Scenes at the London School of Economics (LSE). A new term has started and rooms overflow with a bustling cosmopolitan crowd. Students's Union Vice - President , JN Leveson , delivers a speech in his capacity of " His Beaver Majesty's Secretary for State for Foreign Affairs . Scarf-bedecked King Beaver, mascot and ruler, look sulky. He has been dethroned by members of his own cabinet because of complaints by backbenchers that Mr Speaker's eye could not be caught from the floor of the House. 1949