Why does this remind me of the House of Commons?

[Nick]

 

http://bjp.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/186/4/356

[Uncle Mort]

Is it because most of the policies enacted there are at leat a hundred years out of date?

[Snoopy]

I cannot imagine. 

[Nick]

Is it because most of the policies enacted there are at leat a hundred years out of date?

Or becuase idiots and the feeble minded have to be housed somewhere safe?

[Uncle Mort]

No, that's too obvious.

[Nick]

sorry

I quite like the un-PC terminology though. Strangely refreshing!

[Uncle Mort]

So did I 

For practical purposes these defectives may be classified as idiots and low-grade imbeciles, unimprovable or improvable in but slight degree, and mainly in self-help; imbeciles of higher grade, capable of being trained to such a degree as to be partially self-supporting; and the mentally feeble capable of training to the extent of being self-supporting

So we have, in order:

idiots
low-grade imbeciles
imbeciles of higher grade
mentally feeble

and then , I assume, the rest of us.

[Nick]

I wouldn't use the phrase "rest of us" too lightly!