Apology for 'idiots' election ban

[someoneisatthedoor]

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/6526687.stm

A council has apologised for banning “lunatics, idiots, deaf and dumb” people from standing for election.

An 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.

“Of course such language is certainly not acceptable today,” he added.

"The terminology used as part of our election pack to candidates was unfortunately taken directly from a piece of election law which dates from 1766 but is still current today.

"Bournemouth council treats all people fairly whatever their sexual orientation, age, religious belief, disability, gender or race and the council apologises unreservedly for any offence which may have been caused.

“The information pack has been amended.”

I love this country…

[Colinsign]

=D>

The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate, VII

[Uccisore]

Has anybody stepped forward to accept the apology yet?

[Phaedrus]

Besides, if we ban"lunatics, idiots, deaf and dumb" people from standing for election, who’ll be left in government?

[someoneisatthedoor]

@Phaedrus

Besides, if we ban"lunatics, idiots, deaf and dumb" people from standing for election, who’ll be left in government?

Liberal apologist fuckwits?

[Mucius_Scevola]

Is it politically incorrect to call people idiots, lunatics, etc ?

Also, why would deaf people be disqualified from standing ? Because they’re incapable of listening to political propaganda ?

[someoneisatthedoor]

@Mucius Scevola

Is it politically incorrect to call people idiots, lunatics, etc ?

Yes, it is. What I find even more ridiculous is that Bournemouth Council obviously just cut and pasted their rules and guidelines for this information pack from a document that is 2 1/2 centuries old, and predates even the Great Reform Act, let alone things like female suffrage.

Also, why would deaf people be disqualified from standing ? Because they’re incapable of listening to political propaganda ?

Yeah, you know, they might just make their decisions on the basis of political principle. Can’t have that, you see.

[Dan1 (Dan~)]

It is time to lay waste to all selection, all taste, all of the cruelties, for the sake of liberal equals. And those equals all fall sway to the freedom of anarchy, with a goverment overtop of it. This is the anarcho-capitalism, in which the false liberty does not equalize men. On the contrary, the higher frameworks and networks of power are very secure, very deep, and even more dangerously, very hidden, far above the short arm of the liberal government. And equality has never been farther away.