Page 3 | Time for a basic knowledge test before running for election as an MP

Confusedmumannoyedson · 2023-06-12T22:50:58+00:00

AIBU? Prospective candidates should sit a test to check for basic intelligence. Kirsty Blackman thinks she has XY chromosomes yet gave birth.

AgnesX · 13/06/2023 17:00

The video of JC with her head in her hands is hysterical.

Outofthepark · 13/06/2023 17:00

Dotjones · 13/06/2023 10:09

A knowledge test for people who want to become MPs sounds like a great idea but really it should be extended to a test for anyone who wants to vote or claim benefits. If you don't know how long the Hundred Years' War lasted or who Wat Tyler was you shouldn't have the right to participate.

Perhap there could be a kind of "ignorance tax" too to penalise those who don't reach a basic standard in maths, English, science, history and geography. If you don't get a certain grade in those subjects at school you get hit with an extra 10% tax throughout your life.

Who is Wat Tyler? I genuinely don't know! Should I know? And why will it affect how I vote?

Not being obtuse, I really want to know 😁

FedgeHund · 13/06/2023 17:01

BarbaraofSeville · 13/06/2023 10:12

If they had restricted voting in the Brexit referendum to anyone who could explain what a third country is and the significance of being one, things would have gone very differently.

Op, I agree they s should know the basics in economics, English, sciences, history, philosophy and geography.

The remain camp decided to spend the budget on David Beckham telling people to do the right thing, rather than share facts.

FedgeHund · 13/06/2023 17:05

Flickersy · 13/06/2023 14:47

This is a fairly obvious slip of the tongue. Obviously what she said is incorrect. Not sure why everyone's making such a big deal out of a mistake and being all sneery over it though.

The woman seems to have a lot of problems. She birthed babies and basically claimed she did not know if there was a penis between her legs. She is debating laws about safeguarding the vulnerable, children and women. She wants special high status men to have free access to the most vulnerable women in society, all the man has to do is say magic words and he is a sacred caste.

Outofthepark · 13/06/2023 17:08

FedgeHund · 13/06/2023 17:05

The woman seems to have a lot of problems. She birthed babies and basically claimed she did not know if there was a penis between her legs. She is debating laws about safeguarding the vulnerable, children and women. She wants special high status men to have free access to the most vulnerable women in society, all the man has to do is say magic words and he is a sacred caste.

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She'd be the first to wear green in Gilead, eh

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Confusedmumannoyedson · 13/06/2023 17:09

FedgeHund · 13/06/2023 17:05

The woman seems to have a lot of problems. She birthed babies and basically claimed she did not know if there was a penis between her legs. She is debating laws about safeguarding the vulnerable, children and women. She wants special high status men to have free access to the most vulnerable women in society, all the man has to do is say magic words and he is a sacred caste.

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Indeed but many women and men don't see a problem with that.

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lifeturnsonadime · 13/06/2023 17:16

It's just so dishonest.

Even if she hadn't flunked the chromosome part and had said XX rather than XY, does she really expect 51% of the population, the people who are actually discriminated against because of our sex rather than gender identity (already covered by the act) to not KNOW which biological sex we and our children are.

And who does it benefit? Well certainly not the sex who face sex based discrimination despite the legislation that we have in place already. How offensive to suggest that a man in a dress is the same as a woman.