Lots of problems here

1. Social Exclusion Unit................................for that read "total waste of space" consisting of overpaid and underqualified morons. Political correctness is about their only skillset. Hell those are the losers who couldn't even make it into HR.

2. If someone is mentally ill, I am sure that it is a wonderful idea to put them through the trauma of jury service. Bound to improve their condition?

3. In this country most people with a life consider jury service to be a chore and an imposition..........you do it because it is your civic duty, but I cannot think of anyone (including myself) who could not think of something better to do with the time. It is NOT regarded as:

ordinary mainstream opportunities
4. Also:

prevents people with mental health problems from sitting in judgment of their peers
Their "peers" are people with mental health problems?

5. I would personally think that the criteria for selecting jurors should be the same as granting some one a pilot's or gun licence?

I do not believe that this is an attempt to gain votes, more like a spot of intellectional masturbation on the part of the Social Exclusion Unit, in an attempt to justify their jobs?



Mind you, I believe that people are regarded as mentally ill in this country when they actually have a physiological complaint. Perhaps there is a case for revisiting some of the definitions?