New eligibility criteria for politicians and voters

From Peter Hitchens:

Nobody under the age of 55 should be able to stand for election, and nobody under the age of 30 should be able to vote in those elections. Nobody under 55 knows anything much about life. Nobody under 30 knows anything.

I would add one: anyone unable to formulate a sentence without using the word “like” is incapable of coherent thought and should be ineligible to vote – that rules out everyone under 40 and many under 60.

4 thoughts on “New eligibility criteria for politicians and voters

  1. Say something about wrong apostrophes while you’re about it! And the confusion between a phrase and a clause.

  2. Thanks to all of the above. Don’t forget the charmers who don’t know the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs (lie and lay, for example). Also, I think if I hear the sentence, “I’m like, whoa!” one more time I may throw up.

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