaffold was constructed in front of the building and the execution party stepped out on to it from a first floor window.

A massive palace, it had more than 1,500 rooms and featured an indoor tennis court, a bowling green and a cock-fighting pit, all put in by Henry VIII. In 1698, the palace of Whitehall was gutted by fire and never rebuilt. 

Whitehall becoming the site for key administrative offices such as the Treasury and 10 Downing Street. Military buildings also surround the site, including Horse Guards. The term ‘Whitehall’ refers not just to the site of the former Palace of Whitehall, but to the bureaucratic institutions of the government in general.

The "Den of Iniquity" or "Farce H.Q." if you want!

The present occupant of No 10 has apparently had upwards of £100,000 spent on decorating the flat in No 11 Downing Street in the taste of his latest flame Ms Carrie Symonds;

Obviously Ms Symonds is at the forefront of the colour blind and technicolour nightmare movement.  What is "farcical" in this particular decorative sin against humanity is that both she and her erstwhile fiancé Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson have appealed for a charity to be set up to pay for this cultural monstrosity.