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What are you doing about the elections?
22 February 2010
In April 2005, a school in the North of England ran a mock general election. Citizenship classes worked on the election processes and nominated their own candidates for the election. Parliamentary candidates from Labour, the Lib Dens and the Conservatives were invited into school to talk about campaigning methods and the election process. When some parents and the local British National Party (BNP) candidate himself complained that the BNP had not been invited, the head was forced to answer claims that she was being undemocratic.
