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Should People With Low IQ's Be Allowed To Vote?

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  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    susan6780 wrote: »
    Aren't we just having banter and voicing some alternative to solutions to problems? Yes I agree I would be the first 'batch' of enforced sterilisation, I wear tracksuits and am immune to exercise ;) so how about getting prisoners to build the new HS2 track? America use chain gangs? Wouldn't that save a little money?


    Save even more - don't build it.;)

    Improve existing lines/infrastructure/making routes more flexible to appeal to more users.

    Saving 20/30 mins on a commute into Euston pales into insignificance if you then have to trundle across the city, with all the other public transport dead time.

    Will it benefit the North? £2 retuirn, over an unspecified time for a soft cost of £1 doesn't seem that good or achievable. The cost of necessary links at teach end of the line isn't included in costings. Expand Manchester/Birmingham Airport at less cost probably have the same effect.

    Anyway I digress.
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

    "big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham
  • BertieUK
    BertieUK Posts: 1,701 Forumite
    edited 29 January 2013 at 8:17PM
    When the HS2 become a reality would this not open up greater use of the railway system to more controlled freight being moved from our highways to the rail network ?

    This then would then make our journey on the roads faster with the absence for the need for more heavy goods?
  • movilogo
    movilogo Posts: 3,235 Forumite
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    People with low IQ should neither be allowed to vote nor be allowed stand in election and become MPs :)
    Happiness is buying an item and then not checking its price after a month to discover it was reduced further.
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