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Saturday quiz
Well, this week only 4/10, but thereby again beating political journalist John Rentoul, who scored 3/10. I only knew the answers to questions 1, 4, 5, and 8.
As to the other questions, I only remembered the answer to questions 2, 3, and 9 once I looked up the information, guessed wrong on question 10, and had (and still have) no idea as to questions 6 and 7.
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My assessment from several years ago (“Trump is a loudly-squawking parrot in a gilded cage, surrounded by a phalanx of Jews“) turns out to have been completely accurate.
Translates to a Commons with about 323 Reform UK MPs (3 short of a majority), 87 Greens (weak official Opposition), 81 LibDems, 50 Cons, 45 SNP, and 37 Lab [etc].
It now goes without saying that, on those figures, Starmer-stein would lose his own seat.
Almost no-one these days uses the word “decimate” properly, and that Schofield scribbler is no exception.
Ian Robert Millard 