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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2017 7:52:41 GMT
""Poor political education" is causing young people to completely misunderstand phrases used in Parliament, a survey suggests. Two-thirds of 18 to 25-year-olds polled by the youth news platform Shout Out UK believed "filibustering" was a slang term to describe a sex act. Filibustering is, in fact, when a politician speaks for an extended period so as to waste time and obstruct progress in a parliamentary debate. " Think you can do better? Have a go at our quiz of political terms below: news.sky.com/story/do-you-know-what-filibustering-is-well-its-not-a-sex-act-11002281 |
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Post by aubrey on Aug 24, 2017 8:18:48 GMT
""Poor political education" is causing young people to completely misunderstand phrases used in Parliament, a survey suggests. Two-thirds of 18 to 25-year-olds polled by the youth news platform Shout Out UK believed "filibustering" was a slang term to describe a sex act. Filibustering is, in fact, when a politician speaks for an extended period so as to waste time and obstruct progress in a parliamentary debate. " Think you can do better? Have a go at our quiz of political terms below: news.sky.com/story/do-you-know-what-filibustering-is-well-its-not-a-sex-act-11002281To be fair, filibustering could be a term for that trick of reciting the members of 70s football teams in your head to take your mind off "things". (I got all eight, by the way) |
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