strong20:38/strongbr /You join me in The Bonkers' Arms, where the two winners of the latest Liberal England prize quiz will soon be drawn.br /br /Meadowcroft is in his usual corner, Lord Bonkers is holding court in the snug and - since you ask - mine is a pint of Smithson amp; Greaves Northern Bitter.br /br /strong20:44/strongbr /I should probably emphasise that, following our a href="http://liberalengland.blogspot.com/2009/04/liveblogging-rotten-state-of-britain.html"unfortunate experience/a with electronic systems last time, the two winning entries will be drawn from Lord Bonkers' second-best top hat.br /br /strong20:51/strongbr /br /Apparently we are waiting for a game of darts to finish before the draw can take place. It is being played to Rutland rules, of course.br /br /And those poison tips certainly make for a lively contest!br /br /strong21:00/strongbr /br /While we are waiting, there is a chance for me to give you the results of the quiz.br /br /span style="color:#000000;"span style="color:#000000;"1. After whom is the Barnett formula named?/spanbr //spanbr /strongJoel Barnett/strong, now Lord Barnett, who was Chief Secretary to the Treasury between 1974 and 1979.br /br /2. Who wrote?:br /br /blockquoteWe are bought and sold for English gold -br /What a parcel of rogues in a nation./blockquotestrongRobbie Burns.br //strongbr /3. In which year did the people of North East England vote against the establishment of a regional assembly in a referendum?br /br /strong2004./strongbr /br /4. Who said of Enoch Powell?:br /blockquote"Poor Enoch! Driven mad by the remorselessness of his own logic."/blockquotepstrongIain Macleod/strong/pp5. Which MP is currently 326th in the line of succession to the British throne?/ppstrongIan Liddell-Grainger/strong/ppCongratulations to everyone who got all five right./ppstrong21:06/strong/ppGood news: the darts match is over. A narrow win for a team of pygmy tribesmen from the upper Welland valley over Bonkers' Arms II there./ppThe draw will take place shortly./pdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6606798-1661276983677085056?l=liberalengland.blogspot.com'//div
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