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LeftishBrit

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10. While in general that would be a good idea (including for the politicians!)

Reply to T_i_B (Reply #9)

Thu Aug 6, 2015, 12:58 PM

Aug 2015

I believe that Ken Burch lives in Alaska, so that taking a train to Worcester might not be very feasible for him....

On a more serious note, where do the politicians and their advisers come up with all these stereotypes?! It would be considered nowadays as wrong and rather bigoted for political leaders' official documents to contain brief stereotyped accounts of 'Chinese man' or 'French woman'; yet it seems to be the normal practice to do so with British places.

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