Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Reminder: Win A Useful Fiction by Patrick Hannan

Remember there is another Liberal England book quiz taking place.

Just e-mail me the answers to the five questions below and you could win one of the two copies that are up for prizes.

First, you may be interested in a review of the book just published on A Pint of Unionist Lite:
"A Useful Fiction" is an attempt to analyse post-devolution Britain, the structures set in place at the end of the 90s and how they have affected the social, economic, cultural and political make-up of the United Kingdom. He sets himself a range of questions, for example- the effects of devolution on central government’s ability to run the nation, is an overhaul of Barnett overdue and is "independence" worth having if it entails becoming poorer to achieve it".
Anyway, here are the questions:
  1. After whom is the Barnett formula named?

  2. Who wrote: "We are bought and sold for English gold -/What a parcel of rogues in a nation"?

  3. In which year did the people of North East England vote against the establishment of a regional assembly in a referendum?

  4. Who said of Enoch Powell: "Poor Enoch! Driven mad by the remorselessness of his own logic."

  5. Which MP is currently 326th in the line of succession to the British throne.

The quiz closes at 23:59 on Tuesday 7 July 2009.

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