Godon Brown adressing Congress

[SciFiBoy]

SamuelRSmith said:

SciFiBoy said:

SamuelRSmith said:
I don't think any of us are under the illusion that the electorate knows fuck-all about politics.

If you were to ask someone walking down the street to name 5 members of the cabinet, they'd fail. They'd probably also struggle to name 5 MPs.

I'd also wager a dollar to a doughnut that they wouldn't know the difference between Parliament and Government.

 

that is the problem, we should start teaching Politics in school, that would help with that problem

 

 My school did teach politics. For three hours. Three PSRE lessons was all we had on the most important topic of them all. However, since I've left, it's changed to "Citizenship" - and there's less of a focus on religion, so, hopefully, they'll get some politics down.

 

thats better than my school, not once was poltics even mentioned, even in history we barely coverd any politics (other than at GCSE when i did history of medicine and we learnt about the NHS), they should teach it instead of Religion, have at least 1 hour a week till GCSE then you can choose wether or not to continue with it