{"id":459,"date":"2005-04-29T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-29T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/04\/29\/general-election-blog-roundup-18\/"},"modified":"2005-04-29T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-29T10:12:00","slug":"general-election-blog-roundup-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2005\/04\/general-election-blog-roundup-18\/","title":{"rendered":"General election blog roundup 18"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s where you’d by now expect it to be<\/a>, courtesy of the affable Jarndyce<\/a> – whose pseudonym, combined with all the recent Iraq war legal advice<\/a> nonsense, prompted a vague recollection of a pertinent passage from the book from which it comes:<\/p>\n

“The scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated, that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises.”<\/p>\n

(Bleak House, chapter 1)\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Our man Jarndyce has his own take on it as well<\/a>. (I, meanwhile, really should get around to reading Bleak House properly at some point – it’s one of those ones I started years ago but never finished due to all the usual distractions…)<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, over at Perfect<\/a> there is an extensive, multiple-viewpoint dissection of last night’s Quetion Time with the three main party leaders. It was apparently rather dull. I wouldn’t know, because I was watching Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy<\/a> (which is great fun, and entirely in the spirit of the radio series\/books\/TV series<\/a>) and then getting pissed.<\/p>\n

Update: Just to prove my punditry credentials, I took that new Chris Lightfoot estimation quiz<\/a> linked in the blog roundup. After answering all 35 questions, my results:<\/p>\n

Your score is…
\n+62.0
\nThat means that you’re…
\n * better informed than 87% of people who’ve already taken the quiz
\n * better informed than 92% of Labour supporters who’ve already taken the quiz
\n * better informed than 75% of Conservative supporters who’ve already taken the quiz
\n * better informed than 86% of Liberal Democrat supporters who’ve already taken the quiz<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You know what that means? It means I’m not an utter spod, but kind of know my stuff. Hurrah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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