BBC news really have reached a new level of dumbing down today.

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Switched on News 24. Reporter outside polling station has just explain that you put a cross next to the name of your preferred candidate and if they get the most votes they become an M.P and represent you in Parliament. 🤨 We then go back to Christian Fraser in the studio who proceeds with a segment titled, ‘How to vote’ 🙄🙄🙄
I honestly thought they were running a Newsround episode.

I was behind some very young voters going into the polling station and a party volunteer was asking for polling cards and the poor things looked very flustered. I told them they didn't need to show anyone and that I wasn't going to. I remember my dad telling me that at my first election and thought I'd pass it on!

YABU.

This is like a pro scuba diver laughing at beginners who are taking lessons and saying 'duh, it's so obvious!'.

Haha just watched an episode of hey Duggee that said.the same maybe we should swop the news presenters for the squirrels

As a TV licence payer, I would heartily condone them swapping the round-the-clock news coverage for 'Hey Duggee 24' !

How better to encourage people to go out and vote than to have the Squirrels dancing hypnotically and singing:

Vote! Vote! Vote! Vote!
Vote! Vote! Vote! Vote!
Vote! Vote! Vote! Vote!
Votey! Votey! Vote! Vote!

DH was very excited about the Hey Dugee election episode. He loves Hey Dugee!

We tried to explain voting/parliament to DS yesterday. Don't think he understood much but he liked the word parliament.

The point of showing your polling card is so they can cross you off their list and don’t come knocking on your door at 9:30 asking for your last minute vote!

They ask you on your way out if you’d be happy to share who you voted for for the exit polls.

The basics of an election and the voting process should be a mandatory part of the school curriculum in the UK. I can't understand why it isn't.

It's another example of left-wing bias at the BBC.

Why is it left wing bias?

No one asked us anything on our way out. There were a couple of people hanging about there, and one rushed to open the door for me, but she only said normal pleasantries, nothing about voting.

I felt a bit put out that there were no party people asking us anything!

Presumably it’s left wing bias because it’s encouraging people to vote, when the suffrage should never have been extended beyond the landed gentry

Jux they can only do that if they have enough volunteers!

Apart from today, I have always taken my grandson with me to vote, and explained it to him each time.
I took my children every time as well when they were younger.
I explained the whole process each time, so they know how it works. Not everyone has parents who vote, or who can take them, or explain it to them.
Mind you, I love the idea of pp of the song Votey Votey Voye Vote! Perhaps the political parties should adopt it, get more people voting!

You say that like it's a bad thing!

Looking down on people who don’t have the same educational standards speaks far more negatively about you than it does about them.

I’ve been involved in a campaign this time. I’ve spent many hours on the phone talking people through the voting process. It’s an area of extreme poverty, poor educational outlook and massive unemployment. Why on earth would I look down on people who have been galvanised today vote, many for the first time!

There's a Duggee election special?

Personally I'd vote Duggee. A woooooof!

And I'm sure they could wipe out the national debt from a ppv of Parliament singing the stick song.

The General Election could be rebranded 'Strictly Come Voting' to make it seem less intimidating to first-timers.

I’m pretty sure the OP won’t be back to defend herself.

If it encouraged a few people to vote, no bad thing.

I was taken aback when someone commented that the average reading age of an adult in the UK is 11.

I was taken aback when someone commented that the average reading age of an adult in the UK is 11.

How can that be technically possible? That is, how is the reading 'age' defined?

Yes, but... 11 year olds can read. So that seems not surprising to me. Lots of things improve between 11 and 18, but for most students, reading isn't one of them.

@Lllot5 Sadly not a hedgehog expert, unlike Google! Google says hedgehogs have hedgehog specific fleas which die on humans, so we can pick them up without a problem. Even then they don't usually have enough to cause them problems. I only see the poor beggars squashed on the local country roads ☹️. Loved it that the old Christmas tree man was gay and proud. Definitely a bit of a tear jerker.

Sorry, but anyone who has to ask how to vote or what a Conservative is, isn't really fit to vote! I'd rather they didn't bother!

Voters need to have at least a basic knowledge of what each party stands for and their main policies- otherwise how can they even go about making a choice!

Well 11 year olds can read so how does reading really improve after that? Once you can read you can read. You may know more words the more widely you read but if you have learnt phonics etc you can probably have a good stab at most words.

Sorry, but anyone who has to ask how to vote or what a Conservative is, isn't really fit to vote! I'd rather they didn't bother!

What an unpleasant attitude

some people have never voted before, didn’t have parents who told them how to vote or may have intellectual disabilities. I’m sure the reminder didn’t hurt you.