"Idiots" and "Lunatics" to be MP’s

@forumhostpb wrote:

Government Ministers are considering allowing “idiots” and “lunatics” to stand for Parliament, after health campaigners complained that the relevent laws are discriminatory.

Elizabethan laws define the term “idiots” as people who are incapable of gaining reason and “lunatics” as capable of only brief periods of lucidity.

These archaic laws also ban any person who has been sectioned under the mental health laws from putting themselves forward for elections, even if they have fully recovered, and require MPs to give up their seats for life if the have been sectioned for 6 months or more.

So it looks as if the nutters in our society can now become MPs if they wish.

I thought they already were. :D

@forumhostpb wrote:

any person who has been sectioned under the mental health laws.

Geoff Anscombe as an MP?? :shock:

@(f)politics? wrote:

Maybe i should stand my name fits anyway and i have the idiot qualification and i can do loony if i try :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFt2lSEOj3c :lol:

@forumhostpb wrote:

Government Ministers are considering allowing “idiots” and “lunatics” to stand for Parliament, after health campaigners complained that the relevent laws are discriminatory.

Elizabethan laws define the term “idiots” as people who are incapable of gaining reason and “lunatics” as capable of only brief periods of lucidity.

These archaic laws also ban any person who has been sectioned under the mental health laws from putting themselves forward for elections, even if they have fully recovered, and require MPs to give up their seats for life if the have been sectioned for 6 months or more.

So it looks as if the nutters in our society can now become MPs if they wish.

HA! and there was i thinking the lunatics were already runnung the asylum….