prime minister

[simpson]

In which country was Tony Blair born

[Quizmonster]

Scotland...or Britain...or UK.

[Ammy]

By the way of the above only Scotland is actually a country, so that's the right answer.

[Quizmonster]

The reason I offered all three possibilities above is simply because all three are perfectly acceptable country-names! Scotland is not an independent nation, although it is generally recognised as a country - in exactly the same way as England is - within the larger union referred to as (Great) Britain or the United Kingdom.

I've no idea what Ammy means by saying "only Scotland is actually a country". The United Nations will certainly be astonished to hear that there is no country called "the United Kingdom" given that we send a UK Ambassador there. And what's with playing 'God Save the Queen' when a British athlete wins something at the Olympics?

On that sort of basis, the United States isn't a country either...but just a union of separate States in the same way as the UK is a union of what were separate kingdoms.

[smudge]

I thought he was born on another planet?

[Quizmonster]

No, no, Smudge...you're thinking of John Redwood - the Vulcan - and his 'something-of-the-night' party-colleagues!

[smudge]

Actually Quizmonster, I can't stand the mouthy looking, 'I love me' Lab. Tony Blair, the smug Con. John Redwood, or indeed the babbling Lib-Dem. Charles Kennedy.

 

As far as I'm concerned they're all fly-by-nights! My favourite MP is now too old to Govern - say no more.

 

 

[Hippy]

Got it, Smudge. You are thinking of Agamemnon of Mycenae.

[smudge]

Fortunately, that was a bit before my time Hippy. I was born AD not BC!

[smudge]

P.S. I also live in England not Greece - he he!

[Quizmonster]

Surely you're not referring to The Batty Baroness, Smudge. Even the Tories were bright enough to grasp - eventually - that she had to go!

[smudge]

There were people before her Quizmonster - but not as far back as BC of course!

[Hippy]

Dear Lady Astor,

You like yourself a lot,

Standing on the platform talking Tommy rot ...

 

From the D-Day dodgers.

[smudge]

A-n-y-w-a-y - who says it's a woman? :)