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Old 07-03-2015, 10:19 AM   #18
Griff
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Originally Posted by DanaC View Post
There's an aspect of this thread I find uncomfortable. Someone being irrelevant I can go with. Someone being in office for a long time and feeling like it's their God-given personal fiefdom, unaccountable to the electorate, I can go with. But there's an assumption that seems to be made about age in this context that I don't like.
Looking through the nominees, I'd say Lamps has mostly identified people whose thinking is not of this age. They are still relevant to the electorate because only retired people vote, but I think he was mostly fair about that.
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