The runners-up are alcoholism and problems with delinquent children.
If they must be filled, we accept filling by runners-up.
Certainly, for up to 10 years it will be practicable to use runners-up to fill the vacancies.
Let us then assume that of the 10 runners-up, seven are dead and three are dotty.
It is true that we elect only 12, but due account is taken of runners-up and so on.
There will also be some runners-up awards.
But it is equally farcical to say that after that length of time one ought to choose from the runners-up of an election that happened 10 years before.
There are no ties, no runners-up.
