How much do you know about United Kingdom politics [and history]

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GENERAL

1 - Who is the Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? What party are they from?

2 - Name the two houses of the British Parliament.

3 - Who is the current Leader of the Opposition and what party is he from?

4 - What parties make up the current government?

5 - Name 3 parties, which are have MPs, outside of the three largest parties.

6 - Prior to the current Prime Minister, who was the Prime Minister and from what party was he from?


HISTORICAL

7 - What was the main right-wing party in Scotland until the mid-60s?

8 - Which office gives the holder the official residence of 10 Downing Street? [hint: it's not as obvious as you'd think]

9 - Who was Britain's longest serving Prime Minister?

10 - Since 1900, which party, under which leader, won the most seats, and, which party did he represent?

11 - What was Labour's official campaign song in the 1997 election?

12 - When did Labour first enter government, under which Prime Minister?

13 - Who made up the so-called 'Gang of 4' and what did they do together?

14 - Which Prime Minister had a trademark smoking pipe?



DEVOLUTION

15 - Scotland. Who was the first First Minister of Scotland?

16 - Scotland. Who is the only First Minister to have won a parliamentary majority?

17 - Wales. Who's the current First Minister of Wales?

18 - Northern Ireland. Who's the current Deputy First Minister?

DIFFICULT

19 - What event did Tony Blair say "wasn't a day for sound bites"?

20 - Name one of the four Communist MPs who were elected.

21 - What are the other names that the Liberal Democrats have taken, in their various forms?

22 - Who were the five candidates in the last Labour leadership election? [Bonus: Their current offices]

23 - What was Margaret Thatcher most famous (or, you might say, infamous) for before she became the leader of her party?

24 - What's the literal seat of the Lord Speaker?



IMPOSSIBLE

25 - What part of Westminister Palace was the House of Commons originally?

26 - Who was the only Prime Minister not to speak English as a first language?

27 - What constituency did the leader of the BNP run in and who beat him, in the 2010 election?

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Oh dear. I know all of these.

Well, it's not gonna be a challenge for a Briton.

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Oh dear. I know all of these.

Well, it's not gonna be a challenge for a Briton.

Should I point out that you're wrong about the number of elected Commie MPs?

Fixed

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Answers:

1 David Cameron, Conservative
2 House of Commons, House of Lords
3 Ed Miliband, Labour
4 Conservative Party, Liberal Democrats
5 Any of: Greens, SNP, Social Democratic and Labour, Plaid Cymru, DUP, Alliance
6 Gordon Brown, Labour

7 Unionist Party
8 First Lord of the Treasury
9 Robert Walpole
10 Stanley Baldwin, Conservative, 1931
11 D:Ream - THings Can Only Get Better
12 1924, Ramnsey MacDonald
13 Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, David Owen, Bill Rodgers - formed the SDP after splitting with Labour
14 Harold Wilson

15 Donald Dewar
16 Alex Salmond
17 Carwyn Jones
18 Martin McGuinness

19 Signing of Good Friday
20 Willie Gallacher, Phil Piratin, Shapurji Saklatvala, Walton Newbold
21 Social and Liberal Democrats, SDP-Liberal Alliance, Liberals, Whig
22 Ed Miliband (Leader of the Opposition), David Miliband (MP for South Shields), Ed Balls (Shadow Chancellor), Andy Burnham (Shadow Education Secretary), Diane Abbott (Shadow Health Minister)
23 Abolish free milk in schools for children aged between seven and eleven, earning her the nickname "Milk Snatcher Thatcher"
24 The Woolsack

25 St Stephen's Chapel
26 David Lloyd-George
27 Barking, Margaret Hodge, Labour

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Well it can't be disputed that she was - and is - well known for being the minister that implemented the decision.

^ This. I doubt you'd find many people who'd go "ah, but it's been found, with the release of government notes from the time..." if the topic was discussed

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Easy

1. MacMillan's Tories

2. Keir Hardie

3. Witney, Doncaster North, Sheffield Hallam

4. Argh, I can picture him, but his name completely escapes me.


Shouldn't be so hard

5. Huyton

6. ...no idea

7. Anthony Barber - chancellor, Dai Grenfell - ?, Cyril Smith - a fat Liberal MP, Cecil Parkinson - ?, Billy Wolfe - ? and Tony Crosland - foreign secretary in (i think) Wilson's government, i think (also, maybe, 'a leader we never had' - i remember david miliband saying something about him during the Newsnight debate).

8. Some scandal

9. Either Ynys Mon or some random constituency in the Highlands probably, possibly that one above Charles Kennedy's constituency. Wyre Forest, BriPav? This is a hard one.

Maybe slightly trickier. To do with candidates.

10. don't know

11. don't know

12. The Liberals

13. don't know

Fairly hard, I guess.

14. Greenock

15. no idea...

16. T Dan Smith

17. Haven't seen it

18. I've heard the name somewhere, no idea who he is though

19. Churchill, I think. I've heard a story or two from older relatives of how he treated some of the Liverpool strikers, so I can only assume.

20. don't know

21. don't know

Very Important Question

22. gay-lar?