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    Who are they?

    Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than 600 employees and has the following employee statistics?



    29 have been accused of spouse abuse



    7 have been arrested for fraud



    9 have been accused of writing bad cheques



    17 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses



    3 have done time for assault



    71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit



    14 have been arrested on drug-related charges



    8 have been arrested for shoplifting



    21 are currently defendants in lawsuits



    84 have been arrested for drink driving in the last year





    Which organisation is this?





    It's the 635 members of the House of Commons, the same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us inline.

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    Re: Who are they?

    Quote Originally Posted by straycat View Post
    5hit, that'll teach me to check my source!
    I copied and pasted an email I've just received from a pal on an oil rig.
    Thanks, SC

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    Re: Who are they?

    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Doolan View Post
    5hit, that'll teach me to check my source!
    I copied and pasted an email I've just received from a pal on an oil rig.
    Thanks, SC
    i hope you have learnt your lesson

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    i hope you have learnt your lesson
    Never!
    I'm not that boring

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    Re: Who are they?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    i hope you have learnt your lesson
    Why should facts get in the way of our prejudice and preconceptions?

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    Quote Originally Posted by geoff332 View Post
    Why should facts get in the way of our prejudice and preconceptions?
    Never has on the forum before.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Doolan View Post
    It's the 635 members of the House of Commons, the same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep the rest of us inline.
    You wouldn't do very well in the citizenship test if you thought there were only 635 MPs .

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    Quote Originally Posted by FirstMove View Post
    You wouldn't do very well in the citizenship test if you thought there were only 635 MPs .
    Citizenship? No that's for the politically naive who do not realise that none of us is a citizen in this country, we're all subjects of the Crown.
    Until a government empowers us with a written constitution, instead of us meekly relying on tradition, we will never be citizens (test or not).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Doolan View Post
    Citizenship? No that's for the politically naive who do not realise that none of us is a citizen in this country, we're all subjects of the Crown.
    Until a government empowers us with a written constitution, instead of us meekly relying on tradition, we will never be citizens (test or not).
    I'm afraid you've got 2 urban myths there. First, the written constitution thing - the UK has one, it's just that we don't have an up-to-date handy precis anywhere (which I agree we should have, BTW) like other nations such as the USA. As to "subject" not "citizen" - it's complicated, but the term "British subject" has been more-or-less redundant since 1983.

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    Brian is the urban myth master...but at least he's not boring

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