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Originally Posted by acottawa
A reasonable sample size usually gets a diverse set. You’re unlikely to get 90% heads if you flip a coin 100 times.
Is there a requirement that current MPs need to be well read?
You could compensate them for their year of service.
British Parliament is prorogued every year.
That’s an option too I guess. Some checks and balances would be nice though.
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Thinking this through a bit more, just for fun.
It needn't be mandatory (not sure if you had in mind that it would be), and if you make it voluntary you would weed out at least some of the clueless dorks.
The 100 out of XX million chance of getting chosen also effectively rules out any chance that a group of ill-intentioned people could conspire to take it over. You'd have to get half the country's population on board for that type of conspiracy. (And at that point... if half the country agrees with a specific direction we could take collectively, is it still a conspiracy or does it not simply become a political movement or ''side" like all the others?)
Plus of course they're only there for a year, anyway.