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To think there should be a minimum intelligence cut-off for being allowed to vote?

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FireCanal · 07/05/2015 11:04

Woman on train has just told her companion that "in my district, the person who gets the most votes will be the local MP, not just the government". She genuinely appears to think there is something unusual about this Shock
She followed it up with "do you think there is a polling station in Liverpool?"

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HagOtheNorth · 08/05/2015 21:31

Well, at least the OP is intelligent enough to know whan she's been an arse, and has the social awareness to apologise.
Many politicians lack those two essential skills.

AlpacaPicnic · 10/05/2015 12:18

amybear

No, I haven't heard of that. What is it, what does it teach?

HagOtheNorth · 10/05/2015 19:13

Well, the C stands for Citizenship. A lot of primary schools have gone into this www.unicef.org/rightsite/files/uncrcchilldfriendlylanguage.pdf in great detail.
Less detail on how so many promises and declarations by the politicians have turned out to be so much hot air though.

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