Comments on: Better UK citizenship test questions

By: Bruce

Bruce — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:37:34 +0000

Mippy

In 70’s Dr Who what one thing, apart from the Doctor, always defeated the Daleks

stairs?

By: Mippy

Mippy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:11:25 +0000

I just scraped 75% so can stay which is unfortunate as I was going to use it as and excuse to get out of work tomorrow – Sorry can’t come in have failed the UK citizenship test and must hand myself over to the Home Office immediatly ( I can not spell to save my life tonight!)

The reason they ask about the Church of England is that officially this is christian country therefore PCness doesn’t come in to it because its the country they are talking about not the people in it or doing the test.

Although a better question would be according to Eddie Izzard what would the motto of the Spanish Inqusition have been if the C of E had run it A) Cake or Death, B) Tea or Torture or C) Tea or Coffee?

Here’s my own question for the test In 70′s Dr Who what one thing, apart from the Doctor, always defeated the Daleks?

By: Elaine’s blog » What was I meant to learn from the UK Citizenship test?

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:53:49 +0000

[...] could they have done it differently? Bruce Lawson has some suggestions for better questions. On second thoughts, I’m not sure I would pass that test [...]

By: Christophe Strobbe

Christophe Strobbe — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:24:02 +0000

Which British blogger wrote the alt text: “Bruce Lawson, wearing a dayglo pink diamanté dress, a tiara on his blonde beehive hair, his lips enhanced by collagen and painted glossy red, shows his fabulous new 40 DD bustline”?

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:55:43 +0000

On what weekday did the shops have a half day closing in the 1970′s?

By: Tarquin, Four-stringed Hammer of the Ancients

Tarquin, Four-stringed Hammer of the Ancients — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:09:23 +0000

Hello again Bruce, I’m glad you’re still alive and one day I must visit you, though it’s so hard to find a road that actually stops in Brum instead of just going straight through it.

I failed too.

Frankly I was amazed. Not that I failed it, but that it exists at all in its present form. It contains virtually nothing of British contemporary culture. It is actually impossible for the average *British* resident to pass this test without an awful lot of preliminary studying and research, which defeats the point entirely. It smacks of either incompetence or fraud on the part of the responsible governmentalists, which smells from here like Phil Woolas and/or those who cling to his slippery pole at the Ministry of Fog In The Channel (Europe Cut Off).

Remember when Woolas was president of the NUS? He was an idiot then, he’s an idiot now, the only difference is that back then he was *pretending* to be a socialist. Nick Griffin must be winking and drooling with glee.

Speaking of Griffin, it was nice to see him getting pelted with eggs outside Parliament by Weyman Bennett, who (unlike some other so-called socialists – Zelda S. springs to mind) is and always has been 100% for real.

Anyway, I much preferred your version Bruce – it’s an honest, streetsmart and contemporary test of Britishness, and I think someone should start a Facebook or Twitter campaign to make it the official test.

Somebody should do it! I’d do it, but I’m too busy whining to actually do anything myself, and also if it did happen, I’d have nothing to whine about. There! I just PROVED I’m British…

Tarquin x