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In another thread today, the poster said this: I know no human beings except BBC announcers who refer to next year as 'twenty twenty'! Well, I'm here to tell you that I do, and so do many of my family and acquaintances (I have no friends – I wonder why?). The year 1900 was without exception (as far ...

Could be - I thought that perhaps he has a keyboard there to provide musical accompaniment to the really boring speeches. A kind of Commons organ loft.

Not what you were expecting maybe?

Does anyone know what function this man serves in the House of Commons? Not a very good quality image - I copied it from a video clip.

That's fine, I can understand your argument, but people have died in the fight to gain universal suffrage. We can't throw it away - everyone must be able to vote regardless of who or what they are (apart from the usual legal exclusions).

But in your original post you said: When you get to the stage where a majority of voters take more out of the pot than they put in then the country is obviously headed into a downward spiral of debt and higher and higher taxation Severely disabled people take more out of the pot than they put in, so...

What about those who have been severely physically disabled from birth and have therefore never worked, nor paid tax, should they lose the vote under your scheme?

Yep!

It would seem from a number of the more recent posts in this thread that some of the forum members, whom I have long considered to be male, have suddenly changed sex! This clearly flies in the face of the latest fad towards gender neutrality. Members should therefore take more care over the way in w...

On one occasion when I was a small boy (probably about six years old), I walked home with my parents and sister after visiting my grandparents. It was a December evening around Christmas time and there was even snow on the ground, so there was a feeling of magic for me. We reached the highest part o...

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