Any one fed up of being led by people that have not had a proper job?

Why are we being lead by career politician.

because normal people dont want the job

Why are we being lead by career politician.

Because we keep voting for them. Vote for the other guy.

because normal people dont want the job

The short lists are decided by the Party. Jobs for the boys. It's not that normal people don't want the job, but that they make it very difficult to get on the party shortlist.

Cameron was probably picked out as a future Tory leader when he was still at Oxford, and then nurtured into the top job.

The short lists are decided by the Party. Jobs for the boys. It's not that normal people don't want the job, but that they make it very difficult to get on the party shortlist.

 

Cameron was probably picked out as a future Tory leader when he was still at Oxford, and then nurtured into the top job.

Good point, so was Hague & IDS ............

Happily they both screwed up

We are seeing more of people going into politics as a career now.

granted it would be ideal if the people who run our country were all previously successful

Captains of industry and experts in social services, but usually people who are that excellent at their jobs are encouraged to stay in their jobs on very good salaries.

Politicians on the other hand are there because they 'think' they know how the country should be run, they have wonderfully paid part time jobs masquerading as MPs attending The House of commons to debate issues on our behalf when they think they have to be there for the 'important' issues.

If they worked for a proper company or industry they would have to do the MP job full time otherwise they would be performance managed out of the job.

So, in summary they are mostly people with no experience or qualifications on how to run the country, they attend part time for full time pay.

Does the job sound good now??

The short lists are decided by the Party. Jobs for the boys. It's not that normal people don't want the job, but that they make it very difficult to get on the party shortlist.

 

Cameron was probably picked out as a future Tory leader when he was still at Oxford, and then nurtured into the top job.

be nice to have primaries like in the US were people can stand for any party

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Because we keep voting for them. Vote for the other guy.

isn't it about not being rabbits and just voting for the other guy, if we voted for the idies, it would just <removed> the system up.

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We are seeing more of people going into politics as a career now.

granted it would be ideal if the people who run our country were all previously successful

Captains of industry and experts in social services, but usually people who are that excellent at their jobs are encouraged to stay in their jobs on very good salaries.

Politicians on the other hand are there because they 'think' they know how the country should be run, they have wonderfully paid part time jobs masquerading as MPs attending The House of commons to debate issues on our behalf when they think they have to be there for the 'important' issues.

If they worked for a proper company or industry they would have to do the MP job full time otherwise they would be performance managed out of the job.

 

So, in summary they are mostly people with no experience or qualifications on how to run the country, they attend part time for full time pay.

Does the job sound good now??

Be nice if people with real insight and common sense, not captains, the civil services are their to give guidest to Ministers, we need people to take it shut them up, Real people

Good point, so was Hague & IDS ............

 

Happily they both screwed up

I think you mean all.

Good point, so was Hague & IDS ............

 

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um IDS didn't just not go to Oxford, he never went to any university. And even if IDS had been to university, he would never have been identified as a political high flyer like Hague and Cameron probably were.

William Hague grew up in Rotherham, and went to school in Wath. He got to Oxford by his own merits. Definitely not a Bullingdon boy!

What is so wrong about a career in politics?

Surely the problem is people taking positions above their ability level.

William Hague grew up in Rotherham, and went to school in Wath. He got to Oxford by his own merits.

so did Cameron. Not every pupil at Eton College ends up at Oxford or Cambridge. Some of them, unlike Cameron was, are thick, and exhibit no talent at all at school for politics like both Hague and Cameron did at their (different) schools.