New Thread on Downing Street

Fascinating subject and far less controversial than D-Day.

Just a suggestion.

 

best to start it in the middle of the night Uk cos it's going to be shut down pronto...

before then, my contribution:

what ever his name is the 20th UK Prime Minister to have attended Eton & 42nd to have attended Oxford or Cambridge out of 55 individuals.
20 educated at Eton (36.4%)
7 educated at Harrow (12.7%)
7 educated at Westminster (12.7%)
46 privately educated (83.6%)
9 educated at state schools (16.4%)
28 Oxford Univ educated (50.9%)
14 Cambridge educated (25.5%)
8 Non-university (14.5%)

Pop quiz, and no wiki- name the 9 educated at state school...and the 8 non university..at least 5 make the cut on both elements.

 

Consider it an emergency response test for the Mods.

 

Maybe only sensible to show the 20 PMs since 1918 and universal suffrage in UK.

5 educated at Eton (25%)
2 educated at Harrow (10%)
0 educated at Westminster (0%)
11 privately educated (55%)
9 educated at state schools (45%)
11 Oxford Univ educated (55%)
1 Cambridge educated (5%)
6 Non-university (30%)

 

Steve neatly encapsulated the problem last year:

You'll have your head in your hands as today's shower of nobodys is announced.

There might be a couple of notables, but by and large, a country gets the politicians it deserves; we must have been very bad.