No idiots can stand for election.
Sounds good to me.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/6526687.stmAn election pack issued by Bournemouth Borough Council stated that "lunatics and idiots" and "deaf and dumb persons" were disqualified from standing.
Matt Pitcher, electoral services officer, said it was a mistake and that the terms were taken directly from election law dating back to 1766.
So how did Prescott, Kelly, Beckett et al get past this particular legislation? Is there a lawyer in the house?
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
Re: No idiots can stand for election.
Sounds good to me except being deaf they should be able to stand
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Re: No idiots can stand for election.
Ha.Does `Magna Carta' mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?
GARCIN: I "dreamt," you say. It was no dream. When I chose the hardest path, I made my choice deliberately. A man is what he wills himself to be.
INEZ: Prove it. Prove it was no dream. It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the stuff one's made of.
GARCIN: I died too soon. I wasn't allowed time to - to do my deeds.
INEZ: One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.
Jean Paul Sartre - No Exit 1944
Re: No idiots can stand for election.
The full quote.Originally Posted by JAG
Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain? Brave Hungarian peasant girl who forced King John to sign the pledge at Runnymede and close the boozers at half past ten! Is all this to be forgotton? My friends, it is not John Harrison Peabody who is on trial here today but the fair name of British justice, and I ask you to send that poor boy back to the loving arms of his poor white-haired old mother a free man! I thank you!
http://www.samizdata.net/mt/suckitsp...?entry_id=3987
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
Re: No idiots can stand for election.
A lot of parliaments in europe would be without a job if that were true.
One of the episcopal clergymen who attended him went to the edge of the scaffold, and called out in a loud voice, "My lord dies a Protestant." "Yes,"
said the Earl, stepping forward, "and not only a protestant, but with a heart hatred of Popery, of Prelacy, and of all superstition." He then embraced
his friends, put into their hands some tokens of remembrance for his wife and children, kneeled down, laid his head on the block, prayed during a
few minutes, and gave the signal to the executioner.
- The death of the Earl of Argylle
Re: No idiots can stand for election.
This doesn't make much sense to me. Why should these people be unable to stand? People should be free to stand for election, otherwise it is not a democracy. Besides, what are the odds of them being elected? If people want these people in ofice, and elect them, then it should be considered the will of the majority.
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Re: No idiots can stand for election.
Well Blair slipped through.....
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
Re: No idiots can stand for election.
And now they apologize to the idiots:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...et/6526687.stm
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Re: No idiots can stand for election.
I wiki'ed the meaning of idiot. Appearantly it was coined in Greece to describe people who put there own needs before that of the Polis. If I had to hazard a guess when the law was written it probably barred people with extremely bad judgement from standing.Sounds good to me.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/6526687.stm
So how did Prescott, Kelly, Beckett et al get past this particular legislation? Is there a lawyer in the house?
Idiot study.
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Re: No idiots can stand for election.
Damn right.
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