To think if you can't understand English/Welsh or Gaelic you shouldn't be voting in a British election?

[Yetanotherwaterbottle]

Is this unreasonable?

The Greens desperation is doing serious damage to their brand.

Sorry for double-replying, but I'm trying to frame my question better.

Noting that almost every route to British citizenship, other than the typical "inherited through parentage" route that applies to most citizens, requires English language proficiency, which of the limited avenues would you close, or how would you narrow the parentage route?

The amount of people I’ve come across who think we directly vote for the PM is insane. They always say “oh we weren’t taught that in school” and I don’t remember getting taught FPTP til college, but surly you pick it up from the news or the fact we get 500 election leaflets for different MPs and MSPs every few years.

Do you think voting should be reserved for people with a basic understanding of what they are doing?

You would think

Yes but I think if you introduced any kind of test before voting I think we would need to roll out programs to educate people (in schools but also available and accessible to all adults who wanted to participate). Basic stuff like FPTP, how a majority works, what a coalition government is, ect. Procedural stuff, as depoliticised as possible. I think it would also need to be disability friendly as well and the point shouldn’t be to catch people out, but to help them participate. This would be a huge and costly thing though and probably will never happen.

I disagree. People can study politics at a very high level and still be very right wing!

I mean, these are the very bare bones of it. If that is all we require, then at the time of the test, if all the info fits on to a side of A4 then give them 20 mins to read and understand it, then take the test.